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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Nottinghamshire"”.
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Digital and social media: the panacea of transformative engagement with young people; rhetoric or reality? Qualitative based research exploring police led digital and social media engagement with young people in Nottinghamshire
… is to allow young people to shape the way Nottinghamshire Police engage with them via digital and social media. To this end, a 40-point engagement framework based on the principles of ‘Quid Pro Quo’ reciprocal engagement is offered as the product of this youthful insight. The theoretical …
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Hidden from Memory: Remembrance and Commemoration of the Sherwood Foresters’ Involvement in Easter, 1916
… The Sherwood Foresters, known officially as the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment, were created in 1881 in England after combining the 45<sup>th</sup> (Nottinghamshire) and 95<sup>th</sup> (Derbyshire) Regiments of Foot and had previously served as part of the guard to the royal family. …
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From Brazil to Britain: the vicissitudes of participatory budgeting: the importance of context
… two concrete examples of the process (in Manton, Nottinghamshire and Tower Hamlets, London). It focuses on the way in which the discursive environment of operation (the context) impacts upon PB in terms of both its form and its potential. These explorations raise important questions about the …
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Early prehistoric petrology: A case study from Leicestershire.
… Leicestershire, with groups from Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire utilising this resource in addition to more local groups within Leicestershire.
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Archaeology and environment in the vale of York
… on top of the Cover Sands at Misterton Carr, Nottinghamshire, and the affinities of the earlier part of this assemblage are considered with some current archaeological models of the palaeoenvironment. The trackway beneath Thorne Moor provides an opportunity to examine a local Bronze Age …
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The Labour movement in Nottingham 1880-1918
… certainly, the geological conditions of the Nottinghamshire coalfield which may have dampened the militancy of the mining community are pointed to as a possible retarding factor. Similarly, it is argued that the appeal of protectionism for some lace workers, and the a-political or …
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Secondary students in two former mining communities: possibilities for the self
… located in North East Derbyshire and North Nottinghamshire during the period 1995-2002. Reid’s analysis of social class in Britain, (1998), whilst acknowledging a connection between educational achievement and individual ability, states, ‘Educational experience and achievement are clearly …
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The effect of nicotine on carrion feeding insects with considerations for use within forensic sciences
… animal; this is the first specimen reported in Nottinghamshire. The investigation also found the first record of the Soldierfly Sargus bipunctatus breeding in carrion; the late breeding period of this species and its significance to the forensic entomologist is considered. The experiments were …
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Death on the Warwickshire Coalfield: an examination of the contribution of miners, coalowners and the state to the decline in mining fatalities in the British coal industry in the period of expansion 1840 to 1913
… of Scotland, Lancashire, Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire. By studying the Warwickshire fatalities and comparing that experience with the neighbouring counties of the East Midlands and national data, this thesis will reveal how local factors influenced safety in the mines. The individual …
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The Effectiveness of the Response and Follow Up Processes to the Learndirect ‘Gremlins’ Campaign in the Nottingham Area
… went into learning a lower percentage than the Nottinghamshire average was employed full - time, a higher percentage was employed part - time and a higher percentage was economically inactive. More were in lower order occupations, with a bias towards personal service occupations. The Government …
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Development of innovative approaches for life extension of railway track systems
… up the Central Maintenance Group at Sandiacre, Nottinghamshire. This was a team of engineers, supervisors and staff employed to carry out heavy maintenance principally on the Erewash Valley line. From 2000 – 2003 he was Engineering Adviser to the Rail Regulator where he was appointed as the …
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The ecology of larval and juvenile fishes in lowland rivers, with particular emphasis on foraging
… in enclosures at Calverton Fish Farm, Nottinghamshire. This study found a significant influence of interspecific interactions on the diet composition and prey selection of 0+ fishes. There was evidence of resource partitioning when roach and bream larvae were in sympatry, which …
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The Building Program of Archbishop Walter de Gray: Architectural Production and Reform in the Archdiocese of York, 1215-1255
Walter de Gray became archbishop of York in 1215 while attending the Fourth Lateran Council in Rome. King John of England recommended Walter for the role, and the new archbishop ruled for the next four decades with the skills of a well-connected royal administrator and a commitment to reforming his …
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Improvement and environmental conflict in the northern fens, 1560-1665
This thesis examines ‘improvement’ of wetland commons in early modern England as a contested process of rapid environmental change. As a flagship project of agrarian improvement, drainage sought to alchemise pastoral fen commons into arable enclosed terra firma and promised manifold benefits for …