Excavations in the City of London: First Interim Report, 1974–1975

1977 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Hobley ◽  
John Schofield ◽  
Tony Dyson ◽  
Peter R. V. Marsden ◽  
Charles Hill ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Archaeology ◽  
Interim Report ◽  
Set Up ◽  
City Of London ◽  
First Time ◽  
The City ◽  
Important Evidence

SummaryThe Department of Urban Archaeology, City of London, was set up in December 1973 as part of Guildhall Museum, now the Museum of London. Since then it has excavated sixteen sites and carried out numerous watching briefs. Most of the formal excavations have been conducted on the vital waterfront sites, made available for the first time, and on the Roman and medieval defences of the City. Important evidence of the elusive Saxon occupation is gradually coming to light, and the work is accompanied by specialist research, particularly finds, environmental and documentary.

Decision-making under duress: the treatment of churches in the City of London during and after World War II

Urban History ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 285-309 ◽  
Author(s):  
PETER J. LARKHAM ◽  
JOE L. NASR
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
World War ◽  
Post War ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Multiple Experts ◽  
City Of London ◽  
The City ◽  
The Church

ABSTRACT:The process of making decisions about cities during the bombing of World War II, in its immediate aftermath and in the early post-war years remains a phenomenon that is only partly understood. The bombing left many church buildings damaged or destroyed across the UK. The Church of England's churches within the City of London, subject to a complex progression of deliberations, debates and decisions involving several committees and commissions set up by the bishop of London and others, are used to review the process and product of decision-making in the crisis of war. Church authorities are shown to have responded to the immediate problem of what to do with these sites in order most effectively to provide for the needs of the church as an organization, while simultaneously considering other factors including morale, culture and heritage. The beginnings of processes of consulting multiple experts, if not stakeholders, can be seen in this example of an institution making decisions under the pressures of a major crisis.

The Way is the Goal Interview with Maqui, Indymedia London / IMC-UK Network Activist

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefania Milan
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Media Center ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
Communication Practices ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Independent Media Center ◽  
City Of London ◽  
The City ◽  
Organizational Needs

Indymedia UK was created in 1999; right after the first Independent Media Center was set up in Seattle in November that year to allow participants to the anti-WTO demonstrations to report from the streets. But it emerged from an earlier website, created by a group of activists to report from the occupation of the City of London in June 18, 1999. Since 1999, the website has kept growing, incorporating technological developments and responding to the organizational needs of social movements. This interview recounts the birth and developments of the Indymedia London website and of the group running it. It was collected between February and November 2008 using the method of online asynchronous interviewing, and is part of an extensive research project on emancipatory communication practices carried out in the period 2006-2008.2

How Many Different Headaches Do You Have?

Cephalalgia ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 136-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
William F Laughey ◽  
E Anne MacGregor ◽  
Marcia IP Wilkinson
Keyword(s):  
Migraine Headache ◽  
The Self ◽  
Doctor Who ◽  
Migraine Headaches ◽  
City Of London ◽  
First Time ◽  
The City

Patients with migraine attending a specialist clinic often have more than one type of headache. One hundred and two patients attending the City of London Migraine Clinic for the first time were asked: 'What type(s) of headache do you think you have?” A separate diagnosis was made by the doctor, who was blinded to the self-diagnosis. On clinic diagnosis, 27 (26.5%) patients were found to have migraine plus an additional non-migraine headache. When compared with the self-diagnosis, 15 (56%) of these had correctly self-diagnosed two types of headache. Many migraineurs can distinguish migraine from non-migraine headaches when they have both.

Thasos: the topography of the ancient city

2000 ◽  
Vol 95 ◽  
pp. 301-327 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. J. Graham
Keyword(s):  
Archaeological Evidence ◽  
Ancient City ◽  
First Time ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
The City ◽  
Important Evidence

The recently published ‘Stele from the Harbour’ of Thasos provides important new evidence for the topography of the ancient city. Some streets and other topographical features are named or described. There are many problems, however, in locating these features on the ground. These problems are fully discussed and some new solutions are proposed. At the same time, the new evidence bears on several difficult and unresolved topographical questions, which have long engaged the attention of students of Thasos. These questions are, therefore, reconsidered here. Finally, the important evidence for the topography of the city, which is found in the Hippocratean Epidemics, is fully set out for the first time, and discussed in relation to the archaeological evidence.

scholarly journals Considerations on the European Companies and holdings

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 1167-1177
Author(s):  
Roxana Maria Chirieac
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Law System ◽  
System A ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Transnational Companies ◽  
Full Capacity ◽  
Set Up ◽  
City Of London ◽  
The City

AbstractIn a political and economical climate that one might qualify as troubled, and on the background of the United Kingdom leaving the European Union, and therefore no longer offering the city of London as a light tax haven for the companies that don’t undergo transactions of economical substance on its territory, one might question the survival of transnational companies across the European Union. In this context, we thought of analysing the European companies, their history and their present day formation as well as their administration. The idea that one might carry out their activity throughout the European Union, using a simpler and lighter form of company, the idea that the administration of such company is easier and one doesn’t have to comply to the national legislation of each member state is indeed appealing. But what of the success of this regulation? Is the procedure indeed as simple as it was thought out to be, and if so, are the natural and moral persons using it to its full capacity? Also, on the other hand, what of the holding institution, generated by the common law system, a lot longer ago, which allows one to administer various companies in various states through a company that is located anywhere in the world. How are holdings incorporated, how are they administered and is this institution still in use in the European Union, considering the fact that one might set up a European company as a holding?

IS THERE LIFE AFTER LLOYDS?

1994 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 138
Author(s):  
W.N. Grierson
Keyword(s):  
Business Processes ◽  
Global Target ◽  
Successful Recovery ◽  
Management Leadership ◽  
International Trading ◽  
Internal And External Factors ◽  
City Of London ◽  
First Time ◽  
The City ◽  
Business Structure

London is burning. Lloyds of London that is. The Society which could well be described as the 'Mecca' of energy insurance, is under fire. Record losses have been reported in each of the last three accounting years, and there does not appear to be any significant improvement in sight. Added to the Financial problems are the compounding difficulties of internal litigation, allegations of bad management, and a severely dented international trading reputation.The reasons for the current malaise at Lloyds are a combination of internal and external factors, contributed to by an unprecedented level of worldwide catastrophes certainly, but also the result of poor market practises and what could be regarded as an unsuitable business structure for the 1990s.Lloyds has however determined to meet the challenge and is in the process of implementing the most radical series of changes in its 306 year history. Measures to be introduced include isolation of old year liabilities from new, resolving ongoing problems with litigation and disputes amongst its membership, improving management, leadership, and business processes, reforming the hitherto sacred agency system, and restructuring the capital base of the organisation to amongst other things admit Corporate Members for the first time and manage underwriting capacity more effectively.Lloyds now wishes to be perceived as 'lean and focused' and has produced a global target profit for 1995 of £900 million, representing what most participants would consider a quite acceptable 33 per cent pre-tax return on funds at Lloyds for its individual Names and a 20 per cent pre-tax return for its Incorporated Members. At the same time it has pledged to reduce its own costs by £190 million and decrease its internal staff from 12 000 to 9 500 over the same period.The future of Lloyds and all of those who depend on her is however by no means assured. Significant impediments will have to be overcome if the new initiatives are to succeed, not the least of which is the resistance of a 300 year old institution to change and increased regulation.Opinion even in the City of London itself is clearly divided as to the potential for a successful recovery. The question remains, is there life after Lloyds?

Recovering Roman London

2021 ◽  
pp. 11-21
Author(s):  
Dominic Perring
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Urban Landscapes ◽  
Archaeological Research ◽  
Urban Archaeology ◽  
Short History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Post War ◽  
City Of London ◽  
The City ◽  
Archaeological Excavations

This chapter presents a short history of relevant archaeological research in London. It traces a long story of discovery that was born of seventeenth-century antiquarianism, stimulated by opportunities for discovery in rescue archaeology during Victorian rebuilding in the City of London, and came to maturity in England’s post-war development-led urban archaeology. This historiographic review explains how archaeological research has been organized in London, and how opportunities for study are a product of programmes of urban regeneration. The complex dialogue between archaeologists and developers has made a major contribution to the study and management of historic urban landscapes. It is explained that many hundreds of archaeological excavations have taken place in London over the last 400 years, but that many of the more important results remain relatively inaccessible.

scholarly journals “Novgorod the Great”

Slovene ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 383-413
Author(s):  
Pavel V. Lukin
Keyword(s):  
Political Identity ◽  
Citizenship Rights ◽  
Conventional View ◽  
Low German ◽  
North East ◽  
12Th Century ◽  
Middle Low German ◽  
First Time ◽  
The City ◽  
Important Evidence

The aim of the paper is to examine the concept that was crucial for the Novgorod’s political identity in the time of independence — ‘Novgorod the Great’ (Veliky Novgorod). The author takes into account not only mentions of this phrase in Novgorodian medieval documents and narratives, but also considerable and highly important evidence originating from other Russian lands and abroad (Hanseatic and Lithuanian documents written in Middle Low German and Latin). A review of the relevant publications shows that, at present, the issue still remains a controversial one. The author comes to the following conclusions. In Hanseatic documents, written in Middle Low German, ‘Novgorod the Great’ was already being mentioned since at least 1330s, which is more than sixty years earlier than is considered in the current conventional view. For the first time ‘Novgorod the Great’ is mentioned not in a Novgorodian text but in a Kievan one — in the account from the Hypatian Chronicle of 1141. In the second half of the 12th century it appeared in the principality of Vladimir-Suzdal, and only much later was adopted by Novgorodians themselves. While in Southern and North-East Rus’ ‘Novgorod the Great’ was initially used to distinguish Novgorod on the Volkhov River from local and smaller Novgorods (Novgorod-Seversky and Nizhny Novgorod), Novgorodians employed it to glorify their polity. In this case it could stand for three different things: the city of Novgorod, the whole polity (Novgorod republic), and ‘the political people’ of Novgorod, i.e. those of the Novgorodians who enjoyed full citizenship rights.

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