What it says on the tin.
Plymouth memorials
Testing links for articles on
Plymouth
war memorials.
Plymouth Hoe,
Plymouth Sound,
Commonwealth War Graves Commission,
World War I,
World War II,
Royal Navy, naval memorials to the missing:
Chatham,
Plymouth and
Portsmouth. Sir
Robert Stodart Lorimer,
Portland stone,
Prince George, Duke of Kent, Sir
Edward Maufe,
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon.
Royal Air Force,
Allies of World War II,
Second World War,
Don Bennett, Sir
John Curtiss,
granite,
RAF Bomber Command.
Spanish Armada,
Herbert Gribble,
Britannia,
Tercentenary,
Queen Victoria,
granite,
bronze,
Francis Drake,
England expects that every man will do his duty,
Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham,
He blew with His winds, and they were scattered,
John Hawkins,
Lord Henry Seymour,
Battle of Trafalgar,
Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
Second Boer War,
Prince Christian Victor of Schleswig-Holstein,
Redvers Buller,
granite,
Elizabeth Thompson (Lady Butler),
William Francis Butler. Battles mentioned:
Wagon Hill*,
Ladysmith,
Bergendal,
Colenso,
Spion Kop,
Monte Christo* (also spelt 'Monte Cristo'),
Vaalkrantz* (Vaal Krantz),
Pieter's Hill* (Peter's Hill),
Laing's Nek,
Belfast,
Diamond Hill,
Johannesburg,
Wittebergen*,
Buteaville (?),
Lombard's Kop*,
Tugela Heights*,
Kimberley,
Elandslaagte,
Rietfontein*,
Driefontein*,
Paardeberg*. (See
here for list of battles, sieges and incidents in the Second Boer War - red-links with an * are there).
Norwegian churches
- General notes - 3,240 years old at the time of the
War of the Ring;
- Tolkien Encyclopedia: Stone-land references (examples of monumental architecture - quote from book); names involving stone as seen in the Rohirrim and the Woses; identification of Isildur, Anarion and Elendil with the three main cities (heraldic symbols); White Tree and palantiri; songs (rhyme of lore and "between the mountains and the sea"; Kin-strife and Ruling Stewards and the Return of the King. Real world analogues: Normams, Byzantium, Egypt, Rome (Aeneas-Elendil).
Eddington experiment
The best account on-wiki seems to be
Tests of general relativity#Deflection of light by the Sun. The article mentioned there,
Kepler problem in general relativity, turns out to be a general article about the mathematics of the general problem. I'm wondering what the best title for the experiment would be.
Category:Physics experiments has articles closest to what I'm thinking of (though the
Category:Experiments looks like it needs re-organising). I'm thinking either "experiment" or "expedition". We have
Category:Scientific expeditions. The article could also focus on the eclipse, though that distracts from the expedition and experiments. Seeing as the article should cover the results and the impact and the later history, it should be "experiment". Maybe
Eddington experiment and/or
1919 Solar Eclipse Expeditions? There are also (though less widespread) the names
Dyson-Eddington experiment and
Dyson-Eddington-Davidson experiment. People:
Arthur Stanley Eddington,
Frank Watson Dyson,
Charles Rundle Davidson
[1]. Paper: "F. W. Dyson, A. S. Eddington, and C. Davidson, Phil. Trans. Royal Soc. London. Series A 220 (1920) 291-333".
Zoological Society of London awards
Marsh Award for Conservation Biology
Could add to
Marsh Award for Conservation Biology.
[2]
Frink Medal for British Zoologists
- Section blanked, see
Frink Medal.
Stamford Raffles Award
- Section blanked, see
Stamford Raffles Award.
Silver Medal
- Section blanked, see
Silver Medal (Zoological Society of London).
Zoological Record Award
[3]
Honorary Fellows
- Section blanked, see
Zoological Society of London#Honorary Fellows.
Environmental book prizes
- Natural World Book of the Year
Only a few scattered references:
http://www.studentbookworld.com/browse/the-student-book-awards.html
- BP Natural World Book Prize
http://home.comcast.net/~netaylor1/naturalworld.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/six-line-up-for-lesserspotted-booker-prize-1188261.html
http://www.thisishoop.com/work/238
National war graves agencies
World War One memorials and related topics
If the memorial commemorates a large number, and the designer, date of unveiling, and who unveiled it, are known, then that should be enough for an article on it. Smaller memorials can be noted in the article on the battles.
-
Arras Memorial (created)
-
Loos Memorial (created from a redirect)
-
Pozieres Memorial (created)
-
Le Touret Memorial (created from a redirect)
-
Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (created)
-
Vis-en-Artois Memorial (created from a redirect)
-
Soissons Memorial (created)
-
Delville Wood Memorial (created)
-
Beaumont-Hamel Memorial (already written)
-
Messines Ridge Memorial
-
Arras Flying Services Memorial
- Sir
Gilbert Dyett (created) (1891-1964), an Australian Victorian-born Gallipoli veteran, founder and President of the
Returned Services League 1919 to 1946 (
[4],
[5],
[6],
[7],
[8],
[9],
[10],
[11]).
- Lieutenant-General Sir
Louis Vaughan (created) (1875-1942). Nicknamed 'Father', Louis Ridley Vaughan was chief of staff to General Sir
Julian Byng, commander of the
Third Army from May 1917 until the end of the war (this army fought at the
Battle of Cambrai), and was Byng's representative at the unveiling of the
Cambrai Memorial (
[12], 'Byng of Vimy: An Appreciation', Army Quarterly, LXXI (October 1935), pp. 11–16 by Lieutenant-General Sir Louis Vaughan,
[13],
[14], "The best known photo of Louis Vaughan (5th from the left in the back row - Cambrai, 11/11/18)", "Obituary from the The Times, Tuesday, Dec 08, 1942; pg. 6; Issue 49413; col E".).
- If we have an article on
Cross of Sacrifice, we can have one on
Stone of Remembrance (created) as well. See the
Commonwealth War Graves Commission#Cemetery design section.
- A fascinating overlap between war poetry and commemoration is
The King's Pilgrimage (created), a poem and book about the trip undertaken by King George V in 1922, touring the war cemeteries and memorials in France and Belgium.
-
American Battle Monuments Commission - they have excellent details on their website of the WWI memorials they are responsible for. And there are a number of redlinks that can be filled in (11 redlinks for WWI monuments), and articles expanded (the eight WWI cemeteries and memorials are articles already, but some may only be stubs). Examples:
Suresnes American Cemetery and Memorial (
[15]), and
Luxembourg American Cemetery and Memorial (
[16]).
- The CWGC produced a massive set of registers of the dead, and published and still do publish updates as well. For an example, see
here. For a big listing of them, see
here. These can be used to describe the memorials (the area of the battlefields they covered, the time period, and the forces inscribed on them), and can be used for consistent and reliable descriptions. An example of the later CWGC updates and corrections is
here.
- An additional CWGC resource is
here, though note that the CWGC provide a lot of documentation freely through their website, and that will be more up-to-date.
- It may be possible to find some of the inscriptions on Flickr, and then search for the text online to confirm and find a source. For examples, see
here and
here.
- There is a heart-rending story
here about a German set of statues known as 'The Mourning Parents'. We have an article an picture already, but possibly could be expanded a bit.
- A very nice introduction
here to the series of articles from 'Your Archives'.
- The Times Digital Archive - search for "La Ferte sous Jouarre" brought up 20 hits, of which several are excellent articles on that memorial and the WWI memorials in general.
Other World War I ideas
Some ideas here for other WWI article and image and sound work.
- Sounds
File:Bombers of WW1.ogg (featured),
File:Pershing - Address from France.ogg,
File:Watson - The German Peril.ogg,
File:AlbertFarrington-ItsaLongLongWaytoTipperary1915a.ogg,
File:HelenClark-PackUpYourTroublesInYourOldKitBagAndSmileSmileSmile1917edisonCylinder.ogg,
File:It's a Long, Long Way to Tipperary (1915).ogg,
File:American's Choice and Opportunity (Newton D. Baker).ogg,
File:The American Soldier (Warren G. Harding).ogg,
File:Nl-Eerste Wereldoorlog inleiding-article.ogg (in category World War I, but don't know what it is),
File:Tanks of WWI.ogg (featured).
- Artworks
World War I in art and literature#Art;
Commons:Category:World War I in art;
File:NashOverTheTop.jpg,
File:Arthur Streeton portrait (George Lambert).jpg,
File:Amiens the key of the west.jpg,
File:Gassed.jpg,
File:Ghosts of Vimy Ridge.jpeg.
- Photography
Commons:Category:The War Illustrated;
File:Returning from World War I.jpg,
File:Villa Giusti Gemälde.jpg,
File:Prussian soldier 155th IR.jpg,
File:Marie-Eugène Debeney.jpg,
File:Manifesti su Vienna.jpg,
File:JWLevett.jpeg,
File:Donmartin France Soldiers Mass in a bombed chapel WWI.jpg,
File:Armistice Day, Wall Street.JPG,
File:Bayonet.jpg,
File:Bundesarchiv Bild 136-B1356, Kasernenhof - Fechten.jpg,
File:Bundesarchiv Bild 105-DOA3049, Deutsch-Ostafrika, Askari beim Übungsschießen.jpg,
File:12inchRailwayHowitzerShell444SiegeBatteryAndKitten19July1918.jpg.
- Video
Don't forget the online archive of
Pathe News. Some amazing clips there.
- Articles
- '
The Gardener' (short story by Kipling - also look at his other war poetry, fiction and reports).
- Disambiguate
The Gardener to list several meanings for this phrase.
- Full text (poor OCR) of the book
The King's Pilgrimage is here:
[17];
[18];
[19];
[20].
- Other Kipling short stories related to the war are: '
Mary Postgate' and '
The Debt'.
- Ideas for Kipling's war poetry and stories: 1) Short stories "The Gardner", "Mary Postgate", "The Debt":
[21],
[22],
[23]; 2) Look at the Kipling Society for a good overview of his war ouvre:
[24]; "Kipling and Shaw’s attitudes to war" (no link),
[25],
[26],
[27]; 3) General listing of Kipling's war works:
[28] - seems not to include poetry; 4) General WWI poetry again:
[29].
-
Gilbert Clayton (created) looks interesting (
[30]) - was found on requested articles at the WWI portal.
-
List of Colonel Generals has several Austro-Hungarian generals that could be filled in using
this website.
- Specifically
Leopold Freiherr von Hauer, covered
here, and also found on requested articles at the WWI portal.
- Follow up on the TV documentary Not Forgotten: Soldiers Of Empire (
[31]) - in particular the West Indies bit, and also a much more ambitious article on
British Empire and World War I and/or
British Empire in World War I (
[32]). What we have seems to be what is currently at
British Empire#First World War.
-
The Muse in Arms (created) - relatively famous book of poetry published during the war (for an example of an article on a WWI poetry anthology published much later, see
Up the Line to Death).
- Lots and lots of WWI war poets could have articles - need to be selective here.
-
Guerres Mondiales et Conflits Contemporains (
[33]) - major history journal on the world wars - others include
Journal of Contemporary History and
Vingtième Siecle.
-
Ireland and World War One - excellent article (in fact that whole BBC site is excellent) - some names and articles include:
Ireland and World War I,
Francis Ledwidge,
Tom Kettle,
36th (Ulster) Division,
10th (Irish) Division,
16th (Irish) Division,
Tom Barry,
John Redmond and his brother
Willie Redmond,
James Connolly,
Patrick Pearse,
James Larkin, "The 12 July Orange parades were cancelled, and five minutes' silence was observed in Belfast that day" - cover the reasons for joining up to fight in the war, the Rising during the war, the links with Germany (e.g.
Roger Casement), different responses after the war by Protestant (Unionist) and Catholic (Nationalist) communities, and the various memorials.
- Something could be written on the official war artists (most or all of whom have articles). The beginnings of lists are at
war artist, but the details of how the UK handled this in WWI and WWII are
here and
here and
here and
here. The
War Artists' Advisory Committee was set up for World War II, and for World War I the official body was a committee at the "Ministry of Information" (something also needs to be written about that, as it seems several different organisations in the UK in WWI had responsbility for propaganda and wartime information), and the key point is here: "In 1916 the Ministry launched the Official War Artists scheme". Find a name for that scheme and that can be the starting point for a short article mentioning who organised this and who the artists were.
-
Delville Wood Commemorative Museum is another possibility (it covers three wars, but is on site of
Delville Wood Memorial, so close ties to the WWI battlefield and memorials). Also note (if not done already) the bit about how
Delville Wood was replanted with acorns from South Africa, themselves from trees descended from acorns brought to South Africa from Europe (
[34]).
-
The Ypres League (created) looks like a fascinating story. See
here.
-
Australian Historical Mission has lots of material available:
[35],
[36],
[37]
-
St Barnabas Society (not to be confused with the current Catholic converts organisation, or the shelter for the homeless in Hong Kong, but some sources are here:
[38],
[39],
[40],
[41],
[42],
[43],
[44],
[45]).
- A fantastic resource on New Zealand in WWI is
here.
- There are numerous personal accounts of the war online, such as
this one. A project space list of such resources might be useful.
- An article on the
Graves Concentration Units might be possible. See
the pdf linked here, and
here. For a list of such subsidiary units of the British Army in WWI, see
here and similar lists elsewhere (easy to overdo this, there are a lot of these support units, though in this war in particular, the ration of support units to combat units was increasing).
-
Memorial Gates (created) on
Constitution Hill. See
here and
here and image
here.
- Lists
- If redlinks filled in on
List of Colonel Generals, work some more on that.
- More work on
List of Commonwealth War Graves Commission World War I memorials to the missing in Belgium and France (co-ords, fill in redlinks, get map sorted, and so on).
- List of the 16 Great War Poets commemorated at Westminster Abbey (
source). They are already listed at
Poets’ Corner (with other poets), but a separate list would allow more freedom to annotate and give the context:
Richard Aldington,
Laurence Binyon,
Edmund Blunden,
Rupert Brooke,
Wilfrid Gibson,
Robert Graves,
Julian Grenfell,
Ivor Gurney,
David Jones,
Robert Nichols,
Wilfred Owen,
Herbert Read,
Isaac Rosenberg,
Siegfried Sassoon,
Charles Sorley,
Edward Thomas.
- List of British Army generals who died during World War I (see
here).
- List of the commanders (Corps generals and above) of the British Army in World War I. See
List of British corps in World War I,
Category:Corps of the British Army in World War I, and chapter 7 ('The Donkeys') in Mud, Blood and Poppycock (Corrigan, 2003). See also the painting '
Some Generals of the Great War' (1922,
John Singer Sargent) which is captioned by Corrigan in his book (centrefold spread of photos and paintings). See also
here (NPG) and
here (Wikimedia Commons). There is an equivalent commission for the politicians, see
here (NPG) and
here (Wikimedia Commons). For a larger challenge, extend this to other branches of the British Armed Services, to all the high levels of military leadership in the war, include some politicians, and include all combatant nations. Start has been made
here.
- List of official histories of World War I. Maybe extend more generally to other wars and other official histories. See
Official History of the Canadian Army in the Second World War,
Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918,
History of the Great War,
History of the Second World War. Some links:
[46],
[47]. If Official Histories is too vague or narrow, then look at categorising or listing multi-volume history works, such as
[48],
[49],
[50],
[51]. The second one is not an official history. The third and fourth could be merged. A good list of official histories is
here.
- List of World War I anthologies is possible, using resources like
this Word document from the Birmingham Centre for First World War Studies (
HTML version), the
Echenberg War Poetry Collection, and other sites such as
Poetry of the First World War (from Scuttlebutt and Small Chow), and also the Oxford site and others listed elsewhere on this page or on the "to improve" page. More poetry links:
[52],
[53],
[54],
[55],
[56],
[57],
[58].
- Look for other lists to start or work on.
- Alerts
Journals ideas
- Pick 6-8 major sciences, and the most prestigious current journals for those sciences.
- Do the same, but for countries and going back in time, to get idea of how this has changed over time.
- For the same 6-8 major sciences, pick out the oldest journals, with the longest history.
Major sciences
- Physics
- Chemistry
- Earth science
- Astronomy
- Botany
- Zoology
- Biochemistry
- Medicine
- Mathematics
The above is a bit subjective, of course.
Royal Geographical Society lists
Biology and genetics redlinks
A new mini-list, from April 2015:
Lists of Oxford professors
See
List of professorships at the University of Oxford.
Dr Lee's Professor of Experimental Philosophy
- See
Category:Dr Lee's Professors of Experimental Philosophy and
Dr Lee's Professor of Experimental Philosophy
Previously just 'Professor of Experimental Philosophy' and before that a Readership. The transition between 'reader' and 'professor' took place in the time of Robert Walker, FRS. More on the early history
here.
"The duties (very much part-time) of a Readership in Experimental Philosophy, founded in the eighteenth century, were carried out mainly by the professors of Astronomy. From 1839 it became a full-time post..."
[59]
The post is associated with a fellowship at
Wadham College and is formally called 'Dr Lee's Professor of Experimental Philosophy'.
-
James Bradley (1693–1762), Reader of Experimental Philosophy from 1749 to 1762
-
Thomas Hornsby (1733–1810), Reader of Experimental Philosophy from 1763 to 1810
-
Stephen Peter Rigaud (1774–1839), Reader of Experimental Philosophy from 1810 to 1839
-
Robert Walker (1801-1865), Reader and later Professor of Experimental Philosophy from 1839 to 1865
-
Robert Bellamy Clifton (1836–1921), Professor of Experimental Philosophy from 1865 to 1915
-
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell (1886–1957), Professor of Experimental Philosophy from 1919 to 1956
-
Francis Simon (1893–1956), elected Professor of Experimental Philosophy in 1956 but died before taking up office
-
Brebis Bleaney (1915–2006), Professor of Experimental Philosophy from 1957 to 1976
-
Edgar William John Mitchell (1925–2002), Professor of Experimental Philosophy from 1977 to 1987
-
Roger Arthur Cowley (1939–2015), Professor of Experimental Philosophy from 1988 to 2007
-
Paolo Radaelli (born 1961), Professor of Experimental Philosophy since 2008
Dr Lee's Professor of Chemistry
- See
Category:Dr Lee's Professors of Chemistry and
Dr Lee's Professor of Chemistry
Dr Lee's Professor of Anatomy
- See
Category:Dr Lee's Professors of Anatomy and
Dr Lee's Professor of Anatomy
Wykeham Professor of Physics
- See
Category:Wykeham Professors of Physics and
Wykeham Professor of Physics
Professorship associated with
New College, Oxford. According to the New College website, "[the] appointment of the next Wykeham Professor of Physics, replacing Professor David Sherrington FRS, is in progress."
[60]
Frink Medal redlinks
Some redlinks from
Frink Medal:
Oxford professor redlinks
From several lists of Oxford professorships.
Malacological Society of London
Presidents of the
Malacological Society of London:
Surveyor of the Fabric of St Paul's Cathedral
- The draft below published with additions at
Surveyor of the Fabric of St Paul's Cathedral.
Some accounts start with
Inigo Jones, appointed Surveyor of the Works in 1628, but this list starts with the appointment of Wren to build the new cathedral following the destruction of the old one in the
Great Fire of London in 1666.
-
Christopher Wren (1675-1723)
-
John James (1723-1746)
-
Henry Flitcroft (1746-1756)
-
Stiff Leadbetter (1756-1766)
-
Robert Mylne (1766-1811)
-
Samuel Pepys Cockerell (1811-1819)
-
Charles Robert Cockerell (1819-1852)
-
Francis Penrose (1852-1897)
-
Somers Clarke (1897-1931)
-
Mervyn Edmund Macartney (1906-1931)
-
Walter Godfrey Allen (1931-1956)
-
John Seely, Lord Mottistone (1956-1963)
-
Paul Edward Paget (1963-1969)
-
Bernard Feilden (1969-1977)
-
Robert Potter (1978-1984)
-
William Whitfield (1985-1990)
-
Martin Stancliffe (1990-2011)
-
Oliver Caroe (2011-present)
RTS public lectures
RTS Public Lectures:
Also the
RTS/IET Joint Lecture since 2014 (
Michael Richard Lynch,
Demis Hassabis,
Paul Nurse,
Tim Peake).
Alexander Hamilton Award
Alexander Hamilton Award administered by the
Manhattan Institute:
list of awards.
Links for the four redlinks:
Charles H. 'Chuck' Brunie (1930-2017),
Walter Mintz (1929-2004). William C. Steere, Jr. (born 1936) was chief executive of Pfizer, see for example
William and Lynda Steere - not to be confused with his father (
William C. Steere) and his son William C. Steere III. See also
Pfizer past CEO Steere, a key company builder, retires from its board (from 2011). Still involved with the Pfizer Foundation (philanthropic organisation). Thomas 'Tom' William Smith is founder of Prescott Investors; the generic name makes it difficult to find some details, but an article from 2017 authored by him is here:
Confessions of a Climate Change 'Denier'.
Walter Mintz:
http://www.reed.edu/reed_magazine/autumn2006/features/hedge_funds/index.html,
http://www.reed.edu/reed_magazine/autumn2006/features/hedge_funds/mintz_legacy.html,
https://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/17/classified/paid-notice-deaths-mintz-walter.html,
https://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/22/business/walter-mintz-75-investor-and-hedge-fund-cofounder-is-dead.html,
http://www.reed.edu/reed_magazine/feb2005/columns/NoC/mintz.html,
http://www.reed.edu/reed-magazine/in-memoriam/obituaries/february2005/walter-mintz-1950.html,
http://spartacus.blogs.com/spartacus/2004/11/obituary_of_the.html,
https://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/alexander-hamilton-2003-award-dinner-7717.html,
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.obituaries/H9HoNaHTQkM,
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Vienna-Paradox-Memoir-Directions-Paperbook/dp/0811215717,
http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100200434,
https://www.nytimes.com/1972/05/15/archives/richard-schueller-diplomat-teacher-101-dies.html,
https://www.nytimes.com/1972/05/15/archives/richard-schueller-diplomat-teacher-101-dies.html,
https://austria-forum.org/af/Biographien/Sch%C3%BCller,_Richard,
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Fy2SAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA150.
Reed College;
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research;
Marjorie Perloff.
WWI and WWII ships on Tower Hill Memorial
Attempt to find other ships as well as
RMS Lusitania that are listed on the WWI memorial at the
Tower Hill Memorial. After some abortive attempts, finally found the obvious
Category:World War I merchant ships of the United Kingdom. This will have the vast majority of the merchnat shipping on the Tower Hill WWI memorial that have articles. Some WWII ships located as well.
WWI
WWII
People
Hayden Memorial Geological Award
As of the date of writing, one red-link left (
fr:Gustave Dewalque), also need to check whether the awards have ended or if updates are needed.
Cunningham Medal
One red-link is
John Christian Malet (1847-1901). It is not that easy to find more than fragmentary biographical information. He was Professor of Mathematics at Queen's College, Cork (now
University College Cork) from 1880 to 1887 (pp.105-106 in Mathematics in Victorian Britain, 2011). And he was a student at
Trinity College Dublin. Try to find obituary in usual places. Death announced in: Science, New Series, Vol. 14, No. 365 (Dec. 27, 1901), pp. 1021-1024
[90]. His publications are under "John C. Malet".
[91]
Actonian Prize
Has two red-links:
George Warington [1840-1874] (difficult, died young in Africa of consumption aged 34 on 25 February 1874, see
here) and
Benjamin Thompson Lowne (easier - see
here).
Carcharoth (
talk) 13:06, 10 September 2023 (UTC)