From rhetoric to reality [[electronic resource] ] : a study of the work of Frederick D'Aeth, social administrator / / Margaret Simey ; edited by David Bingham

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910453512203321
• Autore: Simey M. B (Margaret B.)
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Liverpool, : Liverpool University Press, 2005
• ISBN: 1-84631-315-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (160 p.)
• Disciplina: 361.92
• Soggetti: Philanthropists - England - Liverpool; Social workers - England - Liverpool; Social service - England - Liverpool - History - 20th century; Human services - England - Liverpool - History - 20th century; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Title Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Foreword and Acknowledgements; Introduction: Why Bother?; 1: Origins of a Dilemma; 2: The Urban Ideal; 3: The Theory of Social Responsibility (1905-1909); 4: The Health of the Body Corporate; 5: The Craft of the Social Administrator (1911-1914); 6: The Practice of Social Administration (1914-1918); 7: The End of the Beginning (1919-1924); 8: The Birth of a New Philanthropy; 9: The New Philanthropy Vindicated (1923-1934); Conclusion: From Rhetoric to Reality; Bibliography
• Sommario/riassunto: This book tells the personal and political story of a previously uncelebrated man, whose interests and gifts contributed greatly to the transformation of social welfare in Britain in the early part of the twentieth century. In 1905 Frederic D'Aeth, a disillusioned clergyman, came to Liverpool as the first paid lecturer in the newly formed School for Social Work Training, and went on to become the Director of Reports for the Liverpool Council for Voluntary Aid. Margaret Simey shows how, in this capacity, D'Aeth achieved the near impossible task of co-ordinating the welter of diverse charitable

A large and compleat concordance to the Bible in English [[electronic resource] ] : according to the last translation (a like work formerly performed by Clement Cotton) / / by Samuel Newman now teacher at Rehoboth in New-England

• Record Nr.: UNISA996384547303316
• Autore: Newman Samuel <1600?-1663.>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, : Printed for Thomas Downes and Andrew Crook, 1658
• Edizione: [And now this third impression corrected and amended in many things formerly omitted]
• Descrizione fisica: 1376 p
• Altri autori (Persone): CottonClement
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "The manifold use and benefit of this work is sufficiently declared in the prefaces to the reader."; Imperfect: pages stained and torn with print show-through and loss of print.; Reproduction of original in the Bodleian Library.
• Sommario/riassunto: eebo-0014