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Literary Evaluation and Authorship Attribution, or Defoe's Politics at the Hanoverian Succession (2017)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
(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.

Oscar Wilde Prefigured: Queer Fashioning and British Caricature, 1750-1900 (2016)
Book
Janes. (2016). Oscar Wilde Prefigured: Queer Fashioning and British Caricature, 1750-1900

"I do not say you are it, but you look it, and you pose at it, which is just as bad," Lord Queensbury challenged Oscar Wilde in the courtroom which erupted in laughter accusing Wilde of posing as a sodomite. What was so terrible about posing as a sod... Read More about Oscar Wilde Prefigured: Queer Fashioning and British Caricature, 1750-1900.

The Wordless Book: The Visual and Material Culture of Evangelism in Victorian Britain (2016)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.

A “respectable” convict? Challenging the idea of the criminal classes in mid­-Victorian England (2016)
Presentation / Conference
(2016, March). A “respectable” convict? Challenging the idea of the criminal classes in mid­-Victorian England. Presented at Social History Society, Lancaster

In 1884 Henry was described by the deputy governor of Portland Prison as “…the point where the gentleman ends and the habitual criminal begins”. The habitual criminal was, in mid-Victorian England, conceived as a member of the criminal classes, who w... Read More about A “respectable” convict? Challenging the idea of the criminal classes in mid­-Victorian England.

Identity concealed or revealed?: the use of photography in the Victorian criminal justice system (2015)
Presentation / Conference
(2015, August). Identity concealed or revealed?: the use of photography in the Victorian criminal justice system. Presented at British Association of Victorian Studies, Leeds

Photography promised 'an enhanced mastery of nature' and was adopted by the police and prison services as a means of identifying suspects who endeavoured to conceal their names and previous convictions. The end of transportation to the colonies was p... Read More about Identity concealed or revealed?: the use of photography in the Victorian criminal justice system.

Policing Drunkenness in Victorian Cumbria (2014)
Presentation / Conference
(2014, September). Policing Drunkenness in Victorian Cumbria. Presented at British Crime Historians Symposium 4, Liverpool

Drunkenness assumed increasing importance as a ‘problem’ in the discourses of the nineteenth century. This is a bottom-up study to examine the extent to which the policing of drunkenness was informed by local cultures, rather than directed by policie... Read More about Policing Drunkenness in Victorian Cumbria.

Eminent Victorians, Bloomsbury queerness and John Maynard Keynes (2014)
Journal Article
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.

Child poverty in Victorian Shropshire: children and the Shropshire Poor Law Unions 1834-1870
Thesis
Sumbler, J. P. (2016). Child poverty in Victorian Shropshire: children and the Shropshire Poor Law Unions 1834-1870

This thesis examines the lives of poor children living in Shropshire between 1834 and 1870. They lived in three different environments: in the workhouse, as part of a labourer’s family, or as part of a family in receipt of out-relief. The standard of... Read More about Child poverty in Victorian Shropshire: children and the Shropshire Poor Law Unions 1834-1870.