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2011-2012, Vol. 27
2011-2012 NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY PERSPECTIVES IN HISTORY VOLUME XXVII, 2011-2012 PERSPECTIVES IN HISTORY VOLUME Perspectives in History VOL. XXVII, 2011-2012 PHI ALPHA THETA ALPHA BETA PHI CHAPTER XXVIIPHI ALPHA THETA JOURNAL OF ALPHA BETA PHI CHAPTER OF PHI ALPHA THETA Officers Perspectives in Alpha Beta Phi Chapter History 2011-2012 James Lupo .................................President Ex-officio EDITOR Alexandra Barrett ......................President Kevin J. Leibach Caitlin Stylinski Hazelip ...........Vice President ASSISTANT EDITORS Matthew Chalfant ......................Treasurer Aaron Sprinkles Vincent Fraley ............................Historian Sheryn Labate Shane Winslow ..........................Secretary FACULTY ADVISOR Kevin Leibach .............................Journal Editor William Landon Kari Becker .................................Wellness Officer Perspectives in History is an annual scholarly publication of the Depart- ment of History and Geography at Northern Kentucky Unviersity (NKU). Opinions expressed by contributors do not necessarily reflect the views of the NKU Board of Regents, the faculty of the university, or of the student editors of the journal. Manuscripts are welcome from students and faculty in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Send all articles, essays, and reviews to: Northern Kentucky University History/Geography Department Highland Heights, KY 41099 This publication was prepared by Northern Kentucky University and printed with state funds (KRS 57.375). Northern Kentucky University is committed to building a diverse faculty and staff for employment and promotion to ensure the highest quality of workforce and to foster an environment that embraces the broad range of human diversity. The university is committed to equal employment opportunity, affirmative action, and eliminating discrimination. This commitment is consistent with an intellectual community that celebrates individual differences and diversity as well as being a matter of law. -
Australian Council for Educational Administration Reproductions
DOCUMENT RESUME ED 355 640 EA 024 741 AUTHOR Aldrich, Richard TITLE The Emerging Culture of Educational Administration: A UK Perspective. PUB DATE Jul 92 NOTE 19p.; Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Australian Council for Educational Administration (Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, July 5-8, 1992). PUB TYPE Speeches/Conference Papers (150) Viewpoints (Opinion/Position Papers, Essays, etc.) (120) EDRS PRICE MF01/PC01 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS *Administrative Change; *Administrative Organization; *Educational Administration; *Educational Change; *Educational History; Elementary Secondary Education; Foreign Countries IDENTIFIERS *United Kingdom ABSTRACT Organization of the United Kingdom's education system mirrors its political divisions; education is different and somewhat autonomous in each area: England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. The Department of Education and Science, based in London, oversees the English education system. Education in the United Kingdom has a longstanding foundation of voluntary provision based on the Church and private philanthropy. In recent years, local power in English education has been based in some 100 Local Education Authorities (LEAs). This has led to some wide disparities between educational systems. The educational system is divided into primary schools, secondary schools, and higher education. The overriding feature of all three parts is that historically they have not invested much in administration. The origins of educational reform can be traced to three sources: the oil crisis of 1973-74, Labour party views, and the Conservative radicalism of Margaret Thatcher. This Conservative educational view was implemented through a series of reform laws. It is still uncertain what the long-term effect of this reform period will be. However, the role of educational administration and administrators has been changed significantly, and local educational authorities have been depleted. -
Lord Cecil Parkinson 1
Lord Cecil Parkinson 1 Trade minister in Margaret Thatcher's first government in 1979, Cecil Parkinson went on to become Conservative Party chairman. He was instrumental in privatizing Britain's state-owned enterprises, particularly electricity. In this interview, Parkinson discusses the rethink of the British Conservative Party in the 1970s, Margaret Thatcher's leadership in the Falklands War, the coal miners' strike, and the privatization of state-owned industries. Rethinking the Conservative Party, and the Role of Keith Joseph INTERVIEWER: Let's talk about Margaret Thatcher during the '70s. After the defeat of [Prime Minister Ted] Heath, Margaret Thatcher almost goes back to school. She and Keith Joseph go to Ralph Harris [at the Institute for Economic Affairs] and say, "Give us a reading list." What's going on here? What's Margaret really doing? LORD CECIL PARKINSON: I think Margaret was very happy with the Heath manifesto. If you look at the Heath manifesto, it was almost a mirror image of her 1979 manifesto. All the things—cutting back the role of the state, getting rid of the nationalized industries, curbing the train unions, cutting of taxes, controlling public expenditure—it's all there. It's a very, very good manifesto. And I've heard her recently compliment him on the 1970 manifesto, which was a slightly sort of backhanded compliment, really. What troubled her was that we could be bounced out of it. We could be moved from doing the things which we knew were right and doing things which we secretly knew were wrong because of circumstances, and I think instinctively she felt this was wrong, but she didn't have the sort of intellectual backup, she felt, to back up her instincts. -
'Why Tories Won: Accounting for Conservative Party Electoral
'Why Tories Won: Accounting for Conservative Party Electoral Success from Baldwin to Cameron' Dr Richard Carr, Churchill College, Cambridge - 15 November 2012 [email protected] Thank you Allen for that kind introduction. Thank you too, of course, to Jamie Balfour and the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust for the support that enabled the research that I will lay out in part today. The research grant was extremely valuable for an early career academic – providing the means to support archival research that still informs my work some two years later, which has borne fruit in three of the articles that will be referred to at the bottom of the slides behind me, and in three monographs on twentieth century British politics I am due to publish in 2013. 6 publications and counting therefore owe part of their genesis to this grant, not withstanding the good work of my two sometime co-authors throughout this period, Dr Bradley Hart (a former PhD student here at Churchill College and current lecturer at California State University Fresno), and Rachel Reeves MP.1 By final way of preamble I must also thank the staff here at the Churchill Archives Centre, and indeed the Master, for various kindnesses over the years – not least in relation to a conference Bradley and I played a small role in coordinating in November 2010, during my By-Fellowship.2 So, today’s lecture is entitled ‘Why Tories Won: Accounting for Conservative Party Electoral Success from Baldwin to Cameron.’ Now, given Stanley Baldwin became Conservative Party leader in 1923, and David Cameron – Boris and the electorate permitting – seems likely to serve until at least 2015, that is quite an expanse of time to cover in 40 minutes, and broad brush strokes – not to say, missed policy areas - are inevitable. -
EUI WORKING PAPERS Access European Open Author(S)
Repository. Research Institute University European Institute. Cadmus, EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE EUI WORKINGEUI PAPERS on University Access Factional Strife and Vote Mobilization The Politics of Income Redistribution. European Open under Thatcher European Forum Author(s). Available R EUF No. EUF 99/10 o s a The 2020. © M in u lé Library EUI the by produced version Digitised Repository. Research Institute University European Institute. European University Institute Cadmus, 3 0001 0037 8611 0 on r University _________ Access _ .... im unii mi nil II European Open Author(s). Available The 2020. © in Library EUI the by produced version Digitised Repository. Research Institute University European Institute. Cadmus, on Mule: Mule: University The Politics of Income Redistribution. Income of Politics The Factional Strife and Vote Mobilization under Thatcher under Mobilization Vote and Strife Factional Access EUI Working PaperEUI EUFWorking 99/10 No. European Open WP WP 3 0 9 EUR Author(s). Available The 2020. © in Library EUI the by produced version Digitised Repository. Research Institute University European Institute. directed by Professors programmeMaurizio Ferreraon (UniversitiesThis ofWorking Pavia Paperand Bocconi,has beenMilano) writtenand in the context of the 1998-1999 European Forum Adopting a broad, long-term and comparative perspective, the Forum will aim to: Martin Rhodes (Robert Schuman Centre). sub-national and supra-national level; identify the various■ options for, and constraints on institutionalEuropean welfare reform; states; ■ and, more generally,■ outline the broad trajectories and scenarios ofchange. discuss the■ role of the various actors in promoting or hindering this reform at the national, scrutinize ■ the complex web of social, economic and political challenges to contemporary Cadmus, on University Access Recasting the European Welfare State: Options, Constraints, Actors, European Open Author(s). -
House of Lords Official Report
Vol. 749 Thursday No. 67 7 November 2013 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES (HANSARD) HOUSE OF LORDS OFFICIAL REPORT ORDER OF BUSINESS Introduction: Lord Bamford..............................................................................................................319 Questions Housing: Leaseholder Redress Schemes .......................................................................................319 Professional Standards Authority ..................................................................................................321 Mental Health: Cost of Living Support.....................................................................................323 Female Genital Mutilation ............................................................................................................325 Business of the House Motion on Standing Orders ...........................................................................................................328 Business of the House Timing of Debates..........................................................................................................................328 United Kingdom and China Motion to Take Note.....................................................................................................................328 Security Services: Supervision Question for Short Debate.............................................................................................................375 Armed Forces: Legal Challenge Motion to Take Note.....................................................................................................................391 -
AAKASH PATEL Contents
History AAKASH PATEL Contents Preface. 1 1. Dawn of Civilization. 2 Mesopotamia . 2 Ancient Egypt . 3 Indus River Valley . 5 2. Ancient Europe . 6 Persian Wars . 6 Greek City-States. 8 Rome: From Romulus to Constantine . 9 3. Asian Dynasties. 23 Ancient India. 23 Chinese Dynasties . 24 Early Korea . 27 4. The Sundering of Europe . 29 The Fall of Rome. 29 Building a Holy Roman Empire . 31 Islamic Caliphates . 33 5. Medieval Times . 35 England: A New Monarchy . 35 France: The Capetians. 42 Germany: Holy Roman Empire. 44 Scandinavia: Kalmar Union. 45 Crusades . 46 Khans & Conquerors . 50 6. African Empires . 53 West Africa . 53 South Africa. 54 7. Renaissance & Reformation. 56 Italian Renaissance . 56 Tudor England . 58 Reformation. 61 Habsburg Empires . 63 French Wars of Religion. 65 Age of Discovery. 66 8. Early Modern Asia . 70 Tsars of Russia . 70 Japan: Rise of the Shogun. 72 Dynastic Korea . 73 Mughals of India. 73 Ottomans of Turkey. 74 9. European Monarchy . 76 Thirty Years' War . 76 Stuart England and the Protectorate . 78 France: Louis, Louis, and Louis . 81 10. Colonies of the New World . 84 Pilgrims and Plymouth . 84 Thirteen American Colonies . 85 Golden Age of Piracy . 88 11. Expansionism in Europe. 89 Ascension of the Romanovs. 89 Rise of Prussia . 91 Seven Years' War . 92 Enlightenment . 93 Hanoverian Succession. 94 12. American Independence . 96 Colonies in the 18th Century . .. -
Conservative Economic Policy-Making, 1974-79
Farewell to prices and incomes policies: Conservative economic policy-making, 1974-79 Adrian Williamson University of Cambridge [email protected] CWPESH no. 9 Abstract: From 1960 to 1979, Prices and Incomes Policy (“PIP”) was central to Labour and Tory attempts to manage the economy. Since 1979, no Government has attempted direct controls on wages or prices. The Conservatives moved away from controls in the late 1970s. This paper considers two aspects of that change: the move away from PIP and the debates over joining the EMS. In the 1970s, the Conservatives were playing out in microcosm the central economic debates which had tormented policymakers since the 1960s and which were to preoccupy them throughout the 1980s and beyond. In contrast to the Wilson, Heath and Callaghan governments, they were moving away from PIP but they were doing so uncertainly. By default, they decided that markets should fix wages and prices, but with a little discreet assistance from a ‘forum’. Whether that would turn back into PIP remained to be seen. They embarked upon, but did not resolve, a key question that then arose: should economic management depend upon close linkage with Europe and the Deutschmark? Or was the UK to be a monetarist island, ‘entire of itself’? It is tempting to think that the abandonment of PIP, and British refusal to join the EMS, were inevitable. But this is not so. By 1979, the Conservatives had posed many questions about inflation, but they had arrived at very few answers. 2 Introduction Between about 1960 and 1979, Prices and Incomes Policy was a central feature of attempts by successive British Governments, of both parties, to manage the economy. -
Crown Copyright Catalogue Reference
(c) crown copyright Catalogue Reference:CAB/128/36 Image Reference:0061 THIS DOCUMENT IS THE PROPERTY OF HER BRITANNIC MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT Printed for the Cabinet. October 1962 CC. (62) Copy No. 45 61st Conclusions CABINET CONCLUSIONS of a Meeting of the Cabinet held at Admiralty House, S.W. I. on Tuesday, 23rd October, 1962, at 10.30 a.m. Present: The Right Hon. HAROLD MACMILLAN, M.P., Prime Minister The Right Hon. R. A. BUTLER, M.P., I The Right Hon. THE EARL OF HOME, First Secretary of State Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Items 1-6) The Right Hon. VISCOUNT HAILSHAM, j The Right Hon. LORD DILHORNE, Lord Q.C., Lord President of the Council j Chancellor and Minister for Science i The Right Hon. REGINALD MAUDLING, The Right Hon. HENRY BROOKE, M.P., M.P., Chancellor of the Exchequer Secretary of State for the Home Department The Right Hon. DUNCAN SANDYS, M.P., The Right Hon. IAIN MACLEOD, M.P., Secretary of State for Commonwealth Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Relations and Secretary of State for the Colonies (Items 1-3) The Right Hon. PETER THORNEYCROFT, The Right Hon. JOHN HARE, M.P., M.P., Minister of Defence Minister of Labour The Right Hon. ERNEST MARPLES, M.P., The Right Hon. CHRISTOPHER SOAMES, Minister of Transport M.P., Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food The Right Hon. JOHN BOYD-CARPENTER, The Right Hon. MICHAEL NOBLE, M.P. M.P., Chief Secretary to the Treasury Secretary of State for Scotland and Paymaster General The Right Hon. -
Evidence Versus Ideology in Education Policy
Educar 34 001-176 7/1/05 13:08 Página 53 Educar 34, 2004 53-70 Evidence versus ideology in education policy; the recent history of initial teacher education in England and Wales and the implications for educational researchers as agents of change Terry Haydn University of East Anglia. School of Education and Professional Development Norwich NR4 7TJ [email protected] Resum En els últims trenta anys, hem assistit a una reconsideració radical de la manera com els llicenciats universitaris han estat iniciats en l’ensenyament a Anglaterra i Gal·les. Malgrat que es tracti d’un breu espai de temps, és possible discernir un canvi significatiu en la mane- ra com s’ha tractat de portar a terme un canvi en aquest aspecte de l’educació. Els anys vuitanta es van caracteritzar per una prudent i gradual evolució cap a un sis- tema «d’associació» entre les escoles i les universitats. Els estudiants ocupaven més temps d’ins- trucció a l’escola que no pas a la universitat. Més recentment, l’acostament a l’escola com a base de la formació va ser redefinit des d’un model precipitat i poc consensuat d’acredi- tació segons «competències». El contrast amb les anteriors modalitats de formació de mes- tres a Anglaterra i Gal·les és encara més notable. L’article subratlla els canvis d’enfocament en la reforma de l’etapa inicial de l’educació de mestres a Anglaterra i Gal·les, així mateix, considera les implicacions derivades dels dits canvis per a aquells que es dediquen a la inves- tigació educativa. -
Saturday, November 20, 2010 S a T U R D
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2010 7:30 AM to 9:30 AM Minority Scholars’ Committee Mentoring Breakfast Grand Hyatt: Lone Star B 8:00 AM to 9:45 AM K–16 Collaboration Committee Teachers Welcome Breakfast San Antonio Convention Center: Room 214D 8:00 AM to 9:45 AM Business Meeting of the Science and Technology Caucus Grand Hyatt: Travis CD 8:00 AM to 9:45 AM This Way Out: Deportation and Crises of Migrant Subjectivity San Antonio Convention Center: Room 207A CHAIR: David Gutierrez, University of California, San Diego (CA) PARTICIPANTS: Rachel I. Buff, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (WI) S Alliances at Sea: Foreign Born Seamen and the Emergence of Immigrant Rights Discourse, A 1945–1949 T Shirley S. Tang, University of Massachusetts, Boston U (MA) R Diasporic Cultural Citizenship: Place and Identity D in Cambodian Refugee Migration and Deportation Experiences A Monisha Das Gupta, University of Hawai‘i, Manoa Y (HI) Don’t Deport Our Daddies: Gendering State Deportation Practices and Antideportation Organizing COMMENT: Carol A. Stabile, University of Oregon (OR) 147 SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2010 8:00 AM to 9:45 AM The Roundtable 2.0: A Reconfigured Conference Session for the Digital Humanities San Antonio Convention Center: Room 212B CHAIR: Michael Coventry, Georgetown University (DC) PANELISTS: Susan Smulyan, Brown University (RI) Susan Garfinkel, Library of Congress (DC) David Lester, University of Maryland, College Park (MD) Michael Coventry, Georgetown University (DC) 8:00 AM to 9:45 AM Restoring the Local to the Transnational: Race, Ethnicity, -
Conservative Party Leadership Strategy and the Legacy of Thatcherite Conservatism, 1997-2005
Conservative Party Leadership Strategy and the Legacy of Thatcherite Conservatism, 1997-2005 A dissertation submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Richard Hayton Department of Politics, University of Sheffield September 2008 Acknowledgements Doctoral studies are wasted on PhD students. It is a great privilege to spend three (or even four!) years of one's life in academic self-indulgence, an honour not fully appreciated until one re-emerges, slightly bleary-eyed, back into the real world. It is an even greater privilege to get paid for it. For that I am most grateful to the anonymous referees at the University of Sheffield, who deemed a proposal on contemporary conservatism of sufficient value to award me a University Studentship, ahead, I suspect, of much more worthy applications. Sarah Cooke was instrumental in putting together the original funding application whilst I was thousands of miles away, and I am most grateful for her hard-work then and for all of her assistance since. Friends and colleagues in the Department of Politics at Sheffield have helped to make it a most conducive place to pursue postgraduate study. Too numerous to list in full here, those that spring to mind particularly include (in alphabetical order) Craig Berry, Matt Bishop, Dion Curry, Glenn Gottfried, Carissa Honeywell, Olalla Linares Segade, Vas Leontitsis, Robert McIlveen, Tim Montgomerie, Andrew Mumford, Bona Muzaka, Michael Neu, Ben Richardson, Louise Strong, and Adam White. Mike Kenny has been an invaluable intellectual support over the past three years, both directly through his comments on sections of this thesis, and much more widely through the other research projects we have pursued together.