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Centralised by Design: Anglocentric Constitutionalism, Accountability and the Failure of English Devolution

The Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 189-198, January/March 2025.
Abstract The Labour manifesto in this year's election implied a radical restructuring of the UK state, the way in which England is governed and in relations across the United Kingdom. The aim of making English devolution the ‘default option’ is set against fifty years of unsuccessful and partial devolution initiatives which have failed to reverse the ...
John Denham, Janice Morphet
wiley   +1 more source

Commercial and Sublime: Popular Astronomy Lectures in Nineteenth Century Britain [PDF]

, 2015
This thesis discusses the practitioners, sites, curriculums, apparatus and audiences of popular astronomy lecturing in nineteenth-century Britain. Lecturers who were active approximately between 1820 and 1860 are the focus.
Huang, H-F
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Change and Continuity in British Politics: Can the Starmer Government's Approach to Governance Resolve the Crisis in the British State without Radical Reform?

The Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 140-148, January/March 2025.
Abstract In this article, the key dilemmas that will confront the new Labour administration in Britain during its initial period in power are examined. The Starmer government is seeking to use the state pragmatically to improve British economic performance, stem the crisis in public services and strengthen the strategic capacity of Whitehall.
Patrick Diamond, David Richards, Sam Warner   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Nineteenth-Century Technologies, Contemporary Stakes 

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Our introducton to this issue of 19 situates nineteenth-century visual technologies within contemporary scholarship, art, and heritage practice, highlighting their ongoing relevance.
doaj   +2 more sources

Nineteenth-Century cities [European civilization: 1648-1945]

, 2008
Presents a class of Professor John Merriman that explains about nineteenth century, period of unprecedented degree of urbanization, an increase in urban population growth relative to population growth generally.
Merriman, John
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John Gray: ‘Americanism’ and the Perversion of Post‐liberalism

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article will make the case for John Gray's inclusion in the canon of post‐liberals despite his protests to the contrary, and will argue that his peculiar post‐liberalism is important for its challenges to the dominance of liberalism as both a political culture and way of theorising the ends of politics based on the model of the American ...
Paul Kelly
wiley   +1 more source

Nineteenth-Century cities [European civilization: 1648-1945]

, 2014
Presents a class of Professor John Merriman that explains about nineteenth century, period of unprecedented degree of urbanization, an increase in urban population growth relative to population growth generally.
Merriman, John
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The Grammar of Race: British Fascism, Racial Nationalism and the Rise of Reform UK

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article brings histories of British fascism and the Black Radical Tradition into conversation with the study of contemporary British politics to offer a race‐critical analysis of Reform UK's rise. Drawing on race‐critical scholarship and Black Radical analyses of fascism, it argues that Reform UK is the latest formation of a distinctively
Kian Aspinall
wiley   +1 more source

The Early Upper Palaeolithic in British caves: problems and potential Le Paléolithique supérieur ancien dans les grottes de Grande‐Bretagne : problèmes et potentiels

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Recent years have seen landmark progress in our understanding of early Homo sapiens occupation of Europe, owing to new excavations and the application of new analytical methods. Research on British sites, however, continues to lag. This is because of limitations inherent in existing cave collections, and limited options for new fieldwork at known sites.
Robert Dinnis
wiley   +1 more source

The medical management of lower urinary tract symptoms during the nineteenth century

Continence Reports
Medical management and lifestyle changes rather than surgical interventions, are used for many urological problems. This was also the case in the past. The use of herbal medication for urinary symptoms in the nineteenth century is reviewed as well as the
Srusthti Bhat, Jonathan Charles Goddard
doaj   +1 more source