The Copenhagen Chiasm

2018 ◽  
pp. 25-26
Author(s):  
Frédéric Neyrat
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Executive Director ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Crime Scene ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City

“This evening, the city of Copenhagen is a crime scene, with those responsible fleeing for the airport.” It was in this manner that John Sauven, the executive director of Greenpeace for the United Kingdom, expressed himself following the Copenhagen summit on climate change.1 A crime? What sort of crime? What exactly happened during this summit? More than likely, no kind of event that would be capable of immediately changing the history of the world. But nevertheless, there was a noticeable turning point in relation to how societies were discussing the management of climate change; there was a revelatory moment in regard to what we have taken to calling the ...

scholarly journals Het belang van '1814' in de Belgische archiefgeschiedenis

1970 ◽  
Vol 71 ◽  
pp. 99-113
Author(s):  
Timo Van Havere
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
French Empire ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
National Archives ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City

In recent years archivists and historians have been pondering the importance of '1800' inthe history of archives and historiography: did the turn of that century mark the start of'modern' archival organisation, focused on historical research? Even though the accessibilityof Belgian archives was unsurpassed in nineteenth-century Europe, the archival historyof that country has been neglected thus far. By looking at the National Archives inBrussels and the city archives of Ghent, new light can be shed on the Belgian archivallandscape around 1800. As it turns out, 1814 was an important turning point. The politicalchange ftom the French Empire to the United Kingdom of the Netherlands was used bysome historians to secure an appointment as archivist. At the same time, the new nationalgovernment actively remodelled archives into historiographical institutions.

scholarly journals Niemcy i Francja w Unii Europejskiej po brexicie

2018 ◽  
pp. 39-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Józef M. Fiszer
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
European Integration ◽  
Driving Force ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Accurate Diagnosis ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Eu

There is no doubt that Brexit is an unprecedented event in the history of European integration and the European Union (EU). It will certainly be a turning point not only in the history of the EU but also in Germany and France. It will affect their place and role in the new international order that is currently being shaped. Today, however, it is very difficult to present an accurate diagnosis, and even more difficult to predict the future of the EU, Europe and the whole world after Brexit. Currently, the opinions of researchers and experts on this subject are divided. Many fear that Brexit will be the beginning of the end of the EU and that it will lead to so-called diversified integration and then to its disintegration. Others believe that Brexit, nolens volens, may accelerate the EU’s modernisation process. This will require the adoption of a new revision treaty. This treaty will be developed under the dictation of Germany and France, which are the most influential countries in the EU.The purpose of this article is to answer a few questions, particularly what role  Germany and France can and will play in the EU after Brexit. Will these countries  again become the driving force in the process of European integration and the EU’s modernisation, or will they remain passive and contribute to the break-up of the EU? Moreover, the author intends to show the opportunities and threats for the EU  without the United Kingdom, which counterbalanced the influence of Germany and France in Europe.

II Kings

1988 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mordechai Cogan ◽  
Hayim Tadmor
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Middle East ◽  
World History ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Dual Purpose ◽  
The Past ◽  
The North ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City

II Kings (Volume 11 in the acclaimed Anchor Bible) is the chronicle of the raging conflicts that tore the United Kingdom of Israel apart, creating the rival nations of Israel to the north and Judah to the south. It tells of the time of the great prophecies of Elijah and Elisha, and of the legendary conquerors of not only the Jews, but the whole of the Middle East--Sennacherib, Hazael, Tiglath-pileser III, Nebuchadnezzar, and Shalmaneser. The book of II Kings was written with a dual purpose. It provided a chronological history of the divided kingdoms of Israel, from the time of division, through the destruction of the city of Jerusalem, and the final exile of the Jews into Babylonia. It also served as a reminder to all Israelite monarchs that their loyalty to the God of Israel, as worshipped in Jerusalem, determined the course of history. In his telling of the story, the book's author emphasized to his contemporaries and future generations that in order to avert the calamities that befell the Chosen People (their conquest by nonbelievers, the destruction of Jerusalem, and their ignominious exile), they would have to avoid a repetition of the misdeeds of the past. If they remained loyal to their God, their God would remain loyal to them. Complete with maps, charts, photographs, and extra-biblical documentation, II Kings presents an important and illuminating new translation which explores a tumultuous epoch of change that forever affected theological and world history.

scholarly journals HTA in the United Kingdom

2010 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-225
Author(s):  
John Gabbay
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Health Technology ◽  
Hard Copy ◽  
Local Adaptations ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Service Policy ◽  
Editorial Review ◽  
Main Component

I was dismayed to find that the article on HTA in the United Kingdom in the recent Special Issus of IJTAHC on the History of HTA (1) makes so little mention of the main component of HTA in England and Wales, namely the NHS HTA Programme. That seems a puzzling oversight for a program that, since its inception in 1993, has spent 138 million GBP on commissioning nearly 850 in-depth HTA studies, sifted and prioritized from some 15,000 suggestions drawn from all quarters of UK health service, policy, and research worlds. From these, it has published nearly 500 full-length HTA monographs (with over 125 more currently in editorial review) in the series Health Technology Assessment, which has attracted over 15 million downloads as well as being distributed in hard copy to just over 128,000 recipients. Around 120 of these monographs resulted from research commissioned explicitly to advance the methodology of HTA—a contribution that is unique among the world's HTA agencies. This stream of HTA publications, which has also spawned countless summaries, local adaptations, translations, academic papers, and other spinoffs, has had an acknowledged impact throughout the world of HTA.

History of Life Assurance in the United Kingdom (Continued)

1886 ◽  
Vol 25 (6) ◽  
pp. 433-437
Author(s):  
Cornelius Walford
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Public Confidence ◽  
Life Assurance ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Public Credit ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The One

We commence our third epoch with the year 1721, and with the fact that there was at that period but one Life Assurance Office in existence in Great Britain—the Amicable, founded 1706. That too, so far as we have the means of knowing, was the only Life Assurance Association in the world. It was very defective in its mode of working, at the best; but it stood alone. The Society had at this date an accumulated fund of about £50,000; it had distributed in death claims £118,000. Thus it had obtained a solid hold upon public confidence, but I suspect its business suffered considerably from the general shock to public credit. The days of Mutual Contribution Life Assurance Associations, as such, were gone for ever in England. This Society had to take steps to mitigate the element of uncertainty, or it would most probably have died out. Solidity was now the one thing sought for.

scholarly journals Assembling a coalition of climate change narratives on UK climate action: a focus on the city, countryside, community and home

2021 ◽  
Vol 164 (1-2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Candice Howarth ◽  
Laurie Parsons
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Technological Change ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Academic Policy ◽  
Climate Action ◽  
The City

AbstractPerceptions of climate change and associated risks are complex and require greater consideration of the context in which behaviours are formed and changed. People tend to create their own stories of climate change providing an opportunity to capture personal experiences and frame solutions accordingly through narratives. Engagement with the issue can be further enhanced when using topics that resonate with individuals, especially through place attachments and local interests. Positioning climate change around communities, cities, homes and the countryside, for example, resonates with certain audiences as action at these scales provides useful narratives through which to engage audiences and increase positive associations with resilient and low-carbon futures. Nevertheless, we show how engagement with these narratives is complex and may overlap or contest in some cases. We present findings from thirty semi-structured interviews conducted with academic, policy and practitioner communities in the United Kingdom (UK) which explored what sub-themes could be utilised to engage audiences on climate change through narratives focused around cities, the countryside, communities and the home. We identify 10 sub-themes ranging from technological change (homes), connecting people (communities), alternative infrastructures (countryside) and positive visions of identity (cities). In search of a coherent coalition of diverse interests in shaping climate change action, we discuss two cross-cutting themes on technology and social norms which emerge strongly across each of the sub-themes.

Creation Ex Nihilo: Something from Nothing

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vlatko Vedral
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Ex Nihilo ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Being Religious ◽  
Origin Of The Universe

Every civilization in the history of humanity has had its myth of creation. Humans have a deeply rooted and seemingly insatiable desire to understand not only their own origins but also the origins of other things around them. Most if not all of the myths since the dawn of man involve some kind of higher or supernatural beings which are intimately related to the existence and functioning of all things in the Universe. Modern man still holds a multitude of different views of the ultimate origin of the Universe, though a couple of the most well represented religions, Christianity and Islam, maintain that there was a single creator responsible for all that we see around us. It is a predominant belief in Catholicism, accounting for about one-sixth of humanity, that the Creator achieved full creation of the Universe out of nothing – a belief that goes under the name of creation ex nihilo. (To be fair, not all Catholics believe this, but they ought to if they follow the Pope.) Postulating a supernatural being does not really help explain reality since then we only displace the question of the origins of reality to explaining the existence of the supernatural being. To this no religion offers any real answers. If you think that scientists might have a vastly more insightful understanding of the origin of the Universe compared to that of major religions, then you’d better think again. Admittedly, most scientists are probably atheists (interestingly, more than 95% in the United Kingdom) but this does not necessarily mean that they do not hold some kind of a belief about what the Creation was like and where all this stuff around us comes from. The point is that, under all the postulates and axioms, if you dig far enough, you’ll find that they are as stumped as anyone else. So, from the point of view of explaining why there is a reality and where it ultimately comes from, being religious or not makes absolutely no difference – we all end up with the same tricky question. Every time I read a book on the religious or philosophical outlook of the world I cannot help but recognize many ideas in there as related to some ideas that we have in science.

Home Education in the United Kingdom

2021 ◽  
pp. 178-199
Author(s):  
M. Mahruf C. Shohel ◽  
Naznin Akter ◽  
Md Shajedur Rahman ◽  
Arif Mahmud ◽  
Muhammad Shajjad Ahsan
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Home Education ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Government ◽  
Home Educators ◽  
The Uk

Home education is the fastest growing educational movement in the world and the research remains limited on why and how it has become so popular. This chapter highlights the historical development of home education and its legal base in the context of the United Kingdom. It also explores many of the current issues facing the home educators, the government of the UK, and the wider community. Based on the existing literature, it briefly explores the history of the home education movement in the UK and how policy and practice come to this point at this time. It investigates the different perspectives on how and why home education is the fastest growing educational movement in the 21st century's UK.

scholarly journals Nasionalisme Eropa dan Pengaruhnya Pada Lagu Seriosa di Indonesia

2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ayu Tresna Yunita
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Folk Music ◽  
The United States ◽  
Considerable Influence ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Colonial Government ◽  
Dutch Colonial

Gerakan nasionalisme berkembang di Eropa pada tahun 1830 dan menyebar ke berbagai negara di dunia termasuk di Indonesia. Gerakan nasionalisme Eropa pada perkembangannya memberi pengaruh yang besar terhadap perkembangan nasionalisme di kawasan Asia-Afrika khususnya di Indonesia dan perkembangan dalam sejarah musik. Gerakan nasionalisme dalam musik diawali di Rusia lalu kemudian diikuti gerakan nasionalisme di negara-negara Skadinavia, Spanyol, Italia, Hongaria, Inggris dan Amerika Serikat. Nasionalisme Eropa mempengaruhi beberapa komponis dalam menciptakan karya musiknya. Mereka memasukkan unsur-unsur melodi dan syair yang sesuai dengan musik rakyat dan yang sudah dikenal oleh masyarakat mereka. Di Indonesia, nasionalisme membuat para komponis Indonesia menciptakan lagu dengan tujuan mengobarkan semangat berjuang untuk melepaskan diri dari penjajah. Beberapa komponis Indonesia pada waktu jaman itu antara lain, W.R. Supratman, Kusbini, Ismail Marzuki dan Cornel Simanjuntak. Lagu seriosa yang diciptakan para komponis Indonesia mempunyai peranan yang besar terhadap perjuangan mencapai kemerdekaan. Lagu-lagu seriosa yang diciptakan dengan menggunakan ilmu-ilmu musik dari Barat seperti tangganada diatonis, harmoni, struktur bentuk lagu, ritmes dan lain sebagainya merupakan hasil pengaruh musikal dari Barat.Kata kunci: Nasionalisme, pengaruh musikal, lagu seriosaABSTRACTNasionalism in Europ and Its Impact on Indonesian Seriosa Song. The growing of nationalism movements in Europe in 1830 had spread out to all over the world, as well as in Indonesia. It gave considerable influence on the development of nationalism in Asia and Africa, especially in Indonesia, in term of the development in the history of music. The nationalism movement in music began in Russia and then was followed by the movement of nationalism in Scandinavian countries, Spain, Italy, Hungary, the United Kingdom and the United States. European nationalism has affected several composers in creating their music as they incorporate elements of melody and lyric in accordance with folk music which they have been familiar with. In Indonesia, nationalism made Indonesian composers created songs as an expression of their spirit against the Dutch colonial government. Some of Indonesian composers at that time, among others, were WR Supratman, Kusbini, Ismail Marzuki and Cornel Simanjuntak. Seriosa Song composed by Indonesian composers who had an important role to fight for the Indonesian independence. Seriosa songs which are created by using western musical’s standard as diatonic scales, harmony, the structure of a song form, rhyme, and so forth can be said as a result of the western musical influences.Keywords: Nationalism, musical influences, seriosa song

scholarly journals Climate Change Communication in the United Kingdom

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Media Framing ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Climate Change Communication ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Print News ◽  
Change Communication ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
History Of

There is a comparably lengthy history of climate change communication research in the United Kingdom that can be traced back to the late 1980s. As is the case for media research in general, most attention has historically focused on print media and elite newspapers in particular. The British public appears to have a rather ambivalent response to climate change, and most people do not view it as a pressing threat. While surveys suggest that most citizens believe that climate change is occurring and is at least partly caused by human activity, skeptic views have received greater prominence in the mainstream media than in many other comparable countries. Climate deniers have received considerable space on the opinion pages of some right-leaning British newspapers. This is no doubt linked to vigorous denial campaigns mounted by climate-skeptic think tanks in the United Kingdom. The left-of-center Guardian newspaper (and its counterpart Sunday edition, The Observer) has led the way on climate change reporting, far exceeding the amount of space devoted to the topic by other print news outlets—yet it has one of the lowest readerships. While traditional media remain important agenda setters, online and social media are increasingly significant sources of news—especially for younger individuals. Future climate communication scholarship should play a vital role in informing stakeholder strategies and better understanding the complex linkages between media framing, political agendas, and public perceptions.

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