Spenser's Colin Clout : an introductory study
- Authors: Brown, Molly Anne
- Date: 1985
- Subjects: Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599 -- Criticism and interpretation , Faerie Queene , English poetry , Epic , Criticism , Interpretation , Clout, Colin (Fictitious character)
- Language: English
- Type: text , Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:2180 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001831
- Description: From introduction: In the sixth book of The Faerie Qveene, the reader is presented with a vision of the Graces and their attendants dancing on Mount Acidale to the piping of a simple shepherd. Spenser identifies this favoured musician as Colin Clout and then goes on to pose a seemingly inconsequential rhetorical question. "Who knowes not Colin Cloute?” he asks. The note of confident pride which can be discerned in the query clearly reveals Spenser's peculiar interest in one of his most intriguing creations. It is almost impossible to read a representative selection of Spenser's poetical works without noticing the hauntingly frequent appearances of his "Southerne shepheardes boye". Colin appears or is named in no fewer than six of Spenser's poems.
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- Date Issued: 1985
56 years old and growing : Geography
- Authors: Lewis, Colin A
- Date: 1992
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6708 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006745
- Description: This article traces the growth and development of the Rhodes University Geography Department from 1936 to 1992, the academic staff and students associated with it, and the research emanating from it.
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- Date Issued: 1992
Field guide to the Quaternary glacial, periglacial and colluvial features of the East Cape Drakensberg
- Authors: Lewis, Colin A
- Date: 1994
- Language: English
- Type: Book
- Identifier: vital:6704 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006740 , ISBN 0-86810-271-7
- Description: Most of the sites described in this publication are located on privately-owned farmland. Permission to visit sites should be obtained from the relevant landowner. This Field Guide was produced for a Field Meeting of the Southern African Society for Quaternary Research, held in May 1994 and based at Rhodes, led by Colin A, Lewis, (Rhodes University), Evan S,J, Dollar (University of Transkei), Trevor Hill (Rhodes University). It was published on behalf of the Southern African Society for Quaternary Research by the Dept. of Geography, Rhodes University.
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- Date Issued: 1994
The Viking
- Authors: Lewis, Colin A
- Date: 1992
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: vital:6706 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006742
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- Date Issued: 1992
The South African sugar industry
- Authors: Lewis, Colin A
- Date: 1990
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6695 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006730
- Description: The sugar industry was established in Natal in the mid-nineteenth century. By the 1980s, South Africa produced c. 2 million metric tons of sugar per annum and, directly or indirectly, the industry supported almost one million people. Exports, which amounted for almost half the sugar produced in the 1970s, declined during the 1980s and low prices together with American and Canadian sanctions have forced the industry to consider alternative uses for sugar cane.
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- Date Issued: 1990
Protalus ramparts and the altitude of the local equilibrium line during the last glacial stage in Bokspruit, East Cape Drakensberg, South Africa
- Authors: Lewis, Colin A
- Date: 1994
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6694 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006729
- Description: A ridge of unconsolidated debris at an altitude of 2000 m, located beneath cliffs in the East Cape Drakensberg of South Africa, is interpreted on morphological and sedimentological evidence as a protalus rampart. The rampart is believed to have formed in the Bottelnek Stadial, after 27 000 BP and before 13 000 BP, and provides evidence of perennial snowbeds and at least discontinuous permafrost in the East Cape Drakensberg during that Stadial.
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- Date Issued: 1994
The remains of rock glaciers in Bottelnek, East Cape Drakensberg, South Africa
- Authors: Lewis, Colin A , Hanvey, Patricia M
- Date: 1993
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6698 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006734
- Description: Certain debris accumulations in Bottelnek are ascribed a rock glacier origin on the basis of morphological and sedimentological evidence. Radiocarbon dating indicates that rock glaciers were active at or subsequent to 21 000 BP and that cold, stadial conditions, existed on the region after 27 000 BP and before 13 000 BP, during the Bottelnek Stadial. At least sporadic permafrost existed in Bottelnek when the rock glaciers were active.
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- Date Issued: 1993
Travelling stallions in and adjacent to Brycheiniog
- Authors: Lewis, Colin A
- Date: 1989
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6696 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006732
- Description: [From the introduction]: Horses played a major role in the transport system in Britain until, in the years following the conclusion of the First World War, they were gradually ousted by motor vehicles. In 1917, when the first reasonably complete equine census of Britain was undertaken, there were 2,650,773 horses in the country, 1,115,920 of which were used for agricultural purposes (Chivers, 1976). Horse breeding was therefore of great importance and a variety of attempts was made to improve the quality of horses by subsidising stallions that travelled the countryside during the breeding season, and that were available, at a fee, for the service of mares. This paper describes some of the routes followed by stallions that formerly travelled in Brycheiniog and adjacent counties.
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- Date Issued: 1989
The Guild comes of age! Peals and quarters at South African Guild meetings, 1988-2008. Part 1
- Authors: Lewis, Colin A
- Date: 2008
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6187 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012386
- Description: The founding meeting of the South African Guild was held in Grahamstown during the first weekend of July 1988. Dedication of the bells and new frame at Grahamstown cathedral marked the completion of the first Guild project to ensure that all rings of bells in South Africa were in good condition. This first part of the article takes us up to the completion of the Grahamstown restoration. , Colin Lewis was Professor of Geography at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa from 1989 until his retirement at the end of 2007. In 1990, with the strong support of the incumbent Vice-Chancellor, Dr Derek Henderson, he instigated the Certificate in Change Ringing (Church Bell Ringing) in the Rhodes University Department of Music and Musicology - the first such course to be offered in Africa. Since that date he has lectured in the basic theory, and taught the practice of change ringing. He is the Ringing Master of the Cathedral of St Michael and St George, Grahamstown, South Africa.
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- Date Issued: 2008
New bells, new founder - Hillandale, South Africa
- Authors: Lewis, Colin A
- Date: 1999
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6163 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012350
- Description: On the afternoon of Sunday 2nd May 1999, the first ring of bells cast in Africa, the bells at Hillandale, were rung for the first time. This is the second ring of bells to be installed in an institution established by the Order of the Holy Cross, and the seventh ring in South Africa and the tenth ring in Africa. , Colin Lewis was Professor of Geography at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa from 1989 until his retirement at the end of 2007. In 1990, with the strong support of the incumbent Vice-Chancellor, Dr Derek Henderson, he instigated the Certificate in Change Ringing (Church Bell Ringing) in the Rhodes University Department of Music and Musicology - the first such course to be offered in Africa. Since that date he has lectured in the basic theory, and taught the practice of change ringing. He is the Ringing Master of the Cathedral of St Michael and St George, Grahamstown, South Africa.
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- Date Issued: 1999
Colin Henry Beckermann
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Class reunions -- South Africa -- Grahamstown -- Photographs Grahamstown Teachers' Training College (South Africa) -- Photographs
- Type: Image
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/23695 , vital:23161 , This image is held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research at Rhodes University. For further information contact cory@ru.ac.za. The digitisation of this image was made possible through a generous grant received from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 2014-2017. , PIC/A 2897_038
- Description: Photograph of Colin Henry Beckermann, born on 1 December 1949, here aged 2 years 2 months , Leila Kerr (Linington) (Donor)
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- Date Issued: 1952
Bells in the Province of Southern Africa
- Authors: Lewis, Colin A
- Date: 2006
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6168 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012356 , http://www.ringingworld.co.uk
- Description: Colin Lewis was Professor of Geography at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa from 1989 until his retirement at the end of 2007. In 1990, with the strong support of the incumbent Vice-Chancellor, Dr Derek Henderson, he instigated the Certificate in Change Ringing (Church Bell Ringing) in the Rhodes University Department of Music and Musicology - the first such course to be offered in Africa. Since that date he has lectured in the basic theory, and taught the practice of change ringing. He is the Ringing Master of the Cathedral of St Michael and St George, Grahamstown, South Africa. , The (Anglican) Church of the Province of Southern Africa encompasses South Africa, Lesotho, Swaziland, Namibia, the islands of St. Helena, Ascension, Tristan da Cunha and other ·South Atlantic groups and extends into Mozambique and Angola. This is the area, with the exception of Angola and Namibia, covered by this exploratory article. Further research will, no doubt, add much information on the bells of the Province. The first bells known to have existed in the area now covered by the Province were reported from St. Helena in 1588, when captain Thomas Cavendish wrote that on the land there was "a church ... [and] a frame ... whereon hang two bells." At that time St. Helena was used by Portuguese seamen and the bells were probably imported from Portugal. They apparently hung outside a church .in the valley in which Jamestown is now sited. No trace of them now exists (Lewis, 2004a).
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- Date Issued: 2006
A preliminary report on the age and significance of Quaternary lacustrine deposits at Birnam, north-east Cape Province, South Africa
- Authors: Hanvey, Patricia M , Lewis, Colin A
- Date: 1990
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6686 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006688
- Description: The paper presents the results of preliminary investigations at Birnam, in the Rhodes area of the eastern Cape Drakensberg, which may have important implications for palaeoenvironmental reconstructions in Southern Africa. A study has been undertaken on a sedimentary sequence exposed by fluvial incision on the outer bend of the River Bokspruit, at an altitude of 1850 m.
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- Date Issued: 1990
Glasnost and glaciers, yurts and yaks : a scientist in Soviet Central Asia
- Authors: Lewis, Colin A
- Date: 1991
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6707 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006744
- Description: Why are glaciers retreating, and are all glaciers retreating? There is much evidence to suggest that, globally, mean annual air temperatures are rising. Yet not all areas of the world have experienced temperature increases. In 1989 a Joint UNESCO/IGCP research project, Project 297, was initiated in order to identify and correlate geocryological features in mountain areas. A visit to the Alpine Geocryology station of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR to study rock glaciers afforded the author a glimpse of Soviet Asian evidence of climatic change and caused him to revise his interpretation of rock glacier and other geocryological remains in the eastern Cape Drakensberg.
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- Date Issued: 1991
Fluvial conditions during the Holocene as evidenced by alluvial sediments from above Howison's Poort, near Grahamstown, South Africa
- Authors: Lewis, Colin A , Illgner, Peter M
- Date: 1998
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6697 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006733
- Description: Mapping and analyses of alluvial sediments in the Berg River valley, near Grahamstown, has resulted in the identification of over 5 000 years of environmental stability in the early Holocene, in which flood plain sediments accumulated. Subsequent to 4390±90 BP environmental instability, probably due to climatic fluctuations, resulted in the formation of river terraces. Further research is needed to establish the area! limits of this sequence of Holocene climatic and environmental events.
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- Date Issued: 1998
Eastern Cape bells (letter)
- Authors: Lewis, Colin A
- Date: 1997
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6181 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012375 , http://www.ringingworld.co.uk
- Description: Colin Lewis was Professor of Geography at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa from 1989 until his retirement at the end of 2007. In 1990, with the strong support of the incumbent Vice-Chancellor, Dr Derek Henderson, he instigated the Certificate in Change Ringing (Church Bell Ringing) in the Rhodes University Department of Music and Musicology - the first such course to be offered in Africa. Since that date he has lectured in the basic theory, and taught the practice of change ringing. He is the Ringing Master of the Cathedral of St Michael and St George, Grahamstown, South Africa. This correspondence was sparked by the author's article: "Bells and Bellfounders of the Eastern Cape, South Africa" which appeared in The Ringing World No. 4477. 14th February 1997, pp. 161-162.
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- Date Issued: 1997
Obituary: John Mayne English 1922-2013
- Authors: Lewis, Colin A
- Date: 2013
- Language: English
- Type: Article , text
- Identifier: vital:6162 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004782
- Description: In 1962 John moved south to Johannesburg, but that bustling city held few attractions for him and he moved further south, to the cathedral city of Grahamstown. Grahamstown, with its nineteenth century Gothic cathedral, elegant Georgian buildings, and distinctive grandeur of Rhodes University, St Andrew's College and other buildings designed by Herbert Baker and his colleagues, suited John. He particularly enjoyed the academic, social, artistic and dramatic life of the community, where many older members of society were distinguished old-Africa hands. John thoroughly enjoyed Grahamstown where, in the partnership of Hoskins and English, he made his mark in the restoration and extension of many significant buildings. His addition to the Anglican chapel at Hog's Back is a masterpiece, as is his incorporation of the old fayade into the rebuilding and extension of the Magistrates' Court.
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- Date Issued: 2013
40 000 years of climatic change in the Eastern Cape
- Authors: Lewis, Colin A
- Date: 2008
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6711 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006748
- Description: This article outlines the major climatic conditions that have occurred in the Eastern Cape over the last 40 000 years. They have been dated using radiocarbon analyses. Changes that are older than 40 000 years are beyond the range of radiocarbon dating and are not discussed.
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- Date Issued: 2008
Palaeoclimatic and archaeological implications of organic-rich sediments at Tiffindell Ski Resort, near Rhodes, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa
- Authors: Rosen, Deborah Z , Lewis, Colin A , Illgner, Peter M
- Date: 1999
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6721 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006797
- Description: Analyses of organic-rich deposits from Tiffindell Ski Resort indicates that organic accumulation began somewhat before 4720 BP. This correlates well with the moister conditions known to have existed in the north eastern uplands of Eastern Cape Province (and in upland eastern Lesotho) in the later as compared with the earlier part of the Holocene. Palynological analyses of sediments dating from somewhat before 2790 BP to the present suggests that only limited environmental changes occurred in the pollen spectra. The wettest conditions apparently existed around 2700 BP, probably correlating with an increase in human occupation in the Eastern Cape (Southern) Drakensberg following the possible abandonment of that area during the dry phase(s) of preceding millennia.
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- Date Issued: 1999
Albany Rugby Football Club 1st XV, 1946
- Date: 1946
- Subjects: Rugby football -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape -- Photographs , Albany Rugby Football Club -- Photographs
- Type: still image
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/46573 , vital:25624 , This image is held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research at Rhodes University. For further information contact cory@ru.ac.za. The digitisation of this image was made possible through a generous grant received from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 2014-2017. , PIC/M 6681
- Description: Albany Rugby Football Club 1st XV 1946. Team photograph with rugby/football players, in rugby uniform, Players have arms crossed, Group photograph, Black and white photograph, Indoor photograph, Winners of the Michau Cup and Pauletta Cup, trophy cup in front, J Norton, Colin Keey, President and Secretary wearing suits, Captain holding rugby ball with “Albany 1946” on it, Back Row: J. van der Walt, A. Meaker, M. Parry, Standing: J. du Plessis, M. Pike, J. Strauss, L. Smit, R. Howard, A. Lilford, H. Bowker, T. Hounsell, C. Penny, Sitting: J. Norton, W. Swart, Colin Keey, T. Mills (Captain), T. van Vuuren (President), B. Mills, Paddy Dale (Secretary), In Front: R. Reed, D. Seaman.
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- Date Issued: 1946