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Post by carlton43 on Jun 29, 2019 14:13:46 GMT
CULTURAL STUDIES TIMELINES
I seek advice on good generalist books of cultural studies with particular reference to the historical development of western culture and more especially from and including The Enlightenment. Also works of comparative cultural philosophy in the same area and periods.
Within this above request I have a particular desire also for very detailed sets of time lines on cultural development either general and chronological or thematic or individual arts based.
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Post by Andrew_S on Jun 29, 2019 14:39:10 GMT
I could not trace this using the quite awful 'index search' by inserting 'Ask the Forum' in the appropriate box when in the Off Topic general section. Do others have trouble finding threads? I often find it brings up just about anything other than the thread I want. It's actually better to use a search engine like Google to search for topics on the forum rather than using the awful search facility provided by the site itself. I do it quite a lot. Just type the name of the forum into the search engine and then the topic you're looking for. The same thing is true for lots of other websites. Google does a better job than their own search pages, which I suppose is a bit counterintuitive because you'd assume that a site itself would be able to do a better job of searching for something rather than a general search website like Google.
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Post by carlton43 on Jun 29, 2019 14:54:37 GMT
Thank you both for your replies. It is always a comfort to know that it is not personal stupidity or incompetence causing the difficulty and that other encounter the same difficulties. The specific advice on using google instead is simple and most helpful.
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Jun 29, 2019 15:42:57 GMT
Go to recent threads and then Ctrl F to find text - type in 'Ask' of 'forum' or whatever. If not found, go to page 2 and continue. This does depend on the thread in question having been posted on relatively recently (this particular thread usually has)
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Post by andrewteale on Jun 29, 2019 17:43:14 GMT
Ward boundary reviews and constituency boundary reviews are completely separate processes. When the ward boundary changes, the constituency boundary stays in the same place it used to be. But, releated to this... We are due to have a parish review across the borough, and we're going to use the opportunity to tidy up our town council numbers and warding. Nothing contentious. However, across the borough there are loads of defaced boundaries (boundaries originally drawn along some feature that is no longer there, eg a demolished wall or a river that has moved, or development has spread over the line). Where these are with a borough ward they are similar in status to a polling district boundary, so can be moved by the borough council. However, a handful also form borough ward boundaries. At the borough review the LGBC were adamant that they had no powers to adjust parish boundaries, so the fixes couldn't be done at the same time as the borough review, and the borough review was forced to use the defaced boundaries. Every now and then I see a post in the Boundaries subforum mentioning an order to move a ward boundary to take account of adjusted parishes. How is this done? Is this something the borough has power to do, and asks somebody "upstairs" to do the adjustment? How does the borough do: "redraw parish boundary between Parish X and Parish Y between point A and point B to follow Centre Of Road, and adjust ward boundary beween borough ward L and M to match" ? Just spotted this. The district council has the power to determine parish boundaries in its area. Often they will make a review of local governance and then ask the Electoral Commission to make an order to realign the ward boundaries. The orders are generally along the lines of 'the area marked A on Map 1 is transferred from Ward X to Ward Y' as many times as necessary. There have been occasions where this is done in a thirds council between wards on different electoral cycles. You then have to adjust the electoral cycle (hold an extraordinary election, delay an election by a year or something similar) so that both wards are having an election at the time of the transfer.
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Post by greenhert on Jun 30, 2019 22:07:16 GMT
Why were 1983 constituency boundaries based on electorates of constituencies in 1976, when electorates for 1979 which were 3 years less out of date (the review for the 1983 general election, one of the most radical along with the review for the 1950 general election, concluded in 1982) were widely available to the Boundary Commission?
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Jun 30, 2019 22:22:21 GMT
Why were 1983 constituency boundaries based on electorates of constituencies in 1976, when electorates for 1979 which were 3 years less out of date (the review for the 1983 general election, one of the most radical along with the review for the 1950 general election, concluded in 1982) were widely available to the Boundary Commission? Because the review commenced in February 1976. The PBCE were required under the law to submit a report between April 1979 and April 1984. They felt the review would take at least three years (in fact it took seven) and went early because of the need to get a review done under the new local government structure. Under the Rules then applying, the Commissions were obliged to use the electorate figures on the date the review was announced.
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Post by andrewp on Jul 1, 2019 17:56:21 GMT
Has anyone on here ever been a Clerk to a Parish Council?
Looking at adverts for them, they say 4 hours a week, 16 hours a week etc? Interested in whether those are realistic estimates of the time commitment or is it the sort of the role where the dealing with correspondence etc is more constant?
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Post by torremark on Jul 1, 2019 18:05:13 GMT
Has anyone on here ever been a Clerk to a Parish Council? Looking at adverts for them, they say 4 hours a week, 16 hours a week etc? Interested in whether those are realistic estimates of the time commitment or is it the sort of the role where the dealing with correspondence etc is more constant? Depends on the population and budget, towns and parishes have the same powers but a large town can employ quite a few people and pay their clerk, or chief executive what they want. For a small village council writing up and publishing the minutes, attending a few meetings each month and managing a budget of £5k would possibly four hours a week. Managing a budget of £400k with a full committee structure and five figure projects would be full time. I have good experience of the larger town and limited knowledge of the small authority.
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Post by andrewp on Jul 1, 2019 18:14:03 GMT
Has anyone on here ever been a Clerk to a Parish Council? Looking at adverts for them, they say 4 hours a week, 16 hours a week etc? Interested in whether those are realistic estimates of the time commitment or is it the sort of the role where the dealing with correspondence etc is more constant? Depends on the population and budget, towns and parishes have the same powers but a large town can employ quite a few people and pay their clerk, or chief executive what they want. For a small village council writing up and publishing the minutes, attending a few meetings each month and managing a budget of £5k would possibly four hours a week. Managing a budget of £400k with a full committee structure and five figure projects would be full time. I have good experience of the larger town and limited knowledge of the small authority. Thanks. Yes, I appreciate that clerks to Town Councils is a full time management job with a salary of 40k approx. Was more interested in the smaller councils- and whether that was something one could do on top of a full time job. They say eg 4 hours a week, up to 16 hours a week and wondered how realistic that might be.
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Post by torremark on Jul 1, 2019 18:20:08 GMT
Depends on the population and budget, towns and parishes have the same powers but a large town can employ quite a few people and pay their clerk, or chief executive what they want. For a small village council writing up and publishing the minutes, attending a few meetings each month and managing a budget of £5k would possibly four hours a week. Managing a budget of £400k with a full committee structure and five figure projects would be full time. I have good experience of the larger town and limited knowledge of the small authority. Thanks. Yes, I appreciate that clerks to Town Councils is a full time management job with a salary of 40k approx. Was more interested in the smaller councils- and whether that was something one could do on top of a full time job. They say eg 4 hours a week, up to 16 hours a week and wondered how realistic that might be. To be honest if you were talking 16 hours/week then I would expect a reasonable return, especially if you look at the legal responsibilities which don’t all fall on the council. A good guide would be where ever they advertise these sort of jobs. My experience was of a council, of which I was eventually mayor, advertised their CEO role in a national newspaper and that became a story in itself.
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Post by carlton43 on Jul 1, 2019 21:04:45 GMT
Has anyone on here ever been a Clerk to a Parish Council? Looking at adverts for them, they say 4 hours a week, 16 hours a week etc? Interested in whether those are realistic estimates of the time commitment or is it the sort of the role where the dealing with correspondence etc is more constant? Yes. Clerk to the Grazings and Township Constable in a Highlands community. Took two years to acquire 'The Knowledge' and quite a bit of law and practice. Then on site meetings. Grazings Committee meetings. Reports and returns. Official opinions on prospective applicants for crofts and on conduct of neglected and abandoned crofts. Keeping the books. Dealing with VAT. Dealing with SEPA, Croft Commission and Min of AG. Minutes, Notices, Notes, Correspondence, etc. First year about 72-days. Second say 40-days. Then about 36 per year. The tighter the control the smaller the amount of time required. Doing it well takes time but it pays off. I got the average meeting time down from about 5-hours to about 45-minutes by being very firm on the Agenda and meeting conduct, and with firm guillotine on interventions and time per Minute item. My clincher was that the BP main board has a one hour rule and we were a smaller scale outfit. I was widely respected and liked by a few and sorely missed when I left. I built in replacement programmes for every job and office and time limit on my own tenure to concentrate minds. I got us VAT registered, recovered lots of money, gained lots of grants, fenced the entire township against deer, rebuilt the sheep fank and approach road, and restored our main shed in a 4-year period. The average meeting has crept back to 3-hours and is getting longer! There has been very little done since. The records are incomplete. No VAT returns for some years! No one wants to do it. But very few active crofts left! There is no payment and there are no expenses.
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Post by Foggy on Jul 2, 2019 1:57:02 GMT
Being beaten by a Prohibition candidate must have been a particularly sore point for Winston Churchill! I see that Scrymgeour was finally ousted in 1931 by the odd double-act of Dingle Foot and Florence Horsbrugh. I know it was a 2-seat constituency, but their votes in 31 and 35 are among the highest I remember seeing, the total votes cast in 1935 being 188,378. ( What is the record number of votes polled by a woman?) Quite a contrast with the 1908 by-election that Churchill won with 7,079 votes. In this country it's probably the 203,452 first-preference votes for Susan Kramer at the inaugural London mayoral contest in 2000, but someone here may know otherwise. Vera Baird's 180,000+ in the Northumbria PCC election in 2016 run her close. For a parliamentary election, it looks like you might've already found the record. There could be a massively oversized and safe seat from the past I'm overlooking, but Horsbrugh broke 50,000 at the subsequent 1935 GE and that seems unassailable with the demise of 2-seat constituencies. The nearest to breaking that at the last UK general election appears to be Thangam Debbonaire with 47,213 in Bristol West. Internationally for a legislative election, it's likely to be Sonia Gandhi receving more than half a million votes in her constituency earlier this year, unless Sibboleth has any advance on that. For a presidential election, I'd guess almost 45 million votes Megawati Sukarnoputri in Indonesia in 2004 hasn't been beaten yet. (Hillary Clinton received 227 valid votes in her US presidential bid, of course.)
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Post by gwynthegriff on Jul 2, 2019 10:45:21 GMT
Has anyone on here ever been a Clerk to a Parish Council? Looking at adverts for them, they say 4 hours a week, 16 hours a week etc? Interested in whether those are realistic estimates of the time commitment or is it the sort of the role where the dealing with correspondence etc is more constant? You don't get paid for that work you know...?
If you spend 40 or 50 years doing it you might get an MBE eventually, maybe...
Are you on some sort of mission to post nonsense on every conceivable subject? The vast majority of Parish Councils in England employ paid clerks. A few of the smallest have volunteer clerks, but that is considered poor practice. The pay is generally around £10 per hour. The volume of work varies enormously. My one remaining council pays me for 9.5hrs per week. I suspect that's about right; Mrs TheGriff is convinced they get more than that out of me. It can be very satisfying work; it can also be deeply frustrating (generally where each meeting turns into an interminable rerun of the same moans as every other meeting on issues outside the control of the Council).
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Post by carlton43 on Jul 2, 2019 11:15:41 GMT
You don't get paid for that work you know...?
If you spend 40 or 50 years doing it you might get an MBE eventually, maybe...
Are you on some sort of mission to post nonsense on every conceivable subject? The vast majority of Parish Councils in England employ paid clerks. A few of the smallest have volunteer clerks, but that is considered poor practice. The pay is generally around £10 per hour. The volume of work varies enormously. My one remaining council pays me for 9.5hrs per week. I suspect that's about right; Mrs TheGriff is convinced they get more than that out of me. It can be very satisfying work; it can also be deeply frustrating (generally where each meeting turns into an interminable rerun of the same moans as every other meeting on issues outside the control of the Council). Alter the 'Rules of Engagement' for the conduct of meetings Gwyn. By stopping repeat diatribes on the same subject in the same terms, most meetings can be shortened by 75%.
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Post by gwynthegriff on Jul 2, 2019 11:55:53 GMT
Are you on some sort of mission to post nonsense on every conceivable subject? The vast majority of Parish Councils in England employ paid clerks. A few of the smallest have volunteer clerks, but that is considered poor practice. The pay is generally around £10 per hour. The volume of work varies enormously. My one remaining council pays me for 9.5hrs per week. I suspect that's about right; Mrs TheGriff is convinced they get more than that out of me. It can be very satisfying work; it can also be deeply frustrating (generally where each meeting turns into an interminable rerun of the same moans as every other meeting on issues outside the control of the Council). Alter the 'Rules of Engagement' for the conduct of meetings Gwyn. By stopping repeat diatribes on the same subject in the same terms, most meetings can be shortened by 75%. I no longer have that problem at my remaining council. And it's a task for the Chairman rather than the Clerk.
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Post by carlton43 on Jul 2, 2019 12:00:31 GMT
Alter the 'Rules of Engagement' for the conduct of meetings Gwyn. By stopping repeat diatribes on the same subject in the same terms, most meetings can be shortened by 75%. I no longer have that problem at my remaining council. And it's a task for the Chairman rather than the Clerk. Of course it is Gwyn. I had both roles and tend to forget that it is much better split.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 2, 2019 13:07:31 GMT
RE female candidates in elections with high vote totals, Stella Creasy received 78,100 votes in the Labour deputy leadership election in 2015, narrowly ahead of Cooper’s 71,928 in the main leader election. Both of which seem to be higher than those in parliamentary elections, but as others have pointed out, PCC and Mayoral elections have seen larger numbers.
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Post by timrollpickering on Jul 2, 2019 15:29:18 GMT
Martina Anderson got 159,813 for the European Parliament in Northern Ireland in 2014, the highest ever total for a women candidate. (The highest total overall was 230,251 for Ian Paisley in 1984.)
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