Briony Mcdonagh
Biographic Data
| ID | 157244 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Briony Mcdonagh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Briony |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcdonagh |
| SIGNATURE | MCDONAGH B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hull |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3078-139X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Place-Based Arts Engagement and Learning Histories: An Effective Tool for Climate Action
Artistic works informed by the global climate emergency are now common. Yet research typically focuses on the role of art in climate communication, rather than evaluating opportunities for large-scale public art to drive climate action and behavioral change amongst audiences. Indeed, arts, culture, and heritage are poorly integrated into Action for Climate Empowerment (ACE) even though understanding whether, and how, art drives community engageme…
Youth‐led theatre for climate resilience and action at COP26
The worst impacts of climate change will be felt by the most vulnerable in our society, including children and young people who will be both witness to and victim of its increasingly serious consequences. Structural power imbalances limit children and young people's agency to effect meaningful change. Presented with a unique opportunity to showcase collaborative work between academic researchers and the National Youth Theatre on the international…
Governing flood risk in mid seventeenth-century England
The paper explores how early modern people lived with and responded to extraordinary flood events at a time of environmental, social and political crisis. By focusing on a period when flood risk management ‘failed’ and houses, land and businesses sat under water for many months, the paper offers important insights into early modern expectations of what ‘good’ flood risk governance looked like, who was involved, and how this was negotiated and, on…
Living With Water and Flood in Medieval and Early Modern Hull
This paper explores Hull’s histories of living with water and flood in the period between the foundation of the town in the 1260s and c. 1700, examining how the inhabitants, Corporation and Commissioners of Sewers managed and governed water in order to survive and thrive in a risky yet resilient estuarine environment. It does that as part of a bigger project utilising ‘learning histories’ drawing on Hull’s 800-year experience of living with water…
Learning histories, participatory methods and creative engagement for climate resilience
The potential of place-based, historically-informed approaches to drive climate action has not yet been adequately interrogated. Recent scholarly work has focussed on climate communication and the role of arts and humanities-led storytelling in engaging people in climate narratives. Far less has been said about mobilising arts and creativity to build anticipatory climate action. Nor have archival material and pre-twentieth century histories of li…
Women, Land and Property, Then and Now: An Afterword
The papers in this special issue make an important contribution to a growing body of work, exploring not only the ways gender and property were co‐constituted in Britain and the British colonies in the long eighteenth century but also the sources scholars must work with in uncovering women's lives and experiences. In this afterword, I explore some of the possibilities and prospects for developing research in this area, highlighting new directions…
Gender, property and succession in the early modern English aristocracy: The case of Martha Janes and her illegitimate children
This article addresses the boundaries of female power within early modern aristocratic families. It examines the family arrangements of Lord Emmanuel Scroop whose marriage to Elizabeth Manners was childless. The research sets out to uncover Lord Scroop’s relationship with his servant, Martha Janes, and the property litigation pursued by Janes on behalf of their four illegitimate children whom Lord Scroop left his family estates to. The article sh…
Women and the Land, 1500-1900
Women and the Land, 1500–1900
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Landscape, territory and common rights in medieval East Yorkshire
The paper examines issues of landscape, territory and common rights, with specific reference to the multi-township, multi-manor parish of Burton Agnes in the north-east Yorkshire Wolds. Burton was a territorial unit of considerable antiquity which survived as a distinct estate until the late twelfth century when it was split between coheiresses. This produced a complex territorial and tenurial situation, characterised in the later medieval period…
More than bricks and mortar: Female property ownership as economic strategy in mid-nineteenth-century urban England
This article uses a quantitative and qualitative methodology to examine the role that women played as property owners in three mid-nineteenth-century English towns. Using data from the previously under-utilized rate books, we argue that women were actively engaged in urban property ownership as part of a complex financial strategy to generate income and invest speculatively. We show that female engagement in the urban land and property markets wa…
Disobedient objects: Material readings of enclosure protest in sixteenth-century England
Responding to calls for scholars to address ‘material worlds’ in our analyses of protests past, the paper examines the more-than-human historical geographies of enclosure and enclosure protest in sixteenth-century England. It argues that negotiating enclosure – in the sense of both promoting and resisting private property rights – was dependent on particular assemblages of people, animals and things and their convergence within specific spaces an…
Feminist historical geographies: Doing and being
As part of GPC’s 25-year anniversary celebrations, this article explores possibilities and prospects for feminist historical geographies and geographers. Here I define feminist historical geography as scholarship which asks geographical questions of historical material and is informed by feminist theories, approaches and methodologies. Its empirical subject matter is necessarily expansive and diverse, but often has a particular focus on the lives…
Occupy! Historical geographies of property, protest and the commons, 1500–1850
Landlords and Tenants in Britain, 1440-1660: Tawney's Agrarian Problem Revisited
Negotiating Enclosure in Sixteenth-Century Yorkshire: The South Cave Dispute, 1530–1536
Fragments from a medieval archive: The life and death of Sir Robert Constable
Parliamentary enclosure, vermin and the cultural life of English parishes, 1750–1850
This article explores the impact of parliamentary enclosure on the cultural life of English villages after 1750. It focuses on parish-sponsored vermin control, arguing that the popular ‘hunting’ sanctioned by parish vestries under Tudor legislation, and persisting into the early nineteenth century, created a highly participatory recreational culture which continued to exist under the radar of the game laws. Using a sample of parishes from the hea…
Making and Breaking Property: Negotiating Enclosure and Common Rights in Sixteenth-Century England
This paper explores the making – and breaking – of property in early sixteenth-century England, examining the range of strategies available to those engaged in negotiating and resisting enclosure, common rights and land-use change. It interrogates the relationship between litigation and direct action, paying particular attention to those self-help strategies other than hedge-breaking – itself already the subject of considerable scholarly interest…
Enclosure stories: Narratives from Northamptonshire
This paper rethinks and revises enclosure narratives, thickening the concept of enclosure by researching a particular place and period: the English Midland county of Northamptonshire in the period between the 16th and the 19th centuries. It argues that while many elements of the landscape were dramatically reshaped by enclosure, the parliamentary enclosures of the late 18th and early 19th centuries were nevertheless part of a much longer process …
Nature’s End: History and the Environment
Women, Enclosure and Estate Improvement in Eighteenth-Century Northamptonshire
This paper examines the role of elite women in estate management, enclosure and landscape improvement in eighteenth-century England, a topic which has to date received little in the way of sustained academic consideration. The paper focuses on four women who took control of sizeable Northamptonshire estates in the 1760s and early 1770s, and demonstrates that these women were active as both managers and innovators. In examining the women's involve…
Feminist historical geographies: Doing and being
As part of GPC’s 25-year anniversary celebrations, this article explores possibilities and prospects for feminist historical geographies and geographers. Here I define feminist historical geography as scholarship which asks geographical questions of historical material and is informed by feminist theories, approaches and methodologies. Its empirical subject matter is necessarily expansive and diverse, but often has a particular focus on the lives…
Occupy! Historical geographies of property, protest and the commons, 1500–1850
Learning histories, participatory methods and creative engagement for climate resilience
The potential of place-based, historically-informed approaches to drive climate action has not yet been adequately interrogated. Recent scholarly work has focussed on climate communication and the role of arts and humanities-led storytelling in engaging people in climate narratives. Far less has been said about mobilising arts and creativity to build anticipatory climate action. Nor have archival material and pre-twentieth century histories of li…
Enclosure stories: Narratives from Northamptonshire
This paper rethinks and revises enclosure narratives, thickening the concept of enclosure by researching a particular place and period: the English Midland county of Northamptonshire in the period between the 16th and the 19th centuries. It argues that while many elements of the landscape were dramatically reshaped by enclosure, the parliamentary enclosures of the late 18th and early 19th centuries were nevertheless part of a much longer process …
Disobedient objects: Material readings of enclosure protest in sixteenth-century England
Responding to calls for scholars to address ‘material worlds’ in our analyses of protests past, the paper examines the more-than-human historical geographies of enclosure and enclosure protest in sixteenth-century England. It argues that negotiating enclosure – in the sense of both promoting and resisting private property rights – was dependent on particular assemblages of people, animals and things and their convergence within specific spaces an…
More than bricks and mortar: Female property ownership as economic strategy in mid-nineteenth-century urban England
This article uses a quantitative and qualitative methodology to examine the role that women played as property owners in three mid-nineteenth-century English towns. Using data from the previously under-utilized rate books, we argue that women were actively engaged in urban property ownership as part of a complex financial strategy to generate income and invest speculatively. We show that female engagement in the urban land and property markets wa…
Making and Breaking Property: Negotiating Enclosure and Common Rights in Sixteenth-Century England
This paper explores the making – and breaking – of property in early sixteenth-century England, examining the range of strategies available to those engaged in negotiating and resisting enclosure, common rights and land-use change. It interrogates the relationship between litigation and direct action, paying particular attention to those self-help strategies other than hedge-breaking – itself already the subject of considerable scholarly interest…
Women, Enclosure and Estate Improvement in Eighteenth-Century Northamptonshire
This paper examines the role of elite women in estate management, enclosure and landscape improvement in eighteenth-century England, a topic which has to date received little in the way of sustained academic consideration. The paper focuses on four women who took control of sizeable Northamptonshire estates in the 1760s and early 1770s, and demonstrates that these women were active as both managers and innovators. In examining the women's involve…
Living With Water and Flood in Medieval and Early Modern Hull
This paper explores Hull’s histories of living with water and flood in the period between the foundation of the town in the 1260s and c. 1700, examining how the inhabitants, Corporation and Commissioners of Sewers managed and governed water in order to survive and thrive in a risky yet resilient estuarine environment. It does that as part of a bigger project utilising ‘learning histories’ drawing on Hull’s 800-year experience of living with water…
Youth‐led theatre for climate resilience and action at COP26
The worst impacts of climate change will be felt by the most vulnerable in our society, including children and young people who will be both witness to and victim of its increasingly serious consequences. Structural power imbalances limit children and young people's agency to effect meaningful change. Presented with a unique opportunity to showcase collaborative work between academic researchers and the National Youth Theatre on the international…
Fragments from a medieval archive: The life and death of Sir Robert Constable
Women, Enclosure and Estate Improvement in Eighteenth-Century Northamptonshire
This paper examines the role of elite women in estate management, enclosure and landscape improvement in eighteenth-century England, a topic which has to date received little in the way of sustained academic consideration. The paper focuses on four women who took control of sizeable Northamptonshire estates in the 1760s and early 1770s, and demonstrates that these women were active as both managers and innovators. In examining the women's involve…
Nature’s End: History and the Environment
Enclosure stories: Narratives from Northamptonshire
This paper rethinks and revises enclosure narratives, thickening the concept of enclosure by researching a particular place and period: the English Midland county of Northamptonshire in the period between the 16th and the 19th centuries. It argues that while many elements of the landscape were dramatically reshaped by enclosure, the parliamentary enclosures of the late 18th and early 19th centuries were nevertheless part of a much longer process …
Landlords and Tenants in Britain, 1440-1660: Tawney's Agrarian Problem Revisited
Negotiating Enclosure in Sixteenth-Century Yorkshire: The South Cave Dispute, 1530–1536
Fragments from a medieval archive: The life and death of Sir Robert Constable
Parliamentary enclosure, vermin and the cultural life of English parishes, 1750–1850
This article explores the impact of parliamentary enclosure on the cultural life of English villages after 1750. It focuses on parish-sponsored vermin control, arguing that the popular ‘hunting’ sanctioned by parish vestries under Tudor legislation, and persisting into the early nineteenth century, created a highly participatory recreational culture which continued to exist under the radar of the game laws. Using a sample of parishes from the hea…
Making and Breaking Property: Negotiating Enclosure and Common Rights in Sixteenth-Century England
This paper explores the making – and breaking – of property in early sixteenth-century England, examining the range of strategies available to those engaged in negotiating and resisting enclosure, common rights and land-use change. It interrogates the relationship between litigation and direct action, paying particular attention to those self-help strategies other than hedge-breaking – itself already the subject of considerable scholarly interest…
Occupy! Historical geographies of property, protest and the commons, 1500–1850
Feminist historical geographies: Doing and being
As part of GPC’s 25-year anniversary celebrations, this article explores possibilities and prospects for feminist historical geographies and geographers. Here I define feminist historical geography as scholarship which asks geographical questions of historical material and is informed by feminist theories, approaches and methodologies. Its empirical subject matter is necessarily expansive and diverse, but often has a particular focus on the lives…
Women and the Land, 1500-1900
Women and the Land, 1500–1900
Book summary page views Book summary page views help Close Book summary page views help Book summary views reflect the number of visits to the book and chapter landing pages. Total views: 0 * Loading metrics...
Landscape, territory and common rights in medieval East Yorkshire
The paper examines issues of landscape, territory and common rights, with specific reference to the multi-township, multi-manor parish of Burton Agnes in the north-east Yorkshire Wolds. Burton was a territorial unit of considerable antiquity which survived as a distinct estate until the late twelfth century when it was split between coheiresses. This produced a complex territorial and tenurial situation, characterised in the later medieval period…
More than bricks and mortar: Female property ownership as economic strategy in mid-nineteenth-century urban England
This article uses a quantitative and qualitative methodology to examine the role that women played as property owners in three mid-nineteenth-century English towns. Using data from the previously under-utilized rate books, we argue that women were actively engaged in urban property ownership as part of a complex financial strategy to generate income and invest speculatively. We show that female engagement in the urban land and property markets wa…
Disobedient objects: Material readings of enclosure protest in sixteenth-century England
Responding to calls for scholars to address ‘material worlds’ in our analyses of protests past, the paper examines the more-than-human historical geographies of enclosure and enclosure protest in sixteenth-century England. It argues that negotiating enclosure – in the sense of both promoting and resisting private property rights – was dependent on particular assemblages of people, animals and things and their convergence within specific spaces an…
Women, Land and Property, Then and Now: An Afterword
The papers in this special issue make an important contribution to a growing body of work, exploring not only the ways gender and property were co‐constituted in Britain and the British colonies in the long eighteenth century but also the sources scholars must work with in uncovering women's lives and experiences. In this afterword, I explore some of the possibilities and prospects for developing research in this area, highlighting new directions…
Gender, property and succession in the early modern English aristocracy: The case of Martha Janes and her illegitimate children
This article addresses the boundaries of female power within early modern aristocratic families. It examines the family arrangements of Lord Emmanuel Scroop whose marriage to Elizabeth Manners was childless. The research sets out to uncover Lord Scroop’s relationship with his servant, Martha Janes, and the property litigation pursued by Janes on behalf of their four illegitimate children whom Lord Scroop left his family estates to. The article sh…
Learning histories, participatory methods and creative engagement for climate resilience
The potential of place-based, historically-informed approaches to drive climate action has not yet been adequately interrogated. Recent scholarly work has focussed on climate communication and the role of arts and humanities-led storytelling in engaging people in climate narratives. Far less has been said about mobilising arts and creativity to build anticipatory climate action. Nor have archival material and pre-twentieth century histories of li…
Living With Water and Flood in Medieval and Early Modern Hull
This paper explores Hull’s histories of living with water and flood in the period between the foundation of the town in the 1260s and c. 1700, examining how the inhabitants, Corporation and Commissioners of Sewers managed and governed water in order to survive and thrive in a risky yet resilient estuarine environment. It does that as part of a bigger project utilising ‘learning histories’ drawing on Hull’s 800-year experience of living with water…
Place-Based Arts Engagement and Learning Histories: An Effective Tool for Climate Action
Artistic works informed by the global climate emergency are now common. Yet research typically focuses on the role of art in climate communication, rather than evaluating opportunities for large-scale public art to drive climate action and behavioral change amongst audiences. Indeed, arts, culture, and heritage are poorly integrated into Action for Climate Empowerment (ACE) even though understanding whether, and how, art drives community engageme…
Youth‐led theatre for climate resilience and action at COP26
The worst impacts of climate change will be felt by the most vulnerable in our society, including children and young people who will be both witness to and victim of its increasingly serious consequences. Structural power imbalances limit children and young people's agency to effect meaningful change. Presented with a unique opportunity to showcase collaborative work between academic researchers and the National Youth Theatre on the international…
Governing flood risk in mid seventeenth-century England
The paper explores how early modern people lived with and responded to extraordinary flood events at a time of environmental, social and political crisis. By focusing on a period when flood risk management ‘failed’ and houses, land and businesses sat under water for many months, the paper offers important insights into early modern expectations of what ‘good’ flood risk governance looked like, who was involved, and how this was negotiated and, on…
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