David Nash
Biographic Data
| ID | 3700215 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Nash |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Nash |
| SIGNATURE | NASH D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oxford Brookes University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6675-6527 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Spirits and Friends Beyond (The Seas)
This article commences by noting that most accounts of Spiritualism during World War One and its aftermath consider that it was harnessed to assist either with the war effort, or to provide comfort for those on the Home Front who were grieving for the dead or missing. However, as this article uncovers and elaborates, there was a brand of Spiritualism which looked beyond this nationalism to provide a form of universalism which sought to heal the w…
Historicising Paradox and Secularisation
This article argues that Joseph Blankholm’s concept of paradox needs to be applied more widely in the historical study of religious/secular relations. Blankholm’s study is useful but illuminates only a moment in the history of the secular (one representing a society where the expression of choice is encouraged by the absence of state religion). Examining the struggle between unbelievers and Christianity in 1880s/1890s Britain illuminates an entir…
Kurangara in Queensland
A particular historical travelling religious complex in northern Western Australia, usually known as Kurangara , has been the subject of anthropological attention since the late 1930s. Overlooked in all the literature is a similar account assigned to 1912–1918, in the distant Channel Country of southwest Queensland. This is in Alice Duncan‐Kemp's last book, published in 1968. My examination shows that a good deal of Duncan‐Kemp's account repeated…
Politics of Humiliation – How do We Save Us from our Liberal Selves
Political devolution and employment relations in Great Britain
This article examines the role of the devolved governments of Scotland and Wales in promoting the voluntary Living Wage. It shows that active promotion of the Living Wage standard has emerged in both countries from a broader commitment to an economic policy of ‘inclusive growth’. Employment law is not a devolved matter, and the article identifies a broad range of economic incentives and soft forms of regulation that have been used by the devolved…
Secularist History
This article provides a survey of the growth and development of historiography about both Secularism and the wider secular movement since the onset of the nineteenth century. It analyses and highlights the main themes and their advocates as well as suggesting what historiographical developments we might be likely to see in the future
Shame and Modernity in Britain
This book argues that traditional images and practices associated with shame did not recede with the coming of modern Britain. Following the authors’ acclaimed and successful nineteenth century book, Cultures of Shame, this new monograph moves forward to look at shame in the modern era. As such, it investigates how social and cultural expectations in both war and peace, changing attitudes to sexual identities and sexual behaviour, new innovations…
Negotiating the Marketplace of Comfort
Négocier le ‘ marché du confort’ : les libres penseurs face à de nouveaux paradigmes concernant la mort en Angleterre au XXe siècle. La mort laïque en Angleterre s’est fait une place viable dans la société de la fin du XIXe siècle. Les libres penseurs avaient la possibilité d’échapper aux services funéraires théistes, mais il n’existait aucune ‘ terre promise’ pour les approches non religieuses envers la mort au cours du XXe siècle. Le christiani…
Believing in Secularisation - Stories of Decline, Potential, and Resurgence
This article draws upon the methodology pioneered by the writer in Christian Ideals in British Culture: Stories of Belief in the Twentieth Century . This stressed the importance of narrative's ability to influence and shape both secular and religious responses to the world and Christian belief within it in Britain. Secularisation narratives and their influence in the twentieth century are the article's primary concern. Some, such as Jeffrey Cox, …
Patrick Joyce – A Retrospective
Aviation English
A common global language, or lingua franca, for radiotelephonic communication between air traffic control (ATC) and pilots is both desirable and difficult to achieve. This volume draws together man
Comitative placenames in central NSW
Christian Ideals in British Culture
1. Religious Stories and the Secular World 2. Pilgrims, Seekers, Samaritans and Saviours 3. Saved and Transfigured Selves 4. 'Just' and 'unjust' Wars 5. Collective Loss and Collective Remembrance 6. Sickness, Pain and Dying 7. Moments and Reactions 8. Anglican Decline Stories Conclusion
Wind Direction Words in the Sydney Language
The wind direction terms in the Sydney Language differ in the various sources (from the First Fleeters onwards), and at first sight look confused. After some sifting it emerges that the early sources fall into two sets partly relatable by a quarter-turn in the terms for the four cardinal directions. There are also terms for intermediate directions and probably sea and land breezes, and terms relatable to the sun and tides. A recent treatment of t…
Climate variability in Madagascar and the Mascarene islands during the nineteenth century
Thomas Albert Howard. God and the Atlantic
Reassessing the ‘Crisis of Faith’ in the Victorian Age
Journal Article Reassessing the ‘Crisis of Faith’ in the Victorian Age: Eclecticism and the Spirit of Moral Inquiry Get access David Nash David Nash 1Oxford Brookes University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 16, Issue 1, 1 April 2011, Pages 65–82, https://doi.org/10.1080/13555502.2011.554676 Published: 01 April 2011
Aboriginal knowledge of the aeroplane ‘Kookaburra’
Several expeditions aimed to reach and retrieve the aeroplane 'Kookaburra' that was force landed in 1929 in the Northern Territory. The guidance and efforts provided by Aborigines in the expeditions, owing to their intricate knowledge of the rough, semi-desert terrain are discussed
Histories of Crime
Australian Aboriginal Words in Dictionaries
A recent evaluation of how English dictionaries have treated the etymologies of some words borrowed from Australian languages was based on the author's own etymologies. I have examined one of these, for boomerang, and show that it incorporates inaccuracies and distortions, and that the criticism of J. A. H. Murray's etymology is unfounded. I suggest how the author's methodology may have led him astray
To Prostitute Morality, Libel Religion, and Undermine Government”
This article looks at the long term history of blasphemy in Britain and its relationship to the phenomenon of providence from the seventeenth century through to the twentieth. This, it is suggested, has substantially dominated the appearance of blasphemy accusation and public concern linked to the moral security of the realm. Using sermons and didactic writing from the seventeenth century, the article demonstrates how conceptions of providence an…
Introduction
Crisis of Doubt
Journal Article Crisis of Doubt: Honest Faith in Nineteenth-Century England Get access Crisis of Doubt: Honest Faith in Nineteenth-Century England, by Timothy Larsen (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2006; pp. 317. £60). David Nash David Nash Oxford Brookes University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXIII, Issue 500, February 2008, Pages 233–235, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cem42…
Analyzing the History of Religious Crime
Journal Article Analyzing the History of Religious Crime: Models of “Passive” and “Active” Blasphemy since the Medieval Period Get access David Nash David Nash History Department, Oxford Brookes University, Gypsy Lane, Headington, Oxford 0X3 OBP, United Kingdom Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 41, Issue 1, Fall 2007, Pages 5–29, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2007.0145 Publish…
Reconnecting Religion with Social and Cultural History
This article argues that the religious history written within the last thirty years has been unduly constrained by the impact of the secularization thesis. Through evaluating the original historiography and sociology that gave birth to it, and aspects of its cultural presence in Western (predominantly British) society and finally through an examination of the most recent scholarship, secularization emerges as a belief in itself. Focusing upon rel…
Lexical replacement and cognate equilibrium in Australia
We estimate the degree to which languages resort to borrowing as a means of lexical replacement, within a group of neighbouring languages of southwestern Cape York Peninsula, using several methods: (1) sound‐correspondences and correspondence‐mimicry; (2) the proportion of ‘local’ words in single‐language lists; and (3) the creation of the vocabulary of special registers. We find that borrowing accounts for at most half of lexical replacement in …
Reconnecting Religion with Social and Cultural History
This article argues that the religious history written within the last thirty years has been unduly constrained by the impact of the secularization thesis. Through evaluating the original historiography and sociology that gave birth to it, and aspects of its cultural presence in Western (predominantly British) society and finally through an examination of the most recent scholarship, secularization emerges as a belief in itself. Focusing upon rel…
Look in Her Face and Lose Thy Dread of Dying’
Believing in Secularisation - Stories of Decline, Potential, and Resurgence
This article draws upon the methodology pioneered by the writer in Christian Ideals in British Culture: Stories of Belief in the Twentieth Century . This stressed the importance of narrative's ability to influence and shape both secular and religious responses to the world and Christian belief within it in Britain. Secularisation narratives and their influence in the twentieth century are the article's primary concern. Some, such as Jeffrey Cox, …
Reassessing the ‘Crisis of Faith’ in the Victorian Age
Journal Article Reassessing the ‘Crisis of Faith’ in the Victorian Age: Eclecticism and the Spirit of Moral Inquiry Get access David Nash David Nash 1Oxford Brookes University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 16, Issue 1, 1 April 2011, Pages 65–82, https://doi.org/10.1080/13555502.2011.554676 Published: 01 April 2011
Crisis of Doubt
Journal Article Crisis of Doubt: Honest Faith in Nineteenth-Century England Get access Crisis of Doubt: Honest Faith in Nineteenth-Century England, by Timothy Larsen (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2006; pp. 317. £60). David Nash David Nash Oxford Brookes University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXIII, Issue 500, February 2008, Pages 233–235, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cem42…
Analyzing the History of Religious Crime
Journal Article Analyzing the History of Religious Crime: Models of “Passive” and “Active” Blasphemy since the Medieval Period Get access David Nash David Nash History Department, Oxford Brookes University, Gypsy Lane, Headington, Oxford 0X3 OBP, United Kingdom Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 41, Issue 1, Fall 2007, Pages 5–29, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2007.0145 Publish…
An Australian kinship affix ∗‐rti
In various Australian languages there are one or two, sometimes more, kinship terms ending in ‐rti or ‐rtu. Comparative evidence is marshalled which bears on the historical question as to the ending's source. The most likely possibility, that the ending derives from a pronominal suffix denoting propositus (possessor), receives best support from its occurrence in the Gulf language Mara, which in turn raises questions about the prehistory of the re…
On exponential densities and urban form
Wind Direction Words in the Sydney Language
The wind direction terms in the Sydney Language differ in the various sources (from the First Fleeters onwards), and at first sight look confused. After some sifting it emerges that the early sources fall into two sets partly relatable by a quarter-turn in the terms for the four cardinal directions. There are also terms for intermediate directions and probably sea and land breezes, and terms relatable to the sun and tides. A recent treatment of t…
Aboriginal knowledge of the aeroplane ‘Kookaburra’
Several expeditions aimed to reach and retrieve the aeroplane 'Kookaburra' that was force landed in 1929 in the Northern Territory. The guidance and efforts provided by Aborigines in the expeditions, owing to their intricate knowledge of the rough, semi-desert terrain are discussed
To Prostitute Morality, Libel Religion, and Undermine Government”
This article looks at the long term history of blasphemy in Britain and its relationship to the phenomenon of providence from the seventeenth century through to the twentieth. This, it is suggested, has substantially dominated the appearance of blasphemy accusation and public concern linked to the moral security of the realm. Using sermons and didactic writing from the seventeenth century, the article demonstrates how conceptions of providence an…
The Failed and Postponed Millennium
The Gupis debris flow and natural dam, July 1980
On exponential densities and urban form
The Gupis debris flow and natural dam, July 1980
Citizens and Saints
An Australian kinship affix ∗‐rti
In various Australian languages there are one or two, sometimes more, kinship terms ending in ‐rti or ‐rtu. Comparative evidence is marshalled which bears on the historical question as to the ending's source. The most likely possibility, that the ending derives from a pronominal suffix denoting propositus (possessor), receives best support from its occurrence in the Gulf language Mara, which in turn raises questions about the prehistory of the re…
William Morris and 'News from Nowhere
Introduction - Utopia today, S.Coleman biographical essay - who was William Morris?, P.O'Sullivan a synopsis of News from Nowhere, C.Slapper the feast's beginning - Nowhere and the Utopian tradition, C.Hampton how the change came - revolution in Nowhere, J.Crump how things are managed - human nature in Nowhere, S.Coleman concerning love - News from Nowhere & Gender, J.Marsh the obstinate refusers - work in News from Nowhere, R.Watkinson an old ho…
Women in the Chartist Movement
Short notices
Henry Heller, Iron and Blood. Civil Wars in Sixteenth‐Century France (1991), xiv + 191 (McGill‐Queen's University Press, £26.95). B. J. Davey, Rural Crime in Eighteenth Century England: North Lincolnshire 1740–80 (1994), xv + 167 (University of Hull Press, Hull, £9.95). John Breuilly, Labour and Liberalism in Nineteenth‐century Europe: Essays in Comparative History (1992), 336 (Manchester University Press, Manchester, £35.00, paperback £14.99). I…
Look in Her Face and Lose Thy Dread of Dying’
Workers' Worlds
Shorter Notices
Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access DAVID S. NASH DAVID S. NASH Oxford Brookes University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXII, Issue 447, June 1997, Pages 798-a–798, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXII.447.798-a Published: 01 June 1997
Coping and Parental History of Cardiovascular Disorders Influence Blood Pressure in Women Tested During Different Phases of Their Menstrual Cycles
An anger-provocation paradigm was used to assess coping and stress reactivity in 20 women with a positive parental history of cardiovascular disorders and 14 women whose parents had no cardiovascular disease. Frequency of seeking social support in the natural environment was assessed, as were systolic and diastolic blood pressures, while the women performed anger-inducing arithmetic and speech-stressor tasks during the premenstrual and postmenstr…
Lexical replacement and cognate equilibrium in Australia
We estimate the degree to which languages resort to borrowing as a means of lexical replacement, within a group of neighbouring languages of southwestern Cape York Peninsula, using several methods: (1) sound‐correspondences and correspondence‐mimicry; (2) the proportion of ‘local’ words in single‐language lists; and (3) the creation of the vocabulary of special registers. We find that borrowing accounts for at most half of lexical replacement in …
The Failed and Postponed Millennium
The Credulity of the Public Seems Infinite’
Journal Article ‘The Credulity of the Public Seems Infinite’: Charles Bradlaugh, public biography and the battle for narrative supremacy in fin-de-siècle England Get access David Nash David Nash 1Brookes University Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 7, Issue 2, January 2002, Pages 239–262, https://doi.org/10.3366/jvc.2002.7.2.239 Published: 01 January 2002
Late Pleistocene wetting and drying in the NW Kalahari
Forty Years on
Reconnecting Religion with Social and Cultural History
This article argues that the religious history written within the last thirty years has been unduly constrained by the impact of the secularization thesis. Through evaluating the original historiography and sociology that gave birth to it, and aspects of its cultural presence in Western (predominantly British) society and finally through an examination of the most recent scholarship, secularization emerges as a belief in itself. Focusing upon rel…
Analyzing the History of Religious Crime
Journal Article Analyzing the History of Religious Crime: Models of “Passive” and “Active” Blasphemy since the Medieval Period Get access David Nash David Nash History Department, Oxford Brookes University, Gypsy Lane, Headington, Oxford 0X3 OBP, United Kingdom Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 41, Issue 1, Fall 2007, Pages 5–29, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2007.0145 Publish…
To Prostitute Morality, Libel Religion, and Undermine Government”
This article looks at the long term history of blasphemy in Britain and its relationship to the phenomenon of providence from the seventeenth century through to the twentieth. This, it is suggested, has substantially dominated the appearance of blasphemy accusation and public concern linked to the moral security of the realm. Using sermons and didactic writing from the seventeenth century, the article demonstrates how conceptions of providence an…
Introduction
Crisis of Doubt
Journal Article Crisis of Doubt: Honest Faith in Nineteenth-Century England Get access Crisis of Doubt: Honest Faith in Nineteenth-Century England, by Timothy Larsen (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2006; pp. 317. £60). David Nash David Nash Oxford Brookes University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXIII, Issue 500, February 2008, Pages 233–235, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cem42…
Australian Aboriginal Words in Dictionaries
A recent evaluation of how English dictionaries have treated the etymologies of some words borrowed from Australian languages was based on the author's own etymologies. I have examined one of these, for boomerang, and show that it incorporates inaccuracies and distortions, and that the criticism of J. A. H. Murray's etymology is unfounded. I suggest how the author's methodology may have led him astray
Histories of Crime
Reassessing the ‘Crisis of Faith’ in the Victorian Age
Journal Article Reassessing the ‘Crisis of Faith’ in the Victorian Age: Eclecticism and the Spirit of Moral Inquiry Get access David Nash David Nash 1Oxford Brookes University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 16, Issue 1, 1 April 2011, Pages 65–82, https://doi.org/10.1080/13555502.2011.554676 Published: 01 April 2011
Aboriginal knowledge of the aeroplane ‘Kookaburra’
Several expeditions aimed to reach and retrieve the aeroplane 'Kookaburra' that was force landed in 1929 in the Northern Territory. The guidance and efforts provided by Aborigines in the expeditions, owing to their intricate knowledge of the rough, semi-desert terrain are discussed
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