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In the shadow of Enoch Powell
Fifty years ago Enoch Powell made national headlines with his 'Rivers of Blood' speech, warning of an immigrant invasion in the once respectable streets of Wolverhampton. This local fixation brought the Black Country town into the national spotlight, yet Powell's unstable relationship with Wolverhampton has since been overlooked. Drawing from interviews and archival material, this book offers a rich local history through which to investigate the speech, bringing to life the racialised dynamics of space during a critical moment in British history. What was going on beneath the surface in Wolverhampton and how did Powell's constituents respond to this dramatic moment? The research traces the ways in which Powell's words reinvented the town and uncovers highly contested local responses. While Powell left Wolverhampton in 1974, the book returns to the city to explore the collective memories of the speech which continue to reverberate. In a contemporary period of new crisis and national divisions, revisiting the shadow of Powell allows us to reflect on racism and resistance from 1968 to today.
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The Family and Community Life of Older People
Family life has changed rapidly over te past fifty years and the number of people living longer increases year on year Family and Community Life of Older People revisits three areas (Bethnal Green in London, Wolverhampton in the Midlands and Woodford in Essex) which were the subject of classic studies in the late 1940s and 1950s and explores changes to the family and community lives of older people. The book examines issues such as:*changes in household composition*changes in the geographical proximity of kin and relatives*the extent and type of help provided by the family*contact and relationships with neighbours*relationships with friends*involvement in social and leisure activities*experiences of minority ethnic groups.These questions are explored through a unique set of data including census material, and survey data from interviews with over 600 older people. A key finding is that over the past 50 years we have moved from an old age experienced within the context of the family group to one shaped by personal communities in which friends may feature as significantly as immediate kin and relatives.Family and Community Life of Older People is a major contribution to the sociology of the family, of ageing, and of urban life and points up the social policy issues for an ageing society.
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Making a difference-inclusive learning and teaching in higher education through open educational resources
Recently there has been growing concern about the ways in which professional values such as \"acknowledging diversity and promoting equality of opportunity\" (Higher Education Academy (HEA),
2006
, p. 4) have been understood and evidenced in higher education. In this article, we outline how the Learning to Teach Inclusively open educational resource (OER) is addressing this concern by facilitating understanding of the concepts and principles underpinning these professional values. We outline a set of principles for inclusive practice and show how they underpin not only the content of this resource, but also its design, development, and embedding. We argue that while these principles were derived from research in face-to-face teaching, they are just as relevant and applicable to learning, teaching, and curriculum design in distance learning and virtual contexts. Finally, we outline three models for embedding the OER and propose a model for embedding inclusive practice through OER across HE.
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VIRTUAL WOLVERHAMPTON: RECREATING THE HISTORIC CITY IN VIRTUAL REALITY
While many towns and cities have historic origins, the modern urban landscape is often unrecognisable from the past. Over the last two thousand years innumerable changes have occurred, from the Roman period to the Industrial Revolution, culminating in wide scale development and redevelopment of towns and cities during the 19th and 20th centuries. Fragments of the past survive as extant buildings, monuments, and areas, and are offered protection through mechanisms such as the National Heritage List for England. However, these buildings are part of a dynamic and changing environment, and their place within their original landscape not always visible. Meanwhile, the advent of mainstream and accessible immersive virtual reality offers opportunities to recreate and explore the past, and to disseminate a deeper understanding of the history and historic context of our heritage assets to a broader audience via new technologies. This paper discusses a project based on Wolverhampton that aims to create immersive and 360° experiences of the historic city that allows the user or viewer to explore how the city might have been in the past from a ‘first person’ perspective. It uses multiple approaches to gather, verify and validate archival data, records, maps and building style information. The project itself is a work-in-progress, with various approaches being explored. It looks at sources of information used to inform the virtual world; software and methodologies used to create the model; different forms of VR output; potential forms of funding for wider dissemination; and problems encountered so far.
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An Evaluation of the Layering and Legacy of Area-based Regeneration Initiatives in England
In England, there have been 40 years of area-based initiatives (ABIs) involving strategic national government intervention in local authority areas with significant regeneration needs. Whilst they have been examined individually, less consideration has been given to the layering and legacy of ABIs. Uncertainties include whether local authorities have institutionalised new ways of operating or whether layering complexities have acted as significant barriers. Focusing on Wolverhampton, in the West Midlands, this paper examines recent ABI experiences and discusses why support for City Challenge (1992–98) appeared stronger than the more recent New Deal for Communities programme (2001–11). Important ABI legacies include greater diversity of neighbourhood structures, anxiety towards ABIs where property markets are depressed and the realisation that, whilst partnership working has intensified, traditional exclusionary aspects remain. Achieving the most effective governance structures to facilitate urban regeneration remains an on-going challenge, including within emerging Coalition government policy frameworks.
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Urban geochemistry: research strategies to assist risk assessment and remediation of brownfield sites in urban areas
Urban geochemical maps of Wolverhampton and Nottingham, based on multielement analysis of surface soils, have shown distribution patterns of “total” metals concentrations relating to past and present industrial and domestic land use and transport systems. Several methods have been used to estimate the solubility and potential bioavailability of metals, their mineral forms and potential risks to urban population groups. These include sequential chemical extraction, soil pore water extraction and analysis, mineralogical analysis by scanning electron microscopy, source apportionment by lead isotope analysis and the development of models to predict metal uptake by homegrown vegetables to provide an estimate of risk from metal consumption and exposure. The results from these research strategies have been integrated with a geographical information system (GIS) to provide data for future land-use planning.
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John William Waterhouse, le préraphaélite moderne
Décryptez l'art de John William Waterhouse en moins d'une heure! Célèbre de son vivant, John William Waterhouse disparaît ensuite dans le flot des peintres victoriens de la fin du XIXe siècle et sombre dans l'oubli pendant de nombreuses années. Pourtant, sans révolutionner l'art de son temps, il donne un nouveau souffle à l'esthétique préraphaélite grâce à une approche moins réaliste de la peinture. Son inspiration, il la puise essentiellement dans l'Antiquité, la mythologie et la littérature, composant des toiles intemporelles et pleines de poésie dans lesquelles les figures féminines sont largement mises à l'honneur, dans un subtil mélange de grâce et de volupté. Ce livre vous permettra d'en savoir plus sur: Le contexte culturel dans lequel Waterhouse s'inscritLa vie de l'artiste et son parcoursLes caractéristiques et spécificités de son artUne sélection d'œuvres-clés de WaterhouseSon impact dans l'histoire de l'art Le mot de l'éditeur: « Dans ce numéro de la série 50MINUTES | Artistes, Delphine Gervais de Lafond part sur les traces de John William Waterhouse. Après l'histoire de sa vie, entre discrétion et célébrité, elle se penche sur son œuvre et ses mille et une nuances, exemples à l'appui. Elle analyse notamment La Dame de Shalott, Hylas et les Nymphes ou encore Le Jardin enchanté, nous plongeant dans un univers au charme ensorcelant. » Stéphanie Felten À PROPOS DE LA SÉRIE 50MINUTES | Artistes La série « Artistes » de la collection 50MINUTES aborde plus de cinquante artistes qui ont profondément marqué l'histoire de l'art, du Moyen Âge à nos jours. Chaque livre a été conçu à la fois pour les passionnés d'art et pour les amateurs curieux d'en savoir davantage en peu de temps. Nos auteurs analysent avec précision les œuvres des plus grands artistes tout en laissant place à toutes les interprétations.
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Ethnic differences in the demand incidence of retinal detachments in two districts in the West Midlands
Aim
To evaluate the epidemiological characteristics of rhegmatogenous retinal detachments (RRDs) in two defined populations in the West Midlands of England.
Methods
A 5-year retrospective study of patients who underwent surgical repair of their RRD between April 1994 and March 1999. Statistical analysis was done by the Statistical Program for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 10.0.
Results
The total demand incidence of RRD was 11.3 and 6.3 per 100 000 in Wolverhampton and Walsall, respectively. The Asian subgroup had a low demand incidence of 4.6 and 2.0 per 100 000 in each area, respectively.
In Wolverhampton the highest age-specific demand incidence was in the 70 to 79-year age group at 29.1 per 100 000, whereas in Walsall it was 98.6 per 100 000 in the 85+ age group.
Nontraumatic phakic detachments had the highest demand incidence of 9.7 per 100 000, whereas nontraumatic pseudophakic and aphakic R/D were much lower at 1.2 and 0.3 per 100 000, respectively.
There was a 1 : 1.5 female-to-male ratio, with a mean age of 57.8 years (95% CI 54.7–61.0) in females and 55.5 years (95% CI 53.1–57.9) for males.
A total of 41.6% (142) of patients presented initially to the Wolverhampton Eye Infirmary Accident and Emergency Department (A&E).
Conclusion
This is the first UK-based study. The demand incidence in Caucasians is similar to worldwide figures. Asians have a three times lower incidence of retinal detachments. The demand incidence increases with age. Females have a higher mean age than males. Males (89.5%) were more likely to suffer from traumatic detachments. Younger patients were more likely to present to the optometrist initially. Less than half of the patients will present initially to the eye A&E.
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The personalisation of dementia services and existential realities: understanding Sikh carers caring for an older person with dementia in Wolverhampton
While personalisation and service choice remains a central plank of the Labour Government's policies in health and social care, there is a growing evidence base confirming that ethnic minority groups, are disadvantaged as service users in the UK. Building on some baseline data collected in 2000 and 2003 04, our recent research (Jutlla & Moreland, 2007) has reaffirmed the difficulties that Asian carers have in accessing services when caring for a relative with dementia.While such access data is important, we wish to move beyond the demographic aspects to consider the existential realities (the ontology) of the lives and cultures of those in minority ethnic groups. This paper consequently discusses the diversity and complexity of migration patterns among the Sikh community living in Wolverhampton. The paper conceptualises some of the ways in which different migration experiences and the realities of daily life influence the perceptions, experiences and patterns of care among migrant Sikh carers in Wolverhampton caring for an older person with dementia. The paper thus explores the thesis that the Sikh community is not a homogeneous group; and that the diversity and differences within the Sikh community can have important implications for care. Taking a biographical narrative approach to fieldwork, the relevant factors to be considered include: the carer's country of origin; their migration route and reasons for migration; their age at migration and the cultural experiences of the carers and their communities both in the UK and India.
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