Midland HistoryPub Date : 2023-11-20DOI: 10.1080/0047729x.2023.2266750
N. C. Fleming
{"title":"Introduction: New Perspectives on Worcester Since the Seventeenth Century","authors":"N. C. Fleming","doi":"10.1080/0047729x.2023.2266750","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0047729x.2023.2266750","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Midland History (Vol. 48, No. 3, 2023)","PeriodicalId":41013,"journal":{"name":"Midland History","volume":"113 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138507931","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 : 2023-11-20DOI: 10.1080/0047729x.2023.2266759
Maggie Andrews
{"title":"Rent Arrears, Food Shortages and Evacuees: How War Enters the Worcester Home in Two World Wars","authors":"Maggie Andrews","doi":"10.1080/0047729x.2023.2266759","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0047729x.2023.2266759","url":null,"abstract":"The strong military traditions of Worcester may mean the city’s engagement in two world wars is often thought about in terms of the soldiers or even the ammunition produced at Blackpole Munitions W...","PeriodicalId":41013,"journal":{"name":"Midland History","volume":"40 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138532130","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 : 2023-11-20DOI: 10.1080/0047729x.2023.2266761
N. C. Fleming
{"title":"Empire, Community, and the Limits of ‘Sea-Mindedness’: The Navy League and Worcester, c. 1896–1914","authors":"N. C. Fleming","doi":"10.1080/0047729x.2023.2266761","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0047729x.2023.2266761","url":null,"abstract":"Worcester was the site of one of the earliest branches of the Navy League. It attracted the support of leading political figures in the area, as well as working- and lower-middle class members. It ...","PeriodicalId":41013,"journal":{"name":"Midland History","volume":"86 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138507908","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 : 2023-11-20DOI: 10.1080/0047729x.2023.2266735
Howard Cox
{"title":"Worcester as a Pioneering Provincial Centre of Medical Publishing and Reform, 1828–1854","authors":"Howard Cox","doi":"10.1080/0047729x.2023.2266735","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0047729x.2023.2266735","url":null,"abstract":"The fact that Worcester Infirmary provided the location for the founding of the Provincial (later British) Medical Association has long been commemorated as a highlight of the city’s history. This ...","PeriodicalId":41013,"journal":{"name":"Midland History","volume":"83 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138507913","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 : 2023-11-08DOI: 10.1080/0047729x.2023.2266717
Anna Muggeridge
{"title":"‘That so Ancient a City Should Have Elected a Woman as Mayor Is a Sign of the times’: Women and Local Government in Worcester before 1939","authors":"Anna Muggeridge","doi":"10.1080/0047729x.2023.2266717","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0047729x.2023.2266717","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores women’s experiences of local government in Worcester between 1907 and 1939. The city saw a limited suffrage movement, and to date has never elected a female MP. Yet while women in Worcester arguably played little role in ‘national’ politics, they were active in local government, first through wartime local authority committees, and then, in the interwar years, when seeking election as Labour, Liberal, Conservative or Independent candidates, with Conservative women being most successful. Drawing on city council records and local newspaper reporting, the article considers the ways in which women made an impact on Worcester’s government, particularly as elected councillors. Some women were also involved with more ceremonial – and consequently more visible – roles in local government, though these were generally the preserve of elite women. As such, the article contributes to wider debates about the changing nature of women’s political activism post-enfranchisement.","PeriodicalId":41013,"journal":{"name":"Midland History","volume":"124 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135341877","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 : 2023-05-04DOI: 10.1080/0047729x.2023.2250210
Ruth M. Larsen
{"title":"A Spark of Revolution. William Small, Thomas Jefferson and James Watt. The Curious Connection Between the American Revolution and the Industrial Revolution","authors":"Ruth M. Larsen","doi":"10.1080/0047729x.2023.2250210","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0047729x.2023.2250210","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41013,"journal":{"name":"Midland History","volume":"48 1","pages":"259 - 260"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43605115","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 : 2023-05-04DOI: 10.1080/0047729X.2023.2217239
S. Fergusson
{"title":"Local Magistracy and the Rule of the Major Generals: Robert Beake Coventry’s Godly Mayor 1655-6","authors":"S. Fergusson","doi":"10.1080/0047729X.2023.2217239","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0047729X.2023.2217239","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper will explore a local aspect of what Bernard Capp characterized as England’s Culture Wars. Robert Beake, mayor of Coventry in 1655/6, worked closely with the region’s ‘Major General’, Edward Whalley, local ministers and constables to make Coventry an English Zion and realize the puritan mission of godly discipline and moral reformation. The paper will explore an archetypal puritan magistrate and how he went about his mission of reform in an important midland city and the success he achieved.","PeriodicalId":41013,"journal":{"name":"Midland History","volume":"48 1","pages":"176 - 195"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49333904","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 : 2023-05-04DOI: 10.1080/0047729x.2023.2250209
Malcolm Dick
{"title":"The Soho Manufactory, Mint and Foundry, West Midlands. Where Boulton, Watt and Murdoch Made History","authors":"Malcolm Dick","doi":"10.1080/0047729x.2023.2250209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0047729x.2023.2250209","url":null,"abstract":"\"The Soho Manufactory, Mint and Foundry, West Midlands. Where Boulton, Watt and Murdoch Made History.\" Midland History, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), p. 1","PeriodicalId":41013,"journal":{"name":"Midland History","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135011330","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 : 2023-05-04DOI: 10.1080/0047729X.2023.2217232
Joshua Patel
{"title":"Midlands Industrialists, Liberal Education and the Founding of the University of Warwick","authors":"Joshua Patel","doi":"10.1080/0047729X.2023.2217232","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0047729X.2023.2217232","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The University of Warwick has been subjected to two apparently contradictory critiques. The first, associated with social historian EP Thompson, is that the university had been captured by a cabal of industrialists intending to use its faculties to reproduce capitalistic managers. A second, more general critique of universities in Britain since 1945 is that their elite liberal education in the arts and abstract sciences had little contribution to make to meeting the national economic and social needs for technological ‘manpower’. Neither of these accounts satisfactorily explains the early development at Warwick. An alliance between educators and local Midlands’ industrialists at Warwick developed an education in the virtues of liberal capitalism, reinventing the traditional university education in moral character to face the challenges of the mid-twentieth century. In the midst of the Cold War, only with such an education could students help meet the needs of local and national industry.","PeriodicalId":41013,"journal":{"name":"Midland History","volume":"48 1","pages":"239 - 256"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43331856","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 : 2023-05-04DOI: 10.1080/0047729X.2023.2217229
Joan Turner
{"title":"The Birmingham Pen Factories, and Their Female Workforce, 1850-1914","authors":"Joan Turner","doi":"10.1080/0047729X.2023.2217229","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0047729X.2023.2217229","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT From the mid-nineteenth century, the Birmingham pen factories supplied the world with steel pens. The industry was completely reliant on the high productivity levels and compliance of its predominantly female workforce. Accounts written by nineteenth-century factory visitors lauded the clean light factories and the manufacturers’ care for their employees. However, by piecing together factory inspector reports, oral accounts and union records, a different picture emerges. The women worked under relentless pressure, pay was poor, and a culture of fines and deductions prevailed. Physical and mental health problems were also commonplace, with women suffering debilitating injuries. The pen manufacturers amassed vast fortunes, and staunchly resisted regulation and the formation of a women’s trade union in the 1890s, which threatened their lucrative business models. The reliance placed on accounts written by nineteenth-century commentators, and the image of respectability and benevolence they created has obscured the negative aspects of the women’s employment.","PeriodicalId":41013,"journal":{"name":"Midland History","volume":"48 1","pages":"217 - 238"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41458130","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}