FAMILY & COMMUNITY HISTORY最新文献

{"title":"‘To Support Active Empirical Research at the Grassroots’: The Family and Community Historical Research Society","authors":"D. Weinbren","doi":"10.1080/14631180.2019.1638601","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14631180.2019.1638601","url":null,"abstract":"For over 20 years, the Family and Community Historical Research Society, FACHRS, has challenged the notion that universities should have a near monopoly on the construction, ownership, validation and transmission of knowledge. Its central strategy, of publishing research derived from its aggregation of data from connected local research projects, has its immediate roots in an Open University module, Family & Community History: 19th and 20th centuries, DA301. This emphasised research construction co-operation within a social scientific framework. The roots of the FACHRS also lie in the development, since Victorian times, of sociable, collaborative and co-operative local history projects. The FACHRS’s progress was framed by its engagement with communications and database technology and digitisation during a period when demarcation lines and epistemic identities, both within universities and outside them, dissolved and reformed.","PeriodicalId":41391,"journal":{"name":"FAMILY & COMMUNITY HISTORY","volume":"22 1","pages":"21 - 4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14631180.2019.1638601","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42933946","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":"Time to write: convict petitions in the 19th century","authors":"K. Price","doi":"10.1080/14631180.2019.1638598","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14631180.2019.1638598","url":null,"abstract":"Nineteenth-century convicts regularly used their right to petition the state. Their institutionalised lives were spent under repressive and harsh penal systems, designed to inhibit communication, but petitioning provided a channel of expression that must have been sorely absent from the monotony of their life in prison. Convicts commonly used petitions to complain about perceived injustices in their sentencing or to request early release on probation, leaving written records of the different experiences, motivations and objectives of petitioners. These written voices therefore provide the basis for a unique window into convict lives in the 19th century.","PeriodicalId":41391,"journal":{"name":"FAMILY & COMMUNITY HISTORY","volume":"22 1","pages":"22 - 39"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14631180.2019.1638598","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44901320","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":"Book Reviews","authors":"M. Harrison","doi":"10.1080/14631180.2019.1638603","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14631180.2019.1638603","url":null,"abstract":"All Among The Barley is set in 1930s Suffolk. The story is told through the eyes of Edith Mather, a 14-year-old whose family have lived and worked on the land for generations. The interpersonal relationships of the Mather family are astutely interwoven with key themes in community and rural history. The story is notably set against the backdrop of changes to the way of life in 1930s. ‘Such times we live in’: the words of the main protagonist’s grandfather encapsulate the way in which this novel addresses the relationship between the past, present and future, between tradition, continuity and change. Moreover, contrasting perceptions of rural life are brought into perspective through internal and external lenses: those who have lived and worked on the land for generations and those from the urban sphere looking in and appropriating the countryside for their own cause. Family and community are at the heart of this book. The characters are carefully developed, and the narrative evokes a strong sense of community. Community is imbued not only with tradition but also change and an evolving and often ambivalent relationship with the neighbouring town. Maps at the beginning of the book provide a spatial representation of the community. The Mathers are a farming family, with the novel set on Wych Farm, a 60acre arable farm, and the neighbouring villages. Key aspects of rural life are depicted, from a rural community in the aftermath of the Great War to the daily tasks undertaken—all embracing notions of continuity and change. As such, beyond the narrative and plot, themes explored are relevant to those studying rural communities and/or agricultural ancestors during or after the First World War. The family and community both suffered losses during the war, but Edie’s father remained on the farm on account of his occupation—a feature that touches upon the tensions faced in rural communities in terms of the demand for farm labour and the need to fight in the war. There is a sense that society cannot stand still and farming must change with it—often conveyed through the dialogue of the grandfather. Farming is an anchor throughout the novel, with evocative descriptions of what is growing in the fields, what farming tasks are being undertaken, the importance of horses not just as motive power but as a source of wealth and pride, and how both the weather and government legislation affected their farming and crops. There are references to the farming calendar and to local traditions throughout, though farming and rural life are by no means depicted as static entities. The arrival of Constance from London is important both to the plot and in terms of delving deeper into the cultural and political significance of the countryside during the 1930s. Constance states her desire to write about their way of life, and document fading rural traditions and beliefs. As Edie takes Connie on a tour of the local countryside, they address myths","PeriodicalId":41391,"journal":{"name":"FAMILY & COMMUNITY HISTORY","volume":"22 1","pages":"59 - 76"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14631180.2019.1638603","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45009946","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":"‘My Freind who Writes for Me’: Scribes and Scribal Relationships in the Letters of Seamen, 1793–1815","authors":"H. Watt","doi":"10.1080/14631180.2019.1638599","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14631180.2019.1638599","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the use of scribes in letters of one group of men during a specific period: British Royal Navy servicemen below the rank of commissioned officer during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, 1793–1815. The letters of one such seaman in particular, Richard Greenhalgh, are unusual in that he himself could write, but preferred to have someone to write for him, as is shown by many references to ‘his freind who writes for me’. Contrasts between the scribe’s style of writing and that of Greenhalgh are noticeable, especially after Greenhalgh and his scribe were parted by being sent to serve on different ships. The letters also reveal the relationship between writer and scribe, and the writer’s family and his scribe. The letters contain messages to be passed between a network of family and friends on board ship and on shore, strengthening ties between them, vital in wartime to the morale of the seamen and for the reassurance of those at home. References found in other surviving letters demonstrate the use of scribes by different seamen, also seamen acting as scribes for shipmates, adding to knowledge of scribal culture among this social group.","PeriodicalId":41391,"journal":{"name":"FAMILY & COMMUNITY HISTORY","volume":"22 1","pages":"40 - 58"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14631180.2019.1638599","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49381482","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":"\"Deliver Me From This Indignity!\": Cottage Hospitals, Localism and NHS Healthcare in Central England, 1948-1978.","authors":"Elizabeth T Hurren","doi":"10.1080/14631180.2016.1216349","DOIUrl":"10.1080/14631180.2016.1216349","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Victorian and Edwardian cottage hospitals, compared to infirmaries and workhouse institutions, have been neglected by social historians. Yet, they provided an infrastructure dedicated to localism and healthcare for the aged under the new National Health Service (NHS) after World War Two. This article focuses on two renowned Midlands cottage hospitals built in mid-Northamptonshire at Pitsford. In their patient case-histories we can engage with: dignity standards, medical regime, ward designs, staffing levels, budget provisions, and patient voices. These popular institutions had a well-deserved reputation for delivering high-quality geriatric medicine from 1948 to 1978. Human vignettes detailing the physical indignities of ageing nonetheless proliferate in the records. The longevity of these basic issues was to prove to be a recurring tension in NHS financial planning. Budget models lacked enough funds for aged patients to receive 'stable' bedside care. Instead, NHS accountants allocated resources to ensure the future 'sustainability' of the system itself. A new paradigm highlights the inherent financial contradictions and empty political promises that those needing geriatric care often experienced, and still do. Throughout, the rediscovered cottage hospital records contain important historical lessons for the present impasse about how to define, deliver and secure dignity for elderly patients in today's NHS.</p>","PeriodicalId":41391,"journal":{"name":"FAMILY & COMMUNITY HISTORY","volume":"19 2","pages":"129-151"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6067659/pdf/emss-78717.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36373002","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"‘Give my love’: community and companionship among former ragged school scholars","authors":"L. Mair","doi":"10.1080/14631180.2018.1555956","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14631180.2018.1555956","url":null,"abstract":"By 1884, 40 years after its establishment, the London Ragged School Union estimated that 400,000 children had attended its schools. This article explores how former scholars perceived and engaged with their old ragged school community. Existing scholarship on the movement draws predominantly on its promotional literature or institutional documents, yielding limited access to the testimonies of the children themselves. As such, understanding of the children’s experiences and perspectives remains partial. Drawing on a collection of 227 letters from 57 former scholars of Compton Place Ragged School, this article offers new insights into the role that the school, its teachers, and its pupils could continue to play. The correspondence analysed here demonstrates the critical assistance teachers offered to those overseas by relaying messages and locating loved ones. Ragged school teachers acted as an important link to Britain, a source of stability during times of uncertainty. In the same way, correspondents connected their teachers and institutions to their peers by offering information as to their whereabouts and wellbeing. As such, the letters reveal the existence of ragged school networks in emigrant communities; friendships forged in the classroom continued and developed overseas.","PeriodicalId":41391,"journal":{"name":"FAMILY & COMMUNITY HISTORY","volume":"21 1","pages":"166 - 179"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2018-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14631180.2018.1555956","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44075217","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":"Editorial","authors":"Wolfgang Benn","doi":"10.1080/14631180.2018.1555952","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14631180.2018.1555952","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41391,"journal":{"name":"FAMILY & COMMUNITY HISTORY","volume":"21 1","pages":"143 - 144"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2018-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14631180.2018.1555952","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48276227","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":"SOPHIA HEATHFIELD OF HAWNES, BEDFORDSHIRE: PUNISHMENT VICTIM OR VICTOR?","authors":"J. James","doi":"10.1080/14631180.2018.1555954","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14631180.2018.1555954","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores the nature of power and control under the New Poor Law to better engage with the Victorian approach to discipline and punishment in ‘closed’ institutions, such as workhouses. Through the mechanism of an empirical case study it will illustrate that, far from being static, approaches to punishment evolved considerably over time. The article employs sophisticated record linkage work, at the local and national level, to analyse a complex case of power, control, abuse and neglect involving women and children inmates. The study will hence challenge the theoretical constructs of punishment and discipline promoted by Foucault by focusing on the actual lived experience of female inmates in mid-nineteenth century Bedfordshire. It provides new evidence that the reality of law and order for paupers could be far removed from a strict disciplinary regime, underpinned by rigid rules and regulations and augmented by clearly defined and executed roles. For these women and children, the actual experience was far more complex and subtly expressed. It is, therefore, as much a refined case study analysis about abuse and neglect as it is a micro study about punishment. It is a story about the exploitation of power to control the workhouse population; the impact of the absence of power and the considerable and sophisticated agency employed by one of the female inmates at the centre of the events.","PeriodicalId":41391,"journal":{"name":"FAMILY & COMMUNITY HISTORY","volume":"21 1","pages":"202 - 229"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2018-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14631180.2018.1555954","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41626937","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":"Revealing Fragments: Close and Distant Reading of Working-Class Autobiography","authors":"H. Rogers, E. Cuming","doi":"10.1080/14631180.2018.1555951","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14631180.2018.1555951","url":null,"abstract":"Focusing on the Burnett Archive of Working Class Autobiography, one of the largest collections of life-writing ‘from below’, this article explores the process of writing and the emotional framework within which they were penned. The autobiographies vary in length but, essentially, all are fragments of a life and memories shared. Some are fragmentary by nature of their brevity, while others seem to be incomplete. Often these autobiographical fragments provide snippets of a voice, remembered conversations, or work as collective histories of the common people. Amidst renewed interest in the ways that autobiographical writings can be used to trace changes in British culture and society in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this article investigates both individual memoirs and the Archive as a whole to explore how even the smallest fragment can illuminate our collective past and present.","PeriodicalId":41391,"journal":{"name":"FAMILY & COMMUNITY HISTORY","volume":"21 1","pages":"180 - 201"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2018-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14631180.2018.1555951","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48111690","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":"‘I think I was more pleased to see her than any one ‘Cos she’s so fine’: nurses’ friendships, trauma, and resiliency during the first world war","authors":"Bridget E. Keown","doi":"10.1080/14631180.2018.1555955","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14631180.2018.1555955","url":null,"abstract":"This article considers how two professional nurses described in their diaries their relationships with other women during their service on the Western Front, and how those relationships provided the solace and support necessary to cope with the traumatic sights and experiences they encountered. It also considers how women worked together to create spaces of peace, comfort, and solidarity in the midst of the masculine environments of war. In so doing, this article expands the study of women’s wartime emotional experiences to incorporate women’s traumatic experiences and the relationships that they developed in order to survive the hell of war. Specifically, it focuses on the diary of Nurse Hilda Wells, held at the Royal London Hospital Archive, and Eva Smith, whose diary is held by the Imperial War Museum. Both women’s diaries provide excellent examples of how nurses developed friendships, created spaces of solitude and support, and crafted entertainments for each other to make their war experiences endurable. These individual examples prove how women’s friendships were often key resources that women utilised to survive the war.","PeriodicalId":41391,"journal":{"name":"FAMILY & COMMUNITY HISTORY","volume":"21 1","pages":"151 - 165"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2018-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14631180.2018.1555955","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41412950","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}