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Raymond Williams and local cultures (1991)
Journal Article
Longhurst, B. (1991). Raymond Williams and local cultures. Environment and Planning A, 23(2), 229-238. https://doi.org/10.1068/a230229

In this paper it is maintained that Raymond Williams's writings on culture are of great importance to current developments in cultural geography. His work is periodised into three stages and its different subject matters identified. An interpretation... Read More about Raymond Williams and local cultures.

High and low in the townscapes of Dutch South America and South Africa: the dialectics of material culture (1991)
Journal Article
Hall, M. (1991). High and low in the townscapes of Dutch South America and South Africa: the dialectics of material culture. Social Dynamics, 17(2), 41-75. https://doi.org/10.1080/02533959108458512

The Dutch East and West India Companies established colonies in the Caribbean, Brazil and at the Cape of Good Hope. The resulting townscapes can be read as artefacts of domination - attempts to stamp order on the chaos of newly-colonized lands. But a... Read More about High and low in the townscapes of Dutch South America and South Africa: the dialectics of material culture.

Rape : a feminist analysis of recent public service provisions with particular reference to the Sexual Assault Referral Centre (1990)
Thesis
Foley, M. Rape : a feminist analysis of recent public service provisions with particular reference to the Sexual Assault Referral Centre. (Thesis). University of Salford

The starting point of this thesis is an examination of recent changes
in public service provision of services for women who have
experienced rape. I focus on the Sexual Assault Referral Centre
(SARC) in Manchester, using this case to open up discu... Read More about Rape : a feminist analysis of recent public service provisions with particular reference to the Sexual Assault Referral Centre.

A stone wall out of the earth that thundering cannon cannot destroy: bastion and moat at the Castle, Cape Town (1990)
Journal Article
Hall, M., Halkett, D., Vanbeek, P., & Klose, J. (1990). A stone wall out of the earth that thundering cannon cannot destroy: bastion and moat at the Castle, Cape Town. Social Dynamics, 16(1), 22-37. https://doi.org/10.1080/02533959008458483

Although the urgency with which the Dutch East India Company administration at the Cape built defensive works was a direct result of their fear of attack from both land and sea, there was an additional imperative, for the Castle at Cape Town stood as... Read More about A stone wall out of the earth that thundering cannon cannot destroy: bastion and moat at the Castle, Cape Town.

The Barrack Street well: images of a Cape Town household in the nineteenth century (1990)
Journal Article
Hall, M., Halkett, D., Klose, J., Ritchie, G., & Poggenpoel, C. (1990). The Barrack Street well: images of a Cape Town household in the nineteenth century. South African archaeological bulletin, 45(152), 73-92

This paper describes the results of excavation of well deposits from Barrack Street, Cape Town. The sequence starts with an assemblage dated to the late eighteenth century and continues, with a clear stratigraphy, until the late nineteenth century. A... Read More about The Barrack Street well: images of a Cape Town household in the nineteenth century.