Gwyneth Nair
Biographic Data
| ID | 1601726 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gwyneth Nair |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gwyneth |
| FAMILY NAME | Nair |
| SIGNATURE | NAIR G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the West of Scotland |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Mary Prior, Fond Hopes Destroyed: Breach of Promise Cases in Shetland, 1823–1900
The Flight from the Land? Rural Migration in South-East Shropshire in the Late Nineteenth Century
Using the 1881 census, we have tracked 1172 individuals who left their birthplaces in the villages of Billingsley, Chelmarsh, Highley and Kinlet in south-east Shropshire. This has allowed us to investigate the destinations and motivations for rural migrants in the second half of the nineteenth century. Half the migrants (fifty-two per cent) remained in rural environments; a further eighteen per cent moved to rural market towns. Thus only thirty p…
Domestic Fathers and the Victorian Parental Role
Discourses of motherhood and domesticity played an important role in structuring middle‐class women’s lives and identities in the nineteenth century. However, it has become increasingly clear that how the idealised role of motherhood was conceived, interpreted and experienced varied enormously. Although Victorian motherhood is usually viewed as being constituted by the private realm, there was also a public dimension to this ostensibly private ro…
The economic role of middle-class women in Victorian Glasgow
It has long been recognised that working-class women in the nineteenth century participated in waged labour, albeit dependent on marital status, stage in family life cycle, and locality. Middle-class women's economic role has been less fully explored, although it has been acknowledged that they played an informal, ‘hidden’ role in the economy. This article examines the extent of middle-class women's economic activity and independence by looking i…
Middle-Class Family Structure in Nineteenth-Century Glasgow
This article is based on a study of a sample of middle-class households in Glasgow in the second half of the nineteenth century. The empirical findings are intended to add to the currently sketchy picture of middle-class household structure in the high Victorian period, to enable the authors to draw firmer conclusions about the incidence, composition, and explanation of middle-class coresidence patterns. On the basis of this study, and the small …
Environmental Improvements and the Fear of Crime
Studies investigating the positive effect that improved street lighting has on crime and the fear of crime have become remarkably popular. Impressive results have regularly been reported. However, while most use the ‘before-and-after’ interview format, many neglect to have a long enough follow-up period or to control for the effect that interviewing at different times of the year may have. The study reported here is based on a twelve-month follow…
Supplementing English parish listings-a way forward
This article outlines a methodology for reconstructing census-type listings of English parishes for the pre-census era. The methodology is offered as a possible way around the impasse created by the uneven and random survival of a relatively small number of contemporary listings of the period. Examples are drawn from a series of reconstructed listings for the parish of Highley in Shropshire from the seventeenth, eighteenth and early nineteenth ce…
The economic role of middle-class women in Victorian Glasgow
It has long been recognised that working-class women in the nineteenth century participated in waged labour, albeit dependent on marital status, stage in family life cycle, and locality. Middle-class women's economic role has been less fully explored, although it has been acknowledged that they played an informal, ‘hidden’ role in the economy. This article examines the extent of middle-class women's economic activity and independence by looking i…
Environmental Improvements and the Fear of Crime
Studies investigating the positive effect that improved street lighting has on crime and the fear of crime have become remarkably popular. Impressive results have regularly been reported. However, while most use the ‘before-and-after’ interview format, many neglect to have a long enough follow-up period or to control for the effect that interviewing at different times of the year may have. The study reported here is based on a twelve-month follow…
The Flight from the Land? Rural Migration in South-East Shropshire in the Late Nineteenth Century
Using the 1881 census, we have tracked 1172 individuals who left their birthplaces in the villages of Billingsley, Chelmarsh, Highley and Kinlet in south-east Shropshire. This has allowed us to investigate the destinations and motivations for rural migrants in the second half of the nineteenth century. Half the migrants (fifty-two per cent) remained in rural environments; a further eighteen per cent moved to rural market towns. Thus only thirty p…
Domestic Fathers and the Victorian Parental Role
Discourses of motherhood and domesticity played an important role in structuring middle‐class women’s lives and identities in the nineteenth century. However, it has become increasingly clear that how the idealised role of motherhood was conceived, interpreted and experienced varied enormously. Although Victorian motherhood is usually viewed as being constituted by the private realm, there was also a public dimension to this ostensibly private ro…
Supplementing English parish listings-a way forward
This article outlines a methodology for reconstructing census-type listings of English parishes for the pre-census era. The methodology is offered as a possible way around the impasse created by the uneven and random survival of a relatively small number of contemporary listings of the period. Examples are drawn from a series of reconstructed listings for the parish of Highley in Shropshire from the seventeenth, eighteenth and early nineteenth ce…
Environmental Improvements and the Fear of Crime
Studies investigating the positive effect that improved street lighting has on crime and the fear of crime have become remarkably popular. Impressive results have regularly been reported. However, while most use the ‘before-and-after’ interview format, many neglect to have a long enough follow-up period or to control for the effect that interviewing at different times of the year may have. The study reported here is based on a twelve-month follow…
Middle-Class Family Structure in Nineteenth-Century Glasgow
This article is based on a study of a sample of middle-class households in Glasgow in the second half of the nineteenth century. The empirical findings are intended to add to the currently sketchy picture of middle-class household structure in the high Victorian period, to enable the authors to draw firmer conclusions about the incidence, composition, and explanation of middle-class coresidence patterns. On the basis of this study, and the small …
The economic role of middle-class women in Victorian Glasgow
It has long been recognised that working-class women in the nineteenth century participated in waged labour, albeit dependent on marital status, stage in family life cycle, and locality. Middle-class women's economic role has been less fully explored, although it has been acknowledged that they played an informal, ‘hidden’ role in the economy. This article examines the extent of middle-class women's economic activity and independence by looking i…
The Flight from the Land? Rural Migration in South-East Shropshire in the Late Nineteenth Century
Using the 1881 census, we have tracked 1172 individuals who left their birthplaces in the villages of Billingsley, Chelmarsh, Highley and Kinlet in south-east Shropshire. This has allowed us to investigate the destinations and motivations for rural migrants in the second half of the nineteenth century. Half the migrants (fifty-two per cent) remained in rural environments; a further eighteen per cent moved to rural market towns. Thus only thirty p…
Domestic Fathers and the Victorian Parental Role
Discourses of motherhood and domesticity played an important role in structuring middle‐class women’s lives and identities in the nineteenth century. However, it has become increasingly clear that how the idealised role of motherhood was conceived, interpreted and experienced varied enormously. Although Victorian motherhood is usually viewed as being constituted by the private realm, there was also a public dimension to this ostensibly private ro…
Mary Prior, Fond Hopes Destroyed: Breach of Promise Cases in Shetland, 1823–1900
Political science (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Middle class (3 works) · Scottish History and National Identity (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works)