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Peddlers and the Policing of National Indifference in Palestine, 1920–1948 History Workshop Journal (IF 0.649) Pub Date : 2020-11-01 Kahlenberg C.
AbstractThis article explores nationalism and consumption in British-mandate Palestine using a history-from-below approach. It focuses on Arab and Jewish peddlers who regularly crossed national, cultural, and geographic borders in order to conduct petty trade with customers. Colonial and nationalist actors worked hard to curb the ubiquitous presence of such peddlers for various reasons. First, British
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And I Dance with Somebody: Queer History in a Japanese Nightclub History Workshop Journal (IF 0.649) Pub Date : 2020-10-21 Mark Pendleton
Halfway up the exit stairs of a Kyoto subway station lies the entrance to a small nightclub called, appropriately enough, Metro. It’s been there for several decades, serving a cosmopolitan mix of people drawn from the art schools and universities in the immediate neighbourhood and non-mainstream music scenes from across the wider Kansai region of western Japan. Once a month it also hosts the region’s
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Marvels of the Levant: Print Media and the Politics of Wonder in Early Modern Venice History Workshop Journal (IF 0.649) Pub Date : 2020-10-16 Anastasia Stouraiti
This article uses the strange and marvellous as a heuristic device to study the relationship between emotions, media and politics in early modern Venice. In particular, it examines how printed news about the marvels of the Levant mediated Venice’s encounters with its colonial subjects and imperial rivals, and analyses the role of wonder and imagination in the creation of an imperial community of feelings
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Remembering 1807: Lessons from the Archives History Workshop Journal (IF 0.649) Pub Date : 2020-10-16 John Oldfield, Mary Wills
This article offers new perspectives on the commemorative events organized around the UK in 2007 to mark the bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act (1807). Drawing from the resources contained in Remembering 1807, a digital archive of information about nearly 350 events and exhibitions held in 2007, it offers a closer look at the variety, diversity and creativity of projects organized
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Byzantine Parades of Infamy through an Animal Lens History Workshop Journal (IF 0.649) Pub Date : 2020-10-15 Maroula Perisanidi
In this article, I discuss humiliation parades as described by eleventh-century Byzantine historians, focusing on the role of mules and donkeys in them. More specifically, I examine how the presence of these equids could change the meaning of a scene in the works of Michael Attaleiates, John Skylitzes, and Michael Psellos. I argue that, as the social and religious connotations of mules and donkeys
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Saving Ireland in Juteopolis: Gender, Class and Diaspora in the Irish Ladies’ Land League History Workshop Journal (IF 0.649) Pub Date : 2020-10-11 Niall Whelehan
First established in New York in 1880, the Irish Ladies’ Land League soon had branches across Ireland, the USA, Britain, Canada and Australasia and represented an unprecedented advance in Irish women’s political activism. In Dundee, Scotland the organization found a particularly receptive environment due to the distinctive gender balance of the Irish community there, with working-class women a large
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Military History from the Street History Workshop Journal (IF 0.649) Pub Date : 2020-10-07 Eve Morrison
GraysonRichard S., Dublin’s Great Wars: the First World War, the Easter Rising and the Irish Revolution,Cambridge University Press, 2018.
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Creative Dislocation: an Experiment in Collaborative Historical Research History Workshop Journal (IF 0.649) Pub Date : 2020-09-20 Robert Bickers, Tim Cole, Marianna Dudley, Erika Hanna, Josie McLellan, William Pooley, Beth Williamson
This article introduces an experiment in collaborative historical practice. It describes how six historians visited the East Devon village of Branscombe, with the aim of creatively engaging with the present and past of the village. This was a collaborative and collective act of what we term here ‘creative dislocation’. By dislocating from our usual routines, subjects, places, methods, and styles, and
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A Secret Longing for a Trade in Human Flesh: the Decline of British Slavery and the Making of the Settler Colonies History Workshop Journal (IF 0.649) Pub Date : 2020-09-20 Jane Lydon
Focusing upon the achievement of the abolition of British slavery in 1833 has obscured significant continuities between slavery, apprenticeship, and the post-emancipation period, particularly in the new Anglophone settler colonies. During the decade leading up to abolition, domestic unrest intensified the tension between the elite abolitionist movement’s humanitarian concern for Caribbean slaves, and
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Citizenry and Nationality: the Participation of Immigrants in Urban Politics in Later Medieval England History Workshop Journal (IF 0.649) Pub Date : 2020-09-20 Bart Lambert
This article explores the participation of immigrants, or people born outside the kingdom, in urban politics in later medieval England. It demonstrates that the nationality of these newcomers was of only secondary importance. What mattered most was whether immigrants’ economic and political interests aligned with those of the civic political elites. If they did not, aliens’ nationality could be mobilized
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An Illegitimate Offspring: South Sea Islanders, Queensland Sugar, and the Heirs of the British Atlantic Slave Complex History Workshop Journal (IF 0.649) Pub Date : 2020-09-20 Emma Christopher
This article argues that Pacific Islander labour in Australia was not analogous to earlier Atlantic world slavery and can better be understood as its ‘illegitimate offspring’. Through case studies that connect the Caribbean to Australia, it reveals how the idea of Pacific Islander labour was forged in an environment where the abolitionist battle had been won, but where the interconnected and changing
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The Restructuring of the British Empire and the Colonization of Australia, 1832–8 History Workshop Journal (IF 0.649) Pub Date : 2020-09-18 Alan Lester, Nikita Vanderbyl
Analysing a comprehensive shift in the governance of the British Empire in the mid 1830s, this article introduces the context for the following three articles in the Feature, ‘Legacies of Slave Ownership’. This shift included the abolition of slavery in the Caribbean, upon which these articles concentrate, but also the restructuring of the East India Company. A reformed British parliament introduced
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Roger Owen (1935–2018) History Workshop Journal (IF 0.649) Pub Date : 2020-08-27 Zachary Lockman
E. R. J. Owen – known to his family, friends and colleagues as Roger – died on 23 December 2018 at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at the age of eighty-three. Over the course of a long and distinguished career Roger produced pioneering scholarly work of lasting importance on many different dimensions of the economic, political and social history of the modern Middle East, a field in whose intellectual
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Young Roger History Workshop Journal (IF 0.649) Pub Date : 2020-08-12 Ursula Owen
Roger was a romantic. When I first knew him, in the late 1950s, he would talk intensely about how we are born alone, we die alone, and we must learn to be alone.
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From Montserrat to Settler-Colonial Australia: the Intersecting Histories of Caribbean Slave-owning Families, Transported British Radicals, and Indigenous Peoples History Workshop Journal (IF 0.649) Pub Date : 2020-08-03 Ann Curthoys
When the British government abolished slavery in the Caribbean and compensated the slave-owners, some of the beneficiaries and/or their children and grandchildren went to Australia to make a new life and if possible a new fortune. This essay traces the history of one such family, the Shiells of Montserrat, alongside two other contemporaneous histories – that of Yorkshire radical and convict, John Burkinshaw
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Photojournalism and the Moss Side Riots of 1981: Narrowly Selective Transparency History Workshop Journal (IF 0.649) Pub Date : 2020-03-16 Hirsch S, Swanson D.
AbstractIn the summer of 1981 a series of riots broke out across England. Here we look at the contemporary photojournalism of the Moss Side, Manchester, riots in the local newspaper, the Manchester Evening News, in order to better understand the riots and media representation of riots more generally. We begin by exploring the contradictory nature of photography (and news photography in particular)
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Art, Collaboration and Multi-Sensory Approaches in Public Microhistory: Journey with Absent Friends History Workshop Journal (IF 0.649) Pub Date : 2020-02-18 Hammett J, Harrison E, King L.
AbstractIn this article we reflect upon the many advantages of collaborations between academic historians and artists, as a method for presenting our work, communicating with different audiences and, most importantly, beginning conversations which cause us to think about our research in new and creative ways. We argue that collaboration allows us to rethink the boundaries of expertise, it opens up
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Decolonizing History: Enquiry and Practice History Workshop Journal (IF 0.649) Pub Date : 2020-02-17 Behm A, Fryar C, Hunter E, et al.
AbstractOn the back of the Royal Historical Society’s 2018 report on race and ethnicity, as well as ongoing discussions about ‘decolonizing the syllabus’, this is a conversation piece titled, ‘Decolonizing History: Enquiry and Practice’. While ‘decolonization’ has been a key framework for historical research, it has assumed increasingly varied and nebulous meanings in teaching, where calls for ‘decolonizing’
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The Itinerant Library of Lala Lajpat Rai History Workshop Journal (IF 0.649) Pub Date : 2020-02-12 Moffat C.
AbstractThis essay traces the movements of a library from New York to Lahore in the wake of the First World War and then to Shimla and Chandigarh following the partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947. It explores how this collection of books, assembled by the anti-colonial nationalist Lajpat Rai (1865–1928), intersected with and informed key moments of political struggle in twentieth-century urban
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Can Dogs be Racist? The Colonial Legacies of Racialized Dogs in Kenya and Zambia History Workshop Journal (IF 0.649) Pub Date : 2020-02-12 Doble J.
AbstractCan dogs be racist? Posing this question may seem odd and at worst, unhelpfully provocative at a time when the discourse of ‘colour-blindness’ is so pervasive. Yet the idea of ‘racist dogs’ remains salient within the post-settler societies of eastern and southern Africa, where dogs have been an integral if overlooked tool of colonial practices of racialization. This article traces the colonial
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Francis Green and David Kynaston, Engines of Privilege: Britain’s Private School Problem History Workshop Journal (IF 0.649) Pub Date : 2020-02-10 Steedman C.
GreenFrancis and KynastonDavid, Engines of Privilege: Britain’s Private School Problem, Bloomsbury, London, 2019; pp. viii+308; ISBN 9781526601261.
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Luisa Passerini, Conversations on Visual Memory History Workshop Journal (IF 0.649) Pub Date : 2020-02-07 Rogaly B, Taylor B.
PasseriniLuisa, Conversations on Visual Memory, European University Institute, Florence, 2018. Available from Cadmus, European University Institute Research Repository, at: http://hdl.handle.net/1814/60164.
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Frank Trentmann, Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First History Workshop Journal (IF 0.649) Pub Date : 2020-02-04 Glickman L.
TrentmannFrank, Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First, New York: HarperCollins, 2016.
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Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Sarah Anne Carter, Ivan Gaskell, Sara Schechner, and Samantha van Gerbig, Tangible Things: Making History through Objects History Workshop Journal (IF 0.649) Pub Date : 2020-02-03 Boon T.
Thatcher UlrichLaurel, Anne CarterSarah, GaskellIvan, SchechnerSara, and van GerbigSamantha, Tangible Things: Making History through Objects, OUP USA, New York, 2015.Michael Thompson, Rubbish Theory: the Creation and Destruction of Value – New Edition, intro. Joshua O. Reno, Pluto Press, London, 2017.
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Corrigendum History Workshop Journal (IF 0.649) Pub Date : 2020-01-31
Ruth Ahnert and Sebastian E. Ahnert, ‘Metadata, Surveillance and the Tudor State’, History Workshop Journal 87, 23 January 2019, pp. 27–51, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/dby033.
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Marcus Rediker, The Fearless Benjamin Lay: the Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist History Workshop Journal (IF 0.649) Pub Date : 2020-01-31 Dorsey B.
RedikerMarcus, The Fearless Benjamin Lay: the Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist, Beacon Press, Boston, 2017; 212 pp.
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Class Analysis and the Killing of the Newborn Child: Manchester, 1790–1860 History Workshop Journal (IF 0.649) Pub Date : 2020-01-28 Beattie I.
AbstractThis article explores the practice of neonaticide – the killing of an infant at the moment of birth – in Manchester during the first decades of the industrial revolution. Using a set of previously unexamined pre-trial witness statements, the author makes the case that newborn-killing was practised by working-class women in the town as a known and even accepted form of birth control. There is
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Stonewall and its Legacy in Iberia History Workshop Journal (IF 0.649) Pub Date : 2020-01-27 Cleminson R.
AbstractThis short article evaluates the changing and conflictive discourse and practice around homosexuality over the twentieth century in Spain and Portugal. The Iberian states were under dictatorship at the time of the Stonewall riots in 1969. Despite the repressive legislation introduced in both countries, it is possible to discern resistance against the law and against a general climate of social
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Philosophical Solitude: David Hume versus Jean-Jacques Rousseau History Workshop Journal (IF 0.649) Pub Date : 2020-01-22 Taylor B.
AbstractThe philosopher meditating alone in his study is a cliché of western culture. But behind the hackneyed image lies a long history of controversy. Was solitude the ‘palace of learning’ that many learned people, religious and secular, perceived it, or a debilitating state of solipsistic misery and intellectual degeneracy, as its enemies described it? In the mid eighteenth century the debate became
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The Legacies of the Stonewall Riots in Denmark and the Netherlands History Workshop Journal (IF 0.649) Pub Date : 2020-01-18 Shield A.
AbstractThe Netherlands and Denmark housed Europe’s first two postwar homophile organizations, and by the 1960s, activists were already debating anti-homosexual laws in national media (in the Netherlands) demonstrating publicly; thus Stonewall was not the origin of activism in either of these countries. Yet the events in New York City 1969 had two lasting influences in these countries: first, Stonewall
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The Sex of History, or Object/Matters History Workshop Journal (IF 0.649) Pub Date : 2020-01-18 Arondekar A.
AbstractThe mandate to think of Stonewall as a global historical event within South Asia necessitates a difficult act of translation. Was my goal as a historian of sexuality and South Asia to decentre the primacy of Stonewall with local historical events of import? Or was it more epistemological, to address instead the question of why historical causality and memorialization works differently within
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Unaccountable Subjects: Contracting Legal and Medical Authority in the Newgate Smallpox Experiment (1721) History Workshop Journal (IF 0.649) Pub Date : 2019-12-26 Weinreich S.
AbstractThe first experimental trials of smallpox inoculation were conducted on a group of prisoners in London’s Newgate Prison in 1721. These inmates were long believed to have been facing execution, but archival material reveals that they had in fact received pardons conditional on penal transportation to the Americas. This article rereads the design, progress, and reception of the experiment, reorienting
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‘It Would be Better for the Newspapers to Call a Spade a Spade’: the British Press and Child Sexual Abuse, c. 1918–90 History Workshop Journal (IF 0.649) Pub Date : 2019-03-11 Adrian Bingham
This article provides the first rigorous survey of coverage in the twentieth-century British press of what we now call ‘child sexual abuse’. It argues that abuse was always visible, but its place on the press agenda changed significantly. After 1918, coverage was mainly restricted to brief, euphemistic reports of court proceedings. During the 1950s and 1960s, reporting became more explicit, but abuse
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The Lost World of the British Leisure Centre History Workshop Journal (IF 0.649) Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Otto Saumarez Smith
This article presents the first historical account of the spectacular growth of British leisure centres throughout the 1970s. The first section explains why the concept of leisure became so prominent, and emphasizes the extent of the boom in construction of centres. The second section offers a tour of a pioneering leisure centre in Bletchley, Buckinghamshire. The third provides a history of a firm
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Home Sweet Home? Housing Activism and Political Commemoration in Sixties Ireland History Workshop Journal (IF 0.649) Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Sinead McEneaney
This paper examines the explosion of activism around housing in Ireland in the late Sixties. At a time of political commemoration around the anniversaries of the 1916 Rising, and the establishment of the first revolutionary independent parliament (Dail) in 1919, a group of activists calling themselves the Dublin Housing Action Committee sought to disrupt political consensus and ask serious questions
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Human and Animal Trespass as Protest: Space and Continuity in Rural Somerset and Dorset History Workshop Journal (IF 0.649) Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Leonard Baker
Dibben was a small farmer and, according to Castleman’s private notebook, his conduct had been ‘commendable all these years’. Dibben’s trespass proved to be a rallying call for the people of Handley. During the next four months, more than five hundred ‘lugs’ of new fencing were destroyed and over thirty people arrested for their participation in what came to be known as ‘Dibben’s cause’. Trespass,
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The Fighting Maroons of Dominica History Workshop Journal (IF 0.649) Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Peter Hulme
Doing historical research on the smaller islands of the Caribbean has always been something of a challenge. Aside from the British government’s determination to ‘migrate’ files that might cause it embarrassment, until recently official buildings offered little protection from the ravages of natural disasters. On Dominica, for example, much local documentation was destroyed in Hurricane David in 1976
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No Country for Old Men: the Life of John Lee and the Problem of the Aged Pioneer History Workshop Journal (IF 0.649) Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Will Jackson
This article uses a charity appeal made on behalf of one old white man in South Africa in 1912 as an entry into considering the importance of age for social histories of empire – and for settler colonialism in particular. John Lee, aged eighty-five when he made his appeal, demanded the restitution of a piece of land he claimed to have been given by an African king and, to gain public sympathy, had
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Typewriting Mass Observation Online: Media Imprints on the Digital Archive History Workshop Journal (IF 0.649) Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Rebecca K Wright
This article examines how the digital is politicizing medium within historical studies. Through a critical evaluation of Mass Observation Online (MOO: the online portal for the Mass Observation Archive), the paper traces how OCR (Optical Character Recognition) has established a new hierarchy in a key archive of British social memory, centred around the typewriter, whose products are much easier to
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Schooners and Schoonermen, My Grandfather and Me History Workshop Journal (IF 0.649) Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Julia Laite
This article, part of History Workshop Journal's 'Historic Passions' series is an analysis of an unpublished manuscript that the author's grandfather wrote on the history of the Labrador Fishery in light of the author's own life in 1990s Newfoundland, during the early years of the cod moratorium.
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Debt Imprisonment and the City History Workshop Journal (IF 0.649) Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Rachel Weil
When the Cornish recusant gentleman Francis Tregian the Younger entered the Fleet debtors’ prison during the early seventeenth century, he being ‘desirous of more ease than ordinary’ persuaded the warden to let him lodge in ‘one of the fairest chambers in the Fleet and to have three other rooms next adjoining to the same for the sole use of himself and his retinue’. For five years he lived in there
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Hair, Emotions and Slavery in the Early Modern Habsburg Mediterranean History Workshop Journal (IF 0.649) Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Stefan Hanß
This article charts the meanings of hair in scenes of Habsburg-Ottoman cultural exchange. In particular, it examines the links between medicinal knowledge about hair and the ways in which enslaved Habsburg as well as Ottoman subjects addressed their bodies whilst living in either the Ottoman or the Habsburg domains. Connecting the early modern body with the trade in early modern bodies, this article
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Titanic Struggle: Memory, Heritage and Shipyard Deindustrialization in Belfast History Workshop Journal (IF 0.649) Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Pete Hodson
Titanic Quarter is situated on former shipbuilding land on the eastern banks of Belfast’s River Lagan, birthplace to hundreds of ships including the illfated Titanic. Titanic Quarter looks like a typical waterfront redevelopment project. Stainless steel and glass – the identikit symbols of civic modernity – dominate the urban landscape. (Fig. 1) For many visitors Titanic Quarter is synonymous with
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The Touch of the State: Stop and Search in England, c.1660–1750 History Workshop Journal (IF 0.649) Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Jonah Miller
On the night of 24 August 1699, Jane Blair used a ‘false key’ to burgle her former master, Thomas Tooley, in the London parish of St Swithin’s. She took silk clothes, a few bits of crockery and some money, then made her escape. In the street shortly afterwards, she was stopped by a constable, who knew nothing of the robbery ‘but he mistrusting her, searched her, and found the false Key about her, and
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Vegetable Gardens versus Cash Crops: Science and Political Economy in the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India, 1820–40 History Workshop Journal (IF 0.649) Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Laura Tavolacci
On 13 January 1830 the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India (AHSI) held its fourth annual vegetable exhibition in the Calcutta Town Hall. Eminent European and Bengali members watched as the wife of Governor-General Bentinck placed silver medals around the necks of Bengali malis (gardeners) who had presented the best specimens of cauliflowers, cabbages, turnips, and other ‘European’ vegetables
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Metadata, Surveillance and the Tudor State History Workshop Journal (IF 0.649) Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Ruth Ahnert, Sebastian E Ahnert
On 5 June 2013 the Guardian newspaper published an exclusive article, based on information leaked to them by Edward Snowden, that revealed a largescale effort by the United States National Security Agency to collect domestic email and telephone metadata from the US telecommunications company Verizon. In the following days it would emerge that this was part of a more widespread and systematic programme
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Leaving the Victorian Children's Institution: Aftercare, Friendship and Support. History Workshop Journal (IF 0.649) Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Claudia Soares
This article explores the needs of young people leaving residential care and the provision of aftercare support in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Young people's discharge, aftercare and post-institutional experiences occupy a peripheral position in scholarship on institutional care. This essay broadens interpretations of aftercare, which have been presented as inadequate inspections
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Oral Histories, Public Engagement, and the Making of Positive in Prison. History Workshop Journal (IF 0.649) Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Janet Weston
How might creative practices surrounding oral history contribute to public engagement and to historical research itself? These questions are considered here through a reflective account of the making of the audio drama Positive in Prison: HIV Stories from a Dublin Jail. Positive in Prison is based on oral histories of HIV/AIDS in the Republic of Ireland, gathered in 2016–17 as part of the Wellcome
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Letters from London in Black and Red: Claude McKay, Marcus Garvey and the Negro World History Workshop Journal (IF 0.649) Pub Date : 2018-02-02 Winston James
Claude McKay (1889–1948) is mainly remembered as a writer and primarily as a leading figure of the black political and cultural awakening known as the Harlem Renaissance. A distinguished and prolific poet and novelist, he was the author of what one contemporary called the ‘Negro Marseillaise’, the militant sonnet ‘If We Must Die’, which urged African Americans to fight back against Fig. 1. Claude McKay
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Objects, Emotions and an Early Modern Bed-sheet History Workshop Journal (IF 0.649) Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Sasha Handley
This catalogue entry describes a linen bed-sheet that has lain in the Museum of London’s dress and textile collection since its purchase in 1934. It appears, at first glance, to be a very ordinary sort of household object, perhaps only noteworthy because of its noble creator and its age. Most bed-sheets of its era have perished with years of heavy use and vigorous laundering; it is thus a rare survival
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Pearl Fishers History Workshop Journal (IF 0.649) Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Vannessa Hearman
Asians were once the majority populations in Northern Australian towns like Broome and Darwin, as Julia Martinez and Adrian Vickers show in their award-winning book The Pearl Frontier. Traces of this remain today in the multiracial populations of these towns and in the rich histories of families formed from the late nineteenth century onwards across the racial divide of Asians and Aborigines. In this
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Lesbianism and Feminist Legislation in 1921: the Age of Consent and ‘Gross Indecency between Women’ History Workshop Journal (IF 0.649) Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Caroline Derry
In the early twentieth century a large network of organisations, co-ordinated by the Association for Moral and Social Hygiene, campaigned for changes to the law on sexual offences. In particular, they sought to strengthen age of consent law for the protection of young girls. Their efforts resulted in the introduction of a Criminal Law Amendment Bill in 1921; it would have raised the age of consent
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Queer British Art, 1861–1967 History Workshop Journal (IF 0.649) Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Jeffrey Weeks
The summer of 2017 saw an unexpected, and certainly unprecedented festival of queer Britain: a series across all BBC outlets called ‘Gay Britannia’, embracing drama, documentaries, stories, art and music; an ambitious Channel 4 series entitled ‘50 Shades of Gay’ covering a similar range, though a little quirkier; plays on West End and other stages; celebratory lunches, teas, dinners and receptions
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Accidental Authors? Soldiers’ Tales of the Peninsular War and the Secrets of the Publishing Process History Workshop Journal (IF 0.649) Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Matilda Greig
The morning of Tuesday, 2 December 1834 dawned bright and sunny in the hills over the peaceful Alpine town of Gap. Taking a walk through the countryside, the retired French officer Jean-Stanislas Vivien was struck by the memory of a similarly beautiful morning twenty-nine years earlier, when crisp winter sunshine had shone on the famous battlefield of Austerlitz. Comparing what he remembered as a day
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Marilyn B. Young 1937–2017 History Workshop Journal (IF 0.649) Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Mary Nolan
Marilyn B. Young, an influential historian of U.S. foreign policy, a feminist and a prominent public critic of America’s endless wars in the twentieth and twenty-first century, died in New York City on 19 February Brilliant, charismatic and witty, Marilyn was a beloved colleague and friend, a devoted teacher, and an inspiring model of a politically engaged intellectual. Irvine, California, January
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Travelling Ayahs of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Global Networks and Mobilization of Agency History Workshop Journal (IF 0.649) Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Olivia Robinson
Between 1890 and the 1930s, thousands of ayahs and amahs were recorded on passenger lists for ship arrivals into Britain from South and East Asian ports. Described as ‘a very useful class of people who wait on ladies and take charge of children during the sea voyage’, ayahs either accompanied their permanent employers during trips to Britain or were hired exclusively for the journey. Despite a growing
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The Makers and Shakers of India History Workshop Journal (IF 0.649) Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Layli Uddin
music recorded at the beginning of the twentieth century. Denning offers a convincing description of the transformative power of recording and the mass circulation of recorded music, and sheds light on the conditions out of which the vernacular music of the 1920s emerged. By combining history with musicology and cultural studies, Noise Uprising forces us to consider how music and sound can be used
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Forging a Politics of Care: Theorizing Household Work in the British Women’s Liberation Movement History Workshop Journal (IF 0.649) Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Sarah Stoller
Over the course of the 1970s, feminists in Britain and elsewhere in the West raised questions about the nature of work and criticized the gendered division of labour. They argued that the undervaluing of women’s work lay at the heart of troubled relations between men and women and viewed the transformation of this work as a necessary condition for the formation of new types of intimacy. By the late
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“Did That Play of Mine …?”: Theatre, Commemoration and 1916 History Workshop Journal (IF 0.649) Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Shaun Richards
W.B. Yeats’s question ‘Did that play of mine send out/Certain men the English shot?’ from ‘The Man and the Echo’ (1938), speculatitively postions his play, Cathleen ni Houlihan (1902), as the driving force behind the Easter Rising of 1916. While theatre was a powerful factor in creating the cultural-politial climate which gave birth to the Rising, Yeats’s question disingenously gives his play an exclusive
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Listening for Women’s Narratives in the Harvard Project Archive History Workshop Journal (IF 0.649) Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Sam Prendergast
This article asks how to listen for meaning in women’s life stories when those stories are relayed to us by men. On 1 February 1951 Kent Geiger, a US graduate student, aged twenty-eight, sat down to interview ‘Olga Ivanova’, a forty-four-year-old Russian seamstress and displaced person who had left the USSR in 1943. Over two days, four sessions and eleven hours of interviewing, the pair spoke about
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