{"title":"Partition, postal services and Ulster unionist politics 1921–27","authors":"C. Fitzpatrick","doi":"10.1080/20514530.2016.1182388","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20514530.2016.1182388","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the origins and development of the notion of an “all-red” mail route policy in Northern Ireland in the years 1921–27 and what it reveals about the fractious nature of Ulster Unionism, its attitude to partition, and the construction of a separate Ulster identity. It explores the effects of partition on the notions of space and identity in Ireland, as well as how it affected the notion of a state under siege. Drawing on the largely untapped material in the British Postal Museum Archives, cabinet papers, parliamentary debates and local and national newspapers, it aims to contribute to current historiography of Northern Ireland and Ulster unionism in the 1920s by looking at the ways local and sectional interests affected official policy, its attitudes to the Irish Free State and partition, and the more tangential debate concerning both unionist and nationalist perceptions of Northern Ireland's identity. Finally, it examines the role of post and communications in and its relation to state building in Ireland during this transitional period which has hitherto largely been ignored in Irish history.","PeriodicalId":37727,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Regional and Local History","volume":"11 1","pages":"31 - 50"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/20514530.2016.1182388","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60021269","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":"Robert Grosseteste, natural law and Magna Carta: national and universal law in 1253","authors":"Philippa M. Hoskin","doi":"10.1080/20514530.2015.1101293","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20514530.2015.1101293","url":null,"abstract":"This paper considers how the English episcopate's complaints (gravamina) of 1253 demonstrate one view of how the king's authority could be curbed through Magna Carta and the Charter of the Forest. The gravamina were drafted by Robert Grosseteste, bishop of Lincoln 1235–1253, and declare that the king is ignoring universal, natural law and man-made common law. They reveal Grosseteste's own view of the relationship between justice and natural law and how this should influence written law codes to ensure the salvation of mankind. Grosseteste interpreted the charters of liberties through natural law, as intended to bring common law and natural law into line with each other to make salvation possible through the exercise of justice. Magna Carta was now not an immediate solution to a local problem, but part of a universal, eternal concern. As the document was issued in the names of all the episcopate, they also consented to this view.","PeriodicalId":37727,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Regional and Local History","volume":"142 1","pages":"120 - 132"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/20514530.2015.1101293","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60021192","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 history of the welfare state: the case study of Milan during the Cold War","authors":"Stefano Agnoletto","doi":"10.1080/20514530.2015.1101290","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20514530.2015.1101290","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores the development of a municipal welfare state in post-war Milan. Looking at developments from a municipal level has interesting implications for the current historiography of the Italian welfare state which is less attentive to regional variations. The article shows how certain cities were able to develop local provision based on municipal rather than national strategies.","PeriodicalId":37727,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Regional and Local History","volume":"10 1","pages":"69 - 88"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/20514530.2015.1101290","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60021587","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":"The Battle of the Fields: Rural Community and Authority in Britain during the Second World War","authors":"C. Watkins","doi":"10.1080/20514530.2015.1101294","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20514530.2015.1101294","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37727,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Regional and Local History","volume":"10 1","pages":"133 - 136"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/20514530.2015.1101294","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60021210","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":"‘It be only for a moment’: placing women into the history of industrial militancy in Liverpool","authors":"Krista Cowman","doi":"10.1080/20514530.2015.1101291","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20514530.2015.1101291","url":null,"abstract":"While historians of women's politics concur that the majority of their activity took place at the local level, the history of political movements is still largely a national one. Women's under-representation has been challenged by research on the twentieth century, but the history of their involvement in fin de siècle politics, especially on the left, remains largely unknown. This article explores organisation among Liverpool's ropemakers in the 1890s with the duel intention of restoring their activity to the historical record while at the same time using a close local focus to suggest some reasons why women's collective action was often short-lived and sporadic.","PeriodicalId":37727,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Regional and Local History","volume":"10 1","pages":"100 - 89"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/20514530.2015.1101291","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60021627","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":"Sorting the Past: the Social Function of Antique Stores as Centers for the Production of Local History","authors":"M. Douma","doi":"10.1080/20514530.2015.1101292","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20514530.2015.1101292","url":null,"abstract":"As centers of material culture and storytelling, antique stores are useful sources for writing local history. Through interviews with store owners in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, this article attempts to understand the purpose and function of antique stores, and to serve as a guide for how local and regional historians might consider using antique stores to aid their own research. It argues that material objects, buildings, places and stories are necessarily linked in telling local history.","PeriodicalId":37727,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Regional and Local History","volume":"10 1","pages":"101 - 119"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/20514530.2015.1101292","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60021634","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":"Newton and the Apothecary","authors":"A. M. Roos","doi":"10.1179/2051453015Z.00000000022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/2051453015Z.00000000022","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The Grantham Corporation Minute Books and inventories from the apothecary shop of Ralph and William Clarke are analysed to illuminate neglected aspects of the life and letters of Sir Isaac Newton, particularly the influence of Lincolnshire social and intellectual networks. The article also examines the nature of rural health provision in early modern Grantham.","PeriodicalId":37727,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Regional and Local History","volume":"34 1","pages":"18 - 31"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1179/2051453015Z.00000000022","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65869174","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":"Borders, Centres and Peripheries in late Roman and Visigothic Iberia","authors":"J. Wood","doi":"10.1179/2051453015Z.00000000021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/2051453015Z.00000000021","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article surveys scholarship on the evolving provincial organization of the Iberian Peninsula in the late and immediately post-Roman periods (fourth to early eighth centuries CE), when the region moved gradually from the control of the Western Roman Empire to that of the kingdom of the Visigoths, a “barbarian” group who had gradually integrated themselves into the late Roman order in the fourth and fifth centuries. My analysis of this issue over a long time frame suggests that the internal divisions and external boundaries of the late antique Iberian Peninsula (Roman Hispania) were highly fluid and liable to change in response to economic, military, religious and, above all, political factors. The exact make up of Hispania in this period was largely dependent on an ongoing dialogue – sometimes peaceful, sometimes conflictual – between central sources of authority, whether imperial or royal, and more regionally-based powers.","PeriodicalId":37727,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Regional and Local History","volume":"10 1","pages":"1 - 17"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1179/2051453015Z.00000000021","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65869168","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":"The Impact of Colonization and Western Assimilation on Health and Wellbeing of Canadian Aboriginal People","authors":"C. Macdonald, A. Steenbeek","doi":"10.1179/2051453015Z.00000000023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/2051453015Z.00000000023","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Colonization and government assimilation (i.e., into mainstream Western society) impacted all aspects of Aboriginal life, including: health, traditional roles, culture, socio-economic conditions, access to services, and equity among others. Consequently, many Canadian Aboriginal people today experience health inequities, loss of tradition and traditional practices, and breakdown of the family unit. To gain an understanding of how to promote equity in health care for Aboriginal people, a critical examination of the root causes of health and healthcare inequities must be considered within historical, economic, and socio-political contexts. The following paper uses a post-colonial feminist theoretical perspective to situate inequities in Aboriginal people's lives and health by focusing on the impact of colonization and assimilation on Aboriginal people.","PeriodicalId":37727,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Regional and Local History","volume":"27 1","pages":"32 - 46"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1179/2051453015Z.00000000023","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65869233","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":"The Creation of New Cities in the Region of the Greek Capital During the Twentieth Century: The Case of Egaleo","authors":"E. Bournova","doi":"10.1179/2051453015Z.00000000024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/2051453015Z.00000000024","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article presents the creation of a new city, Egaleo, on the western outskirts of Athens. as this occurred during the twentieth century—the same period that the Capital Region was established, largely as a result of the influx of approximately 350,000 refugees from Asia Minor in 1922 and the flow of internal immigrants to the capital following World War II. Born of the refugee settlement in the 1920s, Egaleo is a working class city. Using data from the city's municipal registry records, this study focuses on Egaleo's population from the 1920s onwards, with particular emphasis on its socio-professional characteristics.","PeriodicalId":37727,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Regional and Local History","volume":"10 1","pages":"47 - 68"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1179/2051453015Z.00000000024","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65869237","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}