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Coffee : a condensed history
Morris, Jonathan; Thurston, Robert (Rowman and Littlefield, 2013-10) -
Coffee house formats through the centuries : third places or public spaces
Morris, Jonathan (Rowman and Littlefield, 2013-10) -
A Comparative Perspective on Scottish Cunning-folk and Charmers
Davies, Owen (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007) -
The Contested Right of Public Meeting in England from the Bill of Rights to the Public Order Acts
Navickas, Katrina (2022-12-02)The 'right of public meeting' has historically been a key demand of extra-parliamentary political movements in England. This paper examines how public assembly came to be perceived as a legally protected right, and how ... -
The Cragg Family Memorandum Book : society, politics, and religion in North Lancashire during the 1790s
Navickas, Katrina (2005)The Cragg family memorandum book is a detailed source for society and politics in the rural area around Lancaster, a region often neglected by historians in favour of the archive-rich south Lancashire. It records local and ... -
Cunning-folk in England and Wales during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Davies, Owen (1997-04)In a recent article Willem de Blécourt highlighted how little we really know about cunning-folk in the context of European witchcraft, and stressed the need for further substantial research. The study of English cunning-folk ... -
Cunning-folk in the Medical Market-Place during the Nineteenth Century
Davies, Owen (1999-01)Over the last twenty years a considerable amount of valuable research has uncovered the activities of a variety of unorthodox medical practitioners in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Quack doctors, spiritual ... -
Decriminalising the witch : The origin of and response to the 1736 Witchcraft Act
Davies, Owen (Brill Academic Publishers, 2008) -
English agriculturalists’ attitudes towards grassland vegetation, 1780-1914 : an ecological perspective
Davies, Angus; Davies, Owen (1996-01) -
The English Almshouse and the Mixed Economy of Welfare : Medieval to Modern
Goose, Nigel (2010-02)In this paper, which is closely based on his 2009 BALH Annual Lecture, delivered at Local History Day in June, Professor Nigel Goose gives a broad-ranging and comprehensive overview of the development of almshouses, their ... -
Espresso by Design : The Creation of the Italian Coffee Machine
Morris, Jonathan (Bloomsbury Academic, 2013-11)A history of the italian espresso machine exploring the ways in which technical innovations in coffee brewing, environmental function within the bar setting, and messages conveyed through aesthetic styling have impacted ... -
Espresso menu : an international history
Morris, Jonathan (Rowman and Littlefield, 2013-10) -
Europe versus America?
Morris, Jonathan (2011)The simple shibboleths of sports history - that the British showed the Europeans how to play sport, while the Americans taught them how to turn it into a commodity - can no longer be sustained. As Tomlinson and Young rightly ... -
European Folk Medicine
Davies, Owen (Pharmaceutical Press, 2009) -
The Evolution of the Retail Trade sector in Iberian Cities from the Nineteenth Century to the Second World War.
Morris, Jonathan; Alves, Daniel (2017-05-16)The evolution of retail trade in European cities during the first decades of the twentieth century can be a powerful indicator about their urban and social dynamics. The growth in the number of shops, the spatial rearrangement ... -
Executing Magic in the Modern Era: Criminal Bodies and the Gallows in Popular Medicine
Davies, Owen; Matteoni, Francesca (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017-01-01)This book explores the magical and medical history of executions from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century by looking at the afterlife potency of criminal corpses, the healing activities of the executioner, and ... -
Feeding the City
Moore, Julie (University of Hertfordshire Press, 2016-09)This chapter explores some of the ways in which the men and women of a Hertfordshire market town, St Albans, coped with the shortages, price rises and ever-expanding bureaucracy that surrounded the feeding of themselves ... -
Female healers in nineteenth-century England
Davies, Owen (Local Population Studies Society, 2007) -
Finding the Folklore in the Annals of Psychiatry
Davies, Owen (2022-03-10)The rise of the folklore movement in the nineteenth century coincided with the development of psychiatry as a discipline and as a profession. There is no evidence of folklorists visiting asylums for source material, and ... -
A Folklorist Looks at Ice Cream Vans
Davies, Owen (2024-03-14)Of all the commercial road vehicles that have toured the streets and tourist spots of Britain, Ireland, America, and Australia over nearly a century, none elicit more popular reminiscence and sentiment than ice cream vans. ...