Captain Swing: A Retrospect

The Social Dynamics of Collective Action: Evidence from the Captain Swing Riots, 1830-31

Social unrest often erupts suddenly and diffuses quickly. What drives people to overcome their collective action problem and join a riot or protest, turning what is initially a small event into a widespread movement? We address this question by examining the Swing riots of 1830-31. The communication constraints of the time induced spatio-temporal variation in exposure to news about the uprising...

Choice Sequences: a Retrospect

A Psychological Quarterly Retrospect

Dubing the past quarter, two vacancies on the Board of Lunacy Commissioners have occurred; one occasioned by the retirement of Dr. Turner, and the second by the death of Mr. Mylne, the barrister. Dr. Turner's unfortunate infirmity of sight was considered materially to interfere with his usefulness and the efficient performance of his duties ; and, consequently, it was considered necessary that ...

The SOFTNETProjeCt : A Retrospect

An experimental multihop packet radio network, SOFTNET, is described. The concept of "soft? protocols for experimental packet switched networks is introduced. Using this scheme, network nodes can be easily reprogrammed to provide new user services during normal operation. The SOFTNET Network programming language is described. Further, the hardware and software implementation of the network is o...

Captain Thomas Dover

were disbanded because of hooliganism. They have been restarted in this century and take place on the first weekend in May. The games consisted of various contests at single stick (backsword), wrestling, running, jingling, Morris dancing, greyhound coursing and horse racing. It is said that Shakespeare, whose aunt Joan Arden lived at Barton on the Heath, attended the games and included scenes f...