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The Virginia Venture: American colonization and English society, 1580–1660 Social History Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Rachel Winchcombe
Published in Social History (Vol. 49, No. 1, 2024)
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The persecution of minorities: Majorcan Jewish converts in the last third of the seventeenth century Social History Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Juan Carpio-Elías, Jerònia Pons-Pons
The persecution of ethnic or religious minorities has been a longstanding object of historiographical analysis. One widely disseminated thesis affirms that elites collaborate economically with mino...
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Emotion as a tool for humanising histories of the marginalised: a case study of industrial schools in Colonial Victoria Social History Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Nell Musgrove
This article examines archival documents, government papers and newspaper reports relating to the first three years of the government-run child welfare system in the Australian colony of Victoria (...
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Poverty, old age and outdoor relief in late-Victorian England Social History Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Tom Heritage
While studies dedicated to the extent of poverty in old age under the New Poor Law in nineteenth-century England have grown, gaps still exist in terms of a detailed examination of outdoor relief co...
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Choreographing urban ambulance in Britain, c.1870–1920: movement, gender, biological time and the city Social History Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Rebecca Wynter, Shane Ewen
Modern British ambulance originated during the late 1800s in the country’s metropolitan areas. The fast-urbanising cities of Glasgow and London recognised that biological-temporal need required the...
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Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: the reporters who took on a world at war Social History Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Sarah Lonsdale
Published in Social History (Vol. 49, No. 1, 2024)
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Waiting on Empire: a history of Indian travelling Ayahs in Britain Social History Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Niti Acharya
Published in Social History (Vol. 49, No. 1, 2024)
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Madness on Trial: a transatlantic history of English civil law and lunacy Social History Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Fiona MacHugh
Published in Social History (Vol. 49, No. 1, 2024)
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Illegitimacy, Family and Stigma in England, 1660–1834 Social History Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Kathrina Perry
Published in Social History (Vol. 49, No. 1, 2024)
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Turncoats and traitors, rogues and renegades: reviewing labour’s lost leaders in reform-era Yorkshire Social History Pub Date : 2023-10-06 John Robert Sanders
The annals of working-class agitational endeavours in the early nineteenth century contain more than a sprinkling of rogues who ran off with money, and renegades who abjured their earlier beliefs. ...
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The Commonplace Book of John Gwin of Llangwm (c. 1615–1680) Social History Pub Date : 2023-10-06 Ruby Rutter
Published in Social History (Vol. 48, No. 4, 2023)
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Facilitating, controlling and excluding from movement: religious orders, organizational networks and mobility infrastructure in the early modern Mediterranean Social History Pub Date : 2023-10-06 Felicita Tramontana
Through an analysis of the network associated with the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land, this article challenges overly positive narratives of early modern mobility and of the role played by net...
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Not going out: television’s impacts on Britain’s commercial entertainment industries and popular leisure during the 1950s Social History Pub Date : 2023-10-06 Peter Michael Scott
The 1950s was a pivotal decade for Britain’s entertainment industries, with the rapid diffusion of television and sharp declines for hitherto dominant urban venue entertainments. This had important...
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Fur: a sensitive history Social History Pub Date : 2023-10-06 David Hope
Published in Social History (Vol. 48, No. 4, 2023)
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Living conditions and social response in times of apocalypse: the inflationary cycle of the First World War in Catalonia Social History Pub Date : 2023-10-06 Ángel Calvo
This article deals with the issue of population living conditions and the resulting social response in a very short inflationary conjuncture, created by an external shock. It focuses on the effects...
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The Queerness of Home: gender, sexuality & the politics of domesticity after World War II Social History Pub Date : 2023-10-06 Nikita Shepard
Published in Social History (Vol. 48, No. 4, 2023)
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LGBT Victorians: sexuality and gender in the nineteenth-century archives Social History Pub Date : 2023-10-06 Emily Rutherford
Published in Social History (Vol. 48, No. 4, 2023)
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A world of goods? Europe, empire and consumer goods in England, c. 1670–1820 Social History Pub Date : 2023-06-23 Jon Stobart
ABSTRACT Eighteenth-century consumption is often characterised in terms of an expanding world of goods, one that reflected an increasingly complex web of global trading links and cultural associations. Some have seen a growing role for empire in shaping the provision of goods and the consciousness of consumers, especially in terms of groceries and textiles; others have argued that Europe, especially
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The collapse of a polity, the birth of states: municipal debt, local conflicts and state formation in the former Crown of Aragon (1740–1770) Social History Pub Date : 2023-06-23 Íñigo Ena Sanjuán
ABSTRACT In south-western Europe, the transition from pre-modern polities to modern states started in the central decades of the eighteenth century. This article explores why and how the plural, judicial and polycentric practices that structured social and political life before circa 1750 were progressively replaced by more unified, administrative and hierarchical repertoires of practices. The article
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‘Dear Aunty Eleanor’: Eleanor Roosevelt, Anna Freud and the politics of emotion in letters by children in war Social History Pub Date : 2023-06-23 Joy Damousi
ABSTRACT In this article I argue that the actual and imaginary presence of America looms large in the letters written to Eleanor Roosevelt by refugee children whom she sponsored through the organisation Foster Parents’ Plan for War Children (Plan). In doing so, I historicise the politics of emotion in war by examining how the concept of ‘America’ provided a positive haven for refugee children who constructed
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Injustice, deindustrialisation and the 1984–1985 Miners’ Strike in Scotland Social History Pub Date : 2023-06-23 Jim Phillips
ABSTRACT The transition out of coal production in Scotland was managed carefully in the 1960s and 1970s, prioritising workforce voice and communal security. Under Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative governments in the 1980s, the position changed abruptly. Colliery closures and redundancies accelerated; miners and coal communities were subject to political attack. The criminalisation and victimisation
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Rethinking Secular Time in Victorian England Social History Pub Date : 2023-06-23 Aashish Velkar
Published in Social History (Vol. 48, No. 3, 2023)
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The Modern British Data State, 1945–2000 Social History Pub Date : 2023-06-23 Ryan Shaffer
Published in Social History (Vol. 48, No. 3, 2023)
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Violent Fraternity: Indian political thought in the global age Social History Pub Date : 2023-06-23 Soni Wadhwa
Published in Social History (Vol. 48, No. 3, 2023)
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Migrant Citizenship: race, rights, and reform in the US farm labor camp program Social History Pub Date : 2023-06-23 Jason McDonald
Published in Social History (Vol. 48, No. 3, 2023)
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Peasant proprietors, social mobility and risk aversion in the early Middle Ages: an Iberian case study Social History Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Robert Portass
ABSTRACT This article investigates an important but neglected question concerning the social and economic dynamics of village communities in early medieval north-western Iberia: why did ‘medium owners’ – that is, peasants who accumulated significant landed holdings – assemble portfolios of property large enough to produce significant surpluses in an age in which the institutional infrastructure needed
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Paternalism and the politics of ‘toll corn’ in early modern England Social History Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Hillary Taylor
ABSTRACT This article examines controversies related to a neglected aspect of early modern English grain marketing: toll corn. Such disputes and the litigation that they occasioned provided opportunities for individuals of various positions – including those who sold grain on the market – to reassert normative ideals about the considerations that should take precedence in the market: specifically,
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A double-edged sword: the impact of military service on ‘zigenare’ and ‘tattare’ in Finland, c.1743–1809 Social History Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Tuula Rekola
ABSTRACT Drawing on various socio-historical sources, this article examines the impact of military service on people categorised as zigenare or tattare (historical terms referring to Roma in Finland) in the eastern borderland of the Swedish Kingdom circa 1743–1809. The article explores how military service influenced their social position and subsistence, and the ways in which they were viewed by others
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The occupational distribution of foundling apprentices during the English Industrial Revolution Social History Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Helen Berry
ABSTRACT This article presents a new analysis of the distribution of apprenticeships brokered by the London Foundling Hospital, England’s pre-eminent charitable foundation in the eighteenth century for orphaned and abandoned children. It explores the similarities and differences between charity apprenticeship and parish apprenticeship systems in supplying pauper children’s labour during the critical
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British Pop Archive, John Rylands Library, University of Manchester Social History Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Adrian Bingham
Published in Social History (Vol. 48, No. 2, 2023)
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German Angst: fear and democracy in the Federal Republic of Germany Social History Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Moritz Föllmer
Published in Social History (Vol. 48, No. 2, 2023)
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In Hitler’s Munich: Jews, the revolution, and the rise of Nazism Social History Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Barnabas Balint
Published in Social History (Vol. 48, No. 2, 2023)
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Youth and internationalism in the twentieth century: an introduction Social History Pub Date : 2023-01-20 Daniel Laqua, Nikolaos Papadogiannis
ABSTRACT This essay introduces a special issue on the complex and contradictory ways in which young activists and youth organisations have encountered and experienced internationalism. It argues for the need to pay greater attention to the ambiguous encounters – involving seemingly benevolent aims but also blind spots and prejudices – that were created by transnational youth mobilities and by young
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Ideal girls for Christian internationalism: the YWCA in early twentieth-century South Asia Social History Pub Date : 2023-01-20 Sneha Krishnan
ABSTRACT This article examines the role of the Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA) in constructing the terms of political engagement for young Christian women in South Asia. It focuses on a periodical called The Young Women of India and Ceylon, published between 1908 and 1916, which typically carried didactic essays and short aphoristic pieces of writing by Western educators and social workers
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Coping with a post-war world: Protestant student internationalism and humanitarian work in Central and Eastern Europe during the 1920s Social History Pub Date : 2023-01-20 Isabella Löhr
ABSTRACT This article explores the political and social contexts in which Protestant student internationalism gave rise to a particular vision of students’ basic needs and responsibilities that was closely entwined with the violent disruption of the continental empires in the context of the First World War. To this end, it focuses on European Student Relief (ESR), a branch of the World Student Christian
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An uneven internationalism? West German youth and organised travel to Israel, c.1958–c.1967 Social History Pub Date : 2023-01-20 Nikolaos Papadogiannis
ABSTRACT This article shows that organised youth mobility programmes from West Germany to Israel in the late 1950s and 1960s were a testing ground for the internationalist visions of federal state institutions, diverse organisers and various young visitors. Such programmes largely helped reproduce an uneven internationalism, which prioritised contact between West Germans and Israeli Jews, while sidelining
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‘Unity in struggle is our strength’: Sheffield University’s Overseas Students’ Bureau and international activism at a local level Social History Pub Date : 2023-01-20 Jodi Burkett
ABSTRACT Throughout the 1970s, the Overseas Students’ Bureau (OSB), a working group within the Sheffield University Students’ Union (SUSU), supported overseas students studying in Sheffield. Through a range of actions and activities it encouraged overseas students to become more involved in the students’ union and to build friendships and ‘integrate’ with British students in Sheffield. By the second
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All the love: transnational youth and disability in El Salvador’s civil war Social History Pub Date : 2023-01-20 Heather Vrana
ABSTRACT During El Salvador’s civil war, the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) developed infrastructure and expertise to improve medical attention for combatants and rural and poor Salvadorans alike. This expansive popular health system included Salvadoran nurses, foreign physicians and community health promotors. However, hundreds of wounded combatants required more intensive rehabilitation
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New Review Editor Social History Pub Date : 2023-01-20
Published in Social History (Vol. 48, No. 1, 2023)
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Plague hospitals and poor relief in late medieval and early modern France Social History Pub Date : 2022-10-06 Neil Murphy
ABSTRACT Plague hospitals played a key role in the provision of poor relief in late medieval and early modern France. As the poor came to be identified as the principal carriers of plague, they were singled out for attention and special measures were imposed upon them – controls that were justified by the claim that they were being taken in the wider interests of public health. Yet plague hospitals
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Patricians, plebeians and parishioners: parish elections and social conflict in eighteenth-century Chelsea Social History Pub Date : 2022-10-06 Jonah Miller
ABSTRACT This article sheds new light on social relations in early eighteenth-century Britain through a case study of three parish elections held in Chelsea between 1708 and 1723. The results of these elections were disputed in the ecclesiastical courts, generating over 400 folio pages of witness depositions. These depositions reveal a sustained conflict between the local gentry and the middling sort
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‘Hairy honours of their chins’: whiskers and masculinity in early nineteenth-century Britain Social History Pub Date : 2022-10-06 Alun Withey
ABSTRACT Studies of the Victorian ‘beard movement’ of the 1850s have demonstrated the close connections between facial hair and shifting ideas of, and concerns about, masculinity, gender, sexuality and modernity. The ‘beard movement’ is generally seen as the return of facial hair after 150 years of beardlessness. The turn of the nineteenth century, however, witnessed a new and previously overlooked
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The social origins of democracy in Sweden: the role of agrarian politics Social History Pub Date : 2022-10-06 Erik Bengtsson
ABSTRACT In discussions of Scandinavian democratisation, it is commonplace to argue that long-standing farmer representation in parliament and a lack of feudalism facilitated early democratisation. The present essay questions this interpretation in the Swedish case. It centres on a re-interpretation of farmer politics at the national level from the 1866 two-chamber parliament reform to the alliance
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London’s Working-Class Youth and the Making of Post-Victorian Britain, 1958–1971 Social History Pub Date : 2022-10-06 Sarah Kenny
Published in Social History (Vol. 47, No. 4, 2022)
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Atlantic Transformations: Empire, Politics, and Slavery during the Nineteenth Century and Rethinking Atlantic Empire: Christopher Schmidt-Nowara’s histories of nineteenth-century Spain and the Antilles Social History Pub Date : 2022-10-06 Celso Thomas Castilho
Published in Social History (Vol. 47, No. 4, 2022)
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London Presbyterians and the British Revolutions, 1638–64 Social History Pub Date : 2022-10-06 James Mawdesley
Published in Social History (Vol. 47, No. 4, 2022)
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Deviance, marginality and the Highland bandit in seventeenth-century Scotland Social History Pub Date : 2022-07-04 Allan Kennedy
ABSTRACT Eric Hobsbawm’s thesis of ‘social banditry’ has stimulated a great deal of discussion about the nature of bandit activity. This discussion has shed much light not just upon banditry as a historical problem, but on its capacity to offer wider insights into social structures. This article seeks to contribute to the ongoing discussion by bringing to bear the hitherto largely ignored Scottish
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Under the landlord’s thumb: municipalities and local elites in Sweden 1862–1900 Social History Pub Date : 2022-07-04 Carolina Uppenberg, Mats Olsson
ABSTRACT The Swedish Municipality Act, issued in 1862, consolidated a plutocratic system in which ownership and income, and the resulting level of taxation, translated into political power. However, as a measure to hinder large landowners from holding a majority of the votes, the Act guaranteed voting rights for tenants. The aim of this article is to analyse how power relations played out after this
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The public health question and mortuary politics in colonial Ghana Social History Pub Date : 2022-07-04 Akwasi Kwarteng Amoako-Gyampah
ABSTRACT British colonial rule in Ghana profoundly affected the interment of corpses. The practice of home burials was widespread in nineteenth-century Ghana. Guided by prevailing Euro-Western discourses on sanitation and public health, colonial officials banned home interment and introduced cemeteries. This article examines the imposition of cemetery burials in colonial Ghana, the responses of the
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Making space: towards a spatial history of modernity in caste-societies Social History Pub Date : 2022-07-04 S. Harikrishnan
ABSTRACT A vibrant public sphere has come to be recognised as a necessary condition of modern democracies. Jürgen Habermas’s work has been a convenient point of departure for studies concerned with the concept of the public sphere and modernity, despite evidence mounting from feminist, postcolonial and subaltern studies that its despatialised nature and universalistic assumptions render invisible large
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The Winding Road to the Welfare State: Economic insecurity and social welfare policy in Britain Social History Pub Date : 2022-07-04 Samantha A. Shave
Published in Social History (Vol. 47, No. 3, 2022)
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Saving the Children: Humanitarianism, internationalism, and empire Social History Pub Date : 2022-07-04 Matthew Hilton
Published in Social History (Vol. 47, No. 3, 2022)
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‘Die Mauer war doch richtig!’ Warum so viele DDR-Bürger den Mauerbau widerstandslos hinnahmen Social History Pub Date : 2022-07-04 Matthew Stibbe
Published in Social History (Vol. 47, No. 3, 2022)
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Disability and political activism in industrialising Britain, c. 1830–1850 Social History Pub Date : 2022-04-03 David M. Turner,Daniel Blackie
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Kinship, conflict and transnational coordination: the Siemens family’s globalisation strategies in the nineteenth century Social History Pub Date : 2022-04-03 Martin Lutz,David Warren Sabean
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Celebrities, Heroes and Champions: Popular politicians in the age of reform, 1810–67 Social History Pub Date : 2022-04-03 Matthew Roberts
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Dogopolis: How dogs and humans made modern New York, London, and Paris Social History Pub Date : 2022-04-03 Helen Cowie
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Graphic News: How sensational images transformed nineteenth-century journalism Social History Pub Date : 2022-04-03 Richard R. John
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Maladies of Empire: How colonialism, slavery, and war transformed medicine Social History Pub Date : 2022-04-03 Anna Greenwood