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‘came to her Dressed in mans cloaths’: Transgender histories and queer approaches to the family in eighteenth-century Ireland.
Calvert, Leanne (2024-02-28)This article engages with queer and trans scholarship to produce a methodological think-piece on how to queer the Irish family. It draws on a case study of alleged crossdressing and attempted intimacy that was recorded in ... -
'Do not forget your bit wife': love, marriage and the negotiation of patriarchy in Irish Presbyterian marriages, c. 1780-1850.
Calvert, Leanne (2017-05-04)Drawing on the marital correspondence of Isabella Marshall and William John Campbell Allen, an Ulster Presbyterian couple, alongside a number of other Presbyterian families, this article explores how patriarchy was negotiated ... -
'From a woman's point of view': the Presbyterian archive as a source for women's and gender history in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Ireland.
Calvert, Leanne (2022-12-23)This article responds to the 'Agenda for Irish Women's History' by highlighting the explanatory potential of the Presbyterian archive in extending and reshaping our understanding of women, gender, and the family in Ireland. ... -
'He came to her bed pretending courtship': sex, courtship and the making of marriage in Ulster, 1750-1844
Calvert, Leanne (2018-12-27)The history of sex and sexuality is underdeveloped in Irish historical studies, particularly for the period before the late-nineteenth century. While much has been written on rates of illegitimacy in Ireland, and its ... -
"Her husband went away some time agoe": marriage breakdown in Presbyterian Ulster, c. 1690-1830
Calvert, Leanne (2020-08-04)The history of the making and breaking of marriage in Ireland is underdeveloped, particularly for the period before the nineteenth-century. The destruction of the Public Records Office in Dublin during the Irish Civil War ... -
‘I am friends wt you & do Entertain no malice’: discord, disputes and defamation in Ulster Presbyterian church courts, c. 1700-1838.
Calvert, Leanne (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021-11-02)Following the example of its parent church in Scotland, the Presbyterian church courts in Ireland exercised control over all aspects of its members’ lives. The making of marriage, sexual conduct, family feuds, alcohol ... -
Introduction : Women and the Family in Ireland. New Directions and Perspectives, 1550-1950
Calvert, Leanne; O'Riordan, Maeve (2020-08-04)This special issue of Women's History brings together a number of papers derived from a one-day symposium held at the University of Hertfordshire in June 2019 on the theme of 'Women and the Family in Ireland: New Directions ... -
“I’m not nervous. It’s just how I talk”: Stammering in University and the creation of an inclusive learning environment
Calvert, Leanne (2020-05)It is estimated that over 23,000 students in UK Higher Education have a stammer. Yet, Universities are consistently failing to support students with communication impairments. Recent research has revealed how students who ... -
'A more careful tender nurse cannot be than my dear husband': reassessing the role of men in pregnancy and childbirth in Ulster, 1780-1832.
Calvert, Leanne (2017-01-01)Childbirth is generally viewed as a female activity, which had little participation from men. Drawing largely on the papers of the Crawford family, this article offers an alternative to the traditional picture of childbirth. ... -
Objects of Affection? Materialising Courtship, Love and Sex in Ireland, c. 1800-1830.
Calvert, Leanne (2022-04-18)This article uses a collection of mementos curated by Robert James Tennent, a middle-class man, to interrogate how objects materialised love and sex in Ireland. It problematises readings of courtship tokens as simple objects ... -
RIFNET. A new agenda for the Irish family: messy realities & messier lives
Calvert, Leanne; O'Riordan, Maeve (2024-02-25)This special issue introduces new research on historical approaches to the Irish family. The articles in this collection have grown out of the Reconstituting the Irish Family Research Network (RIFNET), an interdisciplinary ... -
‘to recover his reputation among the people of God’: Sex, Religion and the Double Standard in Presbyterian Ireland, c.1700–1838
Calvert, Leanne (2022-07-06)This article explores how Presbyterian religious belief and practice shaped the operation of the sexual double standard in Ireland. It argues that reputation continued to have a public element into the nineteenth century ... -
‘What a wonderful change have I undergone … so altered in stature, knowledge & ideas!’: Apprenticeship, Adolescence and Growing Up in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Ulster.
Calvert, Leanne (2018-07-31)Until the late nineteenth-century, apprenticeship was the main way in which young people were trained in crafts and trades. Given that most apprenticeship terms lasted approximately seven years, young people could expect ... -
‘Your Marage will make a change with them all ... when you get another famely’: illegitimate children, parenthood and siblinghood in Ireland, c. 1759-1832.
Calvert, Leanne (2022-09-20)William Tennent (1759–1832) was a successful businessman and banker, who made his mark in Belfast as one of the city’s richest men. He was also a father and, later, a husband. By the time of his marriage in March 1805, ...