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Baxter, Paula. "Women's networks in Northern England 1600-1725." Thesis, Northumbria University, 2002. http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/1195/.
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This research fills a gap in seventeenth century English social history. In studies of the early modem period, women are generally situated within the formal structures of marriage and the family, where their relationship to the masculine is the defining feature of their position. This thesis examines women's relationships with other women operating outside the expected range of relationships and look at groupings that were not based around the formal social structure of the time. It demonstrates that women in early modern England created and used networks which provided functions beyond their maternal and familial obligations. It also shows that these networks had an impact on wider society, inspiring strong reactions from both supporters and detractors. This study provides a functional, descriptive and developmental analysis of women's networks and locates their sphere of influence within early modem society. It asks questions about the different types of women's networks that existed in the early modem period, how they were organised and what environmental conditions helped to create them. It looks at the individuals who made up the networks and what effect age, social and marital status and religion had on the form and nature of these networks. It examines the impact of the networks on the women and what effect opposition had on them and on their networks. The research also questions whether women were conscious of their networks; if they were able to recognise their potential power and ability to influence events in their communities. The period considered by the thesis includes significant developments in the organisation of women's networks and it therefore also examines why a number of them chose to become formally organised and officially recognised during the seventeenth century.
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Clayson, Helen. "The experience of mesothelioma in Northern England." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2007. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/1775/.
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Mesothelioma is a potentially preventable fatal disease causing almost 2000 deaths/year in the UK, increasing in incidence, and lacking effective treatments. ‘The Experience of Mesothelioma in Northern England' is a community-based, mixed methods, case study in four parts, conducted in Barrow-in-Furness, Leeds and Doncaster. The study investigates the experience of pleural mesothelioma for patients and their families, and for healthcare professionals and service providers. Mesothelioma is experienced as a devastating disease that carries a severe burden in physical, psychological, and social domains. Breathlessness, usually due to recurrent pleural effusions, and/or pain occur in >90% cases and may be refractory. Psychosocial aspects relate to causation, latency, rapid decline in health, helplessness regarding severe symptoms, and impending death. The erratic trajectory is unusual in malignancy. Disease burden is high in terms of multiple invasive investigations and emergency admissions and is reflected in service usage: 2 or 3 hospital admissions, 5 outpatient appointments and 11 GP consultations, 4 of these at home, occurred on average in the last year of life. Median survival was 294 days and 45% died in hospital, 30% in hospice, and 14% at home. Patients tend to react with stoicism and patients (and relatives) adopt a ‘coping narrative' which may prevent timely access to supportive services. Bereaved relatives' emotional accounts reflect witnessing severe suffering, express anger and blame around the potentially avoidable asbestos exposure, and present the deaths due to mesothelioma as ‘mass murder'. State benefits and civil compensation procedures, and the Coroner's investigation, create additional distress. Severe bereavement reactions have features of ‘tragic grief'. In spite of the severe symptom burden, less than half of the patients were referred to palliative care and there was no systematic approach to care and support of either patients or their relatives. The study has implications for research and service provision.
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Pawley, Alisun. "Searching for singalongability amidst revellers in Northern England." Thesis, University of York, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.516413.
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Barrell, Andrew D. M. "The papacy, Scotland and northern England, 1342-1378 /." Cambridge : Cambridge university press, 1995. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb374809036.
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Hallam, Deborah L. "The Bronze Age Funerary Cups of Northern England." Thesis, University of Bradford, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/14861.
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Around the late third millennium BC small cup-shaped vessels began to appear in burial contexts across the North of England where they were found to be associated with Early Bronze Age funerary practices. Known by the name of incense cups, accessory vessels or miniature cups, their true purpose has been elusive.
This study comprises an investigation of cups from Northern England and finds the tradition to be heavily influenced by Beaker culture practices resulting in the earliest cups emulating some attributes of Beaker ceramics.
The Northern English Cup assemblage defies the current perception that all Cups are perforated as 63% are not; fabrics are found to be locally sourced and not imported and a review of the typology finds a strong regional adherence to the Food Vessel and Collared Urn tradition. Association in the grave with larger Urns is not as common as once believed and Cups have been found as the solitary ceramic indicating that they were important in their own right.
Firing damage such as spalling has been interpreted as use of the funeral pyre for firing vessels prior to deposition with cremated remains and it is suggested that this is a recognisable signature of the cup tradition and therefore the name ‘funerary Cup’ is more appropriate.
An active cross country trade network can be inferred from distributions of metalwork, precious materials and an affinity in some cases to Irish cups.Prehistoric Society, Yorkshire Ladies Council for Education and the Andy Jagger Fund
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Paige, Bonnie E. "Open data portals in northern New England states." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/62894.
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As the United States transitions from the Obama administration’s engagement with open government data to the Trump administration’s more closed information strategies, the future support for federal open government data is uncertain. An alternative target for open data initiatives is state-level open government data portals. This study provides preliminary information
on state level open data, illustrating challenges faced by small, rural states in supporting an open data portal. The research investigates the current condition of state open data portals: whether their current form and the laws supporting them are sufficient to support their intended use. This
study also explores whether the effects of the national political climate can be seen on state portals. This research uses a case study approach, focusing on the northern New England states: Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. The case studies use four main methods of investigation: content analysis to determine the goals of the portal, consideration of the policies and context
influencing the portal based on the Open Data Policy Framework, inventorying of the data based on the Open Data Barometer, and a review of saved copies of the portals using the Internet Archive.
Based on these methods, we found that these portals fall short of supporting their stated goals. Problems with ambiguous licensing, unclear information organization, unclear project ownership, lack of support for data users, and minimal advertisement of the portal’s existence may have contributed to low citizen engagement with the portals. Portal data is vulnerable as none of the states currently have laws that ensure data will be open and proactively provided, although Vermont is considering such legislation. National politics may have an influence on state open data, as Maine’s portalceased updates two days before the federal election.
There is potential for those in the field of library and information science to contribute to state level portals through the provision of support for the knowledge organization and information literacy aspects of the portal that are currently lacking. This study also suggests that evaluative tools more specifically attuned to the state open data context would considerably strengthen the analysis of future research.Arts, Faculty of
Library, Archival and Information Studies (SLAIS), School of
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Haskett, Joshua P. "Hadrian's Wall : romanization on Rome's northern frontier /." [Boise, Idaho] : Boise State University, 2009. http://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/td/65/.
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Barrell, Andrew David Martin. "Papal relations with Scotland and Northern England, 1342-70." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/13584.
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In the period 1342-70 there were many points of contact between the Papacy and northern Britain. Papal taxes were numerous. Annates came to be the main source of revenue collected locally, but were hard to levy on account of difficulties in establishing liability; other taxes were paid with greater despatch. Examination of the careers of the papal collectors indicates both their power and the awkwardness of their position. Papal provisions were also numerous and affected a wide range of benefices. Expectative graces are examined, and success for a considerable number can be inferred. Some provisions led to bitter disputes, but many passed off smoothly, despite the existence in England of anti-papal statutes. These laws were all different in scope, but were enforced only where this suited leading laymen. Parliament was much more anti-papal than the government, even though in the 1340s diplomatic relations between England and the Holy See were poor on account of the king's actions against aliens beneficed in England. Although the powers of the royal courts were protected by this legislation, many benefice cases were heard at Avignon, and other disputes were settled by judges-delegate appointed by the pope. Analysis of papal contacts with the bishops shows how closely they were connected to the Holy See: most were appointed by the pope; they petitioned the pope for favours and were given many tasks to do in return. Even the regular clergy did not escape papal attention, although often the initiative came from monasteries who wanted confirmation of agreements or grants, or from individual religious who needed papal favour. Licences and dispensations were sought also by laymen, but more especially by clerks who were illegitimate, under-age or wanted to hold benefices in plurality. There is, however, little evidence of wantonness in the exercise of the papal dispensing power.
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Wrench, Robin. "Pastoral ministry and lay devotion in northern England : 1000-1200." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.397459.
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Fielding, Simon Harvey. "England and Englishness in the recent poetry of Northern Ireland." Thesis, Oxford Brookes University, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.444314.
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Harinarayana, Tirumalachetty. "Lithospheric electrical conductivity structure across Southern Scotland and Northern England." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/10936.
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Lawson, Kenneth E. "George Whitefield and the Great Awakening in northern New England." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1991. http://www.tren.com.
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Jones, Sarah Louise. "Sea-level changes in south east England and northern France." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2002. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/28591.
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The aim of the research was to provide new sea-level index points,with the intention of identifying any cross-channel similarities and comparing the results to geophysical models of relative sea-level change. The research successfully provided new sea-level index points from the Pevensey levels, East Sussex; the Canche Estuary, Pas de Calais and the Somme Estuary, Picardie, which were validated using stratigraphic pollen,diatom,foraminiferal snd AMS radiocarbon dating analysis. The results pointed to the presence of a coastal barrier thoughout the mid-Holocene at Pevensey and the Somme which complicated the pattern of coastal sedimentation observed at these sites. A clear pattern of barrier de-stabilisation can be seen to take place either side of the Channel c.3000 years cal BP. A cross-channel comparison identified three similar transgressive events either side of the English Channel, c. 5500, 3000 and 2200 cal years BP. The observed results from each site were then compared to the predicted data( Lambeck pers.comm) .in order to determine whether the observational data could be used to validate the modelled data. The comparisons showed that for the sites in south east England the modelled data tended to over-predict sea-level rise for the mid-t o late- Holocene whereas the model tended to under-predict sea-level rise for the sites in northern France. The new observational data which the research provided could be used to further validate Lambeck's (1990,1997) geophysical model. The effects of local coastal processes, such as tidal range, crustal subsidence and barrier-dynamics were used to aid the comparisons between the pattern of sediment deposition and thus the sea-level signals. These findings suggested that reconstructions should be restricted to sites at an estuary-sized scale.
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Schonberger, Benjamin (Benjamin Paul) 1970. "Locally grown : statewide land use planning in northern New England." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/9038.
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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2000.Includes bibliographical references (p. 116-120).
A popular movement against urban sprawl and its attendant problems has emerged in the U.S. over the last several years. The problems associated with sprawl are caused, at least in part, by local government fragmentation and uncoordinated land use decision making. Recognizing that local control has failed to manage growth in a coordinated and effective way, state governments have stepped in to intervene. Loosely organized under the banner of "Smart Growth," states are reasserting some of their power to encourage more orderly development and to resolve inter-local conflicts. Yet Americans also have a longstanding passion for local government and distrust of state intervention in land use decisions. Despite the failure of local governments to manage regional patterns of growth, citizens are reluctant to give back land use regulatory power to states. This project explores state growth management programs in the context of this central tension: the desire for local control and the need for greater-than-local solutions. Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont have similar demographic profiles but substantially different statewide land use planning programs. This study describes the history and politics of state-level planning in each state. Further, this study examines the effect of state policies by looking more closely at state planning's influence on one city in each of the states: Portland, Maine; Portsmouth, New Hampshire; and Burlington, Vermont. The case studies reveal that statewide planning programs in all three states are actually quite weak, and have suffered from inconsistent political support, erratic funding, and sporadic citizen opposition. Local control is an important counterweight to state action, but does not preclude effective state intervention. Besides land use planning, state tax and infrastructure policy play the most important role in influencing development patterns.
by Benjamin Schonberger.
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Merrett, Stephen Peter. "Historic flooding and valley floor development, Yorkshire Dales, Northern England." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2001. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.613420.
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Tickell, Shelley Gail. "Shoplifting in eighteenth-century England." Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2299/16335.
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Shoplifting proliferated in eighteenth-century England with retail expansion, acquiring a new prominence as it was made a capital crime. This study comprehensively examines this phenomenon, seating it within the historiographies of crime, marketing and consumption. The majority of offenders were occasional thieves, drawn from some of the most economically vulnerable sectors of plebeian communities, their profile confirming the significance of age and gender. While specialist shops were shoplifters' primary target, particularly those selling textiles and clothing, a spatial analysis suggests that thieves preferred smaller, local shops to their more prestigious counterparts. Shoplifters matched their tactics to the size and status of shop, using performance as a tool to achieve their ends. Yet the study questions assumptions around the influence of fashion and consumer desire on shop theft, discussing how the type and quantity of goods stolen points to more complex economic motives, both financial and social. The potential impact of the crime on women's role as shopkeepers and the tendency to sexualise female offenders are also scrutinised. While retailers were initially instrumental in driving legislative change and worked constructively with magistrates to control the crime's incidence, their constant reluctance to prosecute conveys a false impression of the crime's true extent. The study calculates prevalence, and projects the financial impact of shoplifting on its victims at a time of highly competitive retailing. 'Risk-based' in their thinking, retailers developed practical means of protecting their stores, while new marketing techniques proved variously a boon and handicap. Yet shopkeepers' reactions were not uniform, some apparently preferring such situational prevention, while others turned more readily to the law. This ambivalence was also exhibited in their engagement with the capital law reform that ultimately saw the repeal of the Shoplifting Act. Employing a variety of sources from court transcripts to literature, the study finally explores how changing social perspectives on crime during the period coloured public attitudes to shoplifting, foreshadowing reconfigured nineteenth-century perceptions of the crime.
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Pelletier, Janet M. "Hallowell, Maine; the historical landscape of a northern New England village." Ohio : Ohio University, 2005. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1125872882.
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McNamee, Colm J. "The effects of the Scottish War on Northern England, 1296-1328." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.304068.
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Driejana, Ir. "Wet and dry deposition in the Derbyshire Peak District, Northern England." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.390785.
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Gallagher, James. "Sedimentology, diagenesis and geochemistry of the Great Limestone, Carboniferous, northern England." Thesis, Durham University, 2011. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/790/.
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Yoredale type cyclothems of the Mid-Carboniferous of north east England were deposited as a result of glacio-eustatic fluctuations arising from waxing and waning of the Gondwana ice sheets present in the southern hemisphere. Rhythmic alternations of areas of maximum cyclothem thickness have been recognised in the Scar to Little Cyclothems which are attributed to localised differential subsidence, flexuring and uplift of the Alston Block of the northern Pennines. A detailed study of one cyclothem, the Great Limestone Cyclothem of the Alston Block, reveals that within the transgressive carbonates, the beds form two and a half thinning-upward to thickening-upward bed-sets with the individual beds and the bed-sets being correlatable across the region. Inevitable diagenetic alteration of the Great limestone has occurred and resulted in resetting of some initial geochemical values. However, it is proposed that in the case of δ18O and several trace elements their trends through the limestone do in fact track an original pattern, namely that of the bed-thickness pattern. It is suggested here that the cyclothems are attributable to the short eccentricity Milankovitch rhythm, the bed-sets, within the Great Limestone, to the range of either the obliquity and precession rhythms, with the beds in the Great Limestone being deposited in periods of the sub-Milankovitch millennial time-scales. The biostromes within the Great Limestone, the Chaetetes band, Brunton band and the Frosterly band are typical of shallow-marine environments as are all grains seen in thin-section analysis. All limestone beds are a similar bioclastic wackestone to packstone with no observable changes in the proportions of the various elements throughout the thickness of the Great Limestone.
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McClean, Stuart David. ""We're all individuals" : postmodernity and alternative health practices in Northern England." Thesis, University of Hull, 2003. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:5590.
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This thesis explores the use and practice of crystal and spiritual healing - therapies located on the fringe of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) - and what these 'represent' in the context of a profound socio-cultural transformation, characterised by the shift in Western societies from modernity to postmodernity. I explore this theme in relation to the empirical example of a healing centre in the North of England. The methodological stance I took was that of ethnography; data was largely gathered using participant observation. A central theme is that healing practice and ideas which emerge at the Centre reflect individual concerns and therefore healing practices themselves are often highly personalised. In addition, I explore how, from a Centre that celebrates highly personalised practices, healing knowledge becomes institutionalised and consensuses emerge. Furthermore, I explain that the Centre collectively sanctions this personal expression. This tension between individual expression and the formalisation of group practice is, I argue, indicative of our times. Therefore. what emerges from this study is that the Centre fosters an ethos of the individual, but it is a collective ethos. In addition, crystal and spiritual healing usage and practice reflects levels of dissatisfaction with biomedicine. the medicine of modernity. Though challenged by these healing practices, biomedicine has not been significantly weakened by this emergence. Even within the more esoteric healing practices, I point to the continuing influence of materiality, science and biomedicine. The appropriation of biomedicine can be witnessed in the Centre's attempts to professionalise and systematise practices, but it can also be seen in less obvious ways, in that healers seemingly infuse their practice with some of the language and science of biomedicine. This throws into question the conventional biomedicine/alternative medicine interface and offers some insight both into the common metaphorical basis of healing and medicine. and biomedicine's continued hegemony.
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Passmore, David G. "River response to Holocene environmental change : the Tyne basin, northern England." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.239149.
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Parr, Ronald S. "Development of magnetotelluric processing and modelling procedures : application to Northern England." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/12772.
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The magnetotelluric (MT) method is a geophysical technique which uses observations of the naturally occurring electromagnetic (EM) field variations to determine the electrical impedance as a function of frequency. Owing to the variable signal and often high level of noise contamination, it is usual to collect large numbers of observations and perform parameter regression in order to gain reliable estimates of this Earth response function. It is then transformed into more interpretable, albeit non-unique, resistivity versus depth models. In the course of this study, the processing, modelling and interpretation of MT observations from Northern England are considered. This includes previously unpublished data as well as a re-examination of spatially more extensive measurements which were acquired during earlier investigations. Existing MT field equipment has been adapted to allow local and remote reference observations to be collected and the results show that the amplitude of the impedance is contaminated by a lower level of noise induced bias. In addition, the resolution of the resulting model of the near structure can be enhanced by supplementary D.C. resistivity measurements. Considerable attention is focused on the development of new methods for processing and modelling MT observations. In particular, the background theory and implementation of a robust and constrained method for the estimation of the impedance is described in some detail. This method is demonstrated on real and synthetic unreferenced observations and shown to improve the consistency and the reliability of the resulting response function by reducing the level of noise contamination. One dimensional models are obtained for 42 MT response functions from Northern England. These are computed using a new 'exploratory' parametric technique which not only aims to find the best fitting model, but also to investigate its range of uniqueness. Additional, more interpretative modelling methods are also developed to improve the consistency of the models from adjacent sites. An experimental procedure which uses the constraining information provided by 2-D gravity model sections is also considered. At a subset of the sites over the Alston Block and the southern margin of the Northumberland Trough a strictly 2-D MT model is derived.
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Giovannini, Arianna. "UK devolution : the 'English Question' and the case of Northern England." Thesis, Leeds Beckett University, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.619257.
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In the context of political devolution within the UK, this thesis addresses the conundrum of the 'English Question', placing it within the discourse of English regionalism, accompanied by an empirical investigation of decentralisation measures in England. The North of England, being the only area where attempts were made at devolution in 2004, is the locus of the case-study supporting this. The timescale is largely 1997-2010, the years in which devolution policies were initiated across the UK. Chapter 1 sets out the methodology (an interpretative paradigm and qualitative enquiry) and its rationale. Chapters 2 to 5 contain the theoretical framework. Chapter 2 provides an overview of the creation of the UK and the pressure for devolution from the Celtic nations. Chapter 3 focuses on England, examining the question of Englishness; exploring the nature of territorial cleavages in the country; and proposing a new coreperiphery model. Chapter 4 examines the problems and political issues confronting any attempt at devolution within England. Chapter 5 considers the selected regional area, the North, identifying it as a 'vast region', analysing the north-south divide; and presenting the region. as one comprised of contested political spaces and divisions. Finally, chapter 6 contains the results of the empirical investigation; offering a full analysis of the progress and outcomes of the devolution experiment in the North of England. Adopting a political sociological perspective, this thesis focuses on the relationship between politics, territory and identity, and shows how the presence of core-periphery power-relations and territorial fractures are key to explaining the inception of devolution to the Celtic nations of the UK as well as the exclusion of England from this process. In England territorial cleavages have never been politicised and are overtly dismissed by the political centre - which is why the latter struggles to accommodate England within the devolution settlement. The analysis of the primary data collected in the North of England shows how the attitude of the labour Party together with the logic driving Whitehall's activity, endorse centripetal structures, and never conceived regional devolution as a means of passing political powers to the English regions, recognising their territorial distinctiveness. Top-down narratives of power in the approach to devolution in England are also mirrored in the way in which regional movements responded to proposals for regional assemblies. Taking the shape of elite-groups, they focussed on influencing the political centre, leaving behind the regional electorate. It is concluded that political regionalism could have been the best way to address the English Question - however, neither the centre nor the regional movements proved able to take up this challenge in full.
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Kitcher, Simon John. "Reconstructing palaeoenvironments of the White Peak region of Derbyshire, northern England." Thesis, University of Hull, 2014. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:10080.
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Sub-fossil pollen from Holocene tufa pool sediments is used to investigate middle – late Holocene environmental conditions in the White Peak region of the Derbyshire Peak District in northern England. The overall aim is to use pollen analysis to resolve the relative influence of climate and anthropogenic landscape disturbance on the cessation of tufa production at Lathkill Dale and Monsal Dale in the White Peak region of the Peak District using past vegetation cover as a proxy. Modern White Peak pollen – vegetation relationships are examined to aid semi-quantitative interpretation of sub-fossil pollen assemblages. Moss-polsters and vegetation surveys incorporating novel methodologies are used to produce new Relative Pollen Productivity Estimates (RPPE) for 6 tree taxa, and new association indices for 16 herb taxa. RPPE’s of Alnus, Fraxinus and Pinus were similar to those produced at other European sites; Betula values displaying similarity with other UK sites only. RPPE’s for Fagus and Corylus were significantly lower than at other European sites. Pollen taphonomy in woodland floor mosses in Derbyshire and East Yorkshire is investigated. Significant variations in tree pollen percentages within 1 metre quadrats of continuous moss cover are found, with micro-topography and aspect suggested as primary controls. Pollen taphonomy is investigated at the River Wye in Derbyshire to provide a context for the palaeoenvironmental study. The taphonomic model at the River Wye field site was found to be more similar to a small enclosed lake, contradicting the model proposed for open fluvial systems. Sub-fossil pollen evidence suggests that climatic change exacerbated by catchment-scale anthropogenic deforestation was the dominant mechanism influencing tufa cessation at both the White Peak field sites. The Monsal Dale field site is suggested as being in the early stages of degradation, and the Lathkill Dale field site suggested as representing the terminal stage of the tufa system shut-down.
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Dodds, Wendy. "Evaluation of coastal risk decision making in England, Wales and Northern Ireland." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2009. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/54901/.
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Coastal hazards and their associated risks are not new to coastal managers, engineers and planners. As an island nation the coast of the United Kingdom (UK) has been an attractive area for settlement for centuries. Consequently, a substantial proportion of urban development in the UK is at risk of flooding or coastal erosion. Traditional responses to coastal hazards across Europe have been based upon reactive, parochial hard engineering structural solutions in order to protect assets at risk. These practices have been predominantly sectoral due to fragmented institutional arrangements, with limited integration between the sectors of shoreline management and the land-use planning system. Additionally, historic coastal risk decision making has shown little understanding of the complexities of coastal systems. Whilst within contemporary coastal risk decision making, there is limited transparency as to the role of natural coastal change. Levels of uncertainty exacerbate the complex task of managing coastal risk, in particular in relation to the natural coastal change evidence base. Using a multiple-case study approach, decision making practices in relation to coastal risk in England, Wales and Northern Ireland were evaluated. Concomitantly, the role of the natural coastal change evidence base within these decision making processes was scrutinised. Research investigations were facilitated via the development of two distinct and innovative methodological approaches that framed and guided two semi-structured interview schedules and a number of documentary reviews. This deductive process included a case study selection hypothesis and a Research Strategy Model (with Empirical Indicators). Case study results established the complexities associated with coastal risk decision making, including historic, contemporary and likely future decision making practices. In particular, the range of decision makers involved and the hierarchical and framed nature of decision making were identified. Importantly, traceable coastal risk decision making relationships that exist temporally, spatially and sectorally were ascertained. Forcing factors or 'context issues' that influence these decision making practices were highlighted. It was further determined that the role of natural coastal change science, as part of the coastal risk decision making evidence is constrained. This was found to be due to a number of issues, including the perpetuation of the science-practice disconnect, aggravated by natural coastal change scientific uncertainty. Through analysis of empirical findings and consideration of the underlying case study hypothesis and previous construction of decision making, a conceptualisation of coastal risk decision making was developed. This seeks to convey hypothetical stages of coastal risk decision making pathways and convey the wider complex decision context, including intricate pathway connections. A revised suite of supporting Empirical Indicators allows for a structured and comprehensive assessment of decision making, and importantly, a mechanism by which to explore the role of science within coastal risk decision making.
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Danabalan, Renita. "Mosquitoes of southern England and northern Wales : identification, ecology and host selection." Thesis, Canterbury Christ Church University, 2010. http://create.canterbury.ac.uk/12114/.
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As early as 1901, ecological and epidemiological studies were conducted to understand malaria transmission in the UK. Unfortunately, following the eradication of malaria after WWII, ecological studies on local mosquito species has been intermittent, leading to a significant gap in knowledge of the current habitat preference, distribution and vector capabilities of the 33 recorded species. This lack of current information makes the assessment of possible transmission of enzoonotic diseases such as Chikungunya and West Nile virus in UK difficult. Thus the overall purpose of this thesis was to facilitate the identification of potential vector species through the documentation and characterisation of the ecology of adult and larval stages, and the host selection of British mosquitoes, in southern England and northern Wales. A total of 13 out the 33 documented species are assessed in this study. Of which members of the Maculipennis and Pipiens Group comprised the bulk of the adult and immature collections respectively. The development of the ITS2 PCR-RFLP assay in this study allowed the identification of the three members of the Maculipennis Group, which revealed the widespread occurrence of the recently documented An. daciae in almost all localities sampled. While previously published assays discriminating the Pipiens Complex, did not yield congruent results questioning the prior identification methods and the validity of the taxonomic status of its members. In addition, host-specific primers designed herein to determine host selection in local mosquitoes revealed an indiscriminate host selection by An. atroparvus, An. daciae, An. messeae and Cx. pipiens thus indicating their potential role as vectors in the UK.
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Wignall, Paul Barry. "The palaeoecology and sedimentology of the Kimmeridgian of England and Northern France." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.536551.
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The Kimmeridgian of England was characterised by the deposition of a widespread and frequently organic-rich mudrock formation, the Kimmeridge Clay. Significant lateral thickness variations are attributable to active faulting which is occasionally recorded within the sediments as a number--of earthquake-generated structures. The slowest subsidence rates occurred on the London platform and depositional depths increased away from this positive feature both to the north and the south. Organic-rich shales preferentially accumulated in the deeper basinal areas where the thickest sequences accumulated. Even in the deepest locations storms were able to influence the depositional environment. This is reflected by a range of tempestite beds and by the highly opportunistic character of the benthic fauna which responded to the brief storm-induced oxygenation events. Palaeocommunity analysis indicates that a number of variables were controlling the faunal distribution. Substrate consistency, environmental stability and oxygen levels all interacted to produce a diverse range of community types composed of a few euryoxic, opportunistic molluscs. A major change occurs in the middle of the Upper Kimmeridge Clay when softground faunas are replaced by firmground faunas. This appears to reflect a marked reduction in sedimentation rate related to a sudden increase in aridity at this time. Sandy marginal marine facies were developed on the London Platform throughout much of the Kimmeridgian; they are best seen at outcrop in the cliff sections of the Boulonnais. Facies range from shallow marine glauconitic sandstones with intensive bioturbation and a fauna of large bivalves, to shell-poor shoreface sandstones with well preserved sedimentary structures. Analysis of this latter facies indicates that storms and waves were the two principal sources of hydrodynamic energy. Tides were probably of negligible importance in the Kimmeridgian epeiric seas. Local cyclicity in the Boulonnais sediments appears to be due to small-scale fluctuations of narrow, nearshore facies belts; they are not related to the more ubiquitous shale: mudstone rhythms which characterise the offshore mudrocks. Investigation of eustatic sea level changes indicates a Jurassic highstand of sea level in the Lower Kimmeridgian followed by a slow progressive fall through the Upper Kimmeridgian. The highstand appears to have produced relatively deep water conditions in many epeiric settings throughout the world which led to organic-rich shale formation. Finer scale eustatic sea level changes are more equivocal although a highstand may have occurred in the Eudoxus zone. No substantiating evidence was found for the fine scale eustatic fluctuations recently proposed by the Vail team.
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Moores, Andrew John. "Palaeoenvironmental investigations of Holocene landscapes in the North Tyne basin, northern England." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/2211.
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The vegetation history of the North Tyne basin, northern England, is presented for an extended Holocene period, dating back to ca. 8000 cal. BC. This study focuses upon vegetation histories from two types of site, which record changes at differing spatial scales. The regional vegetation of the area is recorded within three radiocarbon-dated pollen diagrams from upland sites at Drowning Flow, Bloody Moss and Sells Bum. These sites provide a different perspective of regional vegetation history in comparison to existing published accounts from the region. This work also fills a spatial gap in current knowledge, by providing records from the area between Hadrian's Wall in the south and the Cheviots to the north for which only one previous site exists (Steng Moss: Davies and Turner, 1979). These regional records are complemented by the reconstruction of local, valley floor vegetation derived from organic-rich palaeochannel fills at Brownchesters Farm, Redesdale and Snabdaugh Farm, North Tynedale. These sites demonstrate how patterns of vegetation at local scales can provide valuable additional insights into former landscapes, valley floor land-use and human activity. Perceived problems of the usage of alluvial sediments for palynological investigation are discussed, while methodologies to overcome these difficulties are developed and the potential benefits of these contexts for vegetation reconstruction outlined. The unusually long and readily dateable alluvial record has also facilitated a new perspective on the timing and controls of Holocene fluvial activity in the North Tyne basin. The close integration of archaeological evidence with the results from this study has contributed to a number of debates concerning former human activity in the area. Palynological results suggest that the impact of Mesolithic and Neolithic societies upon the landscape has been underestimated; that postulated alterations in upland / lowland settlement patterns during the Bronze Age are a consequence of a fragmentary archaeological record rather than a response to changing environmental conditions; that Iron Age (and earlier) agricultural activity has been underestimated and that forest clearance was a gradual phenomenon with its origins in the Late Mesolithic and not primarily a result of activity associated with invading Roman forces.
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Hughes, David Bryn. "Geotechnical engineering applications in opencast coal mining : case studies from Northern England." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/858.
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Opencast coal mining using mechanical excavators has taken place in Northern England for over sixty years. In the early years the excavations for coal were relatively shallow and of limited area, typically less than 20 m deep and 50 ha in plan. Nowadays with the deployment of very large draglines and hydraulic shovels, opencast mines can be over 200 m deep and up to 1,000 ha in area. The investigations, excavations and earthworks failures associated with this activity have provided a unique opportunity to study several geotechnical engineering aspects of the drift and solid geology of Northern England, and how they impact on the mine planning, design and operations processes.
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Adams, William D. (William Dyer) 1964, and Shawn M. 1972 Hurley. "The viability of a private four-season resort in Northern New England." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/62945.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1999.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 64-66).
The avid New England skier is having increasing difficulty enjoying their sport. In the age of consolidation and rising costs, the New England ski industry is becoming overcrowded and less fun for the consumer. The ski industry throughout the country and particularly in New England has realized little growth over the past ten years. As a consequence small, marginal mountains have been forced to shut down with expectations of further closures in the near future. As a result, the major ski areas have expanded to accommodate as many skiers as possible, forcing thousands of New England skiers traveling north every weekend to the same overcrowded locations. Ticket lines, lift lines and cafeteria lines have grown to such uncontrollable lengths that it is unreasonable to expect more than a handful of full mountain runs on a holiday weekend at New England's larger resort areas. This thesis will study the potential for a private four-season resort in Northern New England featuring alpine skiing. This model will also incorporate other amenities such as cross-country skiing, a championship golf course, a full spa, fishing, hiking and biking trails, swimming, and tennis. High-quality second homes on the development site would also be an integral element to the club. The study will include trends in today's resorts and country clubs and will detail the cost of the development and operating expenses of this type of project. Finally, the report will present a case study of a location that may fit the needs of this club and discuss the aspects of the development at this site.
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Horsman, Frank. "Botanising in Linnaean Britain : a study of Upper Teesdale in northern England." Thesis, Durham University, 1998. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/983/.
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The Swede, Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778), introduced an artificial " Sexual System " of plant classification in 1735, and a binomial system of nomenclature in 1753. They made plant identification much easier. The Linnaean period in Britain lasted from 1760 until [1810-]1830. It is demonstrated that it was during this period that it was first recognised that an unusually high number of rare plants grow in Upper Teesdale. Most of the rare plants of the then very remote Upper Teesdale were discovered shortly after 1783 by William Oliver (1760-1816), alone. He was a surgeon and part of a medical dynasty. How he became a botanist, with his medical background, is examined in detail. He trained at Edinburgh but did not do botany. However, he knew John Hope, the Professor of Botany. Hope was one of only two people teaching the Linnaean system in Britain at this time. The appearance of Linnaean floras of Britain in English from the 1770's onwards made field botany accessiblet o anyone. Previously complex natural systems of plant classification and the use of Latin had restricted access. How Oliver's discoveries were made known is examined in detail. It involved Rev. John Harriman (1760-183 1) who was influenced by the Linnean Society of London, formed in 1788, and the Linnaean English Botany which began in 1790. H-e wanted to become a Fellow of the Linnean Society. James Edward Smith was President of the Linnean Society and an author, with James Sowerby, ofEnglish Botany. IV alic, ,j Lrf Edward Robson (1763-1813), a Quaker botanist and already an Associate of the Linnean Society, and his compilation: Plantae rariores agro Dunelmensi indigenae of 1798, and John Binks (1766-1817), an artisan botanist. Medicine made botanists of both Harriman and Binks, as well as Oliver. Linnaeus influenced the teaching of materia medica (the plant simples).
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Bharj, Kuldip Kaur. "Pakistani Muslim women birthing in Northern England : exploration of experiences and context." Thesis, Sheffield Hallam University, 2007. http://shura.shu.ac.uk/20627/.
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This study examines Pakistani Muslim women's experiences of labour and maternity services against a backdrop of the National Health Service and the history of Black people in Britain. It sets out to develop an understanding of how Pakistani women see their relationships with midwives and to address the paucity of available research about their intrapartum experiences. The study also aims to contribute to the development of responsive and sensitive midwifery care, and midwifery knowledge and theory. An interpretive ethnographic approach was adopted to obtain narratives from twenty-seven participants: thirteen primigravidae Pakistani Muslim women, nine interpreters and five midwives. The primary method of data collection was conversational qualitative interviews, although a small number of participant observations of women's labours were conducted. Content analysis was utilised for data analysis. The findings of this study reveal that many Pakistani Muslim women generally reported a positive experience of their encounters with maternity services. They valued western obstetric and midwifery services, believing that the midwives and doctors know best; they were grateful for the care they received. The study revealed that adequate and timely information, constructive relationships with the midwives, and support during labour were some of the key factors that shaped women's experiences of labour. Whilst some women expressed satisfaction in these areas, others voiced concern about the variable levels of availability of information, and consequently women laboured without, knowledge of the available methods of pain relief and processes of care during labour. The findings show that Pakistani women value emotional support in labour. A minority of these women were supported by their husbands or female relatives, and some received support from midwives. However for many, when support from midwives was not forthcoming, 'Allah' was the only available source of support. Other key factors highlighted were communication and linguistic barriers, and the role of perceived stereotypes and discrimination, which shaped the context in which women birthed as well as underpinning women's experience of maternity services. The study highlighted that whilst women's ability to speak English played a role in developing relationships with midwives, a lot depended on the attitudes and behaviours of the midwives, and the way they responded to the women. Resources such as interpreters, which may have assisted in overcoming some of the communication barriers, were found to be lacking. The study showed that midwives were the orchestrators of women's labouring experiences, manifesting 'power' in terms of influencing or controlling women, birthing events, processes and resources. Many women appeared to be passive recipients of care; they did not exercise choice and control over the care they received, and the majority did not perceive that they were able to work in partnership with the midwives. These findings are discussed in the context of the way in which service delivery is organised. In addition, the findings are very timely in view of the NHS Plan and the NSF's commitment to women having informed choice and individualised care.
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Welsh, Kirsty. "Multi-agency approaches to domestic violence in a county in Northern England." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2004. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/14845/.
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The thesis documents research on multi-agency approaches to domestic violence. The research has been conducted in a county in Northern England - fictitiously named Hillshire - and has focused on two areas in that county - fictitiously named Pittplace and Steel site. The researcher has been particularly interested in multi-agency domestic violence initiatives in Pittplace and Steel site and has sought to examine both what these initiatives are and what they mean. The research has had two main aims. First, to increase our understandings about partnership approaches, especially those focused on domestic violence, and, secondly, to examine whether the increasingly de rigueur collective action on domestic violence has brought change for women and their children. Arguing that research findings in Pittplace and Steel site raise issues that lead to the conclusion that multi-agency domestic violence initiatives are not making women and children safer and that partnership approaches have, in truth, made little difference - that there has been 'radical change but no change at all' - is the researcher's main aim in this thesis. The thesis develops through seven Chapters to the main conclusion on multi-agency domestic violence approaches - that there is a disassociation between multi-agency initiatives on domestic violence and service provision on domestic violence. Early Chapters highlight that initial responses to domestic violence were grounded in women's liberation but that more recent developments have occurred in the Home Office's crime prevention agenda and that, although the organizations responding to women and children are those that have their roots in the women's movement, developments on domestic violence are increasingly happening in Home Office crime prevention circles. The move to the multi-agency approach in such circles is also documented here. Early Chapters also highlight certain themes - attendance, structures, outcomes and power - that provide the basis around which the questions, topics and problematics for the empirical research are organized. Later Chapters set out the main findings in Pittplace and Steel site. Here, discussion focuses on the main issues raised in the empirical research that construct the researcher's main argument. These issues are again discussed under the four main themes of attendance, structures, outcomes and power. Each issue discussed under these themes is found to suggest either a disconnection in practice, a perceived disconnection or a caused disconnection between the initiatives researched and service provision on domestic violence. How these disconnections lead to the main conclusion that there is a disassociation between multi-agency initiatives on domestic violence and service provision on domestic violence and that such initiatives are not making women and children safer is examined as the thesis draws to a close.
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Lee, Martin Robert. "The sedimentology and diagenesis of the Raisby Formation (Z1 carbonate), northern England." Thesis, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/3631.
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The Raisby Formation is the basal Zechstein (Upper Permian) carbonate, that crops out in northeast England. It was deposited in environments ranging from shallow water, above wave base, into a deeper water carbonate slope. The shallow water sediments are skeletal wackestones and packs tones which contain some sandstone horizons, whereas those deposited in deeper waters are mudstones, incorporating resedimented carbonates of variable thickness and extent. Many slope sediments were lithified early, forming nodular horizons. These cements, dominantly high magnesian calcite and aragonite, also occluded intra-skeletal pores, and were followed by the precipitation of framboidal pyrite. Early lithification of slope sediments had a significant influence on their stability, and response to resedimentation. Much of the Raisby Formation which was deposited on lower parts of the slope, was removed during an episode of catastrophic slope failure close to the end of first cycle carbonate deposition. During early burial, some sediments which were lithified early, neomorphosed to low-magnesian calcite microspar, which at a few localities was accompanied by the formation of coarsely crystalline calcite concretions. At the same time, or slightly earlier, sediments which did not lithify early, and some of those which did, were dolomitized and replaced by gypsum and anhydrite. Replacement by both dolomite and calcium sulphates was directly related to the deposition of the Hartlepool Anhydrite Formation. During burial, following calcium sulphate precipitation, the formation was relatively diagenetically inactive. Patchy Cu-Pb-Zn mineralization may have resulted from thermochemical reduction of anhydrite, in association with methane, and base metal-rich fluids derived from the Palaeozoic basement. During Tertiary uplift of the formation, a meteoric aquifer was established, which led to dissolution and calcitization of dolomite, anhydrite, and gypsum, and the precipitation of calcite cements. The calcite cements are associated with different types of iron and clay minerals and internal sediments. Luminescence petrography and stable isotope geochemistry demonstrate that most calcitization and calcite cementation was concentrated in two areas of the aquifer; a distal zone where fluids of elevated temperatures calcitized dolomite, gypsum and anhydrite, and precipitated pyrite, marcasite, barite and fluorite, and a proximal zone in which calcite cementation and dolomite calcitization was driven by CO₂degassing of calcite saturated, oxic groundwaters.
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Nelson, Leslie B. "The Role of Forest Soils in a Northern New England Effluent Management System." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2002. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/NelsonLB2002.pdf.
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Curzon, John. "Whatever happened to the north of England? : the spaces of post-industrial northern England in contemporary television and film drama." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2009. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/3655/.
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This thesis examines the spaces of urban-industrial northern England within the context of post-industrial change. This work combines close textual analysis and an interdisciplinary approach, which includes an examination of sociological, economic and political contexts relating to de-industrialisation and the growth of the service economy. The thesis is organised into four chapters, each dealing with a different manifestation of northern space, including ‘The Red-Brick Terraced Street’, ‘The Council Estate’, ‘The Mill and the Mosque’, and ‘The Gentrified North’. I argue that within a range of texts, the representation of northern space reflects the fragmentation that is a key feature of both the post-industrial experience. Furthermore, it is argued that the gendered balance of northern representation has shifted, spatially and generically, back towards a feminine paradigm. Contrary to surface appearances, it is also argued that important elements of traditional hegemonic representations of northern space are seen to persist within the spaces of the new despite the fragmentation that characterises the post-industrial era.
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Eckley, Michael C. "Aesthetic Values of Five Primary Wood Transporting Methods Common to Northern New England." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2004. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/EckleyMC2004.pdf.
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Pieraccini, Margherita. "A legal pluralist analysis of upland commons in England, Wales and Northern Italy." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.512207.
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Gawthorpe, R. L. "Sedimentation, tectonics and diagenesis : the Dinantian sequence of the Bowland Basin, northern England." Thesis, University of Leeds, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.507544.
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Fraser, Alastair James. "The tectono-stratigraphic development and hydrocarbon habitat of the Carboniferous in northern England." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.262828.
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Abdullah, Nor Aini. "Epidemiology of cryptorchidism and hypospadias in the Northern Region of England 1985-2002." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.443095.
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McGrath, Peter Francis. "Vector relationships and disease epidemiology of barley yellow dwarf virus in Northern England." Thesis, University of Leeds, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.329146.
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Rincon, Saucedo J. Emmanuel. "Experimental investigations of the ecology of bryophytes in calcareous grassland in northern England." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.338839.
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Hollis, Catherine Elizabeth. "Burial diagenetic events, hydrocarbon emplacement and mineralisation in Dinantian limestones of northern England." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.260218.
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Published mineralogical and diagenetic studies of the Derbyshire Platform focus upon the source of Mississippi - Valley type (MVT) mineralising fluids and hydrocarbon deposits or upon the diagenetic history of the area. This study aims to integrate these fields by developing a complete model for the geochemical evolution of the Derbyshire Platform and the surrounding basins, in line with the regional Variscan tectonic history of the area and the controls this imposed upon fluid flow. The study area is compared to diagenetic events on the southern margin of the Askrigg Platform and the adjacent Craven Basin which are thought to have been contemporaneous with events on the Derbyshire Platform. A sequence of late diagenetic calcite cements can be recognised on the Derbyshire Platform within vein systems and cross cutting relationships between veins and variations in cement type illustrate there were several phases of cementation. On the Askrigg Platform, burial calcite cements can be identified within veins and intergranular pores. On both the Derbyshire and the Askrigg Platforms, burial calcite cements were contemporaneous with hydrocarbon emplacement and MVT mineralisation. Compacting Dinantian - Namuiran shales in basins adjacent to the Derbyshire and Askrigg platforms offer the most likely source of fluids. Trace metals, hydrocarbons and fluids were progressively released from overpressured basins onto the platforms along fault systems. Fluids circulated on the platform within minor faults and fractures. Restricted volumes of fluid were released from the basins during the waning effects of Carboniferous extension, but the onset of Variscan compression in the mid-late Westphalian led to reactivation of fault systems and massive dewatering of the basins onto the platform. A model can therefore be established relating fluid flow to Variscan tectonic events in northern Britain.
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Ellis, Anthony John. "'Handy lads' : an ethnographic research study of men and violence in Northern England." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2013. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/5150/.
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This thesis empirically explores the relationship between masculinity, identity and violent crime amongst a sample of white working class men. It draws upon in-depth ethnographic research conducted over a 12 month period in deindustrialised communities in Northern England. The author gathered detailed life history material from ten individual men who participated in repeated, in-depth, unstructured interviews. These life history interviews were supplemented with extensive periods of observation with some of the men, as well as other men involved in violence and crime. The thesis utilises contemporary critical criminological and psychosocial perspectives to theorise gender, identity, masculinity, subjectivity and violence under neo-liberal capitalism. The main arguments in the thesis are that masculine identity and subjectivity are products of pragmatic biographical experience, memory, and their on-going interaction with socio-cultural and economic conditions. The data indicates strongly that the men involved in this research have learned to value, and are committed to using, violence through being socialised in micro climates of acute marginality, insecurity and occasional brutality; where interpersonal violence and threats are encountered regularly from a young age. Such traumatic and humiliating experiences shape the habitus at a deeply profound level, and consequently recourse to violence becomes a habitual almost unconscious response to specific situations that are perceived as threatening, humiliating, or potentially so. Violent behaviour is reinforced through interaction with immediate marginalised masculine cultures that equate self-dignity and respect with an ability to physically defend and take care of oneself. In the broader contexts of de-industrialisation, aggressive neo-liberalism and post-political abandonment, male violence has become a personal resource. It provides a means for the participants to enforce a sense of moral self-righteousness against a perceived dangerous and unforgiving milieu populated by threatening, brutally instrumental 'others' seeking to harm and denigrate valued aspects of their symbolic identities.
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Green, Francis Joseph. "Small employment growth businesses and accounting support in the northern region of England." Thesis, Durham University, 2001. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/1233/.
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This thesis investigates small employment growth businesses and their use of accountancy support in the Northern region of England. Two separate and independent surveys of accountants and small business in the region are used to explore this issue. The thesis also uses three robust measures of growth. The thesis finds that small firms that experience fast employment growth are more likely to use government sponsored support rather than the support provided by accountants or other sources. This is a surprising finding, particularly as accountancy support is often identified as being the most common source of support for small firms. The thesis then goes onto to investigate if this is due to a demand side failure. The thesis finds little evidence of this. It also finds that the supply of accountancy services is constrained and accountants adopt a reactive rather than proactive approach to their clients. The implication of these findings is that there is evidence to suggest that there is a supply-side failure in the provision of accountancy services to fast growth businesses. This suggests that publicly funded provision of support to small firms who have experienced employment growth is important. It also suggests that accountancy practitioners may have to re-orientate their support they offer to such clients.
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Basten, Stuart Arthur. "Registration practices in Anglican parishes and dissenting groups in northern England, 1770-1840." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.612349.
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Longfield, Sean Anthony. "River response to recent environmental change in the Yorkshire Ouse basin, northern England." Thesis, University of Leeds, 1998. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/2756/.
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This study examines historical variations in flood frequency and magnitude in the Yorkshire Ouse basin, northern England, over the last 900 years. The causes of temporal and spatial variations in flooding are evaluated through investigation o f climatic and land-use controls. Documentary evidence o f flooding and climate suggests that a series of large floods between 1263 and 1360 were associated with climatic deterioration from the Medieval Optimum. A shift to generally milder conditions between 1361 and 1549 resulted in no floods being documented in the Ouse basin The frequency o f large magnitude floods increased dramatically between 1550 and 1680, as a result o f low temperatures, increased surface wetness, more frequent snowfall and a southward shift of prevailing storm tracks over middle latitudes, associated with the onset of the "Little Ice Age’. In contrast, during a wanner phase of the Little Ice Age, between 1681 and 1763, the frequency of localised summer flooding increased in the Ouse basin due to more frequent high intensity, short duration convective storms. Extensive lowland flooding became more common between 1764 and 1799 due to an increase in heavy rainfall, followed by a 50-year period characterised by relatively moderate flood frequencies and magnitudes. The later half of the nineteenth century experienced high flood frequencies and magnitudes, particularly in the 1870s and early-1880s, coinciding with high rainfall totals and a high incidence of cyclonic flood generation. Gauged flood and climate data, and land-use records indicate that the period between 1900 and 1916 was characterised by very low flood frequencies and magnitudes, associated with low rainfall, warm temperatures, and an increase in westerly flood generation. Between 1916 and 1943 there were marked variations in flood magnitude between the rural northern rivers and southern industrialised rivers. Magnitudes generally increased on northern rivers, whilst on some southern tributaries of the Ouse, flood magnitudes declined as a result of widespread channel improvement and flood defence schemes. Around 1944 a marked and sustained increase in flood frequency on northern rivers was associated with an increase in the incidence of heavy daily rainfall, greater westerly flood generation and large-scale upland and lowland drainage. Very low flood frequencies and magnitudes between 1969'and 1977 resulted from extremely low rainfall totals. Whereas the most recent period, between 1978 and 1996 has experienced some of the highest flood frequencies and magnitudes on record, associated with an increase in the frequency of floods generated under cyclonic and south-westerly synoptic situations, and a number of land-use changes promoting more rapid runoff including, large increases in upland livestock numbers, an increase in the area under winter-cereals and the cumulative effects of moorland gripping.
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Church, Kevin Donald. "Sequence Stratigraphy of Late Namurian (Marsdenian to Yeadonian) delta systems in northern England." Thesis, University of Manchester, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.504508.
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This study is the first regional synthesis and sequence stratigraphic interpretation of late Namurian delta systems in northern England to use subsurface data. The studied interval provides excellent regional coverage, both in terms of outcrop in the Pennines, and a detailed subsurface database produced during oil and coal exploration over the past 76 years, principally in the East Midlands and environs. Lithofacies analysis of outcrop sections, aided by gamma ray spectrometry, has enabled the interpretation of log facies from wireline logs and core data in the subsurface. Facies stacking patterns have been used to identify retrograding, aggrading and prograding parasequence. sets, key stratal surfaces and systems tracts. The correlation of well and outcrop sections is well constrained within a rigid biostratigraphic framework, defined by goniatite fauna within 'marine band' mudstones, which interfinger between each phase of delta progradation. Across the study area, up to 10 high frequency (fourth-order) depositional sequences are recognised within the Marsdenian-Yeadonian (late Namurian). Thick sandbodies have traditionally been assigned to a delta top, distributary channel environment. Although this may be true for some sandbodies (e. g. the Chatsworth Grit of the Widmerpool Gulf), others are interpreted to have formed during subaerial exposure and incision of the underlying highstand delta system, during relative sea-level fall (e. g. the Ashover Grit and Rough Rock of this study). The cutting out of marine bands by these incision events has important implications for the potential miscorrelation of these vital stratigraphic markers over uncored intervals and for the subsequent miscorrelation of sandbodies. The small thicknesses exhibited by transgressive systems tracts suggests that relative sealevel rises were able to markedly outpace sediment supply and were therefore probably rapid. Falling stage systems tract deposits are also likely to make up a significant component of some sequences, though difficulties in recognising the sequence boundary in well data hinders the separation of late highstand from falling stage systems tract progradation. Sequence thicknesses show systematic variation in the late Namurian, allowing the preferential development of particular systems tracts and preservation of particular stratal surfaces. Such sequences are grouped into sequence sets which were controlled by a longer period (third-order) cycle of relative sea-level rise and fall during the Marsdenian-Yeadonian. Additionally, these sequence set stacking patterns control the distribution of reservoir sandstones. In particular, incised valley fills, by cutting out permeability barriers and connecting sandstones of successive delta systems, will complicate the hydrocarbon play fairway. The juxtaposition of lowstand valley fill sandstones against highstand delta top sandstones also has important implications for reservoir geometry, continuity and heterogeneity. Palaeogeographical maps for selected systems tracts have been produced. These show that although the distribution and orientation of the major fluvial channels was initially influenced by differential compaction over underlying Dinantian syn-rift structures, this influence decreased during the late Namurian. Major fluvial channels, in addition to defining the distribution of delta top conditions, shoreline positioning and systems tract thickness, were instrumental in controlling sequence and sequence set architecture in the late Namurian. Laterally within each sequence, delta thicknesses and the degree of shoreline progradation may vary widely. The sequence stacking patterns observed are explicable in terms of relative sea-level fluctuation, though sequence stacking patterns were heavily influenced by variations in the sediment transport pathways. In some cases, sediment flux was so important that retrogradation in one area was contemporaneous with progradation in another. Quantification of sediment volumes, local basin subsidence and sediment compaction, and their application to the derived relative sea-level curve is clearly the way ahead if a better understanding of the controls on delta development is to be achieved