GROWING UP NEEDING THE PAST: An Activist’s Reflection on the History of LGBT+ History Month in the UK

In this paper a paradox is revealed in the politics of well-being over the means and ends of happiness. That paradox, in brief, is that although happiness is argued to be the ultimate end of all governmentality, in order to serve as that end, it first needs to be translated into a means for bolstering the economy, for only that way can a teleology of happiness gain a foothold in a world which prioritizes economic growth as an end in itself. To show this the paper gives a history of subjective well-being (SWB) research, and contrasts it with the politics of happiness in the UK, where SWB has in the past decade been translated into a discourse around the psychological wealth of the nation via the concepts of mental capital (MC) and mental well-being (MWB).

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“We Can Make Something Out of Anything”: Sally Potter's Thriller and London's History of Queer Feminist Film Spaces

Film Quarterly ◽

10.1525/fq.2017.70.4.39 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 70 (4) ◽

pp. 39-46

Author(s):

Sophie Mayer ◽

Selina Robertson

Keyword(s):

Sexual Offences ◽

Thick Description ◽

Labor Politics ◽

Lgbt History ◽

Cultural Spaces ◽

Heritage Buildings ◽

Police Records ◽

History Of ◽

Feminist Film ◽

The Uk

The National Trust, a British charity founded in 1895 that manages heritage buildings and open spaces for the UK, is now running daytime tours of London's queer club culture from 1918 to 1967 (when the Sexual Offences Act decriminalized private homosexual acts between men over the age of 21), ending at a version of the Caravan, a queer-friendly members' club from 1934 recreated from police records and court reports. Further, the queer activists Sexual Avengers marked 2017's LGBT History month by placing unofficial “Queer Heritage” blue plaques on London landmarks, including one that commemorated the 1988 action against Section 28 in which four lesbians rappelled into the second chamber of the UK Parliament, the House of Lords. The fiftieth anniversary of the passing of the Sexual Offences Act is being marked this summer by programming at the British Film Institute and other UK cultural institutions. With the National Trust also showcasing the portrait of the Lord Orlando, it is a time when queer histories are clearly entering the mainstream curatorial and cultural spaces and interpretations, making 2017 a productive time to offer a thick description of the complexities of labor, politics, and creative practice that may be smoothed over by this move. At the same time, current queer and feminist spaces in London (as elsewhere in the overdeveloped world) are encountering a recapitulation and intensification of the 1970s version of austerity and precarity that formed both the pretext and subtext of Potter's first film, Thriller (1979), making it an ideal text through which to examine these issues.

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Does consultancy research have a future?

Library and Information Research ◽

10.29173/lirg66 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 32 (100) ◽

pp. 20-28

Author(s):

David Streatfield

Keyword(s):

Impact Evaluation ◽

Social Science Research ◽

Science Research ◽

Skills Training ◽

Policy And Practice ◽

Research Issues ◽

Diagnostic Skills ◽

The Past ◽

History Of ◽

The Uk

This article reviews the history of consultancy research in the UK over the past thirty years, identifying rapid growth in the number of participants and a shift towards policy-driven commissioning. Some likely changes in LIS policy and practice and in the concomitant consultancy research are identified. These changes in turn suggest some evolution in consultancy research, which is likely to become more complex and strategic, with increased organisational divergence and convergence in different areas, more flexible research contracts, more international, focus, and addressing more difficult research issues. These changes are likely to call for better inter-personal and diagnostic skills, more expertise and constant updating in a range of disciplines, stronger social science research skills, training and professional development skills and expertise and enhanced impact evaluation skills and expertise. There appears to be little future for small independent consultancies but scope for collaboration with other researcher groups.

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A survey of vaccine history in German cats and owners’ attitudes to vaccination

Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery ◽

10.1177/1098612x18759838 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 21 (2) ◽

pp. 73-83 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Anne-Claire Gehrig ◽

Katrin Hartmann ◽

Felix Günther ◽

André Klima ◽

Gabriele Habacher ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Infectious Diseases ◽

Positive Impact ◽

Vaccination Status ◽

Regulatory Requirements ◽

Online Questionnaire ◽

The Past ◽

Vaccination Recommendations ◽

History Of ◽

The Uk ◽

Current Guidelines

Objectives Vaccination is the most important measure for prevention of feline infectious diseases. Cat owner compliance with vaccination recommendations has been investigated in the UK but not in other European countries. The aim of the present study was to determine cat owners’ attitudes towards vaccination in cats in Germany, to identify factors that are associated with the vaccination status of their cats and to compare the results with those of the UK survey. Methods The survey was conducted using an online questionnaire and was aimed at respondents throughout Germany. Respondents under 16 years of age, cats that were less than 9 weeks old and veterinarians were excluded. A total of 920 questionnaires were evaluated, and information about cats and respondents was assessed with respect to the current vaccination status of the cats using a linear logistic regression model. Results The majority of cats (77.9%; n = 717) were vaccinated according to current guidelines; only 5.4% (n = 50; 95% confidence interval [CI] 5.00–9.00) of cats had never received a vaccine. Having visited a cattery, a cat show or travelled abroad in the past 12 months (n = 96/773; odds ratio [OR] 6.95; 95% CI 1.65–52.19) had the highest positive impact on the vaccination status of cats. In addition, detailed veterinary advice about vaccination had a positive impact (n = 275/773; OR 2.09; 95% CI 0.67–6.25) on the attitude of owners towards vaccinating their cats. Conclusions and relevance A history of travelling abroad or visiting cat shows or a cattery, and thus regulatory requirements, had the greatest positive impact on the current vaccination status of the cats. Veterinary consultation on preventive measures, including vaccination, is crucial for protecting the cat population against infectious diseases.

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Research Subjects about the Comparison of British and Japanese Scholarship of Islam

Global Journal of Human-Social Science ◽

10.34257/gjhssavol21is9pg1 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-4

Author(s):

Alimu Tuoheti

Keyword(s):

Practical Significance ◽

Cultural Communication ◽

Research Subjects ◽

Current Standard ◽

Islamic World ◽

Islamic Studies ◽

The Past ◽

The World ◽

History Of ◽

The Uk

All around the world, how we interpret the Islamic world objectively and accurately is an important topic for concerned scholars all over the world. Britain has a history of Islamic Studies for more than 400 years, and the current standard and research paradigm of Islamic Studies in the UK deserves our attention. It is of great practical significance for us to thoroughly and systematically understand the contemporary Islamic world in this special historical stage of great turbulence, great differentiation, and great change, and then comprehensively grasp the regional issues of Islam and build a discourse system of Islamic research with modern characteristics. In the past 30 years, Japanese academic circles have not been able to keep abreast of the development of Islamic Studies in the UK, let alone go deep into the frontier field of cultural communication. Based on this, through literature analysis and field visits, this Project intends to overview of the current situation of Islamic Studies in Britain and Japan, focusing on the two main paradigms of its cultural studies, and then to explore the how these academic efforts can benefit and impact the discourse construction of Islamic Studies in Japan and UK.

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Psychiatry past and present: do we need history?

BJPsych Bulletin ◽

10.1192/bjb.2018.102 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 43 (3) ◽

pp. 126-130

Author(s):

Claire Hilton

Keyword(s):

Health Service ◽

Historical Analysis ◽

Clinical History ◽

Historical Evidence ◽

The Past ◽

Policy Debates ◽

History Of ◽

Historical Methodology ◽

Service Policy ◽

The Uk

Historical evidence can be useful to inform debate about current dilemmas in health service policy. However, concepts of historical analysis may be problematic for doctors, for whom a model of ‘history’ is often based on clinical history-taking: a clinical history aims to explain the present, whereas a historical analysis aims to elucidate the past. This article discusses and illustrates these concepts, and highlights potential pitfalls of poor historical methodology. It also provides pointers about researching the history of psychiatry in the UK and how to contribute historical evidence to health service policy debates today.Declaration of interestNone.

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Scapa Flow and the protection and management of Scotland's historic military shipwrecks

Antiquity ◽

10.1017/s0003598x00091353 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 76 (293) ◽

pp. 862-868 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Ian Oxley

Keyword(s):

World Wide ◽

Heritage Management ◽

The Past ◽

The World ◽

History Of ◽

New Challenges ◽

Shipping Traffic ◽

Archaeological Areas ◽

Ancient Monuments ◽

The Uk

IntroductionIn the past Britain has been a global naval, mercantile and industrial power and, as an island which has benefited from successive waves of settlement, its history is inextricably linked to its surrounding seas (Lavery 2001). High volumes of shipping traffic and a long history of seafaring and warfare have contributed to a density of shipwreck remains in UK territorial waters which is likely to be amongst the highest in the world.Recently warship wrecks have been given a significantly higher degree of attention in the UK and world-wide, and the recent ‘scheduling’ of the German High Seas Fleet wrecks under the terms of the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 2979 (AMAA 1979) has led to new challenges in heritage management. At the same time as we are becoming aware of the value of these resources, the administrative, legislative, environmental and social frameworks in which they have to be managed are changing rapidly.

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Anti-racist feminism: engaging with the past

Race & Class ◽

10.1177/0306396819875041 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 61 (2) ◽

pp. 96-104 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Sophia Siddiqui

Keyword(s):

Asian Women ◽

Far Right ◽

The Past ◽

Women's Lives ◽

The Face ◽

History Of ◽

Radical History ◽

The Uk ◽

Global Solidarity

Two landmark books, originally published during the same era of struggle in the UK, have been republished in 2018: Finding a Voice: Asian women in Britain and Heart of the Race: Black women’s lives in Britain. These books make the history of anti-racism in the UK – and the role of black and Asian women within this that is so often overlooked – accessible to a broad audience and give context to the gendered racism and racialised patriarchies that persist today. Reviewing these reissued texts, the author argues that the UK’s radical history is a powerful tool that can reactivate anti-racist feminism both locally and internationally, pointing to the continued fight to retain BAME domestic violence refuges in the face of austerity cuts in the UK and the unique global solidarity that is coming to the fore as an emboldened far Right attacks women’s rights internationally.

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Benefit sanctions, social citizenship and the economy

Local Economy The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit ◽

10.1177/0269094219852336 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 34 (3) ◽

pp. 316-326 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

David Webster

Keyword(s):

Review Article ◽

Social Citizenship ◽

Academic Literature ◽

The Past ◽

National Insurance ◽

History Of ◽

Dramatic Shift ◽

Benefit Sanctions ◽

The Uk ◽

New Literature

Throughout the history of National Insurance in the UK, there has been relatively little emphasis on benefit conditions or sanctions (previously called disqualifications). The relevant academic literature has been correspondingly thin. But over the past three decades there has been a dramatic shift to increased conditionality in social security, accompanied by increased harshness in the penalties. This has started to spawn a substantial new literature. This review article considers three significant recent publications. Although written from different perspectives, they all conclude that the current UK sanctions system cannot be justified. The review article argues that more attention needs to be paid to the flaws in the economic case for conditionality. It concludes that effective reform of the system depends on a reassertion of the concepts of social citizenship which underlay the development of National Insurance in the 20th century.

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A survey of Memphis, Egypt

Antiquity ◽

10.1017/s0003598x00058488 ◽

1986 ◽

Vol 60 (229) ◽

pp. 88-95 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

H. S. Smith ◽

D. G. Jeffreys

Keyword(s):

Residential Development ◽

Ancient Egypt ◽

Past Study ◽

Research Assistant ◽

The Past ◽

National Capital ◽

The Face ◽

History Of ◽

The 1960S ◽

The Uk

The Egypt Exploration Society's Survey of Memphis was begun in 1982, the aim being to provide a full documentation for the past study of a much-neglected national capital of the ancient near east: indeed, as the authors of this article remark, ‘A history of ancient Egypt which omitted Memphis would be like a history of ancient Italy which omitted Rome’. The programme of investigation is being undertaken in the face of encroaching agricultural and residential development, and an ever-rising water table. Excavation may be regarded as auxiliary to broader survey and environmental questions. The authors are Professor Harry Smith, Edwards Professor of Egyptology, who has worked in Egypt for the last 30 years, including the groundwork for the Unesco-backed Nubian survey in the 1960s; and David Jeffreys (Research Assistant at UCL) who has worked for 16 years on sites in the UK, Egypt, Syria and Jordan.

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