Julia Manning
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- November 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199561643
- eISBN:
- 9780191730313
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199561643.003.0019
- Subject:
- Palliative Care, Paediatric Palliative Medicine, Patient Care and End-of-Life Decision Making
This chapter discusses and relates a personal account of the experiences of a young woman following her mother's death when she became a carer to her younger siblings. She was supported by the Candle ...
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This chapter discusses and relates a personal account of the experiences of a young woman following her mother's death when she became a carer to her younger siblings. She was supported by the Candle Project after phoning for help and advice. Now, both she and her younger siblings have participated in individual counselling sessions and groups that are offered by the project. Support is still ongoing.Less
This chapter discusses and relates a personal account of the experiences of a young woman following her mother's death when she became a carer to her younger siblings. She was supported by the Candle Project after phoning for help and advice. Now, both she and her younger siblings have participated in individual counselling sessions and groups that are offered by the project. Support is still ongoing.
Patricia Crawford
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- May 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199204809
- eISBN:
- 9780191709517
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199204809.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History, Social History
This book studies the mothers and fathers of poor children in the England of the early modern and early industrial period. Although we know a good deal about the family life of monarchs in this ...
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This book studies the mothers and fathers of poor children in the England of the early modern and early industrial period. Although we know a good deal about the family life of monarchs in this period, much less is known about what life was like for poor single mothers, or for ordinary people who were trying to bring up their children. What were poor mothers and fathers trying to achieve, and what support did they have from their society, especially from the welfare system? This book attempts to answer these important questions, in order to illuminate the experience of parenting at this time from the perspective of the poor, a group who have naturally left little in the way of literary testimony. In doing this, it draws upon a wide range of archival material, including quarter session records, petitions for assistance, applications for places in the London Foundling Hospital, and evidence from criminal trials in London's Old Bailey. England in this period had a developing system of welfare, unique in Europe, by which parish rates were collected and administered to those deemed worthy of relief. The ‘civic fathers’ who administered this welfare drew upon a code of fatherhood framed in the Elizabethan period, by which a patriarch took responsibility for maintaining and exercising authority over wives and children. This code of family conduct was the product of a material world completely alien to that which the poor inhabited. Parents of the poor were different from those of middling and elite status. Poverty, not property, dictated their relationships with their children. Poor families were frequently broken by death. Fathers were frequently absent, and mothers had to rear their children with whatever forms of relief they could find.Less
This book studies the mothers and fathers of poor children in the England of the early modern and early industrial period. Although we know a good deal about the family life of monarchs in this period, much less is known about what life was like for poor single mothers, or for ordinary people who were trying to bring up their children. What were poor mothers and fathers trying to achieve, and what support did they have from their society, especially from the welfare system? This book attempts to answer these important questions, in order to illuminate the experience of parenting at this time from the perspective of the poor, a group who have naturally left little in the way of literary testimony. In doing this, it draws upon a wide range of archival material, including quarter session records, petitions for assistance, applications for places in the London Foundling Hospital, and evidence from criminal trials in London's Old Bailey. England in this period had a developing system of welfare, unique in Europe, by which parish rates were collected and administered to those deemed worthy of relief. The ‘civic fathers’ who administered this welfare drew upon a code of fatherhood framed in the Elizabethan period, by which a patriarch took responsibility for maintaining and exercising authority over wives and children. This code of family conduct was the product of a material world completely alien to that which the poor inhabited. Parents of the poor were different from those of middling and elite status. Poverty, not property, dictated their relationships with their children. Poor families were frequently broken by death. Fathers were frequently absent, and mothers had to rear their children with whatever forms of relief they could find.
Kenneth H. Craik
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- January 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195330922
- eISBN:
- 9780199868292
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195330922.003.0002
- Subject:
- Psychology, Social Psychology
This chapter analyzes the ongoing social communication process through which news, observations, and impressions about an individual circulate along that person’s reputational network via chat, ...
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This chapter analyzes the ongoing social communication process through which news, observations, and impressions about an individual circulate along that person’s reputational network via chat, gossip sessions, occasions of qualified privilege, and more formal means. In the network interpretation of reputation, the daily ebb and flow of information through the media of various forms of communication and discourse will be deemed the “discursive reputation,” referring to what is said about the person. Reputational networks are activated by social communication. In everyday life, we are surrounded by and awash in chat and gossip, and much of it is about specific persons. Much of what we know about most individuals we claim to know is indirect in this sense, derived from everyday, informal surveillance.Less
This chapter analyzes the ongoing social communication process through which news, observations, and impressions about an individual circulate along that person’s reputational network via chat, gossip sessions, occasions of qualified privilege, and more formal means. In the network interpretation of reputation, the daily ebb and flow of information through the media of various forms of communication and discourse will be deemed the “discursive reputation,” referring to what is said about the person. Reputational networks are activated by social communication. In everyday life, we are surrounded by and awash in chat and gossip, and much of it is about specific persons. Much of what we know about most individuals we claim to know is indirect in this sense, derived from everyday, informal surveillance.
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748637546
- eISBN:
- 9780748671588
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748637546.001.0001
- Subject:
- Law, Legal History
Commissioned by the Clark Foundation for Legal Education, this book is derived from the inaugural Jean Clark Lectures, hosted by the University of Aberdeen in 2007. Across three lectures, the text ...
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Commissioned by the Clark Foundation for Legal Education, this book is derived from the inaugural Jean Clark Lectures, hosted by the University of Aberdeen in 2007. Across three lectures, the text discusses and analyses the legal and constitutional issues arising from the Disruption of the Church of Scotland in 1843 when the majority of leading ministers left the Church of Scotland to set up the Free Church. It takes a look at the series of cases in the Court of Session and the House of Lords between 1837 and 1843 which led to the Disruption, showing how they gave rise to the most important constitutional crisis and challenge to the Courts' authority that had occurred since the 1707 Union.Less
Commissioned by the Clark Foundation for Legal Education, this book is derived from the inaugural Jean Clark Lectures, hosted by the University of Aberdeen in 2007. Across three lectures, the text discusses and analyses the legal and constitutional issues arising from the Disruption of the Church of Scotland in 1843 when the majority of leading ministers left the Church of Scotland to set up the Free Church. It takes a look at the series of cases in the Court of Session and the House of Lords between 1837 and 1843 which led to the Disruption, showing how they gave rise to the most important constitutional crisis and challenge to the Courts' authority that had occurred since the 1707 Union.
Patrick Polden
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- May 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199258819
- eISBN:
- 9780191718151
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199258819.003.0028
- Subject:
- Law, Legal History
This chapter begins with a discussion of the justices of peace in the 19th century. This is followed by discussion on quarter sessions and out of quarter sessions.
This chapter begins with a discussion of the justices of peace in the 19th century. This is followed by discussion on quarter sessions and out of quarter sessions.
Julian Goodare
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199243549
- eISBN:
- 9780191714160
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199243549.003.0010
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Medieval History
This chapter looks at a number of completely new powers being created alongside the old ones, notably the local courts of the church but also some new civil administrators. This was one of the most ...
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This chapter looks at a number of completely new powers being created alongside the old ones, notably the local courts of the church but also some new civil administrators. This was one of the most significant periods ever for the growth of local government in Scotland. The local courts of the church, kirk sessions, and presbyteries were powerful new institutions of government, along with justices of the peace. They generally regulated different aspects of people's lives, but one of the points that emerges from considering them together is how much practical overlap there was in membership and jurisdiction between ecclesiastical and secular authorities. Even when there was no overlap, there was usually active cooperation. One conceptual approach that has not worked for Scotland is to treat the clergy themselves as an autonomous professional group providing services to the state, while recognising the interpenetration of civil and religious ideology in the central aspirations of the state. This is because the clergy worked with the laity in the church courts themselves.Less
This chapter looks at a number of completely new powers being created alongside the old ones, notably the local courts of the church but also some new civil administrators. This was one of the most significant periods ever for the growth of local government in Scotland. The local courts of the church, kirk sessions, and presbyteries were powerful new institutions of government, along with justices of the peace. They generally regulated different aspects of people's lives, but one of the points that emerges from considering them together is how much practical overlap there was in membership and jurisdiction between ecclesiastical and secular authorities. Even when there was no overlap, there was usually active cooperation. One conceptual approach that has not worked for Scotland is to treat the clergy themselves as an autonomous professional group providing services to the state, while recognising the interpenetration of civil and religious ideology in the central aspirations of the state. This is because the clergy worked with the laity in the church courts themselves.
Martin S. Jaffee
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780195140675
- eISBN:
- 9780199834334
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0195140672.003.0003
- Subject:
- Religion, Judaism
Explores the nature of oral‐performative reading and text‐interpretive tradition in the scribal community (Yakhad) associated with the Qumran ruins and the Dead Sea scrolls. The focus is upon the ...
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Explores the nature of oral‐performative reading and text‐interpretive tradition in the scribal community (Yakhad) associated with the Qumran ruins and the Dead Sea scrolls. The focus is upon the conceptions of the authority of written texts and their oral‐performative transmission as embodied in the community's written representations of the study session of the community, its own practice of textual study preserved in the Damascus Covenant (CD), and the Community Rule (1QS). The chapter shows that despite a rich tradition of interpretive reading of scriptural works and others regarded as stemming from prophecy, the Qumran Yakhad had no sense of itself as bearing an ancient tradition, either oral or written.Less
Explores the nature of oral‐performative reading and text‐interpretive tradition in the scribal community (Yakhad) associated with the Qumran ruins and the Dead Sea scrolls. The focus is upon the conceptions of the authority of written texts and their oral‐performative transmission as embodied in the community's written representations of the study session of the community, its own practice of textual study preserved in the Damascus Covenant (CD), and the Community Rule (1QS). The chapter shows that despite a rich tradition of interpretive reading of scriptural works and others regarded as stemming from prophecy, the Qumran Yakhad had no sense of itself as bearing an ancient tradition, either oral or written.
Christina L. Baade
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780195372014
- eISBN:
- 9780199918287
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195372014.003.0006
- Subject:
- Music, History, Western, Popular
Chapter 5 focuses on the program Radio Rhythm Club (RRC) and its participation in discourses surrounding race and authenticity in jazz, as well as its role in popularizing swing in Britain. First ...
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Chapter 5 focuses on the program Radio Rhythm Club (RRC) and its participation in discourses surrounding race and authenticity in jazz, as well as its role in popularizing swing in Britain. First broadcast in June 1940, the program signaled the BBC's recognition of jazz as a distinct musical genre, its developing sense that jazz enthusiasts were connoisseurs, and its interest in serving young men, a crucial wartime audience. The series featured an array of informative gramophone records recitals, live performances, and jam sessions, providing a legitimizing, mainstream site for British rhythm club discourse and improvised performance. Its house bandleader, Parry, played a key role in popularizing swing in Britain. RRC also represented an important site where the creativity of African American and black British musicians was taken seriously, and it offered regular representations of interracial music making.Less
Chapter 5 focuses on the program Radio Rhythm Club (RRC) and its participation in discourses surrounding race and authenticity in jazz, as well as its role in popularizing swing in Britain. First broadcast in June 1940, the program signaled the BBC's recognition of jazz as a distinct musical genre, its developing sense that jazz enthusiasts were connoisseurs, and its interest in serving young men, a crucial wartime audience. The series featured an array of informative gramophone records recitals, live performances, and jam sessions, providing a legitimizing, mainstream site for British rhythm club discourse and improvised performance. Its house bandleader, Parry, played a key role in popularizing swing in Britain. RRC also represented an important site where the creativity of African American and black British musicians was taken seriously, and it offered regular representations of interracial music making.
Gwen Terry
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520268463
- eISBN:
- 9780520949782
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520268463.003.0015
- Subject:
- Music, History, American
It was during Clark's experience with the naval band that he got the news of his father had become severely unwell. Clark continued performing at the jam sessions with the naval band to ease his mind ...
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It was during Clark's experience with the naval band that he got the news of his father had become severely unwell. Clark continued performing at the jam sessions with the naval band to ease his mind off the news. Wherever he went, jazz was there. The weeks of boot camp zipped by and there wasn't any bad news for Clark. Clark and the band went on to play live broadcasts as time passed by. This was the time when Clark began speaking his heart out to his friends, and the darkness of war started to surround them. While bombs were dropping, they played they hearts out to keep up the morale of their troops. Close to Christmas, Clark got the news of his father becoming severely delirious. Clark simply kept playing his horn and kept his dream alive that his father would get well and listen to him one day.Less
It was during Clark's experience with the naval band that he got the news of his father had become severely unwell. Clark continued performing at the jam sessions with the naval band to ease his mind off the news. Wherever he went, jazz was there. The weeks of boot camp zipped by and there wasn't any bad news for Clark. Clark and the band went on to play live broadcasts as time passed by. This was the time when Clark began speaking his heart out to his friends, and the darkness of war started to surround them. While bombs were dropping, they played they hearts out to keep up the morale of their troops. Close to Christmas, Clark got the news of his father becoming severely delirious. Clark simply kept playing his horn and kept his dream alive that his father would get well and listen to him one day.
Stanley Elkins and Eric McKitrick
- Published in print:
- 1995
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195093810
- eISBN:
- 9780199854127
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195093810.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, American History: early to 18th Century
James Madison's mind was occupied with the dilemma of what it meant to be both a leading Federalist and a leading Virginian. The search for a resolution of that dilemma would turn out to claim ...
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James Madison's mind was occupied with the dilemma of what it meant to be both a leading Federalist and a leading Virginian. The search for a resolution of that dilemma would turn out to claim virtually the whole of Madison's energies throughout the congressional session of 1790. Madison and Robert Morris, the senator from Pennsylvania, had a lengthy conversation on the question of where the national capital should eventually be located. Two factions, generally speaking, had been in contention, with a third holding the balance of power. For years it had been the dream of Thomas Jefferson, Madison, and George Washington himself that the capital might some day be located on the banks of the Potomac. It was likewise assumed that the temporary capital would meanwhile reside in one or the other of the country's two largest cities, in New York or in Philadelphia.Less
James Madison's mind was occupied with the dilemma of what it meant to be both a leading Federalist and a leading Virginian. The search for a resolution of that dilemma would turn out to claim virtually the whole of Madison's energies throughout the congressional session of 1790. Madison and Robert Morris, the senator from Pennsylvania, had a lengthy conversation on the question of where the national capital should eventually be located. Two factions, generally speaking, had been in contention, with a third holding the balance of power. For years it had been the dream of Thomas Jefferson, Madison, and George Washington himself that the capital might some day be located on the banks of the Potomac. It was likewise assumed that the temporary capital would meanwhile reside in one or the other of the country's two largest cities, in New York or in Philadelphia.
Jan Haldipur
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781479869084
- eISBN:
- 9781479871407
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479869084.003.0007
- Subject:
- Sociology, Law, Crime and Deviance
The epilogue explores the impact of the Trump administration on policing in America. While New York City moved to strengthen ties between police and the community, the same cannot be said of the ...
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The epilogue explores the impact of the Trump administration on policing in America. While New York City moved to strengthen ties between police and the community, the same cannot be said of the federal government. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, with the support of President Donald Trump, has seemed keen on a return to the very same “tough on crime” policies that marred previous decades.Less
The epilogue explores the impact of the Trump administration on policing in America. While New York City moved to strengthen ties between police and the community, the same cannot be said of the federal government. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, with the support of President Donald Trump, has seemed keen on a return to the very same “tough on crime” policies that marred previous decades.
Linda C. Mayes and Stephen Lassonde
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- January 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780300117592
- eISBN:
- 9780300210804
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300117592.003.0008
- Subject:
- Psychology, Clinical Child Psychology / School Psychology
This chapter presents a sampling of process notes and research summaries from the Yale Longitudinal Study (YLS). The process notes were the result of sessions between the young girl Evelyn and the ...
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This chapter presents a sampling of process notes and research summaries from the Yale Longitudinal Study (YLS). The process notes were the result of sessions between the young girl Evelyn and the investigator-cum-therapist Samuel Ritvo. The samples are intended to give readers the opportunity to make their own interpretations of the materials and about Evelyn's emergence into personhood.Less
This chapter presents a sampling of process notes and research summaries from the Yale Longitudinal Study (YLS). The process notes were the result of sessions between the young girl Evelyn and the investigator-cum-therapist Samuel Ritvo. The samples are intended to give readers the opportunity to make their own interpretations of the materials and about Evelyn's emergence into personhood.
Conrad Russell
- Published in print:
- 1995
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198205883
- eISBN:
- 9780191676833
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198205883.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History
This chapter discusses the Treaty of London, an agreement between the Scots and Charles I. The terms include the prosecution of the ‘incendiaries’ responsible for the Bishops' Wars and restoration of ...
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This chapter discusses the Treaty of London, an agreement between the Scots and Charles I. The terms include the prosecution of the ‘incendiaries’ responsible for the Bishops' Wars and restoration of Scottish Castles to Scottish Control. The Scots were to secure reparation for their losses. These were followed by the demand for an Act of Oblivion in both kingdoms which stated that between Parliaments, there should be a body of constant and select commissioners of both nations called Conservatores Pacis, who were to try wrongs done by either kingdoms to the other. A final demand was that membership of the Scottish Council and Court of Session should be confined to ‘such as may stand with our religion’. It is a good example of the exigencies of dealing with Charles I, that, when translated into practical terms, this became a proposal for Parliamentary nomination.Less
This chapter discusses the Treaty of London, an agreement between the Scots and Charles I. The terms include the prosecution of the ‘incendiaries’ responsible for the Bishops' Wars and restoration of Scottish Castles to Scottish Control. The Scots were to secure reparation for their losses. These were followed by the demand for an Act of Oblivion in both kingdoms which stated that between Parliaments, there should be a body of constant and select commissioners of both nations called Conservatores Pacis, who were to try wrongs done by either kingdoms to the other. A final demand was that membership of the Scottish Council and Court of Session should be confined to ‘such as may stand with our religion’. It is a good example of the exigencies of dealing with Charles I, that, when translated into practical terms, this became a proposal for Parliamentary nomination.
Mary Beth Harris and Cynthia Franklin
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- April 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195172942
- eISBN:
- 9780199893249
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195172942.chapter.0003
- Subject:
- Social Work, Communities and Organizations, Children and Families
This chapter contains step-by-step guidance instructing leaders on how to facilitate each session of the Taking Charge group. Forms and material needed to facilitate each session are found at the end ...
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This chapter contains step-by-step guidance instructing leaders on how to facilitate each session of the Taking Charge group. Forms and material needed to facilitate each session are found at the end of the chapter. The chapter serves as a training manual by providing detailed instructions and dialogue for leaders to follow when conducting the groups, in order to assure the best intervention fidelity. It is intended to serve as a leader's guide for each group session. For this chapter to be most effective as a training tool, it should be presented in a training group, where it can best provide practice and clarification opportunities for new leaders.Less
This chapter contains step-by-step guidance instructing leaders on how to facilitate each session of the Taking Charge group. Forms and material needed to facilitate each session are found at the end of the chapter. The chapter serves as a training manual by providing detailed instructions and dialogue for leaders to follow when conducting the groups, in order to assure the best intervention fidelity. It is intended to serve as a leader's guide for each group session. For this chapter to be most effective as a training tool, it should be presented in a training group, where it can best provide practice and clarification opportunities for new leaders.
William St. Clair
- Published in print:
- 1998
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780192880536
- eISBN:
- 9780191670596
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780192880536.003.0022
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
When the new Parliamentary session started in February 1816, Lord Elgin put forward his Petition as he requested that the House of Commons should be able to appoint a Select Committee to look into ...
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When the new Parliamentary session started in February 1816, Lord Elgin put forward his Petition as he requested that the House of Commons should be able to appoint a Select Committee to look into the circumstances of how he was able to acquire the much discussed collection, and determine whether it be advisable or not to sell the collection to the government. Although the Chancellor of the Exchequer suggested that the move be accepted, many were not inclined to accept the proposal without reservation. After discussing several points, the petition was accepted and the Select Committee was appointed. This chapter investigates the witnesses, their arguments, and how the marbles were then advised to be sold.Less
When the new Parliamentary session started in February 1816, Lord Elgin put forward his Petition as he requested that the House of Commons should be able to appoint a Select Committee to look into the circumstances of how he was able to acquire the much discussed collection, and determine whether it be advisable or not to sell the collection to the government. Although the Chancellor of the Exchequer suggested that the move be accepted, many were not inclined to accept the proposal without reservation. After discussing several points, the petition was accepted and the Select Committee was appointed. This chapter investigates the witnesses, their arguments, and how the marbles were then advised to be sold.
David Eastwood
- Published in print:
- 1994
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198204817
- eISBN:
- 9780191676406
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198204817.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
This chapter discusses the Quarter Sessions, which emerged as the principal focus of authority within English local government and was less firmly grounded in statutory powers than that of the ...
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This chapter discusses the Quarter Sessions, which emerged as the principal focus of authority within English local government and was less firmly grounded in statutory powers than that of the parish. The power of the Quarter Sessions as an agency of government lay in magistrates' statutory duty to ensure that parishes and other subordinate bodies discharged their responsibilities adequately and legally, and in the Quarter Sessions constituting the court of appeal on most local administrative matters. This chapter also discusses its developments, offices and officials, and procedures and reform.Less
This chapter discusses the Quarter Sessions, which emerged as the principal focus of authority within English local government and was less firmly grounded in statutory powers than that of the parish. The power of the Quarter Sessions as an agency of government lay in magistrates' statutory duty to ensure that parishes and other subordinate bodies discharged their responsibilities adequately and legally, and in the Quarter Sessions constituting the court of appeal on most local administrative matters. This chapter also discusses its developments, offices and officials, and procedures and reform.
David Eastwood
- Published in print:
- 1994
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198204817
- eISBN:
- 9780191676406
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198204817.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
This chapter discusses the role of magistrates in the local government. Much the most important figures within English counties, upon whom the whole weight of local government ultimately rested, were ...
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This chapter discusses the role of magistrates in the local government. Much the most important figures within English counties, upon whom the whole weight of local government ultimately rested, were the magistrates. In their person and through their collective actions, justices substantiated the authority of the Quarter Sessions. There can be fewer clearer illustrations of the primacy of magistrates both as arbiters of the public interest and upholders of private rights in late Hanoverian England.Less
This chapter discusses the role of magistrates in the local government. Much the most important figures within English counties, upon whom the whole weight of local government ultimately rested, were the magistrates. In their person and through their collective actions, justices substantiated the authority of the Quarter Sessions. There can be fewer clearer illustrations of the primacy of magistrates both as arbiters of the public interest and upholders of private rights in late Hanoverian England.
David Eastwood
- Published in print:
- 1994
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198204817
- eISBN:
- 9780191676406
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198204817.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
The realities of power within English rural counties were shaped more by the dynamics of local politics than by the formal instruments of statutory authority. In this sense the power of the ...
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The realities of power within English rural counties were shaped more by the dynamics of local politics than by the formal instruments of statutory authority. In this sense the power of the magistracy as an institution rested as much on the recognized status of justices and the constantly elaborated machinery of the Quarter Sessions. This chapter discusses the role of the local government and parliament in addressing the problem of poverty. Poor-law policy was grounded in statute, but magistrates claimed considerable autonomy in shaping policy on the ground. Poverty and policy in the eighteenth century, the crisis of 1795 and changing the attitudes towards poverty, and the beginnings of reform are described.Less
The realities of power within English rural counties were shaped more by the dynamics of local politics than by the formal instruments of statutory authority. In this sense the power of the magistracy as an institution rested as much on the recognized status of justices and the constantly elaborated machinery of the Quarter Sessions. This chapter discusses the role of the local government and parliament in addressing the problem of poverty. Poor-law policy was grounded in statute, but magistrates claimed considerable autonomy in shaping policy on the ground. Poverty and policy in the eighteenth century, the crisis of 1795 and changing the attitudes towards poverty, and the beginnings of reform are described.
Peter D. G. Thomas
- Published in print:
- 1996
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198205449
- eISBN:
- 9780191676642
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198205449.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
This chapter discusses John Wilkes' expulsion from Parliament, following his preface to a letter by Secretary of State Weymouth to Daniel Ponton. Wilkes wrote that the letter showed for how long the ...
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This chapter discusses John Wilkes' expulsion from Parliament, following his preface to a letter by Secretary of State Weymouth to Daniel Ponton. Wilkes wrote that the letter showed for how long the massacre in St. George's Fields had been planned. The chapter looks at several of the sessions held by the House of Commons, which accused Wilkes of libel and used it as their main reason for expelling him from Parliament.Less
This chapter discusses John Wilkes' expulsion from Parliament, following his preface to a letter by Secretary of State Weymouth to Daniel Ponton. Wilkes wrote that the letter showed for how long the massacre in St. George's Fields had been planned. The chapter looks at several of the sessions held by the House of Commons, which accused Wilkes of libel and used it as their main reason for expelling him from Parliament.
Conrad Russell
- Published in print:
- 1979
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198224822
- eISBN:
- 9780191678578
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198224822.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History, Political History
During the first sessions of the Parliament of 1621, the chief concerns of the members of the court were three things that never happened: with waiting for, and lobbying for or against, war that ...
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During the first sessions of the Parliament of 1621, the chief concerns of the members of the court were three things that never happened: with waiting for, and lobbying for or against, war that never happened; with watching for the development of an attack on the Duke of Birmingham which never materialized; and with watching eagerly for the growth of a reversionary interest which Prince Charles was too prudent or too shy to allow to crystallize. By far the most widespread concern in the country was the ‘decay of trade’, which has become known to modern readers as the ‘great depression’. The second session saw the case of Sir Edwyn Sandys and the case of Lepton and Goldsmith. Meanwhile, the fiasco of the second session of 1621 had many consequences. For one, it led to the increased distrust of Buckingham.Less
During the first sessions of the Parliament of 1621, the chief concerns of the members of the court were three things that never happened: with waiting for, and lobbying for or against, war that never happened; with watching for the development of an attack on the Duke of Birmingham which never materialized; and with watching eagerly for the growth of a reversionary interest which Prince Charles was too prudent or too shy to allow to crystallize. By far the most widespread concern in the country was the ‘decay of trade’, which has become known to modern readers as the ‘great depression’. The second session saw the case of Sir Edwyn Sandys and the case of Lepton and Goldsmith. Meanwhile, the fiasco of the second session of 1621 had many consequences. For one, it led to the increased distrust of Buckingham.
