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Official figures from the Home Office show an increase in mobility of the highly-skilled from the United Kingdom ( UK) to other European countries. This paper analyses the social composition of intra- European mobile graduates from the UK in the context of recent political developments ( Bologna- Process, European Higher Education Area). Using quantitative and qualitative data from a longitudinal study of students and its follow-up study, the paper compares the social composition and current activity of intra- European mobile graduates with those remaining in the UK. Personal and higher education-related variables together with the current type of employment were significant for the distinction between intra- European mobile graduates and ' UK stayers'. UK-educated mobile graduates were identified as ' Eurostars', who come from high social classes or studied at high tariff higher education institutions. Mobility was identified as one way for UK-educated graduates to avoid employment in non-graduate jobs and add further value to their undergraduate degrees. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Provides an overview of several books about the social history of Great Britain and Europe from 900-1200. Opinions on the Viking heritage of the British people in the book "The Norsemen in the Viking Age," by Eric Christiansen; Discussion of charters and politics in "English Episcopal Acta, 24: Durham, 1153 -1195," by M. G. Snape; Evolution of the British social structure explained in "Power and Border Lordship in Medieval France: The County of the Perche, 1000-1226," by Kathleen Thompson.

Provides an overview of several books on the social history of Great Britain and Europe from 1200-1500. Focus on politics and economy in the book "Why Magna Carta? Angevin England Revisited," by N. Fryde; Lifestyle of an archbishop explored in "The Register of William Melton, Archbishop of York, 1317-1340," by A. M. Chadwick and C. Phillpotts; Analysis of life in almshouses in "God's House at Ewelme: Life, Devotion and Architecture in a Fifteenth-Century Almshouse," by J. A. Goodall.

Provides an overview of several books on the social history of Great Britain and Europe during the 17th century. Highlights of the book "Britain in Revolution 1625-1660," by Austin Woolrych; Impact of the Roman Catholic Church on Spanish multi-culturalism discussed in the book "Church, Religion and Society in Early Modern Spain," by Helen Rawlings; Role of women in the Catholic religion explained in "Between Exaltation and Infamy: Female Mystics in the Golden Age of Spain," by Stephen Haliczer.

Provides an overview of books about the social history of Great Britain and Europe in the 18th century, published as of 2003. Politics in western and eastern Europe featured in "Fractured Europe, 1600-1721," by D. J. Sturdy; Impact of Napoleonic France on the Italian, Spanish and German states discussed in "Napoléon et l'Europe," by J. C. Martin; Role of the military based on the observations of author J. Black in his book "Warfare in the Eighteenth Century"; Emergence of several states in Europe emphasized in "The Birth of the Great Power System, 1740-1815," by H. Scott.

Provides an overview of books about the social history of Great Britain and Europe in the 19th century, published as of 2003. Focus on the tension between German, Jews and Poles in "Entre et Allemagne et Pologne," by T. Serrier; Perceptions of the word other by British and French citizens explained in "National Character and Public Spirit in Britain and France, 1750-1914," by R. Romani; Changes in the European politics discussed in "Political Mobilization in 19th Century Europe," by R. Goldstein.

Provides an overview of books about the social history of Great Britain and Europe published as of 2003. Description of the political life of Labour party official Stafford Cripps featured in "The Cripps Version: The Life of Sir Stafford Cripps, 1879-1952," by P. Clarke; Pessimism of freelance writers in developing a professional career discussed in "Freelance Writers and the Changing Terrain of Intellectual Life in Britain, 1880-1980," by T. W. Hayek; Interpretation of fascism in "The Fascism Reader," by Aristotle A. Kallis.

The article sheds light on land-value taxation in Great Britain. Three strands may be discerned in the history of land-value taxation in Great Britain, land tax gathering for public revenue purposes, development value capture for the benefit of the community, and recoupment of infrastructure costs. The Romans recognized land as a target for measurement and assessment by surveyors for taxation on a quinquennial basis, which would have been a normal part of their imperial taxation during the four centuries of their occupation in the first millennium. Subsequently land continued to have a fiscal role. After the collapse of the Roman Empire, the outstanding feature of Europe was the feudal system. What emerges from this history is there has been a distinct lack of success during the century with successive Governments in bringing site-value rating/taxation within their armory of tax-gathering methods to supplement local and national revenues. The Labour Government of 1964 made another, quite different, attempt to secure the return of a substantial part of the development value created by the community to the community, and the reduction of the cost of land to authority for essential purposes.