Richard Rodger
Biographic Data
| ID | 247338 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Rodger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Rodger |
| SIGNATURE | RODGER R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leicester |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4602-6471 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 59 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 62 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 59 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Bob Morris: Teacher and explorer
Two characteristics that defined Bob Morris were his empathy and his humanity. As a person, not just as a teacher and scholar, these elements infused his approach to people no matter their age or status. This short appreciation considers his contributions to urban and social history, his capacity for synthesis and analysis and his sensitivity in exploring places and spaces using text, data and images. Bob Morris’ humility was the hallmark of an e…
Bob Morris: An appreciation
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The facade of power and the power of the facade: Memory and meaning in Victorian cities
Terraces and tenements provide the facades upon which are inscribed texts and decorative images. Embedded in the walls, these ‘plaques’ convey meanings and memories that saturate the built environment with references to the past. Evidence based on property surveys, maps and archival documents form the empirical basis from which it is concluded that images and inscriptions presented a wider geo-political and historical awareness in the everyday se…
Property and inequality: Housing dynamics in a nineteenth-century city
The internal structure of the city is analysed through the ownership, tenancy, and management of residential property using assessed rents to reflect current market value. The analysis reveals the interactions of agents, institutions, and trusts, and explores ownership in terms of gender, absenteeism, occupational categories, portfolio sizes, and values. Rents are used to develop both an index of housing affordability according to occupations, an…
Making the Census Count: Revealing Edinburgh 1760–1900
‘Name’ and ‘Address’ are critical to tracking people, to linkages with property and legal documents, to understanding household structures, and to spatial analysis in times past, as now. For historians, nominal data linkage is impaired when access to Census data is restricted and this in turn weakens the utility of archival sources more generally where names and addresses are common elements. Social and economic history, family and cultural histo…
Thinking spatially: New horizons for urban history
A new opportunity, and a new challenge, presents itself to urban historians. In order to obtain a deeper understanding of historical urban space and spatial relationships, the contributors to this Special Issue deploy new techniques of spatial analysis using mapping tools to explore the density, frequency and proximity of various features of towns and cities. The contributors focus on case-studies at various urban scales – from major commercial c…
The Scottish Town in the Age of the Enlightenment, 1740–1820, by Bob Harris and Charles McKean
‘A major purpose of this volume’, Bob Harris and Charles McKean state, ‘is to make much better known the profound qualitative changes to towns and urban life in Scotland’ during the later Georgian era and ‘to examine these changes against a British context’. It is, at face value, a modest aspiration, but this is a subtle and complex work, deeply researched and conceptually informed. Nor does it thrust theory at the reader. In their thirty Scottis…
Putting the economy back in to the city
Given the dominance of economic matters in the daily news, this article speculates why the topic has attracted relatively little attention amongst urban historians over the last 40 years, and why it is important that the local economy gains a wider acceptance as a powerful determinant of a city's fortunes
Atlas of Cities
The 14 chapters in this collection follow a common pattern. After a brief introduction by the editor, individual authors or teams have an allocation of 16 or 18 pages (240 × 280 mm) in which to exp
Inspiring Capital? Deconstructing myths and reconstructing urban environments, Edinburgh, 1860–2010
‘Inspiring Capital’ is the sign that confronts visitors and residents alike at the boundaries of the Edinburgh administrative area. It is a consciously ambiguous message of self-promotion: the logo proclaims the dual standing of the city of Edinburgh as a European capital city and a city of international capital. The article uses a long-run approach to explore how, by inventing and nurturing a myth about Edinburgh as a non-industrial city, counci…
David A. Reeder (1931–2005) Educationalist and urban historian
David Reeder, who has died aged 74, made a major contribution to the understanding of two academic fields: urban history, and the history of education. The son of a railway fireman, David was born in Hull in 1931 and evacuated during the war from the family's council house first to Rawcliffe, near Goole, and then to York in 1942. There David attended Nunethorp Grammar School, where he was head boy, and won a scholarship place to Durham University…
Civil society in British history: Ideas, Identities and Institutions
Lecture Summaries 2002-2003
Three lecture summaries:The making of classical EdinburghBodies under the floor: prehistoric roundhouse life at Cladh Hallan, South UistNew work on the origins of the Scots of Dál Riata
The Transformation of Edinburgh: Land, Property and Trust in the Nineteenth Century
Part I. Urban Frameworks: 1. Introduction 2. Institutional power and landownership: the nineteenth-century inheritance 3. Victorian feudalism 4. Building capital: Trusts, loans and the kirk 5. The building industry and instability Part II. Building Enterprise and Housing Management: 6. The search for stability 7. Industrial suburb: developing Dalry 8. The genesis of a property owning democracy? 9. Landlord and tenant 10. Post-script: 'Firmiter et…
Irene Maver, Glasgow
Halifax John A. Hargreaves
The culture of the English people: Iron age to the industrial revolution
Shorter Notices
Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access RICHARD RODGER RICHARD RODGER University of Leicester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXI, Issue 441, April 1996, Pages 497-b–499, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXI.441.497-b Published: 01 April 1996
Historiens du dimanche
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Short on analysis: An environmental history of Britain since the industrial revolution
Herman Diederiks (1937–95)
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Taking Stock: A Comment on Two Decades of Urban History
The Pre-Industrial Urban System: France, 1740-1840
From listed waterworks to award winning art gallery
London in the Age of Industrialization: Entrepreneurs, Labour Force and Living Standards, 1700-1850
A social history of housing 1815–1970
Thinking spatially: New horizons for urban history
A new opportunity, and a new challenge, presents itself to urban historians. In order to obtain a deeper understanding of historical urban space and spatial relationships, the contributors to this Special Issue deploy new techniques of spatial analysis using mapping tools to explore the density, frequency and proximity of various features of towns and cities. The contributors focus on case-studies at various urban scales – from major commercial c…
The Transformation of Edinburgh: Land, Property and Trust in the Nineteenth Century
Part I. Urban Frameworks: 1. Introduction 2. Institutional power and landownership: the nineteenth-century inheritance 3. Victorian feudalism 4. Building capital: Trusts, loans and the kirk 5. The building industry and instability Part II. Building Enterprise and Housing Management: 6. The search for stability 7. Industrial suburb: developing Dalry 8. The genesis of a property owning democracy? 9. Landlord and tenant 10. Post-script: 'Firmiter et…
Control by Coercion: Employers' Associations and the Establishment of Industrial Order in the Building Industry of England and Wales, 1860–1914
The history of management-labor relations has in recent years become a central concern for business historians. In this article, Dr, Rodger and Mr. McKenna consider management-labor relations in the British building industry in the years preceding the First World War. They demonstrate that a variety of factors—not the least of which being the industry's notorious volatility—constrained management's ability to discipline the work force, and conclu…
Urban History: Prospect and retrospect
The appearance of Urban History as a journal marks a further stage in the progression from Newsletter to Yearbook and now to a semi-annual periodical. The timing is apt since it coincides with the thirtieth anniversary of the first issue of the Urban History Newsletter , and the enthusiasm surrounding the production and publication of Urban History is a continuing sign of the vigour and confidence expressed by H.J. Dyos thirty years ago, and agai…
Concentration and Fragmentation: Capital, Labor, and the Structure of Mid-Victorian Scottish Industry
Inspiring Capital? Deconstructing myths and reconstructing urban environments, Edinburgh, 1860–2010
‘Inspiring Capital’ is the sign that confronts visitors and residents alike at the boundaries of the Edinburgh administrative area. It is a consciously ambiguous message of self-promotion: the logo proclaims the dual standing of the city of Edinburgh as a European capital city and a city of international capital. The article uses a long-run approach to explore how, by inventing and nurturing a myth about Edinburgh as a non-industrial city, counci…
The Law and Urban Change: Some Nineteenth-Century Scottish Evidence
The constitutional change which was embodied in the Union of Parliaments in 1707 provided for the retention of distinctive Scottish codes governing banking, the church and the law. Such a guarantee ensured that the economic, social and cultural idiosyncracies of Scotland would not be absorbed or Anglicized, and that in the long term the unique institutional framework would continue to stamp its character upon most aspects of daily Scottish life, …
The building cycle and the urban fringe in Victorian cities: Another comment
Sydney and Olive Checkland, Industry and Ethos: Scotland 1832–1914. (The New History of Scotland, vol. 7). London: Edward Arnold, 1984, 218
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Speculative Builders and the Structure of the Scottish Building Industry, 1860–1914
(1979). Speculative Builders and the Structure of the Scottish Building Industry, 1860–1914. Business History: Vol. 21, No. 2, pp. 226-246
Making the Census Count: Revealing Edinburgh 1760–1900
‘Name’ and ‘Address’ are critical to tracking people, to linkages with property and legal documents, to understanding household structures, and to spatial analysis in times past, as now. For historians, nominal data linkage is impaired when access to Census data is restricted and this in turn weakens the utility of archival sources more generally where names and addresses are common elements. Social and economic history, family and cultural histo…
Putting the economy back in to the city
Given the dominance of economic matters in the daily news, this article speculates why the topic has attracted relatively little attention amongst urban historians over the last 40 years, and why it is important that the local economy gains a wider acceptance as a powerful determinant of a city's fortunes
Historiens du dimanche
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Mid‐Victorian employers’ attitudes
Business Failure in Scotland 1839–1913
The Law and Urban Change: Some Nineteenth-Century Scottish Evidence
The constitutional change which was embodied in the Union of Parliaments in 1707 provided for the retention of distinctive Scottish codes governing banking, the church and the law. Such a guarantee ensured that the economic, social and cultural idiosyncracies of Scotland would not be absorbed or Anglicized, and that in the long term the unique institutional framework would continue to stamp its character upon most aspects of daily Scottish life, …
A social history of housing 1815–1970
The building cycle and the urban fringe in Victorian cities: Another comment
Speculative Builders and the Structure of the Scottish Building Industry, 1860–1914
(1979). Speculative Builders and the Structure of the Scottish Building Industry, 1860–1914. Business History: Vol. 21, No. 2, pp. 226-246
Housing, Social Policy, and the State
Jordanhill College: Local History Archives Project. Greenock Housing, Health and Society Series—5 Pamphlets
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Homes Fit for Heroes: The Politics and Architecture of Early State Housing in Britain
Rothschild Buildings: Life in an East End Tenement Block, 1887-1920
Short notices
Alan Macfarlane et al. (ed.), Records of an English Village. Earls Colne 1400–1750 (1980), Computer Output Microfiche with printed guides (Chadwyck‐Healey, Cambridge, £125). Felicity Heal, Of Prelates and Princes: A Study of the Economic and Social Position of the Tudor Episcopate (1980), xvi+363 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £17.50). V. G. Kiernan, State and Society in Europe 1550–1650 (1980), x+309 (Basil Blackwell, Oxford, £12.00). M…
Shaping and urban world
The rise of modern urban planning 1800–1914
Planning for conservation
Bricks, bye-laws and back-to-backs: Housing history and Victorian capitalism
Conference reports
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Sydney and Olive Checkland, Industry and Ethos: Scotland 1832–1914. (The New History of Scotland, vol. 7). London: Edward Arnold, 1984, 218
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Control by Coercion: Employers' Associations and the Establishment of Industrial Order in the Building Industry of England and Wales, 1860–1914
The history of management-labor relations has in recent years become a central concern for business historians. In this article, Dr, Rodger and Mr. McKenna consider management-labor relations in the British building industry in the years preceding the First World War. They demonstrate that a variety of factors—not the least of which being the industry's notorious volatility—constrained management's ability to discipline the work force, and conclu…
Business Failure in Scotland 1839–1913
Drastic Measures: A History of Wage and Price Controls in the United States
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Mid‐Victorian employers’ attitudes
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The Implementation of Housing Policy: The Scottish Special Housing Association And
Extreme housing conditions in inter‐war urban Scotland form the background to the creation of a specialist agency, the Scottish Special Housing Association, charged with the responsibility to both relieve the housing situation and provide employment. The expansion of SSHA activities, which by 1980 made it the second largest housing authority in Scotland with 10,000 dwellings, is examined. The escalation of SSHA activities is considered in the lig…
Political Economy, Ideology and the Persistence of Working-Class Housing Problems in Britain, 1850–1914
Nineteenth-century housing was not all gloom and doom. For significant elements of the nation the standard of comfort and material welfare improved substantially. Suburbanization of the middle classes in the second half of the century appreciably improved environmental conditions, the family in particular benefitting from a semi-rural existence with only the commuting breadwinner subject to the hostility of urban conditions. In the last third of …
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