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Published: 01 November 2009
... relationships between Great Britain, the Irish Free State and the British Dominions. The time and effort of the case had the effect of identifying the civil service organisations with those civil servants who were retiring, and of making them seem of little relevance to the vast majority that were staying...
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Introduction
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Robert F. Dewey
Published: 01 March 2009
... Viscount Carrington C E evolving views on Common Market Paul John Attlee Lord Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament CND Communist Party of Great Britain CPGB Forward Britain Movement FBM free trade Harrod Roy Keep Britain Out KBO League of Empire Loyalists LEL Meade James Mishan E J Pickles...
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The Daily Express and the anti-Market campaign
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Robert F. Dewey
Published: 01 March 2009
...This chapter examines the campaign launched by the Daily Express against Great Britain's application to the EEC. It evaluates the roots, nature and centrality of national identity issues employed by the Express during its pursuit of the anti-Market campaign...
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The parameters of politics
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Peter D. G. Thomas
Published: 31 October 2002
...This chapter describes the political system in Great Britain during the first decade of the regime of George III, discussing criticism that he was subverting to pre-Bill of Rights practice and investigating whether he was subverting the constitution, as portrayed by the traditional interpretation...
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Published: 02 June 2010
... and revolution. The notion of revolution is present in reggae music, throughout its evolution and in Jamaica as much as in Great Britain. Reggae music can be considered as the narrative of a history as much as of a memory, as a tool of communication and of transmission of a religious knowledge and socio...
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‘We never trained our children to be socialists’: the next Lansbury generation and Labour politics, 1881–1951
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John Shepherd
Published: 30 May 2017
... of the essay by John Shepherd, whose monumental study of the life and political career of George Lansbury is well known and highly respected. In the early 1920s members of the Lansbury family for a time became members of the Communist Party of Great Britain - a factor that weighed against their father’s...
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Published: 13 September 2010
...This chapter introduces the theories and concepts that are applied to the case studies of Spain and Great Britain and develops a series of hypotheses regarding the role of ideas and knowledge in policy change. It features different models or approaches to the policy process and policy change...
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Introduction
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Martin Gorsky and others
Published: 30 July 2006
... as an unproblematic process of enlightenment and progress and that is increasingly concerned with welfare outside the state. It explores the development of acute in-patient care in relation to broader socioeconomic changes in Great Britain and in relation to changes in National Health Service (NHS) policy...
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The geography of hospital contributory schemes: membership, reciprocity and integration
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Martin Gorsky and others
Published: 30 July 2006
...This chapter considers geographical variations in the membership of hospital contributory schemes in Great Britain and the associated issue of variations in the resources generated by the schemes. It offers a geographical disaggregation of membership and finance, as well as a discussion of one...
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Hospital contribution and civil society: humanity not democracy?
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Martin Gorsky and others
Published: 30 July 2006
...This chapter investigates the role of hospital contributory schemes as mediators of popular participation in health provision in Great Britain. It presents empirical evidence on the scope for grassroots or local involvement in decision-making and explores the structures and procedures...
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The Wilson governments, 1964–1970
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Rhiannon Vickers
Published: 30 September 2011
... of Great Britain, Wilson continued to present himself as a player on the world stage. The chapter discusses Wilson's position on the Vietnam War and highlights his attachment to Britain's world role and its imperial legacy. Brown George Callaghan James Conservative Party Gaitskell Hugh nuclear weapons...
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The decline of revolutionary pragmatism and the splintering of British communism in the 1980s
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Jeremy Tranmer
Published: 01 October 2018
...The 1980s are often remembered as a period of divisions and splits in the Labour Party. However, it was not the only part of the British labour movement to experience this type of problem since the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) was also concerned. Like the Labour Party, it was divided...
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Worlds of possibilities: 1946–1955
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John Williamson and Martin Cloonan
Published: 19 October 2016
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as General Secretary of the MU is reported and the role of the Communist Part of Great Britain within the Union discussed. A 1946 agreement between PPL and the MU is shown to be of particular importance. The end of the “ban” on alien musicians entering the UK to work is reported. competition copyright...
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Making miners militant? The Communist Party of Great Britain in the National Union of Mineworkers, 1956–85
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Sheryl Bernadette Buckley
Published: 28 February 2018
...The Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) was a visible presence across many significant trade unions in the post-war period, largely due to its industrial strategy. The party envisaged that politicising the rank and file of important trade unions and also capturing the leadership of these unions...
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Published: 28 February 2018
...This article deals with the foundation of the Communist Party of Britain (CPB), a 1988 split from the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB), which was overseen by a group around Tony Chater, whom had earlier been involved with splitting the Morning Star newspaper away from...
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Published: 01 May 2012
... relationship with Great Britain and therefore subject to the overwhelming domination of a single narrative rooted in the struggle for independence. While this narrative of the Irish Nation dominated Irish foreign policy at the state's foundation, it later came to be challenged as a result of contradictions...
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Imperial expansion and its critics
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Julie Evans and others
Published: 21 August 2003
... Six Nations’ peoples Acts citizenship Durham First Earl of J G Lambton Buller Charles Grey Earl British Empire Aborigines Durham Report Great Britain settler colonies In May 1910 Edward VII, king of Great Britain and Ireland and emperor of India, who had assumed the throne on the death...
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Published: 01 August 2009
...This chapter traces the development of the Anglo-Irish relationship and cross-border cooperation under direct rule. It describes the different levels of institutional cooperation including the involvement of other territorial governments from Great Britain. It discusses the growth...
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Policy-making under direct rule
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Derek Birrell
Published: 01 August 2009
...This chapter presents an overview of public policy-making in Northern Ireland under direct rule. It discusses the degree of convergence and divergence in policy and legislation with Great Britain and examines the major influences on policy and the nature of policy networks. The local contribution...
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The Northern Ireland Troubles in Britain: Impacts, engagements, legacies and memories
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Graham Dawson (ed.) and others
Published online: 18 May 2017
Published in print: 28 December 2016