The working practices of Birmingham's Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies

This article offers a history of the working practices of the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies. Based on extensive interviews with former members and on research into a new archive of the Centre, housed in the Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham, it argues that cultural studies as practised in the 1970s was always a heterogeneous subject. The CCCS was heavily influenced by the events of 1968 when it tried to develop a new type of radical and collaborative research and teaching agenda. Despite Stuart Hall's efforts to impose a focused link between politics and academic practice, the agenda soon gave way to a series of diverse and fruitful initiatives associated with the ‘sub-groups’ model of research.

The Emergence and Development of Association Football: Influential Sociocultural Factors in Victorian Birmingham

This article explores the interdependent, complex sociocultural factors that facilitated the emergence and diffusion of football in Birmingham. The focus is the development of football in the city, against the backdrop of the numerous social changes in Victorian Birmingham. The aim is to fill a gap in the existing literature which seemingly overlooked Birmingham as a significant footballing centre, and the ‘ordinary and everyday’ aspects of the game’s early progression. Among other aspects, particular heed is paid to the working classes’ involvement in football, as previous literature has often focused on the middle classes and their influence on and participation in organized sport. As the agency of the working classes along with their mass participation and central role in the game’s development is unfolded, it is argued that far from being passive cultural beings, the working classes, from the beginnings, actively negotiated the development of their own emergent football culture.

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Arrêt du Grand Conseil qui maintient les communautés régulières dans le droit de nommer aux bénéfices, le siège abbatial vaquant. (Maintient Ignace de Vaucanu en la possession de la cure de Notre-Dame d'Ommoy dont il a été pourvu par les religieux de Silly, contre Mich. Picot.)

[Acte. 1730-05-19. Paris]

Receipt from Chance Brothers and Co. Glass Works near Birmingham, England

Receipt from Chance Brothers and Co. Glass Works near Birmingham, England regarding payment received for glass panes. This is accompanied by an envelope, April 6, 1875.

Hacia una propuesta de educación no formal : la formación del educador de adultos para el programa Educación para todos en Ptzcuaro, Mich., México

Tesis (Maestría en Formación y Capacitación de Recursos Humanos) UANL

Album conmemorativo del XXV aniversario de la fundación del Colegio Salesiano de Morelia-(Mich., México), 1901-1926.

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A Memoir of Mary Capper, Late of Birmingham, a Minister of the Society of Friends.

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Mixed use urban regeneration at Brindleyplace, Birmingham and Gunwharf Quays, Portsmouth: an assessment of the impact on local and national economies

This independent research was commissioned by the British Property Federation. The report examines the local and national economic impact of two major, mixed use schemes in terms of tax revenue, household income, business rates and council tax and jobs creation. A regeneration balance sheet for each scheme is presented in the context of government policy and other related research. The report provides a comprehensive review of government policy and the role of retail and other land uses in regeneration. Highlighting the importance of national and local multiplier effects with detailed statistics drawn from a variety of sources, this fully illustrated colour research report builds up a detailed picture of economic impact of the mixed use regeneration schemes in the local economies of Birmingham and Portsmouth. The report will be of interest to property people, planners and all involved in regeneration and local economies.

The Birmingham Urban Climate Laboratory: an open meteorological test bed and challenges of the smart city

Existing urban meteorological networks have an important role to play as test beds for inexpensive and more sustainable measurement techniques that are now becoming possible in our increasingly smart cities. The Birmingham Urban Climate Laboratory (BUCL) is a near-real-time, high-resolution urban meteorological network (UMN) of automatic weather stations and inexpensive, nonstandard air temperature sensors. The network has recently been implemented with an initial focus on monitoring urban heat, infrastructure, and health applications. A number of UMNs exist worldwide; however, BUCL is novel in its density, the low-cost nature of the sensors, and the use of proprietary Wi-Fi networks. This paper provides an overview of the logistical aspects of implementing a UMN test bed at such a density, including selecting appropriate urban sites; testing and calibrating low-cost, nonstandard equipment; implementing strict quality-assurance/quality-control mechanisms (including metadata); and utilizing preexisting Wi-Fi networks to transmit data. Also included are visualizations of data collected by the network, including data from the July 2013 U.K. heatwave as well as highlighting potential applications. The paper is an open invitation to use the facility as a test bed for evaluating models and/or other nonstandard observation techniques such as those generated via crowdsourcing techniques.

La lingua e l'estraneità: Franco Biondi e la letteratura dell'immigrazione in Germania. Proposta di traduzione di "Und nun schieben sie mich ab"

In questo lavoro è presentata una proposta di traduzione del racconto Und nun schieben sie mich ab (Biondi, 1985: 168- 174), di Franco Biondi, un autore di origini italiane residente in Germania dal 1965 (Amodeo, 2007: 6). Data la sua biografia, Biondi è un autore emblematico tanto della letteratura italiana della migrazione, quanto della letteratura dell’immigrazione in Germania, a testimonianza di come questa letteratura sia riuscita a superare i confini letterari nazionali per entrare a far parte di una «letteratura mondiale della transculturalità» (Amodeo, 2000: 327) . Considerati il terreno comune su cui si sono sviluppate le opere di autori di varie nazionalità in Germania, e l’eterogeneità dei contesti letterari e sociali degli autori italiani nei vari Paesi, si è ritenuto più efficace focalizzare i capitoli teorici del lavoro sulla letteratura dell’immigrazione in Germania, con un’attenzione particolare agli autori di origine italiana. La proposta di traduzione sarà preceduta da un inquadramento storico degli albori della letteratura dell’immigrazione in Germania, nata negli anni Sessanta del Novecento. Da lì si procederà presentando gli sviluppi di questa letteratura fino agli anni più recenti: si partirà dalla letteratura dell’immigrazione in Germania prodotta da autori di varie nazionalità, entrando poi nel merito degli autori di origine italiana attivi in Germania. Il terzo capitolo è dedicato a Franco Biondi, di cui saranno presentate una breve biografia e le opere più significative. Il quarto e il quinto capitolo sono dedicati interamente al racconto Und nun schieben sie mich ab (Biondi, 1985): in particolare, il quarto capitolo contiene un’analisi del tema e del contenuto del racconto, contestualizzato poi all’interno della raccolta “Passavantis Rückkehr” (Ibid.) e dell’opera dell’autore; in questo capitolo inoltre viene presentata un’analisi linguistica e stilistica del racconto. Il quinto capitolo contiene la proposta di traduzione, seguita da un commento della traduzione e delle strategie utilizzate.