Monuments and commemorations: a consideration
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Pickering, Paul; Westcott, Robyn
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When William Charles Wentworth, the leading conservative politician in the colony of New South Wales, retired from public life in order to travel to Britain in 1853, he informed his devoted followers that he would ‘accept no testimonial except in the form of a colossal statue of his person to be placed in some very conspicuous part of Sydney’. According to the report in a hostile newspaper, Wentworth issued this demand so that ‘his countrymen might have an opportunity of perceiving...[Show more]
dc.contributor.author | Pickering, Paul | |
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dc.contributor.author | Westcott, Robyn | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2009-09-22T02:00:09Z | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2010-12-20T06:04:56Z | |
dc.date.available | 2009-09-22T02:00:09Z | |
dc.date.available | 2010-12-20T06:04:56Z | |
dc.identifier.citation | Humanities Research 10.2 (2003): 1-8 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1440-0669 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1834-8491 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10440/894 | |
dc.description.abstract | When William Charles Wentworth, the leading conservative politician in the colony of New South Wales, retired from public life in order to travel to Britain in 1853, he informed his devoted followers that he would ‘accept no testimonial except in the form of a colossal statue of his person to be placed in some very conspicuous part of Sydney’. According to the report in a hostile newspaper, Wentworth issued this demand so that ‘his countrymen might have an opportunity of perceiving how a grateful community could appreciate, reward and honour the services of any individual who devoted sincerely his talents and his leisure to the services of his fellow citizens’.1 | |
dc.format | 8 pages | |
dc.publisher | Australian National University | |
dc.rights | http://epress.anu.edu.au/faqs/faqs_copyright.html#1 "Authors are not permitted to publish works published by ANU E Press on any other web site except their personal sites or sites associated with their institutions, as long as these are non-commercial sites. Authors are permitted to post the title and abstract of their book on any relevant web site as well as posting links on any site that direct readers to ANU E Press site." - from publisher web site (as at 19/02/10) | |
dc.source | Humanities Research | |
dc.source.uri | http://epress.anu.edu.au/hrj/2003_02/pdf/MMTS_1_Pickering.pdf | |
dc.title | Monuments and commemorations: a consideration | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
local.description.refereed | Yes | |
local.identifier.citationvolume | X | |
dc.date.issued | 2009-09-22T02:00:09Z | |
local.identifier.absfor | 210399 | |
local.identifier.ariespublication | MigratedxPub13933 | |
local.type.status | Published Version | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Pickering, Paul, Research School of Humanities, Humanities Research Centre | |
local.bibliographicCitation.issue | 2 | |
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage | 1 | |
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage | 8 | |
dc.date.updated | 2015-12-12T08:00:00Z | |
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