A historical perspective on reservoir safety legislation in the United Kingdom

Contemporary society assumes high levels of unimpeded mobility, and disruptions to the ability to move quickly and easily can cause considerable concern. This paper examines the notion of mobility uncertainty and disruption from an historical perspective, arguing that interruptions to mobility have long been a characteristic of everyday travel. It is suggested that what has changed is not so much the extent or nature of disruption, but rather the resilience of transport systems and societal norms and expectations about travel. Data are taken from five examples of life writing produced by residents of the United Kingdom during the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. The texts are used to illustrate the travel problems encountered and the strategies adopted to deal with them. A concluding discussion examines these themes in the context of twenty-first century mobility.

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Colonial Railways and Conflict Resolution Between Portugal and the United Kingdom in Africa (c. 1880–early 1900s)

HoST - Journal of History of Science and Technology ◽

10.2478/host-2018-0004 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

pp. 75-105

Author(s):

Hugo Silveira Pereira

Keyword(s):

United Kingdom ◽

Conflict Resolution ◽

Historical Perspective ◽

Decisive Role ◽

Public Works ◽

Geographical Proximity ◽

The Public ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

Resolution Analysis

Abstract In the 1870s, Portugal transferred the public works program it was undertaking on the mainland – in which railways played a decisive role – to its African colonies of Angola and Mozambique. In this strategy, the United Kingdom was an obvious partner, given the historical connection between both nations and the geographical proximity between the colonies each country had in Africa. However, British and Portuguese imperial agendas could easily clash, as both London and Lisbon coveted the same areas of Africa. Hence, the initial and apparent cooperation rapidly evolved to a situation of conflict. In this paper, I aim to analyse three instances of dispute between Portugal and Britain about colonial railways in Angola and Mozambique. I will use the methodological tools of conflict resolution analysis in a historical perspective and the concept of track-two diplomacy within the framework of technodiplomacy.

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England and Britain in Historical Perspective

Governing England ◽

10.5871/bacad/9780197266465.003.0002 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 27-43

Author(s):

Arthur Aughey

Keyword(s):

United Kingdom ◽

National Identity ◽

Historical Perspective ◽

Royal Commission ◽

Double Vision ◽

Institutional Legitimacy ◽

Good Place ◽

Historical Perspectives ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

Living Tradition

In 1973, the Royal Commission on the Constitution understood membership of the United Kingdom to mean representation in the Parliament at Westminster. That approach emphasised political allegiance and institutional legitimacy rather than trying to define national identity. Forty years later the historian Robert Colls proposed that if you want to understand national identity, a good place to start would be the constitution, a living tradition based on historical relationships. Accordingly, this chapter examines the link between institutions and identity from two historical perspectives. The first recognises few institutions to be English as opposed to British. The second views these institutions as English onto which have been grafted British purposes. Historically, the Union has depended on these two views of identity co-existing as a political ‘double vision’. The chapter reconsiders that historical co-existence, identifying those perspectives which also threaten that double vision.

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General Practice in the United Kingdom – A training evolution

Revista Brasileira de Medicina de Família e Comunidade ◽

10.5712/rbmfc9(30)881 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 9 (30) ◽

pp. 77-82 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Patrick Hutt

Keyword(s):

General Practice ◽

United Kingdom ◽

Historical Perspective ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

Current State ◽

Career Opportunities ◽

Do So

This article will outline the current state of training for UK General Practice, specifying some of the steps that must be taken in order to qualify, the challenges that trainees often face, and the career opportunities that may await them once completed. A historical perspective will be used to demonstrate the extent to which General Practice has evolved during the last sixty years. A few of the examples and explanations used in this article are by necessity simplistic, designed to highlight key areas of UK general practice in a bid to encourage readers to explore further if they wish to do so.

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