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The history of celebrity has been revised in recent years. Particular claims have been made for the invention of a recognizably modern form of celebrity at various points in the 'long 18th century.' This putative rise of modern celebrity has been linked with the rise of a modern public sphere and in many ways is understood as an offshoot of it. Furthermore, modern celebrity is often presented as a commercial enterprise and perhaps another aspect of the equally popular claim that the 18th century witnessed a 'consumer revolution.' This essay argues that there is also a political history of celebrity that has its origins in traditional forms of charisma and public devotion to famous figures. The pre-modern histories of monarchy and sainthood are not irrelevant to the history of modern celebrity and these perspectives can and should be incorporated into any understanding of how celebrity emerged as a form of public notoriety and influence in the long 18th century.

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This paper examines whether recent in-migrants to rural settlements in England commute further to work than the longer-term residents of these places and whether commuting distance differs according to the type of move and the geographical context of their home. The study is based on data from the Controlled Access Microdata Sample (CAMS) of the 2001 Census of Population. It is found that recent in-migrants are much more likely to commute at least 20km than are the longer-term residents. Using binary logistic regression so as to allow for socio-demographic differences between people, it is shown that the likelihood of longer distance commuting was highest for people who had moved home by between 15 and 99km and for people moving from the largest cities.

In early August 2011, disturbances broke out in a number of English cities. What happened was broadcast globally, and all of a sudden it seemed as if all of the country was about to burst into flames. This short paper is offered by way of a 'letter' from England. It was written in late August 2011 and is an initial attempt to develop an understanding of why the disturbances broke out, what motivated the people who were involved and, indeed, why things were confined to England. Cities elsewhere in Britain experienced nothing. The paper identifies a crisis in the English social imaginary. The disturbances are understood as a conjunctural response to this crisis, a response highlighting the interregnum in the English social imaginary.

Intro -- Map of England -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1: An Overview of Sociolinguistics in England -- Introduction -- Previous Work on Sociolinguistics in England -- Current Volume -- Future Direction -- References -- 2: Urban Literacies and Processes of Supralocalisation: A Historical Sociolinguistic Perspective -- Introduction -- Historical Sociolinguistics, Urban Literacies and Language Standardisation -- The Third-Person Singular Present Indicative: Variation and Change in Urban Depositions -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- 3: Social Change, Linguistic Change and Sociolinguistic Change in Received Pronunciation -- Introduction -- Theoretical Preliminaries -- Standard Languages, Elite Sociolects and Language Change -- What's in a Name? -- Quantitative Empirical Studies of Phonetic Variation in RP Speech -- T-Glottalling -- Weak Vowel Variation -- Changes in the RP Short Vowel System -- Smoothing and Yod Coalescence -- /r/ Variation in RP -- Variation and Change in RP Over the Lifespan -- Attitudinal Studies of RP: Dialect-in-Discourse -- Sociolinguistic Change and Modern RP -- Conclusion -- References -- 4: The Changing Language of Urban Youth: A Pilot Study -- Introduction -- Research on Youth Language -- Research on Manchester English -- The Context -- A Description of the Language -- Vowels -- FOOT/STRUT -- GOOSE -- happy -- letter -- PRICE -- FACE -- MOUTH -- Other Linguistic Features -- Quotatives -- Words and Phrases -- Awareness -- Social Factors -- Gender -- Ethnicity -- Identity -- Social Practices -- Moving Forward -- References -- 5: Stylisation and the Dynamics of Migration, Ethnicity and Class -- Introduction1 -- The Systems in Focus -- The Argument -- The Posh/Cockney Style Binary at Central High -- The Creole/Asian English Style Contrast in Ashmead

Cover -- Volume I -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Preface -- Bibliographical Note -- Table of Contents -- I The Conception -- II The Method -- A Divers Problems of Method -- 1 Wills as sources -- 2 Living gifts as sources -- 3 The principle of county selection -- 4 Population and wealth -- 5 The historical intervals -- 6 Units of reckoning -- B Frailties of the Method -- C The Great Charitable Heads -- III The Need -- A The Decline of the Middle Ages and the Emergence of Endemic Poverty

1\. Introduction 1 1.1. Why Study Early Stuart Adultery? 1 1.2. How to Study Early Stuart Adultery 7 1.2.1. Court Records 8 1.2.2. Prescriptive Texts 16 1.2.3. Fictional Texts and Performances 18 2\. Approaching Early Modern Marriage and Adultery 28 2.1. Insecurities Surrounding Marriage 28 2.2. Performing Marriage – Witnessing Marriage 34 2.3. Marriage and Adultery: Norm and Transgression 37 3\. Neighbourhood I: Neighbours as Witnesses 44 3.1. Neighbourhood and Neighbourliness 45 3.1.1. Thou Shalt (Not) Bear (False) Witness 53 3.2. Gossip and Slander 64 3.2.1. Witnessing Gone Wrong 67 3.2.2. Gossip Gone Wrong 74 3.2.3. Sexual Reputation and the Double Standard 83 3.2.4. Gossip, Slander and Adultery: Conclusions 86 3.3. Mocking Practices 87 3.3.1. Mocking the Cuckold 90 3.3.2. Mocking the Adulteress 109 3.3.3. Mockery and Adultery: Conclusions 116 4\. Neighbourhood II: Neighbours as Guests and Friends 119 4.1. Cornerstones and Boundaries of Neighbourliness: Charity, Hospitality, Friendship 120 4.2. Male Friendship Facilitates Adultery 126 4.3. Male Hatred Facilitates Adultery, Female Friendship Saves Marriage 142 4.4. Jealousy Suspends Neighbourliness and Destroys Marriage 150 4.5. Friendship as a Model for Marriage? 154 4.6. Neighbourliness v. Marital Duties: Conclusions 157 5\. Household I: Spaces of Adultery 159 5.1. Household: Enclosure or Theatre? 160 5.2. The Centre Inside: The Marital Bed 182 5.3. Thresholds I: Doors 186 5.4. Thresholds II: Walls 199 5.5. Outside: Public (Outdoor) Spaces 219 5.6. Adulterous Domesticity: Conclusions 233 6\. Household II: Domestic Affairs 237 6.1. Domestic Hierarchies 240 6.1.1. Marriage: Equality v. Hierarchy 242 6.1.2. Husbandly Authority: Duties Before Privileges 247 6.2. Wife-Taming 267 6.3. Husband-Taming 281 6.4. Adulterous Business: Horn of Plenty or Horn of Cuckoldry? 312 6.5. Conjugal Hierarchies, Household Economy, and Adultery: Conclusions 331 7\. Staging Adultery in Early Stuart England: Conclusions 336 7.1. Adultery and Domestic (Gender) Hierarchies 336 7.2. ...

England and Wales have rules on managing multiple similar claims (the Group Litigation Order) and particular representative procedures for consumer protection cases and for competition cases. The competition procedure permits representative damages claims and reforms may introduce damages more widely. But the most interesting feature is the development of oversight of collective compensation by public regulatory authorities and alternative dispute resolution or voluntary mechanisms. [Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications Inc., copyright The American Academy of Political and Social Science.]

1. Material, method and occasion -- 2. Conversations about Adam -- 3. Roger Williams and John Eliot's Indian writings and the story of Adam -- 3. Gerrard Winstanley and Adam for millennium and commonwealth -- 5. John Milton's Adam and the English nation -- 6. John Locke, Adam and the original of power -- 7. Eliot, Williams, Winstanley, Milton and Locke : man's state and ongoing story.