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{"title":"A British Rome in India: Calcutta – Capital for an Empire <b>A British Rome in India: Calcutta – Capital for an Empire</b> , by Michael Mann, Worms, Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, 2022, 214 pp., €78.00 (hardback), ISBN: 9783884624111","authors":"William Whyte","doi":"10.1080/14780038.2023.2268340","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14780038.2023.2268340","url":null,"abstract":"\"A British Rome in India: Calcutta – Capital for an Empire.\" Cultural and Social History, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2 Additional informationNotes on contributorsWilliam WhyteWilliam Whyte (william.whyte@sjc.ox.ac.uk) is professor of social and architectural history at St John’s College, University of Oxford. His recent books include Unlocking the Church: The Lost Secrets of Victorian Sacred Space (2015) and, as series editor with Dan Hicks, A Cultural History of Objects (2022). He is currently writing The University: A Material History for publication by Harvard University Press.","PeriodicalId":45240,"journal":{"name":"Cultural & Social History","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135093967","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Carnival Relocated? Popular Culture and the Carnivalesque in Colonial Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania)","authors":"Adrian Franklin","doi":"10.1080/14780038.2023.2262869","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14780038.2023.2262869","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractThis article re-evaluates the historical research on the carnivalesque rituals that arrived in Van Diemen’s Land (VDL) with British convicts, their colonial minders and free settlers. The revaluation deploys more theoretically informed understandings of carnivalesque ritual (using Bakhtin, Zemon Davis, le Roy Ladurie, Bristol, Underdown, Durston and others), coupled with more recent historical understandings of carnivalesque ritual in Britain at the time of convict transportation and new evidence on how carnivalesque ritual specific to VDL responded to changes in penal policy and practice. It is argued that carnivalesque rituals persisted as a means for building social solidarity, belonging, cultural-political expression and resilience.KEYWORDS: Carnivalesque ritualsconvictsVan Diemen’s landTasmaniatheatrepubsfestival Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1. Hindmarsh, “Beer,” Citation1999, 150; Damousi, Depraved, Citation1997, 59–62; Atkinson, “Four Patterns,” Citation1979, 48–50.2. Hindmarsh, “Beer,” Citation1999, 150; Duffield and Bradley, “Representing Convicts,” Citation1997, 113–17.3. Collinson, “Merry England,” Citation2001, 141–6; Durston, “Puritan Rule,” Citation1996, 218; Storch, “Persistence and Change,” Citation1982, 3.4. Johnston, “Awful,” Citation2016, 4.5. Hay, “Crime and Justice,” Citation1980, 45–50; Nicholas, “Convict Workers,” Citation1988, 62–65; McKenzie, Scandal, Citation2004, 1–2.6. Maxwell-Stewart and Quinlan, “Unfree,” Citation2022, 59.7. Durston, “Puritan Rule” Citation1996, 222–233.8. Roberts, “Knotted,” Citation2011, 48–50; Tuffin et al., “Landscapes,” Citation2018, 51; Maxwell-Stewart and Quinlan, “Unfree,” Citation2022, 55–84.9. Zemon Davis, Culture and Society, Citation1978, 1–10.10. Bakhtin, Rabelais, Citation1984, 218.11. Bristol, “Carnival and Theatre,” Citation1983, 640.12. Storch, “Persistence and Change,” Citation1982, 1–5; Roud, The English Year, Citation2008, 20.13. Underdown, “But the Shows,” Citation2011, 7.14. Bakhtin, Rabelais, Citation1984, 7.15. Ibid., 7–8.16. Bristol, “Carnival and Theater,” Citation1983, 651; Stallybrass and White, The Politics, Citation1986, 16.17. Zemon Davis, “Youth Groups,” Citation1971, 43–45; Webb, “Bakhtin,” Citation2005, 122, 132. le Roy Ladurie, “Carnivals in History,” Citation1981, 57.18. Roud, English Year, Citation2008, 17.19. Underdown, “But the Shows,” Citation2011, 22.20. Storch, ‘Persistence and Change’, Citation1982, 3.21. The Austral-Asian Review, “Regatta,” November 27, 1838, 7; The Austral-Asian Review. “Regatta,” November 26, 1839, 4; The Colonial Times, “The Review and the Regatta,” December 17, 1839, 4; The Courier, “Sturm und Drang,” December 1, 1840, 2.22. Hone, The Everyday Book, 1825, 1–5; Dickens, Scenes, Citation1839, 1.23. Dickens, Scenes, Citation1839, 70–83.24. Collinson, “Merry England,” Citation2001, 1–4.25. Maxwell Stewart and Quinlan, “Unfree,” Citation2022, 12–18.26. Boyce, Van Diemen’s, C","PeriodicalId":45240,"journal":{"name":"Cultural & Social History","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135351234","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Communicating Beyond Death: Examining Suicide Letters from England (1757–1849) and Brazil (1920–1929)","authors":"Ella Sbaraini, Pedro Frederico Falk","doi":"10.1080/14780038.2023.2253569","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14780038.2023.2253569","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores the ways in which people imagined their suicide letters to be tools of posthumous communication, in both eighteenth- and nineteenth-century London, and early twentieth-century Pernambuco. In examining letters from two places with very different religious traditions; at times of very divergent legal approaches to suicide; and at important points of change, this article seeks to examine both the commonalities and cultural specificities of these letters. Using 67 English and 39 Brazilian letters, it explores the suicide letter as a form of writing. It shows that, although death literally destroyed the possibility of interpersonal exchange, its imminence could make for particularly honest epistolary expressions of emotion. It also argues that, for some writers, death was envisaged as a divide which could be breached.","PeriodicalId":45240,"journal":{"name":"Cultural & Social History","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135966522","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Spectres Across the Atlantic, c.1820-1940: Communicating with the Dead Over Space and Time","authors":"Clodagh Tait","doi":"10.1080/14780038.2023.2258606","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14780038.2023.2258606","url":null,"abstract":"In Irish tradition it was believed that both the living and the dead might in certain circumstances appear at a distance from their bodies. This article considers occasions where such supernatural visitations happened close to the moment of the death. Deathbed apparitions or ‘crisis apparitions’ were reported widely in Europe and America, but have not been much explored by historians. In crisis apparition stories, the dying or just-dead person visited a neighbour, friend or close relative and a key feature was that the percipient would declare what they had seen, even before confirmation had arrived of the death. Accounts dating from between about the 1820s and 1940s provide the basis for an exploration of the crisis apparition both as reported in Ireland and among Irish people abroad. That many crisis apparitions communicated across the Atlantic reflects the anxieties of ‘exiles’ and their friends and families about death far from home, and this article also considers their role in bridging gaps in conventional communications. Accounts of supernatural leave-taking also travelled across time, offering insights about how storytelling assisted the processing of grief and the handing down of the dead over generations that are relevant to other contexts far beyond Ireland’s shores.","PeriodicalId":45240,"journal":{"name":"Cultural & Social History","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136235686","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Group Petitioning and the Performance of Neighbourliness in the West Midlands, 1589-1700","authors":"Amy Burnett","doi":"10.1080/14780038.2023.2258601","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14780038.2023.2258601","url":null,"abstract":"Using 192 petitions from the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, this article questions whether petitioning culture in the early modern West Midlands supports the idea of the ‘decline of neighbourliness’. It frames group petitioning as an inherently social and neighbourly (yet performative) act in which a signatory was entering into an exchange of ‘social capital’. Ultimately, it is argued that as mentions of immoral behaviour became rarer, and demands of relief for poverty-stricken neighbours rose, petitions may appear to present a firm counter-argument to the supposed ‘decline of neighbourliness’. However, there are strong hints, such as the increasing likelihood to provide a mark or signature, that people joined petitioning groups for individualistic aims. Thus, group petitions show that neighbourliness and individualism should not be seen as mutually exclusive in early modern communities.","PeriodicalId":45240,"journal":{"name":"Cultural & Social History","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135207056","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“The Worst Invention Ever” The Number Lottery and its Critics during the Press Freedom Period in Denmark-Norway 1770-1773","authors":"Ulrik Langen","doi":"10.1080/14780038.2023.2256212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14780038.2023.2256212","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTDuring the so-called Press Freedom Period, 1770–1773, in Denmark-Norway, fierce and mostly anonymous criticism of the recently introduced number lottery emerged. This opposition went beyond mainstream patriotic discourse and produced narratives of players and lottery agents as socially irresponsible individuals. The article traces the initial development of a patriotic narrative concerning matters of morality, the deterioration of the labour force, and the perceived threats against the resilience of the state. We demonstrate how the focus of criticism – during the subsequent phase leading up to the closing of Press Freedom in October-November 1773 – shifted towards the practice of playing the lottery and the actors embodying this practice as victims or abettors of the operations of an ominous state-sanctioned enterprise. This rapid transformation of discourse was a unique feature of the Press Freedom Period.KEYWORDS: Lotterythe press freedom periodpatriotism18th centuryDenmark-Norway AcknowledgementI am grateful to the two anonymous peer reviewers for their valuable suggestions. Also, I would like to thank my colleagues Niklas Olsen, Søren Rud, Gunvor Simonsen and Karen Vallgårda at the Saxo Institute (University of Copenhagen) for much-appreciated comments on an early version of this article.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1. On Danish-Norwegian lotteries in general see Helle Linde, ‘Lotterier’, Københavns Kronik, no. 43 (1989): 3–4; C.A. Clemmensen, Almindelig dansk Vare- og Industrilotteri (Copenhagen: O.O. Olsen, 1937)2. Royal Ordinance of 21 March 1738. Danish-Norwegian Royal Ordinances are printed in Jacob Henrich Schou, Chronologisk Register over de Kongelige Forordninger og Aabne Breve, samt andre trykte Anordninger, som fra Aar 1670 af ere udkomne, tilligemed et nøiagtigt Udtog af de endnu gieldende, for saavidt samme i almindelighed angaae Undersaatterne i Danmark, forsynet med et alphabetisk Register (Copenhagen: Gyldendal, 1777–1822). Every ordinance mentioned in this article can be consulted in this collection.3. Royal Ordinance of 29 June 1753.4. Royal Ordinance of 4 December 1767.5. James Raven, ‘Debating the Lottery in Britain c. 1750–1830’, Manfred Zollinger, ed., Random Riches. Gambling Past & Present (London: Routledge, 2016), 966. On the Danish-Norwegian Press Freedom Period see Ulrik Langen and Frederik Stjernfelt, The World’s First Full Press Freedom. The Radical Experiment of Denmark-Norway1770–1773 (Oldenbourg: De Gruyter, 2022)7. To some extent, the criticism of the lottery can be compared to the debate on the Royal Lottery in France in pamphlets and cahiers de doléances in 1787–1789; a specific opportunity making way for severe attacks on a state institution (or rather state-approved institution as was the case with the Danish-Norwegian lottery). See Robert Kruckeberg, ’The Royal Lottery and the Old Regime: Financial Innovation and Modern Political Culture’","PeriodicalId":45240,"journal":{"name":"Cultural & Social History","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135307985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Keats, Letters, Grief, and Delay 1818-1820","authors":"Rosie Whitcombe","doi":"10.1080/14780038.2023.2257339","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14780038.2023.2257339","url":null,"abstract":"Digital technologies offer a quick and convenient method of communicating across distance, but there are unique benefits to engaging in forms of delayed communication. Long-distance letter writing in the early nineteenth century was often a slow business, and one that Romantic poet, John Keats, capitalised on. In particular, the letter provided Keats with a means of managing the reality of his circumstances when he was faced with inexorable loss and tragedy. In the period of time leading up to the death of his brother, Tom, in 1818, Keats exploited the specific cultures and forms of letter writing to generate a unique consolation for himself and his family members; as he confronted the reality of his own death two years later, the letter played a similarly crucial role in managing his feelings of loss and grief. Letter writing, during these difficult periods, presented Keats with a unique dichotomy: the letter kept him grounded in the cruel reality of his situation while often functioning as a singularly effective means of managing it. How the specific cultures of letter writing and disease intersect, and how Keats’s imaginative epistolary narratives coalesce with the increasingly urgent facts of consumption and death, will be examined here.","PeriodicalId":45240,"journal":{"name":"Cultural & Social History","volume":"116 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135307983","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Roadside Media: Roadside Crash Shrines as Platforms for Communicating Across Time, Space, and Mortality in the Early 2000s United States","authors":"R. Bednar","doi":"10.1080/14780038.2023.2253720","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14780038.2023.2253720","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45240,"journal":{"name":"Cultural & Social History","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41937645","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Story of John P. Gloyn and “The City Road Congregation” (1872-1877), or How a Deaf-Led Deaf Space Came into Existence in Victorian North London","authors":"W. Lyons","doi":"10.1080/14780038.2023.2252599","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14780038.2023.2252599","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45240,"journal":{"name":"Cultural & Social History","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49410176","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Beat Cop: Chicago’s Chief O’Neill and the Creation of Irish Music","authors":"Eleanor Lybeck","doi":"10.1080/14780038.2023.2241742","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14780038.2023.2241742","url":null,"abstract":"men settling back into the security of home life and experiencing loving care and comfort in family support. Here, Bate has carried out admirable work in tracing the afterlives of some of the facially-injured men from the Great War. In terms of visual representation of facial trauma during the Great War, existing academic discourse to date has tended to rely on the Gillies’ Archive of patient records and images. For example, Suzannah Biernoff and Emma Chambers have produced outstanding analyses on Henry Tonks’ portraits and other images. However, while this is a rich seam of fascinating and valuable resources relating to the medical visual cultures of facial injury during the conflict, it is refreshing to see untapped materials subjected to Bate’s careful scrutiny. Photography in the Great War gives an important, alternative perspective on not only the visual recording of these injuries, but also on the work of other clinicians and some of their patients’ stories","PeriodicalId":45240,"journal":{"name":"Cultural & Social History","volume":"20 1","pages":"608 - 610"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48328036","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}