Social HistoryPub Date : 2024-01-15DOI: 10.1080/03071022.2024.2281125
Juan Carpio-Elías, Jerònia Pons-Pons
{"title":"The persecution of minorities: Majorcan Jewish converts in the last third of the seventeenth century","authors":"Juan Carpio-Elías, Jerònia Pons-Pons","doi":"10.1080/03071022.2024.2281125","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03071022.2024.2281125","url":null,"abstract":"The persecution of ethnic or religious minorities has been a longstanding object of historiographical analysis. One widely disseminated thesis affirms that elites collaborate economically with mino...","PeriodicalId":21866,"journal":{"name":"Social History","volume":"111 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139515053","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Social HistoryPub Date : 2024-01-15DOI: 10.1080/03071022.2024.2279849
Niti Acharya
{"title":"Waiting on Empire: a history of Indian travelling Ayahs in Britain","authors":"Niti Acharya","doi":"10.1080/03071022.2024.2279849","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03071022.2024.2279849","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Social History (Vol. 49, No. 1, 2024)","PeriodicalId":21866,"journal":{"name":"Social History","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139470916","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Social HistoryPub Date : 2024-01-15DOI: 10.1080/03071022.2024.2279853
Fiona MacHugh
{"title":"Madness on Trial: a transatlantic history of English civil law and lunacy","authors":"Fiona MacHugh","doi":"10.1080/03071022.2024.2279853","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03071022.2024.2279853","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Social History (Vol. 49, No. 1, 2024)","PeriodicalId":21866,"journal":{"name":"Social History","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139470931","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Social HistoryPub Date : 2024-01-15DOI: 10.1080/03071022.2024.2281151
Rebecca Wynter, Shane Ewen
{"title":"Choreographing urban ambulance in Britain, c.1870–1920: movement, gender, biological time and the city","authors":"Rebecca Wynter, Shane Ewen","doi":"10.1080/03071022.2024.2281151","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03071022.2024.2281151","url":null,"abstract":"Modern British ambulance originated during the late 1800s in the country’s metropolitan areas. The fast-urbanising cities of Glasgow and London recognised that biological-temporal need required the...","PeriodicalId":21866,"journal":{"name":"Social History","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139470920","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Social HistoryPub Date : 2024-01-15DOI: 10.1080/03071022.2024.2279846
Sarah Lonsdale
{"title":"Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: the reporters who took on a world at war","authors":"Sarah Lonsdale","doi":"10.1080/03071022.2024.2279846","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03071022.2024.2279846","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Social History (Vol. 49, No. 1, 2024)","PeriodicalId":21866,"journal":{"name":"Social History","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139470925","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Social HistoryPub Date : 2023-10-02DOI: 10.1080/03071022.2023.2246812
Ángel Calvo
{"title":"Living conditions and social response in times of apocalypse: the inflationary cycle of the First World War in Catalonia","authors":"Ángel Calvo","doi":"10.1080/03071022.2023.2246812","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03071022.2023.2246812","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThis article deals with the issue of population living conditions and the resulting social response in a very short inflationary conjuncture, created by an external shock. It focuses on the effects of the First World War – a cataclysm in the history of humanity that affected all spheres, from the geopolitical and social to the economic – on a particular region of eastern Spain: Catalonia. The article is structured into five main sections. It begins with a discussion of the never-ending debates on living conditions. It then addresses the characteristics of the First World War cycle; the war in Catalonia specifically, along with the trap of economic benefits (limited expansion and inflation) and the effects on the population; and the subsistence crisis in Catalonia and its devastating effects, before finally examining the unrest that led towards a ‘revolution of the stomachs’. The article uses an exceptional set of primary sources – letters intercepted by censors – containing personal testimonies of everyday experiences, feelings and reactions to events across social classes. It demonstrates correlations between economic indicators and individual testimonies, identifies and explains the seasonality of protest, and incorporates a gender perspective to show that women were at the forefront of this protest.KEYWORDS: Living conditionsinflationsocial protestFirst World War AcknowledgementsThis study was undertaken at the Observatori Centre d’Estudis Jordi Nadal d’Història Econòmica, Department of Economic History, Institutions and Policy and World Economy, Faculty of Economics and Business (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain). I thank those responsible for supporting my research as well as the editors and reviewers of this journal.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.Notes1 M. Fuentes, España en la Primera Guerra Mundial: Una movilización cultural (Madrid, 2014); M. Fuentes, España y Argentina en la Primera Guerra Mundial: Neutralidades transnacionales (Madrid, 2022); F.J. Romero, Spain 1914–1918: Between war and revolution (London, 2014; Spanish edition, 2002).2 F. Grafl, ‘World War I and its impact on Catalonia’ in G. Barry et al. (eds), Small Nations and Colonial Peripheries in World War I (Leiden, 2016), 125–39.3 A. Arnavat, ‘L’impacte de la Gran Guerra sobre l’economia de Reus (1914–23)’, Recerques, 20 (1988), 115–29; J. Mirás, ‘El impacto de la Primera Guerra Mundial en la industria de A Coruña’, Revista de Historia Industrial, 29 (2005), 143–61; P.M. Egea, ‘Incidencia socioeconómica de la Primera Guerra Mundial sobre Orihuela y la comarca alicantina de la Vega Baja, 1914–1918’, Anales de Historia Contemporánea, 4 (1985), 121–59.4 For the Aragón region: V. Lucea, El pueblo en movimiento: protesta social en Aragón (1885–1917) (Zaragoza, 2009). Orti generalises the negative effect of the disaster to the whole province, although with different intensities depending on the area (greater in the towns wit","PeriodicalId":21866,"journal":{"name":"Social History","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135901359","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Social HistoryPub Date : 2023-10-02DOI: 10.1080/03071022.2023.2257101
Emily Rutherford
{"title":"LGBT Victorians: sexuality and gender in the nineteenth-century archives <b>LGBT Victorians: sexuality and gender in the nineteenth-century archives</b> , by Simon Joyce, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2022, xi + 284 pp., £75.00 (hardback), ISBN-13: 978-0-192-858399","authors":"Emily Rutherford","doi":"10.1080/03071022.2023.2257101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03071022.2023.2257101","url":null,"abstract":"and duties of domestic citizenship will certainly continue to form a focus of LGBTQ organising in the years to come, not merely around privacy law and same-sex marriage but also, Vider urges, in terms of housing justice that secures supportive homes for youth, low-income, precariously housed and elderly. The Queerness of Home concludes that today’s movements should neither embrace narrow normative frameworks of domestic citizenship rooted in monogamous married couples nor reject the domestic as a sphere of political engagement, but should instead ‘continue to question and expand its limits’ (227). This is a more subtle than polemical call to action, perhaps, but one with a degree of nuance that does justice to the textured social history of queer intimate life that this book lovingly depicts.","PeriodicalId":21866,"journal":{"name":"Social History","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135901355","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Social HistoryPub Date : 2023-10-02DOI: 10.1080/03071022.2023.2257102
Ruby Rutter
{"title":"The Commonplace Book of John Gwin of Llangwm (c. 1615–1680) <b>The Commonplace Book of John Gwin of Llangwm (c. 1615–1680)</b> , ed. by Madeleine Gray, Tony Hopkins and Alun Withey, Swansea, South Wales Record Society, 2022, 212 pp., £18.00/$22.00 (paperback), ISBN-13: 978-1-9998326-9-8","authors":"Ruby Rutter","doi":"10.1080/03071022.2023.2257102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03071022.2023.2257102","url":null,"abstract":"\"The Commonplace Book of John Gwin of Llangwm (c. 1615–1680).\" Social History, 48(4), pp. 505–506","PeriodicalId":21866,"journal":{"name":"Social History","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135901357","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Social HistoryPub Date : 2023-10-02DOI: 10.1080/03071022.2023.2257100
Nikita Shepard
{"title":"The Queerness of Home: gender, sexuality & the politics of domesticity after World War II <b>The Queerness of Home: gender, sexuality & the politics of domesticity after World War II</b> , by Stephen Vider, Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 2021, 300 pp., $29.00 (paperback), ISBN-13: 978-0-226-808369","authors":"Nikita Shepard","doi":"10.1080/03071022.2023.2257100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03071022.2023.2257100","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21866,"journal":{"name":"Social History","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135901511","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Social HistoryPub Date : 2023-10-02DOI: 10.1080/03071022.2023.2246807
John Robert Sanders
{"title":"Turncoats and traitors, rogues and renegades: reviewing labour’s lost leaders in reform-era Yorkshire","authors":"John Robert Sanders","doi":"10.1080/03071022.2023.2246807","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03071022.2023.2246807","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThe annals of working-class agitational endeavours in the early nineteenth century contain more than a sprinkling of rogues who ran off with money, and renegades who abjured their earlier beliefs. They also include a few turncoats and traitors who turned their backs on their former colleagues and went over to the ‘other side’. This article explores the public careers of two reform-era renegades from the West Riding woollen textile district: John Tester and George Beaumont. Both were prominent local figures who turned coat in the pivotal year of 1834. An examination of the context and nature of their treachery attests to the importance but also the fragility of local leadership. The article argues that the special place that popular leaders held in their communities went beyond notions of fame and celebrity; but that this bond, once broken, was not easily repaired. Examining the villains as well as the heroes of labour history enables us to appreciate the local energies and tensions that underpinned popular movements and to put into context the resilience of leaders who lasted the course.KEYWORDS: Local leadershiptrade unionismpopular radicalismcelebrity Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.Notes1 For discussion of ‘the paper pantheon’ of heroes created by the Chartists and the importance of memory in political and social movements, see M. Roberts, ‘Romantic memory? Forgetting, remembering and feeling in the Chartist pantheon of heroes, c.1790–1840’, paper presented at Institute of History Research, Parliament, Politics and People online seminar, 19 January 2021, https://thehistoryofparliament.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/matthew-roberts-ppp-19-jan-2021-romanticmemory-chartist-pantheon-of-heroes-c.1790e280931840.pdf, accessed 20 March 2022.2 Northern Star [NS], 27 April 1839, 4; M. Chase, ‘Building identity, building circulation: engraved portraiture and the Northern Star’ in J. Allen and O. Ashton (eds), Papers for the People: A study of the Chartist press (London, 2005), 3–24; and S. Morgan, Celebrities, Heroes and Champions: Popular politicians in the Age of Reform, 1810–67 (Manchester, 2021), 147.3 For example, ‘John Bates, The Queensbury Veteran Reformer’, article in Halifax Courier [HC], 7 March 1895, 4; and B. Wilson, The Struggles of an Old Chartist (Halifax, 1887).4 T. Scriven, Popular Virtue: Continuity and change in radical moral politics, 1820–70 (Manchester, 2017); M. Roberts, Chartism, Commemoration and the Cult of the Radical Hero (Abingdon, 2019); and Morgan, op. cit.5 K. Navickas, Protest and the Politics of Space and Place, 1789–1848 (Manchester, 2016); R. Poole, ‘Review article: radicalism and protest’ (review no. 800), https://reviews.history.ac.uk/review/800, accessed 28 August 2022.6 N. Bend, ‘The Home Office and Public Disturbance c.1800–1832’ (Ph.D., Hertfordshire, 2018); N. Pye, The Home Office and the Chartists 1838–48: Protest and repression in the West Riding of Yorkshi","PeriodicalId":21866,"journal":{"name":"Social History","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135901354","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}