History in Focus: The Victorian Era (Introduction)Introduction. This first issue of History in Focus looks at Victorian history and the resources available to study it. To find issues on other topics, go to our home page. See below for review tasters. Victorian Era, listed by publisher, with book summaries and links to publishers' pages. Ph. D theses about the Victorian Era, and university teachers teaching this Era.
Victorians. family history: your guide to researching family history. Review tasters. Care outside the Community: Asylums'The gradual appearance of state asylums, however, led to the expulsion of paupers.
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As Jonathan Andrews demonstrates, the Glasgow Royal Asylum and its physician- superintendent were intent upon . By 1. 89. 7, every pauper had gone.'The above quotation comes from Dr.
Anne Borsay's review of Insanity, Institutions and Society, 1. Social History of Madness in Comparative Perspective edited by Joseph Melling and Bill Forsythe. In the authors' response to the review, Joseph Melling remarked: 'The purpose of Insanity, Institutions and Society is to introduce readers to a fresh generation of research on the social history of madness. This new work challenges many of the conclusions reached in the seminal studies of insanity by Michel Foucault and Andrew Scull. The authors also seek to engage with the kind of post- modernist critique of historical practices which Anne Borsay has highlighted in her review. The distance between state provision and class relations forms one of the issues which current and future historians of the nineteenth century will want to explore further.' Back to top.
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The Great Exhibition. Confidence in industry and commerce was expressed robustly in the Great Exhibition but its history is more complex than commonly acknowledged.
The following extracts are taken from the review by Dr. Davis of the book The Great Exhibition of 1. Nation on Display by Jeffrey A Auerbach: Comments regarding the background to the exhibition.
Faced with the uphill prospect of generating support for the Exhibition - Auerbach counters the notion that it was popular from the start - and funding difficulties, a situation not dissimilar to the Greenwich Dome, the organisers of the Great Exhibition carefully chose to accommodate public concerns and anxieties to a great degree. The original desire of the group at the Society of Arts ... A nation, as he puts it, was on display'. Other Sources: Back to top. Ireland. The controversy and conflict which hallmark Anglo- Irish relations are echoed in exchanges between historians. Clarkson's review of A Death Dealing Famine: the Great Hunger in Ireland by Christine Kinealy is a good example of this.
Dr Clarkson questions the evidence for the assertion that 'at least one million people died between 1. Ireland until 1. 86.
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Christine Kinealy concedes the lack of official records but counters: 'One million dead is probably a conservative estimate and few people would argue that mortality was any less than this number. My figure is based (as I say) on earlier work done by Professor Cormac O'Grada and others, and corroborated by contemporary estimates.' Meanwhile, Paul O'Leary warns against an understanding of history based purely on official records. In reviewing The Great Famine and Beyond: Irish Migrants in Britain in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries ,ed. Mac. Raild,he passes the following comment on John Belchem's chapter regarding the Irish in Liverpool: 'This study is an explicit statement of the limitations of the census enumerators' books for understanding the social networks of the Irish.'Other Sources: Back to top. Law and order. Artful Dodgers: Youth and Crime in Early Nineteenth Century London by Heather Shore was reviewed by John Springhall who comments: 'One boy awaiting transportation, George Hickman, told Miles in relation to police corruption that. He never cares about getting a fellow sent to prison for three months because it does him no good, but if he can make an Old Bailey case of it, he takes the Boy up, because he gets his expenses, or something (p.
Maria Luddy in her review of Prostitution: Prevention and Reform in England 1. Paula Bartley: 'There is an obvious decline in convictions for prostitution after the introduction of the Criminal Law Amendment Act of 1. However, while social purity activists claimed a direct influence on this decline it seems that lack of police activity, leading to fewer arrests, was a much more likely reason'. Other Sources: Back to top. Politics. Eugenio F.
Biagini reviewed Gladstone: Heroic Minister, 1. Professor R. Shannon, and made the following observations: ' Allegedly, Shannon's central thesis is that, to the end of his days, Gladstone was an unreconstructed Peelite, . He became a Liberal .. Of course, this raises a question which Shannon does not address, i. Shannon's response: 'Obviously, a Peelite thesis so defined must be very near the centre of my reading of Gladstone. What he learned from his great master Peel was the potency and privilege of executive government against parliament; and within that frame of the instrumental role of party as the leverage of heroic politics. Peelism was the executive muscle of Gladstones levering'.