Cities
A city is a large human settlement. It can be defined as a permanent and densely settled place with administratively defined boundaries whose members work primarily on non-agricultural tasks. Cities generally have extensive systems for housing, transportation, sanitation, utilities, land use, and communication. Their density facilitates interaction between people, government organisations and businesses, sometimes benefiting different parties in the process, such as improving efficiency of goods and service distribution. This concentration also can have significant negative consequences, such as forming urban heat islands, concentrating pollution, and stressing water supplies and other resources. Historically, city-dwellers have been a small proportion of …
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3 October 2022 English
To encourage students to engage actively with historical documents. To build analytical and critical thinking skills. To formulate evidence-based arguments. To practice writing concisely and persuasively.
The Blitz and Civilian Morale in three Northern Cities, 1940–1942, Northern History, 32:1, 195-203, DOI: …
24 May 2022 English
Content in British Society, 1939-1951 is arranged in collections corresponding to the archives from which they were sourced. You can read more about the archive materials selected for this resource …
on the impact of bombing in particular towns and cities. MAF 59 – Board of Agriculture, Women’s Land Army: …
UNE: University of New England · 28 February 2018 English
By the late 1930s it was widely expected, drawing on the experience of German air raids on Britain in the First World War, that if and when the next war …
even weeks by intensive air raids on its major cities. The Royal Air Force would not be able to prevent … would be lost as morale collapsed, people fled the cities for the countryside, and the government lost the … air-raid shelters, or to evacuate from the major cities? Policy inevitably had to be formulated on the … evacuation of mothers and young children from the cities to less vulnerable areas, in smaller towns or the … almost 1.5 million people had been moved from the cities to safer areas (Overy 2013, 136). But such a huge …
The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English
A file containing documents concerning a visit to West Berlin by the British prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, in October 1982. Subjects covered in the file include Thatcher's desire to place …
It is a tradition in Berlin, as in other German cities, that distinguished visitors should sign a 'Golden …
The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English
EftSI E • OK THE ¿ T R E E ! CLFtSHES IN POLISH CITIES B" THE END OF RuGUST RNO THE STRENGTH OF THE …
The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English
A file containing documents concerning the Soviet population. Subjects covered in the file include the declining rate of population growth; the unwillingness of people to migrate to areas of labour …
people are still leaving the countryside for the cities, thus hampering current efforts to solve the food … 17 million people left their villages for the cities between 1976 and 1980. The ratio of urban to rural … available for Union republics and certain Soviet cities in 1970-74 is very incomplete but is sufficient … large differences between the rates for individual cities, ranging from Vilnyus in Lithuania where the rise … people are still leaving the countryside for the cities, thus hampering current efforts to solve the food …
The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English
different language-editions are edited in those cities. Each editor should publish the material accumulated …
The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English
food and medicine growth of groups in such U.S. cities as Songs" held in Poland last summer. to Poland … end, the result of Francisco, and Seattle, and cities in Pomost in Chicago holds a New Year's our …
The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English
THE LOCAL RED CROSS BRANCHES IN THE FOLLOWING CITIES AND TOWNS : GDANSK, STETTIN, WROCLAW, CIECHANOW …
