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{"title":"Trust & Distrust: Corruption in Office in Britain and its Empire 1600-1850","authors":"Ben Gilding","doi":"10.1080/14780038.2023.2189413","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14780038.2023.2189413","url":null,"abstract":"sovereignty’ (p. 165); Hubbard suggests that whilst at sea, the Company still needed to foster positive relations with its sailors (p. 176) – for which nationhood was a tool (p. 203). The most pertinent part of the chapter, however, is the establishment of non-English actors as ‘critical observers’ (p. 242) as Hubbard explores how, for the sake of trade and indeed safety, English seafarers engaged in ‘performing Englishness’ (p. 206). ‘Sailors and the State’ acts as the book’s de facto conclusion, discussing how England’s state ‘did indeed value its seafaring subjects’ (p. 241), developing a mutually beneficial relationship. At its core, this is a discussion of naval manning, and fostering ‘nurseries’ of sailors (p. 250). Hubbard uses the lenient courts to represent the state, drawing on work by G.F. Steckley for the purpose. As an illustration of the ‘vexed transition from a freewheeling, predatory mode [. . .] to a more disciplined commercial and colonial orientation’ (p. 276), Englishmen at Sea is remarkably successful. There are some gaps; for example, little attention is paid to the subsets of identity which may be contained within that of the English seafarer. A brief nod in Chapter 7 to differing experiences of ‘deep-sea sailors’ (p. 252) and ‘coastal fishermen’ (p. 268) shows that this does not entirely escape Hubbard’s notice, but the nuances of maritime labour and cultures are sacrificed in favour of a more homogenised English seafaring identity. This extends to terminology, with role terms like ‘sailor’, ‘mariner’, and ‘seaman’ used near-interchangeably. An exploration of different labour roles within this broader, nascent seafaring ‘Englishness’ would be of benefit – but overall, Hubbard’s thorough research, strong emphasis on social history, and eye for the historical experience gives strong foundation for the work’s broader arguments regarding national identity.","PeriodicalId":45240,"journal":{"name":"Cultural & Social History","volume":"20 1","pages":"291 - 293"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43774341","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":"Victims of Fashion: Animal Commodities in Victorian Britain,","authors":"Peter Yeandle","doi":"10.1080/14780038.2023.2189420","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14780038.2023.2189420","url":null,"abstract":"Emily Rutherford (emily.rutherford@ccc.ox.ac.uk) is a Junior Research Fellow at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where she teaches modern British and LGBTQ+ history. She is writing a book about coeducation in British universities and the invention of the hetero/homo binary in early twentieth century Britain. Her articles have previously appeared in the Journal of the History of Ideas, Journal of British Studies, and Twentieth Century British History.","PeriodicalId":45240,"journal":{"name":"Cultural & Social History","volume":"20 1","pages":"305 - 307"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49458026","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":"Coffeehouse Culture in the Atlantic World, 1650-1789,","authors":"Simon Smith","doi":"10.1080/14780038.2023.2189414","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14780038.2023.2189414","url":null,"abstract":"studies ranging from the American colonies, the Caribbean, Africa, and India, the treatment of each is quite uneven and seemingly comes at the cost of a more wholistic treatment of ‘Britain’ itself. There is very little discussion of Scotland and Wales and the question of Ireland’s place within the empire and its incorporation into the domestic state after 1801 goes almost unnoticed. This seems something of a missed opportunity in a work discussing the interconnections between the domestic and imperial, particularly if one considers the extent to which the British state relied on the Irish establishment for the provision of pensions and sinecures. Readers of this journal will no doubt be pleased with the very broad conception of corruption adopted by Knights. Not only does he pay a substantial amount of attention to the religious and moral origins of the term and their continued resonance, he also highlights the extent to which discussions of corruption were both shaped by and helped to shape broader cultural conventions, such as the division between public and private and the ways in which officeholding and its emoluments were bound up in what Paul Langford called the ‘propertied mind’ of the eighteenth-century British elite. In Trust & Distrust, Knights has produced a work of significant importance and breadth, one which deserves to be read by historians and non-historians alike with an interest in the politics and culture of early modern Britain and its empire.","PeriodicalId":45240,"journal":{"name":"Cultural & Social History","volume":"20 1","pages":"293 - 295"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41416531","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 Culture of Male Beauty in Britain: From the First Photographs to David Beckham","authors":"Emily Rutherford","doi":"10.1080/14780038.2023.2189419","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14780038.2023.2189419","url":null,"abstract":"tions and judgements on the man’s moral standing and the circumstances surrounding his life’s end. Hence, the book reveals much about journalistic framing and the nature of nineteenth-century society itself. Galpin acknowledges that her departure from broad sociological survey approaches risks overlooking changing attitudes across the century, and the book does tend to skim over fluctuating attitudes across an expansive time period. Nonetheless, Male Suicide and Masculinity in 19-Century Britain provides a thorough, and important, exploration of the socio-cultural circumstances that encouraged men to consider taking their own life, and the centrality of gender to how we should understand suicide.","PeriodicalId":45240,"journal":{"name":"Cultural & Social History","volume":"20 1","pages":"303 - 305"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42556912","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":"‘Primitive, Antique, and Modern’: An Exhibition of Music in Interwar Sydney and the ‘Australian’ Music Question","authors":"Sarah Kirby","doi":"10.1080/14780038.2023.2179746","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14780038.2023.2179746","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In 1933, the city of Sydney hosted the first dedicated musical exhibition in Australia. Showcasing historic instruments, manuscripts, and ephemera in the settler-colonial society of Australia, this exhibition raised uncomfortable questions about the nation’s history. This article explores the exhibition in the context of contemporary musical culture and collecting practices, arguing that this event physically manifests ongoing debates about the formation of Australian social and cultural identity. Its displays demonstrate both a desire for connection with European traditions and an increasing awareness of Australia’s position in the Pacific and white Australia’s relationship with First Nations people and culture.","PeriodicalId":45240,"journal":{"name":"Cultural & Social History","volume":"20 1","pages":"551 - 572"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48442013","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":"Living Humanitarian Dreams: The Oneiric and Spiritual Life and Activism of Elizabeth Wilson (1909–2000)","authors":"B. Taithe, Adam H Millar","doi":"10.1080/14780038.2022.2161806","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14780038.2022.2161806","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article examines the diaries, autobiographies and dream journals of Elizabeth Wilson (1909-2000), founder of Huddersfield Famine Relief Committee (Hudfam), long-term activist of CND and member of Oxfam. Taken together with her journalism for the local press and for Hudfam and Oxfam publications, her activism and writings cover the period between 1942 and 1999. Using the historiography and the sociology of emotions and dreams this article proposes to analyse afresh the spiritual grounding of localised humanitarian work and internationalism. By considering together her humanitarian work, her pacifist activism and her subsequent humanitarian work both at home and abroad this article can then engage with the manner in which dreamwork and dream analysis brought together the different strands of her activism rooted in spiritualism.","PeriodicalId":45240,"journal":{"name":"Cultural & Social History","volume":"20 1","pages":"429 - 445"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42809770","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":"Celebrity Humanitarianism in the 1920s: Australian Women at the League of Nations","authors":"J. Damousi","doi":"10.1080/14780038.2023.2170523","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14780038.2023.2170523","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In this article, I characterise the reception Australian women who attended the League of Nations as a form of celebrity status. While there has been increasing interest in the League and women’s role within it, many of these women have rarely been discussed extensively in League accounts. The media was keen to project an exotic aura around participating in the League; these women actively shaped this profile and publicity. I explore how the work of the League was transplanted beyond Geneva and consider new methods of humanitarian advocacy in localised contexts such as that of celebrity humanitarianism.","PeriodicalId":45240,"journal":{"name":"Cultural & Social History","volume":"20 1","pages":"367 - 384"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49522174","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":"Mediating Cultural Memory in Britain and Ireland from the 1688 Revolution to the 1745 Jacobite Rising","authors":"Tony Claydon","doi":"10.1080/14780038.2023.2172932","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14780038.2023.2172932","url":null,"abstract":"to be met with a denial and the authorities were more interested in evidence of anal sex than in any force and violence they might have suffered. However, an accusation of sodomy was one way in which both apprentices and married women might compensate for the judicial weakness of their position to free themselves from an intolerable situation and in some cases they made false accusations for that purpose. Grassi also sets the records of prosecutions for sodomy in the social and religious context of the time. Lucca was one of the cities most affected by the influence of the reform movement, which from the 1540s led a number of prominent citizens to flee to Geneva. The authorities refrained from exploiting any alleged link between heresy and sodomy, though there were cases where they might have done so. The situation was complicated by the desire of the civic authorities to maintain autonomy in moral and religious matters in the face of papal and episcopal efforts to extend their control and by a reluctance to accept the decrees of the Council of Trent, especially those regarding marriage. They were eventually obliged to do so, and this resulted in a greater reticence in all matters of non-marital sex. Although penalties for sodomy became more severe, there were far fewer prosecutions and most of those concerned male-female relationships. Some of the defendants were reported to have made statements that threatened the social order and were perhaps prosecuted on this basis. This is a rich and nuanced book, ranging far beyond a statistical analysis of its main source in the records Office of Decency. It aims both to present a picture of the realities of life, especially for the humbler sections of society, and also to interpret these in the light of recent researches into queer theory and the history of emotions. It reads well, despite a few misprints and errors. It deserves comparison with Michael Rocke’s Forbidden Friendships or Guido Ruggiero’s The Boundaries of Eros and should join them as classic studies of the realities of non-regular sex in Renaissance Italy.","PeriodicalId":45240,"journal":{"name":"Cultural & Social History","volume":"20 1","pages":"140 - 142"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42041368","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":"Dockside Reading: Hydrocolonialism and the Custom House","authors":"A. Burton","doi":"10.1080/14780038.2023.2172931","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14780038.2023.2172931","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45240,"journal":{"name":"Cultural & Social History","volume":"20 1","pages":"148 - 150"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46090354","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 Fires of Lust: Sex in the Middle Ages","authors":"Kristen Haas Curtis","doi":"10.1080/14780038.2023.2172933","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14780038.2023.2172933","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45240,"journal":{"name":"Cultural & Social History","volume":"20 1","pages":"133 - 134"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41530395","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}