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Ageing and Loneliness in England, c. 1500-1800
(Routledge, 28 February 2023)This chapter focuses on the responses of older people to loneliness in England, c.1500-1800. It is written on the premise that the conditions for loneliness existed in this period, and were experienced by some in old age. ... -
The occupational distribution of foundling apprentices during the English Industrial Revolution
(Routledge, 4 April 2023)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. ... -
A True Copy? Documents and the Production of Legality in the Bombay Inam Commission
(American Society for Legal History / Cambridge University Press, 1 March 2023)This essay examines the role of Indian-language documentation in the production of legality in colonial western India, focusing on the workings of the Bombay Inam Commission (1852-1863). It situates legal validation of ... -
Food, feminist rhetorical studies, and conservative women: The case of Elizabeth David
(Routledge, 13 July 2022)This article argues for the importance of British food writer Elizabeth David (1913-1992) in questioning the centrality of power in feminist rhetorical studies and thereby furthering our capacity to understand the ... -
General average, human jettison, and the status of slaves in Early Modern Europe
(Cambridge University Press, 17 June 2022)This article proposes a transition in Western European thinking on slavery by examining the legality of slave jettison and its indemnification in the seventeenth-century Christian Mediterranean and comparing this with the ...