Michael Moss
Biographic Data
| ID | 5244626 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Moss |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Moss |
| SIGNATURE | MOSS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Glasgow |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Dougalston in Scotland’s Western Central Belt
Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century designed landscapes in the Western Central Belt of Scotland are relatively under-represented in the literature, despite this being an area with many estates that were purchased as country seats by wealthy Glasgow merchants in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. One of the wealthiest of those merchants was the Tobacco Lord John Glassford who purchased Dougalston Estate to the north of Glasgow in 1767. The lo…
Archival silences
Archival Silences demonstrates emphatically that archival absences exist all over the globe. The book questions whether benign ‘silence’ is an appropriate label for the variety of destructions, concealment and absences that can be identified within archival collections. Including contributions from archivists and scholars working around the world, this truly international collection examines archives in Australia, Brazil, Denmark, England, India,…
The Motives for and Consequences of the Introduction of Typewriters and Word Processing in the British Civil Service
Until the late nineteenth century the British Civil Service relied on handwritten documents which were hand copied by armies of clerks and filed. The next stage was that handwritten documents were copied by armies of typists and then filed. The third stage was that documents were, largely, typed by their authors and distributed via email or other means, at which point the system of filing seems to have broken down. The two major inflection points…
The British Fertiliser Manufacturers’ Association
Most firms in the British fertiliser industry of the 19 th century were small and combined other activities, such as seed merchants, millers, manufacturers of sulphuric acid and in one case explosives. In the heyday of high farming there was almost no co-operation and no attempt to achieve economy of scale through merger and amalgamation. In 1875 just before the onset of the depression the Chemical Manure Manufacturers’ Association was formed to …
Aspects of Corporate Finance: Inter-firm Lending
The papers published in this book were initially prepared for the conference held at the Ministère de l’Économie et des Finances on the 9th and 10th of March, 2017 (Inter-firm credits in Europe 1880‐2010), organized by Michel Lescure in the context of the work of the IGPDE (Institut de la Gestion Publique et du Développement Économique) and of the CHEFF (Comité pour l’Histoire Économique et Financière de la France). The conference and the book ha…
Where Have All the Files Gone? Lost in Action Points Every One
Government files and the system that preceded their introduction have been eclipsed by the introduction of electronic record keeping systems. This has been accompanied both by a marked deterioration in record keeping practices and the use of record keeping to enable an audit culture. The article explores what those charged with integrating digital records into the archives might learn from record keeping practice in the paper world. By explaining…
Is it a question of trust or why are we afraid to go to Nineveh
Brussels Sprouts and Empire
This chapter contains sections titled: Notes
Regulated lives
Nine O’clock and All’s Well’, or ‘Fire, Fire, The Library’s Burning’
The changing structure of Scottish banking since 1945
Jusqu’aux années 1960 l’Écosse possède un secteur bancaire et financier spécifique, qui accorde beaucoup de place à l’épargne et qui est très intégré aux marchés de l’Angleterre et de l’Empire, ce qui s’explique aisément dans un pays qui a un vaste secteur d’exportation de produits manufacturés et qui a l’expérience de l’émigration de masse. Au cours des 40 années suivantes ce secteur s’intègre totalement à celui du Royaume-Uni, et des institutio…
The Hutton Inquiry, the President of Nigeria and What the Butler Hoped to See
The Hutton Inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of Dr David Kelly in 2003 shed a unique light on the inner workings of the government of Tony Blair, particularly its approach to record keeping. This paper explores both the written and oral evidence presented to the inquiry, and draws attention to the shortcomings that are likely to be a feature of the ‘historical’ record of the events leading up to the war in Iraq. It reflects on …
Digitisation
The technicalities of digitisation are now fairly well understood, but what is less well understood is the range of issues that need to be considered before committing to a digitisation programme, if it is not to meet the fate of the BBC Doomsday Project. This article discusses a range of these issues in order to place digitisation firmly in a business and political context, including: why digitise, what to digitise, the audience for and packagin…
John Hood, John Brown Engineering
University History
Accounting History
In recent years there has been increasing interest shown in the history and development of accounting practices; accounting records are an important source of historical data, and they can also provide evidence of varied organizational structures and systems of management control. This volume brings together published work by the major British scholars in the field, and is intended as a contribution to accounting scholarship on the 500th annivers…
Range and Vision
Wealthy and Titled Persons’ – The Accumulation of Riches in Victorian Britain
Listing the Wealthy in Scotland
Nicholas J. Morgan, Michael S. Moss; Listing the Wealthy in Scotland, Historical Research, Volume 59, Issue 140, 1 November 1986, Pages 189–195, https://do
A Business of National Importance
R. Taylor, George Washington Wilson
Workshop of the British Empire
The Hutton Inquiry, the President of Nigeria and What the Butler Hoped to See
The Hutton Inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of Dr David Kelly in 2003 shed a unique light on the inner workings of the government of Tony Blair, particularly its approach to record keeping. This paper explores both the written and oral evidence presented to the inquiry, and draws attention to the shortcomings that are likely to be a feature of the ‘historical’ record of the events leading up to the war in Iraq. It reflects on …
Where Have All the Files Gone? Lost in Action Points Every One
Government files and the system that preceded their introduction have been eclipsed by the introduction of electronic record keeping systems. This has been accompanied both by a marked deterioration in record keeping practices and the use of record keeping to enable an audit culture. The article explores what those charged with integrating digital records into the archives might learn from record keeping practice in the paper world. By explaining…
Listing the Wealthy in Scotland
Nicholas J. Morgan, Michael S. Moss; Listing the Wealthy in Scotland, Historical Research, Volume 59, Issue 140, 1 November 1986, Pages 189–195, https://do
Workshop of the British Empire
R. Taylor, George Washington Wilson
A Business of National Importance
Listing the Wealthy in Scotland
Nicholas J. Morgan, Michael S. Moss; Listing the Wealthy in Scotland, Historical Research, Volume 59, Issue 140, 1 November 1986, Pages 189–195, https://do
Wealthy and Titled Persons’ – The Accumulation of Riches in Victorian Britain
Range and Vision
University History
Accounting History
In recent years there has been increasing interest shown in the history and development of accounting practices; accounting records are an important source of historical data, and they can also provide evidence of varied organizational structures and systems of management control. This volume brings together published work by the major British scholars in the field, and is intended as a contribution to accounting scholarship on the 500th annivers…
John Hood, John Brown Engineering
Digitisation
The technicalities of digitisation are now fairly well understood, but what is less well understood is the range of issues that need to be considered before committing to a digitisation programme, if it is not to meet the fate of the BBC Doomsday Project. This article discusses a range of these issues in order to place digitisation firmly in a business and political context, including: why digitise, what to digitise, the audience for and packagin…
The Hutton Inquiry, the President of Nigeria and What the Butler Hoped to See
The Hutton Inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of Dr David Kelly in 2003 shed a unique light on the inner workings of the government of Tony Blair, particularly its approach to record keeping. This paper explores both the written and oral evidence presented to the inquiry, and draws attention to the shortcomings that are likely to be a feature of the ‘historical’ record of the events leading up to the war in Iraq. It reflects on …
The changing structure of Scottish banking since 1945
Jusqu’aux années 1960 l’Écosse possède un secteur bancaire et financier spécifique, qui accorde beaucoup de place à l’épargne et qui est très intégré aux marchés de l’Angleterre et de l’Empire, ce qui s’explique aisément dans un pays qui a un vaste secteur d’exportation de produits manufacturés et qui a l’expérience de l’émigration de masse. Au cours des 40 années suivantes ce secteur s’intègre totalement à celui du Royaume-Uni, et des institutio…
Nine O’clock and All’s Well’, or ‘Fire, Fire, The Library’s Burning’
Brussels Sprouts and Empire
This chapter contains sections titled: Notes
Regulated lives
Is it a question of trust or why are we afraid to go to Nineveh
Where Have All the Files Gone? Lost in Action Points Every One
Government files and the system that preceded their introduction have been eclipsed by the introduction of electronic record keeping systems. This has been accompanied both by a marked deterioration in record keeping practices and the use of record keeping to enable an audit culture. The article explores what those charged with integrating digital records into the archives might learn from record keeping practice in the paper world. By explaining…
Aspects of Corporate Finance: Inter-firm Lending
The papers published in this book were initially prepared for the conference held at the Ministère de l’Économie et des Finances on the 9th and 10th of March, 2017 (Inter-firm credits in Europe 1880‐2010), organized by Michel Lescure in the context of the work of the IGPDE (Institut de la Gestion Publique et du Développement Économique) and of the CHEFF (Comité pour l’Histoire Économique et Financière de la France). The conference and the book ha…
Archival silences
Archival Silences demonstrates emphatically that archival absences exist all over the globe. The book questions whether benign ‘silence’ is an appropriate label for the variety of destructions, concealment and absences that can be identified within archival collections. Including contributions from archivists and scholars working around the world, this truly international collection examines archives in Australia, Brazil, Denmark, England, India,…
The Motives for and Consequences of the Introduction of Typewriters and Word Processing in the British Civil Service
Until the late nineteenth century the British Civil Service relied on handwritten documents which were hand copied by armies of clerks and filed. The next stage was that handwritten documents were copied by armies of typists and then filed. The third stage was that documents were, largely, typed by their authors and distributed via email or other means, at which point the system of filing seems to have broken down. The two major inflection points…
The British Fertiliser Manufacturers’ Association
Most firms in the British fertiliser industry of the 19 th century were small and combined other activities, such as seed merchants, millers, manufacturers of sulphuric acid and in one case explosives. In the heyday of high farming there was almost no co-operation and no attempt to achieve economy of scale through merger and amalgamation. In 1875 just before the onset of the depression the Chemical Manure Manufacturers’ Association was formed to …
Dougalston in Scotland’s Western Central Belt
Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century designed landscapes in the Western Central Belt of Scotland are relatively under-represented in the literature, despite this being an area with many estates that were purchased as country seats by wealthy Glasgow merchants in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. One of the wealthiest of those merchants was the Tobacco Lord John Glassford who purchased Dougalston Estate to the north of Glasgow in 1767. The lo…
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