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Loyalism and Radicalism in Lancashire, 1798-1815
Navickas, Katrina (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2009)Loyalism and Radicalism in Lancashire, 1798-1815 is a lively and detailed account of popular politics in Lancashire during the later years of the French Revolution and during the Napoleonic wars. Drawing on a wide variety ... -
Magic : A Very Short Introduction
Davies, Owen (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2012)Magic is a much-used term with a complex and controversial history. As a concept and a practice, it has attracted the attention of theologians, anthropologists, psychologists, sociologists, artists, and historians over the ... -
Magic in Common and Legal Perspectives
Davies, Owen (Cambridge University Press, 2015-03) -
Making Italian espresso, making espresso Italian
Morris, Jonathan (2010)Espresso coffee has become synonymous with Italy, as have those beverages which employ this as a base such as cappuccino and caffè latte. This article examines the processes by which espresso became “Italian” over the ... -
Methodism, the Clergy, and the Popular Belief in Witchcraft and Magic
Davies, Owen (1997-04)During the second half of the eighteenth century and the early nineteenth century, there was growing concern that the popular belief in witchcraft and magic was still widespread. It had generally been supposed that the ... -
Moors, Fields, and Popular Protest in South Lancashire and the West Riding of Yorkshire, 1800–1848
Navickas, K. (2009)This article argues that moors and fields in south Lancashire and the West Riding of Yorkshire were integral to the symbolism of political and social agitation during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The ... -
Murder, Magic, Madness : The Victorian Trials of Dove and the Wizard
Davies, Owen (Longman, 2005) -
Newspapers and the Popular Belief in Witchcraft and Magic in the Modern Period
Davies, Owen (1998) -
Patterning Lives : Fashion Objects and Heritage Writing in Schools
Young, Jennifer; Lloyd, Sarah; Markland, Eleanor (2011-11-16) -
A People Bewitched: Witchcraft and Magic in Nineteenth-Century Somerset
Davies, Owen (Privately published, 1999)The belief in witchcraft and magic was widespread in nineteenth-century Somerset. Witches were blamed for causing the ill health and death of people and their animals. Those accused of witchcraft often found themselves ... -
Popular Magic : Cunning-Folk in English History
Davies, Owen (Hambeldon Continuum, 2007) -
Print Grimoires and the Democratization of Learned Magic in the Later Early Modern Period: Bricolage Tradition and the Cross-Cultural Transmission of Knowledge
Davies, Owen (2023-04-14)The relationship between print and manuscript in the entanglement of 'western learned magic' provides valuable insights regarding the complexity of cultural transmission across societies and social strata. Through exploring ... -
Protest and the Politics of Space and Place, 1789-1848
Navickas, Katrina (Manchester University Press, 2015-12-01)This book is a wide-ranging survey of the rise of mass movements for democracy and workers’ rights in northern England. It is a provocative narrative of the closing down of public space and dispossession from place. The ... -
Protest History or the History of Protest?
Navickas, Katrina (2012-04-01)A workshop on ‘new approaches to the history of protest and collective action’ was held at the University of Hertfordshire on 1 July 2011. The event could not have been at a more opportune time. The day before the workshop, ... -
“A reformer’s wife ought to be an heroine”: gender, family and English radicals imprisoned under the Suspension of Habeas Corpus Act of 1817
Navickas, Katrina (2016-03-21)In 1817, the British government reacted to the rise of popular agitation for parliamentary reform by passing the Suspension of Habeas Corpus Act and arresting the leaders of the new working-class radical societies. The ... -
Regions, 1700-1870
Goose, Nigel (Cambridge University Press, 2014-10) -
THE RELIGIOUS AND SOCIAL SIGNIFICANCE OF METHODIST TICKETS, AND ASSOCIATED PRACTICES OF COLLECTING AND RECOLLECTING, 1741-2017
Lloyd, Sarah (2019-07-08)Among all the paper ephemera surviving from eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century Britain, the humble Methodist ticket has attracted little attention from scholars and collectors. Issued quarterly to members as a ... -
A return to materialism? Putting social history back into place
Navickas, Katrina (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018-02-22) -
The search for 'General Ludd': the mythology of Luddism
Navickas, K (2005-08)In attempting to make sense of the working-class disturbances of the period 1811-13, both contemporaries and historians have searched for 'General Ludd' and his followers. The magistrates who sent out their spies to uncover ...