{"title":"Militant cynicism: Rethinking Private Eye in postwar Britain, ca. 1960–80","authors":"Tom Crook","doi":"10.1017/jbr.2024.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2024.5","url":null,"abstract":"This article seeks to rethink the nature and significance of the fortnightly magazine <jats:italic>Private Eye</jats:italic> during its first two decades. Existing accounts have interpreted it almost exclusively through the lens of the “satire boom” (1961–63), and suggest that, in the final analysis, the magazine neither desired nor advanced any substantial critique of the political status quo. Besides neglecting its investigative facets, among other elements, these readings make the mistake of seeking to frame the significance of the magazine in conventional ideological terms. This article puts these neglected elements back into the picture and argues that the magazine is best understood as enacting a militant form of the kind of cynicism—at once outrageous and morally outraged—analyzed by Peter Sloterdijk and Michel Foucault, and other scholars in their wake. This provides a much more satisfying account of the many facets of <jats:italic>Private Eye</jats:italic> as these evolved during the 1960s and 1970s, including its affinities with various currents in postwar journalism and countercultural expression. Above all, it allows us to recast the politics of <jats:italic>Private Eye</jats:italic> as a form of moral protest that was expressed in the assumption of an intrinsically antagonistic relation toward “politics” and authority per se.","PeriodicalId":46738,"journal":{"name":"Journal of British Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140622904","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Popular Politics of Local Petitioning in Early Modern England","authors":"Brodie Waddell","doi":"10.1017/jbr.2024.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2024.4","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article examines the rise of a culture of local petitioning, through which growing numbers of ordinary people sought to win the support of state authorities through collective claims to represent the “voice of the people” at the local level. These participatory, subscriptional practices were an essential component in the intensification of popular politics in the seventeenth century. The analysis focuses on over 3,800 manuscript petitions submitted to the magistrates across fifteen jurisdictions with “sessions of the peace” in England, with nearly 1,000 dating from before 1640. Over the course of the early seventeenth century many, if not most, English parishes witnessed attempts to persuade the authorities through collective petitioning. Groups of neighbors across the kingdom formulated their grievances, organized subscription lists, and articulated their own role in the polity as “the inhabitants” or “the parishioners” of a particular community. In so doing, they not only directly shaped their own “little commonwealths” but also unintentionally helped to develop habits of political mobilization in a crucial period of English history.</p>","PeriodicalId":46738,"journal":{"name":"Journal of British Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140604149","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tabitha Stanmore. Love Spells and Lost Treasure: Service Magic in England from the Later Middle Ages to the Early Modern Era Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 320. $99.99 (cloth).","authors":"Michael D. Bailey","doi":"10.1017/jbr.2024.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2024.14","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46738,"journal":{"name":"Journal of British Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140692366","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"One British Archive: Seeing the Rev. John Clifford Archives and the Gender of Passive Resistance","authors":"Seth Koven","doi":"10.1017/jbr.2024.56","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2024.56","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article discusses the archives of Westbourne Park Baptist Church in London and its world-renowned pastor in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Dr. John Clifford. As leader of the National Passive Resistance League, the fiery Clifford came to be synonymous with the Nonconformist conscience at the height of its political influence in the early twentieth century. The article foregrounds the tension between what I call archival intimacy and archival precarity, while analyzing the power of seeing the diverse photographs in this collection as evidence of the gendered politics of passive resistance in the early twentieth century. Some— though not all—of the collection that I consulted at Westbourne Park Baptist Church in 2016 has now been transferred to the Angus Library, Regent's Park College, Oxford.</p>","PeriodicalId":46738,"journal":{"name":"Journal of British Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140604215","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Eamon Duffy. A People's Tragedy: Studies in Reformation London: Bloomsbury, 2020. Pp. 272. $28.00 (cloth).","authors":"Katy Gibbons","doi":"10.1017/jbr.2024.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2024.12","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46738,"journal":{"name":"Journal of British Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140701051","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"David J. Davis. Experiencing God in Late Medieval and Early Modern England Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. 240. $100.00 (cloth).","authors":"Kerilyn Harkaway-Krieger","doi":"10.1017/jbr.2024.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2024.7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46738,"journal":{"name":"Journal of British Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140700635","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Kathy Alexis Psomiades. Primitive Marriage: Victorian Anthropology, the Novel, and Sexual Modernity Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. 256. $85.00 (cloth).","authors":"Elisha Cohn","doi":"10.1017/jbr.2024.51","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2024.51","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46738,"journal":{"name":"Journal of British Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140703069","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Jacob Bloomfield. Drag: A British History Berkeley Series in British Studies. Oakland: University of California Press, 2023. Pp. 272. $29.95 (cloth).","authors":"Samuel Rutherford","doi":"10.1017/jbr.2024.47","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2024.47","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46738,"journal":{"name":"Journal of British Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140701459","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tracy C. Davis. Liberal Lives and Activist Repertoires: Political Performance and Victorian Social Reform Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 352. $39.99 (cloth).","authors":"Tom Crook","doi":"10.1017/jbr.2024.38","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2024.38","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46738,"journal":{"name":"Journal of British Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140699511","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Helen Kingstone. Panoramas and Compilations in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Seeing the Big Picture Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. Pp. 275. $129.99 (cloth).","authors":"Jonathan Potter","doi":"10.1017/jbr.2024.36","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2024.36","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46738,"journal":{"name":"Journal of British Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140702022","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}