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Poor-law institutions through working-class eyes: autobiography, emotion, and family context 1834-1914 (2021)
Journal Article
Tomkins. (2021). Poor-law institutions through working-class eyes: autobiography, emotion, and family context 1834-1914. Albion, 285-309. https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2020.242

Histories of the English workhouse and its satellite institutions have concentrated on legal change, institutional administration, and moments of shock or scandal, generally without considering the place of these institutions, established through the... Read More about Poor-law institutions through working-class eyes: autobiography, emotion, and family context 1834-1914.

Children in prison during COVID-19: the new “double jeopardy” (2021)
Journal Article
Day, A. (2021). Children in prison during COVID-19: the new “double jeopardy”. Safer Communities,

Purpose
The purpose of the paper is to consider the impact on children in custody of the government response to COVID-19 in England and Wales. As the majority of children are held in young offender institutions, this forms the focus of the piece.... Read More about Children in prison during COVID-19: the new “double jeopardy”.

The transnational co-production of interwar ‘fascism’: on the dynamics of ideational mobility and localisation (2021)
Journal Article
Kallis. (2021). The transnational co-production of interwar ‘fascism’: on the dynamics of ideational mobility and localisation. European History Quarterly, 51(2), 189-213. https://doi.org/10.1177/02656914211006307

Interwar fascism achieved sensational international reach through the appeal and circulation of a set of generic ideological norms and political practices. Therefore models of interpretations must accommodate alternative local interpretations, adapta... Read More about The transnational co-production of interwar ‘fascism’: on the dynamics of ideational mobility and localisation.

1. The revolt of the dolls: a novel and 2. The revolt of the dolls and other small rebellions: a critical introduction to the fairy-tales of Sophie von Baudissin (2021)
Thesis
Sampson, E. S. (2021). 1. The revolt of the dolls: a novel and 2. The revolt of the dolls and other small rebellions: a critical introduction to the fairy-tales of Sophie von Baudissin. (Thesis). Keele University

The German nineteenth-century fairy-tale has long been, and remains, largely synonymous with the tales of the Brothers Grimm, particularly in the wider public consciousness. While there is some awareness among the general public of other, contemporan... Read More about 1. The revolt of the dolls: a novel and 2. The revolt of the dolls and other small rebellions: a critical introduction to the fairy-tales of Sophie von Baudissin.

Treaties as a central diplomatic tool in the ‘legal’ pacification, and colonisation of the Western Lower Niger, 1884-1914 (2021)
Thesis
Ariye, E. C. (2021). Treaties as a central diplomatic tool in the ‘legal’ pacification, and colonisation of the Western Lower Niger, 1884-1914. (Thesis). Keele University

This thesis is a case study of Great Britain’s colonisation of a few indigenous, contiguous peoples of the Western Lower Niger from 1884 to 1914. These are the Itsekiri, the Western Ijo, the Urhobo, the Isoko and the Ukwuani of present-day Delta Stat... Read More about Treaties as a central diplomatic tool in the ‘legal’ pacification, and colonisation of the Western Lower Niger, 1884-1914.

4:23 PM, Relaxant (2021)
Thesis
Bolger, L. S. A. (2021). 4:23 PM, Relaxant. (Thesis). Keele University

The practical component of this thesis is a collection of poems entitled 4:23 PM, Relaxant, which consists of an original collection of verse written mainly in the confessional tradition. The collection addresses a number of themes including family a... Read More about 4:23 PM, Relaxant.

Self and Society (2021)
Book Chapter
Shears, J. (2021). Self and Society. . (1). Bloomsbury Publishing

Sexual abuse by superintending staff in the nineteenth-century lunatic asylum: medical practice, complaint, and risk (2021)
Journal Article
Tomkins. (2021). Sexual abuse by superintending staff in the nineteenth-century lunatic asylum: medical practice, complaint, and risk. History of Psychiatry, 69-84. https://doi.org/10.1177/0957154X20967299

The nineteenth century witnessed a great shift in how insanity was regarded and treated. Well documented is the emergence of psychiatry as a distinct area of medicine and the role played by county lunatic asylums. What remains unclear are the relatio... Read More about Sexual abuse by superintending staff in the nineteenth-century lunatic asylum: medical practice, complaint, and risk.

Defoe, the Sacheverell Affair, and A Letter to Mr. Bisset (1709) (2021)
Journal Article
Seager, N. (2021). Defoe, the Sacheverell Affair, and A Letter to Mr. Bisset (1709). Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 115(1), 79-86. https://doi.org/10.1086/712790

This article aims to remove the “probable” caveat from one title listed in P. N. Furbank and W. R. Owens’s Critical Bibliography of Daniel Defoe (1998). It demonstrates that previously overlooked external evidence confirms the internal evidence cited... Read More about Defoe, the Sacheverell Affair, and A Letter to Mr. Bisset (1709).

‘Dress Sense of a Queen’: Cecil Beaton’s Queering of Britain’s Royal Past (2021)
Journal Article
Janes, D. (2021). ‘Dress Sense of a Queen’: Cecil Beaton’s Queering of Britain’s Royal Past. Journal of European Popular Culture, 12(1), 23-44. https://doi.org/10.1386/jepc_00026_1

The origins of camp can be traced by exploring the ways in which the past was queered during the inter-war period. Cecil Beaton was establishing himself as one of the world’s leading fashion photographers. He and many of his friends were fascinated b... Read More about ‘Dress Sense of a Queen’: Cecil Beaton’s Queering of Britain’s Royal Past.

He shall have care of the garden, its cultivation and produce’: Workhousegardens and gardening, c.1780-1835 (2021)
Journal Article
(2021). He shall have care of the garden, its cultivation and produce’: Workhousegardens and gardening, c.1780-1835. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 21-39. https://doi.org/10.1111/1754-0208.12717

Where productive workhouse gardens and land existed they comprised an essential aspect of institutional management, yet they feature only briefly in accounts of workhouses and inmates' lives. Their location, desirability and benefits, however, occupi... Read More about He shall have care of the garden, its cultivation and produce’: Workhousegardens and gardening, c.1780-1835.

After the Age of Wreckers and Exterminators? Confronting the limits of eradication and entanglement as modes of engaging with harmful beings (2021)
Journal Article
(2021). After the Age of Wreckers and Exterminators? Confronting the limits of eradication and entanglement as modes of engaging with harmful beings. Cultural Politics, 37-47. https://doi.org/10.1215/17432197-8797501

This essay delineates the material and conceptual limitations of two prominent ways of figuring the relationship between humans and harmful beings: narratives of eradication and entanglement, respectively. Ecological concern about the legacies of 20t... Read More about After the Age of Wreckers and Exterminators? Confronting the limits of eradication and entanglement as modes of engaging with harmful beings.

‘What cannot be helped must be indured’: Coping with obstacles to business during the Anglo-Dutch Wars, 1652-1674 (2021)
Journal Article
Talbott, S., & Jones, S. H. (2021). ‘What cannot be helped must be indured’: Coping with obstacles to business during the Anglo-Dutch Wars, 1652-1674. Enterprise and Society, 23(4), 1-35. https://doi.org/10.1017/eso.2021.1

By nature, wars appear hostile to commerce, bringing disruption to international relations and to everyday life. By focusing on the individuals involved in continuing commerce, however, an increasing body of scholarship has shown that merchants in a... Read More about ‘What cannot be helped must be indured’: Coping with obstacles to business during the Anglo-Dutch Wars, 1652-1674.