Growth, profits and technological choice: The case of the Lancashire cotton textile industry

Using Lancashire textile industry company case studies and financial records, mainly from the period just before the First World War, the processes of growth and decline are re-examined. These are considered by reference to the nature of Lancashire entrepreneurship and the impact on technological choice. Capital accumulation, associated wealth distributions and the character of Lancashire business organisation were sybiotically linked to the success of the industry before 1914. However, the legacy of that accumulation in later decades, chronic overcapacity, formed a barrier to reconstruction and enhanced the preciptious decline of a once great industry

East Lancashire Research 2008

East Lancashire Research 200

Fisheries in a changing scene [includes section on proposed Morecambe Bay barrage scheme]: paper presented at Association of River Authorities, Annual Conference, Morecambe, 1967

The report looks at trends developing in the area of the Lancashire River Authority which will, by the turn of the century, bring tremendous pressures to bear on its natural resources, particularly land and water. It looks at difficulties maintaining an environment suitable for all, human or otherwise, including construction of energy plants and increasing population. It explores the scheme of harnessing water on Morecambe Bay, including fishery advantages and disadvantages. The report looks at fish deaths and diseases in Morecambe Bay and the Lancashire area, providing statistics

Home Gardening

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Tomatoes for Canning

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Wainwright reconsidered: Prisons, Families and the Human Rights Act

A brief, speculative look at how the provisions of the Human Rights Act 1998 regarding the rights of prisoners' partners and children may have impacted (had it been applicable) on the decision of Wainwright v Home Office [2003] UKHL 53 which related to conduct before the act came into force. Piece by Helen Codd (Principal Lecturer in Law, lancashire Law School, University of Central Lancashire) published in Amicus Curiae – Journal of the Society for Advanced Legal Studies at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. The Journal is produced by SALS at the IALS (Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London)

'Visitor Moorings for UK Small Craft: a Dangerous Neglect?', paper presented at Marine & Coastal Policy Forum, Plymouth University, June 22nd – 24th, 2011

Please see the attached poster which was given at a SBNE research event at the University of Central Lancashire the week before the paper was presented in Plymouth

Crime and religion in Lancashire

This report presents the research findings from a project carried out between autumn 2012 and summer 2014 and commissioned by Lancashire County Council with the support of the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner for Lancashire, Lancashire Constabulary and the Lancashire Council of Mosques. The project investigated the experience of religiously aggravated crime particularly affecting Muslim communities in Lancashire. In the context of the research findings the report offers a number of recommendations for tackling all types of hate crime concerning awareness raising, third-party reporting, hate crime bystander training, victim management, and interventions with offenders

Lancashire Idylls

Dialecto literario inglés. -- Lancashire. -- Pertenece a la colección 1800-1950 del Salamanca Corpus. -- James Marshall Mather. -- Lancashire Idylls. -- 1895[EN]Short stories with a Lancashire setting and dialect.[ES]Relatos cortos que se desarrollan en Lancashire y que contienen dialecto de Lancashire