http://dspace1.isd.glam.ac.uk:80/dspace/handle/10265/122 Fri, 24 May 2013 01:24:07 GMT 2013-05-24T01:24:07Z http://dspace1.isd.glam.ac.uk:80/dspace/retrieve/165/hass.JPG http://dspace1.isd.glam.ac.uk:80/dspace/handle/10265/122 http://dspace1.isd.glam.ac.uk:80/dspace/handle/10265/655 Title: The idea of the continuation/extinguishment of 'Welsh' customary land law in the face of Norman/English conquest and legal regime-change Authors: Stuckey, Michael. S Abstract: In the circumstances of military conquest and revolutionary change, and the consequent resolution of legalities, lawmakers will often attempt to articulate very selective distinctions about the past and the present and about continuities and transformations. The idea of the continuation, or conversely the extinguishment, of customary law is of course a concept which has attracted the attention of historians of the common law, and in the context of land law there has been a particular concern in recent years relating to native title claims in “settled colonies”. In line with common law methodology, precedents endow this discourse; and the Welsh case which is cited as the exemplar of the survival of indigenous laws in post-conquest settlement is Witrong v. Blany (1674) 3 Keeble 401 [84 ER 789]. It has been by way of cases like Witrong v. Blaney that Coke’s analysis of the legalities of conquest informed the Blackstonian declaration of the colonies establishing the paradigm within which we still largely function. However, a close reading of Witrong reveals an indistinct and possibly hesitant judicial position on the effects of the 1535 Act 27 Henry VIII cap. 26, possibly indicating that at its heart this piece of legislation had an inherent ambiguity so far as the idea of continuation or extinguishment of Welsh law was concerned. Mon, 14 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://dspace1.isd.glam.ac.uk:80/dspace/handle/10265/655 2013-01-14T00:00:00Z http://dspace1.isd.glam.ac.uk:80/dspace/handle/10265/639 Title: Die Macht des Faktischen: britische Labourabgeordnete und der Mauerbau 1961 Authors: Laporte, Norman. H Abstract: The article explains why the British Left, primarily Labour Party MPs, reacted to the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961 with resignation and a high degree of acceptance that it would stabilise the Cold War. Thu, 03 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://dspace1.isd.glam.ac.uk:80/dspace/handle/10265/639 2013-01-03T00:00:00Z http://dspace1.isd.glam.ac.uk:80/dspace/handle/10265/636 Title: Unrespectable Radicals? Popular Politics in the Age of Reform Authors: Evans, Christopher Thu, 03 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://dspace1.isd.glam.ac.uk:80/dspace/handle/10265/636 2013-01-03T00:00:00Z http://dspace1.isd.glam.ac.uk:80/dspace/handle/10265/618 Title: Crucible steel as an enlightened material Authors: Evans, Christopher Abstract: Crucible steel is usually seen as a product of Sheffield. It is defined as a key element of Britain’s Industrial Revolution; in turn, it defines the Industrial Revolution as something essentially provincial and vernacular. This paper proposes a shift in perspective. It examines the alternative genealogy of crucible steel to be found in Henry Horne’s Essays concerning Iron and Steel (1773). Horne presented crucible steel as something metropolitan and enlightened: it was a product of London and its scientific community. It is a suggestion that runs counter to the accepted history of crucible steel as a process and a product, but it there something to be gained by taking Horne’s suggestion seriously? Fri, 21 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://dspace1.isd.glam.ac.uk:80/dspace/handle/10265/618 2012-12-21T00:00:00Z