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The article discusses the significance of the two fundamental historical shifts on emergence of multicultural society and collapse of manufacturing industries in the late twentieth-century in Great Britain. It explores the interconnected relationships between the two historical shifts. It also presents the results of the Leiscester graph which shows the impacts of global historical processes.

The project entitled Legacy of Partition, 1947-2009, funded at the Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland by the Museums, Libraries and Archives partnership, was aimed at gathering the memories of Leicestershire people who lived through the upheaval of Indian partition in 1947 and exploring the understanding of these events among the younger generation today. The article explores the methodology of the oral history interviews, the new resources collected by the archive as a result of the project, the inter-generational learning that resulted in the schools which piloted the teaching resources, and the implications of such community projects for the traditional archive, involving people who never thought of themselves as having any interest in history as depositors of records for the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: to identify predictive morbidities for urinary storage syndromes including indicators for neurological, musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, immune, lower bowel and psychological systems. This is the first study to test prior hypotheses, based on a literature review. Design: this was a prospective cohort study involving 12,570 female respondents aged 40 or more registered with general practitioners and living at home in Leicestershire. Postal questionnaires were used at baseline and 1-year follow-up (response rates 65 and 79%, respectively). Measures: pure stress urinary incontinence (SUI) and overactive bladder syndrome (OAB) were defined using standardised symptom indicators. Specific morbidities included reported medical diagnoses, standardised symptoms and general health indicators. Associations were identified using logistic regression, adjusting for age and physical impairment, with separate models for general and specific morbidities. Results: multivariate morbidities consistently associated (i.e. both longitudinally and cross-sectionally) were SUI--cystitis and obesity; and OAB--bowel urgency, osteoporosis, imbalance, ankle swelling, cystitis, poor health and old age. Other independent predictors were SUI--multiple sclerosis and joint pain; and OAB--deep vein thrombosis and diabetes. Consistent univariate indicators supported neurological, musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, immunological and psychological connections with both types of storage disorder plus an association with lower bowel problems for OAB. Conclusions: abnormal urinary storage symptoms were predicted by obesity and poor general health, involving a range of systems of the body. OAB showed more extensive links than SUI with specific morbidities, including more medically diagnosed as opposed to symptom-based conditions. These findings were independent of problems with physical impairment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]