David Beckingham
Biographic Data
| ID | 1127378 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Beckingham |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Beckingham |
| SIGNATURE | BECKINGHAM D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4721-1705 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The people and places of British temperance
The Built Heritage of the Temperance Movement: The Way Out of Darkest England, Andrew Davison, Liverpool (2026), 280 pages, £50.00, hardbackTemperance Lives: Life Assurance, Drink and Medicine in Britain, 1840-1918, James Kneale, London (2026), 320 pages, £85.00, hardback
Do Everything: The Biography of Frances Willard
Temperance lives and landscape: Lady Elizabeth Biddulph, Lady Henry Somerset, and late nineteenth-century Ledbury
This article considers the relationship of two prominent leaders of British women’s temperance, Lady Henry Somerset and Lady Elizabeth Biddulph. They were noteworthy for taking opposing sides when the British Women’s Temperance Association divided on the question of the political reach of its work. Somerset and Biddulph were elite women, daughters of earls and near neighbours around Ledbury, a centre of cider apple and hop cultivation in Hereford…
Landed estates and the place of public houses: Agricultural and industrial change in the English East Midlands, c.1860–1930
This article uses the records the Manvers and Portland estates in Nottinghamshire and north-east Derbyshire to consider the provision and management of licensed premises between the 1860s and 1930s. Using archival materials of land agents and solicitors, it examines the changing place of public houses in a range of local communities affected by agricultural decline and industrial change in the region. These include: small agricultural villages on…
Digital archives and recombinant historical geographies
This article considers how digitisation is reshaping archival research in geography. Digitisation is more than a technical convenience, something that simply speeds up existing ways of working. Through novel practices of recombination, digital archive platforms enable researchers to extract and recombine fragments of historical information, drawn across multiple periods, places, collections and contexts. This represents a fundamental change in ho…
Private Spirits, Public Lives: Sober Citizenship, Shame and Secret Drinking in Victorian Britain
This article considers Victorian concerns about the rise of secret drinking amongst respectable women. These new, apparently dangerous, practices were blamed on licensed grocers and even railway station refreshment rooms. Understandings of different male and female natures went hand in glove with anxieties about the potential effects of drinking. That alcohol might be consumed in secret, at home, triggered concerns about the shameful state of wom…
Bureaucracy, case geography and the governance of the inebriate in Scotland (1898–1918)
This article considers the late-Victorian and Edwardian legislative treatment of problem drunkenness in Scotland under the 1898 Inebriates Act. It examines the uneven enactment of the law, by geography and gender, and exposes how mundane questions of bureaucracy, of finance and jurisdiction, intersected with the institutional management of people convicted under it. I present an analytical framework of case geography to examine the ways in which …
Jessica Boak and Ray Bailey, 20th Century Pub: From Beer House to Booze Bunker . St. Albans: Homewood, 2017
Global Anti-Vice Activism, 1890–1950: Fighting Drinks, Drugs, and “Immorality”
The vice of distant knowledge”: Licensing and the geography of jurisdiction on the Scottish wartime Home Front
Banning the barmaid: Time, space and alcohol licensing in 1900s Glasgow
This article examines the decision of Glasgow’s magistrates at the beginning of the twentieth century to prohibit the employment of barmaids in the city's public houses, tracing the origins and advocates of the ban as well its effects on the licensed trade and the women who worked behind bars. It responds to Mariana Valverde’s recent work on the relationship between time and space in the operation of law, analysing the ways in which the magistrat…
Time-geography, gentlemen, please: Chronotopes of publand in Patrick Hamilton's London trilogy
This paper considers the time and the place of drinking in modern British life, as represented in Patrick Hamilton’s trilogy of novels set in the publand of London’s West End in the interwar years, and through Mikhail Bakhtin’s concept of the chronotope and with critical nods to Hagerstrand’s timegeography corpus. The chronotopes of pubs and their neighbourhoods, which we term ‘publand’, are discussed initially in their novelistic presentation in…
Drink in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Scale and the moral geographies of Victorian and Edwardian child protection
Gender, Space, and Drunkenness: Liverpool's Licensed Premises, 1860–1914
The British licensing system regulated public houses both as social centers and as providers of alcohol. In the northern port city of Liverpool—which police statistics consistently showed to be one of the most drunken cities in Britain—the spatial technology of licensing worked to shape drinking and drunkenness with a particular emphasis on the regulation of female drinking. Between 1850 and 1915 women accounted for 40 percent of all apprehension…
An historical geography of liberty: Lancashire and the Inebriates Acts
Managed zones for sex workers in Liverpool: Contemporary proposals, Victorian parallels
Recent proposals to establish a ‘managed zone’ for female street sex workers in Liverpool are placed in this paper in historical and geographical context. Liverpool is shown to be an exemplar of a late Victorian municipal management of prostitution that was just as firmly committed to the containment and ‘localisation’ of sex work. This model is contrasted with alternative municipal strategies, and set within a national legislative agenda increas…
Mapping the Victorian Social Body
Digital archives and recombinant historical geographies
This article considers how digitisation is reshaping archival research in geography. Digitisation is more than a technical convenience, something that simply speeds up existing ways of working. Through novel practices of recombination, digital archive platforms enable researchers to extract and recombine fragments of historical information, drawn across multiple periods, places, collections and contexts. This represents a fundamental change in ho…
Managed zones for sex workers in Liverpool: Contemporary proposals, Victorian parallels
Recent proposals to establish a ‘managed zone’ for female street sex workers in Liverpool are placed in this paper in historical and geographical context. Liverpool is shown to be an exemplar of a late Victorian municipal management of prostitution that was just as firmly committed to the containment and ‘localisation’ of sex work. This model is contrasted with alternative municipal strategies, and set within a national legislative agenda increas…
Gender, Space, and Drunkenness: Liverpool's Licensed Premises, 1860–1914
The British licensing system regulated public houses both as social centers and as providers of alcohol. In the northern port city of Liverpool—which police statistics consistently showed to be one of the most drunken cities in Britain—the spatial technology of licensing worked to shape drinking and drunkenness with a particular emphasis on the regulation of female drinking. Between 1850 and 1915 women accounted for 40 percent of all apprehension…
An historical geography of liberty: Lancashire and the Inebriates Acts
Time-geography, gentlemen, please: Chronotopes of publand in Patrick Hamilton's London trilogy
This paper considers the time and the place of drinking in modern British life, as represented in Patrick Hamilton’s trilogy of novels set in the publand of London’s West End in the interwar years, and through Mikhail Bakhtin’s concept of the chronotope and with critical nods to Hagerstrand’s timegeography corpus. The chronotopes of pubs and their neighbourhoods, which we term ‘publand’, are discussed initially in their novelistic presentation in…
Scale and the moral geographies of Victorian and Edwardian child protection
The vice of distant knowledge”: Licensing and the geography of jurisdiction on the Scottish wartime Home Front
Banning the barmaid: Time, space and alcohol licensing in 1900s Glasgow
This article examines the decision of Glasgow’s magistrates at the beginning of the twentieth century to prohibit the employment of barmaids in the city's public houses, tracing the origins and advocates of the ban as well its effects on the licensed trade and the women who worked behind bars. It responds to Mariana Valverde’s recent work on the relationship between time and space in the operation of law, analysing the ways in which the magistrat…
Bureaucracy, case geography and the governance of the inebriate in Scotland (1898–1918)
This article considers the late-Victorian and Edwardian legislative treatment of problem drunkenness in Scotland under the 1898 Inebriates Act. It examines the uneven enactment of the law, by geography and gender, and exposes how mundane questions of bureaucracy, of finance and jurisdiction, intersected with the institutional management of people convicted under it. I present an analytical framework of case geography to examine the ways in which …
Temperance lives and landscape: Lady Elizabeth Biddulph, Lady Henry Somerset, and late nineteenth-century Ledbury
This article considers the relationship of two prominent leaders of British women’s temperance, Lady Henry Somerset and Lady Elizabeth Biddulph. They were noteworthy for taking opposing sides when the British Women’s Temperance Association divided on the question of the political reach of its work. Somerset and Biddulph were elite women, daughters of earls and near neighbours around Ledbury, a centre of cider apple and hop cultivation in Hereford…
Private Spirits, Public Lives: Sober Citizenship, Shame and Secret Drinking in Victorian Britain
This article considers Victorian concerns about the rise of secret drinking amongst respectable women. These new, apparently dangerous, practices were blamed on licensed grocers and even railway station refreshment rooms. Understandings of different male and female natures went hand in glove with anxieties about the potential effects of drinking. That alcohol might be consumed in secret, at home, triggered concerns about the shameful state of wom…
Drink in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Mapping the Victorian Social Body
Managed zones for sex workers in Liverpool: Contemporary proposals, Victorian parallels
Recent proposals to establish a ‘managed zone’ for female street sex workers in Liverpool are placed in this paper in historical and geographical context. Liverpool is shown to be an exemplar of a late Victorian municipal management of prostitution that was just as firmly committed to the containment and ‘localisation’ of sex work. This model is contrasted with alternative municipal strategies, and set within a national legislative agenda increas…
An historical geography of liberty: Lancashire and the Inebriates Acts
Gender, Space, and Drunkenness: Liverpool's Licensed Premises, 1860–1914
The British licensing system regulated public houses both as social centers and as providers of alcohol. In the northern port city of Liverpool—which police statistics consistently showed to be one of the most drunken cities in Britain—the spatial technology of licensing worked to shape drinking and drunkenness with a particular emphasis on the regulation of female drinking. Between 1850 and 1915 women accounted for 40 percent of all apprehension…
Scale and the moral geographies of Victorian and Edwardian child protection
Drink in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Time-geography, gentlemen, please: Chronotopes of publand in Patrick Hamilton's London trilogy
This paper considers the time and the place of drinking in modern British life, as represented in Patrick Hamilton’s trilogy of novels set in the publand of London’s West End in the interwar years, and through Mikhail Bakhtin’s concept of the chronotope and with critical nods to Hagerstrand’s timegeography corpus. The chronotopes of pubs and their neighbourhoods, which we term ‘publand’, are discussed initially in their novelistic presentation in…
Global Anti-Vice Activism, 1890–1950: Fighting Drinks, Drugs, and “Immorality”
The vice of distant knowledge”: Licensing and the geography of jurisdiction on the Scottish wartime Home Front
Banning the barmaid: Time, space and alcohol licensing in 1900s Glasgow
This article examines the decision of Glasgow’s magistrates at the beginning of the twentieth century to prohibit the employment of barmaids in the city's public houses, tracing the origins and advocates of the ban as well its effects on the licensed trade and the women who worked behind bars. It responds to Mariana Valverde’s recent work on the relationship between time and space in the operation of law, analysing the ways in which the magistrat…
Bureaucracy, case geography and the governance of the inebriate in Scotland (1898–1918)
This article considers the late-Victorian and Edwardian legislative treatment of problem drunkenness in Scotland under the 1898 Inebriates Act. It examines the uneven enactment of the law, by geography and gender, and exposes how mundane questions of bureaucracy, of finance and jurisdiction, intersected with the institutional management of people convicted under it. I present an analytical framework of case geography to examine the ways in which …
Jessica Boak and Ray Bailey, 20th Century Pub: From Beer House to Booze Bunker . St. Albans: Homewood, 2017
Private Spirits, Public Lives: Sober Citizenship, Shame and Secret Drinking in Victorian Britain
This article considers Victorian concerns about the rise of secret drinking amongst respectable women. These new, apparently dangerous, practices were blamed on licensed grocers and even railway station refreshment rooms. Understandings of different male and female natures went hand in glove with anxieties about the potential effects of drinking. That alcohol might be consumed in secret, at home, triggered concerns about the shameful state of wom…
Digital archives and recombinant historical geographies
This article considers how digitisation is reshaping archival research in geography. Digitisation is more than a technical convenience, something that simply speeds up existing ways of working. Through novel practices of recombination, digital archive platforms enable researchers to extract and recombine fragments of historical information, drawn across multiple periods, places, collections and contexts. This represents a fundamental change in ho…
Do Everything: The Biography of Frances Willard
Temperance lives and landscape: Lady Elizabeth Biddulph, Lady Henry Somerset, and late nineteenth-century Ledbury
This article considers the relationship of two prominent leaders of British women’s temperance, Lady Henry Somerset and Lady Elizabeth Biddulph. They were noteworthy for taking opposing sides when the British Women’s Temperance Association divided on the question of the political reach of its work. Somerset and Biddulph were elite women, daughters of earls and near neighbours around Ledbury, a centre of cider apple and hop cultivation in Hereford…
Landed estates and the place of public houses: Agricultural and industrial change in the English East Midlands, c.1860–1930
This article uses the records the Manvers and Portland estates in Nottinghamshire and north-east Derbyshire to consider the provision and management of licensed premises between the 1860s and 1930s. Using archival materials of land agents and solicitors, it examines the changing place of public houses in a range of local communities affected by agricultural decline and industrial change in the region. These include: small agricultural villages on…
The people and places of British temperance
The Built Heritage of the Temperance Movement: The Way Out of Darkest England, Andrew Davison, Liverpool (2026), 280 pages, £50.00, hardbackTemperance Lives: Life Assurance, Drink and Medicine in Britain, 1840-1918, James Kneale, London (2026), 320 pages, £85.00, hardback
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