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{"title":"Thomas Denton’s Perambulation: Two Counties, Three Kingdoms, and Four Nations History?","authors":"E. McArthur","doi":"10.1080/0078172X.2023.2239858","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0078172X.2023.2239858","url":null,"abstract":"This article uses a late seventeenth-century county survey as a key to understand conceptions of county, national, and international identity. Previous historians of ‘Britain’ and its composite nations have insufficiently attended to the interaction between these elements. Thomas Denton’s Perambulation of Cumberland, with additions on Westmorland, the Isle of Man, and Ireland, contains a wealth of evidence as to how a Cumbrian, English, and British subject integrated these elements in this period. In addition to showing the assimilation of subjects within and across these boundaries, it equally reveals their differentiation and exclusion. Denton impugns English political and religious opponents, deals uneasily with Scottish and Manx otherness, and firmly scorns the Irish. National distinctions are, ultimately, less assured than negotiable. It is argued that intensive focus of this kind alerts us to exchanges of ideas and identities within an individual, rather than seeing identity groups as necessarily in opposed camps.","PeriodicalId":53945,"journal":{"name":"Northern History","volume":"60 1","pages":"145 - 167"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48457780","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Coroner and the Medical Profession in Victorian Newcastle Upon Tyne ‘… Antagonism and Offence Towards the Medical Profession Such as has Rarely Been Exhibited.’","authors":"Helen J Rutherford","doi":"10.1080/0078172x.2023.2227671","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0078172x.2023.2227671","url":null,"abstract":"Studies of the coroner in nineteenth century England suggest that inquests became increasingly medicalised. Much of this research was conducted in London. My research reveals that in Newcastle upon Tyne medicine did not dominate: the solicitor coroner used his skills and knowledge to maintain the legal focus of the inquest. This study reveals a fascinating dynamic between the legally qualified coroner and the local medical profession. In presenting an analysis of examples of the interactions between the Newcastle coroner and the medical profession, this article makes a significant contribution to scholarship on the relationship between medicine and law in the Victorian coroner’s court. I offer insight into inquests in an important provincial town and discover that the coroner relocated the Newcastle court from official buildings to the public house, its traditional home. Rather than a story of increased medicalisation, the inquest in Newcastle was firmly the preserve of the law. The character and choices of an individual coroner are revealed to have a significant impact on the relationship between law and medicine in the coroner’s court. I seek to encourage further research into the work of coroners, to develop a fuller picture of the inquest in the nineteenth century.","PeriodicalId":53945,"journal":{"name":"Northern History","volume":"60 1","pages":"203 - 226"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45789314","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"ALUN C. DAVIES, The Rise and Decline of England’s Watchmaking Industry, 1550–1930","authors":"E. Akkermans","doi":"10.1080/0078172x.2023.2228844","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0078172x.2023.2228844","url":null,"abstract":"The Rise and Decline of England ’ s Watchmaking Industry is a well-researched and excellent addition to horological literature. The book traces the watchmaking industry in England by examining it in three parts — the rise, the challenge to, and the eventual decline of British watchmaking. Davies examines how a watchmaking industry developed in Clerkenwell alongside other luxury industries, thanks to the arrival of Huguenots fleeing persecution and the arrival of Swiss economic migrants. The industry flourished in Clerkenwell where hundreds of outworkers in different specialisations worked in their own home. Davies provides a fascinating account detailing the geographical area the industry was concentrated in and why it was here that the industry flourished. Although Clerkenwell was an important centre for hor-ology, Davies provides excellent account of other ‘ hubs ’ of horology north of London, exploring the business in Prescot, Liverpool, and Coventry. Davies provides an interesting analysis of these regions, exploring how and why the industry developed and flourished in these specific locations.","PeriodicalId":53945,"journal":{"name":"Northern History","volume":"60 1","pages":"276 - 277"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44931022","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"M. BAZLEY (ed.), An Edition of the Accounts of the Manor of Bickley, Cheshire, 1395–1465","authors":"P. Schofield","doi":"10.1080/0078172x.2023.2226693","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0078172x.2023.2226693","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53945,"journal":{"name":"Northern History","volume":"60 1","pages":"269 - 270"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45657068","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"JANE GRENVILLE and NIKOLAUS PEVSNER, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The North Riding","authors":"A. Green","doi":"10.1080/0078172x.2023.2249039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0078172x.2023.2249039","url":null,"abstract":"introduction","PeriodicalId":53945,"journal":{"name":"Northern History","volume":"60 1","pages":"262 - 264"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48318100","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Rethinking Ripon: Cuthbert’s Tonsure and Northumbrian Ecclesiastical Geography","authors":"A. McMullen","doi":"10.1080/0078172X.2023.2248232","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0078172X.2023.2248232","url":null,"abstract":"This article reconsiders the motivation of the author of the anonymous Life of Cuthbert to insist that the saint received the Petrine tonsure at Ripon instead of (the more likely Irish tonsure) at Melrose, as Bede recounts. While scholars widely agree that this detail was meant to provide Cuthbert with a Roman background less contentious than his actual Irish-influenced upbringing, I will propose a parallel motivation from the perspective of ecclesiastical geography. I argue that the anonymous author used the tonsure as one further method of attempting to expand Lindisfarne’s sphere of influence in early medieval Northumbria.","PeriodicalId":53945,"journal":{"name":"Northern History","volume":"60 1","pages":"250 - 261"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48212034","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"STEPHEN CATTERALL and KEITH GILDART, Keeping the Faith: A History of Northern Soul","authors":"N. Zuberi","doi":"10.1080/0078172X.2023.2248217","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0078172X.2023.2248217","url":null,"abstract":"because Miall – like Mosley and Ormerod – was active in the field of economic entomology and communicated with such prestigious naturalists as Charles Darwin and D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson. If these connections had been more closely investigated, we might productively question how connected Mosley remained to his working-class roots and what role natural history played in social mobility. Nature’s Missionary paints a vivid picture of the physical, institutional, and social landscape in which Mosley lived, while delving into the complexities of his thought, including his mysticism, vegetarianism, and anti-vaccination activism (p. 42). Brooke makes the decision not to indulge in the ‘dangerous venture’ of amateur psychology in his examination of Mosley (p. 215), a simultaneously sensible and frustrating choice. Nature’s Missionary is generally well written and contains some beautiful illustrations. The index, however, is not overly helpful. Overall, the book will be useful for historians of the Northern counties who wish to trace scientific societies, museums, or even reconstruct past landscapes and biodiversity. More broadly, it provides historians of natural history and biology with a valuable case study of a working-class naturalist.","PeriodicalId":53945,"journal":{"name":"Northern History","volume":"60 1","pages":"293 - 295"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44808788","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"PETER BREARS, Traditional Food in the South Pennines","authors":"Annie P. Gray","doi":"10.1080/0078172X.2023.2227663","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0078172X.2023.2227663","url":null,"abstract":"ciently powerful explanation for why particular types of institutions emerged’ (p. 3). The focus on systems of consumption and art dealing, however, is well done, drawing in recent studies of value creation in the art market. The merging of wider cultural, economic and semiological codes with a sense of individual taste and distinction is expertly handled. Likewise, the way private networks and activity were joined together into institutional forms is an important theme and Moore looks at how and why the personal became public in Lancashire in the late Victorian period. This book adds to and enhances the literature on histories of museums that really engages in the synergy between individuals and institutions. I particularly appreciated the way Moore linked educational systems with the development of networks of cultural institutions – placing these within a wider history of the way knowledge was shaped in the late nineteenth century. He very usefully addresses the problem of the image of a ‘race of [Northern] men... independent, practical, rough, calculating and enterprising, with little interest in the genteel or liberal arts’ (p. 5). This regional stereotype still remains – look for example the rhetoric around Brexit and the ‘Red Wall’ constituencies, or at the consistent imbalance in educational spend and access to cultural capital, highlighted in the 2018 Children’s Commissioner’s report ‘Growing up North’ and a National Curriculum that denies the poorest equal access to arts and creativity. Moore’s insightful and well-written history of the development of cultural capital in Lancashire reminds us that stereotypes can be long-lived and destructive and demands that we make a greater effort to explore and understand the histories of culture in places that have been previously overlooked. A tight geographical focus allows Moore to bring new ideas and new archives to the reader’s attention making this book an important addition to museum, gallery and heritage studies and to the wider literature on histories of the North.","PeriodicalId":53945,"journal":{"name":"Northern History","volume":"60 1","pages":"289 - 291"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41551171","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"DAVID CROUCH (ed.), The Metham Family Cartulary: Reconstructed from Antiquarian Transcripts","authors":"Jenny M. McHugh","doi":"10.1080/0078172x.2023.2225574","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0078172x.2023.2225574","url":null,"abstract":"The Methams of Yorkshire were a leading gentry family in the medieval period, whose origins can be traced back to the married clergy of Howden Minster in the twelfth century. When Thomas Metham commissioned the creation of the cartulary in c.1405, the family’s estates spanned across the East Riding and Vale of York. As this edition reveals, the Methams were involved in many of the pivotal events of the late medieval period, such as the civil wars between English kings and Simon de Montfort (d.1265) and Thomas, earl of Lancaster (d. 1322), and the Anglo-Scottish wars. In 2014, David Crouch described the late medieval cartulary that disappeared after 1680 as the ‘greatest loss’ to the Methams’ family archive because it contained an estimated 1,200 deeds over 250 folios. His latest offering, a scholarly edition of this cartulary based on antiquarian transcripts, reconstructs the text of some 700 of these deeds. The work also offers a detailed introduction that is split into nine parts, which discusses the text’s history, the sources for the edition, the disappearance of the original manuscript, the antiquarians’ relationships with the manuscript and their copies, and Crouch’s approach to reconstructing the ‘Metham Archive’. The edition itself provides material from the opening flyleaves, the main text of the cartulary, and the endpapers. There are also a further three appendices: the full text of the calendared deeds, a family history to 1416, and a discussion of the widowhood of Sybil Metham (n ee Hambleton), who was abducted after the death of John Metham for her claim to the considerable portfolio of properties created by her marriage to John. Therefore, the volume is packed with material that will undoubtedly be of great value to many future scholars. What first strikes the reader when perusing this volume is the enormous amount of work that Crouch has put into this edition. The text of the cartulary has been constructed from eight manuscript sources held by five different libraries and archives. In most cases the editor has given preference to James Torre’s English version of the text and Dr Nathaniel Johnston’s Latin abstracts (if they proved more detailed than Torre’s version), preserved in the Bodleian’s MS Top. Yorks b 14 and MS Top. gen. c56 respectively. These transcripts evidently brought diverse challenges to this project, as Crouch notes that Torre only had a limited knowledge of Latin and medieval dating clauses. Meanwhile, he describes Johnston’s handwriting as ‘abominable’ and in need of a ‘minor Rosetta Stone’ to help ‘decode’ the mysteries of his transcript (p. xl). Crouch even provides photographic evidence of this, should the reader doubt his assertions (p. xlii). In other places, where Torre and Johnston’s works are less revealing, the editor interweaves deeds and other information from the other manuscripts to form the most comprehensive reconstruction of the cartulary as possible. I particularly liked how deletions to the tex","PeriodicalId":53945,"journal":{"name":"Northern History","volume":"60 1","pages":"271 - 272"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43439912","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Gordon Forster Essay Prize 2023","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/0078172x.2023.2222477","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0078172x.2023.2222477","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53945,"journal":{"name":"Northern History","volume":"60 1","pages":"143 - 143"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47724951","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}