Blacklisting and Folk Developments, 1953–1954

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Communist Party ◽  
Folk Music ◽  
The South ◽  
Folk Revival ◽  
Concert Halls ◽  
Party Members ◽  
Recording Studios ◽  
Made In

This chapter begins with a focus on Harry Smith (1923–1991), a beatnik eccentric artist, and experimental filmmaker who was responsible for the six-LP set called the Anthology of American Folk Music. The set featured commercial recordings of traditional rural musicians that had been made in the South during the 1920s and 1930s. The discussion then turns to the folk revival in Great Britain by the mid-1950s. While the Communist Party members represented one group contributing to the growing popularity of folk music and drew inspiration from the American performers such as the Almanac Singers, People's Songs, and the Weavers, folk music also began reaching a wider audience through the clubs, concert halls, and recording studios.

On the Chloride Waters of Great Britain

1945 ◽  
Vol 82 (6) ◽  
pp. 267-273 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
The South ◽  
Very Old ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
Exact Position ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Village ◽  
Made In

Formerly there were several surface brine springs in the North-East Coalfield; to-day there are none. From the many accounts of their occurrence nothing has been learned of their exact position, and very little of the composition of their waters. The earliest record, made in 1684, described the Butterby spring (Todd, 1684), and then at various times during the next two centuries brine springs at Framwellgate, Lumley, Birtley, Walker, Wallsend, Hebburn, and Jarrow were noted. In particular the Birtley salt spring is often mentioned, and on the 6-in. Ordnance map, Durham No. 13, 1862 edition, it is sited to the south-east of the village. Although no record has been found there must have been either a brine spring or well at Gateshead, for the name of the present-day suburb, Saltwell, is very old, and brine springs are still active in the coal workings of that area.

From internationalism to the European Union: An ideological change in the Polish post-communist party?

2009 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 253-264 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karolina Zioło
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Communist Party ◽  
The European Union ◽  
High Ranking ◽  
Party Members ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Ideological Change ◽  
Political Scene ◽  
Made In

The Polish post-communist party Social Democracy of the Republic of Poland (Socjal-demokracja Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej, SDRP) which survived almost unchanged in the dynamic Polish political scene of the 1990s was one of the leading political parties after 1989. This paper will attempt to explain the ideological journey, which has been taken by the former high-ranking Polish United Workers’ Party members after 1989. Their journey seems to start at the point of internationalism and socialism and ends in the victorious battle to join the European Union. Was this a simple modernized adjustment of the internationalist ideology or an opportunistic choice made in order to survive in the new political and social circumstances? Was choosing a pro-EU policy a choice or a necessity? This analysis will attempt to answer the above questions and describe this phenomenon of change or may be just an ideological continuity.

Discordant Comrades: Identities and Loyalties on the South African Left By Allison Drew. Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate, 2000. 282p. $74.95

2002 ◽  
Vol 96 (1) ◽  
pp. 236-237
Author(s):  
Courtney Jung
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Communist Party ◽  
Unique Contribution ◽  
The South ◽  
New Information ◽  
History Of ◽  
Party Members ◽  
South African Politics ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
History Of The South

Drawing on a wealth of new information made available by the opening of the Comintern archives, Drew sheds the light of hindsight on the relationship between the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) and, in turn, the Soviet Comintern, the South African liberation movement, and the white and black trade union movements in the first half of the twentieth century. This rich book makes a unique contribution to our understanding of ties between the Comintern and its satellite parties as well as the early history of the South African antiapartheid movement. There are only two other major books on this period of party history, and both are memoirs of party members who try to establish a particular version of the record. Drew contests the teleology of their accounts of communist party history and instead weaves a contingent narrative that identifies major turning points that narrowed the possibility for a radical reorientation of the party (p. 281). It was not inevitable that the party would split and finally dissolve in the way it did—other outcomes were possible, almost until the end. That they were not taken was the layered result of personal and ideological rivalries and party alliances that made socialism, and socialists, perpetually weak and vulnerable in the context of South African politics.

Further Developments, 1957–1958

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Atlantic Ocean ◽  
Folk Music ◽  
The United States ◽  
Folk Song ◽  
Folk Revival ◽  
Greenwich Village ◽  
Music Scene ◽  
The Village

This chapter describes the folk music scene from 1957 to 1958. It discusses the emergence of the Kingston Trio that energized the folk revival; folk festivals and recordings; the continued popularity of skiffle in Great Britain; magazines the covered the folk music scene, including Sing Out! and Caravan; and Alan Lomax's return to the United States after seven years of folk-song collecting across Europe. According to Greenwich Village musician Dave Van Ronk, “the last years of the 1950s were a great time to be in the Village.” “It was not too crazy yet, but there was an exhilarating sense of something big right around the corner. As for the folk scene, it was beginning to look as if it might have a future, and me with it.” What was happening in Greenwich Village was rapidly spreading around the country. Folk music, broadly defined, appeared to have a bright future, while spanning the Atlantic Ocean.

El viaje botánico de Pierre Edmond Boissier por el sur de España (1837). The botanical trip of Pierre Edmond Boissier by the South of Spain

2010 ◽  
Vol 35 ◽  
pp. 5-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio González Bueno
Keyword(s):  
The South ◽  
200Th Anniversary ◽  
Made In

Español.  Coincidiendo con el 200 aniversario del nacimiento de Pierre-Edmond Boissier (1810-1885), presentamos un análisis de su primer viaje por el Sur de España, realizado en 1837: estudiamos los motivos que le impulsaron a llevarlo a cabo, la información que tuvo disponible, el viaje en sí y la publicación de sus resultados en la más señera de sus obras, el Voyage botanique dans le midi de l’Espagne… (París, 1839-1845).English. In the 200th anniversary of the birth of Pierre-Edmond Boissier (1810-1885) we analized his first trip to the south of Spain, made in 1837, the reasons that prompted him to carry out, the information available, the trip itself and the publication of their results in the most outstanding of his works, the Voyage botanique dans le midi de l’Espagne ... (Paris, 1839-1845).

scholarly journals The Death of May’s Law: Intra- and Inter-Party Value Differences in Britain’s Labour and Conservative Parties

2021 ◽  
pp. 003232172199563
Author(s):  
Alan Wager ◽  
Tim Bale ◽  
Philip Cowley ◽  
Anand Menon
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Party Competition ◽  
Cultural Issues ◽  
Value Differences ◽  
Economic Issues ◽  
Members Of Parliament ◽  
Significant Disagreement ◽  
Party Members ◽  
First Time

Party competition in Great Britain increasingly revolves around social or ‘cultural’ issues as much as it does around the economic issues that took centre stage when class was assumed to be dominant. We use data from surveys of members of parliament, party members and voters to explore how this shift has affected the internal coalitions of the Labour and Conservative Parties – and to provide a fresh test of ‘May’s Law’. We find a considerable disconnect between ‘neoliberal’ Conservative members of parliament and their more centrist voters on economic issues and similarly significant disagreement on cultural issues between socially liberal Labour members of parliament and their more authoritarian voters. We also find differences in both parties between parliamentarians and their grassroots members, albeit that these are much less pronounced. May’s Law, not for the first time, appears not to be borne out in reality.

England, Ireland, and Rome, 1847-1848

1989 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 259-277
Author(s):  
Donal A. Kerr
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
British Government ◽  
Catholic Priests ◽  
The Public ◽  
Northern District ◽  
Catholic Religion ◽  
Pius Ix ◽  
Public Papers ◽  
Made In

In the spring of 1848 a number of respected English vicars-general, William Bernard Ullathorne of the Western District, John Briggs of the Northern District, and Thomas Brown of Wales decided that one of them, together with Fr Luigi Gentili, the Rosminian missioner, should proceed immediately to Rome. Their object would be to support, by personal intervention with Pius IX, a memorial drawn up by Briggs, signed by twenty Irish and three or four bishops in Great Britain, which was solemnly presented to the Pope by Thomas Grant, President of the English College in Rome. This memorial ran: we most... solemnly declare to Your Holiness that British Diplomacy has everywhere been exerted to the injury of our Holy Religion. We read in the public Papers that Lord Minto is friendly received... by Your Holiness At this very time, however,... the first Minister of the British Government, the Son in Law of Lord Minto is publicly manifesting in England, together with his fellow Ministers, his marked opposition to the Catholic Religion and the Catholic Church. Another cause of our serious alarm is the very general hostile and calumnious outcry now made in both houses of our Parliament and throughout Protestant England against the Catholic Priests of Ireland, falsely charging them with being the abettors of the horrible crime of murder whilst as true Pastors they are striving t o . . . console their... perishing people and like good shepherds are in the midst of pestilence giving their lives for their flocks.

VI Non-Cancellable Disability Insurance

1971 ◽  
Vol 20 (01) ◽  
pp. 54-55
Author(s):  
J. Hamilton-Jones
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Disability Insurance ◽  
Sickness Insurance ◽  
Collective Method ◽  
Made In

There are two methods of dealing with the actuarial features of sickness insurance—the collective method and the reversionary method.Unfortunately, perhaps the two methods have developed quite independently of each other, for historical reasons.The collective method was used in Great Britain to investigate Friendly Society experience. The pattern for all subsequent investigations was set in the 1820s and brought to its culmination of refinement in Watson's Manchester Unity Experience still in the Institute's examination syllabus, 66 years after publication. No investigation of insured lives has yet been made in Great Britain. In the rest of this note the term ‘Manchester Unity method’ will be used to describe the collective method.

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