Hugh Cunningham

Biographic Data

ID3638276
NAMEHugh Cunningham
GIVEN NAMESHugh
FAMILY NAMECunningham
SIGNATURECUNNINGHAM H
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Kent
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS46
TOTAL CITATIONS88
AUTHOR COUNT45
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1914
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
H-INDEX4

  • Day nurseries and childcare in Europe, 1800–1939

    Hugh CunninghamARTICLEChildhood in the Past2019Cited by: 1

  • Leisure in the Industrial Revolution: C. 1780–c. 1880

    Hugh CunninghamBOOKLeisure in the Industrial…2016Cited by: 13

    First published in 1980. This book is a study of what different classes of society understood by leisure and how they enjoyed it. It argues that many of the assumptions which have underlain the history of leisure are misleading, and in particular the notions that there was a vacuum in popular leisure in the early Industrial Revolution; that with industrialisation there was sharp discontinuity with the past; that cultural forms diffuse themselves …

  • Fatherhood and the British Working Class, 1865-1914

    Hugh CunninghamARTICLEChildhood in the Past2016

    Mothers and motherhood dominate the historiography of parenting. Fathers have been at best peripheral figures. John Tosh in his path-breaking A Man's Place: Masculinity and the Middle-Class Home in

  • The Challenge of Democracy: Britain 1832-1918

    Hugh CunninghamBOOKChallenge of Democracy2014

    This authoritative and thought-provoking history takes a fresh view of what was a period of unprecedented and rapid change. Assuming no prior knowledge of the subject, Hugh Cunningham provides a clear narrative of political events, and an analysis of change and continuity in ideas and in economic and social structure. Britain is set firmly in the context of world power and the possession of empire. An overarching theme is the challenge presented …

  • Time, work and leisure: Life changes in England since 1700

    Hugh CunninghamBOOKTime Work And Leisure Life…2014

    This book provides the first history of how we have imagined and used time since 1700. It traces the history of the relationship between work and leisure, from the ‘leisure preference’ of male workers in the eighteenth century, through the increase in working hours in the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, to their progressive decline from 1830 to 1970. It examines how trade union action was critical in achieving the decline; how cl…

  • The Challenge of Democracy: Britain 1832-1918

    Open AccessHugh CunninghamBOOKChallenge of Democracy2014

    This authoritative and thought-provoking history takes a fresh view of what was a period of unprecedented and rapid change. Assuming no prior knowledge of the subject, Hugh Cunningham provides a clear narrative of political events, and an analysis of change and continuity in ideas and in economic and social structure. Britain is set firmly in the context of world power and the possession of empire. An overarching theme is the challenge presented …

  • Peter Kirby, Child Workers and Industrial Health in Britain 1780-1850

    Hugh CunninghamARTICLESocial History of Medicine2014

    On the cover of Peter Kirby's book is a picture of healthy-looking factory girls lined up to talk to a kindly government inspector. Its date is 1881, 30 years beyond the date the book ends. It was chosen, probably, as an attractive selling point, but it carries also a more subtle message: Kirby is engaging in disputes dating back a century on the social impact of the industrial revolution—the Hammonds' The Town Labourer (1917) is his reference po…

  • Alysa Levene. The Childhood of the Poor: Welfare in Eighteenth-Century London

    Hugh CunninghamARTICLEThe American Historical Review2014

    Alysa Levene explores how far new attitudes to childhood in the eighteenth century, associated with writers such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, penetrated into and informed the policies of welfare providers and seekers in London. Her conclusions are based on deep research into the archives of poor law authorities and charities, none of which were designed to answer the questions she asks of them. Nevertheless, with careful analysis and an admirable re…

  • Industrial Violence and the Legal Origins of Child Labor

    Hugh CunninghamARTICLELabor Studies in Working-Class…2011

    Book Review| March 01 2011 Industrial Violence and the Legal Origins of Child Labor Industrial Violence and the Legal Origins of Child Labor James D. Schmidt New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010 xxiii + 279 pp., $85.00 (cloth); $27.99 (paper) Hugh Cunningham Hugh Cunningham Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2011) 8 (1): 141–143. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-2010-060 Views Icon Views Article contents Figur…

  • A Historical Sociology of Childhood: Developmental Thinking, Categorization and Graphic Visualization

    Open AccessHugh CunninghamARTICLEChildren & Society2009

    A Historical Sociology of Childhood: Developmental Thinking, Categorization and Graphic Visualization By André, Turmel Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2008 ISBN 9780521879774 (Hardback), 9780521705639 (Paperback) , 362 pp , £19.99 In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, childhood came to be thought of as a science. Measurement, categorisation and statistical techniques offered hope that infant mortality could be reduced, ch…

  • Growing Up: Histories of Childhood

    Hugh CunninghamARTICLECultural and Social History2009

  • Imagined Orphans: Poor Families, Child Welfare, and Contested Citizenship in London

    Hugh CunninghamARTICLEJournal of Victorian Culture2007Cited by: 1

  • Child Labor and Human Rights: Making Children Matter

    S L Bachman, Susan L Bissell et al.BOOKChild Labor and Human Rights2005

  • Childhood Histories

    Hugh CunninghamARTICLEJournal of Victorian Culture2004References: 1

  • Child Labour in Britain, 1750-1870

    Hugh CunninghamARTICLEThe English Historical Review2004

    1University of Kent Child Labour in Britain, 1750–1870 Peter Kirby Basingstoke Palgrave Macmillan 2003 172 £ 16.50

  • Child Welfare and Social Action in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: International Perspectives

    Hugh CunninghamARTICLEThe English Historical Review2002

    1University of Kent Child Welfare and Social Action in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: International Perspectives JonLawrencePatStarkey LiverpoolLiverpool U.P. 2001294£37.95 Paperback£16.95

  • Popular Culture and Performance in the Victorian City Peter Baileys

    Hugh CunninghamARTICLEThe English Historical Review2000

    Journal Article Popular Culture and Performance in the Victorian City Peter Baileys Get access Hugh Cunningham Hugh Cunningham University of Kent at Canterbury Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 115, Issue 463, September 2000, Pages 1004–1005, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/115.463.1004-a Published: 01 September 2000

  • The decline of child labour: Labour markets and family economies in Europe and North America since 1830

    Open AccessHugh CunninghamARTICLEThe Economic History Review2000Cited by: 14References: 11

    This survey of the ‘adulting’ of national and family economies argues that understanding of the segmentation of labour markets and of the male breadwinner has been impoverished by a failure to consider age alongside gender, and that we are at best in a situation where contextualized studies may provide some insight into reasons for the decline of child labour. With respect to family economies, there has been very little study of the timing or cau…

  • Shorter notice. Great Britain. Identities, Institutions and the Idea of Britishness. K Robbins

    Hugh CunninghamARTICLEThe English Historical Review1999

  • Charity, Philanthropy and Reform: From the 1690s To 1850

    Open AccessHugh Cunningham, Joanna InnesBOOKCharity, Philanthropy and Reform1998

    The essays in this volume explore continuities and changes in the role of philanthropic organizations in Europe and North America in the period around the French Revolution. They aim to make connectio

  • Sanctuary and Sovereignty: Church and State Along the U.S.-Mexico Border

    Hugh CunninghamARTICLEJournal of Church and State1998Cited by: 3

  • Shorter Notices

    Hugh CunninghamARTICLEThe English Historical Review1997

    Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access HUGH CUNNINGHAM HUGH CUNNINGHAM University of Kent at Canterbury Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXII, Issue 447, June 1997, Pages 813–814, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXII.447.813 Published: 01 June 1997

  • Shorter Notices

    Hugh CunninghamARTICLEThe English Historical Review1997

    Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access HUGH CUNNINGHAM HUGH CUNNINGHAM University of Kent at Canterbury Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXII, Issue 445, February 1997, Pages 264–265, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXII.445.264 Published: 01 February 1997

  • Shorter Notices

    Hugh CunninghamARTICLEThe English Historical Review1995

    SHORTER NOTICES HUGH CUNNINGHAM HUGH CUNNINGHAM University of Kent Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CX, Issue 435, February 1995, Page 259, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CX.435.259-a Published: 01 February 1995

  • Children's Work and Welfare, 1780-1880

    Hugh Cunningham, Pamela HornARTICLEThe Economic History Review1995

    This short book provides a succinct account of changes in children's work and welfare in Britain between 1780 and 1890. It examines both the scale and the nature of child employment and the changing attitude of society towards it at a time when Britain was becoming the 'workshop of the world'. The further development of industry in the second half of the nineteenth century meant that the need for juvenile workers declined. At the same time the ef…