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...working- and lower middle-class Victorians. Given the limited time available for leisure, the importance of the Sunday newspaper as a form of entertainment becomes clear. Violent Victorians today Some of this may be familiar to you. Discrete pieces – such as execution broadsides, or penny bloods – are occasionally brought out to titillate 21st century audiences, to...

...social science circles. It has been made particularly popular by the concept and practice of so-called ‘reflexive anthropology’: taking seriously, and reporting on the researcher’s own experience (‘experience’ being another valid concept today), a logical extension of the long-established anthropological ‘participant observation’. So taking serious account...

...the local wheat around Northampton. These days, it seems that you can have ‘localness', without actually being local. John Allen is a Professor of Economic Geography. He wrote on the courses Introducing the Social Sciences (DD102), and Living in a Globalised World (DD205). He is currently working on DD213, Environment & Society. Explore globalisation and cereals...

...Social Sciences qualifications. Background In March 2001, Glasgow City Council decided to close what was to many residents in the heart of Glasgow’s Southside, the famous historic baths and washhouse in Calder Street, Govanhill, against the wishes of the local community. A small group of local people attended the final evening session before closure and refused to...