School of History: Recent submissions
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Psychiatry’s Material Culture: The Symbolic Power of the Straitjacket
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"A hideous torture on himself": madness and self-mutilation in Victorian literature.
(2011-12)This paper suggests that late nineteenth-century definitions of self-mutilation, a new category of psychiatric symptomatology, were heavily influenced by the use of self-injury as a rhetorical device in the novel, for the ... -
In Search of Sympathy: Stereotypes and Stiff Upper Lips in Inter-war Nursing
(Macfarland, 2021-10-18)In 1939 the British journal, Nursing Mirror, launched a competition to find the “typical” nurse. Over the following weeks, hundreds of nurses submitted a portrait photograph to try and meet the journal’s criteria. “This ... -
De Hemptinne, The Benedictines, and Catholic Assimilation on the Congolese Copperbelt, 1911-1960
This article explores the history of the Benedictines in south-eastern Congo. The Benedictine leader, Jean-Félix De Hemptinne, eschewed an adaptationist approach to his mission work in favour of an assimilationist one. ... -
Busman's stomach and the embodiment of modernity.
(2017-01-02)This paper examines the relationship between the gastric illness, 'busman's stomach' and the Coronation bus strike of May 1937 in which 27,000 London busworkers walked out for better working conditions and a seven-and-half-hour ... -
Respectability and race between the suburb and the city: an argument about the making of ‘inner-city’ London
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Interwar India through Bhimrao Ambedkar's Eyes
(2021-04-01)This article is an analysis of the political thought of Bhimrao Ambedkar, anti-caste activist, author of the Indian constitution and first law minister of independent India. His personal writings are analyzed, and the ... -
Teaching Empire and War: Animating Marginalized Histories in the Classroom
How can we teach ‘forgotten’ histories of war and empire in the classroom, responding to urgent needs to ‘decolonize’ the curriculum and pedagogic practice? This article reflects on an exercise in pedagogical experimentation ... -
Seasonable Coexistence: Temporality, Healthcare, and Confessional Relations in Spa, ca. 1648-1740
This article adds a temporal dimension to our interpretation of confessional relations. While historians are increasingly attuned to the subtleties of space in their interpretation of interconfessional contact, we also ... -
The Noctambuli: Tales of Sleepwalkers and Secrets of the Body in Seventeenth-century England
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Strikes and Singing Classes: Chartist Culture, ‘Rational Recreation’ and the Politics of Music after 1842
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2020-11-20) -
An experiment in extremity: the portrayal of violence in Robert the Monk’s narrative of the First Crusade
This article examines the portrayal of physical violence enacted by Latin Christians during the First Crusade in Robert the Monk's Historia Iherosolomitana, with particular reference to the fighting witnessed outside Antioch ...