Leonard Abrams
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 264319 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Leonard Abrams |
| NOMBRES | Leonard |
| APELLIDO | Abrams |
| FIRMA | ABRAMS L |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Glasgow |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9886-4872 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 50 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 56 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 50 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1984 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Re-Creating Historic Modern Hand Knitting
This article explores the benefits of academic collaboration with the community of practice. It employs experimental history methodology, a collaboration between historians, curators and volunteer knitters, in order to gain knowledge about design and making practices in two examples of historic hand knitting from the modern period. The first project investigated nineteenth-century printed knitting patterns purporting to be Shetland lace. The seco…
“Feminist historians are still really influential, pushing the boundaries of what oral history can do…” An Interview with Lynn Abrams
An interview with Lynn Abrams by Marie Jiřičková
Creativity and Design in a Contemporary Knitwear Business
Di Gilpin is the creative director and Sheila Greenwell the production manager of Di Gilpin, an independent knitwear design studio and workshop based in Fife, Scotland. From modest origins on Skye in the 1980s, Di Gilpin is now one of the few hand knitting businesses working with the fashion industry as well as maintaining a presence within the wider hand knitting community by producing knitting patterns, kits and its own brand of knitting yarn. …
Introduction
This Introduction frames a curated collection of articles on creativity in the knitwear sector, interrogating some of the ways in which creativity has been inspired, supported and manifested, from the home knitter to the internationally renowned designer, from the craft knitter to the industrial knitwear manufacturer. The contributions provide a diverse understanding of the creative practices of knitting, ranging from the skills of hand knitters …
History, Sustainability and Communities of Practice
The welfare state generation
The welfare state generation: women, agency and class in Britain since 1945 Eve Worth London, Bloomsbury Academic, 2022, x+264 pp., £85 (hbk), ISBN 978 1 35019 206 5, 9781350192072 (ePDF) (£76.50), 9781350192089 (ebk) (£76.50)
Recognising the Co-dependence of Machine and Hand in the Scottish Knitwear Industry
Knowledge of the economy and culture of knitted textiles in Scotland since the late eighteenth century is framed by opposing paradigms. The study of craft regards knitting as a traditional practice and focuses on the techniques and designs of the hand knitter. The industrial paradigm, on the other hand, is dominated by studies of factory production that subordinate hand knitting as an outmoded and non-economic practice superseded by mechanisation…
Remembering Shani D'Cruze (1954-2021)
This obituary is written by some of the many friends and colleagues who knew and appreciated Shani D’Cruze during her lifetime .It is with great sadness that we learned of the death of Dr Shani D’C
Place, memory and the British high rise experience
The ‘failure’ of Britain’s ‘high rise experiment’ remains one of the most heavily mythologised episodes within popular memory of post-war reconstruction. Despite this, the distinctive experiential, affective and representational dimensions of flatted estates have not been critically examined in recent work on the history of public housing in Britain. Based on the micro-analysis of a major development in Glasgow, this article interrogates this ‘de…
Heroes of Their Own Life Stories
This article proposes a triple legacy of the expressive culture of the 1960s and 70s. Late twentieth century feminism, discourses of gender equality and the advent of modern confessional culture liberated women’s women’s voices, producing self-realising narratives and a shift in women’s facility to produce authentic ‘reflexive projects of the self’. Drawing on oral history interviews with women born in the 1940s in the United Kingdom, Australia a…
Slum clearance and relocation
Housing research rarely takes a long-term view of the impacts of short-term housing changes. Thus, in studies of post-war relocation, narratives of ‘loss of community’ and ‘dislocation’ have dominated the debate for decades. This paper combines a ‘re-study’ methodology with oral histories to re-examine the experience of relocation into high-rise flats in Glasgow in the 1960s and 1970s. We find that both the immediate and longer term outcomes of r…
The Self and Self-Help
In the history of post-war womanhood in Britain, women's self-help organisations are credited with little significance save for ‘helping mothers to do their work more happily’. This paper suggests that the do-it-yourself impetus of the 1960s and 1970s should be regarded as integral to understanding how millions of women negotiated a route towards personal growth and autonomy. Organisations like the National Housewives’ Register, the National Chil…
People and their homes rather than housing in the usual sense'? Locating the tenant's voice in Homes in High Flats
In recent years, the social research of Pearl Jephcott has been subject to scholarly reappraisal on the grounds that it displays an early commitment to the unmediated reporting of ‘the authentic voice of her participants’. This article investigates the extent to which this claim holds for Jephcott’s seminal 1971 study Homes in High Flats. It suggests that, although Homes in High Flats sought to investigate ‘people and their homes rather than hous…
Isolated and dependent
In 1971 Pearl Jephcott's Homes in High Flats, the culmination of her groundbreaking research into high rise living in Glasgow, revealed the problems faced by young mothers on the new high rise estates in the city. This article interrogates two connected factors, social isolation and economic dependence, which characterised the experience of many women who were rehoused to high flats in the postwar decades. Drawing on evidence collected by Jephcot…
Aspiration, Agency, and the Production of New Selves in a Scottish New Town, c.1947–c.2016
Narratives of deindustrialization, urban decline and failing public housing and the negative outcomes associated with these processes dominate accounts of post-war Scotland, bolstering the interpretation of Scottish exceptionalism in a British context. Within these accounts working people appear as victims of powerful and long-term external forces suffering sustained and ongoing deleterious vulnerabilities in terms of employment, health, and hous…
Nine Centuries of Man
Liberating the female self
It is generally accepted that the process of life story telling in the western developed world is essential to the construction of the self.1 The concept of the narrative self, the idea that the se
Twenty‐five Years of Gender & History
The Taming of Highland Masculinity
Inter-personal violence between men has often been accepted as a ubiquitous feature of male relationships in the past, and the contexts in which that violence was perpetrated is seen to reveal something about the mentalities and social roles of men in past societies. This article considers the social practices of masculinity and the acting out of codes of manhood in the context of Highland Scotland in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries…
Story-telling, Women's Authority and the 'Old Wife's Tale
The focus of this article is a single personal narrative – a Shetland woman's telling of a story about two girls on a journey to fetch a cure for a sick relative from a wise woman. The story is treated as a cultural document which offers the historian a conduit to a past that is respectful of indigenous woman-centred interpretations of how that past was experienced and understood. The "story of the bottle of medicine" is more than a skilful telli…
There Is Many a Thing That Can Be Done with Money
Representations of Shetland womanhood have a place in our understanding of gender relations in this island community but not the place one might expect. Far from conforming to the image of the brazen fishwife and the exploited preindustrial handknitter, women in these occupations exhibited a degree of independence perhaps unexpected in a society so dominated by the farming-fishing economy. Yet the particular demographic characteristics of Shetlan…
Oral History Theory
Oral history is increasingly acknowledged as a key tool for anyone studying the history of the recent past, and Oral History Theory provides a comprehensive, systematic and accessible overview of this important field. Combining the study of theories drawn from disciplines ranging from linguistics to psychoanalysis with the observations of practitioners and including extensive examples of oral history practice from around the world, this book cons…
The Viking World
The list of contributors to this admirable compendium of knowledge contains 69 names, from Ambrosiani to Zachrisson. Their range of expertise combines to complement, but not compete with, the primarily literary Blackwell's Companion to Old Norse-Icelandic Literature and Culture, edited by Rory McTurk in 2004, and Philip Pulsiano's Medieval Scandinavia: An Encyclopedia, published in 1993. Instead, The Viking World ranges across all the relevant di…
The Vikings in Ireland
The activities of vikings in Ireland and associated maritime regions have literally been in the news recently. A conference in Cambridge in March 2009 (Between the Islands: Interaction with Vikings in Ireland and Britain in the Early Medieval Period) was featured in the broadsheets, and some of its central contentions, on immigration and cultural interaction, even appeared in a Guardian editorial (only slightly distorted). Recent and forthcoming …
Appearances. Memory, history, clothes
Liberating the female self
It is generally accepted that the process of life story telling in the western developed world is essential to the construction of the self.1 The concept of the narrative self, the idea that the se
There was Nobody like my Daddy
Landscapes of Monastic Foundation
TIM PESTELL begins his study of monastic foundations in East Anglia with two complaints. The preoccupation of past scholarship with buildings has led to an emphasis on the post-Conquest period, creating an unhelpful break with what had gone before. Another scholarly preoccupation, the different monastic orders, has meant that attention focused on Cistercians or Carthusians has isolated them from the wider context of overall religious provision. P…
Heroes of Their Own Life Stories
This article proposes a triple legacy of the expressive culture of the 1960s and 70s. Late twentieth century feminism, discourses of gender equality and the advent of modern confessional culture liberated women’s women’s voices, producing self-realising narratives and a shift in women’s facility to produce authentic ‘reflexive projects of the self’. Drawing on oral history interviews with women born in the 1940s in the United Kingdom, Australia a…
The Taming of Highland Masculinity
Inter-personal violence between men has often been accepted as a ubiquitous feature of male relationships in the past, and the contexts in which that violence was perpetrated is seen to reveal something about the mentalities and social roles of men in past societies. This article considers the social practices of masculinity and the acting out of codes of manhood in the context of Highland Scotland in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries…
Concubinage, Cohabitation and the Law
Slum clearance and relocation
Housing research rarely takes a long-term view of the impacts of short-term housing changes. Thus, in studies of post-war relocation, narratives of ‘loss of community’ and ‘dislocation’ have dominated the debate for decades. This paper combines a ‘re-study’ methodology with oral histories to re-examine the experience of relocation into high-rise flats in Glasgow in the 1960s and 1970s. We find that both the immediate and longer term outcomes of r…
A Social and Economic History of Central European Jewry
Isolated and dependent
In 1971 Pearl Jephcott's Homes in High Flats, the culmination of her groundbreaking research into high rise living in Glasgow, revealed the problems faced by young mothers on the new high rise estates in the city. This article interrogates two connected factors, social isolation and economic dependence, which characterised the experience of many women who were rehoused to high flats in the postwar decades. Drawing on evidence collected by Jephcot…
There Is Many a Thing That Can Be Done with Money
Representations of Shetland womanhood have a place in our understanding of gender relations in this island community but not the place one might expect. Far from conforming to the image of the brazen fishwife and the exploited preindustrial handknitter, women in these occupations exhibited a degree of independence perhaps unexpected in a society so dominated by the farming-fishing economy. Yet the particular demographic characteristics of Shetlan…
Christianization and the Rise of Christian Monarchy
Journal Article Christianization and the Rise of Christian Monarchy: Scandinavia, Central Europe and Rus’ c. 900–1200 Get access Christianization and the Rise of Christian Monarchy: Scandinavia, Central Europe and Rus’ c. 900–1200, ed. Nora Berend (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2007; pp. 444. £55). L. Abrams L. Abrams Balliol College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volum…
The Self and Self-Help
In the history of post-war womanhood in Britain, women's self-help organisations are credited with little significance save for ‘helping mothers to do their work more happily’. This paper suggests that the do-it-yourself impetus of the 1960s and 1970s should be regarded as integral to understanding how millions of women negotiated a route towards personal growth and autonomy. Organisations like the National Housewives’ Register, the National Chil…
People and their homes rather than housing in the usual sense'? Locating the tenant's voice in Homes in High Flats
In recent years, the social research of Pearl Jephcott has been subject to scholarly reappraisal on the grounds that it displays an early commitment to the unmediated reporting of ‘the authentic voice of her participants’. This article investigates the extent to which this claim holds for Jephcott’s seminal 1971 study Homes in High Flats. It suggests that, although Homes in High Flats sought to investigate ‘people and their homes rather than hous…
Story-telling, Women's Authority and the 'Old Wife's Tale
The focus of this article is a single personal narrative – a Shetland woman's telling of a story about two girls on a journey to fetch a cure for a sick relative from a wise woman. The story is treated as a cultural document which offers the historian a conduit to a past that is respectful of indigenous woman-centred interpretations of how that past was experienced and understood. The "story of the bottle of medicine" is more than a skilful telli…
Borders and frontiers in women's history
The German Bourgeoisie
Arbeiterkultur in Marbach
Journal Article ARBEITERKULTUR IN MARBACH Get access Lynn Abrams Lynn Abrams University of East Anglia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 1, Issue 1, 1984, Pages 32–34, https://doi.org/10.1093/gh/1.1.32 Published: 01 September 1984
Drink and the Working Class in Late Nineteenth Century Bochum
DRINK AND THE WORKING CLASS IN LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY BOCHUM Get access Lynn Abrams Lynn Abrams University of East Anglia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 3, Issue 1, 1986, Pages 3–14, https://doi.org/10.1093/gh/3.1.3 Published: 01 September 1986
Popular Culture, Leisure, and Recreation in Imperial Germany
Journal Article Popular Culture, Leisure, and Recreation in Imperial Germany: With Particular Reference to Bochum and Düsseldorf Get access Lynn Carole Abrams Lynn Carole Abrams University of East Angliu, 1988 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 7, Issue 1, January 1989, Pages 124–125, https://doi.org/10.1093/gh/7.1.124 Published: 01 January 1989
A Social and Economic History of Central European Jewry
Weibliche Kultur und Soziale Arbeit
Journal Article Weibliche Kultur und Soziale Arbeit: eine Geschichte der Frauenbewegung am Beispiel Bremens 1810–1927 Get access Lynn Abrams Lynn Abrams University of LancasterBy Elisabeth Meyer-Renschhausen. Cologne/Vienna: Bohlau. 1989. x + 408 pp. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 9, Issue 1, January 1991, Pages 96–97, https://doi.org/10.1093/gh/9.1.96 Published: 01 January 1991
Die Kunst dem Volke oder dem Proletariat
Journal Article Die Kunst dem Volke oder dem Proletariat?: Die Geschichte der Freien Volksbühnenbewegung in Berlin, 1890-1914 Get access Lynn Abrams Lynn Abrams University of LaneasterBy Hyun-Back Chung. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. 1989. 332 pp. DM68. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 10, Issue 2, 1992, Pages 251–252, https://doi.org/10.1093/gh/10.2.251b Published: 01 April 1992
The German Bourgeoisie
Concubinage, Cohabitation and the Law
Martyrs or matriarchs? working-class women's experience of marriage in Germany before the first world war
The German family before 1914 has commonly been portrayed as patriarchal and authoritarian. Paternal authority was sustained by ideological conservatism, a discriminatory civil law code and an economic framework which treated husbands as breadwinners and wives as dependants. Such a model, it has been suggested, may have legitimised male violence within the home. It is easy to depict working-class women as martyrs at the hands of their violent hus…
Workers' Culture in Imperial Germany
Workers' Culture in Imperial Germany
Whores, Whore-Chasers, and Swine
This article suggests that in a society experiencing economic and political upheaval, marriage, and especially the language used to talk about marital break down, was placed at the forefront of an attempt to bolster the idea of the sexual balance of power and proper gender role division. An analysis of the depositions presented at divorce cases in one court in the Prussian Rhine Province between 1814 and 1871 demonstrates that social organization…
Gender Relations in German History
Gender Relations in German History
Contents -- Preface -- Notes on contributors -- 1 Introduction: gender and gender relations in German history /Lynn Abrams and Elizabeth Harvey -- 2 Gender norms and their enforcement in early modern Germany /Heide Wunder -- 3 The public body: policing abortion in early modern Germany /Ulinka Rublack -- 4 Religious dissent and the roots of German feminism /Dagmar Herzog -- 5 Companionship and conflict: the negotiation of marriage relations in the…
There was Nobody like my Daddy
Alienated affections
Borders and frontiers in women's history
Workers' Culture in Imperial Germany
Bismarck and the German Empire
Updated and expanded, this second edition of Bismarck and the German Empire, 1871–1918 is an accessible introduction to this important period in German history. Providing both a narrative of events at the time and an analysis of social and cultural developments across the period, Lynn Abrams examines the political, economic and social structures of the Empire. Including the latest research, the book also covers: how Bismarck consolidated his regi…
Film Reviews
The Cross and the Crossroads, 2004. A film by Brian Brazeal. 30 min. Color. Lala and Bala Productions in association with Wunderlicious Entertainment
Landscapes of Monastic Foundation
TIM PESTELL begins his study of monastic foundations in East Anglia with two complaints. The preoccupation of past scholarship with buildings has led to an emphasis on the post-Conquest period, creating an unhelpful break with what had gone before. Another scholarly preoccupation, the different monastic orders, has meant that attention focused on Cistercians or Carthusians has isolated them from the wider context of overall religious provision. P…
The business of everyday life
The Unseamed Picture
This article is about the tension between the grand narrative of modern European women's history and the micro‐study of a particular place and experience. Adopting a perspective far removed from the metropolitan heart of Europe forces one to think differently about the prime motors of change and the chronology of that change. I ask how we can write meaningful and recognisable histories which simultaneously are recognisable to those whose voices a…
Narrative and History in the Early Medieval West
Journal Article Narrative and History in the Early Medieval West Get access Narrative and History in the Early Medieval West, ed. Elizabeth M. Tyler and Ross Balzaretti (Turnhout: Brepols, 2006; pp. 265. £60). Lesley Abrams Lesley Abrams Balliol College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXIII, Issue 503, August 2008, Pages 997–999, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ce…
Christianization and the Rise of Christian Monarchy
Journal Article Christianization and the Rise of Christian Monarchy: Scandinavia, Central Europe and Rus’ c. 900–1200 Get access Christianization and the Rise of Christian Monarchy: Scandinavia, Central Europe and Rus’ c. 900–1200, ed. Nora Berend (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2007; pp. 444. £55). L. Abrams L. Abrams Balliol College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volum…
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