{"title":"Researching and Writing Local Histories of the Twentieth Century: An Introduction and Review","authors":"A. Jackson","doi":"10.1179/jrl.2010.6.2.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/jrl.2010.6.2.7","url":null,"abstract":"This themed edition of the journal brings together a number of the papers presented to ‘Researching and writing local histories of the twentieth century’, a conference held at the University of Lincoln in April 2010. The event was organised and supported by the British Association for Local History (BALH), the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, the University of Lincoln and Bishop Grosseteste University College Lincoln. Thanks are expressed to the various representatives of these organisations and institutions who assisted in the planning and delivery of the conference.","PeriodicalId":299529,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Regional and Local Studies","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115515757","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Taming the Governors: The Swinging Pendulum of Power over the Ottoman Provinces in the Nineteenth Century","authors":"Abdulhamit Kırmızı","doi":"10.1179/jrl.2010.6.1.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/jrl.2010.6.1.4","url":null,"abstract":"The struggle between provincial governors and the central government was defined by Halil fualcik as the most significant development of the seventeenth-century Ottoman Empire. The measures undertaken to limit the governors' growing autonomy and to prevent their abuses were based on the tactic of creating countervailing forces. Although other instruments of provincial government like the kadl Gudge), the defterdar (chief treasury officer), and the muhasszl (tax collector) were strenghtened, in the eighteenth century it was the ayan (provincial notables) who mainly rose in prominence, using this prepared ground for decentralization.1","PeriodicalId":299529,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Regional and Local Studies","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116056217","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rural Housing in Early Nineteenth-Century Northumberland","authors":"M. Barke","doi":"10.1179/jrl.2010.6.1.24","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/jrl.2010.6.1.24","url":null,"abstract":"The objective reality is that for most rural residents in Northumberland, the housing situation was worse in 1841 than it was in 1801. Where matters improved, the main explanation was a reduction in pressure due to absolute population loss or a reduction in total numbers. Some large landowners did carry out significant improvement but the overall impact of this was actually rather limited. Furthermore, as the example of Norham shows, improvement in one area could have been accompanied by, and possibly related to, relative deterioration in an adjacent area. Through their sheer scale and the public awareness attracted, the massive problems of urban growth in the nineteenth century have, arguably, masked many of those rural areas.","PeriodicalId":299529,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Regional and Local Studies","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133623059","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Contributors","authors":"","doi":"10.1179/jrl.2010.6.1.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/jrl.2010.6.1.3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":299529,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Regional and Local Studies","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128329156","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Farm Buildings as a Source for Researching and Writing Local Histories of the Twentieth Century: Buildings for Smallholdings on the Lincolnshire Fens and Marshlands","authors":"S. Brook","doi":"10.1179/jrl.2010.6.2.98","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/jrl.2010.6.2.98","url":null,"abstract":"Farm buildings, and the oral testimony of those who worked in and around them, are an important source of evidence for twentieth-century history. This evidence is rapidly disappearing as the older generation of farmers passes on, requirements of our farming industry change and old farm buildings are converted, demolished or simply left to decay. If the information contained in the buildings of our countryside is to be preserved and understood it is vital that we seize every opportunity to observe and record them and to talk to those who occupied them. Focussing on the buildings provided for smallholders on the Lincolnshire fens and marshlands, this article will consider the ideologies and politics of early twentieth-century Britain exhibited in the provision of such buildings and the agricultural and social changes they narrate.","PeriodicalId":299529,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Regional and Local Studies","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127056846","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Local History and the Twentieth Century: An Overview and Suggested Agenda","authors":"K. Tiller","doi":"10.1179/JRL.2010.6.2.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/JRL.2010.6.2.16","url":null,"abstract":"Everyone who reads this article on its publication in 2011 will, unless they are alarmingly precocious, have lived through part of the twentieth century. This immediately puts us all in a unique relationship with that period of the past. It is all our personal histories. If being a historian is about achieving a balance of perspectives, on the one hand attaining a necessary critical distance, on the other becoming involved in understanding the experiences of people and places, then writing the history of the twentieth century brings particular challenges. Brian Short has concluded that, 'Many local historians simply cannot come to terms with the twentieth century,.1 It is certainly a past which is uncomfortably close, making detached judgement at best difficult and at worst impossible. The fields of enquiry which are the bread and butter of local history family, politics, religion, power, property, influence include some of the most sensitive and contentious areas of recent experience. The sheer volume of evidence makes its management and discriminating analysis particularly demanding. The nature of that evidence, both public records and private testimonies, often makes it complex to access and problematic to interpret. Yet the twentieth century has become the most voluminously visible and the most influential period in the local histories of individuals and places throughout Britain. It now stands complete, awaiting retrospective scrutiny, recording and analysis. Implicit and","PeriodicalId":299529,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Regional and Local Studies","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122899603","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Social Order and Disorder in Nineteenth Century Drinking Place: An Evaluation of Manchester and Salford","authors":"D. Woodman","doi":"10.1179/jrl.2010.6.1.72","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/jrl.2010.6.1.72","url":null,"abstract":"Much is written about on the negative aspects of drinking establishments in nineteenth-century society, often focusing on new industrial centres and regional capitals such as Manchester, and on issues such as drunkenness, crime, and prostitution. These issues convey the impression of a society riddled with drink and social disorder problems. A detailed examination of historical evidence on the usage of Manchester’s drinking establishments reveals that there were positive as well as negative aspects of the role of the drinking place. This article investigates in more detail the social and leisure function of the public house and its customers in Manchester, comparing the sometimes lurid contemporary depictions of pub ‘low life’ with the more mundane and often positive realities revealed by statistical evidence and descriptive material on the ‘everyday life’ of licensed premises.","PeriodicalId":299529,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Regional and Local Studies","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116544466","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cultivating the City and Its Citizens: The Creation of Corporation Allotments in York","authors":"Ross J. Wilson","doi":"10.1179/JRL.2010.6.1.38","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/JRL.2010.6.1.38","url":null,"abstract":"2008 marked the centenary of the 1908 Small Holdings and Allotments Act, a piece of legislation which had a considerable impact on the landscape of urban and rural Britain. The 1908 Act entrusted local authorities with a new obligation towards its citizens: to provide allotment gardens where they were desired by residents. This responsibility fostered a new relationship between authorities and the local populace, as access to land was demanded, negotiated and discussed at a variety of levels. This process was a particular feature in the creation of corporation owned and operated allotment gardens in York. The campaign for allotments in the city also reveals the wider debates of social reform which were highly prominent in York at the beginning of the twentieth century. Issues of poor housing, unemployment and the wider condition of the working classes of York were reflected through the movement for allotments. Whilst allotment gardens represented a much-needed and important resource for residents in the deprived areas of the city, local politicians and councillors viewed the sites as significant tools for social reform. As allotments developed in York, the roles of both tenants and corporation were discussed and rethought, setting the foundations for the modern relationship between citizens and the local authority. Examining the history of the development of this public service, politically and socially, this article will explore how allotment gardens were used to cultivate both the city and the citizens in the first two decades of the twentieth century.","PeriodicalId":299529,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Regional and Local Studies","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127013644","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Contributors","authors":"","doi":"10.1179/jrl.2010.6.2.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/jrl.2010.6.2.5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":299529,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Regional and Local Studies","volume":"50 6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123397801","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Encountering Rus in Urbe in the Twentieth-Century County Town: Lincoln's Fairs and Its Agricultural Show","authors":"A. Walker","doi":"10.1179/jrl.2010.6.2.72","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/jrl.2010.6.2.72","url":null,"abstract":"Recent work has ·suggested that the boundaries between rural and urban England were somewhat blurred during the nineteenth century. Barry Reay, for instance, in Rural Englands, notes the fluidity of movement which marked a number of districts where urban inhabitants undertook work on the land for part of the year and, when agricultural work was limited, rural inhabitants sought temporary work in the town. 1","PeriodicalId":299529,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Regional and Local Studies","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126858202","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}