 Bath:
a Georgian city in the West country
- it developed as a "spa"
(a place with hot water springs, where people come to
take medicinal waters); one of its important buildings
is the "Pump Room"
- the fashionable society resorting
to Bath to take the waters would meet at the "Assembly
Rooms" to have tea, play
cards, and dance
- to house them, the architectural
development included famous landmarks such as Queen
Square, the Circus, the Royal Crescent
The
websites of the city of Bath, of Bath museums, and
of the "Bath Preservation Trust" may be
used to study Georgian Bath |
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1) search methods : a
simple search on 'Bath' will give " noise"
(=irrelevant information), since it will return all the
websites concerning bathroom fittings in addition to those
on Bath.
It
is necessary to do a 'Boolean search' combining
'Bath' and 'city'; a Boolean search (named after
the 19th c mathematician Boole) concerns request
made of several words: not only "Bath",
but "Bath" and "city").
If
the two words are linked with the "operator"
AND (Bath AND city), the search engine with only
return the websites referring simultaneously to
"city" and to "Bath" , which
corresponds to our search. Some search engines have
AND as an implicit operator (see their help menu).
If
the two words are linked with OR (Bath OR Edinburgh),
the search engine will return all the websites on
Bath plus all those on Edinburgh (not only, as in
the preceding examples, those that contain both
words at the same time)" |
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http://www.cityofbath.co.uk/
www.bath-preservation-trust.org.uk
websites may have a search facility; in the "search"
box, type a request such as "Number One"
(the house at Number One, Royal Crescent, which
is a museum of interior decoration and daily life
in Georgian times
http://www.museumofcostume.co.uk/
museum of costume: websites may have databases (here:
concerning items of 18th c clothing); requests made
in these databases follow the same rules as requests
for websites
daily life may thus be the object of systematic
classification |
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