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  Collingwood and British Idealism Centre Main page
The Collingwood Centre was established in 1994 at the University of Wales, Swansea, with the aim of promoting and encouraging research into the life and philosophy of R. Collingwood and moved to Cardiff University in 2000.
The Collingwood and British Idealism Centre encourages research and study focused on the corpus of the British Idealists' writings in relation to themes which are associated with broader issues in the areas of politics, ethics, social and political philosophy, history of ideas, British and Continental political thought, sociology, and social policy.
The Collingwood and British Idealism Centre has four main foci, which act as the objectives to be pursued: the moral social and political philosophy of Idealism; society and the individual; varying international perspectives on Idealism and the diverse and powerful influence of Idealism.
www.cf.ac.uk /euros/collingwood   (176 words)

  
  COLLINGWOOD - LoveToKnow Article on COLLINGWOOD
As captain of the Barfleur, Collingwood was present at the naval engagement which was fought on the 1st of June 1794; and on that occasion he displayed equal judgment and courage.
In the beginning of 1799 Collingwood was raised to the rank of vice-admiral, and hoisting his flag in the Triumph, he joined the Channel Fleet, with which he proceeded to the Mediterranean, where the principal naval forces of France and Spain were assembled.
On the death of Nelson, Collingwood assumed the supreme command; and by his skill and judgment greatly contributed to the preserva tion of the British ships, as well as of those which were captured from the enemy.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /C/CO/COLLINGWOOD.htm   (1505 words)

  
 The Historical Imagination: Collingwood in the Classroom
This paper argues that Collingwood's theory offers teachers sound reasons for using constructivist approaches in their classrooms and that his methodological approach can be adapted to develop instructional strategies that recognize the importance of the human imagination in the learning process.
Collingwood argued that to understand and imagine past human actions and thought, we must think ourselves into the situation - that is, we re-think the thoughts of the persons engaged in the situation.
Collingwood points out that ultimately, the entire web of imaginative construction created by the historian, including the pegs on which the strands are hung and the strands strung to fill the gaps, is verified and justified by application of the historian's critical and imaginative mind.
www.quasar.ualberta.ca /css/Css_38_2/ARhistorical_imagination_collingwood.htm   (3490 words)

  
 Collingwood Ontario - Collingwood.biz
Stay at one of the finest Collingwood Accommodations (hotels, resorts, motels, cottages or bed and breakfasts).
Collingwood businesses are listed in our Simcoe.biz database and also available on Collingwood.biz.
"Collingwood is a premier Ranked Tourist Destination located on the southern shore of Georgian Bay and at the foot of Ontario's highest ski hill, Blue Mountain, in the heart of one of Ontario's most attractive year-round recreation and tourist destinations." Town of Collingwood
www.collingwood.biz   (193 words)

  
 Collingwood   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Vice-Admiral Collingwood was the brother of Edward Collingwood's great-grandfather, and it was no coincidence that Collingwood served on HMS Collingwood for special arrangements had been made for this to happen.
Collingwood was influenced by his advisor of studies, Hardy at Cambridge and decided early on that he would undertake research in mathematics.
Collingwood became involved with hospital boards in Newcastle, being a founder member of the Newcastle Regional Hospital Board and its chairmen from 1953 to 1968, then later he was involved with medical affairs on a national and international level.
www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Mathematicians/Collingwood.html   (1051 words)

  
 Collingwood Brochure
The Collingwood Library and Museum on Americanism (CLMA) occupies 8.75 acres of land on the banks of the Potomac River, midway between Alexandria and Mount Vernon on what was once part of George Washington's River Farm.
The objective of the Collingwood Foundation is to establish and maintain a Library and Museum, open to the public, to foster appreciation of our American Heritage by sharing the facility with all those persons who cherish the freedom of life, liberty, religion and free expression.
Collingwood is named for the British Admiral, Lord Cuthbert Collingwood, the hero of the Battle of Trafalgar, who had a friendly rela.
www.aw22.com /collingwood.htm   (709 words)

  
 Admiral Lord Collingwood looks out to sea
Collingwood of humble Northumbrian origin rose to the highest rank in the Royal Navy, and won almost every honour which a grateful country could bestow upon him.
Cuthbert Collingwood was born in Newcastle on October 24th 1748 into an old Northumbrian family, living in rather reduced circumstances as a result of the Civil war of the 17th century.
Collingwood died on board the Ville-De-Paris March 7, 1810 and was buried in St. Paul’s Cathedral where a monument to his memory was erected.
www.fgillings.freeserve.co.uk /lordc.htm   (628 words)

  
 Search Results for "collingwood"
Collingwood is a shipbuilding center and has one of the...
Collingwood, Robin George, 1889-1943, English philosopher and historian.
From 1908 he was associated with Oxford as student, fellow, lecturer in history, and professor...
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 Town of Collingwood
Collingwood is located in the heart of Ontario’s finest four-season destination area.
Easy to reach, Collingwood offers a combination of old time charm and history with the best recreation in Southern Ontario.
Whether relocating to Collingwood as a full or part time resident, or looking for a new weekend retreat, we can offer you all of the amenities and support you require.
www.town.collingwood.on.ca   (117 words)

  
 Collingwood on History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Collingwood did not mean to reject everything divine from historical treatment: Throughout the first chapter of his Idea of History, his point was to separate theology or theocratic writing from history.
Collingwood's ideas address this issue and offer an answer to these disagreements, but first, a bit of background to build toward his solution.
To re-iterate Collingwood's answer: to the extent that an "experienced" imagination is qualified by a critical analysis of original sources, it does help to explain history.
www.xmission.com /~kowski/Acts-Online/History-is.htm   (2141 words)

  
 Collingwood on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Collingwood is a shipbuilding center and has one of the largest dry docks on the Great Lakes.
Profile: ML Collingwood GC Inc.; building Sarasota's grandest waterfront homes.
ML Collingwood, GC Inc.: Building Sarasota's Grandest Waterfront Homes.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/C/CollngwC1an.asp   (399 words)

  
 Collingwood Now: A History of Collingwood
Collingwood is also home to the internationally famous Blue Mountain Pottery and Canadian Mist Whiskey, the largest selling Canadian Whiskey in the United States.
Collingwood is home of the Georgian Triangle Enterprise Centre, one of the first entrepreneurial development centres in Canada.
Collingwood is well equipped to tend to the needs of its citizens and tourists to the community.
www.collingwoodnow.com /directories/cwood_info/history.htm   (688 words)

  
 www.theage.com.au - The Age Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Collingwood coach Michael Malthouse has vowed to lift his team upp the ladder next year but he will not trade the club's valuable draft picks to do so.
Collingwood will seek a first-round draft pick for Richard Cole, the 22-year-old defender who has asked to be traded to Essendon.
Collingwood president Eddie McGuire has confirmed that Wayne Carey will join the Magpies as an assistant coach next year, and is likely to work full-time at the club.
www.realfooty.theage.com.au /realfooty/clubs/collingwood   (477 words)

  
 BBC Inside Out - Collingwood
Cuthbert Collingwood was born on October 24, 1748 in Newcastle.
Cuthbert Collingwood was born and bred on the banks of the river Tyne.
By 1772, Collingwood was an experienced seaman, and he was sent to Jamaica where he met another midshipman by the name of Horatio Nelson.
www.bbc.co.uk /insideout/northeast/series7/collingwood.shtml   (1523 words)

  
 Collingwood Biography
Collingwood was struck by the poverty of Takao, and took particular notice of the differences in ethnicity and customs between the Chinese and aborigines.
Collingwood then sailed to Kelung (Keelung), where he became acquainted with local coal mining operations (though he received a "less than cordial" greeting from the coal merchants); he commented on the primitive manual labor at the mines and performed a technical evaluation of the quality of the coal.
Collingwood also proved very prolific, writing some forty papers on natural history in scientific periodicals, as well as publishing many expositions on his religious beliefs (in both verse and prose) during the course of his lifetime.(11)
academic.reed.edu /formosa/texts/collingwoodbio.html   (916 words)

  
 Collingwood Neighbourhood House Soceity Gymnasium
The City's relationship with the Collingwood Neighbourhood House Gymnasium is outlined in the original operating requirements approved by Council on December 15, 1994.
Collingwood staff continued to work with local residents to improve cultural development and participation in the community by encouraging the intermingling of different age groups and cultures through the Cross Generation Program and the Aboriginal Carving Project.
In 2000, Collingwood Neighbourhood House gymnasium experienced a modest increase in revenues due to the growing usage of the gymnasium.
www.city.vancouver.bc.ca /CTYCLERK/cclerk/010731/A15.htm   (933 words)

  
 Collingwood, Victoria   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Collingwood's early civic and commercial centre was in Johnston Street, which was a route to the eastern suburbs via the bridge (1857) over the Yarra River.
Collingwood gained a reputation for working-class culture and tenacious support for the local football team.
Collingwood municipality's census populations were 10,786 (1857), 23,829 (1881), 34,239 (1921), 25,413 (1961) and 13,388 (1991).
www.arts.monash.edu.au /ncas/multimedia/gazetteer/list/collingwood.html   (1528 words)

  
 The Collingwood Library & Museum on Americanism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Subsequently, on October 29, 1976, these courageous Masons founded a non-profit Corporation pursuant to the laws of the state of Virginia and called it "The Foundation for National Library and Museum on Americanism." They thus emulated the Founding Fathers by placing their own substance at risk for the common good.
The centerpiece of this property was a RAMSHACKLE COLONIAL STYLE MANSION which had last been used as an up-scale restaurant called "Collingwood on the Potomac." This building had been vacant for a long time, and consequently had fallen into disrepair.
Collingwood hosts many of these affairs during the course of each year.
www.collingwoodlibrary.com   (1117 words)

  
 Bulletin - Pie way or the highway   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
In 1990, when Collingwood star Peter Daicos faced bankruptcy and Fitzroy football club was struggling to remain in the league, a Collingwood fan elbowed aside a Fitzroy supporter at a pie stand and silenced his complaints with these words: “We’ve got one player who owes more than your entire team is worth.”
I don’t really remember, because that night Collingwood was playing Brisbane and I refused to turn off the television while he told me (well, I presume he told me) his shattering story.
Should Collingwood make it to the grand final, and perhaps go a step further than in 2001, Australia will be reminded – this is a promise – of the reasons why we were hated for so long.
www.bulletin.ninemsn.com.au /Bulletin/EdDesk.nsf/All/78D11BAEF7A6DC8FCA256D9E001898A3   (700 words)

  
 R. G. Collingwood Idea of History
Robin George Collingwood, or R. Collingwood as he is more usually known, was Waynefleet Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at Oxford University from 1935 to 1941.
During his career Collingwood attempted to integrate and understand human experience and knowledge, and to bring together history and philosophy.
In the introduction to The Idea of History Collingwood attempted to define a "philosophy of history" and discussed the nature, object, method and value of history.
www.age-of-the-sage.org /philosophy/history/r_g_collingwood_history.html   (214 words)

  
 collingwood   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
True of False: According to Collingwood, there are no actions which the poet must do in order to prepare to compose a poem.
True or False: According to Collingwood, a person does not know what her emotions are until she expresses them.
True or False: According to Collingwood, it is possible for an artist to set out to write a tragedy.
www.unc.edu /gform-links/courses/2002ss1/phil/033/001/collingwood.html   (314 words)

  
 Collingwood, R G --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Deeply influenced by his father, a painter and archaeologist who was a friend and biographer of John Ruskin, Collingwood was educated at home until he was 13.
In the first place, it must face the assault of those who regard it as a rival to science; it is against this assault that sympathizers like R.G. Collingwood, a British philosopher, historian, and archaeologist, seek to defend it.
A leading authority on Roman Britain, R.G. Collingwood studied at Oxford University and remained there as a teacher until his retirement in 1941.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9024782?tocId=9024782   (878 words)

  
 Collingwood Cenotaph   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The Cenotaph was constructed and dedicated to local Collingwood men who volunteered and laid down their lives in the Great War of 1914-1918.
The Collingwood Cenotaph is an important symbol of community pride and provides a focus for a number of ceremonies throughout the year, including Remembrance Day.
Maintenance and upkeep of the Cenotaph are shared by the Town of Collingwood Department of Parks, Recreation and Culture, the Collingwood Horticultural Society and the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 63.
www.cdli.ca /monuments/on/collingwood.htm   (290 words)

  
 Blue Mountain Chalets
The backdrop of the Collingwood Terminals with its huge white columns rises up from the once wasteland "spit area", now a series of beautifully landscaped walkways and gardens with a history of the area on massive granite plinths.
During the Reil Rebellion a military force was raised to quell the disturbance and the Northwest Mounted Police battalion left Collingwood Harbour in 1873 as a part of this force.
Murals of Collingwood's historical highlights are springing up in the Town and none is more dramatic than the Side Launch mural, painted by John Hood and his sister Alexandra Hood, depicting the practice of launching ships in Collingwood.
www.bluemountainchalets.com /area_info   (1017 words)

  
 Collingwood College - Durham University
We value everyone, staff, students and alumni, who are attached to the College – and we look forward very much to welcoming new students.
Collingwood graduate, Stephen Rowbotham, continues to enjoy well-earned success at international level in rowing.
The students of Collingwood form a body known as the Junior Common Room, or JCR.
www.dur.ac.uk /collingwood   (204 words)

  
 Calgary Board of Education - Schools and Areas
Escuela Collingwood School is located in the northwest community of Triwood, serving many communities of the Northern side of Calgary as the site of the International Spanish Academy, which is a bilingual program of choice for many families.
In 2002 Escuela Collingwood School added a grade three Spanish Bilingual class and with the opening of a second International Spanish Academy at Canyon Meadows in the South, Escuela Collingwood School now serves the north section of the city of Calgary.
At Escuela Collingwood School, it is the responsibility of all staff, students, parents and the community to understand, support, promote and advance the quality of learning in a safe and positive learning environment.
www.cbe.ab.ca /schools/view.asp?id=205   (531 words)

  
 Collingwood Family
The Collingwoods were probably the most intellectually and artistically gifted family in the Lake District in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The first member of the family to become involved in the Lakes was William Collingwood (1819-1903), a well-known water-colour artist.
The Armitt has a small collection of watercolour paintings by W G Collingwood, which can be seen at this link.
fp.armitt.plus.com /collingwood_family.htm   (557 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Robin George Collingwood (Philosophy, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Robin George Collingwood 1889–1943, English philosopher and historian.
From 1908 he was associated with Oxford as student, fellow, lecturer in history, and professor of philosophy.
Collingwood believed that philosophy should be rooted in history rather than in formal science, and he attempted to correlate creative endeavor with historical experience rather than to sensation.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/C/CollngwR.html   (204 words)

  
 collingwood.jcr | Home
Collingwood is the second largest college in the University, with slightly over 1000 students.
If you're currently at Collingwood, why not have a look at the latest news, have a look at the events calendar, or enter the caption contest?
If you're trying to pick a college, then the applicants section should hopefully answer all your questions, although if you have more you can post them on the forum where a current student should be able to answer them.
www.dur.ac.uk /collingwood.jcr   (179 words)

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