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Woman Appeal. A New Rhetoric of Consumption: Women’s Domestic Magazines in the 1920s and 1930s
No full textThis is an accepted manuscript of an article published by Edinburgh University Press in Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1918-1939: The Interwar Period on 31/12/2017, available online: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-women-039-s-periodicals-and-print-culture-in-britain-1918-1939.html
The accepted version of the publication may differ from the final published version.When in 1926 two brothers from South Wales, William and Gomer Berry, struck a deal to acquire the entire business of the Amalgamated Press (AP), they took on the mantle of ‘Britain’s leading magazine publishing business,’ after the untimely death of AP owner and press magnate, Alfred Harmsworth (Lord Northcliffe) (Cox and Mowatt 2014: 60–3). The continued importance of magazines aimed at the female reader for the Berry’s empire was emphasised by William in his first speech as chairman, and in the coming years a host of new titles including Woman and Home, Woman’s Journal, Woman’s Companion, Wife and Home, Woman and Beauty and Home Journal were added to established staples such as Home Chat, Women’s Pictorial, Woman’s World and Woman’s Weekly. The launch of over fifty titles by AP and its rivals Newnes and Pearson, and Odhams Press, put women and their magazines at the forefront of popular publishing in the interwar years. By the end of the 1930s Odhams Press, under the direction of its dynamic managing director Julias Elias (Lord Southwood), had usurped the AP’s position with its innovative publication Woman, which brought the visual appeal of good quality colour printing to a tuppeny weekly, something that previously had only been available in expensive, high-class magazines. The interwar years witnessed expansion and consolidation, struggle and innovation as these publishing giants competed to command the lucrative market for women’s magazines
Landscapes on the edge: examining the role of climatic interactions in shaping coastal watersheds using a coastal-terrestrial landscape evolution model
No full textIncised coastal gullies (ICGs) are dynamic features found at the terrestrial-coastal interface. Their geomorphic evolution is driven by the interactions between processes of fluvial knickpoint migration and coastal cliff erosion. Under scenarios of future climate change the frequency and magnitude of the climatological drivers of both terrestrial (fluvial and hillslope) and coastal (cliff erosion) processes are likely to change, with an adjunct impact on these types of coastal features. Here we explore the response of an incised coastal gully to changes in both terrestrial and coastal climate in order to elucidate the key process interactions which drive ICG evolution.We modify an extant landscape evolution model, CHILD, to incorporate processes of soft-cliff erosion. This modified version, termed the Coastal-Terrestrial-CHILD (CT-CHILD) model, is then employed to explore the interactions between changing terrestrial and coastal driving forces on the future evolution of an ICG found on the south west Isle of Wight, UK. It was found that the magnitude and frequency of storm events will play a key role in determining the future trajectory of ICGs, highlighting a need to understand the role of event sequencing in future projections of landscape evolution. Furthermore, synergistic (positive) and antagonistic (negative) interactions were identified between coastal and terrestrial parameters, such as wave height intensity and precipitation duration, which act to modulate the impact of changes in any one parameter. Of note was the role played by wave height intensity in driving coastal erosion, which was found to play a more important role than sea-level rise in determining rates of coastal erosion. This highlights the need for a greater focus on wave height in studies of soft-cliff erosion
Letteratura e politiche urbane: le contro-narrative di Hackney
No full textA partire dalla raccolta di racconti e poesie Acquired for Development by...A Hackney Anthology, l’articolo prende in esame il rapporto tra letteratura e fenomeni di resistenza alle politiche urbane in atto nella Londra del terzo millennio, destinate a trasformare intere aree urbane. La raccolta, diventata un caso letterario e anche ‘pietra angolare’ della casa editrice indipendente londinese Influx Press, ha dato voce a una serie di letterati che vivono o hanno vissuto nel quartiere di Hackney, sollecitandoli a proporre il loro racconto del luogo in un momento di grandi cambiamenti e dell’attuazione di politiche di ‘gentrification’ destinate a cambiarne le fisionomia negli anni a venire. Queste voci più recenti hanno in parte preso le distanze dal più noto e celebrato contro-narratore della Londra contemporanea e di Hackney, Iain Sinclair. Lo scarto generazionale gioca un ruolo decisivo nell’espressione di un immaginario locale e delle aspirazioni che riguardano i modi dell’abitare.
L’analisi dei testi raccolti da Gary Budden e Kit Caless offre la possibilità di indagare quale ruolo può assumere la letteratura nel tentativo di dare voce a una prospettiva più prossima a quella degli abitanti, ancorché si tratti in questo caso di abitanti particolari, letterati e scrittori, capaci di una osservazione partecipata e di una restituzione nelle forme del testo letterario.
Il volume, nato dalla sollecitazione dei curatori, esprime una coralità inaspettata e riflette una ‘narrativa del luogo’ che si affianca alle narrative, più o meno esplicite, sottese alle politiche urbane (in questo caso quelle della Londra Olimpica). Può la letteratura influire su queste potenti narrative che intrecciano interessi economici e immaginario urbano? Può offrire uno strumento di interpretazione che solleciti la riflessione e renda i lettori prosumer consapevoli di un possibile potere di indirizzo?The article examines some literary representations of reactions and resistance to urban policies and development programs which have been put in place in London, especially in view of the Olympics Game of 2012. It focuses on the area of Hackney (East London), moving from the analysis of Acquired for Development by...A Hackney Anthology, a collection of short stories and poems, edited by Gary Budden and Kit Caless which has become a literary case and the cornerstone of newly founded Influx Press. Through a variety of fiction, poems, non-fiction pieces, mostly in a non-realistic, postmodern mood, twenty-five authors, who live or used to live in the borough, respond imaginatively to the changes going on in this multicultural area and, implicitly, claim the right to have a word on the policies meant to transform Hackey in a ‘cool’ neighbourhood. These voices take some distance from the most celebrated counter-narrator of London and Hackney, Iain Sinclair. The choral narrative of Acquired for Development by...A Hackney Anthology, includes also provocative, unexpected citizens: youth subcultures and squatters speak their sense of place, as also the ‘crevices and the gaps’ of Hackney are inhabited and gentrification is going to swallow the anarchic energy hidden in disrupted areas.
What role literature may play in constructing multiple (counter-)narratives of place? What is the possible output of encouraging awareness that urban policies are steered by narratives that are not as inclusive as claim to be? These are some of the question addressed by the paper
Modelling the effects of climate change and sea level rise on the evolution of incised coastal gullies
No full textUnder projections of future (next ~100 years) anthropogenic climate change, it is predicted that marked changes in environmental driving conditions, with relation to baseline (1961 - 1990) climates, will be experienced. Such changes have the potential to induce substantial geomorphological and ecological change. Numerical models of landscape evolution provide powerful tools to assess the impacts that environmental changes may have on landscape morphology. Accordingly, this research seeks to utilise landscape evolution models (LEMs) to understand how projected changes in climate will affect the geomorphic response of a series of incised coastal gullies found on the Isle of Wight, UK. Incised coastal gullies are known to be dynamic and sensitive landscape features which intersect the terrestrial - marine boundary; as such their evolution is influenced by changes in both terrestrial (i.e. precipitation) and maritime (i.e. sea level and wave height) climates. In order to ensure the processes driving incised coastal gully evolution are represented within the LEM, an existing LEM was modified to include processes of soft cliff erosion. This represents the first such inclusion of coastal processes within a LEM framework. The modified LEM was forced with ensemble projections of precipitation, sea level and wave height downscaled from HadCM3 and CGCM2 Global Climate Model (GCM) outputs for two emissions scenarios (A2 and B2). Comparison against a baseline scenario based on the 1961-1990 climatology allows for climate induced changes in system response to be quantified. To constrain the uncertainties associated with the application of landscape models and downscaled GCM data, a Monte Carlo analysis framework is employed, resulting in ~22000 model runs. This method also permits the development of probabilistic results describing geomorphological change in gully systems. Results suggest that the likelihood of extreme loss in gully extent will increase by up to 61%. Furthermore, it is projected that extreme rates of coastal erosion will increase by 22% by 2100 (under HadCM3 runs forced with the A2 emissions scenario). However, under certain scenarios the possibility of extension of the gully systems exists, with likely (>66% probability) increases in gully length of 13.7 m projected under CGCM2 runs forced with the A2 emissions scenario. The novel application of a Monte Carlo methodology with a LEM framework permits the identification of key climatic parameters responsible for causing extreme changes within these gully systems, allowing the relative importance of each climate parameter in driving incised coastal gully evolution to be assessed. Furthermore, the successful application of this technique suggests it may be applicableto other studies applying LEMs to scenarios of future climate change
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Modelling the response of soft cliffs to climate change: a statistical, process-response model using accumulated excess energy
No full textThe occurrence of obtuse junction angles and changes in channel width below tributaries along the Mekong River, South-East Asia
No full textClassic descriptions of drainage patterns suggest that confluence angle is determined by the shape of the drainage basin unless constraining factors, such as the geological structure, affect stream flow. Downstream changes in channel width below tributary junctions have long been associated with tributary inputs of flow and sediment. Analysis of tributary junction geometry and channel width changes in large rivers and over large reaches is sparse. The Lower Mekong Basin exhibits a generally dendritic drainage network despite flowing through a diverse array of geological settings. Publicly available SPOT?5 imagery from Google Earth was used to identify and catalogue junction geometries and downstream changes in channel width below tributary junctions along a ~2200 km reach of the Mekong River. Of the 284 junctions identified, the majority (66.2%) were acute. However 12 (4.8%) were found to be normal (90°) and 75 (30%) were found to be obtuse. This latter number is in contrast to previous studies over similar spatial scales which found little evidence of obtuse junctions. Meander extension of the incoming tributary and deflection of the tributary across bedrock shoulders were found to be the dominant geomorphological causes of obtuse tributary junctions. The relationship between the width of the tributary channels and the width of the mainstem upstream and downstream of the confluences was analysed. It was observed that, over the whole reach, a slight narrowing occurred immediately below tributary junctions. Although the changes themselves were small, the slight net narrowing is shown to be statistically significant. The observed relationship is shown to vary considerably with geology. The geological control suggests that complex factors play important roles in determining changes to channel width across large systems and that simple cause–effect relationships do not hold in such complicated geological settings
The marriage record of Sparkman, Simeon E. and Hackney, Mary C
No full textMarriage license for Mary C. Hackney and Simeon E. Sparkman. A.M. Samford was the officiant
The marriage record of Hackney, James L. and Moody, Margaret E
No full textMarriage license for James L. Hackney and Margaret E. Moody. A.M. Samford was the officiant
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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