We love to be able to get the word about Clarence Bicknell out to as many people as possible; this Association has been successful in generating new research and organising events in France, Italy and the UK. Do join our happy bandf and benefit from direct contact, introductions when you visit Clarence’s habitat and special […]
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Tourists and meteorologists in the Italian Riviera: The Journal de Bordighera (1883–1935) as a source for the study of the local climate. I fell upon this interesting scientific article at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0305748821000086 The Italian Riviera was, from the second half of the nineteenth century to the Second World War, one of the most famous, elitist, climatic,
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We are pleased to publish here the new paper by Graham Avery on the celebrated botanist Reginald Farrer who crossed paths with Clarence Bicknell in the Italian Alps. Graham presented this paper to the European Botanical and Horticultural Libraries Group (EBHL) at the Plantentuin Meise, Belgium, on 20 October 2022 and is entitled ‘Reginald Farrer
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L’image à Facebook de la Mairie de Tende me rappelle le recent papier de mon collègue Graham Avery au sujet de Fritz Mader (1872-1921) dont le père a construit sa maison à Tende, maintenant cette belle Mairie. Le père était le pasteur luthérien de Nice, Philip Friedrich Mader. Fritz, son fils, était pionnier de l’Histoire
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We are pleased to confirm a second conference on the same weekend in November, in Bordighera, with the same speakers from the Clarence Bicknell Association … Incontro previsto per domenica 20 novembre nel Salone del Museo Bicknell di Bordighera, a partire dalle ore 16. Botanici sulle cime – Botanistes aux Sommets Con interventi diDssa. Daniela
We are pleased to confirm the conference in Nice with speakers from the Clarence Bicknell Association … L’ACADÈMIA NISSARDALES AMIS DU MUSÉUM D’HISTOIRE NATURELLE DE NICEen partenariat avec LE MUSÉUM D’HISTOIRE NATURELLE DE NICEInvitation, Rencontre et conférences“Des Botanistes aux sommets”samedi 19 novembre 2022 à 16H30au Palais de l’Agriculture à Nice, 113, Promenade des Anglais, Nice
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Today I received an interesting email from Francisca van Vloten, Head Curator & Advisor to the Museum Domburg in the Netherlands, asking whether Clarence knew Jo Koster, the Dutch artist, who stayed in Bordighera from December 1899 to March 1900 in the Villa Constantia and the Pension du Paradis. If you know anything about this
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New research shows the strong connections between Barry and Bordighera in the period 1920 to 1960. By Marcus Bicknell, October 2022 English version below the Italian Punti chiave: Claude Francis Barry (1883-1970) realizzò almeno 40 immagini di Bordighera e dintorni (15-20% della sua produzione totale), un fatto che non sembra essere noto né agli studiosi
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We were pleased to get an email today from Anura Saparamadu in Sri Lanka. “My name is Anura Saparamadu and I am an art historian and writer from Sri Lanka. I published a book on Vintage Posters of Ceylon a few years ago which has now become one of the most sought after reference books
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We are pleased to advise visitors to this web site that Graham Avery, Vice-Chairman of the Clarence Bicknell Association, has written a new online paper on Botanists in the Book of Guests in Esperanto. This was triggered by, and accompanies, the publication in July of The Book of Guests in Esperanto in print form (you
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