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Social Class and the Fertility Transition: A Critical Comment on the Statistical Results Reported in Simon Szreter's Fertility, Class and Gender in Britain, 1860-1940
No full textSimon Szreter’s book Fertility, Class, and Gender in Britain, 1860-1940 argues that social and economic class fails to explain the cross-sectional differences in marital fertility as reported in the 1911 census of England and Wales. Szreter’s conclusion made the book immediately influential, and it remains so. This finding matters a great deal for debates about the causes of the European fertility decline of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. For decades scholars have argued whether the main forces at work were ideational or social and economic. This note reports a simple re-analysis of Szreter’s own data, which suggests that social class does explain cross-sectional differences in English marital fertility in 1911.fertility transition, 1911 Census of England and Wales
Egypt Ancient and Modern
No full textContents: 1. Egypt ancient and modern / Timothy Champion and Peter Ucko -- 2. The wisdom of Egypt: classical views / John Tait -- 3. Ancient Egypt in medieval Arabic writings / Okasha El Daly -- 3. Images of ancient Egypt in the Latin middle ages / Charles Burnett -- 5. The Renaissance afterlife of ancient Egypt (1400-1650) / Brian A. Curran -- 6. Ancient Egypt in 17th and 18th century England / David Boyd Haycock -- 7. Beyond Egyptology: Egypt in 19th and 20th century archaeology and anthropology / Timothy Champion
Musica Viva concert Thursday 2nd November 2023 - Taikoz, Side By Side
No full textThe author was invited to provide a concert review of Taikoz's Side By Side performance in November 2023 at Lazenby Hall, the University of New England which was touring with the National Musica Viva concert series. Artistic director, Ian Cleworth describes their new Side By Side program as a response to the pandemic through 'an emotional and intimate exploration of shared human experience: our hopes, anxieties, contentment, and desires'. Based on the Hachijō-style of taiko playing, Side By Side takes on further meanings in this program, including the two-player method of playing a single drum, where one provides the underlying beat and the other builds on this rhythmical foundation with unique and improvised rhythms. This collaborative and improvisatory ingenuity was displayed throughout
Archaeological Investigations Project (AIP)
No full textThe Archaeological Investigations Project (AIP), funded by English Heritage and Historic England, systematically collected information about the nature and outcomes of more than 80,000 archaeological projects undertaken in England between 1990 and 2010, the currency of Planning Policy Guidance Note 16: Archaeology and Planning (generally known as PPG16) that was published in November 1990. The AIP aimed to document as many archaeological investigations as possible, many of which would otherwise have remained invisible to the archaeological community and the wider public, through accessing limited availability Grey Literature reports held by archaeological contractors and curators. Whilst the AIP did not collate a library of such reports, it signposted their locations. Data was gathered directly from those who undertook the work, either from their reports or by visiting organizations across England.
Records of investigations and events created by AIP have been incorporated, indexed, and cross-referenced within a range of on-line resources including: the English Heritage Excavations Index (formerly the RCHME Excavation Index) now archived at the ADS (http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/304/) which itself shared data with other on-line resources such as PastScape, Archsearch, and the Heritage Gateway; the British and Irish Archaeological Bibliography (http://www.biab.ac.uk); and the OASIS record maintained by the Archaeology Data Service (http://oasis.ac.uk/pages/wiki/Main).
This AIP data archive allows a greater appreciation of the breadth of archaeological work carried out in England during a key period in the emergence of planning-led investigations, and it gives an overview of the impacts that PPG16 had on such projects. This is summarised in the publication which forms the companion to this database, 'Archaeology in the PPG16 Era: Investigations in England 1990-2010' by Timothy Darvill, Kerry Barrass, Vanessa Constant, Ehren Milner, and Bronwen Russell (Oxbow Books 2018)
Custom and Coverture in the Manor Courts: Women as Tenants in Early Modern England
No full textEngland’s manor courts developed as a result of the tenurial agreements that structured the country’s medieval and early modern land market. Operated by the landlord’s steward and a jury of tenants, there courts were local institutions that fulfilled a wide variety of legislative, punitive, and adjudicative functions regarding the regulation of community resources and the resolution of conflict. The courts did not explicitly implement the common law doctrine of coverture, which denied women’s legal independence at marriage. However, the customary exclusion of women from land inheritance meant that they were largely restricted from accessing the local power structures that the courts embodied. Nevertheless, despite these limitations, women were frequently landholding tenants in early modern England, which meant that they had the same rights and duties as their male landholding neighbours. These courts ultimately protected women’s legal rights as tenants but enforced early modern England’s broader patriarchal social order
Transatlantic Scotophobia: nation, empire and anti-Scottish sentiment in England and America, 1760-1783
No full textThis thesis examines anti-Scottish sentiment or ‘Scotophobia’ in England and America from the accession of George III in 1760 to the end of the War of American Independence in 1783. It charts the development of popular Scotophobia from the radical political protest movement associated with John Wilkes in London to Sons of Liberty in America. I argue that anti-Scottish sentiment during these years was intrinsically connected to the imperial crisis which was to culminate in the American Revolution. American Patriots and their radical supporters in England blamed the increasingly coercive American policies of the British government on the secret influence of Scottish ministers such as the Earl of Bute and Lord Mansfield. They simultaneously attacked the Scottish people in general as the internal enemies of the British Empire, denouncing them as Jacobite rebels and the enemies of ‘Freeborn Englishmen’ in England and America. This imperial Scotophobia reached its peak at the outbreak of war in 1775, with both Americans and English radicals attacking the conflict as a ‘Scotch war’.I argue that Scotophobia during the war was truly transatlantic, providing both a scapegoat for British policy and a common enemy against whom American Patriots and English radicals could unite. Through this transatlantic Scotophobia, therefore, we can gain important insights into both English and American visions of empire and national identity on the eve of the Revolution. The appeals to ‘English liberty’ and attacks on a Scottish enemy show that some contemporaries believed the British Empire to be defined by Englishness rather than Britishness, an idea strongly associated with notions of liberty. We also see strong evidence of an Anglo-American identity which many in both England and America sought to hold onto even in the midst of war
155.03 / A Letter to the author of an Address to all rationalists in Great Britain, published in the Old-England-journal, Nov. the 30th, 1745. With an appendix...
No full textA Letter to the author of an Address to all rationalists in Great Britain, published in the Old-England-journal, Nov. the 30th, 1745. With an appendix..
Kelly, Timothy
No full textTimothy Kelly was born in Deptford, England on February 8, 1869 to parents Michael and Bridgette Kelly. His family immigrated to Canada when he was just an infant. He grew up in Pembrook, Ontario with his two sisters. It was in Pembrook that he met and married his wife, Mary. As a young man, Timothy traveled west and secured employment with the Alberta Railway and Irrigation Company with wife, Mary joining him. Timothy later worked on the construction of the CPR High Level Bridge in Lethbridge, Alberta. The couple had six children, John, Lorenzo, Lucille, Mary, Corine and Timothy Jr.
On September 30, 1915, at the age of 47, Timothy Kelly enlisted with the 82nd Battalion CEF in Calgary, Alberta. Determined to enlist, Pte Kelly shaved a few years off of his birth date so that he would not exceed the maximum age allowance. He arrived in England on May 29, 1916 aboard the Empress of Britain and remained with the 82nd Battalion until August 27, 1916 when he was taken on strength by the 31st Battalion CEF. On September 15, 1916, Pte Kelly proceeded to the frontlines near Courcelette and less than two weeks later, he received a gun shot wound to the head.
On September 30, 1916, exactly one year to the day of his enlistment, Pte Kelly died of wounds. He was laid to rest at Ste. Marie Cemetery. Pte Kelly was awarded the Victory Medal and British War Medal. His wife, Mary received the Memorial Cross and death plaque in honour of her husband
Urban liturgy in the Church of England: A historical, theological and anthroplogical analysis of the mid Victorian slum priest ritualists and their legacy
No full textThis study offers an insight into the interface between the worship and mission of the church in poor urban communities through historical, theological and anthropological analyses. It considers the emergence of Ritualism in the mid-Victorian Church of England and the attempts of the establishment and Church hierarchy to put it down, particularly in the most deprived districts. The first preoccupation for many in the Church and for its leaders was to draw the masses into church worship. In the case of the 'slum priests' who are the focus of interest here, the nature of this worship became a bone of bitter contention and ultimately led to a long period of liturgical reform in the Church of England
Apology of Timothy the Patriarch before the Caliph Mahdi
No full textPart of Alphonse Mingana’s Woodbrooke Studies: Christian Documents in Syriac, Arabic, and Garshuni, edited and translated with a critical apparatus, of which the present book is volume 2, The Apology of Timothy the Patriarch before the Caliph Mahdi is accompanied in this volume by The Lament of the Virgin and The Martyrdom of Pilate. These three texts demonstrate the variety found in Mingana’s extraordinary collection. The namesake of the volume, Timothy’s apology for Christianity, is an eighth-century manuscript and one of the earliest documents concerning Christianity’s relationship with Islam. In it the “Nestorian” Patriarch Timothy I (780-823) presents his case for his faith to the third Abbasid Caliph Mahdi. The other two documents share a common Egyptian origin and Garshuni epigraphy. Neither The Lament of the Virgin nor The Martyrdom of Pilate claim a great antiquity and both works are pseudepigraphical. Mary’s lament, in the former work, is her sadness at the empty tomb, a piece in which she is conflated with Mary Magdalene. The latter piece presents Pontius Pilate as a saint and lays out his spiritual accomplishments that are crowned by his martyrdom. The texts are presented in their original languages as well as in English.
Alphonse Mingana (1878-1937) was an educator at the Chaldean Seminary in Iraq. He was also a priest in the Assyrian tradition and a collector of ancient manuscripts. He is renowned for his Mingana Collection, a set of nearly 3000 early Syrian and Arabic documents which he acquired and preserved. Mingana eventually immigrated to England, where he spent 17 years in Manchester to continue his work on Oriental Studies
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