History: Recent submissions
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But what do they really think? Methodological challenges of investigating young people’s perspectives of war remembrance
(UCL Institute of Education Press, 1 April 2020)This article contributes to discussions surrounding the development of ‘analytical tools’ sensitive to the fluid nature of collective memory and all its ‘varieties, contradictions, and dynamism’ (Olick, 2008: 159). It ... -
Bastardy in Butleigh: illegitimacy, genealogies and the old Poor Law in Somerset, 1762-1834
(MDPI, 22 January 2020)Early academic histories of non-marital motherhood often focused on the minority of mothers who had several illegitimate children. Peter Laslett coined the phrase 'the bastardy prone sub-society' ... -
Calvinism, Proslavery and James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2 June 2014)In the autobiography of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, the first black author to be published in Britain, slavery was represented at best neutrally and at worst as spiritually and socially beneficial. Re-reading Gronniosaw's ... -
A radical change of heart: Robert Wedderburn's last word on slavery
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 12 January 2016)This article introduces to modern scholarship An Address to Lord Brougham and Vaux, a recently rediscovered anti-abolitionist tract by the black radical author and orator Robert Wedderburn, written in 1831, towards the end ... -
Slavery and the birth of working-class racism in England, 1814–1833. The Alexander Prize Essay
(Cambridge University Press (CUP) for Royal Historical Society, 29 September 2016)This paper examines racist discourse in radical print culture from the end of the Napoleonic Wars to the passing of the Abolition of Slavery Act in Britain. Acknowledging the heterogeneity of working-class ideology during ...