Social history

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Social history (V320): The interpretation of the underlying processes of change in society. Includes the study of the growth and development of societies in history.

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Title	Description	Keywords	Full details
British Women's History	Concentrates on British women's emancipation since the Renaissance, bringing together many primary sources and presenting essays, summaries and...	Gender, Women, Sufferage, History	view
Hidden Lives - Children in Care 1881-1918	Unique archive material about poor and disadvantaged children cared for by The Waifs and Strays' Society (later the Children's Society) in the...	Children, Poverty, 19th century, 20th century, Victorian, Edwardian, Social reform, Charities, Houses & housing, History	view
Private Spaces for Public Consumption: Female Privacy as Erotic Satire in Eighteenth-Century British Print Culture, Ruby Rutter	Female privacy in eighteenth-century British print culture was often represented as facilitating salacious and debauched behaviour. The...	18th century, satire, feminism	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
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
The Age of Nature: Tracing the influence of Émile on the representation of boyhood in The Brummell Children and the opening chapters of Tom Brown’s Schooldays, Mark Grogan	No summary can do justice to the diversity of formative experience available in the late eighteenth to mid nineteenth century to the children of...	18th century, Childhood, Joshua Reynolds, 19th century	view
The Angel in the House and Fallen Women: Assigning Women their Places in Victorian Society, Sarah Kuhl	This article juxtaposes Coventry Patmore’s poem ‘The Angel in the House’ and William Holman Hunt’s painting ‘The Awakening Conscience’, examining...	Pre-raphaelite, 19th century, Victorian, Gender, feminism, Poetry	view
The English Tea-Table: The Domestic Feminisation Of An Exotic Commodity, From The Arrival Of Tea In England circa 1660 To 1760, Maggie Henderson-Tew	‘Along with air and water, tea is the most widely-consumed substance on the planet.’1 This rather startling statement underlines the position of...	tea, Gender, Furniture	view
The Female Artist in the mid-Victorian Period: Emily Mary Osborn’s Nameless and Friendless (1857) and the 1859 Petition to the Royal Academy, Adrienne McKenna	The 1857 painting by Emily Mary Osborn titled ‘Nameless and Friendless’ and the 1859 petition to the Royal Academy to provide tuition to female...	Victorian Culture, Gender, Art, 19th century	view
The health effects of poverty in London in 1896 and 1991	This study compares the extent to which late 20th century patterns of mortality in London are predicted by contemporary patterns of poverty and by...	Poverty, Victorian, London, Death	view

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