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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Rural England"”.
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Social investigation in rural England, 1870-1914
… group of social investigators who were active in rural areas in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. It follows on from studies of the investigations of Charles Booth, Seebohm Rowntree, Henry Mayhew and others, and shows how the investigation of rural life proceeded on different …
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Changing patterns of female employment in rural England, c. 1790-1890
… social and economic history: the work of rural labouring women in nineteenth-century England. The subject is approached firstly through a thorough investigation of a variety of contemporary printed sources: parliamentary papers, census figures, journal articles, books and pamphlet …
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The magistrate and the community: summary proceedings in rural England during the long eighteenth century
… study of how the law worked at a local level in rural communities, and in the role of the rural magistrate at summary level, has been the subject of relatively little attention by historians. More attention has been given to the higher courts, when the majority of plebeian men and women who …
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Community participation and the village appraisal process in rural England: a case study of Northamptonshire
… mobilize local skills and resources and empower rural communities from the structures of government, the study involves a detailed investigation of the relationships which currently exist between the statutory authorities and local communities with specific reference to the village appraisal. …
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The resale of local authority dwellings in rural England: a case study of South Northamptonshire
… upon the former local authority sector of the rural housing market in order to explore the key connections between housing market restructuring, migration and rural social change. A realist approach is developed to explore the relationship between households moving through this increasingly …
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Exploring the use of a commercial digital gaming technological initiative to enable social inclusion for community-dwelling older men with dementia in rural England.
… for older men (65+ years) with dementia in rural England. This applied study used an individually-tailored male-only Technological Initiative, drawing on commercially available computer game technology (e.g. iPad, Nintendo Wii and Microsoft Kinect) to deliver person-centred activities to …
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"""This, This Is England, but We Only Passed By."" Reclamations and Subversions of English National Identity in Works by Woolf, Waugh, Rhys and Naipaul"
… ""decline"" of an aristocratically-dominated, rural England forever changed by the incursions of modernity, the bourgeoisie, and colonial subjects. V.S. Naipaul's postcolonial work The Enigma of Arrival, problematizes the very notion of a past, perfect England and an English national identity …
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The psychosocial relationship between national identity and political sentiment in England: 2016-2020.
… with participants of voting age living in rural England to explore the relationship between national identity and political sentiment. Further attention was also applied to the rural dynamic of such relationship, given the geographical differences of voting behaviour and national …
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Developing a publics-oriented participatory design approach to reinvigorate public involvement of marginalized groups in the public policy domain
… a self-organised social housing Tenant Group in rural England, this thesis contributes a more situated and holistic understanding of the application of the publics-frame in design and offers insights into the benefits of applying methods adapted from interpretivist policy analysis to inform …
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The hidden cost of being rural: an examination of geographical variations in Local Government funding with a focus on healthcare services
… the multiple and divergent definitions of rurality employed by public bodies in England. It sets out how evolving definitions have influenced what counts as rural England, and describes the resulting implications for rural land areas and populations. Evolving approaches to defining rural …
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Embodied Film and Experimental Ethnography: Place, Belonging and Performative Folk Traditions in England
… on two seasonal performative folk traditions in rural England, Haxey Hood in North Lincolnshire and Mayday in Padstow. By considering the experiential qualities of these annual rituals and their significance for local communities as seen in their wider socio-economic contexts, this research …
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Looking for Mary Webb: Part one - Creating a lost diary; Part two - A single violet: the lost diaries of Mary Webb
… posthumous success during the idealisation of rural England of the 1930s, and in the 1980s as Virago Press reintroduced her work to a new readership. Since then, Webb has gone largely forgotten and unstudied, and very few personal papers survive in the archives. Her husband explained that the …
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PRIVILEGE LOST: THE COUNTRY HOUSE, ARISTOCRACY AND ENGLISHNESS IN NANCY MITFORD'S NOVELS
… enjoy the pleasures of life between London and rural England, seen by them only as “commodified” landscape ready to be consumed, but which they are generally unable to fit into. Albeit a crude version of her more mature ones, her interwar novels in the strict sense, which are the object of …
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“Bound together by a web”: Victorian literary and cultural conceptions of human-nature entanglement
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-02-04 without embargo terms