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{"title":"KATE GILES, The Wall Paintings of Pickering Church: Their Discovery, Restoration and Meaning","authors":"J. Luxford","doi":"10.1080/0078172x.2023.2222375","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0078172x.2023.2222375","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53945,"journal":{"name":"Northern History","volume":"60 1","pages":"272 - 274"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48581676","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":"JONATHAN OATES, Anti-Jacobitism and the English People, 1714–1746","authors":"K. MacKenzie","doi":"10.1080/0078172X.2023.2222386","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0078172X.2023.2222386","url":null,"abstract":"could expose visitors to other dangers: drinking, gambling, and risky sexual liaisons. Fertile ground for satire, the spa was clearly understood by many contemporaries as a place that could be the ruin of a person, just as it could be the setting for recovery and reinvention. Although Murky Waters discusses Bath at some length, the Somerset town is noted to be the exception rather than the rule. Vasset differentiates between ‘national spas’ that attracted visitors from far and wide, and which often had the benefit of noble or royal patronage, and ‘local spas’ such as Matlock in Derbyshire, the fortunes of which were more fragile due to their dependence on local celebrities (Bath’s own celebrity was dandy Beau Nash). The book also interrogates the supposed division between spa towns and seaside towns, noting that towns such as Scarborough could be considered to be both. In Yorkshire and Derbyshire, as well as in London, spas were common, and many people in the late eighteenth century would have found themselves within ‘reasonable distance of a middle-sized spa’ (p. 9). (An Appendix includes a useful map of eighteenth-century spas by area and category.) Whatever their local character, Vasset suggests that spas can be considered microcosms of wider society, ‘blank page[s] on which political utopias and dystopias could be projected’ (p. 204), such as the self-regulation of society or the control of news. At the same time, they could be points of contact with foreign tastes and cultures, as patrons mixed with people from other countries. Murky Waters does not claim to be an exhaustive history of the spa in Britain. Rather, it is a counterbalance to existing historiography that tends to present the spa as a healing, restorative, place with a straightforward chronology. Vasset’s Conclusion embraces the messiness of the spa, noting that ‘spa towns are, in many ways, un-chronological’, places where ‘time is not linear but cyclical, seasonal, ephemeral’ (p. 253). Murky Waters makes a convincing and fascinating case for the spa as an ambivalent, contradictory, space that melded nostalgia and bucolic landscapes with subversive potential: a venue for gossip, sexual experimentation, and forging new and radical political alliances.","PeriodicalId":53945,"journal":{"name":"Northern History","volume":"60 1","pages":"279 - 281"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47372329","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 ASQUITH and CHRISTOPHER J. WATSON (eds.), Wakefield Court Roll 1439–40 and Accounts 1265–66","authors":"J. Goldberg","doi":"10.1080/0078172X.2023.2221700","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0078172X.2023.2221700","url":null,"abstract":"Wetherby was the most likely proto-Robin, his offences being so notorious that a posse had been specially hired ‘to seek, take and behead Robert’ (p. 232). A probable ‘original’ sheriff of Nottingham is similarly proposed, Eustace of Lowdham having previously served as undersheriff of the county before his appointment to the shrievalty of Yorkshire and his subsequent involvement in the manhunt for Wetherby. Crook’s arguments draw upon numerous documentary sources, especially those of the royal chancery and exchequer, a tour de force of archival research that constructs a convincing case from even the briefest of mentions. Yet, frustratingly, the final piece of the jigsaw is missing, the loss of key legal records precluding the ‘unquestionable identification of the original outlaw’ (p. 255) as Robert of Wetherby. This elegantly written and informative monograph is an essential read for anyone interested in the legend of Robin Hood. The author, a distinguished archivist whose long career was spent cataloguing the records of medieval central government, demonstrates both an unrivalled knowledge of the sources for Hood’s historicity and a thorough understanding of the existing corpus of scholarship. Attractively produced and well-indexed, the volume also contains several useful maps and illustrations. Robin Hood: Legend and Reality makes an important contribution to the ongoing scholarly debate on the origins of this most famous of outlaws.","PeriodicalId":53945,"journal":{"name":"Northern History","volume":"60 1","pages":"267 - 269"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48305464","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":"JAMES MOORE, High Culture and Tall Chimneys: Art Institutions and Urban Society in Lancashire, 1780–1914","authors":"Abigail Harrison Moore","doi":"10.1080/0078172x.2023.2218921","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0078172x.2023.2218921","url":null,"abstract":"The little figures in Callot’s prints were an obvious example to follow for staffage. The Paris based Austrian Franz Edmund Weirotter (1733–1771) was much admired and collected in the late eighteenth century and his feathery trees had a considerable influence on Cuitt’s etchings. Piranesi’s appeal lay in his magnificent treatment of ruined buildings of antiquity. However, the nomenclature ‘the English Piranesi’, applied both to Cuitt and to John Sell Cotman, could mislead. Cuitt also admired the etchings of the Florentine Stefano della Bella (1610–1664) for similar qualities to those of Callot, and some of his lively prints were included in the 1821 sale. Having published 39 etchings whilst living in Chester, after his return to Yorkshire Cuitt published 35 plates between 1821 and 1838, mainly of celebrated local abbeys, but also of picturesque landscape scenery. In 1847 he sold his copper plates together with their copyright to a London publisher and bookseller, Michael Angelo Nattali, who then in 1848 published 73 of them in Wanderings and Pencillings Amongst Ruins of the Olden Times in a volume of which the handsomeness was justified by the artist’s high reputation. Twelve guineas, however, was a high price for purchasers. Ian Dunn provides a lengthy note on this publication. Nattali, born in Bermondsey, based on The Strand, was not one of the leading printsellers and publishers of the day. Cuitt’s closest contact in London in the print trade was Colnaghi & Co.","PeriodicalId":53945,"journal":{"name":"Northern History","volume":"60 1","pages":"287 - 289"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49260531","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 ROEBUCK, Cattle Droving: Scotland & Ireland through Cumbria to the South","authors":"M. Winstanley","doi":"10.1080/0078172x.2023.2216747","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0078172x.2023.2216747","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53945,"journal":{"name":"Northern History","volume":"60 1","pages":"274 - 275"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48781450","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 COLLINGE and LOUISE FALCINI (eds), Providing for the Poor: The Old Poor Law, 1750–1834","authors":"Peter Jones","doi":"10.1080/0078172X.2023.2212266","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0078172X.2023.2212266","url":null,"abstract":"This genuine fear was stirred by propaganda which focused on the uncivilised Scottish Highlander and the return of punitive Catholicism to British shores which seeped deep into the English public consciousness. Even though Oates looks at the Jacobites through an English Hanoverian lens, his work does show that Jacobitism was not just ‘a sideshow’ but was a central concern which threatened the core British values and traditions held by thousands of ordinary English people. In line with recent Jacobite historiography this work shows that the Jacobite rebellions are significant events in eighteenth century British history. However, most importantly for Jacobite scholars, this work highlights the failure of the Jacobites to win the hearts and minds of the English people. This, for me, is the most significant aspect of the book. Even when the Jacobites entered Preston in the ‘15 or took over the garrison of Carlisle in the ‘45 there were numerous acts of resistance and refusals to comply with Jacobite orders. Where people did comply, it was usually under duress. Judging by the evidence that Oates has uncovered through vast archival research it shows that the English people had an overwhelmingly negative attitude towards the Jacobites, from Sussex to Newcastle and from Dorset to York. Therefore, even if Charles Edward Stuart and his army had chosen to continue onwards towards London, it is doubtful whether the Stuarts would have been restored at all. As many of the contemporary sources in this volume highlight, a fullblown civil war would have been more likely. This book shows widespread support for the Hanoverian regime across England during the 1715 and 1745 Jacobite rebellions. However, its underlying themes and conclusions are far more important as they provide new perspectives on the relationship between the English people, Jacobitism and the Hanoverian state.","PeriodicalId":53945,"journal":{"name":"Northern History","volume":"60 1","pages":"281 - 283"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47634385","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":"J.P.T. SLEVIN (ed.), L. LOCKYER (trans.), The History of Alfred of Beverley","authors":"D. Crouch","doi":"10.1080/0078172x.2023.2207610","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0078172x.2023.2207610","url":null,"abstract":"famous scenes in England. All of which is satisfyingly illustrated, dated, and explained. At Hovingham Hall, the volume cannot but focus on the question of why particular buildings appear as they do. Thomas Worsley fell short of his dreams, producing (from 1751) a Riding School with house attached. His inscription: Pro viribus non pro votis erexit T.W., ‘He built this as he could, not as he would’, can stand for many other buildings. Grenville makes a stirring effort to praise high-quality building erected in the last hundred years and does not shy away from criticizing those of lesser quality. It is difficult to be even-handed while exercising aesthetic judgement, and Brutalism is rarely mentioned with enthusiasm. Architect designed private houses do well, such as Stone House, Goathland, c. 1912–15, by Annabel Dot; ‘the only example found in the Riding of a female architect until the 21C’. Some of the best modern architecture is industrial and institutional, with praise for Middlesbrough’s Transporter Bridge, Scarborough hospital, and Wass nunnery. The Introduction ends ‘with the hope that others will follow the lead to produce buildings of outstanding quality for the future’. This volume deserves to endure. Further printed editions seem unlikely. A digital Pevsner will be the place for future updates.","PeriodicalId":53945,"journal":{"name":"Northern History","volume":"60 1","pages":"264 - 265"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47257924","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":"ALAN BROOKE, Nature’s Missionary: Seth Lister Mosley – Naturalist, Museum Curator and Mystic 1848–1929 (Huddersfield: Huddersfield Local History Society, 2022. £15 [paperback]. 264 pages [Inc. 16 pages of full-colour plates]. ISBN: 9780992984151)","authors":"M. Holmes","doi":"10.1080/0078172X.2023.2207601","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0078172X.2023.2207601","url":null,"abstract":"(p.108) but they’re easy to work around. The book is well illustrated with Brears’ characteristic hand drawn pictures. In general, these work well, for his forensic eye for detail and skill as a draughtsman means that they are often clearer than any photograph could be. At times, though the lack of alternative can be frustrating, especially when a visual source is described in the text. I would have loved to have seen the actual photograph of Leslie Feather’s bakery (p.43). One of the great strengths of Brears’ writing is his lack of patience with romanticising the past, especially when this creeps into object interpretation. His dry takedown of the idea of pottery beer containers as having been ‘cider jars’ should have anyone who has unthinkingly subscribed to the idea wincing. He is clear-eyed and matter of fact when describing the aching poverty of the area for much of history, and of the consequences of this for the development of an identifiably regional cuisine. The final two chapters cover the rhythms of the year, as seen through food, and the corresponding way in which lives were marked through cakes and biscuits—very much in the vein of Mary Douglas but highly focussed on the way in which food was used in this place and by these people. They manage to bring together the themes and specifics of the rest of the book neatly. Separate indexes of people, places and recipes are provided. Overall, this does exactly what it says on the tin. It’s a reminder of how useful small-scale publications are, fitting nicely into the wider landscape of food history, as well as being fascinating as a study in its own right.","PeriodicalId":53945,"journal":{"name":"Northern History","volume":"60 1","pages":"291 - 293"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48095626","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":"Policemen and Their Moustaches: (Self-)Fashioning Professional Identity in Nineteenth Century Newcastle-Upon-Tyne","authors":"Clare Sandford-Couch","doi":"10.1080/0078172X.2023.2195451","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0078172X.2023.2195451","url":null,"abstract":"In April 1861, a local newspaper commented favourably on permission being granted to allow the policemen of Newcastle upon Tyne to wear moustaches, and on the moustaches they subsequently grew. The article demonstrates that these moustaches had an important role to play in the visual construction and performance of social, collective, and professional identities for individual members of the police force in Newcastle in 1861. It suggests that in requesting permission, acting upon it, and in the type of facial hair that they grew, the policemen revealed how they saw themselves, and how they wanted to be seen. This offers an opportunity to hear a voice often excluded from historical narratives, that of the ‘ordinary’ policemen in the provinces, exercising an agency that might be unexpected in the mid-nineteenth century. The article argues that their moustaches enabled Newcastle’s policemen to express a sense of belonging to their local force and their awareness of being part of a larger, nationwide phenomenon, evidence of the development of a police culture with a positive and specifically fashioned self-image. As such, it contributes an unusual perspective on police professionalisation and identity in an important period of change.","PeriodicalId":53945,"journal":{"name":"Northern History","volume":"60 1","pages":"227 - 249"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48836395","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":"MICHAEL PEARSON AND IAN D. HODKINSON (eds), The Dark Path to Knowledge: The Autobiography of John Gough of Kendal (1757–1825), ‘Blind Philosopher’ and Polymath","authors":"B. Wardhaugh","doi":"10.1080/0078172x.2023.2199039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0078172x.2023.2199039","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53945,"journal":{"name":"Northern History","volume":"60 1","pages":"283 - 285"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45238696","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}