Mark Clapson
Biographic Data
| ID | 99881 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Clapson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark |
| FAMILY NAME | Clapson |
| SIGNATURE | CLAPSON M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Westminster |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Money for nothing and kicks for free? – Aspects of the long-term relationship between sport and gambling in Britain
The intention here is to trace the development of the sport-gambling nexus in Britain from the early-nineteenth to the late-twentieth century. An overview of this kind facilitates an understanding of a relationship that has often been characterized as symbiotic. Over the long run, as Britain has transitioned from a pre-industrial to an industrial and then to a post-industrial society, the relationship between sport and gambling has remained intac…
The Blitz Companion
The Blitz Companion offers a unique overview of a century of aerial warfare, its impact on cities and the people who lived in them. It tells the story of aerial warfare from the earliest bombing raids and in World War 1 through to the London Blitz and Allied bombings of Europe and Japan. These are compared with more recent American air campaigns over Cambodia and Vietnam in the 1960s and 1970s, the NATO bombings during the Balkan Wars of the 1990…
The English New Towns since 1946
Au XX e siècle, le Royaume-Uni a joué un rôle pionnier dans la planification de nouvelles communautés et a été en première ligne de la diffusion internationale de la cité-jardin et du nouvel urbanisme. Or les « villages-jardins » et les écovilles actuels du Royaume-Uni ignorent des enseignements précieux fournis par l’urbanisme britannique. Ce sont des aménagements urbains à petite échelle qui incarnent l’absence de vision nationale et internatio…
The new suburban history, New Urbanism and the spaces in-between
What a word we live in. The existential reality of being ‘suburban’–an unpopular adjective at the best of times – has been subject to some astounding criticisms recently. People who choose to live in a suburban home are still deemed to be contemptible by a self-consciously urbane commentariat who could never live somewhere so vacuous. According to one newspaper journalist, the religious fascists who attacked Paris in November 2015 were at heart s…
The Politics of Housing
The subject of working-class perspectives on housing policies is a difficult one to examine in depth, and Peter Shapely is to be congratulated for producing a wide-ranging and insightful account of the politics of housing that focuses upon the aims and programmes of housing providers, and explores what went wrong with those programmes from the point of view of council tenants. Unfortunately, the book suffers from a couple of shortcomings, preclud…
The American contribution to the urban sociology of race relations in Britain from the 1940s to the early 1970s
From the influence of the Chicago School of sociology upon studies of black and white relations in England and Wales during and since the early 1940s, to the role of the Ford Foundation in funding research into inter-ethnic problems in Britain's cities during the 1950s and 1960s, the framework for British studies of urban race relations was primarily based upon American points of reference. This American contribution was benign, as was further ev…
A Social History of Milton Keynes
Established in 1967, Milton Keynes is England's largest new city and one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the UK. It is also a suburban city, genuinely liked and appreciated by most of its citizens.For many reasons, however, Milton Keynes is misunderstood, and its valuable recent lessons are mostly ignored in debates about national urban policy. This book discusses the popular and intellectual prejudices that have distorted understandings of…
Suburban century
Bad architecture. Soulless. Destructive of communities. The suburbs are much-maligned places. We see this time and again in films like American Beauty and novels like The Ice Storm. But are they really as homogenous and conservative as we think they are? In this wide-ranging comparative study of England and the United States, Mark Clapson offers new interpretations on suburbia. The majority of people in both countries now live in suburbs, largely…
The suburban aspiration in England since 1919
In contrast to the pervasive anti‐suburbanism of English intellectual culture, this article suggests that the suburbs have made a generally favourable contribution to English society since 1919. This is because suburban living has been pursued and enjoyed by millions of people from different class and ethnic groups. The article also demonstrates that the attractions of the suburbs stemmed in no small part from the influence of garden city and gar…
Working-class Women's Experiences of Moving to New Housing Estates in England since 1919
This article discusses the values and experiences of working-class women who moved to new suburban housing estates, and to the new towns. It takes the rather unfashionable view that the transition to suburban and new town life was a favourable experience for the majority of working-class women. Most were pleased with their new home, despite some practical problems associated with moving to the estates. Moreover, the acquisition of a new house was…
Recruiting the English policeman C. 1840–1940
This paper gives a broad picture of the origins of English policemen for the period 1840–1940. It draws primarily on a computerised database constructed from the recruitment, discipline and/or warrant books of a number of rural and urban forces. The evidence shows that, as initially intended, police recruits came mainly from the unskilled and semi skilled working class. However, it reveals rather fewer recruits who can legitimately be described a…
The American contribution to the urban sociology of race relations in Britain from the 1940s to the early 1970s
From the influence of the Chicago School of sociology upon studies of black and white relations in England and Wales during and since the early 1940s, to the role of the Ford Foundation in funding research into inter-ethnic problems in Britain's cities during the 1950s and 1960s, the framework for British studies of urban race relations was primarily based upon American points of reference. This American contribution was benign, as was further ev…
Working-class Women's Experiences of Moving to New Housing Estates in England since 1919
This article discusses the values and experiences of working-class women who moved to new suburban housing estates, and to the new towns. It takes the rather unfashionable view that the transition to suburban and new town life was a favourable experience for the majority of working-class women. Most were pleased with their new home, despite some practical problems associated with moving to the estates. Moreover, the acquisition of a new house was…
The Blitz Companion
The Blitz Companion offers a unique overview of a century of aerial warfare, its impact on cities and the people who lived in them. It tells the story of aerial warfare from the earliest bombing raids and in World War 1 through to the London Blitz and Allied bombings of Europe and Japan. These are compared with more recent American air campaigns over Cambodia and Vietnam in the 1960s and 1970s, the NATO bombings during the Balkan Wars of the 1990…
The English New Towns since 1946
Au XX e siècle, le Royaume-Uni a joué un rôle pionnier dans la planification de nouvelles communautés et a été en première ligne de la diffusion internationale de la cité-jardin et du nouvel urbanisme. Or les « villages-jardins » et les écovilles actuels du Royaume-Uni ignorent des enseignements précieux fournis par l’urbanisme britannique. Ce sont des aménagements urbains à petite échelle qui incarnent l’absence de vision nationale et internatio…
The new suburban history, New Urbanism and the spaces in-between
What a word we live in. The existential reality of being ‘suburban’–an unpopular adjective at the best of times – has been subject to some astounding criticisms recently. People who choose to live in a suburban home are still deemed to be contemptible by a self-consciously urbane commentariat who could never live somewhere so vacuous. According to one newspaper journalist, the religious fascists who attacked Paris in November 2015 were at heart s…
The suburban aspiration in England since 1919
In contrast to the pervasive anti‐suburbanism of English intellectual culture, this article suggests that the suburbs have made a generally favourable contribution to English society since 1919. This is because suburban living has been pursued and enjoyed by millions of people from different class and ethnic groups. The article also demonstrates that the attractions of the suburbs stemmed in no small part from the influence of garden city and gar…
Recruiting the English policeman C. 1840–1940
This paper gives a broad picture of the origins of English policemen for the period 1840–1940. It draws primarily on a computerised database constructed from the recruitment, discipline and/or warrant books of a number of rural and urban forces. The evidence shows that, as initially intended, police recruits came mainly from the unskilled and semi skilled working class. However, it reveals rather fewer recruits who can legitimately be described a…
Working-class Women's Experiences of Moving to New Housing Estates in England since 1919
This article discusses the values and experiences of working-class women who moved to new suburban housing estates, and to the new towns. It takes the rather unfashionable view that the transition to suburban and new town life was a favourable experience for the majority of working-class women. Most were pleased with their new home, despite some practical problems associated with moving to the estates. Moreover, the acquisition of a new house was…
The suburban aspiration in England since 1919
In contrast to the pervasive anti‐suburbanism of English intellectual culture, this article suggests that the suburbs have made a generally favourable contribution to English society since 1919. This is because suburban living has been pursued and enjoyed by millions of people from different class and ethnic groups. The article also demonstrates that the attractions of the suburbs stemmed in no small part from the influence of garden city and gar…
Suburban century
Bad architecture. Soulless. Destructive of communities. The suburbs are much-maligned places. We see this time and again in films like American Beauty and novels like The Ice Storm. But are they really as homogenous and conservative as we think they are? In this wide-ranging comparative study of England and the United States, Mark Clapson offers new interpretations on suburbia. The majority of people in both countries now live in suburbs, largely…
A Social History of Milton Keynes
Established in 1967, Milton Keynes is England's largest new city and one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the UK. It is also a suburban city, genuinely liked and appreciated by most of its citizens.For many reasons, however, Milton Keynes is misunderstood, and its valuable recent lessons are mostly ignored in debates about national urban policy. This book discusses the popular and intellectual prejudices that have distorted understandings of…
The American contribution to the urban sociology of race relations in Britain from the 1940s to the early 1970s
From the influence of the Chicago School of sociology upon studies of black and white relations in England and Wales during and since the early 1940s, to the role of the Ford Foundation in funding research into inter-ethnic problems in Britain's cities during the 1950s and 1960s, the framework for British studies of urban race relations was primarily based upon American points of reference. This American contribution was benign, as was further ev…
The Politics of Housing
The subject of working-class perspectives on housing policies is a difficult one to examine in depth, and Peter Shapely is to be congratulated for producing a wide-ranging and insightful account of the politics of housing that focuses upon the aims and programmes of housing providers, and explores what went wrong with those programmes from the point of view of council tenants. Unfortunately, the book suffers from a couple of shortcomings, preclud…
The new suburban history, New Urbanism and the spaces in-between
What a word we live in. The existential reality of being ‘suburban’–an unpopular adjective at the best of times – has been subject to some astounding criticisms recently. People who choose to live in a suburban home are still deemed to be contemptible by a self-consciously urbane commentariat who could never live somewhere so vacuous. According to one newspaper journalist, the religious fascists who attacked Paris in November 2015 were at heart s…
The English New Towns since 1946
Au XX e siècle, le Royaume-Uni a joué un rôle pionnier dans la planification de nouvelles communautés et a été en première ligne de la diffusion internationale de la cité-jardin et du nouvel urbanisme. Or les « villages-jardins » et les écovilles actuels du Royaume-Uni ignorent des enseignements précieux fournis par l’urbanisme britannique. Ce sont des aménagements urbains à petite échelle qui incarnent l’absence de vision nationale et internatio…
The Blitz Companion
The Blitz Companion offers a unique overview of a century of aerial warfare, its impact on cities and the people who lived in them. It tells the story of aerial warfare from the earliest bombing raids and in World War 1 through to the London Blitz and Allied bombings of Europe and Japan. These are compared with more recent American air campaigns over Cambodia and Vietnam in the 1960s and 1970s, the NATO bombings during the Balkan Wars of the 1990…
Money for nothing and kicks for free? – Aspects of the long-term relationship between sport and gambling in Britain
The intention here is to trace the development of the sport-gambling nexus in Britain from the early-nineteenth to the late-twentieth century. An overview of this kind facilitates an understanding of a relationship that has often been characterized as symbiotic. Over the long run, as Britain has transitioned from a pre-industrial to an industrial and then to a post-industrial society, the relationship between sport and gambling has remained intac…
Political science (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · History (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Urbanization and City Planning (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · History (3 works)