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Searching for the Material in Peter K. Andersson’s ‘How Civilized Were the Victorians?’
Navickas, Katrina (2016-12-06)This article is a response to Peter K. Andersson’s arguments about the ‘civilizing thesis’ in Victorian Studies. It examines his approach in relation to class, discourse, and structure, particularly in relation to the ... -
Sedimented Histories : connections, collaborations and co-production in regional history
Lloyd, Sarah; Moore, Julie (2015-10-01)This article considers recent developments in public history, particularly in a context of university-community partnerships. Since Raphael Samuel’s 1994 discussion of ‘unofficial’ histories, various academic and policy ... -
The 'Spirit of Loyalty': Material Culture, Space and the Construction of an English Loyalist Memory, 1790-1840
Navickas, Katrina (Boydell & Brewer, 2014-05-15) -
Storia dell'espresso nell'Italia e nel mondo
Morris, Jonathan (ANTORAMI, 2008) -
A Supernatural War : Magic, Divination and Faith during the First World War
Davies, Owen (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2018-10-25)A comprehensive study of the major revival of supernatural beliefs, superstition, and spiritualism during the First World War and its aftermath. A look at what the beliefs, practices, and contemporary opinions on magic can ... -
Talk of the Devil : Crime and Satanic Inspiration in Eighteenth-Century England
Davies, Owen (University of Hertfordshire, 2007) -
Temporal Dynamism in Country-of-Origin Effect: The Malleability of Italians’ Perceptions Regarding the British Sixties
Halliday, Sue; Morris, Jonathan; Amatulli, Cesare; de Angelo, Matteo; Mulazzi, Floriana (2019-11-11)Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to enrich country of origin (COO) effect in international marketing theory by adding the understanding of temporal dynamism into COO research. Design/methodology/approach: Utilizing a ... -
That sash will hang you : political clothing and adornment in England, 1780-1840
Navickas, K. (2010)On 25 November 1830, John Benett, Tory MP for Wiltshire, met a group of “Swing” rioters approaching his property near Salisbury. Though their threat to break his agricultural machinery obviously disturbed him, Benett was ... -
'Theaw Kon Ekspect No Mooar Eawt ov a Pig thin a Grunt' : Searching for the Radical Dialect Voice in Industrial Lancashire and the West Riding, 1798–1819
Navickas, Katrina (Pickering and Chatto, 2012-08) -
Ticketing the British Eighteenth-Century : ‘A thing ... never heard of before’
Lloyd, Sarah (2013)During the long eighteenth century an apparently minor and ephemeral object proliferated in Britain: the ticket. A significant and increasing proportion of the population was exposed to tickets of admission, lottery tickets ... -
Towards an Italian Marketing History
Morris, Jonathan (2015) -
The University of Hertfordshire : Sixty Years of Innovation
Davies, Owen; History; Centre for Regional and Local History; School of Humanities; Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities Research Institute (University of Hertfordshire Press, 2012)Illustrates the importance of the post-1992 higher education sector in advancing the knowledge, economy and cultural life of the country. Through the stories and memories of individual students and members of staff, the ... -
Urbanization and the Decline of Witchcraft : An Examination of London
Davies, Owen (1997) -
‘A virtue beyond all medicine’ : The hanged man’s hand, gallows tradition and healing in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England
Davies, Owen; Matteoni, Francesca (2015-11)From the eighteenth century through to the abolition of public executions in England in 1868, the touch of a freshly hanged man's hand was sought after to cure a variety of swellings, wens in particular. While the healing ... -
We Consumers - Tastes, Rituals and Waves
Morris, Jonathan (Elsevier, 2017-01-04) -
Wesley’s invisible world: witchcraft and the temperature of preternatural belief
Davies, Owen (Wipf and Stock, 2015-01-01) -
What happened to class? New histories of labour and collective action in Britain
Navickas, Katrina (2011)Recently, my family called me a ‘labour historian’. A ‘labour historian’ is one of the last epithets I would give to my thoroughly bourgeois self, so I considered why they made that association. In 2005, I published an ... -
Why espresso? : Explaining changes in European coffee preferences from a production of culture perspective
Morris, Jonathan (2013-10-25)Since the 1990s supposedly ‘historic’ fault lines separating coffee preferences and practices across the European continent have been broken down. The consumption of Italian-style espresso-based beverages outside the home ... -
The wider picture: Parallel evidence in America and Australia
Davies, Owen; Evans, Ian; Manning, M. Chris (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) -
Witchcraft accusations in France 1850-1990
Davies, Owen (Manchester University Press, 2004)