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The Afterlife of Daniel Defoe's Captain Singleton in the Seven Years' War (2022)
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Seager. (2023). The Afterlife of Daniel Defoe's Captain Singleton in the Seven Years' War. Review of English Studies, 74(314), https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgac082

Daniel Defoe’s pirate novel Captain Singleton (1720) was republished in 1757, during the political and military crises of the early stages of the Seven Years’ War. The fact that Singleton at this time was extensively rewritten has gone entirely unnot... Read More about The Afterlife of Daniel Defoe's Captain Singleton in the Seven Years' War.

Narratives of Bankruptcy, Failure, and Decline in the Court of Chancery, 1678-1750 (2022)
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Collins. (2022). Narratives of Bankruptcy, Failure, and Decline in the Court of Chancery, 1678-1750. Cultural and Social History, 1 - 17. https://doi.org/10.1080/14780038.2022.2031425

This article engages with the contentious and ongoing debate surrounding the usefulness of witness testimony for historical evidence. By utilising Chancery depositions, the article illuminates social and cultural attitudes to bankruptcy, failure, and... Read More about Narratives of Bankruptcy, Failure, and Decline in the Court of Chancery, 1678-1750.

After UCS: Workplace Occupation in Britain in the 1970s (2021)
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Tuckman, A. (2021). After UCS: Workplace Occupation in Britain in the 1970s. Labour History Review, 7 - 35. https://doi.org/10.3828/lhr.2021.2

<jats:p> This paper traces the development of this form of industrial action through the 1970s, the emergence of an alternative economic voice, ultimately almost silenced in the 1980s with the dominance of neo-liberalism, leaving a sedimental alterna... Read More about After UCS: Workplace Occupation in Britain in the 1970s.

Poor-law institutions through working-class eyes: autobiography, emotion, and family context 1834-1914 (2021)
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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.

He shall have care of the garden, its cultivation and produce’: Workhousegardens and gardening, c.1780-1835 (2021)
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(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.

'Migration, naturalisation, and the ‘British’ world, c.1900-1920’ (2020)
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Bright. (2020). 'Migration, naturalisation, and the ‘British’ world, c.1900-1920’

This article explores the distinctly legal vagueness that underpinned citizenship and subjecthood in the British empire in the early twentieth century, drawing specifically on examples from South Africa and Australia. Situating the administration of... Read More about 'Migration, naturalisation, and the ‘British’ world, c.1900-1920’.

Rose de Verdun (d. 1247) and Grace Dieu priory: endowment charter and tomb (2019)
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(2019). Rose de Verdun (d. 1247) and Grace Dieu priory: endowment charter and tomb

One of only a few houses of Augustinian canonesses, Grace Dieu priory was established at Belton in north-west Leicestershire sometime between 1235 and 1241 by an Anglo-Norman heiress, Rose de Verdun. Its original endowment has been known so far from... Read More about Rose de Verdun (d. 1247) and Grace Dieu priory: endowment charter and tomb.

‘Scots and Scabs from North-by-Tweed’: Undesirable Scottish Migrants in Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century England (2019)
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Brown, K., Kennedy, A., & Talbott, S. (2019). ‘Scots and Scabs from North-by-Tweed’: Undesirable Scottish Migrants in Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century England. Scottish Historical Review, 98(2), 241-265. https://doi.org/10.3366/shr.2019.0402

While very prominent in the contemporary world, anxiety about the potentially negative impact that immigrants might have on their host communities has deep historical roots. In a British context, such fears were particularly heightened following the... Read More about ‘Scots and Scabs from North-by-Tweed’: Undesirable Scottish Migrants in Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century England.

'For the Protection of all the People’: Æthelflæd and her Burhs in Northwest Mercia (2018)
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Blake, M., & Sargent, A. (2018). 'For the Protection of all the People’: Æthelflæd and her Burhs in Northwest Mercia. Midland History, 43(2), 120-154. https://doi.org/10.1080/0047729X.2018.1519141

The fortifications, or burhs, constructed between 910 and 915 by Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians, across much of the western Midlands have often been understood as part of a broader programme initiated by her brother Edward, king of the Anglo-Saxons,... Read More about 'For the Protection of all the People’: Æthelflæd and her Burhs in Northwest Mercia.

Literary Evaluation and Authorship Attribution, or Defoe's Politics at the Hanoverian Succession (2017)
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Seager. (2017). Literary Evaluation and Authorship Attribution, or Defoe's Politics at the Hanoverian Succession. Huntington Library Quarterly, 47-69. https://doi.org/10.1353/hlq.2017.0002

In this essay, Nicholas Seager argues for re-attributing two pamphlets to Daniel Defoe: A Secret History of One Year (1714) and Memoirs of the Conduct of Her Late Majesty and Her Last Ministry (1715). These works, published shortly after the Hanoveri... Read More about Literary Evaluation and Authorship Attribution, or Defoe's Politics at the Hanoverian Succession.

Making the Case for Digital Mapping as a Tool for Learning about the Past (2017)
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(2017). Making the Case for Digital Mapping as a Tool for Learning about the Past. The Journal of Academic Development and Education, https://doi.org/10.21252/KEELE-0000003

Despite the fact that almost all historians today make use of such online tools as Google Books and digitised primary source archives, it is still considered unusual to make computer software a core part of one’s methodology for learning about the pa... Read More about Making the Case for Digital Mapping as a Tool for Learning about the Past.

The Wordless Book: The Visual and Material Culture of Evangelism in Victorian Britain (2016)
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Janes. (2016). The Wordless Book: The Visual and Material Culture of Evangelism in Victorian Britain. Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art and Belief, 26-49. https://doi.org/10.1080/17432200.2015.1120085

The Wordless Book is widely used today in programs of Christian teaching and evangelism across the world. It consists of a series of blank pages which are colored in accordance with religious symbolism (black in reference to sin, red in reference to... Read More about The Wordless Book: The Visual and Material Culture of Evangelism in Victorian Britain.

A Misplaced Miracle: the origins of St Modwynn of Burton and St Eadgyth of Polesworth (2016)
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Sargent. (2016). A Misplaced Miracle: the origins of St Modwynn of Burton and St Eadgyth of Polesworth. Midland History, 41(1), 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/0047729X.2016.1159851

The twelfth-century Life of St Modwynn of Burton upon Trent (Staffordshire) includes an episode in which St Modwynn and St Eadgyth of Polesworth (Warwickshire) resurrect a nun named Osgyth who had drowned in a river. Current scholarly consensus locat... Read More about A Misplaced Miracle: the origins of St Modwynn of Burton and St Eadgyth of Polesworth.

Eminent Victorians, Bloomsbury queerness and John Maynard Keynes (2014)
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Janes. (2014). Eminent Victorians, Bloomsbury queerness and John Maynard Keynes. Literature and History, 19-32. https://doi.org/10.7227/LH.23.1.2

The life and work of John Maynard Keynes should be situated in relation to his membership of the Bloomsbury Group. The members of this circle of friends experimented in their lives and works with a variety of transgressions of contemporary expectatio... Read More about Eminent Victorians, Bloomsbury queerness and John Maynard Keynes.