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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Middlesbrough"”.
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The Growth of an Urban Sporting Culture – Middlesbrough, c.1870-1914
… is a study of the urban sporting culture of Middlesbrough between c.1870 and 1914, a period that witnessed an enormous expansion in participant and spectator sports. It examines the impact of industrialisation and urbanisation on the town’s sporting culture, and explains how its social and …
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The Irish in Middlesbrough : a part of Middlesbrough's community or apart from it?
Victorian Middlesbrough was a 'new town' and, as a consequence, all itsinhabitants were immigrants. Thus, how the Irish came to Middlesbrough is of interest.However, the main aims of this research are to examine the spatial, demographic, socialand economic profile of the Middlesbrough Irish using …
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Life in a Northern Town: Call Centres, Labour Markets and Identity in Post-Industrial Middlesbrough
… and cultural landscape for the local population. Middlesbrough, in the North East of England, underwent transformation from labour markets dominated by iron, steel and chemical industries to a reliance on new forms of insecure, flexible service sector employment, typified in this study by call …
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ADIPOSITY IN BRITISH PAKISTANI AND WHITE BRITISH SCHOOL CHILDREN AGED 7-11 YEARS LIVING IN MIDDLESBROUGH, UK: ASSOCIATIONS WITH ETHNICITY, GENERATION, AND BIRTH WEIGHT
… weight data were collected from one hospital in Middlesbrough (n=184). In addition, a pilot study was conducted on lifestyle, which explored potential differences in British Pakistani children’s lifestyle that may affect adiposity. Dietary data (n=30) were gathered by multiple-pass recall …
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Creating ‘community’ through criminal justice policy: Engaging citizens and determining responsibility
… community and community justice, in a location (Middlesbrough) which was chosen to pilot the community court model, in 2006. In order to examine the claims and potential for community justice initiatives to create ‘community’, this thesis examines how this term is deployed politically, and the …
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Cultural causes of the nineteenth-century fertility decline : a study of three Yorkshire towns
… three differing towns, Bradford, Leeds and Middlesbrough. Relationships between culture, employment, and fertility are examined by studying differences in local cultures and local labour markets, including female and child employment. The main argument of the thesis is for the impact of …
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Political commitment by the UK's environment cities to the expectations of agenda 21
… front runners in this field ie. Leicester, Middlesbrough, Leeds and Peterborough. This thesis, however, examines closely the degree of actual political commitment by the leaderships of these local authorities and the effect which the EC Programme has had on them. The assessment of EC …