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Author : R. Merfyn Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN : UCAL:$B181402
Author : Stephen Banks
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843839408
Shortlisted for the 2015 Katharine Briggs Award This is a study of law, wrongdoing and justice as conceived in the minds of the ordinary people of England and Wales from the later eighteenth century to the First World War. Official justice was to become increasingly centralised with declining traditional courts, emerging professional policing and a new prison estate. However, popular concepts of what was, or should be, contained within the law were often at variance with its formal written content. Communities continued to hold mock courts, stage shaming processions and burn effigies of wrongdoers. The author investigates those justice rituals, the actors, the victims and the offences that occasioned them. He also considers the role such practices played in resistive communities trying to preserve their identity and assert their independence. Finally, whilst documenting the decline of popular justice traditions this book demonstrates that they were nevertheless important in bequeathing a powerful set of symbols and practices to the nascent labour movement. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of legal history and criminal justice as well as social and cultural history in what could be considered a very long nineteenth century. Stephen Banks is an associate professor in criminal law, criminal justice and legal history at the University of Reading, co-director of the Forum for Legal and Historical Research and author of A Polite Exchange of Bullets: The Duel and the English Gentleman, 1750-1850 (The Boydell Press, 2010).
Author : Philip Jenkins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317872689
Rich in detail but vigorous, authoritative and unsentimental, A History of Modern Wales is a comprehensive and unromanticised examination of Wales as it was and is. It stresses both the long-term continuities in Welsh history, and also the significant regional differences within the principality.
Author : Paul Ward
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780708323298
Huw T. Edwards was a prominent Welsh- (and English-) speaking public figure in twentieth-century Welsh society. In the 1950s he was known as 'the unofficial Prime Minister of Wales' because of his chairmanship of the Council of Wales. In 1958 Edwards resigned from the Council of Wales because the Conservative government refused to create the post of Secretary of State for Wales. In 1959 he also resigned from the Labour Party, after 50 years membership. Again, his reasons reflected a growing sense of Welsh nationalism. He had become increasingly interested in Welsh cultural and political issues and had encouraged his union to support of Coleg Harlech and the National Eisteddfod. On leaving Labour, Edwards joined Plaid Cymru. Edwards's political life, therefore, seems to reinforce the notion of fragmentation of United Kingdom identities and their replacement by distinct and politically ambitious national identities in Wales. This book suggests that close examination of Edwards political life reveals a more complex situation. Edwards's resignation from Labour was about his political desires for Wales but equally entailed a rejection of the rightward shift in British Labour politics being led by Hugh Gaitskell. Edwards's protest can therefore be viewed from the perspective of the British left as well as Welsh nationalism. Hence in 1965 Edwards rejoined Labour, because the accession of Harold Wilson to the Labour leadership and government resulted in a radicalisation of the party alongside recognition of Welsh nationhood with the establishment of a Welsh Secretary of State and a Welsh Office.
Author : Andrew Edwards
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780708324264
Many books have focused on the rise of, and success of, the Labour party in Wales, but this one focuses on its decline in an understudied part of Wales.
Author : K. D. M. Snell,Paul S. Ell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2000-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521771559
A complete geography of religion in England and Wales, including exhaustive analyses of many religious questions and debates.
Author : Eleanor Casella,Industrial Heritage Support Officer for England Michael Nevell,Michael Nevell,Hanna Steyne
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 769 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780199693962
Through international and multi-period chapters, this volume explores the origins and development of industrialisation from its emergence in 18th century Europe to its contemporary ubiquity. It interrogates the widespread exploitation of natural resources that forged industrialisation and its environmental and social legacy in our globalised world.
Author : David Howell
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2002-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191542114
The Labour Party became a major political force during the 1920s. It unexpectedly entered office as a minority government in 1924; five years later as the largest party in the Commons it took office again. For many the party's enhanced status was associated closely with its leader, Ramsay MacDonald. The years of optimism were destroyed by rising unemployment; in August 1931, the second Labour Government faced pressures for public expenditure cuts in the midst of a financial crisis. The Government collapsed, and MacDonald led a new administration composed of erstwhile opponents and a few old colleagues. Labour went into opposition; an early election reduced it to a parliamentary rump. This study offers a uniquely detailed analysis of Labour in the 1920s based on a wide variety of unpublished sources. The emphasis is on the variety of identities available within the party, and demonstrates how disputes over identity made a crucial contribution to the 1931 crisis. Thorough scholarship and distinctive interpretation combine to provide an important examination of a major episode in twentieth-century history.
Author : Henry Pelling
Publisher : Springer
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349129683
The current debate about industrial relations cannot be understood without a knowledge of trade-union history. Dr Pelling's book, which has for several years been a standard work on the subject, has again been revised and updated to take account of recent research and to explain the course of events up to the Thatcher years, the miner's strike and the Employment Acts. The growth of white-collar unionism and the extension of women's rights are dealt with in the concluding chapters.
Author : Mark Garnett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317194613
The Routledge Handbook of British Politics and Society conducts a rigorous, innovative and distinctive analysis of the relationship between British politics and society, emphasizing that the UK is now far from a monolithic, and unshifting, entity. Examining the subject matter with unrivalled breadth and depth, it highlights and interrogates key contemporary debates on the future of the UK, the nature of 'Britishness', and the merits of multiculturalism, as well as contemporary criticisms of traditional institutions and the nature of representative democracy itself. Including contributions from key authors in their respective fields who bring their authority to bear on the task of outlining the current state of the art in British Studies, the book provides a fresh examination of the contrasts and the continuities across the whole field of British Politics and Society, while setting out agendas for future research. The Routledge Handbook of British Politics and Society will be essential reading and an authoritative reference for scholars, students, researchers and practitioners involved in, and actively concerned about, research on British politics, society and culture.
Author : Matthew Cragoe
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2004-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198207542
This detailed, scholarly exploration of Welsh political culture in the 19th century offers a new interpretation of the rise of nationalism. The author shows how the focus of legitimate power in the community shifted from the aristocracy to the urban middle classes.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-29
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789004333598
This innovative collection of essays employs historical and sociological approaches to provide important case studies of asylums, psychiatry and mental illness in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland.
Author : Catherine Mills
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351905381
This book explores the emergence and growth of state responsibility for safer and healthier working practices in British mining and the responses of labour and industry to expanding regulation and control. It begins with an assessment of working practice in the coal and metalliferous mining industries at the dawn of the nineteenth century and the hazards involved for the miners, before charting the rise of reforming interest in these industries. The 1850 Act for the Inspection of Coal Mines in Great Britain brought tighter legislation in coal mining, yet the metalliferous miners continued to work without government-regulated safety and health controls until the early 1870s. The author explores the reasons for this, taking into account socio-economic, environmental, medical, technical, and cultural factors that determined the chronology and nature of early reform. The comparative approach between the coal and metalliferous mining sectors provides a useful model for exploring the significance of organized labour in gaining health and safety concessions, particularly as the miners in the metalliferous sector, in contrast to the colliers who unionised early, placed a high value on independence and self-sufficiency in the workplace. As an investigation into the formation of health and safety legislation in a major industry, this work will be valuable to all those with an interest in medical history, occupational health, legal history, and the social history of work in the nineteenth century.
Author : Graham A S Day
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2002-07-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780708323106
Making Sense of Wales gives an account of the main changes that have taken place in Welsh society over the last fifty years, as well as analysing the major efforts to interpret those changes. By placing work done in Wales in the context of broader developments within sociological approaches over the period, Graham Day demonstrates that there is a body of work on Wales worth considering in its own right as a specific contribution to sociology. He also shows the relevance of sociological accounts of Wales for understanding contemporary empirical and theoretical concerns in social analysis. Beginning with post-war analysis which considered Wales in terms of regional planning and policy, Day shows how more theoretically informed perspectives have come to the fore in recent years. He also examines more contemporary developments, such as gender and class transformations, the emphasis on the centrality of the Welsh language for conceptions of Wales and Welshness, as well as the impact of new forms of governance and questions of social exclusion.
Author : Russell Davies
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783162390
It takes a different view of the history of Wales, examining a panorama of different emotions and experiences – laughter, happiness, fear, anger, adventure, lust, loneliness, anxiety – to give an entertaining and exciting new history to Wales. a wide range of sources are used to present the ambitions and anxieties which drove and destroyed Welsh people The book’s literary style and the fact that it follows earlier successful studies by the author should ensure an audience.