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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Cambridgeshire"”.
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Thatching in Cambridgeshire
… of the thesis in which thatching is analysed in Cambridgeshire as a living craft. The first chapter sets the historical context of thatching as a means of providing a waterproof roof in England and more particularly in Cambridgeshire, and how, over the years, this form of roof is now largely …
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'Challenge and Change in a Cinderella Service': A History of Fulbourn Hospital, Cambridgeshire, 1953 – 1995
This study of Fulbourn Hospital uses oral history and documentary sources to explore the models of mental illness and the therapeutic practices associated with them in one provincial English psychiatric hospital during the second half of the twentieth century. The appointment in 1953 of a new …
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The practice of community archaeology in the UK: a model for best practice based upon case studies from Dorset and Cambridgeshire.
Archaeology undertook a process of definition and exclusivity in order to develop as a discipline. It justified its increasing control and management of the archaeological resource as being on behalf of the public. This has been challenged by the concept of community archaeology, which was …
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The Teaching Of Drama In Secondary Schools: How Cambridgeshire Teachers Feel The Subject Should Be Taught In Relationship To The National Curriculum
This research aims to explore teachers' views and beliefs with regard to drama as they attempt to define their subject and discuss its content. It examines the debates of the major theoristsfor drama, including Heathcote and Hornbrook, and considers the views and beliefs of teachers in the field to …
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What does the analysis of copper-alloy brooches reveal about the social and economic landscapes of Early Anglo-Saxon Cambridgeshire and Suffolk?
… spectroscopy. Two clusters of cemeteries, one in Cambridgeshire and the other in Suffolk, were chosen to have their brooches analysed. The results of my analysis, and other academic research were studied, to see if any connections could be made between trade and exchange and the political and …
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Modelling mitigation of bird population declines in the UK through landscape-scale environmental management.
… and arable farmland with scattered woodlands in Cambridgeshire. Recently acquired, high resolution airborne remote sensing datasets (Light Detection and Ranging, LiDAR) were used to develop metrics that quantified vegetation structure within the two study landscapes. These variables, together …
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Animals, Identity and Cosmology: Mortuary Practice in Early Medieval Eastern England
… England – Norfolk, Suffolk, Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire and Essex – in both cremation and inhumation rites. Animal remains have been recognised in 5th to 7th century burials in eastern England from an early date, and the quality of the existing archives (both material and written) is …
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The descriptive and aetiological epidemiology of physical activity: composition, volume, and intensity.
… UK-based National Diet and Nutrition Survey, the Cambridgeshire-based Fenland Study, and the Russian-based Know Your Heart Study, along with an ecological analysis of 35 population estimates of physical activity energy expenditure from populations as diverse as Arctic Inuit to the Maasai of Kenya. …
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Dialogue and Resistance. An Evaluation of Two Approaches to Peace Campaigning at RAF Molesworth (1980-1987)
… over a seven-year period at RAF Molesworth in Cambridgeshire, in a series of campaigns which were attempting to stop deployment of Cruise Missiles there. Some campaigns concentrated on efforts to convert, others relied on the power of nonviolent direct action to coerce. None were particularly …
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The problematic dual objective of Psychopathic Personality Disorder: A study of in-school rule-breaking behaviour
… units from North London, Hertfordshire, and Cambridgeshire completed the questionnaire. The aim was to capture the full spectrum of morality, rule-breaking behaviour, and PPD. By having a large number of pupils complete the questionnaire, knowledge could be gained on how morality interacts …
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Spatial and temporal dynamics of plants colonizing species-poor hedgerows
… Hawthorn Hedgerows at Monks Wood, in Cambridgeshire was used to investigate the: I) influence of seed source availability, ii) immigration potential, iii) colonization and iv) establishment success under three hedgerow management regimes. Woodland herbaceous plant species were found to …
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Transitional Difficulties in Post-16 Education: Moving from GCSE to A Level studies
… in the sixth form of a secondary school in Cambridgeshire. The sample included 147 participants aged 16-18 years. This was a purposeful sampling method including approximately 61% of the target population. 80 participants completed a questionnaire generating quantitative data, 40 …
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Optimising carbon storage by land-management
… with further sampling at a verification site in Cambridgeshire. Land-use intervention trials measuring carbon fluxes and SOC change were combined with computer modelling and questionnaires, to assess the impacts of land-use and management change on SOC. A land carbon stock of 845 Kt (60 Kt within …
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