{"title":"Duncan A. A. M.. The Kingship of the Scots 842–1292: Succession and Independence . Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press; dist. by Columbia University Press, New York. 2002. Pp. x, 381. $90.00. ISBN 0-7486-1626-8.","authors":"C. Neville","doi":"10.2307/4054280","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/4054280","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80407,"journal":{"name":"Albion","volume":"36 1","pages":"374-375"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/4054280","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68603640","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rudolph Julia. Revolution by Degrees: James Tyrrell and Whig Political Thought in the Late Seventeenth Century . (Studies in Modern History.) New York: Palgrave. 2002. Pp. ix, 231. $65.00. ISBN 0-333-73659-1.","authors":"S. Burtt","doi":"10.2307/4054282","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/4054282","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80407,"journal":{"name":"Albion","volume":"36 1","pages":"377-378"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/4054282","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68603798","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pickles Katie. Female Imperialism and National Identity: Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire . (Studies in Imperialism.) New York: Manchester University Press; dist. by Palgrave, New York. 2002. Pp. xi, 209. $69.95. ISBN 0-7190-6390-6.","authors":"C. Hirshfield","doi":"10.2307/4054290","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/4054290","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80407,"journal":{"name":"Albion","volume":"36 1","pages":"389-390"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/4054290","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68604024","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Murder & the Modern British Historian","authors":"M. Wiener","doi":"10.2307/4054433","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/4054433","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80407,"journal":{"name":"Albion","volume":"36 1","pages":"1-11"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/4054433","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68620456","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Which? craft in Post-War Britain: The Consumers' Association and the Politics of Affluence *","authors":"L. Black","doi":"10.2307/4054436","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/4054436","url":null,"abstract":"Consumption has recently acquired key importance in re-interpreting post-war British politics. Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska has argued the Conservative construction of a popular alliance in opposition to rationing and controls was crucial to their electoral recovery after 1945 and in securing an advantage among women voters. A wealth of evidence indicates Labour, by contrast, had scant purchase on affluence in the later 1950s. It was not only, as Amy Black and Stephen Brooke would have it, “Labour's befuddlement at the problem of women and gender,” but that it was ambivalent, if not hostile, towards the goods, lifestyles and values associated with consumerism and the people obtaining and exhibiting them. Other factors blur differentiation between the parties. Both were affiliated to the world of production—through their business and trade union links. Richard Findley has contended the Conservative abolition of resale price maintenance (RPM, whereby manufacturers fixed retail prices) in 1964, aroused electorally deleterious opposition from manufacturers and backbenchers. And while Labour consumerists were rare commodities, as is argued here, Labour revisionism made an important contribution to the Consumers' Association (CA). This focus on consumerism corrects the neglect of it by narratives like political consensus or historians' consuming passion with production and work. It arises from rethinking Britain's much vaunted “decline” as, for example, the transition to a post-industrial society. In Matthew Hilton's hands how the consumer “interest” was variously articulated and gendered becomes a means to unlock modern citizenship and the configuration of private and public spheres.","PeriodicalId":80407,"journal":{"name":"Albion","volume":"62 1","pages":"52-82"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/4054436","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68620689","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"English History Abridged: John Stow's Shorter Chronicles and Popular History *","authors":"B. L. Beer","doi":"10.2307/4054434","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/4054434","url":null,"abstract":"John Stow's abridged chronicles present a short, simplified version of English history that formed an important component of sixteenth-century popular culture. The author was a citizen historian, a self-educated man, whose social status placed him outside the gentry, and a scholar who was closer to medieval traditions than to the New Learning associated with Renaissance humanism. Stow and his chronicles therefore stand apart from the university-educated intellectual elite whose writings shaped the high culture of Elizabethan England. His abridged chronicles, based on his larger Annales of England , offered readers of lower social and economic status a more affordable national history than was available in the larger quarto volumes. This essay considers the character of abridged chronicles, examines Stow's interpretation of a variety of significant topics from the Norman Conquest to the death of Henry VIII, and argues that Stow's work offers valuable insights into the historical understanding of ordinary men and women. For centuries John Stow, identified in the Dictionary of National Biography as a “chronicler and antiquary,” lived in the shadow of more illustrious contemporaries. Shakespeare preferred Raphael Holinshed's chronicle to Stow's Annales of England as the source for his history plays while William Camden was a scholar of vastly greater erudition to whom the DNB assigned the higher status of “historian.” In contrast to the glittering literati of Elizabethan England, Stow is usually cast in gray, a worthy man of negligible learning who through a lifetime of hard work produced books that were generally accurate but dull.","PeriodicalId":80407,"journal":{"name":"Albion","volume":"36 1","pages":"12-27"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/4054434","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68620490","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gregory Jeremy and Chamberlain Jeffrey S., eds. The National Church in Local Perspective: The Church of England and the Regions, 1660–1800. (Studies in Modern British Religious History.) Rochester, N. Y.: Boydell Press. 2003. Pp. xiii, 315. $90.00. ISBN 085-115-8978.","authors":"J. Wolffe","doi":"10.2307/4054471","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/4054471","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80407,"journal":{"name":"Albion","volume":"36 1","pages":"136-137"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/4054471","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68621702","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Burchardt Jeremy. Paradise Lost: Rural Idyll and Social Change since 1800. New York: I. B. Tauris; dist. by Palgrave, New York. 2002. PP. vi, 238. $27.50. ISBN 1-86064-514-3.","authors":"Peter Mandler","doi":"10.2307/4054488","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/4054488","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80407,"journal":{"name":"Albion","volume":"36 1","pages":"160-162"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/4054488","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68621890","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Andrews Jonathan and Scull Andrew, eds. Customers and Patrons of the Mad-Trade: The Management of Lunacy in Eighteenth-Century London . Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press. 2003. Pp. xvi, 209. $44.95. ISBN 0-520-22660-7.","authors":"R. Houston","doi":"10.2307/4054476","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/4054476","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80407,"journal":{"name":"Albion","volume":"36 1","pages":"143-144"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/4054476","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68621969","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Kowaleski Maryanne, ed. The Havener's Accounts of the Earldom and Duchy of Cornwall, 1287–1356 . (Devon and Cornwall Record Society New Series, Volume 44.) Exeter, England: Devon and Cornwall Record Society. 2001. Pp. xii, 364. £25.00. ISBN 0-901853-44-5.","authors":"M. Mate","doi":"10.2307/4054446","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/4054446","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80407,"journal":{"name":"Albion","volume":"36 1","pages":"97-98"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/4054446","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68621137","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}