{"id":2100,"date":"2012-09-17T19:40:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-17T19:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/scitent.com\/2012\/09\/17\/exhibit-dickens-down-under-921-12132012\/"},"modified":"2012-09-17T19:40:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-17T19:40:00","slug":"exhibit-dickens-down-under-921-12132012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/2012\/09\/17\/exhibit-dickens-down-under-921-12132012\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhibit: Dickens Down-under (9\/21-12\/13\/2012)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">In this year of world-wide Dickens Celebrations, we too at Special Collections, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, are participating. On 21 September begins our \u201c<b>Celebrating Charles Dickens, 1812-1870: A Man of His Age<\/b>\u201d, which runs through to 13 December 2012.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">Not only will the first and second edition works be on display, including those memorable images by artists who collaborated closely with Dickens, but in order to contextualise his life and works, a select number of themes that figure so strongly during the reign of Queen Victoria will be on display. They include the City of London; the poor and dispossessed;&nbsp;Punch; the Great Exhibition; and the Crimean War. Dickens\u2019s enduring legacy will also feature, including those \u2018down-under\u2019 Dickens Societies.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">The physical exhibition will start in the de Beer Gallery, Special Collections, 1st&nbsp;floor, Central University Library, on 21 September. Hours: 8.30 to 5.00 Monday to Friday. As usual, an on-line exhibition will follow.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">For any further details, please contact Dr Donald Kerr, Special Collections Librarian&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:Donald.kerr@otago.ac.nz\" target=\"_blank\">Donald.kerr@otago.ac.nz<\/a>&nbsp;; phone (03) 479-8330<\/span><o:p><\/o:p><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this year of world-wide Dickens Celebrations, we too at Special Collections, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, are participating. On 21 September begins our \u201cCelebrating Charles Dickens, 1812-1870: A Man of His Age\u201d, which runs through to 13 December 2012. Not only will the first and second edition works be on display, including those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[498],"tags":[536,516,657],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}