Social history
Here you will find all the resources identified by our tutors as useful for the study of this subject, arranged in ascending alphabetical order. Browse the tiles and descriptions to discover if there are any resources of interest to you, or click on any of the keywords to see resources sorted by more in-depth topics.
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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George Romney: Emma Hart as Circe c.1782 |
This link takes to to some useful information about George Romney's painting of Emma Hart as Circe, c.1782, in the Tate Gallery, London ... |
Emma Hamilton, Emma Hart, Nelson, Sir William Hamilton, George Romney, Portraiture, Collectors, 18th century, Long 18th Century | view |
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Agricultural revolution week 1 slides |
Introduction |
Agricultural history, agricultural revolution, 17th century, 18th century, 19th century | view |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |