{"title":"Garry Campion. The Good Fight: Battle of Britain Propaganda and the Few . Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. Pp. xvii + 314. $90.00 (cloth); $30.00 (paper).","authors":"J. Purcell","doi":"10.1086/661004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/661004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":132502,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of British Studies","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127059590","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sean D. Moore. Swift, the Book and the Irish Financial Revolution: Satire and Sovereignty in Colonial Ireland . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. Pp. 288. $65.00 (cloth).","authors":"Anne L. Murphy","doi":"10.1086/660963","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/660963","url":null,"abstract":"regicides, William Goffe and John Dixwell, who fled abroad at the Restoration, is no mere afterthought. Major, as editor, recognizes that these republican refugees after 1660 were as much exiles as their royalist counterparts before 1660 and that a comparison between the experiences of the two groups is entirely valid. In fact, Major and Peacey are the two contributors who address most directly the question of how their subjects coped psychologically with the actual experience of exile. But there is a crucial difference. Whereas most royalist exiles had been able to live openly in foreign lands, Goffe and Dixwell spent decades living secret lives within the Stuarts’s colonial territories in New England, knowing that exposure would probably send them to the gallows or the block. One can only suppose that they thought that their enemies’ earlier periods of exile had been altogether easier.","PeriodicalId":132502,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of British Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125828419","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"David George Mullan. Narratives of the Religious Self in Early Modern Scotland . St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2010. Pp. 464. $134.95 (cloth).","authors":"B. Hindmarsh","doi":"10.1086/660954","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/660954","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":132502,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of British Studies","volume":"320 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115918463","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Voices and Silences of Memory: Civilian Internees of the Japanese in British Asia during the Second World War","authors":"Felicia M. Yap","doi":"10.1086/661602","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/661602","url":null,"abstract":"W hen invading Japanese forces seized most of Southeast Asia and the western half of the Pacific during the Second World War, some twenty thousand British civilians were incarcerated in numerous internment camps in the region. Since the end of the war, the experiences of these internees of the Japanese have occupied a marginalized position in public memories of the conflict. In postwar Britain, public images of captivity in the East have been largely dominated by recollections of prisoners of war (POWs) of the Japanese, particularly those who were subjected to brutalities on the Burma-Thailand Railway. While the private memories of Japanese-held civilians have received increasing public attention in recent decades as a result of some film","PeriodicalId":132502,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of British Studies","volume":"200 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116154331","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Kevin Sharpe. Image Wars: Promoting Kings and Commonwealths in England, 1603–1660. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2010. Pp. 512. $55.00 (cloth).","authors":"A. Bellany","doi":"10.1086/660964","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/660964","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":132502,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of British Studies","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124451679","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tatiana C. String. Art and Communication in the Reign of Henry VIII . Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008. Pp. 170. $114.95 (cloth).","authors":"M. Polito","doi":"10.1086/660966","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/660966","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":132502,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of British Studies","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126537648","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"D. A. Low. Fabrication of Empire: The British and the Uganda Kingdoms, 1890–1902 . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. xix + 382. $110.00 (cloth).","authors":"J. Hodge","doi":"10.1086/661010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/661010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":132502,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of British Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121277096","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evil Counsel: The Propositions to Bridle the Impertinency of Parliament and the Critique of Caroline Government in the Late 1620s","authors":"Noah Millstone","doi":"10.1086/661000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/661000","url":null,"abstract":"I n November 1629, King Charles and his Privy Council discovered a particularly nasty rumor: the council, it was said, had decided to resolve England’s mounting political crisis by altering the kingdom’s frame of government and making “an Innovation” in its fundamental laws. The supposed plan would eliminate parliamentary intransigence and solve the crown’s revenue problems by making the king “an absolute tyrant.” In reality, no such plan existed. Nevertheless, the council found that handwritten copies of the supposed plan were being sold by London manuscript dealers. In tracing these copies to their source, the council uncovered a circle of aristocrats, lawyers, and antiquaries who were playing a dangerous game. The alleged plan, The Propositions for your Majesty’s Service containing two parts: the one to secure your state and bridle the impertinency of Parliaments; the other to increase your Majesty’s revenue, much more than it is (henceforth, the Propositions), was an extraordinary and sophisticated attempt at political communication. A handful of disaffected figures, including the earls of Bedford, Clare, and Somerset, Sir Robert Cotton, John Selden, and “sundry other","PeriodicalId":132502,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of British Studies","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127179390","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Citizens of Morley College","authors":"A. Poole","doi":"10.1086/661021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/661021","url":null,"abstract":"I n October 1885, four young men presented themselves at the side door of the Royal Victoria Hall, Waterloo Road, Lambeth. They were enrolled in the first regular scientific classes that were being attempted as an experiment inspired by interest shown in the hall’s Friday night “penny science lectures.” The experiment proved a success and soon led to the establishment of Morley College for Working Men and Women, an institution dedicated to bringing to the working classes courses of study in liberal arts subjects. This was not the first attempt to introduce higher education to workers. There were, by the latter half of the nineteenth century, a number of institutions for adult education. The Mechanics Institute had been established by George Birkbeck in Glasgow in 1823; lyceums and Useful Knowledge Societies had more or less flourished through the nineteenth century; the Working Men’s College (dedicated to teaching the liberal arts to working men) had been established in Great Ormond Street in 1854 by Rev. F. D. Maurice, Thomas Hughes, John Ludlow, and Charles Kingsley, all Christian Socialists; and Oxford and Cambridge universities had been running extension lectures since 1867. But the sudden enfranchisement of so many working men by the Second Reform Act of 1867 made education for all these new voters a serious subject for debate. By the time the four young men came to the side door of the Royal Victoria Hall, educating working men was less a virtuous ideal and more a pressing imperative. For many, the only questions were what sort of education ought they receive and who was to set the curriculum. A good deal has been written on the subject of the education proffered to Britain’s working men in the latter quarter of the nineteenth century. Much of the debate turns on different aspects of a single issue: was worker education a way of offering higher learning to those hitherto denied the opportunity to engage in nonvocational, academic inquiry? Was adult worker education more a means whereby workers’ efforts to acquire learning was harnessed and shaped by elitist","PeriodicalId":132502,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of British Studies","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127142715","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Remembering the 1605 Gunpowder Plot in Ireland, 1605–1920","authors":"James McConnel","doi":"10.1086/661200","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/661200","url":null,"abstract":"W riting in November 1873 of the commemoration of the 1605 Gunpowder Plot (the conspiracy hatched by Guy Fawkes and other English Catholics to blow up parliament and thereby assassinate King James I), the Dublin-based liberal newspaper, the Freeman’s Journal, observed that, whereas in England the “dubious incident” was now remembered “only in connexion with a funny effigy and a schoolboy’s half-holiday,” in Ireland Protestants still found in “the miserable conspiracy of three centuries since a pretext of keeping fellow-countrymen asunder in distrust and hate.” The newspaper’s comments had been prompted by events two days earlier, when the “Sons of William” had assembled outside Portadown—“one of the most inflammable localities in Ulster”—determined to march to the sound of their “execrable” music through the Catholic residential area known as “the Tunnel” (named after a local underground walkway). But Portadown had been the scene of a riot in July 1873, and the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) had been forewarned that a similar incident might occur on 5 November. As a result, 110 additional constables were drafted from counties Armagh and Down to ensure that peace was maintained, while on the day itself, the RIC fixed bayonets and stopped the quarter-mile-long Orange procession from gaining access to the Tunnel, whereupon the great majority of Orangemen withdrew and entered the town from a different direction. However,","PeriodicalId":132502,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of British Studies","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131074332","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}