AIR POLLUTION IN URBAN AREAS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM. PRESENT POSITION AND RECENT NATIONAL AND REGIONAL TRENDS

1971 ◽  
pp. 107-117
Author(s):  
S.R. CRAXFORD ◽  
M.-L.P.M. WEATHERLEY ◽  
B.D. GOORIAH
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Present Position ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Regional Trends

Air pollution in towns in the United Kingdom

1971 ◽  
Vol 269 (1199) ◽  
pp. 503-513 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Fuel Consumption ◽  
National Survey ◽  
Sulphur Dioxide ◽  
Urban Pollution ◽  
Remedial Measures ◽  
The Past ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Different Parts

The daily observations of smoke and sulphur dioxide that have been taken over the past ten years at some 1200 sites throughout the United Kingdom for the National Survey of Air Pollution, have provided a great deal of information on pollution in towns. An examination of this material is made to assess changes that have been occurring in levels of pollution in relation to the changing pattern of fuel consumption, and is used in trying to forecast the position in the next 15 or 20 years. A comparison is also made between pollution in towns in different parts of the U.K. The question of what levels of pollution may be tolerated is also considered. The part that aerodynamicists, architects and town planners can play in reducing urban pollution is discussed and an attempt is made to see what guidance can be given to them so that as far as pollution is concerned, the new and renewed towns of the future may avoid the mistakes of the past and therefore not need the costly remedial measures that now have to be taken in towns built in the past.

Trends in urban air pollution in the United Kingdom during recent decades

1992 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Eggleston ◽  
Michele P. Hackman ◽  
Catherine A. Heyes ◽  
James G. Irwin ◽  
Roger J. Timmis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Urban Air Pollution ◽  
Urban Air ◽  
The United Kingdom

British By-elections, 1950

1951 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 474-478 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard M. Scammon
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
General Election ◽  
The Other ◽  
House Of Commons ◽  
World War ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
To Come

Since the hard-fought general election of February 23, 1950, the narrow margin of Labor's control of the British House of Commons has been tested at the polls on ten occasions. This number of by-elections to fill vacancies in the membership of the House is a normal post-World War II figure (the previous House saw fifty-two replacements in its four and one-half years of life), although it is somewhat under that of prewar averages. In terms of locale, however, these ten by-elections were atypical. Though the overall distribution within the various parts of the United Kingdom was not unrepresentative (six in England, one in Wales, actually Monmouthshire, two in Scotland, and one in Northern Ireland), all vacancies chanced to come in urban areas. Eight of the contests involved borough seats and the other two (West Dunbartonshire and Abertillery, Monmouthshire) were primarily urban in character.

Air pollution from the oxides of nitrogen in the United Kingdom

1973 ◽  
Vol 7 (9) ◽  
pp. 924
Author(s):  
Elmer Robinson ◽  
H.N.M. Stewart ◽  
R.G. Derwent
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Oxides Of Nitrogen ◽  
The United Kingdom

‘Gone for a soldier’: Irish Recruitment to the British Armed Forces, 1903–1914

2020 ◽  
pp. 16-42
Author(s):  
Timothy Bowman ◽  
William Butler ◽  
Michael Wheatley
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
British Army ◽  
Officer Training ◽  
United Kingdom Population ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Unskilled Workers ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Training Corps

There was a long tradition of Catholic, as well as Protestant, Irish service within the British armed forces. By 1913, 9% of British regular soldiers were Irish, a figure just slightly below the Irish share of the United Kingdom population. Militia, Yeomanry and Officer Training Corps units, which all attracted part-time amateur soldiers, were also well-recruited, though the wholesale disbandment of militia units in 1908 broke this link between some Irish counties and the British army. This recruitment occurred in spite of determined, if localised and unco-ordinated, attempts made by advanced Nationalists to prevent Irishmen enlisting in the British armed forces. Most recruits were from urban areas and were unskilled workers or unemployed at their time of enlistment. Recruitment rates were disproportionately high in Dublin and Cork, and notably low in industrial Belfast.

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