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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"West Yorkshire"”.
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Women asylum seekers and refugees in West Yorkshire: opportunities, constraints and the role of agency
… also specifically in terms of their dispersal to West Yorkshire. As well as focusing upon the constraining aspects of policy and practice, however, it also considers the supportive structures in place in West Yorkshire that assist people's settlement in an area. Within this discussion is a …
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The Timing and Experience of Menopause among British Pakistani Women in Bradford and Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK
… Pakistani women in the Leeds/Bradford area of West Yorkshire. Statistical procedures were used on the quantitative data using SPSS 15; qualitative data were analysed using a thematic coding system and NVivo software. This study found that British Pakistani women of a higher occupational social …
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Palaeoecological studies of selected mires in the Craven District of West Yorkshire with special reference to the late Devensian period and the Ulmus decline
… Ingleborough Region, the Craven District, north-west Yorkshire. (2) The analysis of the earliest sediments of Sniddle Moss and Thieves' Moss suggests the existence of a Lateglacial sequence. A reconstruction of the regional vegetational succession mainly based on the Sniddle Moss 4 data reveals …
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A critical essay and original play entitled ‘the canary and the piano’
… of a former Victorian asylum in Menston, West Yorkshire. The play follows the character of Ruth, a seventeen year old, sent to do community service on a memorial garden for the hospital’s patients as a consequence for breaking into the derelict asylum. While working on the garden Ruth …
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Studies on life-cycles of digenetic trematodes
… on different dates from 21 different places in West Yorkshire. Eighteen of these cercariae are considered to be new to science, one is described for the first time in Great Britain and the remaining eleven have already been described in this country by previous authors. A short review of each …
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An analysis of conversations between children and teachers in nursery counting activities
… in one local education authority within West Yorkshire were recorded between December 2002 and June 2003. The main data for the study was taken from 21 number focus activities recorded between the teachers and small groups of children, aged 3-4 years. Conversation Analysis was used to …
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Just not 'girly': Clothes, appearance and 'alternative' femininities.
… Interviews were carried out in South and West Yorkshire in 1997 and 1998. The study contributes to existing work in fashion theory and subcultural theory by bringing ideas about gender identities and resistance into relationship with theorising the body.The research is an analysis of …
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Taken to the grave. An archaeozoological approach assessing the role of animals as crematory offerings in first millennium AD Britain.
… St. Stephen¿s, Hertfordshire, Castleford, West Yorkshire and Heath Wood, Derbyshire are combined with data from other published cemeteries to suggest a series of chronological and regional continuities in the use of animals but with a distinct change at the start of the Early Medieval …
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The far right in the UK: The BNP in comparative perspective. Examining the development of the British Nation Party within the context of UK and continental far right politics
… are also investigated comparatively with other West European parties who have enjoyed national success, as a means of discovering whether the party are similar to their far right neighbours and why they have not enjoyed similar national success. The press coverage of the BNP is examined at a …
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Black British Identities : The Dialogics of a Hybridity-of-the-Everyday.
… of 16-40 who are from London, the Midlands and West Yorkshire. Black British identifications in talk-in-interaction are conceptualised as texts of social practice so as to look at Bhabha's notion of 'translated hybrid subjects' who function within a 'third space of hybridity' where there is a …
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Ritual and Narrative in the Contemporary Anglican Wedding
… research was conducted within one deanery in West Yorkshire in 2006 and 2007. Theories of ritual, including rites of passage, and of performance are critically employed to examine the structure and function of wedding ritual, and the way in which specifically Christian ritual is incorporated …
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Exploring the experience of community adjustment following discharge from a low secure forensic unit
… discharge from two low secure forensic units in West Yorkshire. Theories of change, transition and identity, which were identified as potentially relevant to understanding the adjustment experience were incorporated into a semi-structured interview schedule, which was used to interview six people …
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A Critical Exploration of Changes to the Investigation of Homicide in England and Wales from the 1980s to the Present Day
The six-year investigation by West Yorkshire Police to apprehend Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper, in the late 1970s and early 1980s was roundly criticised and led to a public inquiry that called for wide-ranging changes to homicide investigation. With a history already marred by corruption …
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The performance of place and comedy explored through postdramatic and popular forms with reference to the staging of 'A Good Neet Aht'
… of the former mining village of Sharlston in West Yorkshire where I spent most of my childhood. Therefore, the methodological approach to this exploration of place and comedy utilises autoethnography. This autoethnographical method was chosen as it situates the researcher at the centre of the …
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The Influence of Railways on the development of Accrington and District, 1848-1914
… amalgamated company, the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, until 1922. The important and unusual T-shaped rail network linked the district to Preston, Liverpool and West Lancashire, Leeds, Bradford and West Yorkshire, and towards the south, Bury and Manchester. The railway companies ran …
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Sport and the Victorian City: The development of commercialised spectator sport, Bradford 1836-1908
… earlier studies on sport in Bradford and West Yorkshire and add to our understanding of how urban sporting and leisure cultures were forged through a combination of national trends and local economic and social peculiarities. The emergence of a national sporting culture ran parallel with …
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The development of nursery schools and child welfare policies and practices in Bradford from the 1890s to the 1950s with particular reference to the work of Miriam Lord
… the life and work of Miriam Lord in Bradford, West Yorkshire between 1885 and the 1950s. The main investigative research for the thesis was carried out at the Bradford Archives where the voluminous collection of private papers, documents and other records which she bequeathed to the Margaret …
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The self management of heart failure: a place in practice?
… medical practice in an urban area of Leeds, West Yorkshire. Professionals (six doctors, five nurses, five pharmacists and three others) recruited from the local health economy. METHODS Semi-structured interviews were recorded with patients meeting defined inclusion criteria and professionals …
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The British theatre economics and management in the 1990s as an effect of Thatcherite capitalism
… Chapter V is a case study to illustrate how the West Yorkshire Playhouse as one of the leading regional theatre companies has been managerially affected by post-Thatcherite theatre economy. Chapter VI is another case study to illustrate how Red Ladder as one of the leading political theatre …
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The revitalisation of the Hebden Bridge district: greentrified Pennine rurality
… urban environs of the Hebden Bridge district, West Yorkshire, have undergone since the late 1960s. These processes are termed g[re]entrification (rural gentrification) and involve social, cultural, physical and economic parallels with inner city gentrification. More specifically, two stages of …
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