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The volume proposes a stylistics perspective to investigate the discourse of professional communities. It provides an overview of the evolving field of stylistics and its potential for analysing texts, then goes on to apply these theoretical and method.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Readers' Guide -- List of Figures -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Bodies, Sexuality and Health -- 3 Hearth and Home -- 4 Work and Working Conditions -- 5 Crime and Punishment, Immorality and Reform -- 6 Religion -- 7 Protest and Politics -- 8 Empire Experiences and Perspectives -- Index

The first social history of Scottish policing since 1900Geographical coverage of both rural and urban areas (including the Highlands and Islands as well as the Glasgow conurbation)Focuses on social identities and the dynamics shaping police-community relationships across timeContextualises Scottish experience in relation to broader comparative frameworksIncludes much content not previously covered from a Scottish perspectiveThe first UK study to compare the practices, cultures and repertoires of uniform policing in urban and rural areas in the 1940s-70sThis book examines the relationships forged between police officers and the diverse urban and rural communities in which they have lived and worked in Scotland across the 20th century, demonstrating patterns that were diverse and variegated. It considers both the formal rhetoric (and sets of structures) that defined and prescribed the policing ideal as well as the experience of policing from a range of grassroots' perspectives. Drawing on a wealth of archival materials, oral history interviews, and memoirs, as well as previously unused primary sources, the author identifies and explains the factors that led to not only co-operation, consensus and the building of trust, but also points of tension and conflict across a century of social, political and technological change

Background: Years of political instability, civil unrest, and disease have left scores of Ugandans in need of mental health services. However, there are few formal mental health services available in the country. Professional helpers such as clergy, teachers, and healthcare workers who have strong ties to their communities are frequently placed in formal counseling roles.Aims: To develop, implement, and evaluate a training model for developing micro-counseling skills designed specifically for informal helpers in Uganda.Methods: Forty-four professional helpers were provided with a one-week, 40-hour training program in microcounseling skills.Results: Following the training program, trainees demonstrated proficiency in basic counseling skills and attained an increased knowledge of those skills.Conclusions: This training was readily assimilated and supported the ecological validity of the microcounseling model.

Restaging the Past is the first edited collection devoted to the study of historical pageants in Britain, ranging from their Edwardian origins to the present day. Across Britain in the twentieth century, people succumbed to 'pageant fever'. Thousands dressed up in historical costumes and performed scenes from the history of the places where they lived, and hundreds of thousands more watched them. These pageants were one of the most significant aspects of popular engagement with the past between the 1900s and the 1970s: they took place in large cities, small towns and tiny villages, and engaged a whole range of different organised groups, including Women's Institutes, political parties, schools, churches and youth organisations. Pageants were community events, bringing large numbers of people together in a shared celebration and performance of the past; they also involved many prominent novelists, professional historians and other writers, as well as featuring repeatedly in popular and highbrow literature. Although the pageant tradition has largely died out, it deserves to be acknowledged as a key aspect of community history during a period of great social and political change. Indeed, as this book shows, some traces of 'pageant fever' remain in evidence today.

Historical pageants were important sites of popular engagement with the past in twentieth-century Britain. They took place in many places and sometimes on a large scale, in settings ranging from small villages to industrial cities. They were staged by schools, churches, professional organisations, women's groups and political parties—and other organisations too—and were among the many informal educational activities that occupied British associational life in the twentieth century. This article examines the involvement of educational organisations in historical pageantry, and the sometimes uneasy relationship that pageants had with academic history. It draws on contemporary studies of heritage and performance to explore the blend of history, myth and fiction that characterised pageants, and the ways in which they both shaped and reflected the self-image of local communities. Pageants lived long in the memories of those who performed in and watched them, and were themselves often commemorated in memorials and subsequent events. They were important channels of popular education as well as entertainment and, although they are sometimes seen as backward-looking and conservative spectacles, this article argues that pageants could be an effective means of enlisting the past in the service of the present and future.

Historical pageants were important sites of popular engagement with the past in twentieth-century Britain. They took place in many places and sometimes on a large scale, in settings ranging from small villages to industrial cities. They were staged by schools, churches, professional organisations, women's groups and political parties, among others. This article draws on contemporary studies of heritage and performance to explore the blend of history, myth and fiction that characterised pageants, and the ways in which they both shaped and reflected the self-image of local communities. Pageants were important channels of popular education as well as entertainment and, although they are sometimes seen as backward-looking and conservative spectacles, this article argues that pageants could be an effective means of enlisting the past in the service of the present and future.

Historical pageants were important sites of popular engagement with the past in twentieth-century Britain. They took place in many places and sometimes on a large scale, in settings ranging from small villages to industrial cities. They were staged by schools, churches, professional organisations, women's groups and political parties, among others. This article draws on contemporary studies of heritage and performance to explore the blend of history, myth and fiction that characterised pageants, and the ways in which they both shaped and reflected the self-image of local communities. Pageants were important channels of popular education as well as entertainment and, although they are sometimes seen as backward-looking and conservative spectacles, this article argues that pageants could be an effective means of enlisting the past in the service of the present and future.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Series Editors' Foreword -- Introduction: Conceiving the Everyday in the Twentieth Century -- 1. Charting Everyday Experience -- 2. From Scullery to Conservatory: Everyday Life in the Scottish Home -- 3. Changing Intimacy: Seeking and Forming Couple Relationships -- 4. The Realities and Narratives of Paid Work: The Scottish Workplace -- 5. Being a Man: Everyday Masculinities -- 6. Spectacle, Restraint and the Sabbath Wars: The 'Everyday' Scottish Sunday -- 7. After 'The Religion of My Fathers': The Quest for Composure in the 'Post-Presbyterian' Self -- 8. Culture in the Everyday: Art and Society -- 9. Sickness and Health -- 10. Passing Time: Cultures of Death and Mourning -- Further Reading -- Notes on the Contributors -- Index