scholarly journals The Barry Urban District Council, disaster relief funds and civic society, 1913–1934

Urban History ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Ann-Marie Foster
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Disaster Relief ◽  
Scholarly Work ◽  
Urban District ◽  
Civic Society ◽  
Civic Activity ◽  
District Council ◽  
The Uk

Abstract The early twentieth century witnessed some of the worst mining disasters the UK has ever seen. Towns and cities leapt to the aid of bereaved families, raising tens of thousands of pounds in aid. Yet, while the effects of disaster funds on the locality in which they were administered have been the focus of scholarly work, little attention has been given to how these funds were created in constituencies outside of the disaster zone. The Barry Urban District Council (UDC) responded to the call for help after the Senghenydd (1913) and Gresford (1934) disasters, opening relief funds to aid the affected. The funds blurred the line between charity and local government, with the Barry UDC reliant on functions of civic society to aid its philanthropic turn. Their reaction offers insights into the charitable role of UDCs, reflecting on how they used these opportunities to further civic activity.

E-records readiness at Karonga District Council in Malawi

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 482-491 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald Flywell Malanga ◽  
Benard CG Kamanga
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Survey Design ◽  
Management Policy ◽  
Records Management ◽  
Survey Questionnaire ◽  
District Council ◽  
Descriptive Survey ◽  
Regular Training

This study assessed e-records readiness at Karonga District Council (KDC) as one of the local government authorities in Malawi. The study employed a descriptive survey design where a survey questionnaire was used to collect data. Altogether, 56 staff were sampled randomly and purposively. The staff comprised principal officers, records clerks, ICT personnel and other action officers. The study revealed that e-records readiness at KDC was low and evolving as evident by the presence of e-record products and technologies, which were largely inadequate and obsolete. The study also established that there was inadequate and poor adherence to policies, standards and procedures for e-records management practices. Furthermore, responsibilities for e-records management were not clear. There was no established records management programme. Therefore, the study recommends the development of e-records management policy; recruitment of more staff; regular training in e-records products and other emerging technologies; mobilization of more resources required for management of records; and increasing awareness of the role of records management. This should be supported by the top management at the District Council and the Ministry of Local Government at large.

scholarly journals NETWORKED ECONOMIC VALUE CREATION IN EVENT TOURISM, AN EXPLORATORY STUDY OF TOWNS AND SMALLER CITIES IN THE UK

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Norman ◽  
Nana Nyarko
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Value Creation ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Local Networks ◽  
Business Model Canvas ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Event Tourism ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Survey Responses

This study explores the role of networks in generating economic value for event tourism in towns and smaller cities in the UK. While networks have been shown to create a wide range of value, research in this context is limited and little is understood of if or how economic value is generated. The lens used in this study was the value creating side of the business model canvas with local government organisations as the focal node examining the flow of economic value from partners, activities and resources. There were survey responses from 112 different town and city organisations across the UK. The study found that only the ‘activities’ element of the network contributed significantly to creating economic value in an event tourism context. The network components of ‘partners’ and ‘resources’ were not on their own significant to the creation of economic value. The outcomes of this paper suggest that practitioners in towns and cities should strategise their engagement with local networks through a formal event tourism strategy that clearly defines how they operationalise engagement activities within that network in order the facilitate economic value creation. In addition, the paper raises questions around what resources are needed at the focal node (local government organisations) in order to maximise the economic value created by the network.

scholarly journals Hugh Stott Taylor, 6 February 1890 - 17 April 1974

1975 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 517-547 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Plate Glass ◽  
Urban District ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Poor ◽  
District Council ◽  
The Family ◽  
Three Sisters

Hugh Stott Taylor, the third child of James and Ellen ( née Stott) Taylor, was born at St Helens, Lancashire, on 6 February 1890. He had four brothers and three sisters. His father was a glass technologist who, during a period of fifty years, made notable improvements in the quality of plate glass and in the manufacture of coloured glass. Hugh inherited from his father an early interest in the application of science to the solution of industrial problems and an ability to resolve difficulties by experiment. His mother, before her marriage, had been headmistress of a school and devoted to the education of the poor. Relatives on both sides of the family were concerned with local government. James Stott, J.P., uncle, was Chairman of the Hindley Urban District Council and a great uncle, Edward Johnson, had been Mayor of St Helens.

Criticizing Phallocentrism in Interwar Britain: Psychoanalyst Sylvia M. Payne's Kleinian Challenge to Freud

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Michal Shapira
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
Sexual Difference ◽  
Melanie Klein ◽  
The Political ◽  
Scholarly Work ◽  
Historical Role ◽  
Ernest Jones ◽  
Interwar Britain

Sylvia M. Payne was one of the first women to practice psychoanalysis in Britain. Though she became president of the British Psychoanalytical Society, not a single scholarly work is dedicated to Payne's intellectual ideas—a substantial historical lacuna, especially when compared with the research on Ernest Jones, one of Sigmund Freud's early disciples and the president who preceded her. This essay presents the first exploration of her early work. It focuses on her belonging to a group of British analysts who challenged Sigmund Freud's thinking on sexual difference. The full scope of this challenge, I argue, as it emerged in interwar Britain, has remained unexamined until today. Adding to the scholarship on the prominent and lesser-known roles of women in psychoanalysis, the article shows that Payne made significant contributions to the field; she also developed the work of Melanie Klein, on whom we also need more research. The study describes the life and work of a woman who has been neglected in the historiography of twentieth-century intellectual history. It engages with broader methodological questions of how to define the political, historical role of female psychoanalysts of her generation.

White Heat

2018 ◽  
pp. 25-57
Author(s):  
Steven McKevitt
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
First Century ◽  
New Right ◽  
Consumer Society ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Impact

Chapter 1 looks at consumption, consumerism, and the emergence of the consumer society in Britain at the end of the twentieth century. It draws out the main academic debates concerning consumption and its evolving role in society and explores changes in work, leisure, gender roles, family life, and living standards in the UK in the twentieth century. There follows an examination of the impact of the New Right and its ideology in Britain in the 1980s and 1990s and also the renaissance in popular culture from the 1970s, which not only helped to drive the expansion of the mass media but was also fueled by it. It concludes with an analysis of arguments presented by critics of affluence from the post-war period to the early twenty-first century. There is particular emphasis on the role of persuasion within market economies.

Housing’s economic context

2019 ◽  
pp. 47-72
Author(s):  
Nick Gallent
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Real Estate ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
Housing Affordability ◽  
Material Consumption ◽  
Economic Context ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Economic Function ◽  
Public Revenues

Housing has long been implicated in the productive economy, providing a focus for manufacturing, construction and material consumption. The privatisation, assetisation and financialisation of housing in the twentieth century has broadened and deepened its economic function. This chapter examines the changing profile of the UK economy and the greater centrality today of services related to real estate and debt securitisation. It explores the idea of a ‘credit switch’ in the latter half of the twentieth century into the financialised built environment and the implications of that switch for both the wider economy and public revenues. The chapter explores the broadening role of housing in the UK economy and implications for productivity, workplace earnings and housing affordability (relative to those earnings). The tax treatment of housing – and various instruments of financialisation - are presented as critical scaffolding for this economic shift, which is theorised/explained using a range of key literature.

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