Helen Berry
Biographic Data
| ID | 3704887 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Helen Berry |
| GIVEN NAMES | Helen |
| FAMILY NAME | Berry |
| SIGNATURE | BERRY H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of Archaeology |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3846-1200 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Democracy's Fatal Flaw
Epistolary periodicals associated with English coffee house culture have often been associated with Jürgen Habermas' model for the rise of the ‘bourgeois public sphere’. Habermas proposed this ultimately gave rise to the free articulation of public opinion and the emergence of democratic values. Written at a time of socio‐political upheaval, John Dunton's serial publications relied upon anonymous authorship, particularly his most famous periodica…
The occupational distribution of foundling apprentices during the English Industrial Revolution
This article presents a new analysis of the distribution of apprenticeships brokered by the London Foundling Hospital, England’s pre-eminent charitable foundation in the eighteenth century for orphaned and abandoned children. It explores the similarities and differences between charity apprenticeship and parish apprenticeship systems in supplying pauper children’s labour during the critical first phase of the English Industrial Revolution, within…
The Great Tyne Flood of 1771
Rivers of the Anthropocene
"This exciting volume presents the work and research of the Rivers of the Anthropocene Network, an international collaborative group of scientists, social scientists, humanists, artists, policy makers, and community organizers working to produce innovative transdisciplinary research on global freshwater systems. In an attempt to bridge disciplinary divides, the essays in this volume address the challenge in studying the intersection of biophysica…
Farm exit, wellbeing and autonomy
In many developed countries, the number of farmers working in commercial agriculture continues to decline with more likely to leave in the future. The act of farming and autonomy of farming work are central to farmers’ identity. Although loss of autonomy when exiting farming may pose a threat to identity and reduce farmer wellbeing, these are notable gaps in existing social research. This article retrospectively examines farmer autonomy and wellb…
The 2018 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change
Serving the public good
The impact of drought on the association between food security and mental health in a nationally representative Australian sample
Exposure to drought moderates the association between measures of food insecurity and psychological distress, generally increasing the distress level. Climate adaptation strategies that consider social, nutrition and health impacts are needed
Queering the History of Marriage
Farmer Health and Adaptive Capacity in the Face of Climate Change and Variability. Part 2
This study extends the emerging body of research on farmer adaptation to climate change, by segmenting farmers on the basis of specific attributes (health, values, belief about climate change, sense of responsibility for climate change, desire to change, social, human and financial capitals and farmer demographics) and considering such attributes as critical social aspects of the contextualized capacity to adapt. The segmental analysis was based …
Family in Early Modern England
The Family in Early Modern England
This 2007 text was the first single volume in recent years to provide an overview and assessment of the most important research that has been published on the English family in the past three decades. Some of the most distinguished historians of family life, together with the next generation of historians working in the field, present previously unpublished archival research to shed light on family ideals and experiences in the early modern perio…
Preliminary development and validation of an Australian community participation questionnaire
The Coffee House
The Coffee House: A Cultural History, by Markman Ellis (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004; pp. xiv + 304. £18.99). This new cultural history of coffee houses begins by exploring the historical roots of coffee drinking. The ‘wine of Islam’, which was originally grown in the Yemen and consumed in the mid-sixteenth-century coffee houses of Constantinople, was introduced to western Europeans by the German botanist Leonhard Rauwolf, who encountered …
Common Bodies. Women, Touch and Power in Seventeenth-Century England
The Reformed tradition remains an important subject of study-not because it explains the entire psychology of our modern capitalist world, but because it offers the basis for understanding Protestant Christianity in an increasingly secular world.An exhaustive, almost encyclopedic, display of information will leave readers feeling a bit overwhelmed, so many may find that the book is best read in sections and used as a reference work, especially be…
Polite Consumption
Shopping was increasingly seen as a potentially pleasurable activity for middling and upper sorts in Hanoverian England, a distinctive yet everyday part of life, especially in London. This survey considers the emergence of a polite shopping culture at this time, and presents a `browse-bargain' model as a framework for considering contemporary references to shopping in written records and literary texts. The decline of polite shopping is charted w…
Rethinking Politeness in Eighteenth-Century England
HISTORIANS are rightly suspicious of axioms, those capsules of historical ‘truth’ that pass into the received wisdom about a particular time period. Part of our job is to explode historical myth, to scrutinise and re-evaluate existing versions of the past. Yet how hard it is to think outside of the paradigms that are the legacy of an impressive bibliography and a legion of footnotes. I myself became aware of one particular paradigm regarding the …
Scrutinizing Men
A little over a decade ago Michael Roper, writing in History Workshop Journal, surveyed 'Recent Books on Masculinity' in response to a 'recent flurry' of academic interest he had observed at that time. 'While we now have a substantial body of literature analysing what masculinity is', he wrote, 'we still know precious little about its history.'1 Eleven years on, arguably, we know a little more. It is now a widely-accepted notion that the male gen…
An Early Coffee House Periodical and its Readers
Nice and Curious Questions’
(1997). ‘NICE AND CURIOUS QUESTIONS’: COFFEE HOUSES AND THE REPRESENTATION OF WOMEN IN JOHN DUNTON'S ATHENIAN MERCURY. The Seventeenth Century: Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 257-276
Summary of Closing Plenary Discussion on ‘Honour and Reputation in Early Modern England’
Richard Cust connected honour to his work on political culture and the gentry. He introduced the work of Mervyn James on honour as a framework for thinking about behavioural change over time. He suggested that the new historical approach is a multi-layered rather than a teleological one. Certain speakers had emphasised change rather than continuity over time, while others challenged such an approach. Important new themes had been introduced by th…
Preliminary development and validation of an Australian community participation questionnaire
The Coffee House
The Coffee House: A Cultural History, by Markman Ellis (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004; pp. xiv + 304. £18.99). This new cultural history of coffee houses begins by exploring the historical roots of coffee drinking. The ‘wine of Islam’, which was originally grown in the Yemen and consumed in the mid-sixteenth-century coffee houses of Constantinople, was introduced to western Europeans by the German botanist Leonhard Rauwolf, who encountered …
Polite Consumption
Shopping was increasingly seen as a potentially pleasurable activity for middling and upper sorts in Hanoverian England, a distinctive yet everyday part of life, especially in London. This survey considers the emergence of a polite shopping culture at this time, and presents a `browse-bargain' model as a framework for considering contemporary references to shopping in written records and literary texts. The decline of polite shopping is charted w…
Rethinking Politeness in Eighteenth-Century England
HISTORIANS are rightly suspicious of axioms, those capsules of historical ‘truth’ that pass into the received wisdom about a particular time period. Part of our job is to explode historical myth, to scrutinise and re-evaluate existing versions of the past. Yet how hard it is to think outside of the paradigms that are the legacy of an impressive bibliography and a legion of footnotes. I myself became aware of one particular paradigm regarding the …
Nice and Curious Questions’
(1997). ‘NICE AND CURIOUS QUESTIONS’: COFFEE HOUSES AND THE REPRESENTATION OF WOMEN IN JOHN DUNTON'S ATHENIAN MERCURY. The Seventeenth Century: Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 257-276
Summary of Closing Plenary Discussion on ‘Honour and Reputation in Early Modern England’
Richard Cust connected honour to his work on political culture and the gentry. He introduced the work of Mervyn James on honour as a framework for thinking about behavioural change over time. He suggested that the new historical approach is a multi-layered rather than a teleological one. Certain speakers had emphasised change rather than continuity over time, while others challenged such an approach. Important new themes had been introduced by th…
Nice and Curious Questions’
(1997). ‘NICE AND CURIOUS QUESTIONS’: COFFEE HOUSES AND THE REPRESENTATION OF WOMEN IN JOHN DUNTON'S ATHENIAN MERCURY. The Seventeenth Century: Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 257-276
An Early Coffee House Periodical and its Readers
Rethinking Politeness in Eighteenth-Century England
HISTORIANS are rightly suspicious of axioms, those capsules of historical ‘truth’ that pass into the received wisdom about a particular time period. Part of our job is to explode historical myth, to scrutinise and re-evaluate existing versions of the past. Yet how hard it is to think outside of the paradigms that are the legacy of an impressive bibliography and a legion of footnotes. I myself became aware of one particular paradigm regarding the …
Scrutinizing Men
A little over a decade ago Michael Roper, writing in History Workshop Journal, surveyed 'Recent Books on Masculinity' in response to a 'recent flurry' of academic interest he had observed at that time. 'While we now have a substantial body of literature analysing what masculinity is', he wrote, 'we still know precious little about its history.'1 Eleven years on, arguably, we know a little more. It is now a widely-accepted notion that the male gen…
Polite Consumption
Shopping was increasingly seen as a potentially pleasurable activity for middling and upper sorts in Hanoverian England, a distinctive yet everyday part of life, especially in London. This survey considers the emergence of a polite shopping culture at this time, and presents a `browse-bargain' model as a framework for considering contemporary references to shopping in written records and literary texts. The decline of polite shopping is charted w…
Common Bodies. Women, Touch and Power in Seventeenth-Century England
The Reformed tradition remains an important subject of study-not because it explains the entire psychology of our modern capitalist world, but because it offers the basis for understanding Protestant Christianity in an increasingly secular world.An exhaustive, almost encyclopedic, display of information will leave readers feeling a bit overwhelmed, so many may find that the book is best read in sections and used as a reference work, especially be…
The Coffee House
The Coffee House: A Cultural History, by Markman Ellis (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004; pp. xiv + 304. £18.99). This new cultural history of coffee houses begins by exploring the historical roots of coffee drinking. The ‘wine of Islam’, which was originally grown in the Yemen and consumed in the mid-sixteenth-century coffee houses of Constantinople, was introduced to western Europeans by the German botanist Leonhard Rauwolf, who encountered …
The Family in Early Modern England
This 2007 text was the first single volume in recent years to provide an overview and assessment of the most important research that has been published on the English family in the past three decades. Some of the most distinguished historians of family life, together with the next generation of historians working in the field, present previously unpublished archival research to shed light on family ideals and experiences in the early modern perio…
Preliminary development and validation of an Australian community participation questionnaire
Family in Early Modern England
Farmer Health and Adaptive Capacity in the Face of Climate Change and Variability. Part 2
This study extends the emerging body of research on farmer adaptation to climate change, by segmenting farmers on the basis of specific attributes (health, values, belief about climate change, sense of responsibility for climate change, desire to change, social, human and financial capitals and farmer demographics) and considering such attributes as critical social aspects of the contextualized capacity to adapt. The segmental analysis was based …
Queering the History of Marriage
The impact of drought on the association between food security and mental health in a nationally representative Australian sample
Exposure to drought moderates the association between measures of food insecurity and psychological distress, generally increasing the distress level. Climate adaptation strategies that consider social, nutrition and health impacts are needed
Serving the public good
The 2018 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change
Farm exit, wellbeing and autonomy
In many developed countries, the number of farmers working in commercial agriculture continues to decline with more likely to leave in the future. The act of farming and autonomy of farming work are central to farmers’ identity. Although loss of autonomy when exiting farming may pose a threat to identity and reduce farmer wellbeing, these are notable gaps in existing social research. This article retrospectively examines farmer autonomy and wellb…
The Great Tyne Flood of 1771
Rivers of the Anthropocene
"This exciting volume presents the work and research of the Rivers of the Anthropocene Network, an international collaborative group of scientists, social scientists, humanists, artists, policy makers, and community organizers working to produce innovative transdisciplinary research on global freshwater systems. In an attempt to bridge disciplinary divides, the essays in this volume address the challenge in studying the intersection of biophysica…
The occupational distribution of foundling apprentices during the English Industrial Revolution
This article presents a new analysis of the distribution of apprenticeships brokered by the London Foundling Hospital, England’s pre-eminent charitable foundation in the eighteenth century for orphaned and abandoned children. It explores the similarities and differences between charity apprenticeship and parish apprenticeship systems in supplying pauper children’s labour during the critical first phase of the English Industrial Revolution, within…
Democracy's Fatal Flaw
Epistolary periodicals associated with English coffee house culture have often been associated with Jürgen Habermas' model for the rise of the ‘bourgeois public sphere’. Habermas proposed this ultimately gave rise to the free articulation of public opinion and the emergence of democratic values. Written at a time of socio‐political upheaval, John Dunton's serial publications relied upon anonymous authorship, particularly his most famous periodica…
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