Social history

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‘We Must Do This Well If We Do It At All’: Reports On The First Women’s College, Girton, Cambridge, Susanna Cerasuolo	This article examines two artefacts associated with the founding of the first women’s college, Girton College, Cambridge (1869). The first is a...	History, Social history, Education	view
Corporal Or Psychological Punishment? A Comparison Between Newgate Prison As Described In Contemporary Images And In Daniel Defoe’s Moll Flanders And Jeremy Bentham’s Model For The Panopticon, Maria-Gloria Simpson	This article deals with the effects that the material shape of a prison and its system of punishment may have on offenders and touches on the role...	Social history	view
Symbols of Behaviour in mid-17th Century English Coffee Houses, Scott Shriner	Coffee drinking became popularized in England during the dawning of the Commonwealth period and into mid-18th century. The interest in this...	coffee house, 17th century, Social history	view
Skeletons From The Johnson Closet: Comparing An Anti-Vaccination Handbill With Earlier Images Of Death, Kenneth Gray	This article examines interesting correspondences between two items collected by John Johnson: a 19th century handbill protesting compulsory...	Social history, ephemera	view
Investigating Personal Character: Sir John Barnard – A Portrait and A Present for an Apprentice, Harold Pearce	The most highly influential business book of the twentieth-century was based upon the learning from over 200 years of success literature and was...	Portraiture, Social history, 18th century	view
Representing Equality: A Comparative Study Of How The New Hospital For Women And Punch Cartoon, ‘Our Pretty Doctor’ Depicted The Acceptance Of The First Female Doctors In Britain, Alexander Goldsmith	‘Our Pretty Doctor’ appeared in Punch on August 1870, following Elizabeth Garrett Anderson’s appointment as a visiting physician to the East...	Social history, History of Medicine, History, cartoons	view
'Shades Of Meaning': The Significance Of Hair Colour In Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret (1862) And Rossetti's Lady Lilith (1866–68, Altered 1872–73), Jessica Lenihan	In a culture obsessed with physiognomy, where the Victorian female body was a canvas of symbols to be read, the portrayal of hair – and...	Social history, Gender, Sexuality, 19th century	view
Pomp and Privation in Victorian India, Kapil Komireddi	This essay examines British colonial rule in late nineteenth-century India through the lens of two contemporaneous artefacts. Each vivifies a...	Victorian Culture, Indian history, Famine, Social history, 19th century, Photography, Newspapers, Literature	view
Empire And Its Discontents: An Examination Of Kilmainham Gaol And Aapravasi Ghat, Robert Deba	Despite being separated by over 6,339 miles, Kilmainham Gaol and Aapravsai Ghat are inextricably linked as artefacts documenting the legacy of the...	British empire, Social history	view
Protesting Peterloo: The ‘Fanciful’ and the ‘Domestic’, Helen Leach	This essay will explore two artefacts produced in response to the Peterloo Massacre in 1819; Percy Bysshe Shelley’s The Masque of Anarchy and John...	19th century, Social history, engraving, Literature, Reform	view

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