'Levelling Up' Post-Industrial City-Regions in England

Women as mothers in pre-industrial England

was not Du Port's learning but Du Four's French versifying. Many Latin poets were being translated into the vernacular at Louis' court, or being used as the basis for new compositions in the grand style. Du Four's little book, then, like the Salernitan Regimen, tried to present what "everyone" knew in beautiful language. Like many others of his day, he would not have hesitated to use someone el...

Levelling the playing fields of England: promoting health in deprived communities.

Health promotion is about focusing on systems in which those 'waiting to be ill' are living their lives now. Unlike the old, the new public health agenda is about developing and implementing healthy public policies. This stance involves everyone working together to develop change in the conditions of living. This article presents a brief overview of the role of the health promotion specialist i...

Planning and the Industrial City

ON OC TOBE R 25, 1945, Pennsylvania governor Edward Martin announced that the state legislature had officially authorized the creation of a state park in the city of Pittsburgh, at the “Point,” the historic confluence of the Ohio, Allegheny, and Monongahela rivers. In less than a month, Pittsburgh’s political and business leadership, led by the city’s banking tycoon and civic luminary Richard K...

Growing up in the City

Post-yersinial arthritis in Cleveland, England.

Four cases of post-yersinial reactive arthritis are described. All patients presented with an acute lower limb arthropathy with features of an associated enthesopathy. Two patients had restriction of axial skeletal movements. Systemic features were prominent in three, including weight loss and malaise. Mean age of onset was 34 years. Three patients gave a history of antecedent diarrhoea within ...