In June 1995 "ethnic riots" appeared on the streets of Bradford, West Yorkshire. Senior police were heard on television to condemn "ethnic leaders" for their failure to control their youth, who had erupted into violence following police attempts to arrest two Mirpuri teenagers. Police went on to say that the youth were alienated both from British society and from their "own ethnic community". M...

Throughout its relatively short history as a British colony, Hong Kong has had to withstand many crises of a diverse nature. Typhoons, droughts, floods, economic recessions, war, influxes of refugees and riots have, at one time or another, created emergency situations for both the administration and the people of Hong Kong. However, one crisis now long forgotten, but for the records kept in dus...

This collection was compiled by Elizabeth W. Hayward, a former Ursuline Academy student. It contains correspondence, notes, clippings, and printed material relating to the Ursuline Academy convent fire in 1834 and a reunion of Ursuline Academy graduates in 1878. The correspondence series is the largest and includes unpublished firsthand accounts of the convent fire and riots. Materials date fro...

Rumours on social media exhibit complex temporal patterns. This paper develops a model of rumour prevalence using a point process, namely a log-Gaussian Cox process, to infer an underlying continuous temporal probabilistic model of post frequencies. To generalize over different rumours, we present a multi-task learning method parametrized by the text in posts which allows data statistics to be ...

countrywide unrest and riots ... Red evolutionists ... denounce the props of an old static society... Britain now stands teetering on the brink of collapse or so it seems to the gentry. . .". Yet Charles Darwin was one of the gentry, and his letters do not mention any of this, not even the "red evolutionists". Can it be that the authors have gone over the top and are imposing their own view rat...

Research on modeling time series text corpora has typically focused on predicting what text will come next, but less well studied is predicting when the next text event will occur. In this paper we address the latter case, framed as modeling continuous inter-arrival times under a logGaussian Cox process, a form of inhomogeneous Poisson process which captures the varying rate at which the tweets...

This paper explores how traditional narrative language used in film and theatre can be adapted to create interactivity and a greater sense of presence in the virtual heritage environment. It focuses on the fundamental principles of narrative required to create immersion and presence and investigates methods of embedding intangible social histories into these environments. These issues are explo...

If you have any sense of responsibility, at all, stay with your riots here at home... you will know what you are doing, why you are doing it, and how to communicate with those to whom you speak. And you will know when you fail. If you insist on working with the poor, if this is your vocation, then at least work among the poor who can tell you to go to hell... I am here to challenge you to recog...

Back in 1960 the demand at Greensboro, North Carolina, was for a twenty cent harrburger at a downtown white-owned lunch counter. Since then, freedom rides, sit-ins, marches . for jobs, income and decent housing, and finally urban riots have become vehicles for black expression against racism and for a fair share of American affluence. The response of the white corporate sector to such anguished...

After a period of unrest in Caracas, Venezuela, in February/March 1989, Amnesty International (AI) received information about torture applied by security forces to people thought to have participated in or organised riots and lootings. In May 1989 a delegation from AI went to Caracas to collect and appraise testimonies of human rights abuses. The delegation consisted of two staff members from t...