Carolyn Steedman

Datos Biográficos

ID110689
NOMBRECarolyn Steedman
NOMBRESCarolyn
APELLIDOSteedman
FIRMASTEEDMAN C
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Warwick
ORCID0000-0001-8175-1161
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS58
TOTAL DE CITAS156
TOTAL COMO AUTOR57
TOTAL COMO EDITOR1
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1980
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2025
ÍNDICE H6

  • Buying People Is Wrong

    Open AccessCarolyn SteedmanARTICLEJournal of British Studies2025

    In 1805, during a lull in hostilities between England and France, minor Warwickshire landowner and slaveholder Bertie Greatheed was on a European tour with his family when his son died, leaving behind an illegitimate child. Greatheed acquired his granddaughter from her Dresden-based mother and brought the child up as his own. This article revisits Steedman's earlier scholarship on Greatheed, which focused on questions of domestic service, through…

  • Up the Workers

    Open AccessCarolyn SteedmanARTICLEHistory Workshop Journal2025

    Up the Workers by Carolyn SteedmanI just can't remember; there's so much I can't recall; all my dates are off kilter.It was a very long time ago.I have made inquiries about when I joined the HWJ editorial collective, and according to Anna Davin it was in 1986, and I left it in 1994.But is this true?(I just can't remember ) I have very clear memories of the first History Workshop I attended -HW 13, 'People's History and Socialist Theory', held at …

  • So What

    Carolyn Steedman, Ninon VinsonneauARTICLEÉcrire l histoire2024

    Les développements d’après-guerre dans la théorie et la pratique de l’écriture du soi au Royaume-Uni sont explorés à travers un compte rendu de l’un de ses textes clés, Landscape for a Good Woman (1986). L’autobiographie est abordée en relation avec les « mémoires » (de langue anglaise) et leur histoire

  • Who reads Renan

    Open AccessCarolyn SteedmanARTICLEHistory of the Human Sciences2024Referencias: 6

    This article claims Virginia Woolf as a historian of the period 1880–1937 in Britain. In her 1937 novel The Years, Woolf employed the religious and cultural history of Ernest Renan, most likely his Vie de Jésus (1863), to produce her own. By unravelling what Renan wrote, what Woolf read and wrote, and what Renan meant, in his own terms and to a contemporary British audience, we can begin to consider the role of religious criticism in the making o…

  • Sad Historian

    Open AccessCarolyn SteedmanARTICLEThe American Historical Review2023

    William Godwin's history writing and Oliver Goldsmith's poetry are used to explore the visual turn in history writing and the historian's project of "rescuing" the poor and dispossessed of the past

  • Age Relations and Cultural Change in Eighteenth-Century England

    Carolyn SteedmanARTICLEThe Journal of Modern History2023

  • The notes, the markings

    Carolyn SteedmanARTICLERethinking History2022Referencias: 5

    The focus is the historiography of Virginia Woolf’s The Years (1937) and her intention to produce a ‘history-novel’ that contained ‘everything’. Modern English-language novelists (popular and literary) also invent characters that embody a preoccupation with the philosophy of history, with the idea of time and duration; sometimes these characters are historians, who are used to inscribe method in social history. The ideas of the marginal note, of …

  • N adja D urbach . Many Mouths

    Open AccessCarolyn SteedmanARTICLEThe American Historical Review2022

    Nadja Durbach’s Many Mouths: The Politics of Food from the Workhouse to the Welfare State is an account of the British state’s provision of food to the indigenous population, and to some colonial subjects, from the 1830s to the 1960s. This is done through a series of case studies, or “a close reading of several key moments” (4). The “moments” are: pauper feeding and protest against it under the New Poor Law (1834); the provisioning of Indian pris…

  • About a Play

    Open AccessCarolyn SteedmanARTICLEHistory Workshop Journal2022

    A school play about the Pentrich Revolution (1817) and Jeremiah Brandreth its 'leader', scripted in 1970-71 by teacher and novelist Stanley Middleton, reveals the history of teaching about Pentrich, to adults and children, over the previous century. Middleton's use of the Nottinghamshire dialect to write history, in the play and his many novels, is a focus of the article

  • And She Did

    Open AccessCarolyn SteedmanARTICLEHistory Workshop Journal2021

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  • The Tidy House

    Carolyn SteedmanCHAPTERThe Children's Culture Reader2020

  • Waiting

    Carolyn SteedmanARTICLESocial History2020

    Arnold Wesker’s 1962 musical play about Jeremiah Brandreth and the Pentrich Uprising (1817), presented at a series of Centre 42/Trade Union festivals held around the Midlands and the South of England, focuses questions of class, cultural consumption and the education of ‘the people’ in their own history, in the postwar years. The article considers dissemination of ideas about the Luddites in postwar history broadcasting, including schools broadca…

  • Francis Green and David Kynaston, Engines of Privilege

    Open AccessCarolyn SteedmanARTICLEHistory Workshop Journal2020

    It was a fateful conjunction – maybe a bit uncanny – reading Engines of Privilege in the week that Boris Johnson was elected leader of the Conservative Party and thus became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (23 July 2019). One of the explanations Green and Kynaston propose for a 150-year history of stalled, delayed, abandoned and half-hearted attempts to change Britain’s peculiar system of private schooling is that most people just can’t be b…

  • Out of Somerset

    Carolyn SteedmanCHAPTEROxford Handbook of Eighteenth-Centu…2019

    This chapter disputes the notion that city satire is exclusively a metropolitan—London—form of writing, arguing that it was also a cultural form, a disposition, a way of thinking, available to all manner of late eighteenth-century people including the two working-class, provincial writers considered here. Two workers—a domestic servant and a stocking maker—raise questions about the uses of satire in class analysis and about satire’s audiences and…

  • Służba i milczenie

    Open AccessCarolyn SteedmanARTICLEPraktyka Teoretyczna2017Referencias: 5

    A translated chapter of Carolyn Steedman’s book Master and Servant. Love and Labour in the English Industrial Age. This text reconstructs the experience of a 18th-century servant, Phoebe Beatson, on the basis of a diary of John Murgatroyd, her employer. Confronting this testimony with other documents of social life, Steedman constructs a history of a class overlooked by traditional Marxist historiography – female domestic servants

  • Fatherhood and the British Working Class, 1865–1914, by Julie-Marie Strange

    Open AccessCarolyn SteedmanARTICLEThe English Historical Review2016

    Julie-Marie Strange has done it Her Way, and the result is terrific: subtle, imaginative and innovative. This is the first reading of British working-class autobiography (reading in the literal sense; actual reading of autobiography as text and historical document) since David Vincent’s resonant work of the 1980s. Some social survey material from the early twentieth century is also discussed. One of Rowntree’s and Lasker’s interviewers (for Unemp…

  • The Radical Soldier's Tale

    Carolyn SteedmanBOOKRadical Soldier's Tale2016

    First published in 1988, The Radical Soldier’s Tale is both an introduction to and a transcript of his ‘Memoirs’, written after his retirement in 1881. In this autobiography he presents his life as a soldier during the Sikh Wars, his life as a policeman, and the ideologies which divided people from each other in the societies he had known and read about. Carolyn Steedman introduces the ‘Memoirs’ by placing the document in its textual context, as …

  • Threatening Letters

    Carolyn SteedmanARTICLEHistory Workshop Journal2016

    Ernest Dodd was E. P. Thompson's research assistant during the 1960s and 1970s. Their correspondence, about the archives of eighteenth-century threatening letters and other forms of popular protest, is used to discuss letter-writing as a social practice, and the making and writing of social history.

  • A Lawyer's Letter

    Carolyn SteedmanARTICLEHistory Workshop Journal2016Citada por: 1

    Ordinary working-people had the means and the knowledge to pay a local attorney to write a letter on their behalf to those who had offended them, or owed them money. This article relates ‘the lawyer's letter’ to other informal law practices of the early English nineteenth century and discusses the letters themselves as part of the multi-faceted epistolary culture they inhabited.

  • On a Bridge

    Carolyn SteedmanARTICLEChanging English2015

    The sources and motives for children writing are discussed in the context of 1950s Britain. The images and objects that furnish the story-making imagination are related to Charles Lamb’s account of looking at old china (teacups and plates) as a child in the 1790s. A focus of this essay is the little-discussed topic of a writer’s failure to write what he or she means

  • Policing the Victorian Community

    Carolyn SteedmanBOOKPolicing the Victorian Community2015

    The year 1856 saw the first compulsory Police Act in England (and Wales). Over the next thirty years a class society came to be policed by a largely working-class police. This book, first published in 1984, traces the process by which men made themselves into policemen, translating ideas about work and servitude, about local government and local community, servitude and the ideologies of law and central government, into sets of personal beliefs. …

  • Mayhew

    Carolyn SteedmanARTICLEJournal of Victorian Culture2014

    Charting recent ‘turns’ in history, towards empathy and ethics, this paper proposes reading Mayhew as a writer. The entry point proposed is Mayhew's What to Teach and How to Teach It: So that the Child may become a Wise and Good Man (1842), a book that charts Mayhew's theories of literacy and language, and of voice and writing

  • Bodies, Figures and Physiology

    Carolyn SteedmanCHAPTERIn the Name of the Child2013

    As for the history of the physiology of growth, it is soon written. We still know lamentably little about the mechanisms by which human growth is so precisely controlled. We do not know why the velocity of growth gets steadily less from birth to puberty. We do not know what causes a fast tempo, what a slow one.

  • The Radical Soldier's Tale

    Carolyn Steedman

    Autobiography of John Peerman, working-class radical and republican, also soldier and policeman. Carolyn Steedman introduces the 'Memoirs' by placing the document in its textual historical and political context.

  • The Useful Knowledge of William Hutton

    Carolyn Steedman

    William Hutton (1723–1815) achieved his first entry in The Dictionary of National Biography in 1891; the modern one is dated 2004. The first drew on many nineteenth-century collections of ‘notable