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Generations: Age, Ancestry, and Memory in the English Reformations Cultural and Social History Pub Date : 2024-03-17 Ralph Houlbrooke
Published in Cultural and Social History: The Journal of the Social History Society (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Advertising and Consumer Culture in Ireland, 1922-1962: Buy Irish Cultural and Social History Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Lucy Wray
Published in Cultural and Social History: The Journal of the Social History Society (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Reporting the Second World War: The Press and the People, 1939-1945 Cultural and Social History Pub Date : 2024-03-10 David Clampin
Published in Cultural and Social History: The Journal of the Social History Society (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Lifescapes: The Experience of Landscape in Britain, 1870-1960 Cultural and Social History Pub Date : 2024-03-10 Daniel Breeze
Published in Cultural and Social History: The Journal of the Social History Society (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Fear and Clothing: Dress in English Detective Fiction Between the First and Second World Wars Cultural and Social History Pub Date : 2024-03-10 Mara Arts
Published in Cultural and Social History: The Journal of the Social History Society (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Picturing the Western Front: Photography, Practices and Experiences in First World War France Cultural and Social History Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Emma Hanna
Published in Cultural and Social History: The Journal of the Social History Society (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Pet Revolution: Animals and the Making of Modern British Life Cultural and Social History Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Helen Cowie
Published in Cultural and Social History: The Journal of the Social History Society (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Consuming Mass Fashion in 1930s England: Design, Manufacture and Retailing for Young Working-Class Women Cultural and Social History Pub Date : 2024-03-10 Tali Kot-Ofek
Published in Cultural and Social History: The Journal of the Social History Society (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Reverberations of Revolution: Sound, Politics and Religious Enthusiasm in the 1790s Cultural and Social History Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Peter Denney
This essay examines the significance of sound in religion in the context of the British debate about the French Revolution. It analyses loyalist sermons and pamphlets to show that anxieties about p...
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‘To Help Him Recover from His Losses’: Royal Begging Licences in the Austrian Netherlands, 1760s-1780s Cultural and Social History Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Anne Winter
This article explores a collection of circa 400 applications for ‘begging letters’ conserved in the archives of the Privy Council of the Austrian Netherlands from the late 1760s to the early 1780s....
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The Humanist Movement in Modern Britain: A History of Ethicists, Rationalists and Humanists Cultural and Social History Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Clare Stainthorp
Published in Cultural and Social History: The Journal of the Social History Society (Vol. 21, No. 1, 2024)
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Religion and the Rise of Sport in England Cultural and Social History Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Callum Brown
Published in Cultural and Social History: The Journal of the Social History Society (Vol. 21, No. 1, 2024)
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Globalizing Fortune on the Early Modern Stage Cultural and Social History Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Gavin Hollis
Published in Cultural and Social History: The Journal of the Social History Society (Vol. 21, No. 1, 2024)
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The Emergence of Brand-Name Capitalism in Late Colonial India: Advertising and the Making of Modern Conjugality Cultural and Social History Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Anat Rosenberg
Published in Cultural and Social History: The Journal of the Social History Society (Vol. 21, No. 1, 2024)
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The Kaiser and the Colonies: Monarchy in the Age of Empire Cultural and Social History Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Katherine Arnold
Published in Cultural and Social History: The Journal of the Social History Society (Vol. 21, No. 1, 2024)
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The Social World of the School: Education and Community in Interwar London Cultural and Social History Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Rosie Kennedy
Published in Cultural and Social History: The Journal of the Social History Society (Vol. 21, No. 1, 2024)
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Democratic Passions: The Politics of Feeling in British Popular Radicalism, 1809-48 Cultural and Social History Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Simon J. Morgan
Published in Cultural and Social History: The Journal of the Social History Society (Vol. 21, No. 1, 2024)
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Painting for a Living in Tudor and Early Stuart England Cultural and Social History Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Emily Hansen
Published in Cultural and Social History: The Journal of the Social History Society (Vol. 21, No. 1, 2024)
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Mining in Sicily: Slavery, Humanitarian Rhetoric and Global Network Cultural and Social History Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Giorgia Alù
This article discusses how, at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of twentieth centuries, the labour conditions of the sulphur miners in Sicily were recurrently understood and described throug...
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Unfairness at the Funfair: The French Syndicate for Travelling Showpeople in the Long Nineteenth Century Cultural and Social History Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Eva Andersen
The article explores the historical significance and agency of itinerant showpeople, a marginalised and frequently overlooked community, in the late 19th century. Focusing on the French Chambre Syn...
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Dealing with Mobility: Guilds and Tramping Journeymen in Seventeenth-Century Scandinavia Cultural and Social History Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Cecilia Candréus
The aim of this paper is to discuss the mobility of skilled labour within small and specialised guilds in peripheral Europe during the mid-seventeenth century. Based on archival records for passeme...
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‘But by the Eyes of His Trustees’: the Emotions and Post-Mortem Strategies of Will-Writing in Restoration London, 1660–1700’ Cultural and Social History Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Elizabeth DeBold
Wills made in the English probate system during the seventeenth century were emotion-filled documents that allowed their testators to continue to speak and influence the living after their deaths. ...
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Designing Shakespeare: Tibor Reich and the 1964 Shakespeare Quatercentenary Cultural and Social History Pub Date : 2023-12-29 Cathryn Enis
This article explores the work of the designer, Tibor Reich (1916–1996) as part of the material heritage of William Shakespeare. It suggests Reich’s partnership with the Shakespeare Birthplace Trus...
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‘If I Do Not Satisfy My Present Inclination in Writing, It is Very Probable I May Haunt you’: Astral Projection in Bluestocking Letters (1740–1770) Cultural and Social History Pub Date : 2023-11-17 Jack Orchard
This article examines the concept of ‘astral projection’ in the letters of the Bluestocking intellectuals Elizabeth Montagu (1718–1800), Elizabeth Carter (1717–1806), and Catherine Talbot (1721–177...
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The Body Flâneur: Body-Biased Gaze and Ocular Inspections of Women’s Bodies in Swedish Serial Literature, 1850–1890 Cultural and Social History Pub Date : 2023-11-12 Leif Runefelt
The article analyses the male body-biased gaze in serial fiction in the Swedish press 1850–1890, by using the concept of the body flâneur as an analogy to the well-known city flâneur. The normative...
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Carnival Relocated? Popular Culture and the Carnivalesque in Colonial Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania) Cultural and Social History Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Adrian Franklin
This article re-evaluates the historical research on the carnivalesque rituals that arrived in Van Diemen’s Land (VDL) with British convicts, their colonial minders and free settlers. The revaluati...
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Group Petitioning and the Performance of Neighbourliness in the West Midlands, 1589-1700 Cultural and Social History Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Amy Burnett
Using 192 petitions from the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, this article questions whether petitioning culture in the early modern West Midlands supports the idea of the ‘declin...
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Singing the News of Death: Execution Ballads in Europe, 1500–1900 Cultural and Social History Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Oskar Cox Jensen
Published in Cultural and Social History: The Journal of the Social History Society (Vol. 20, No. 5, 2023)
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Distrust of Institutions in Early Modern Britain and America Cultural and Social History Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Ben Gilding
Published in Cultural and Social History: The Journal of the Social History Society (Vol. 20, No. 5, 2023)
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A British Rome in India: Calcutta – Capital for an Empire Cultural and Social History Pub Date : 2023-10-30 William Whyte
Published in Cultural and Social History: The Journal of the Social History Society (Vol. 20, No. 5, 2023)
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Out of His Mind: Masculinity and Mental Illness in Victorian Britain Cultural and Social History Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Leonard Smith
Published in Cultural and Social History: The Journal of the Social History Society (Vol. 20, No. 5, 2023)
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Dangerous Amusements: Leisure, the Young Working Class and Urban Space in Britain, c.1870-1939 Cultural and Social History Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Brad Beaven
Published in Cultural and Social History: The Journal of the Social History Society (Vol. 20, No. 5, 2023)
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The Kaiser, Hitler and the Jewish Department Store: The Reich’s Retailer Cultural and Social History Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Lisa Pine
Published in Cultural and Social History: The Journal of the Social History Society (Vol. 20, No. 5, 2023)
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Propaganda, Gender, and Cultural Power: Projections and Perceptions of France in Britain, c.1880-1944 Cultural and Social History Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Joshua Bennett
Published in Cultural and Social History: The Journal of the Social History Society (Vol. 20, No. 5, 2023)
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Fictions of Consent: Slavery, Servitude, and Free Service in Early Modern England Cultural and Social History Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Brodie Waddell
Published in Cultural and Social History: The Journal of the Social History Society (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Communicating Beyond Death: Examining Suicide Letters from England (1757–1849) and Brazil (1920–1929) Cultural and Social History Pub Date : 2023-09-23 Ella Sbaraini, Pedro Frederico Falk
This article explores the ways in which people imagined their suicide letters to be tools of posthumous communication, in both eighteenth- and nineteenth-century London, and early twentieth-century...
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Spectres Across the Atlantic, c.1820-1940: Communicating with the Dead Over Space and Time Cultural and Social History Pub Date : 2023-09-21 Clodagh Tait
In Irish tradition it was believed that both the living and the dead might in certain circumstances appear at a distance from their bodies. This article considers occasions where such supernatural ...
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Keats, Letters, Grief, and Delay 1818-1820 Cultural and Social History Pub Date : 2023-09-16 Rosie Whitcombe
ABSTRACT Digital technologies offer a quick and convenient method of communicating across distance, but there are unique benefits to engaging in forms of delayed communication. Long-distance letter writing in the early nineteenth century was often a slow business, and one that Romantic poet, John Keats, capitalised on. In particular, the letter provided Keats with a means of managing the reality of
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‘The Worst Invention Ever’: The Number Lottery and its Critics during the Press Freedom Period in Denmark-Norway, 1770-1773 Cultural and Social History Pub Date : 2023-09-16 Ulrik Langen
During the so-called Press Freedom Period, 1770–1773, in Denmark-Norway, fierce and mostly anonymous criticism of the recently introduced number lottery emerged. This opposition went beyond mainstr...
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Roadside Media: Roadside Crash Shrines as Platforms for Communicating Across Time, Space, and Mortality in the Early 2000s United States Cultural and Social History Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Robert Matej Bednar
ABSTRACT This article argues that since the 1990s, roadside shrines in the United States have become place-bound forms of media that provide multiple publics with platforms for communicating with the dead and for communicating with other platform users about the dead. Evidence that roadside shrines function as media today is accessible even to strangers who witness roadside shrines because people leave
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The Story of John P. Gloyn and 'The City Road Congregation' (1872-1877), or How a Deaf-Led Deaf Space Came into Existence in Victorian North London Cultural and Social History Pub Date : 2023-08-31 William John Lyons
In 2017, Mary Kitzel outlined London’s first ‘Deaf place’, the London Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb Poor, which opened in Bermondsey in 1792. Within the cracks of its hearing-led provision, she argu...
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The Beat Cop: Chicago’s Chief O’Neill and the Creation of Irish Music Cultural and Social History Pub Date : 2023-08-13 Eleanor Lybeck
Published in Cultural and Social History: The Journal of the Social History Society (Vol. 20, No. 4, 2023)
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Champagne in Britain, 1800–1914: How the British Transformed a French Luxury Cultural and Social History Pub Date : 2023-08-05 Charles Ludington
Published in Cultural and Social History: The Journal of the Social History Society (Vol. 20, No. 4, 2023)
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Illiterate Inmates: Educating Criminals in Nineteenth Century England Cultural and Social History Pub Date : 2023-08-05 Anne Schwan
Published in Cultural and Social History: The Journal of the Social History Society (Vol. 20, No. 4, 2023)
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Lives and Experience in Gypsy Songs, c.1700-2020 Cultural and Social History Pub Date : 2023-08-04 Joseph Dredge-Fenwick
We can learn much about the history of Gypsy-Roma in Britain through their song culture. This comparative analysis looks at a range of songs from different tradition-bearers whose words have been r...
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Atlantic Piracy in the Early Nineteenth Century: The Shocking Story of the Pirates and the Survivors of the Morning Star Cultural and Social History Pub Date : 2023-08-04 David Head
Published in Cultural and Social History: The Journal of the Social History Society (Vol. 20, No. 4, 2023)
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The Welfare State Generation: Women, Agency and Class in Britain since 1945 Cultural and Social History Pub Date : 2023-07-31 Alice McKimm
Published in Cultural and Social History: The Journal of the Social History Society (Vol. 20, No. 4, 2023)
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Photography in the Great War: The Ethics of Emerging Medical Collections from the Great War Cultural and Social History Pub Date : 2023-07-31 Juliet Roberts
Published in Cultural and Social History: The Journal of the Social History Society (Vol. 20, No. 4, 2023)
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British Slaves and Barbary Corsairs, 1580-1750 Cultural and Social History Pub Date : 2023-07-31 Graham Moore
Published in Cultural and Social History: The Journal of the Social History Society (Vol. 20, No. 4, 2023)
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Personal Politics in the Postwar World: Western Diplomacy Behind the Scenes Cultural and Social History Pub Date : 2023-07-31 Alexandra Penler
Published in Cultural and Social History: The Journal of the Social History Society (Vol. 20, No. 4, 2023)
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Victorians & Numbers: Statistics and Society in Nineteenth-Century Britain Cultural and Social History Pub Date : 2023-07-28 Alannah Tomkins
Published in Cultural and Social History: The Journal of the Social History Society (Vol. 20, No. 4, 2023)
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Cinema Memories: A People’s History of Cinema-going in 1960s Britain Cultural and Social History Pub Date : 2023-07-28 Trevor Griffiths
Published in Cultural and Social History: The Journal of the Social History Society (Vol. 20, No. 4, 2023)
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Pious Pleasure? Church-Based Leisure in a Working-Class Community, East Oxford 1870–1914 Cultural and Social History Pub Date : 2023-07-23 Olivia Robinson
Centred on the growing working-class district of East Oxford, this paper makes a detailed analysis of how church-based leisure was organised and experienced in the period c.1870–1914 to discover wh...
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Introduction: Humanitarianism and Biography Cultural and Social History Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Helen Dampier, Rebecca Gill
Published in Cultural and Social History: The Journal of the Social History Society (Vol. 20, No. 3, 2023)
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Lord Woolton: A Life of 'Social Work' and Humanitarianism Cultural and Social History Pub Date : 2023-06-29 Rosemary Cresswell
ABSTRACT Between 1943 and 1963, Frederick James Marquis, Lord Woolton, was the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the British Red Cross Society (BRCS) and held key roles in the International Red Cross Movement in the aftermath of war. This article examines how the director of a department store chain, Lewis’s, who became a member of the Conservative Party’s Cabinet in 1951, was the chair of the
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‘From This Common Collaboration’: Married Women and Economic Enterprise in Quebec Under the British Regime, c.1763-1820 Cultural and Social History Pub Date : 2023-06-23 Nancy Christie, Michael Gauvreau
This article draws on evidence from the voluminous criminal and civil legal archives of Quebec between 1760 and 1820 to present the dynamic economic activity of married women in an expanding coloni...
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The Pilgrim and the Peas and Pilgrimage by Rail: Defining acceptable pilgrimage practices in Nineteenth-Century Britain Cultural and Social History Pub Date : 2023-06-01 Kathryn Hurlock
ABSTRACT In the nineteenth century, attitudes towards Catholic pilgrimage travel became increasingly critical as newspaper reporters and writers attacked pilgrims for choosing to travel in comfort, and at speed, by train. This paper argues that the reason for this change can be pinpointed to two key things: the widespread popularity of a comic verse, The Pilgrim and the Peas, and the 1873 English Pilgrimage
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Probation and the Policing of the Private Sphere in Britain, 1907-1962 Cultural and Social History Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Roger Davidson
Published in Cultural and Social History: The Journal of the Social History Society (Vol. 20, No. 3, 2023)
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Japan’s Empire of Birds: Aristocrats, Anglo-Americans, and Transwar Ornithology Cultural and Social History Pub Date : 2023-05-14 Sean Nixon
Published in Cultural and Social History: The Journal of the Social History Society (Vol. 20, No. 3, 2023)
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Recollection in the Republics: Memories of the British Civil Wars in England, 1649-1659 Cultural and Social History Pub Date : 2023-05-14 Ian Atherton
Published in Cultural and Social History: The Journal of the Social History Society (Vol. 20, No. 3, 2023)