Elizabeth T Hurren
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3096530 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Elizabeth T Hurren |
| NOMBRES | Elizabeth T |
| APELLIDO | Hurren |
| FIRMA | HURREN E T |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Leicester |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2691-3081 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 22 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2000 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Satisfaction with one's job and working at home in the Covid‐19 pandemic
As greater numbers of people have worked at home during the COVID‐19 pandemic, workers, organisations and policy makers have begun considering the benefits of a sustained move towards homeworking, with workers' satisfaction with homeworking often cited as a key driver. But is satisfaction with homeworking that relevant to workers' overall job satisfaction? In this study, we examine whether job and homeworking satisfaction are predicted by differe…
‘Transforming Sorrow into a Thousand Flowers’
A cultural revival in funeral floriography – the secret language of flowers – is a novel feature of modernity neglected by historiography. A ‘Russian flu’ pandemic which swept across Britain in the 1890s was a commercial catalyst for the floral industry. An excess in mortality of 125,000 people, reflected how 60% of the population were infected with influenza between 1889 and 1895. The floristry business flourished, by following the fashion to li…
Homeworking, Well-Being and the Covid-19 Pandemic
As a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, many governments encouraged or mandated homeworking wherever possible. This study examines the impact of this public health initiative on homeworkers' well-being. It explores if the general factors such as job autonomy, demands, social support and work-nonwork conflict, which under normal circumstances are crucial for employees' well-being, are outweighed by factors specific to homeworking and the pandemic …
The Politician’s Child
The Politician’s Child” investigates childhoods lived in the public eye of modern British politics, c. 1970s–2000s. It engages with diaries, memoirs, autobiographies, biographies, and newspaper interviews in which former politicians revealed private aspects of their children’s lives in return for a publishing advance on leaving public office. The educational, social, and medical problems that political parents create for their offspring have ofte…
Other Spaces’ for the Dangerous Dead of Provincial England, c .1752–1832
The Murder Act (1752) decreed that homicide perpetrators should be hanged and sent for post‐execution punishment. This article explores the event management of criminal dissections by penal surgeons in situ . It reveals that the punishment parade of the condemned did not stop at the scaffold, contrary to the impression in many standard historical accounts. Instead, ordinary people accompanied criminal corpses to many different types of dissection…
Deliver Me From This Indignity!”
Victorian and Edwardian cottage hospitals, compared to infirmaries and workhouse institutions, have been neglected by social historians. Yet, they provided an infrastructure dedicated to localism and healthcare for the aged under the new National Health Service (NHS) after World War Two. This article focuses on two renowned Midlands cottage hospitals built in mid-Northamptonshire at Pitsford. In their patient case-histories we can engage with: di…
Dissecting the Criminal Corpse
The manuscript received an 'excellent' endorsement by external refereeing and suggested amendments were very minor. The completed manuscript was sent to the publisher and accepted on 31 July 2015. It will be copy-edited in the spring of 2016 and is scheduled for open access production in April 2016. Palgrave Macmillan has recently merged with Springer and a short delay in processing has been caused in-house whilst they merge their production syst…
Courtship at the coroner's court
This article examines the nature and conduct of nineteenth-century courtship through the prism of the largest sample of coronial court records ever assembled. These records deal with unexplained or violent deaths and often involved the extensive gathering of testimony from witnesses and other community stakeholders. A surprising number of cases were either directly connected to courtship, or witness statements provide evidence on courtship practi…
The Body Divided
The ways in which human bodies, body parts, organs, and tissue are commodities in a biomedical world has been the focus of extensive historical research following organ-donation scandals in the National Health Service in Britain. The passing of the Human Tissue Act (c. 30, 2004) finally repealed the Anatomy Act (1832). The latter made the poorest repay their welfare debt to society on the dissection table in death, and so expand medical education…
Poverty and sickness in modern Europe
"This book provides a genuinely pan-European analysis of pauper narratives, focusing on the experiences of the sick poor in England, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Wales. The contributions highlight the value of pauper narratives for exploring the agency, rhetoric and experiences of the poor and sick poor, significantly enhancing our understanding of the ways in which national and regional welfare s…
‘Abnormalities and deformities’
The body trade of anatomy schools in Victorian times that underpinned the expansion of medical education has been neglected. This article examines dissection records of insane paupers, sold to repay their welfare debt to society. Each cadaver was entered in an ‘Abnormalities and Deformities’ dissection book. Student doctors paid fees to anatomists to be taught the pathology of insanity under the Medical Act. Anatomists also dissected cadavers to …
Keir Waddington, An Introduction to the Social History of Medicine, Europe since 1500
This book makes a first-rate contribution to the social history of medicine. It will be a ‘must-read’ for many years to come for a wide variety of students studying, not just medicine and society, but more widely how health care and welfare debates shaped the experiences of ordinary people suffering from illness broadly defined in Europe after 1500. As a reviewer, I was very impressed by how skilfully the author has handled complex concepts, espe…
Remaking the Medico-Legal Scene
There have been wide-ranging debates about medicine and the law encapsulated in the figure of the coroner in Victorian England. Recently the historical literature on coroners has been enriched by macro-studies. Despite this important research, the social lives of coroners and their daily interactions remain relatively neglected in standard historical accounts. This article redresses that issue by examining the working life of the coroner for Oxfo…
Whose Body Is It Anyway
This article examines the application of the Anatomy Act (1832) at Oxford University, circa 1885–1929. For the first time it retraces the economy of supply in dead bodies, sold by various black-market intermediaries and welfare agencies, transported on the railway to Oxford. Both pauper cadavers and body parts were used to train doctors in human anatomy at a time when student demand always exceeded the economy of supply. An added problem was that…
A Radical Historian's Pursuit of Rural History
How to Write the History of a Parish (1905) by John Charles Cox is a famous early modern history of the parish-state. Yet its author had an eclectic and radical political career in Midlands' life long before he became famous as an historian of English rural life. Today, Cox's radical activities are in fact an important historical prism. His neglected career demonstrates how a strong personality could bring about genuine political change in agricu…
Poor Law versus Public Health
This article focuses on several high-profile, rural diphtheria epidemics of the later nineteenth century to explore the links between public health reform and disease control, and the changing character of the Poor Law. It explains that a Poor Law retrenchment policy, dubbed by contemporaries as the ‘crusade’ against outdoor relief, dominated Local Government Board (hereafter LGB) spending policies. The policy had a profound impact on all areas o…
Begging for a burial’
Welfare-to-Work Schemes and a Crusade Against Outdoor Relief in the Brixworth Union, Northamptonshire, in the I88os
In I87I, when the Poor Law Board merged with the newly created Local Government Board, senior civil servants tried to abolish all outdoor relief funding to make cost savings. Most rural Poor Law unions followed these new guidelines until the onset of an agricultural crisis in the I88os. Central government authorized guardians to introduce welfare-to-work schemes funded from local rates to alleviate the unprecedented unemployment in the countrysid…
Labourers are Revolting
Throughout the nineteenth century one of the main issues that preoccupied central government policy-makers was how poverty should be dealt with, in order to reduce poor relief expenditure. The Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, as Karel Williams argues, aimed to introduce a general rule against out-door relief by substituting instead a workhouse test that sought to deter paupers with its axiom of ‘less eligibility’. In practice, as Williams explains…
Begging for a burial’
Dissecting the Criminal Corpse
The manuscript received an 'excellent' endorsement by external refereeing and suggested amendments were very minor. The completed manuscript was sent to the publisher and accepted on 31 July 2015. It will be copy-edited in the spring of 2016 and is scheduled for open access production in April 2016. Palgrave Macmillan has recently merged with Springer and a short delay in processing has been caused in-house whilst they merge their production syst…
Poor Law versus Public Health
This article focuses on several high-profile, rural diphtheria epidemics of the later nineteenth century to explore the links between public health reform and disease control, and the changing character of the Poor Law. It explains that a Poor Law retrenchment policy, dubbed by contemporaries as the ‘crusade’ against outdoor relief, dominated Local Government Board (hereafter LGB) spending policies. The policy had a profound impact on all areas o…
Courtship at the coroner's court
This article examines the nature and conduct of nineteenth-century courtship through the prism of the largest sample of coronial court records ever assembled. These records deal with unexplained or violent deaths and often involved the extensive gathering of testimony from witnesses and other community stakeholders. A surprising number of cases were either directly connected to courtship, or witness statements provide evidence on courtship practi…
A Radical Historian's Pursuit of Rural History
How to Write the History of a Parish (1905) by John Charles Cox is a famous early modern history of the parish-state. Yet its author had an eclectic and radical political career in Midlands' life long before he became famous as an historian of English rural life. Today, Cox's radical activities are in fact an important historical prism. His neglected career demonstrates how a strong personality could bring about genuine political change in agricu…
Labourers are Revolting
Throughout the nineteenth century one of the main issues that preoccupied central government policy-makers was how poverty should be dealt with, in order to reduce poor relief expenditure. The Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, as Karel Williams argues, aimed to introduce a general rule against out-door relief by substituting instead a workhouse test that sought to deter paupers with its axiom of ‘less eligibility’. In practice, as Williams explains…
Labourers are Revolting
Throughout the nineteenth century one of the main issues that preoccupied central government policy-makers was how poverty should be dealt with, in order to reduce poor relief expenditure. The Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, as Karel Williams argues, aimed to introduce a general rule against out-door relief by substituting instead a workhouse test that sought to deter paupers with its axiom of ‘less eligibility’. In practice, as Williams explains…
Welfare-to-Work Schemes and a Crusade Against Outdoor Relief in the Brixworth Union, Northamptonshire, in the I88os
In I87I, when the Poor Law Board merged with the newly created Local Government Board, senior civil servants tried to abolish all outdoor relief funding to make cost savings. Most rural Poor Law unions followed these new guidelines until the onset of an agricultural crisis in the I88os. Central government authorized guardians to introduce welfare-to-work schemes funded from local rates to alleviate the unprecedented unemployment in the countrysid…
Poor Law versus Public Health
This article focuses on several high-profile, rural diphtheria epidemics of the later nineteenth century to explore the links between public health reform and disease control, and the changing character of the Poor Law. It explains that a Poor Law retrenchment policy, dubbed by contemporaries as the ‘crusade’ against outdoor relief, dominated Local Government Board (hereafter LGB) spending policies. The policy had a profound impact on all areas o…
Begging for a burial’
Whose Body Is It Anyway
This article examines the application of the Anatomy Act (1832) at Oxford University, circa 1885–1929. For the first time it retraces the economy of supply in dead bodies, sold by various black-market intermediaries and welfare agencies, transported on the railway to Oxford. Both pauper cadavers and body parts were used to train doctors in human anatomy at a time when student demand always exceeded the economy of supply. An added problem was that…
A Radical Historian's Pursuit of Rural History
How to Write the History of a Parish (1905) by John Charles Cox is a famous early modern history of the parish-state. Yet its author had an eclectic and radical political career in Midlands' life long before he became famous as an historian of English rural life. Today, Cox's radical activities are in fact an important historical prism. His neglected career demonstrates how a strong personality could bring about genuine political change in agricu…
Remaking the Medico-Legal Scene
There have been wide-ranging debates about medicine and the law encapsulated in the figure of the coroner in Victorian England. Recently the historical literature on coroners has been enriched by macro-studies. Despite this important research, the social lives of coroners and their daily interactions remain relatively neglected in standard historical accounts. This article redresses that issue by examining the working life of the coroner for Oxfo…
Poverty and sickness in modern Europe
"This book provides a genuinely pan-European analysis of pauper narratives, focusing on the experiences of the sick poor in England, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Wales. The contributions highlight the value of pauper narratives for exploring the agency, rhetoric and experiences of the poor and sick poor, significantly enhancing our understanding of the ways in which national and regional welfare s…
‘Abnormalities and deformities’
The body trade of anatomy schools in Victorian times that underpinned the expansion of medical education has been neglected. This article examines dissection records of insane paupers, sold to repay their welfare debt to society. Each cadaver was entered in an ‘Abnormalities and Deformities’ dissection book. Student doctors paid fees to anatomists to be taught the pathology of insanity under the Medical Act. Anatomists also dissected cadavers to …
Keir Waddington, An Introduction to the Social History of Medicine, Europe since 1500
This book makes a first-rate contribution to the social history of medicine. It will be a ‘must-read’ for many years to come for a wide variety of students studying, not just medicine and society, but more widely how health care and welfare debates shaped the experiences of ordinary people suffering from illness broadly defined in Europe after 1500. As a reviewer, I was very impressed by how skilfully the author has handled complex concepts, espe…
The Body Divided
The ways in which human bodies, body parts, organs, and tissue are commodities in a biomedical world has been the focus of extensive historical research following organ-donation scandals in the National Health Service in Britain. The passing of the Human Tissue Act (c. 30, 2004) finally repealed the Anatomy Act (1832). The latter made the poorest repay their welfare debt to society on the dissection table in death, and so expand medical education…
Courtship at the coroner's court
This article examines the nature and conduct of nineteenth-century courtship through the prism of the largest sample of coronial court records ever assembled. These records deal with unexplained or violent deaths and often involved the extensive gathering of testimony from witnesses and other community stakeholders. A surprising number of cases were either directly connected to courtship, or witness statements provide evidence on courtship practi…
Deliver Me From This Indignity!”
Victorian and Edwardian cottage hospitals, compared to infirmaries and workhouse institutions, have been neglected by social historians. Yet, they provided an infrastructure dedicated to localism and healthcare for the aged under the new National Health Service (NHS) after World War Two. This article focuses on two renowned Midlands cottage hospitals built in mid-Northamptonshire at Pitsford. In their patient case-histories we can engage with: di…
Dissecting the Criminal Corpse
The manuscript received an 'excellent' endorsement by external refereeing and suggested amendments were very minor. The completed manuscript was sent to the publisher and accepted on 31 July 2015. It will be copy-edited in the spring of 2016 and is scheduled for open access production in April 2016. Palgrave Macmillan has recently merged with Springer and a short delay in processing has been caused in-house whilst they merge their production syst…
Other Spaces’ for the Dangerous Dead of Provincial England, c .1752–1832
The Murder Act (1752) decreed that homicide perpetrators should be hanged and sent for post‐execution punishment. This article explores the event management of criminal dissections by penal surgeons in situ . It reveals that the punishment parade of the condemned did not stop at the scaffold, contrary to the impression in many standard historical accounts. Instead, ordinary people accompanied criminal corpses to many different types of dissection…
The Politician’s Child
The Politician’s Child” investigates childhoods lived in the public eye of modern British politics, c. 1970s–2000s. It engages with diaries, memoirs, autobiographies, biographies, and newspaper interviews in which former politicians revealed private aspects of their children’s lives in return for a publishing advance on leaving public office. The educational, social, and medical problems that political parents create for their offspring have ofte…
Homeworking, Well-Being and the Covid-19 Pandemic
As a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, many governments encouraged or mandated homeworking wherever possible. This study examines the impact of this public health initiative on homeworkers' well-being. It explores if the general factors such as job autonomy, demands, social support and work-nonwork conflict, which under normal circumstances are crucial for employees' well-being, are outweighed by factors specific to homeworking and the pandemic …
‘Transforming Sorrow into a Thousand Flowers’
A cultural revival in funeral floriography – the secret language of flowers – is a novel feature of modernity neglected by historiography. A ‘Russian flu’ pandemic which swept across Britain in the 1890s was a commercial catalyst for the floral industry. An excess in mortality of 125,000 people, reflected how 60% of the population were infected with influenza between 1889 and 1895. The floristry business flourished, by following the fashion to li…
Satisfaction with one's job and working at home in the Covid‐19 pandemic
As greater numbers of people have worked at home during the COVID‐19 pandemic, workers, organisations and policy makers have begun considering the benefits of a sustained move towards homeworking, with workers' satisfaction with homeworking often cited as a key driver. But is satisfaction with homeworking that relevant to workers' overall job satisfaction? In this study, we examine whether job and homeworking satisfaction are predicted by differe…
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