Knowledge Commons | British History | Activity https://hcommons.org/groups/british-history/ Activity feed for the group, British History. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:12:15 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 f22fe0853be9c25e2cef358b8f3f57d1 Peter Webster deposited Eric Mascall and the rise, fall and rise of ‘Christian sociology’, c.1935 – 1985 in the group British History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1895028/ Tue, 30 Jul 2024 03:00:30 -0400 This article explores the social thought of E.L. Mascall, Anglican theologian and philosopher. The bewilderment of the 1930s and 1940s, Mascall believed, was at root a loss of a proper sense of the human person: dependent on the action of God for very existence, simultaneously bodily and spiritual, a worker on earth yet a pilgrim towards glory.…[Read more]

]]> 0 c1bf6dc0edc87243d6e29620088cf14e Timothy Cooper deposited ‘That Awful Night in October’: Sensory Experiences of Britain’s 1987 Hurricane in the group British History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1894816/ Sun, 28 Jul 2024 03:01:16 -0400 This article explores sensory experiences of the 1987 ‘Hurricane’ in Britain. Through mass observers’ testimonies, we examine the impact of sensory disruption to domestic ‘sensoria’. We examine in turn disturbing noises; the anxieties circulating around windows; the loss of power to heat and light domestic environments, and, finally, the kinetic p…[Read more]

]]> 0 685534f123522e5dbc3f2676350fa259 Philip Allfrey deposited Location of markets in English Market Towns, 1813 in the group British History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1893106/ Sun, 21 Jul 2024 03:00:13 -0400 The right to hold a market on England was historically granted by royal charter. Such a privilege provides an alternative to population size as a proxy for importance. This dataset contains the latitude and longitude I have determined for the market place in 698 historic English market towns which are recorded in a list published in "Owen's New…[Read more]

]]> 0 02325f9b18e583e23c4d17aaed22bef8 Jim Clifford deposited British ghost acres and environmental changes in the Laurentian forest during the nineteenth century in the group British History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1863280/ Wed, 01 Nov 2023 03:00:44 -0400 This article explores the consequences of the environmental transformations of the Laurentian Valley on the timber trade uniting the Province of Canada and the industrialization of Great Britain during the nineteenth century. The notion of ghost acres used to describe the ecological footprint of resource consumption from abroad is extended to…[Read more]

]]> 0 f4f92d5b07540ebdaa68266ac686c009 Jeremy Fradkin deposited Christian Hospitality and the Case for Religious Refuge in Interregnum England in the group British History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1862460/ Tue, 24 Oct 2023 03:00:04 -0400 This article shows how English supporters of Jewish immigration in the 1650s articulated a universal model of Christian hospitality for all foreigners fleeing religious persecution, regardless of whether they adhered to the Protestant faith of their English hosts. It thus urges a reconsideration of the widespread assumption that European…[Read more]

]]> 0 a0fb513552f6e3434c42f37cbb9ee271 Peter Webster deposited Theology, providence and Anglican–Methodist reunion: the case of Michael Ramsey and E.L. Mascall in the group British History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1849545/ Fri, 16 Jun 2023 02:24:24 -0400 The disputes within the Church of England over the Scheme to reunite Anglicans and Methodists generated a great deal of heat and only limited light. Despite their long friendship, Michael Ramsey and Eric Mascall ended up diametrically and publicly opposed in relation to an existential question facing the Church: Ramsey as archbishop of Canterbury,…[Read more]

]]> 0 a9d666c58325a9c0726ea7cdbd6ce146 Harald Pittel deposited No More Playing in the Dark: Assembly by Natasha Brown in the group British History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1841864/ Tue, 18 Apr 2023 02:23:41 -0400 The pre-publication praise Natasha Brown received for her debut novel Assembly (2021) from renowned writers like Bernardine Evaristo or Ali Smith is quite remarkable. The author had been virtually unknown to the larger public before winning one of the London Writers Awards in the literary fiction category in 2019. As a young Black British woman of…[Read more]

]]> 0 4de1a8ddcdafcd8c1e88db7d8582092b Joachim Berger deposited Regimes of territoriality. Overseas conflicts and inner-European relations, c. 1870–1930 in the group British History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1828348/ Thu, 05 Jan 2023 02:24:18 -0500 This essay focuses on territorial conflicts between European masonic bodies outside Europe, and on the impact of these conflicts on inner-European masonic relations. The period between c. 1870 and c. 1930 marks the height of the European expansion respectively the age of ‘high imperialism’. It also marks the first wave of decolonization. The tid…[Read more]

]]> 0 ddfbc3348fd7572c9abfc42e3b1b79ec Joachim Berger deposited Between universal values and national ties: Western European freemasonries face the challenge of ‘Europe’, 1850–1930 in the group British History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1828344/ Thu, 05 Jan 2023 02:23:39 -0500 How did (Western) European freemasonries on a transnational level came to terms with the idea of a closer union of the European peoples? Concepts of “Europe” and “Europeanness” were the background music of the formation of masonic pan-European networks, building on transnational encounters either by individual freemasons (in the Universala Framaso…[Read more]

]]> 0 381407c0f0aae64cbc157475bfd97b25 Peter Webster deposited E. L. Mascall and the Anglican opposition to the ordination of women as priests, 1954-1978 in the group British History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1827455/ Fri, 23 Dec 2022 02:24:20 -0500 This article examines the grounds on which the Anglican philosopher and theologian Eric Mascall opposed the ordination of women, in a series of influential publications from the 1950s to the 1970s. It examines their basis in Mascall’s understanding of the church, the Incarnation and the ontological status of the sexes. It examines the particular a…[Read more]

]]> 0 7f8f7d47bbe41e6481afa5c87c8ef4e0 Joachim Berger deposited The great divide: transatlantic brothering and masonic internationalism, c. 1870–c. 1930 in the group British History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1827152/ Tue, 20 Dec 2022 02:24:10 -0500 This article demonstrates the interplay between national, international and transatlantic dimensions within fraternalism. From the late nineteenth century, masonic lodges took part in the broader push towards the formation of transnational organisations and institutions. They were mainly based in western and southwestern Europe. However,…[Read more]

]]> 0 218b5f7792ff73d6036fa4483bdccb39 Joachim Berger deposited “Une œuvre internationale d’un caractère humanitaire”: The Appeal to Humanity in International Masonic Relations in the group British History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1791034/ Sat, 20 Aug 2022 02:24:27 -0400 Freemasons often referred to an ideal of “humanité” (Humanität, umanità, humanity) in order to bridge all differences separating mankind. In doing so, they rendered these differences all the more visible, especially in the international arenas. This was definitely the case when freemasons tried to deduce from this ideal “universal” standards…[Read more]

]]> 0 c8aea54e9b4c1d6885f72912fd4ce111 Joachim Berger deposited Mit Gott, für Vaterland und Menschheit? Eine europäische Geschichte des freimaurerischen Internationalismus (1845–1935) in the group British History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1760519/ Sat, 04 Dec 2021 02:24:27 -0500 How could the ideal of a universal brotherhood of mankind be realized in an age of nationalism, colonialism and culture wars? "With God, for fatherland and humanity?" is the first comprehensive study of masonic internationalism. It explores, with a focus on England, France, Germany, and Italy, how European masonic associations promoted or opposed…[Read more]

]]> 0 6a77c351495e1efe087e5d29ac014f7d Jeremy Fradkin deposited Protestant Unity and Anti-Catholicism: The Irenicism and Philo-Semitism of John Dury in Context in the group British History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1729109/ Fri, 26 Feb 2021 02:29:43 -0500 This article examines the religious and political worldview of the Scottish minister John Dury during the English Revolution of the mid-seventeenth century. It argues that Dury's activities as an irenicist and philo-semite must be understood as interrelated aspects of an expansionist Protestant cause that included Britain, Ireland, continental…[Read more]

]]> 0 367313228c19e9fea78793f97a154d28 Samuel Grinsell deposited Mastering the Nile? Confidence and Anxiety in D. S. George’s Photographs of the First Aswan Dam, 1899–1912 in the group British History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1720310/ Fri, 18 Dec 2020 02:24:36 -0500 The first Aswan Dam was built at the dawn of the twentieth century and celebrated as a triumph of imperial engineering. Five years after its completion, workers returned to extend the dam. Photographer D. S. George recorded both the building and extension projects for the Egyptian Public Works Department in a series of images that give a unique…[Read more]

]]> 0 48545ac8e5a3a1f7832081eea4bae12e Alicia Mihalic deposited Review of Barbara Burman and Ariane Fennetaux, The Pocket: A Hidden History of Women’s Lives, 1660-1900 in the group British History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1711900/ Tue, 13 Oct 2020 02:23:59 -0400 Barbara Burman and Ariane Fennetaux, The Pocket: A Hidden History of Women’s Lives, 1660-1900, Yale University Press, London, England, 2020, Appendix: Pockets in the Old Bailey, Notes, Archives, Bibliography, Index, Picture Credits, 161 Colour Illustrations, 264 pages, Softback, £19.99.

]]> 0 c2f9425b228d275b567ce385f65e4af6 Sara Margaret Butler deposited “Women, Suicide, and the Jury in Later Medieval England.” in the group British History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1696865/ Sun, 12 Jul 2020 19:17:48 -0400 In the year 1397 in the parish of Tuttington (Norfolk), a woman whose name is lost to history, frantic to rid herself of the evil spirit that possessed her, turned to suicide. She attempted first to hang herself, but her husband discovered her while life remained in her body, cut down the rope, and comforted her. A few weeks later she tried once…[Read more]

]]> 0 82c932053d35c980dec7b8dcd684f3ce Sara Margaret Butler deposited “Lies, Damned Lies, and the Life of Saint Lucy: Three Cases of Judicial Separation from the Late Medieval Court of York.” in the group British History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1696860/ Sun, 12 Jul 2020 19:17:31 -0400 An examination of three cases of judicial separation from the late medieval court of York.

]]> 0 16cbd7bdbb95fca9d9945f35370753c9 Sara Margaret Butler deposited “Spousal Abuse in Fourteenth-century Yorkshire: What can we learn from the Coroners’ Rolls?” in the group British History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1696855/ Sun, 12 Jul 2020 19:17:15 -0400 Since the publication of Philippe Aries' Centuries of Childhood in the early 1960's, historians of the family have been intrigued by the prospect of a history of change in familial sentiment. 1 Aries' study of attitudes about children from the Middle Ages to the eighteenth century, based primarily on art and material evidence, demonstrates…[Read more]

]]> 0 d261274b8d5edd810375083d9f5a7ac3 Sara Margaret Butler deposited “‘I will never consent to be wedded with you!’: Coerced Marriage in the Courts of Medieval England.” in the group British History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1696850/ Sun, 12 Jul 2020 19:16:56 -0400 This paper asks us to rethink the boundaries between consent and coercion in medieval England. From gentle persuasion to threats and abuse, coercion was a part of the courtship process. Although late medieval society expected parents to play an active, even heavy-handed, role in matchmaking, the English church recognized the possibility that…[Read more]

]]> 0 7c0850f8715a10c9322f3ad90a7788ca Sara Margaret Butler deposited “The Law as a Weapon in Marital Disputes: Evidence from the Late Medieval Court of Chancery, 1424- 1529.” in the group British History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1696845/ Sun, 12 Jul 2020 19:16:38 -0400 When Isabelle, widow of Richard Vergeons, commissioned the writing of a bill of complaint to Chancery at the end of the fifteenth century, she was clearly at the end of her tether. Six months before the writing of the petition, the wife of Thomas Hyll, a wire monger of London, approached the petitioner’s husband, begging for ‘‘secour and saufg…[Read more]

]]> 0 f8472c549ebc5a3d4ac0f1c3a793f1f3 Sara Margaret Butler deposited “Abortion by Assault: Violence against Pregnant Women in Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-century England.” in the group British History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1696840/ Sun, 12 Jul 2020 19:16:19 -0400 According to medieval common law, assault against a pregnant woman causing miscarriage after the fi rst trimester was homicide. Some scholars have argued, however, that in practice English jurors refused to acknowledge assaults of this nature as homicide. The underlying argument is that because abortion by assault is a crime against women, male…[Read more]

]]> 0 09023f48cfa8e449a861887535b472f8 Sara Margaret Butler deposited “Degrees of Culpability: Suicide Verdicts, Mercy, and the Jury in Medieval England.” in the group British History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1696835/ Sun, 12 Jul 2020 19:16:08 -0400 Sunday, January 23, 1390 was a day that Ralph Peioun of Wotton (Lincs.) and his wife most likely never forgot. On this day, their one-year-old son, Richard, presumably curious and headstrong like most young toddlers his age, made an unfortunate choice of playthings when he picked up a pair of shears and wounded himself in the throat, a fatal…[Read more]

]]> 0 7bd3209e079cce47cb128ace2c9e56d6 Sara Margaret Butler deposited “Local Concerns: Suicide and Jury Behavior in Medieval England.” in the group British History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1696830/ Sun, 12 Jul 2020 19:15:56 -0400 When confronted with cases of self-killing, medieval jurors had to contend with a vast array of often conflicting concerns, from religious and folkloric condemnations of the act of suicide, to fears for the welfare of the family of the dead, and to coping with royal confiscations of a felon’s goods. All of these factors had a profound impact on t…[Read more]

]]> 0 d2f6bb81df9e2abf7940b9e18921c256 Sara Margaret Butler deposited “Runaway Wives: Husband Desertion in Medieval England.” in the group British History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1696825/ Sun, 12 Jul 2020 19:15:40 -0400 Scholars of the medieval family would generally agree that the lot of the medieval wife was not an easy one. Medieval husbands held the upper hand in the power relationship, both legally and socially. Although Lawrence Stone's view of niarried life in the Middle Ages as "brutal and often hostile, with little communication, [and] much wife-beating"…[Read more]

]]> 0 0bfd229a9dbd836f494d2e89d6aed073 Sara Margaret Butler deposited “Cultures of Suicide? Regionalism and Suicide Verdicts in Medieval England.” in the group British History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1696820/ Sun, 12 Jul 2020 19:15:29 -0400 The use of the term “community” in historical studies continues to present problems for many medievalists. Myriad studies have emphasized the inadequacy of the term when describing medieval society. Microstudies of manors and villages, especially in the English context, by historians Barbara A. Hanawalt, J. Ambrose Raftis, and Sherri Olson (am…[Read more]

]]> 0 840a97b5614bb6d6e24710c7d191a8c3 Sara Margaret Butler deposited “A Case of Indifference? Child Murder in Later Medieval England.” in the group British History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1696815/ Sun, 12 Jul 2020 19:15:13 -0400 Art historian Barbara Kellum’s 1973 article on child murder in medieval England paints a picture of a world replete with ruthless and murderous single mothers who escaped the legal consequences of their actions due to an indifferent court system that chose to turn a blind eye to the deaths of young children. Despite the overstated tone of her w…[Read more]

]]> 0 4bba826468485b8229afb66480e8cd6f Sara Margaret Butler deposited “Representing the Middle Ages: The Insanity Defense in Medieval England.” in the group British History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1696810/ Sun, 12 Jul 2020 19:14:52 -0400 The history of homicidal insanity in the courts of law of medieval England.

]]> 0 cf56dbe18981b13f9efeea4dcef3e9d8 Sara Margaret Butler deposited “Medicine on Trial: Regulating the Health Professions in Later Medieval England.” in the group British History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1696805/ Sun, 12 Jul 2020 19:14:41 -0400 Given the hurdles one faced in trying to stay healthy in later medieval England, it should come as no surprise that the medieval English placed a premium on competent medicine. As Carole Rawcliffe has argued, “medieval life was beset by constant threats to health arising from poor diet (at both ends of the social spectrum), low levels of h…[Read more]

]]> 0 f439e01e2578ed1befe34e8cc074fe54 Sara Margaret Butler deposited Sacred People, Sacred Spaces: Evidence of Parish Respect and Contempt for the pre-Reformation Clergy.” in the group British History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1696801/ Sun, 12 Jul 2020 19:14:32 -0400 Conflicts between parish clergy and parishioners in late medieval England have been described as acts of both anticlericalism and proclericalism (that is, an attempt to compel clergy into living up to the parishioners’ increasingly high expectations of them). This paper hopes to expand our knowledge of parish conflict by turning to an o…[Read more]

]]> 0 19a5da79d28518eda670c3ed01311bf0 Sara Margaret Butler deposited “More than Mothers: Juries of Matrons and Pleas of the Belly in Medieval England.” in the group British History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1696796/ Sun, 12 Jul 2020 19:14:16 -0400 With regard to English common law, medieval women were able to participate in the curial process in only a limited way. This is not true of women as defendants: women could be sued for almost any civil or criminal plaint, but their privileges as plaintiffs were broadly curtailed by marital status and cultural expectation. The legal fiction of…[Read more]

]]> 0 9019c790142ec33c91bbe8cd29a2e22a Sara Margaret Butler deposited ABORTION MEDIEVAL STYLE? ASSAULTS ON PREGNANT WOMEN IN LATER MEDIEVAL ENGLAND in the group British History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1696791/ Sun, 12 Jul 2020 19:13:56 -0400 In the year 1304, Matilda Bonamy of Guernsey, a young woman from one of the Anglo-Norman island’smost established and affluent families, found herself in a predicament familiar to many of today’s youth. A liaison with Jordan Clouet, also from a family of long provenance in Guernsey if not as comfortable, had left her pregnant. To Matilda the sol…[Read more]

]]> 0 3852010a92bbf161d3c5b3d43df3ffb0 Annika McQueen deposited What part did decorative plasterwork play in the transformation of the Great House before 1660? in the group British History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1684454/ Fri, 17 Apr 2020 16:25:34 -0400 This essay argues that the changes that occurred in the form, function, material and internal decorative schemes of the Great House before 1660 was less of a transformation and more of a slow evolution. The popularity of plasterwork in the Great House from the Tudors to the Restoration, demonstrates its importance in the evolution of such…[Read more]

]]> 0 cdd5bd7e7a1cb16f21e57832251d0fc8 Annika McQueen deposited Inns and Innkeeping in North Hertfordshire: 1660 - 1815 in the group British History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1683816/ Mon, 13 Apr 2020 16:25:33 -0400 This dissertation 'Inns and Innkeeping in North Hertfordshire: 1660-1815' addresses the lack of a localised study on this building type and supplements the wider body of work that has been undertaken, on inn form, function and innkeeping lifestyles in other regions of England during the long eighteenth century.

]]> 0 c9d32c47a97c6da3ede4fed4fd3d7768 Danielle Skjelver started the topic Call for Peer Reviewers in the discussion British History https://hcommons.org/groups/british-history/forum/topic/call-for-peer-reviewers-4/ Thu, 19 Mar 2020 21:00:19 -0400 The History of Applied Science & Technology Open Access Textbook editors seek peer reviewers for all regions and all periods.

]]> 1406082b1ebeded40a4fcc5c4f9decac Peter Webster deposited Evangelicals, culture and the arts in the group British History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1677708/ Thu, 06 Feb 2020 16:25:23 -0500 Examines evangelical encounters with the arts as: consumer and performer in the ‘neutral’ sphere of the home; as users of the arts in public worship; as evangelists; and as moralists and reformers of the pursuits of others. It deals mainly with music, literature, the visual arts and drama, and its examples are drawn chiefly from Britain and the…[Read more]

]]> 0 3f4d6bbc65b0ec353ebde7e38d221e50 Koca Mehmet Kentel deposited Call of Duty: Empire Mapped and Played in the group British History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1664738/ Sat, 28 Sep 2019 16:25:48 -0400 The genealogy of board games in Britain is also an expression of its imperial past. Built on colonialist and orientalist tropes that reinforce a hierarchy of race, their legacy is still discernible in the worlds created for the games played today.

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An updated version of my Portolan piece from 2018.

]]> 0 37355644795c9af7d32dcc8f11f9d80a Peter Webster deposited Technology, ethics and religious language: early Anglophone Christian reactions to “cyberspace” in the group British History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1661420/ Mon, 26 Aug 2019 16:28:11 -0400 The very recent past has seen an upswing of scholarly interest not so much in the Internet and Web themselves but in the terms in which they have been discussed and understood. This article examines a remarkable effusion of writing in the 1990s that addressed the spiritual and ethical implications of “cyberspace”. Christian critics reacted in dif…[Read more]

]]> 0 339ae1c8f34593f41030bece4faef5e4 Peter Webster deposited Guildford cathedral: a short history in the group British History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1638957/ Wed, 24 Apr 2019 16:25:23 -0400 An account of the commissioning and building of Guildford cathedral, placing it in its religious and artistic context. The article also includes a description of the art and architecture of the building, both interior and exterior.

]]> 0 051316453999319d56c09929b975a1f7 Guy Beiner deposited Forgetful Remembrance (Preface) in the group British History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1627218/ Mon, 24 Dec 2018 16:25:21 -0500 Preface to Guy Beiner, Forgetful Remembrance: Social Forgetting and Vernacular Historiography of a Rebellion in Ulster (Oxford University Press, 2018)

]]> 0 e34da9ef19aec325776b3828e8aaa706 Lisa M Lane deposited Cram and Criticism: H.G. Wells and Late Victorian Education in the group British History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1623123/ Wed, 07 Nov 2018 16:25:21 -0500 Before the publication of The Time Machine (1895), H. G. Wells’s early works provide insight into the challenges of the late Victorian educational system. Wells benefited from a unique set of educational reforms intended to provide education for the lower middle class. He did so in the capacities of a student taking examinations to earn grants f…[Read more]

]]> 0 b15b0056563d3e296541d2ccdb356836 Koca Mehmet Kentel deposited Empire on a Board: Navigating the British Empire through Geographical Board Games in the Nineteenth Century in the group British History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1617883/ Mon, 10 Sep 2018 16:25:22 -0400 While board games had been around for millennia, their popularization as a market commodity, with specilal themes and branding, had coincided with the formation of the global dominance of the British Empire as a maritime juggernaut. Early board game producers in the second half of the eighteenth century were mapmakers, and the board games shared…[Read more]

]]> 0 20e5fba7416522444df4069d972405b3 Peter Webster deposited The archbishops of Canterbury, the Lord Chamberlain and the censorship of the theatre, 1909-49 in the group British History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1610394/ Sat, 09 Jun 2018 04:14:16 -0400 The position of the archbishop of Canterbury at the heart of the Establishment engendered requests to be patron, advocate or opponent of almost every conceivable development in national life. One such entanglement was his role as unofficial advisor to the Lord Chamberlain in the matter of the licensing of stage plays. According to the report of…[Read more]

]]> 0 776c9b6b958c4a4199f1bbd38dcea4c2 Peter Webster deposited Archbishop Michael Ramsey and evangelicals in the Church of England in the group British History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1610393/ Sat, 09 Jun 2018 04:14:16 -0400 Michael Ramsey's time as archbishop of Canterbury (1961-74) was a crucial period of transition in evangelicals’ view of themselves and of how they should relate to the wider church. However, Ramsey has often been assumed to have been either indifferent or actively hostile to evangelical concerns. This chapter argues that this understanding of R…[Read more]

]]> 0 a8deb144343f29b8b69afe6fdddfdfa8 Peter Webster deposited Race, religion and national identity in Sixties Britain: Michael Ramsey, archbishop of Canterbury and his encounter with other faiths in the group British History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1609668/ Fri, 01 Jun 2018 04:12:25 -0400 This essay explores two main themes, one major and one minor. After an examination of Michael Ramsey’s own engagement with inter-faith theology in the abstract, it briefly considers his interventions on behalf of Anglican minorities caught up in religiously inflected conflict overseas. The main preoccupation of the essay, however, is with the i…[Read more]

]]> 0 1c8bbde289bf8e55d003ac758adf379b James Perry deposited Marriages in the London Wall Greek Church, 1837-1865 in the group British History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1589318/ Thu, 23 Nov 2017 05:38:32 -0500 Between 1836 and 1865, a series of marriages took place within the Greek Orthodox community of London. Initially performed in homes and a converted chapel, ceremonies began to be held in the newly constructed Greek Orthodox Church from 1850 onwards. Unaware of the legal necessity of registering marriages with the government, marriages were not…[Read more]

]]> 0 84f481cc4293424ad2871a3363806667 Philip Allfrey deposited Arms and the (tax-)man: The use and taxation of armorial bearings in Britain, 1798–1944. in the group British History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1575523/ Tue, 11 Jul 2017 01:00:00 -0400 From 1798 to 1944 the display of coats of arms in Great Britain was taxed. Since there were major changes to the role of heraldry in society in the same period, it is surprising that the records of the tax have gone unstudied. This dissertation evaluates whether the records of the tax can say something useful about heraldry in this period. The…[Read more]

]]> 0 5b62fef880a838e6a0fb1581ecd466ef Victoria Addis deposited 'Man is the Measure': The Individual and the Tribe in Modernist Representations of the Primitive in the group British History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1574766/ Sun, 25 Jun 2017 01:00:04 -0400 This article investigates the tensions inherent within the ‘anti-modern’ element of early modernism and its relationship to Victorian and fin de siècle narratives of modernity. Using Sigmund Freud’s Totem and Taboo (1913), this essay examines how the primitive is represented in E.M. Forster’s short story ‘The Machine Stops’ (1909) and Stravinsky/N…[Read more]

]]> 0 776810fa98d1b04d0bf0dc5953defe5b Alice White deposited British Army Area Commands & Command Psychiatrists (Appendix E) in the group British History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1568337/ Tue, 02 May 2017 01:00:10 -0400 This illustrates the psychiatrists who were appointed to Area Commands in the British Army during the Second World War, along with their commanding officers and other psychological staff at that Command. I found it a challenge to pin down people to places and times when researching my PhD - hopefully this will save others some trouble!

]]> 0 a9cb0f1c54dfc8c7439f565a0c469229 Alice White deposited Who's Who of WWII Army Psychiatry (Appendix B) in the group British History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1568335/ Tue, 02 May 2017 01:00:10 -0400 This appendix gives a brief summary of the role of some individuals who did work connected with Army psychiatry in Second World War Britain (particularly the development of schemes of officer selection and POW rehabilitation). The data was compiled from biographies, autobiographies, obituaries, census information, letters and articles published in…[Read more]

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