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MS 315 A1076 Papers of Clemens Nathan Scrapbooks Containing
1 MS 315 A1076 Papers of Clemens Nathan Scrapbooks containing newspaper cuttings, correspondence and photographs from Clemens Nathan’s work with the Anglo-Jewish Association (AJA) 1/1 Includes an obituary for Anatole Goldberg and information on 1961-2, 1971-82 the Jewish youth and Soviet Jews 1/2 Includes advertisements for public meetings, information on 1972-85 the Middle East, Soviet Jews, Nathan’s election as president of the Anglo-Jewish Association and a visit from Yehuda Avner, ambassador of the state of Israel 1/3 Including papers regarding public lectures on human rights 1983-5 issues and the Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, the Middle East, human rights and an obituary for Leslie Prince 1/4 Including papers regarding the Anglo-Jewish Association 1985-7 (AJA) president’s visit to Israel, AJA dinner with speaker Timothy Renton MP, Minister of State for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office; Kurt Waldheim, president of Austria; accounts for 1983-4 and an obituary for Viscount Bearsted Papers regarding Nathan’s work with the Consultative Council of Jewish Organisations (CCJO) particularly human rights issues and printed email correspondence with George R.Wilkes of Gonville and Cauis Colleges, Cambridge during a period when Nathan was too ill to attend events and regarding the United Nations sub- commission on human right at Geneva. [The CCJO is a NGO (Non-Governmental Organisation) with consultative status II at UNESCO (the United National Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation)] 2/1 Papers, including: Jan -Aug 1998 arrangements -
Local Government in London Had Always Been More Overtly Partisan Than in Other Parts of the Country but Now Things Became Much Worse
Part 2 The evolution of London Local Government For more than two centuries the practicalities of making effective governance arrangements for London have challenged Government and Parliament because of both the scale of the metropolis and the distinctive character, history and interests of the communities that make up the capital city. From its origins in the middle ages, the City of London enjoyed effective local government arrangements based on the Lord Mayor and Corporation of London and the famous livery companies and guilds of London’s merchants. The essential problem was that these capable governance arrangements were limited to the boundaries of the City of London – the historic square mile. Outside the City, local government was based on the Justices of the Peace and local vestries, analogous to parish or church boundaries. While some of these vestries in what had become central London carried out extensive local authority functions, the framework was not capable of governing a large city facing huge transport, housing and social challenges. The City accounted for less than a sixth of the total population of London in 1801 and less than a twentieth in 1851. The Corporation of London was adamant that it neither wanted to widen its boundaries to include the growing communities created by London’s expansion nor allow itself to be subsumed into a London-wide local authority created by an Act of Parliament. This, in many respects, is the heart of London’s governance challenge. The metropolis is too big to be managed by one authority, and local communities are adamant that they want their own local government arrangements for their part of London. -
Economics Annual Review 2018-2019
ECONOMICS REVIEW 2018/19 CELEBRATING FIRST EXCELLENCE AT YEAR LSE ECONOMICS CHALLENGE Faculty Interviews ALUMNI NEW PANEL APPOINTMENTS & VISITORS RESEARCH CENTRE BRIEFINGS 1 CONTENTS 2 OUR STUDENTS 3 OUR FACULTY 4 RESEARCH UPDATES 5 OUR ALUMNI 2 WELCOME TO THE 2018/19 EDITION OF THE ECONOMICS ANNUAL REVIEW This has been my first year as Head of the outstanding contributions to macroeconomics and Department of Economics and I am proud finance) and received a BA Global Professorship, will and honoured to be at the helm of such a be a Professor of Economics. John will be a School distinguished department. The Department Professor and Ronald Coase Chair in Economics. remains world-leading in education and research, Our research prowess was particularly visible in the May 2019 issue of the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and many efforts are underway to make further one of the top journals in the profession: the first four improvements. papers out of ten in that issue are co-authored by current colleagues in the Department and two more by We continue to attract an extremely talented pool of our former PhD students Dave Donaldson and Rocco students from a large number of applicants to all our Macchiavello. Rocco is now in the LSE Department programmes and to place our students in the most of Management, as is Noam Yuchtman, who published sought-after jobs. This year, our newly-minted PhD another paper in the same issue. This highlights how student Clare Balboni made us particularly proud by the strength of economics is growing throughout LSE, landing a job as Assistant Professor at MIT, one of the reinforcing our links to other departments as a result. -
Feminist Myths and Magic Medicine: the Flawed Thinking Behind Calls for Further Equality Legislation
Catherine Hakim Feminist myths and magic medicine: the flawed thinking behind calls for further equality legislation Discussion paper [or working paper, etc.] Original citation: Hakim, Catherine (2011) Feminist myths and magic medicine: the flawed thinking behind calls for further equality legislation. Centre for Policy Studies, London, UK. This version available at: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/36488/ Originally available from Centre for Policy Studies Available in LSE Research Online: June 2011 © 2011 Catherine Hakim LSE has developed LSE Research Online so that users may access research output of the School. Copyright © and Moral Rights for the papers on this site are retained by the individual authors and/or other copyright owners. Users may download and/or print one copy of any article(s) in LSE Research Online to facilitate their private study or for non-commercial research. You may not engage in further distribution of the material or use it for any profit-making activities or any commercial gain. You may freely distribute the URL (http://eprints.lse.ac.uk) of the LSE Research Online website. FEMINIST MYTHS AND MAGIC MEDICINE MYTHS ANDMAGIC FEMINIST Equal opportunity policies in the UK have been successful. Despite this, many politicians and feminists still treat sex diff erences as self-evident proof of widespread sex discrimination and sex-role stereotyping rather than the result of personal choices and preferences. Yet feminist demands for further change rest on faulty assumptions and Feminist Myths and Magic Medicine outdated or partial evidence. For the latest academic research shows that most of the theories and ideas built up around gender equality in The fl awed thinking behind calls for further equality legislation the last few decades are wrong. -
Rencontre Européenne Nb. 8 Peter Sutherland
41, boulevard des Capucines - 75002 Paris – France Tel. : +33 1 44 58 97 97/98 - Fax : +33 1 44 58 97 99 Site : www.notre-europe.eu - email : [email protected] RENCONTRE EUROPÉENNE NB. 8 PETER SUTHERLAND JUNE 2008 ‘To be truly Irish we have to be European first’ ‘We need the European Union to bind us to other people’ Peter Sutherland The Spire and statue of Jim Larkin on O’Connell Street Interview with Peter Sutherland A fervently pro-European Irishman, Peter Sutherland has held important political mandates in his country, as well as at the European and international level. He was appointed Attorney General of Ireland in the governments of Garret FitzGerald, before becoming European Commissioner for Competition in the first Delors Commission (1985-89). He subsequently became Director General of GATT (now WTO). Peter Sutherland is currently serving as Chairman of BP, of Goldman Sachs International and is the UN Special Representative for Migration. We met him at his house in Dublin, prior to the Irish referendum on the Lisbon Treaty. What made you such a convinced European? From a very early stage, as a university student already, I was a committed European. We could see at first hand in this country the enormous suffering created by extreme nationalism which in turn was a reaction to injustice. Nationalism – often combined with religion, as was the case in Northern Ireland – has often led to conflict throughout history. According to one opinion poll I saw years ago the Irish are the proudest people of all; they have the greatest sense of their own nationality. -
P111,3 Peter Sutherland.Indd
UNCTAD XII Free trade and the global economy INTERVIEW WITH PETER SUTHERLAND CHAIRMAN, GOLDMAN SACHS INTERNATIONAL AND CHAIRMAN, BP PLC Can global free trade ever benefit both the do not believe provide the same security for global developing and developed worlds equally? trade and which will create difficulties in terms of the Well over a billion people have been lifted out of poverty mixed bag of access arrangements that will follow, globally in the last ten years, out of a total population of particularly for small and medium sized industries. just over five billion. That’s never happened before in Such agreements do not provide the same security or the history of mankind and it has come about, primarily have the same authority as the WTO, which in effect in Asia, as a benefit of globalisation and free trade. As for provides a quasi-judicial mechanism for adjudicating those who have not been beneficiaries of global trade, it is on disputes with global authority. Whereas with most not that global trade agreements are negatively affecting bilateral arrangements, particularly between the them, it is that globalisation is passing them by. Why? developed and the developing countries, the cards are PETER SUTHERLAND Because they neither have the physical nor the human stacked in favour of the developed countries because of is Chairman of BP plc infrastructure, in terms of education and so on, to enable their enhanced power of negotiation, and the absence since 1997 and Chairman them to be part of it. After all globalisation really is, and of a credible adjudication mechanism. -
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS for the Year Ended 31 July 2015 CONTENTS
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS for the year ended 31 July 2015 CONTENTS 2 Report of the Chairman of the Court of Governors 3 Report of the Director of the School 4-16 Report of the Directors 17-19 Accounting Policies 20 Consolidated Income and Expenditure Account 21 Statement of Total Recognised Gains and Losses 22 Balance Sheets 23 Consolidated Cash Flow Statement 24-39 Notes to the Accounts 40 Five Year Group Financial Summary 41-44 Corporate Governance and Internal Control Statement 45 Environmental Policy 46 Endowment Investment Performance 47 Report of the Auditors 49 Directors of the School and Members of the Council REPORT OF THE CHAIRMAN OF THE COURT OF GOVERNORS I am delighted to have been appointed Chairman of the LSE. It would be a privilege 2 at any time to be associated with such a prestigious educational establishment, but these are especially exciting times, as the School celebrates the 120th anniversary of its foundation. I am committed to ensuring that during my tenure the School remains focused and ambitious in its commitment to its core mission, delivering world- class teaching, research and public engagement. I am exceedingly grateful to my predecessor, Peter Sutherland, for his dedicated service to the School as Chairman, and trust that he remains a friend to us following his retirement, and despite his extensive and prestigious portfolio of continuing responsibilities. Since taking up my role in February, I have instituted a full-scale review As ever, the School has put on an enviable programme of public lectures of governance, to ensure that everyone within and outside the School and events, and among other illustrious speakers we welcomed this year community understands and respects the workings of the institution. -
The Origins and Development of the Fabian Society, 1884-1900
Loyola University Chicago Loyola eCommons Dissertations Theses and Dissertations 1986 The Origins and Development of the Fabian Society, 1884-1900 Stephen J. O'Neil Loyola University Chicago Follow this and additional works at: https://ecommons.luc.edu/luc_diss Part of the History Commons Recommended Citation O'Neil, Stephen J., "The Origins and Development of the Fabian Society, 1884-1900" (1986). Dissertations. 2491. https://ecommons.luc.edu/luc_diss/2491 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Theses and Dissertations at Loyola eCommons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Loyola eCommons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License. Copyright © 1986 Stephen J. O'Neil /11/ THE ORIGINS AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE FABIAN SOCIETY, 1884-1900 by Stephen J. O'Neil A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Loyola University of Chicago in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy August 1986 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This work is the product of research over several years' span. Therefore, while I am endebted to many parties my first debt of thanks must be to my advisor Dr. Jo Hays of the Department of History, Loyola University of Chicago; for without his continuing advice and assistance over these years, this project would never have been completed. I am also grateful to Professors Walker and Gutek of Loyola who, as members of my dissertation committee, have also provided many sug gestions and continual encouraqement in completing this project. -
1 Traffic in Corpses: Interment, Burial Fees and Vital Registration In
Traffic in corpses: interment, burial fees and vital registration in Georgian London Working Paper, 11th August 2010 Jeremy Boulton, Newcastle University1 Sometimes the simplest historical questions are the hardest to answer. One very simple question, of particular interest to historical demographers, is this: can we ever know the true number of people who died in any one locality in any one year? This apparently mundane question is not merely vitally important to demographers, it is of interest to anyone searching for a death record in the past and should also interest the increasing number of scholars studying the social and cultural history of death and dying.2 This may, at first blush, also seem a daft question. Many might assume that any community with a surviving parish register of reasonable quality has a reliable record of all local deaths. This of course would be incorrect: those burying their dead without the rites of the Church of England would be omitted. Many Anglican parish registers also omitted, or recorded only sporadically, „stillborn‟3 children and a proportion of those dying in the first few days of life. The overall rate of under-registration of deaths by Anglican burial registers caused by religious non conformity/non observance and delayed baptism was estimated long ago by Wrigley and Schofield. In sum, at the national level, they estimated that, the number of burials in Anglican registers represented the number of deaths with one hundred percent accuracy until 1640, but that thereafter there was a slow rise in under-registration -
Contents Editorial
Contents From the Secretary 1 Reports on Conferences 10 RCHS Council Members 2 In Memoriam 14 Letter from the President 2 New Items 15 Mid-Term Conference Proposals 3 Payment Possibilities 16 Introducing the Executive Council 5 Membership Form 17 Conference Calls 9 Editorial: From the Secretary The first task of this issue is to bring to - the sessions on the History of your attention the urgent need for Sociology at the ASA at Chicago in renewal of memberships. A 2002, and membership (renewal) form is - Jennifer Platt’s retirement attached at the back. I will send out conference. individual reminders shortly. This issue Other features have been inherited reports on suggested mid-term from Christian Fleck's excellent work. conference matters. A report on the This is the preliminary e-mail issue in AGM will appear in the next part designed to get the news out fast, newsletter. The proposal before the but also to test the waters about this executive is to hold the mid-term form of distribution. A printed version conference at Marienthal. Some will be mailed out over the next few session offerings are included here. weeks. Those happy to receive only More will be published in the next the email version (and thus saving issue of the newsletter. Comments on some costs) should please indicate this conference proposal should be this by replying to me by email! directed to me. Thanks. Over the last few months there have Those interested may still download been several events which I am (until the end of the year) abstracts or pleased to have to obtain reports on: papers from the RC08 and other - the RC08 Session meetings at sessions at the Brisbane conference: Brisbane, see http://203.94.129.73/sch_sps_sessions .asp?sc=RC08. -
Sir Jack Zunz
The London Forum of Amenity and Civic Societies NEWSLETTER JUNE 2019 News Local History Planning and Festivals and Activities and Society Notices page 3 pages 4-5 Environment p6-7 Obituaries p8-9 The Park p10-11 page 12 Above our heads – f ightpaths over Wimbledon © Nigel Davies CHRIS GOODAIR and TONY MICHAEL runway could be descending over a dependent on a third runway but explain the basics behind the recent wide arc from Lewisham through clearly the detail of the fl ightpath f ightpath consultation, and present Bromley, Croydon and Epsom. Those alignments will be affected by the Society’s response. approaching over Croydon and whether a third runway is built. Epsom would pass over Wimbledon, The application for Judicial AS WELL AS planning for a third with the consequential increase in Review by fi ve Councils (including runway, Heathrow Airport has been noise. Wandsworth and Richmond, but consulting on future fl ightpaths. These proposed fl ight not Merton) into the Government’s Current fl ightpaths follow a envelopes would contain the decision to build the third runway narrow east-west alignment with actual fl ightpaths, which will is presently before the High Court. 70% of incoming aircraft fl ying be determined after a further No judgment is expected before the over central London and along the consultation in the summer. publication of this Newsletter. Thames, while the same percentage The revised fl ightpaths are not The Society’s response to the of outgoing fl ights take off to the consultation on fl ightpaths west over Windsor. Those approaching over included a number of points: Under Heathrow’s proposals Croydon and Epsom would H7;3@ published in January, much pass over Wimbledon, Government should specify the wider fl ight envelopes would be with the consequential maximum permitted aircraft noise permitted. -
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Durham E-Theses GENDER AND EQUALITY IN THE WORKPLACE A STUDY OF QATARI WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP POSITIONS LARI, NOORA,AHMED How to cite: LARI, NOORA,AHMED (2016) GENDER AND EQUALITY IN THE WORKPLACE A STUDY OF QATARI WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP POSITIONS, Durham theses, Durham University. Available at Durham E-Theses Online: http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/11855/ Use policy The full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that: • a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in Durham E-Theses • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders. Please consult the full Durham E-Theses policy for further details. Academic Support Oce, Durham University, University Oce, Old Elvet, Durham DH1 3HP e-mail: [email protected] Tel: +44 0191 334 6107 http://etheses.dur.ac.uk 2 1 GENDER AND EQUALITY IN THE WORKPLACE – A STUDY OF QATARI WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP POSITIONS NOORA AHMED GH A LARI School of Applied Social Sciences University of Durham, UK 2016 2 Declaration I declare that this thesis, which I submit for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Durham, is my own work. This is not the same as any other work that has previously been submitted for a degree at any other institutions or universities.