1926, 1984. .. And All That!
13 Steve Humphries, A Secret World of Sex: Forbidden Fruit: The British Experience, 1900–1950, London, 1991, p. 9. 14 Humphries, Secret World, p. 16. 15 Judy Giles, ‘ ‘‘Playing Hard to Get’’: Working-class Women, Sexuality and Respectability in Britain, 1918–40’, Women’s History Review 1: 2, 1992, p. 243. 16 As note 15. 17 Giles ‘‘Playing Hard to Get’’, 16, p. 250. 18 See Eustace Chesser, The Sexual, Marital and Family Relationships of the English Woman, London, Hutchinson, 1956. Geoffrey Gorer, Exploring English Character, London, 1955.
The Northern College: twenty-five years of adult learning
This publication provides a history of the Northern College for Residential Adult Education, which was founded in 1978. Contributions to this volume highlight the achievements and progress of the college over the last 25 years. The volume includes the following chapters: Introduction / William Hampton and Malcolm Ball; The local tradition of working-class and self-help education / John Halstead; Creating Northern College / Richard Taylor; Northern College: the early years / Michael Barratt Brown and David Browning; The Northern College from Thatcherism to 'new labour': a personal reminiscence / Bob Fryer; From FEFC [Further Education Funding Council] to LSC [Learning and Skills Council]: resurrecting the roots in the 21st century / J. A. Jowitt; Engagement with the community: some significant aspects of the short-course programme / John Grayson and Keith Jackson; Working with community groups: the example of SADACCA / Carmen Franklin; Change and continuity: trade union education at the Northern College / Keith Bradshaw; New initiatives in learning for social and economic regeneration: the examples of the coalfields learning project and the steel areas regeneration 1994-2000 / R. K. Britton; A bold experiment: the Northern College diploma course / John Grayson and Malcolm Ball; Forming public policy: trends and prospects for residential adult education in an era of lifelong learning / John Field.
Reid on Hypotheses and the Ether; A Reassessment
In recent years historians of science have come to see that Thomas Reid’s Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man had a profound impact on the development of British methodological thought in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. Larry Laudan has argued that Reid was “the first major British philosopher to take Newton’s opinions on induction, causality, and hypotheses seriously”; and that Reid was thereby instrumental in changing the character of British methodological discourse in the Enlightenment.(1) Geoffrey Cantor has examined in detail the influence of Reid’s critique of ether theories and hypotheses in the Essays on leading protagonists in the nineteenth-century debates surrounding the wave theory of light,(2) and Richard Olson has traced the origins of the scientific style of British physics in the Victorian period to the writings of Reid and other Common Sense philosophers. (3) As well as delineating Reid’s influence, Laudan, Cantor, and Olson have attempted to identify the problems to which he addressed himself in articulating his methodology, and they have analysed with some care the internal structure of his methodological views. Thanks to the work of these historians, therefore, we have a fairly comprehensive picture of Reid’s methodology and its fortunes in the nineteenth century.