Patrick John Boylan

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Professor Emeritus at City, University of London

The important Early Tudor composer Hugh Aston is largely known from a small number of musical compositions that survived the almost complete destruction of manuscripts of the Catholic tradition during the English Reformation. He graduated, Bachelor of Music (B.Mus) from Oxford in 1510, and from the 1520s, or earlier, was the last director of music...

Pre-Concert Address at the 200th Anniversary of the Holy Cross Dominican Priory, Leicester, UK, September 2019

Dorothy Rayner was one of the first women to be appointed to a tenured academic post in any English university geology department, joining the Leeds Department in 1939, serving for 38 years to her retirement in 1977. She had two very important early influences inher life. The first was her family, with its tradition through several generations of d...

A history of the Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society, founded 1835, published for the Lit & Phil's 175th anniversary, 2010

Under the 1824-1826 presidency of William Buckland, the still young Geological Society negotiated with the Government a very important advance in terms of the official recognition of the Society and the emerging science of geology that the Society represented, by obtaining a prestigious new legal status in the form of a Royal Charter of Incorporati...

In November 1996 the International Council of Museums (ICOM) will celebrate fifty years of service to the museum community. During its half-century of existence, ICOM has played a significant part in the explosive development of museums of every kind in every part of the world. We fact that the great majority of today's museums are younger than ICO...

En novembre 1996, le Conseil international des musées — ICOM — célébrera ses cinquante ans d'activité an service de la communauté muséale. Pendant ce demi-siècle d'existence, l'ICOM a contribué de manière significative an développement spectaculaire de musées de toutes sortes aux quatre corns du monde. L'influence du Conseil et son infatigable enga...

Conference Paper: EUROMED Heritage: Cultural Heritage Management in times of Armed Conflict, Amman, Jordan, 15th April 2005

2008 is being celebrated throughout the scientific world-and more widely-for the 150 th anniversary of the first publication by Charles Darwin (1808-82) and Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) of their theory of evolution by natural selection, which was, and remains, the foundation of present-day biological sciences, including palaeon-tology. However...

The World Heritage Convention, 1972, which aims to promote and support the conservation of the world's cultural and natural heritage, can be considered one of the world's most successful international treaties as it has been adopted by 184 states. However, for very many states it is primarily a way in which places that they consider to be their mos...

Expansion of Museum EmploymentChanges in RolesDiversification of Museum WorkChallenges of ChangeA Changing ProfessionProfessional Education and TrainingConclusion

Report of research study sponsored by the British Council for the Ministry of Culture of Serbia, Dec. 2006 - Feb. 2007

William Buckland (1784-1856) was the first professor (Reader) in Geology and Mineralogy in the University of Oxford. He played a leading role in the institutionalising and recognition of geology in England and beyond. This paper considers his achievements in relation to the establishment of the Oxford Readership, the Geological Society of London, a...

Research Report on actual or possible new management and financial structures for cultural organisations. A general study is supplemented by case studies of changes or proposals in the United Kingdom, Netherlands and Malta. A contribution to an Option-Culture think tank for several Ministries of the French Government.

International Council of Museums (ICOM) training manual for both training courses and private study and reference

Resumen Evaluación de riesgos-Plan de urgencia de un museo en caso de desastres naturales, catástrofes civiles y conflictos armados En la elaboración de todo plan de emergencia y de todo programa de formación se deben tener en cuenta tres etapas distintas, relacionadas respectivamente con los preparativos, las respuestas y la recuperación. Los desa...

Research Paper for Indian Ministry of Culture, UNESCO and International Council of Museums 9ICOM) practical seminar on Museum Emergency Planning, Hyderabad, India, November 2003. Examines natural, civil and military emergency risks in relation to all aspects of the cultural heritage world wide. Includes a practical assessment grid analysing risks i...

Research report to Taiwan Museum Training Seminar: Considering the rapidly evolving revolution in both the external organisation and the internal management of cultural institutions and organizations in many parts of the world. Further, through the globalisation of political and-especially-economic systems, that revolution is going to affect most i...

I believe that we are in the middle of nothing less than a revolution in both the external organisation and the internal management of cultural institutions and organizations in many parts of the world. Further, through the globalisation of political and-especially-economic systems, that revolution is going to affect most if not all countries of th...

I believe that we are in the middle of nothing less than a revolution in both the external organisation and the internal management of cultural institutions and organizations in many parts of the world. Further, through the globalisation of political and-especially-economic systems, that revolution is going to affect most if not all countries of th...

This paper is included in the Special Publication entitled 'Lyell: the past is the key to the present', edited by D.J. Blundell and A.C. Scott. The glacial theory as proposed by Louis Agassiz in 1837 was introduced to the British Isles in the autumn of 1840 by Agassiz and his Oxford mentor, William Buckland. Charles Lyell was quickly converted in t...

Thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Leicester, 1984. 2 volumes The thesis establishes a biographical framework for this and future studies of William Buckland, the first professor of geology in the University of Oxford, and eventually Dean of Westminster. This shows the way in which he progressed from a mode...

Kirkdale Cave, discovered in 1821, has a special place in British palaeontology, as William Buckland’s first, and classic, fossil hyaena den. Since Buckland’s time there has been no comprehensive re-examination of all the surviving mammalian fossils from this important site. Hitherto the Kirkdale species list has apparently shown puzzling anomalies...

Until 1838 Buckland ascribed many features in Britain to a past fluvial catastrophe (diluvialism) but after visiting Switzerland and meeting Agassiz he recognised that these could be explained by glaciation and announced his views in papers presented to the Geological Society of London in 1840. Agassiz and Lyle contributed to these. Some of the sit...

If and when a State decides to adopt the 1954 Hague Convention on the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict and its Protocols of 1954 and 1999 there are a number of important legal and practical issues that must be addressed. In terms of diplomatic procedure and protocol the Hague Convention is rather unusual. Though the 19...

The Pleistocene mammal material from the deposits of the buried cliff of Holderness has been re-examined. Revised faunal lists are given, and the identification of material previously described as Rhinoceros leptorhinus Cuvier and Arvicola praeceptor Hinton is discussed. The former is now identified as Didermocerus hemitoechus (Falconer) and the la...