Midland HistoryPub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/0047729X.2021.2024656
J. Chester
{"title":"‘ … or els to bridewell’: The Different Roles Sustained by Coventry’s House of Correction, 1580-1680.","authors":"J. Chester","doi":"10.1080/0047729X.2021.2024656","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0047729X.2021.2024656","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article argues that Coventry’s house of correction did not follow the general tendency for such institutions by becoming a mere lock-up, but instead formed a long-lasting part of the corporation’s attempts to strengthen the city’s social fabric. Despite several crises as successive masters fell out of favour, it remained one of a small minority of urban bridewells able to set prisoners to work, whilst also developing a range of relief roles: providing work for the destitute, temporary refuge for vulnerable children and adults, and later pre-apprenticeship training for boys from the hospital school. The size of its premises, the corporation’s use of alternative punishments to spread the penal load, and the rigorous measures taken to exclude strangers, contributed to the bridewell’s ability to maintain its range of provision for the city.","PeriodicalId":41013,"journal":{"name":"Midland History","volume":"47 1","pages":"3 - 20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48896269","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}
Midland HistoryPub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/0047729x.2022.2030138
M. Dick
{"title":"Midland History Spring 2022","authors":"M. Dick","doi":"10.1080/0047729x.2022.2030138","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0047729x.2022.2030138","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41013,"journal":{"name":"Midland History","volume":"47 1","pages":"1 - 2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41349827","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}
Midland HistoryPub Date : 2021-09-02DOI: 10.1080/0047729X.2021.1975232
M. Yates
{"title":"Rebellious Vagrants: Fires, Fights and Fisticuffs at the Mansfield Union in the Mid-Late Victorian Period","authors":"M. Yates","doi":"10.1080/0047729X.2021.1975232","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0047729X.2021.1975232","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Often depicted as incorrigible rogues and criminal vagabonds, vagrants played a key role in the distribution of welfare in the nineteenth century. Vagrants were viewed as the archetype of an undeserving poor person. Yet, the same punitive legislation that aimed to deter them, mandated that they should receive some form of indoor workhouse relief. This new study explores the tensions in the didactic problem of vagrancy encounters. Exploration of the reasons behind vagrant rebellion, through covert and overt actions is best suited to a refined case-study analysis of Mansfield poor law union, where an abundance of radical cases have been overlooked and undervalued. This refinement of an under-researched and often misunderstood field of study will identify the poor law rhetoric behind the making of the vagrant criminal and its social realities in the midlands.","PeriodicalId":41013,"journal":{"name":"Midland History","volume":"46 1","pages":"301 - 317"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46472406","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}
Midland HistoryPub Date : 2021-09-02DOI: 10.1080/0047729X.2021.1975239
M. Dick
{"title":"The Mystery of the Parsee Lawyer: Arthur Conan Doyle, George Edalji and the Case of the Foreigner in the English Village","authors":"M. Dick","doi":"10.1080/0047729X.2021.1975239","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0047729X.2021.1975239","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41013,"journal":{"name":"Midland History","volume":"46 1","pages":"356 - 357"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41652022","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}
Midland HistoryPub Date : 2021-09-02DOI: 10.1080/0047729X.2021.1975231
J. Hunt
{"title":"Gilbert of Penn (Staffordshire) and His Will of 1260","authors":"J. Hunt","doi":"10.1080/0047729X.2021.1975231","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0047729X.2021.1975231","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Although historians have become increasingly cautious in the interpretation of their contents as historical sources, wills remain an attractive entrée to many aspects of medieval life and society. However, such documents are rare before the later fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and therefore the survival of a testament dating to September 1260, from Lower Penn in Staffordshire, is worthy of wider notice. The nature and context of the document and the bequests made by Gilbert of Penn are discussed and what the will reveals of Gilbert and his world considered.","PeriodicalId":41013,"journal":{"name":"Midland History","volume":"46 1","pages":"263 - 279"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44502499","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}
Midland HistoryPub Date : 2021-09-02DOI: 10.1080/0047729x.2021.1975236
Tim Clough
{"title":"Rutland Local History & Record Society","authors":"Tim Clough","doi":"10.1080/0047729x.2021.1975236","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0047729x.2021.1975236","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41013,"journal":{"name":"Midland History","volume":"46 1","pages":"339 - 340"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44712413","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}
Midland HistoryPub Date : 2021-09-02DOI: 10.1080/0047729X.2021.1975245
K. Sykes
{"title":"Lichfield and the Lands of St Chad: Creating Community in Early Medieval Mercia","authors":"K. Sykes","doi":"10.1080/0047729X.2021.1975245","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0047729X.2021.1975245","url":null,"abstract":"industrial and then post-industrial community. It also has gaps and uneven levels of coverage, leaving unrealized potential for developing existing and additional evidence. The circumstances of the Ibstock publication point to some wider trends and dilemmas for the VCH as a national project, still seeking to operate in several Midland counties. Begun in 1899 and, since the 1930s, headquartered at the University of London, the University has, for some years, proved unable to adequately fund the research, writing and publication of the VCH, with its aim of producing authoritative and comparable histories of every place in England, county by county. Resourcing has increasingly shifted to individual counties. The number of active VCH counties has declined, and a majority of those continuing can no longer pursue the original intention to produce large volumes bringing together multiple histories of neighbouring parishes and towns, often with introductory overviews and prepared by professional historians. As the project has lost both momentum and capacity, some counties have sought rapid print publication by producing isolated histories of single parishes with limited resources but still harking back to an inherited rubric derived from earlier years. The tensions in combining a history to meet local needs and the requirements of a national reference series are highlighted by this history of Ibstock.","PeriodicalId":41013,"journal":{"name":"Midland History","volume":"46 1","pages":"346 - 347"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44683827","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}
Midland HistoryPub Date : 2021-09-02DOI: 10.1080/0047729x.2021.1975237
R. Bearman
{"title":"Shakespeare before Shakespeare: Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, and the Elizabethan State","authors":"R. Bearman","doi":"10.1080/0047729x.2021.1975237","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0047729x.2021.1975237","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41013,"journal":{"name":"Midland History","volume":"46 1","pages":"350 - 351"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44156967","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}
Midland HistoryPub Date : 2021-09-02DOI: 10.1080/0047729X.2021.1975234
Ginny Hartley
{"title":"Industrial Politics, Technological Expertise and Scientific Knowledge: The Birmingham Metal Button Dispute, 1795-1800","authors":"Ginny Hartley","doi":"10.1080/0047729X.2021.1975234","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0047729X.2021.1975234","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT After some years of poor trade, Birmingham’s button-making boomed when gilt buttons became fashionable in the mid-1790s. In this competitive market, disquiet about dishonest trading resulted in legislation to regulate the quality of gilding, but prosecutions for infringement of the Metal Button Act (1796) generated a politico-industrial dispute. Maxine Berg has attributed this to the imposition of controls on dependent sub-contractors by powerful manufacturers like Matthew Boulton. Sources in Birmingham Archives & Heritage, however, reveal the dispute centred on the technical and scientific issues of the accurate application and measurement of gilding, and, contrary to Berg’s assessment, was conducted between manufacturers of standing. The article discusses the economic context of the Act, the campaign to secure and implement it, the roles Boulton and others took, and the resulting dispute. It argues that the episode contributes to understanding the role of Birmingham and the west midlands in Britain’s industrial enlightenment.","PeriodicalId":41013,"journal":{"name":"Midland History","volume":"46 1","pages":"280 - 300"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45010848","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}