The Coal Mining Industry of Sheffield and North East Derbyshire

The Coal Mining Industry of Sheffield and North East Derbyshire

Author: Ken Wain

Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited

Published: 2014-06-15

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13: 1445639750

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Once employing thousands, with many collieries dotted all over the area, coal mining in the East Midlands has all but gone. Once tens of thousands depended on mining. Ken Wain tells the story of mining, its triumphs and disasters.


The Coal Mining Industry in Barnsley, Rotherham and Worksop

The Coal Mining Industry in Barnsley, Rotherham and Worksop

Author: Ken Wain

Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited

Published: 2014-09-15

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 1445639777

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Once employing thousands, with many collieries dotted all over the area, coal mining in the East Midlands has all but gone. Once tens of thousands depended on mining. Ken Wain tells the story of mining, its triumphs and disasters.


City-Regions in Prospect?

City-Regions in Prospect?

Author: Kevin Edson Jones

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2015-09-01

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 0773597794

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How should the metropolis be governed? What is the appropriate scale to consider and organize local governance and communities? Bringing together an interdisciplinary and international body of scholarly work, City-Regions in Prospect? explores the city-region as both an evolving concept and as a growing area of planning practice. Contributors raise critical questions about the ways in which governance reform is being reshaped and whether current trends towards rescaling and rebounding cities actually address local challenges of urbanization and globalization. These essays highlight the tensions and uncertainties between the city-region as a concept and the experiences of local communities when municipal policies are applied. Proposing a challenge to scholars and municipal leaders to account for flexibility, adaptability to local contexts, social robustness, and community engagement, City-Regions in Prospect? Captures the growing relevance and importance of cities in a rapidly urbanizing world.


Constructing Narratives of Continuity and Change

Constructing Narratives of Continuity and Change

Author: Hazel Reid

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-08-27

Total Pages: 203

ISBN-13: 1317909291

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In this volume, academics and researchers across disciplines including education, psychology and health studies come together to discuss personal, political and professional narratives of struggle, resilience and hope. Contributors draw from a rich body of auto/biographical research to examine the role of narrative and how it can be constructed to compose a life story, considering the roles of significant others, inspirational, educational and fictional characters, and those in myth and legend. The book discusses how personal narrative, often neglected in social and psychological enquiry, can be a valuable resource across a range of settings. Reference is made to the evolving role of narrative in education and health care, medicine and psychotherapy. This includes how particular narratives are hardwired into culture in ways that stifle personal and social understanding. Rather than providing a ‘how to’ guide, the book illustrates the range and power of narrative, including poetry, to re-awaken senses of self and agency in extremis. Each chapter draws on specific research, describing the context, explaining the methodology, and illuminating important findings. Discussing implications for research and practice, this book will be key reading for postgraduate and doctoral students in auto/biographical and narrative studies, and across a range of disciplines, including education, health and social care, politics, counselling and psychotherapy. It will be of interest to academics teaching research methods, and those developing biographical and auto/biographical narrative research.


Economic Policy-Making by Local Authorities in Britain and Western Germany

Economic Policy-Making by Local Authorities in Britain and Western Germany

Author: Nevil Johnson

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2017-06-14

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 1351847333

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Originally published in 1981 but now with a new preface, this volume provided the first detailed comparative analysis of how local authorities in the UK and W. Germany faced up to the challenge of trying to help local industry and improve employment prospects. Based on the results of case-studies the book considers the powers and resources available to local authorities and examines how the authorities are organized for this type of economic activity. The authors' analysis of the interplay of political and administrative factors will be particularly important for student and professionals in comparative public policy and public finance. The study shows how economic policy making in local government is constrained both by the higher levels of government in both countries and by the conditions in the economy operating both locally and nationally.


Community Work and Adult Education in Staveley, North-East Derbyshire, 1969–1972

Community Work and Adult Education in Staveley, North-East Derbyshire, 1969–1972

Author: Colin Kirkwood

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-01-29

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13: 900441231X

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Community Work and Adult Education in Staveley, North-East Derbyshire celebrates and evaluates the collaboration of Colin Kirkwood, Bob Thomas and the people of Staveley in the early 1970s, drawing on letters, interviews, poems, issues of the local newspaper Staveley Now and reports and articles written at the time.


British Upper Carboniferous Stratigraphy

British Upper Carboniferous Stratigraphy

Author: C.J. Cleal

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-03-09

Total Pages: 335

ISBN-13: 9401105871

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This volume summarizes the results of a survey of British Upper Carboniferous sites, undertaken between 1978 and 1990 as part of the Geological Conservation Review (GCR). The GCR was the first attempt to assess the scientific significance of all Britain's geological sites and has proved a landmark in the development of a coherent geological conservation strategy in this country. To ensure that the assessments were based on a firm logical and scientific foundation, the range of scientific interest was divided into ninety-seven discrete subject 'blocks', reflecting the natural divisions of stratigraphy, palaeogeography and geological process; Westphalian stratigraphy and Namurian stratigraphy were two of these blocks. The first stage in the survey was a review of the literature, to establish a compre hensive database of sites. From this, a provisional list of potentially significant sites was made and this was circulated to all relevant specialists in this country and abroad. At the same time, the sites were visited to assess their physical condition and whether the interest was still extant. In some cases, excavation (so-called 'site-cleaning') was carried out to see if the interest of a site could be resurrected or enhanced. The com ments made by the specialists and the field observations were then used to produce a second site list, which again was circulated for comment.