The Malta Historical Society invites you to attend the launch of the publication
‘Victorian and Edwardian Malta: Proceedings of History Week 2019’
co-edited by George Cassar and Noel Buttigieg
Join us at the Refectory at the Archbishop’s Curia on
25 February 2022 at 6.30pm
The Refectory, The Archbishop’s Curia, Floriana
Professor Joseph Pirotta will be presenting a review of the book.
This is a great opportunity to meet the contributors* and to get a copy of the book.
Registration and presentation of vaccine certificate are mandatory.
Please fill in this form to register: https://forms.gle/boozDP7a89UfjUmJ8
Registration will be on a first-come-first-served basis for the first 50 persons.
IMPORTANT NOTICE
For health and safety purposes, it is mandatory that you present your vaccine certificate and ID card at the door.
All attendees will be required to keep their masks on for the duration of the event.
Should you have any queries, please send an email to info@mhs.mt
* Contents
· George Cassar & Noel Buttigieg, Victorian and Edwardian Malta (1837-1910): change and continuity
· Vicki-Ann Cremona, Leisure and Play in Malta between 1837 and 1910
· Evelyn Pullicino, Guilty or Not Guilty? Her Majesty’s Criminal Court 1838-88
· Jonathan Borg, Antiquities in motion – The transfer of statues and inscriptions into museum in the closing decades of the nineteenth century
· George E. Camilleri, The regulation of the Dental Profession in the Victorian and Edwardian periods (1837-1910)
· Joseph Galea, An island in the grip of death: the cholera affliction of 1837 in Malta
· Christopher Grech, Court uniform in Malta during the reigns of Queen Victoria and King Edward VII
· James Hamberger, The British Mediterranean Fleet in the last decade of the nineteenth century through the diaries of Paymaster John Cecil Baker
· Charles J. Farrugia, ‘Il Cunsilier tal Kakgha!’ – A case study of village politics during Victorian Malta
· Sarah Watkinson, Charles Francis Stevens (1808-79) – a life well-lived or a ‘bad brother’?
· Roberta Cruciata, La Statua della Augusta Regina by Giuseppe Valenti in Valletta
· Noel d’Anastas, The Music Halls in the exuberance of the “Roaring Twenties” and the Great Depression – Malta: A sense of British Identity
· William Zammit, Nationhood, Church and Empire: the growth and diversity of printing in Malta (1839-1910)
· Charles Xuereb, Competing collective memories during the Victorian era: Maltese identity and post-colonial consequences
The Malta Historical Society is sponsored by The Alfred Mizzi Foundation.
