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Building a user blog with evidence: The Health Information Skills Academic Library Blog (2001)
Journal Article
Adams, R. (2001). Building a user blog with evidence: The Health Information Skills Academic Library Blog. Evidence Based Library and Information Practice, 6(3), 84-89

The College of Health and Social Care within the University of Salford is supported by a team of Academic Support Librarians who deliver training, support and advice to staff and student users of library resources and services. The team continually s... Read More about Building a user blog with evidence: The Health Information Skills Academic Library Blog.

Social archaeology and the theatres of memory (2001)
Journal Article
Hall, M. (2001). Social archaeology and the theatres of memory. Journal of Social Archaeology, 1(1), 50-61. https://doi.org/10.1177/146960530100100104

Archaeology is a study of ways in which we express ourselves through the things that we make and use, collect, discard and take for granted, all archaeology is social archaeology. And, because the past is always part of the present, social archaeolog... Read More about Social archaeology and the theatres of memory.

Straylight, mala mala, pink frikkie, blekgelexy and rumba kali @ Africa (2001)
Journal Article
Hall, M. (2001). Straylight, mala mala, pink frikkie, blekgelexy and rumba kali @ Africa

History gives us the opportunity of perspective. But in the "Network Society", time moves too fast for hindsight. An appropriate metaphor is that of quantum mechanics, in which matter exists in two states at the same time. Consequently, the invitatio... Read More about Straylight, mala mala, pink frikkie, blekgelexy and rumba kali @ Africa.

The origins, forms and effects of modularity and semesterisation in ten UK-based business schools (2000)
Journal Article
Morris, H. (2000). The origins, forms and effects of modularity and semesterisation in ten UK-based business schools. Higher Education Quarterly, 54(3), 239-258. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2273.00158

This paper examines the introduction of modularisation and semesterisation at ten UK-based business schools. Using this case study evidence, it is argued that the main reasons for the introduction of these schemes were the personal ambitions of senio... Read More about The origins, forms and effects of modularity and semesterisation in ten UK-based business schools.

Measuring trade union democracy: The case of the UK Civil and Public Services Association (2000)
Journal Article
Morris, H., & Fosh, P. (2000). Measuring trade union democracy: The case of the UK Civil and Public Services Association. British Journal of Industrial Relations, 38(1), 95-114. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8543.00153

The Civil and Public Services Association (CPSA) has experienced a substantial number of organizational changes over the last 25 years, both as a voluntary response to membership concerns and to comply with legislative demands. Have these changes mad... Read More about Measuring trade union democracy: The case of the UK Civil and Public Services Association.

Africa connected (1998)
Journal Article
Hall, M. (1998). Africa connected. First Monday, 3,

This paper explores an apparent paradox and what this implies in Africa. What are the politics of digital technology when, on the one hand, it is used to mark exclusive status and, on the other hand, is argued to be a democratizing form of mass commu... Read More about Africa connected.

Heads and tales (1996)
Journal Article
Hall, M. (1996). Heads and tales. Representations, 104-123

On 5 September 1871 Carl Mauch, an energetic and credulous explorer of central southern Africa, was led along a "long line of tumbled down stones" to "masses of rubble and parts of walls and dense thickets"; the place that was to become known as Grea... Read More about Heads and tales.

The legislative reform of union government 1979–94 (1995)
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Martin, R., Smith, P., Fosh, P., Morris, H., & Undy, R. (1995). The legislative reform of union government 1979–94. Industrial Relations Journal, 26(2), 146-155. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2338.1995.tb00733.x

This article outlines Conservative legislation on union government, documenting extensive regulation in place by 1994. It looks at the major objectives of government policy, including the twin themes of encouraging individualism and reducing union po... Read More about The legislative reform of union government 1979–94.

The legend of the lost city - or, The man with golden balls (1995)
Journal Article
Hall, M. (1995). The legend of the lost city - or, The man with golden balls. Journal of Southern African Studies, 21(2), 179-199. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057079508708441

The image of Africa as the 'dark continent' predates the beginning of colonial penetration by many centuries. This paper traces these notions through sources such as the Bible, medieval travel fiction and legends of fabulous wealth. It is argued that... Read More about The legend of the lost city - or, The man with golden balls.

The historical archaeology of Vergelegen, an early farmstead at the Cape of Good Hope (1995)
Journal Article
Markell, A., Hall, M., & Schrire, C. (1995). The historical archaeology of Vergelegen, an early farmstead at the Cape of Good Hope. Historical Archaeology, 29(1), 10-34

Excavations at Vergelegen, a large estate in the Western Cape of South Africa that dates to the earliest years of the 18th century, have allowed archaeologists to address a number of questions about the nature of colonial settlement in this former Du... Read More about The historical archaeology of Vergelegen, an early farmstead at the Cape of Good Hope.