Em Griffin
Biographic Data
| ID | 169700 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Em Griffin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Em |
| FAMILY NAME | Griffin |
| SIGNATURE | GRIFFIN E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of East Anglia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0245-6082 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
An Anniversary and New Departure: Transactions , 1872–2022
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Writing about Life Writing: Women, Autobiography and the British Industrial Revolution
Few historical problems have attracted so much attention over so many years as the social consequences of the British industrial revolution. For the most part, historians presumed that working people produced very little historical evidence that could be used to contribute to our understanding. However, projects to catalogue and encourage the use of the nation's scattered, yet extensive, archive of working-class autobiography have revealed that s…
Things I Can Remember about My Life: Autobiography and Fatherhood in Victorian Britain
It is now nearly forty years since John Burnett, David Vincent, and David Mayall compiled their invaluable and much-used three-volume finding aid, The Autobiography of the Working Class: An Annotated, Critical Bibliography (1984-1989), and established working-class autobiography as an important documentary source for exploring the lives of the working poor. Life writing now forms the basis of historical research into areas such as the emotions an…
The Value of Motherhood: Understanding Motherhood from Maternal Absence in Victorian Britain
In the late eighteenth century, as the unpaid work performed by western mothers emerged as something worthy of discussion, a clear image of the good mother was created: she was supposed to be selfless, tender, full of love and ever devoted to her offspring.1 Contemporary writers were interested in the sentiments of motherhood rather than the more mundane aspects of day-to-day care - a focus that was no doubt connected to the fact that their writi…
The Emotions of Motherhood: Love, Culture, and Poverty in Victorian Britain
Is maternal love biologically determined and independent of class and culture, or is it fluid and changeable, shaped by the social context within which individuals find themselves? Recent work on the history of emotions has encouraged us to regard not simply the outward cultural configurations of human emotion as mutable and changeable, but also the actual emotions themselves. Yet so deeply rooted is the Western belief that mothers’ love for thei…
Diets, Hunger and Living Standards During the British Industrial Revolution
Throughout the twentieth century, historians debated what happened to the living standards of ordinary men, women, and children during the British industrial revolution. But where this historical question once attracted attention from across the methodological spectrum, the past two decades have seen cultural and qualitative approaches eclipsed by statistical accounts written by economic historians. In this article, I will argue that the marginal…
Liberty's Dawn: A People's History of the Industrial Revolution
"This remarkable book looks at hundreds of autobiographies penned between 1760 and 1900 to offer an intimate firsthand account of how the Industrial Revolution was experienced by the working class. The Industrial Revolution brought not simply misery and poverty. On the contrary, Griffin shows how it raised incomes, improved literacy, and offered exciting opportunities for political action. For many, this was a period of new, and much valued, sexu…
Childhood and Child Labour in Industrial England: Diversity and Agency, 1750–1914
Childhood and Child Labour in Industrial England is a comprehensive survey of childhood in industrial England, and the volume will be of interest to scholars of both the family and of the industria
The Making of the Chartists: Popular Politics and Working-class Autobiography in Early Victorian Britain
Chartism has generated one of the liveliest historiographies of the twentieth century, with the development of new linguistic and cultural approaches in the 1980s proving to be a particularly innovative line of enquiry. Yet the shift towards language and meaning has not been without a price. In particular, the tendency to frame Chartism as an intellectual force has led scholars to overlook the fact that Chartism was also a social movement, consti…
The Early English Censuses, by E.A. Wrigley
The existence of the early English censuses, those taken at ten-year intervals between 1801 and 1851, is well known to historians. These censuses hold the promise of unlocking information about the size of the population and the nature of demographic change over this half-century, but, for a number of reasons, have been difficult to use. This book, published in the British Academy’s Records of Social and Economic History series, departs somewhat …
Liberty's Dawn: A People's History of the Industrial Revolution
This book looks at hundreds of autobiographies penned between 1760 and 1900 to offer an intimate firsthand account of how the industrial revolution was experienced by the working class of Britain. The industrial revolution brought not simply misery and poverty, but in fact, the book argues, raised incomes, improved literacy, and offered exciting opportunities for political action. For many, this was a period of new, and much valued, sexual and cu…
Sex, illegitimacy and social change in industrializing Britain
Groundbreaking work on the history of illegitimacy in the 1970s brought to the surface a little known corner of human experience. The early studies of Peter Laslett and others revealed that, in 170
The Chronicles of John Cannon: Excise Officer and Writing Master, Part 1: 1684–1733 (Somerset, Oxfordshire, Berkshire); Part 2: 1734–1743 (Somerset), ed. John Money
Historians have been aware of the John Cannon manuscript at the Somerset Record Office for a number of years. As Christopher Dyer indicates in the foreword of this edition, the manuscript is of exceptional interest for a number of reasons. John Cannon was a man of relatively humble social origin and his memoirs span the years 1684 to 1743—autobiographical material written by a man of this status from the early eighteenth century is extremely rare…
Locating the industrial revolution: Inducement and response – By Eric L. Jones
A Conundrum Resolved? Rethinking Courtship, Marriage and Population Growth in Eighteenth-Century England
Regulating Health and Safety in the British Mining Industries, 1800-1914, by Catherine Mills
Journal Article Regulating Health and Safety in the British Mining Industries, 1800–1914, by Catherine Mills Get access Regulating Health and Safety in the British Mining Industries, 1800–1914, by Catherine Mills (Farnham: Ashgate, 2010; pp. 284. £60). Emma Griffin Emma Griffin University of East Anglia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXVI, Issue 522, October 2011, Pa…
Parents of Poor Children in England, 1580–1800
Patricia Crawford, Parents of Poor Children in England, 1580–1800 (2010), 368 (Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York, £37.00/$32.00). Many readers of Social History will be familiar with the
Master and Servant: Love and Labour in the English Industrial Age
This is microhistory at its best. Taking as its subject a clergyman and his maidservant, it sheds light on both the personal histories of these two individuals and on many topics and debates of broader historical interest. At the centre of the book is the story of the Reverend John Murgatroyd, a Church of England clergyman, and his servant, Phoebe Beatson, and a discussion of why this upright clergyman kept an unmarried maidservant and her illegi…
Forecasting “friends forever”: A longitudinal investigation of sustained closeness between best friends
Using data collected across 19 years, the chief goal of this study was to discover predictors of continued relational closeness between best friends. Participants were same‐sex and cross‐sex best friend pairs recruited from a small Midwestern college. In 1983, participants completed several tests and activities designed to assess facets of intimacy, with follow‐up studies in 1987 and 2002 measuring relational closeness. Regression analysis indica…
Recipe Extracts From the Asian Remedies Project
Popular Culture in Industrializing England
This review traces historians' use of the concept of popular culture, since its entry into the discipline in the 1970s. ‘Popular culture’ was initially loosely understood as the values, pleasures, and pastimes of the poor, and research in the field was heavily influenced by both Marxism and cultural anthropology. By the 1990s, earlier conceptions of popular culture appeared crudely reductionist, and heterogeneity, diversity, and ‘appropriation’ w…
Sports and celebrations in English market towns, 1660-1750
This article explores the recreational uses of streets and squares in the early modern market town. Late seventeenth-century financial accounts reveal civic authorities spending small sums on plebeian recreations-bonfires and bull-baitings-usually located in the market square. However, they also reveal a steady decline in municipal support for such recreations in the century following the Restoration. The author uses this evidence to argue that t…
Friends Forever: A Longitudinal Exploration of Intimacy in Same-Sex Friends and Platonic Pairs
In this paper, we report on the results of a 4-year longitudinal study that explored predictors of future closeness in nonromantic friendship pairs. Subjects were forty-five pairs representing male-male, female-female, and male-female (platonic) friendships. The first phase of data collection took place in 1983; the follow-up study took place in 1987 and included 93 percent of the original subjects. The results revealed no significant predictors …
Some Personal Reflections on Longitudinal Research on Relationships
The Emotions of Motherhood: Love, Culture, and Poverty in Victorian Britain
Is maternal love biologically determined and independent of class and culture, or is it fluid and changeable, shaped by the social context within which individuals find themselves? Recent work on the history of emotions has encouraged us to regard not simply the outward cultural configurations of human emotion as mutable and changeable, but also the actual emotions themselves. Yet so deeply rooted is the Western belief that mothers’ love for thei…
Friends Forever: A Longitudinal Exploration of Intimacy in Same-Sex Friends and Platonic Pairs
In this paper, we report on the results of a 4-year longitudinal study that explored predictors of future closeness in nonromantic friendship pairs. Subjects were forty-five pairs representing male-male, female-female, and male-female (platonic) friendships. The first phase of data collection took place in 1983; the follow-up study took place in 1987 and included 93 percent of the original subjects. The results revealed no significant predictors …
Diets, Hunger and Living Standards During the British Industrial Revolution
Throughout the twentieth century, historians debated what happened to the living standards of ordinary men, women, and children during the British industrial revolution. But where this historical question once attracted attention from across the methodological spectrum, the past two decades have seen cultural and qualitative approaches eclipsed by statistical accounts written by economic historians. In this article, I will argue that the marginal…
Sex, illegitimacy and social change in industrializing Britain
Groundbreaking work on the history of illegitimacy in the 1970s brought to the surface a little known corner of human experience. The early studies of Peter Laslett and others revealed that, in 170
The Making of the Chartists: Popular Politics and Working-class Autobiography in Early Victorian Britain
Chartism has generated one of the liveliest historiographies of the twentieth century, with the development of new linguistic and cultural approaches in the 1980s proving to be a particularly innovative line of enquiry. Yet the shift towards language and meaning has not been without a price. In particular, the tendency to frame Chartism as an intellectual force has led scholars to overlook the fact that Chartism was also a social movement, consti…
A Conundrum Resolved? Rethinking Courtship, Marriage and Population Growth in Eighteenth-Century England
The Value of Motherhood: Understanding Motherhood from Maternal Absence in Victorian Britain
In the late eighteenth century, as the unpaid work performed by western mothers emerged as something worthy of discussion, a clear image of the good mother was created: she was supposed to be selfless, tender, full of love and ever devoted to her offspring.1 Contemporary writers were interested in the sentiments of motherhood rather than the more mundane aspects of day-to-day care - a focus that was no doubt connected to the fact that their writi…
Sports and celebrations in English market towns, 1660-1750
This article explores the recreational uses of streets and squares in the early modern market town. Late seventeenth-century financial accounts reveal civic authorities spending small sums on plebeian recreations-bonfires and bull-baitings-usually located in the market square. However, they also reveal a steady decline in municipal support for such recreations in the century following the Restoration. The author uses this evidence to argue that t…
Some Personal Reflections on Longitudinal Research on Relationships
Friends Forever: A Longitudinal Exploration of Intimacy in Same-Sex Friends and Platonic Pairs
In this paper, we report on the results of a 4-year longitudinal study that explored predictors of future closeness in nonromantic friendship pairs. Subjects were forty-five pairs representing male-male, female-female, and male-female (platonic) friendships. The first phase of data collection took place in 1983; the follow-up study took place in 1987 and included 93 percent of the original subjects. The results revealed no significant predictors …
Some Personal Reflections on Longitudinal Research on Relationships
Popular Culture in Industrializing England
This review traces historians' use of the concept of popular culture, since its entry into the discipline in the 1970s. ‘Popular culture’ was initially loosely understood as the values, pleasures, and pastimes of the poor, and research in the field was heavily influenced by both Marxism and cultural anthropology. By the 1990s, earlier conceptions of popular culture appeared crudely reductionist, and heterogeneity, diversity, and ‘appropriation’ w…
Sports and celebrations in English market towns, 1660-1750
This article explores the recreational uses of streets and squares in the early modern market town. Late seventeenth-century financial accounts reveal civic authorities spending small sums on plebeian recreations-bonfires and bull-baitings-usually located in the market square. However, they also reveal a steady decline in municipal support for such recreations in the century following the Restoration. The author uses this evidence to argue that t…
Recipe Extracts From the Asian Remedies Project
Forecasting “friends forever”: A longitudinal investigation of sustained closeness between best friends
Using data collected across 19 years, the chief goal of this study was to discover predictors of continued relational closeness between best friends. Participants were same‐sex and cross‐sex best friend pairs recruited from a small Midwestern college. In 1983, participants completed several tests and activities designed to assess facets of intimacy, with follow‐up studies in 1987 and 2002 measuring relational closeness. Regression analysis indica…
Master and Servant: Love and Labour in the English Industrial Age
This is microhistory at its best. Taking as its subject a clergyman and his maidservant, it sheds light on both the personal histories of these two individuals and on many topics and debates of broader historical interest. At the centre of the book is the story of the Reverend John Murgatroyd, a Church of England clergyman, and his servant, Phoebe Beatson, and a discussion of why this upright clergyman kept an unmarried maidservant and her illegi…
Regulating Health and Safety in the British Mining Industries, 1800-1914, by Catherine Mills
Journal Article Regulating Health and Safety in the British Mining Industries, 1800–1914, by Catherine Mills Get access Regulating Health and Safety in the British Mining Industries, 1800–1914, by Catherine Mills (Farnham: Ashgate, 2010; pp. 284. £60). Emma Griffin Emma Griffin University of East Anglia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXVI, Issue 522, October 2011, Pa…
Parents of Poor Children in England, 1580–1800
Patricia Crawford, Parents of Poor Children in England, 1580–1800 (2010), 368 (Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York, £37.00/$32.00). Many readers of Social History will be familiar with the
The Chronicles of John Cannon: Excise Officer and Writing Master, Part 1: 1684–1733 (Somerset, Oxfordshire, Berkshire); Part 2: 1734–1743 (Somerset), ed. John Money
Historians have been aware of the John Cannon manuscript at the Somerset Record Office for a number of years. As Christopher Dyer indicates in the foreword of this edition, the manuscript is of exceptional interest for a number of reasons. John Cannon was a man of relatively humble social origin and his memoirs span the years 1684 to 1743—autobiographical material written by a man of this status from the early eighteenth century is extremely rare…
Locating the industrial revolution: Inducement and response – By Eric L. Jones
A Conundrum Resolved? Rethinking Courtship, Marriage and Population Growth in Eighteenth-Century England
The Early English Censuses, by E.A. Wrigley
The existence of the early English censuses, those taken at ten-year intervals between 1801 and 1851, is well known to historians. These censuses hold the promise of unlocking information about the size of the population and the nature of demographic change over this half-century, but, for a number of reasons, have been difficult to use. This book, published in the British Academy’s Records of Social and Economic History series, departs somewhat …
Liberty's Dawn: A People's History of the Industrial Revolution
This book looks at hundreds of autobiographies penned between 1760 and 1900 to offer an intimate firsthand account of how the industrial revolution was experienced by the working class of Britain. The industrial revolution brought not simply misery and poverty, but in fact, the book argues, raised incomes, improved literacy, and offered exciting opportunities for political action. For many, this was a period of new, and much valued, sexual and cu…
Sex, illegitimacy and social change in industrializing Britain
Groundbreaking work on the history of illegitimacy in the 1970s brought to the surface a little known corner of human experience. The early studies of Peter Laslett and others revealed that, in 170
The Making of the Chartists: Popular Politics and Working-class Autobiography in Early Victorian Britain
Chartism has generated one of the liveliest historiographies of the twentieth century, with the development of new linguistic and cultural approaches in the 1980s proving to be a particularly innovative line of enquiry. Yet the shift towards language and meaning has not been without a price. In particular, the tendency to frame Chartism as an intellectual force has led scholars to overlook the fact that Chartism was also a social movement, consti…
Childhood and Child Labour in Industrial England: Diversity and Agency, 1750–1914
Childhood and Child Labour in Industrial England is a comprehensive survey of childhood in industrial England, and the volume will be of interest to scholars of both the family and of the industria
Liberty's Dawn: A People's History of the Industrial Revolution
"This remarkable book looks at hundreds of autobiographies penned between 1760 and 1900 to offer an intimate firsthand account of how the Industrial Revolution was experienced by the working class. The Industrial Revolution brought not simply misery and poverty. On the contrary, Griffin shows how it raised incomes, improved literacy, and offered exciting opportunities for political action. For many, this was a period of new, and much valued, sexu…
The Emotions of Motherhood: Love, Culture, and Poverty in Victorian Britain
Is maternal love biologically determined and independent of class and culture, or is it fluid and changeable, shaped by the social context within which individuals find themselves? Recent work on the history of emotions has encouraged us to regard not simply the outward cultural configurations of human emotion as mutable and changeable, but also the actual emotions themselves. Yet so deeply rooted is the Western belief that mothers’ love for thei…
Diets, Hunger and Living Standards During the British Industrial Revolution
Throughout the twentieth century, historians debated what happened to the living standards of ordinary men, women, and children during the British industrial revolution. But where this historical question once attracted attention from across the methodological spectrum, the past two decades have seen cultural and qualitative approaches eclipsed by statistical accounts written by economic historians. In this article, I will argue that the marginal…
The Value of Motherhood: Understanding Motherhood from Maternal Absence in Victorian Britain
In the late eighteenth century, as the unpaid work performed by western mothers emerged as something worthy of discussion, a clear image of the good mother was created: she was supposed to be selfless, tender, full of love and ever devoted to her offspring.1 Contemporary writers were interested in the sentiments of motherhood rather than the more mundane aspects of day-to-day care - a focus that was no doubt connected to the fact that their writi…
Things I Can Remember about My Life: Autobiography and Fatherhood in Victorian Britain
It is now nearly forty years since John Burnett, David Vincent, and David Mayall compiled their invaluable and much-used three-volume finding aid, The Autobiography of the Working Class: An Annotated, Critical Bibliography (1984-1989), and established working-class autobiography as an important documentary source for exploring the lives of the working poor. Life writing now forms the basis of historical research into areas such as the emotions an…
An Anniversary and New Departure: Transactions , 1872–2022
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Writing about Life Writing: Women, Autobiography and the British Industrial Revolution
Few historical problems have attracted so much attention over so many years as the social consequences of the British industrial revolution. For the most part, historians presumed that working people produced very little historical evidence that could be used to contribute to our understanding. However, projects to catalogue and encourage the use of the nation's scattered, yet extensive, archive of working-class autobiography have revealed that s…
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