‘A Street of Butchers’. An Economic and Social Profile of Hercules Place and Hercules Street, Belfast 1860–90

2017 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 102-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lesley E. E. Donaldson
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Traffic Flow ◽  
Large Concentration ◽  
Civic Pride ◽  
Town Centre ◽  
The Town

Hercules Street and Hercules Place were two of Belfast’s oldest streets and, by the mid-nineteenth century, they were in the town centre. These streets always had a large concentration of butchers (a cluster). This cluster was broken up in 1880 when the area was cleared to create a new, modern street and did not reform. The clearance was to improve traffic flow but also for reasons of civic pride; despite the unpleasant nature of the butchery trade neither that, nor public health were stated reasons for this clearance. This article examines the economy and society of these streets and the effects of the dislocation caused by the clearance of this area.

‘A New Image of the Town Centre’

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alistair Fair
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Urban Identity ◽  
Civic Pride ◽  
Town Centre ◽  
Urban Contexts ◽  
Post War ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Town

This chapter locates key theatres of the 1960s and early 1970s in a series of urban contexts. The first part of the chapter discusses the idea of civic pride, and shows how this idea—often associated with the nineteenth century—persisted in the post-war period. It discusses how theatres could be invoked in discussions of civic pride and urban identity, and the range of individuals and organizations who did so. The second part of the chapter considers a series of examples whose location was discussed at some length. Some of these examples were located in civic centres as demonstrations of their role as a civic amenity, but others were built in shopping areas to suggest accessibility. Key examples discussed in the chapter include Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Leicester’s Haymarket Theatre, Derby Playhouse, Billingham Forum, and the unbuilt Glasgow Cultural Centre.

The Spinning House girls: Cambridge University's distinctive policing of prostitution, 1823–1894

Urban History ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 453-470 ◽  
Author(s):  
JANET OSWALD
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Dual System ◽  
Town Centre ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Traditional Patterns ◽  
The University ◽  
The Town ◽  
Insight Into

ABSTRACT:This article explores the regulation of prostitution in nineteenth-century Cambridge by an appraisal of the committal books of the university prison. Each evening in term-time the university proctors arrested and imprisoned local ‘streetwalkers’ in an attempt to protect the students’ morals. This research offers insight into the ways in which Cambridge's geography and its dual system of governance influenced the policing of prostitution in the town centre. The former compelled students and townspeople to share the same crowded space and the latter enabled the university to enforce traditional patterns of class and gender to control sexuality in the town.

scholarly journals Big Fish in Small Ponds: The Exercise of Power in a Nineteenth-century Philippine Municipality

1992 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 679-700 ◽  
Author(s):  
Greg Bankoff
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Population Density ◽  
Swamp Forest ◽  
Town Centre ◽  
Administrative Unit ◽  
The Town

The basic administrative unit in the Spanish Philippines was the pueblo or municipal township. The pueblo encompassed both settled and unsettled districts within its geographical boundaries. The town centre Known as the población was the largest single residential zone within the municipality but was surrounded by smaller satellite communities. Beyond these areas of settlement were the sparsely populated regions of swamp, forest, plain or mountain. Size varied enormously both in geographical extent and population density from a few hundred families clustered in a single village or barangay in frontier areas to many tens of thousands of persons spread over a number of settlements in the lowland provinces of Luzon and the central Visayas.2 The administrative boundaries of one pueblo, however, bordered upon another so that all areas under Spanish suzerainty fell within one or other of these municipalities.

Local: Leeds in the age of great cities

2019 ◽  
pp. 23-34
Author(s):  
Derek Fraser
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Population Growth ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Urban Society ◽  
Town Hall ◽  
Queen Victoria ◽  
Civic Pride ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Town

This chapter explores Leeds as one of the shock cities of the Industrial Revolution, which experienced massive population growth in the nineteenth century. The new industrial classes challenged the old merchant elite and sought political power. The 1832 election, the first time Leeds gained parliamentary representation, was an important statement about the new urban society. The building of the Town Hall was an expression of civic pride and Queen Victoria opened it.

scholarly journals Glasgow's new town hall: imperialism, nationalism and civic pride, 1877–1889

Urban History ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Miel Groten
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Architectural Style ◽  
Town Hall ◽  
New Town ◽  
Civic Pride ◽  
The Town

Abstract Nineteenth-century Glasgow was widely imagined and presented as the proud ‘Second City of the Empire’. This article investigates the implications of this identification with the empire by analysing Glasgow's great town hall, built 1883–89, as the main manifestation of the city's civic pride. It shows how the building's architectural style, sculpture and inauguration ceremonies created a specific image of ‘imperial’ Glasgow which emphasized loyalty to Union and empire. Instead of undermining each other, the layered political allegiances of civic pride, nationalism, unionism and imperialism were mutually reinforcing, shaping the town hall still in use today.

Shakespeare and the Birth of Polish Romanticism: Vilna 1786–1846

1996 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-146
Author(s):  
Jaroslaw Komorowski
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Science And Art ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
Grand Duchy Of Lithuania ◽  
Polish Culture ◽  
The Town ◽  
Grand Duchy

The first phase of a long and complex process of the Polish reception of William Shakespeare's oeuvre ended in the middle of the nineteenth century with the popularization of new translations and the gradual elimination of French and German classicist adaptations. Vilna, vital centre of Polish culture, science and art, was the birthplace of Polish Romanticism and a hotbed of theatrical innovation. Vilna was also, at the turn of the eighteenth century, the capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and one of the major cities of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The school stage of Vilna Academy, established by Stefan Batory in 1578, had been active since 1582. In 1639, English actors belonging to Robert Archer's company may have visited the town; though the performances planned by King Wladyslaw IV did not take place. A permanent professional theatre was opened in 1785, when Wojciech Boguslawski, the greatest personality of the theatre of the Polish Enlightenment, came up from Warsaw with his troupe.

scholarly journals In the Camp and on the March: Military Manuals as Sources for Studying Premodern Public Health

2018 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-60
Author(s):  
G. Geltner
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Population Level ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Medieval Latin ◽  
Vulnerable Communities ◽  
Medical Tradition ◽  
Mediterranean World ◽  
Preventative Healthcare

Historians tend to view public health as a quintessentially modern phenomenon, enabled by the emergence of representative democracies, centralised bureaucracies and advanced biomedicine. While social, urban and religious historians have begun chipping away at the entrenched dichotomy between pre/modernity that this view implies, evidence for community prophylactics in earlier eras also emerges from a group of somewhat unexpected sources, namely military manuals. Texts composed for (and often by) army leaders in medieval Latin Europe, East Rome (Byzantium) and other premodern civilisations reflect the topicality of population-level preventative healthcare well before the nineteenth century, thereby broadening the path for historicising public health from a transregional and even global perspective. Moreover, at least throughout the Mediterranean world, military manuals also attest the enduring appeal of Hippocratic and Galenic prophylactics and how that medical tradition continued for centuries to shape the routines and material culture of vulnerable communities such as armies.

Where I come from and where I’m going to: exploring identity, hopes and futures with Roma girls in Rotherham

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah Bullivant
Keyword(s):  
Population Growth ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Sexual Exploitation ◽  
Media Attention ◽  
Child Sexual Exploitation ◽  
Town Centre ◽  
Individual Actions ◽  
Cultural Tensions ◽  
The Town

This chapter discusses the ‘I come from’ project, one of the strands within the ‘Imagine’ project, which set out to work with a group of Rotherham's young women, defined as Roma by their school and the communities around them. The project aimed to explore their experiences and visions of an imagined future and their fused identities and shared sense of belonging. In the very midst of the project's creative activities, however, the Jay Report into child sexual exploitation was released, letting loose formerly suppressed fears and anxieties about the population growth and perceptions of Roma communities in parts of Rotherham, especially around the town centre. Immediately upon the report's release, Rotherham's once suppressed racial and cultural tensions came to the surface. Perspectives across the communities changed quickly and significantly, and the growing differences between ethnicities and cultures became the focus of both individual actions and media attention.

Discurso méédico, cultura higiéénica y la mujer en la ciudad de Mééxico al cambio de siglo (XIX ––XX)

2002 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia Agostoni
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Medical Profession ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
The Future ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Siglo Xix ◽  
Las Mujeres

This article explores why alongside sanitary legislation and public health works, Mexican physicians of the late nineteenth century attempted to transform the habits, customs and day to day activities of the population. It stresses the importance that the teaching of the principles of private and public hygiene had for the future of the country, how this education was to be carried out, and why some members of the medical profession believed that the hygienic education of mothers/women was an unavoidable requirement for the progress of the nation. Este artíículo analiza por quéé durante las déécadas finales del siglo diecinueve, el gremio méédico mexicano consideraba que era absolutamente indispensable que los habitantes del paíís, y en particular las mujeres de la capital, contaran con una cultura de la higiene. No sóólo era fundamental sanear y ordenar a la ciudad de Mééxico mediante obras de infraestructura sanitaria, y emitir leyes que regularan la salubridad de la nacióón, sino que era igualmente importante, y quizáás máás urgente, que los habitantes transformaran sus háábitos y costumbres de acuerdo con lo establecido por la higiene púública y privada. Asimismo, el artíículo examina los méétodos mediante los cuales se procuróó crear una cultura de la higiene, y por quéé la madre de familia fue considerada como una aliada imprescindible para la empresa de los higienistas.

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