Gwenda Morgan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3765998 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gwenda Morgan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gwenda |
| FAMILY NAME | Morgan |
| SIGNATURE | MORGAN G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sunderland |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Crime, Policing and Punishment in England, 1660–1914
Few will fail to be impressed by the scope of Drew D. Gray’s new book but how they will use it is debateable. The author describes it as a textbook and doubtless students will find it useful as a r
Catherine Armstrong, Landscape and identity in North America’s southern colonies from 1669 to 1745
Catherine Armstrong, Landscape and identity in North America’s southern colonies from 1669 to 1745." The Seventeenth Century, 32(2), pp. 222–223
Liberty's Prisoners
Jen Manion's book examines how, in the wake of the American Revolution, the new American states, rejecting the “bloody code” of the mother country, addressed the issue of reforming their systems of punishment in accordance with enlightenment thinking and liberal reform. What they achieved, however, argues Manion, was a harsh regime of punishment centered on the penitentiary and a system of incarceration for minor offenders driven (though not expl…
American Revolution, The
Arson, Treason and Plot
The problems of arson, treason and national security became entangled in the politics of Britain and its Atlantic empire between 1770 and 1777. Fears of French military terrorism were compounded by the increasingly violent resistance of the American colonies. Two dockyard fires in Portsmouth, in 1770 and 1777, and the attack on, and burning of, the royal navy ship Gaspee off Rhode Island in 1772, provoked both legal and political difficulties for…
Fraud and Freedom
This paper takes three examples of women convicts reinventing themselves in the American colonies, to explore the processes of self-fashioning in the eighteenth century. The fabrication of new identities as a means of survival places female agency at the heart of the stories, yet their appearance in printed and other sources suggests that they were not entirely successful. Thus the deceptions were detected in the British Atlantic world by the cir…
Print culture, crime and transportation in the criminal Atlantic
Stories of transported criminals were exchanged in the print culture of the eighteenth-century British Atlantic, creating images of the incorrigibility of transported criminals and of the failures of transportation, with many either re-offending in America or returning to do so in England. This discourse also framed images that each side of the Atlantic had of the other. The British learnt that the plantations were a place of slavery, the America…
Gangs, Gentlemen and Gypsies
In August 1752 the Maryland Gazette carried a report from Bristol concerning the movement of convicts to Bideford for shipment: Last Monday morning a great number of People resorted before Newgate, to see the 11 transports carried away for Bideford. Ten of the Prisoners were mounted two upon a Horse chain’d. People were chiefly concerned to see [Daniel] Bishop who had murdered his sweetheart. They rode them through the crowd who yelled at him and…
Conclusion
The American Revolution did not end the story of transatlantic convict transportation. As the last ship to arrive before hostitilies fully developed, the Jenny from Newcastle, came in to the Chesapeake to land its cargo in April 1776, no one in Britain imagined that this was the demise of the convict trade to America. 1 In 1769, the Virginia Gazette noted that the Conversation Club in London had debated the question, ‘is transportation a proper m…
Cities, Regions and their Criminals
The early eighteenth century was not a period devoted to the collection and publication of statistics on matters of social concern such as crime. Most efforts were, and remained, private, and commentators were frequently more concerned with economic or trade data than crime. State information on criminal matters, by contrast was confined to records of individual cases and their progress. No one attempted to bring together the scattered decisions …
Flight, Escape and Return
When John Poulter and an accomplice held up a post-chaise belonging to Dr William Hancock on Claverton Down near Bath one Wednesday evening in March 1753, he set in motion a chain of events which led not only to his own execution and a nationwide hunt for his former accomplices, but also to the publication of The Discoveries of John Poulter, alias Baxter , one of the best-known and most remarkable of eighteenthcentury criminal biographies 1 The D…
Panics and Recriminations
It is clear that convict transportation after 1718 involved a massive effort by the authorities in both England and the colonies. The London government maintained expensive subsidies for shipping felons, and local counties and regions entered into similar, often long-term, arrangements. Equally important were the common interest in criminals which this trade generated, and the exchange of news and cultural representations associated with it. The …
Pedlars in the Outports
The varying willingness to adopt transportation as a regular part of the armoury of punishment is most apparent at the county level, where local magistrates responded to the 1718 Act with everything from apparent enthusiasm to complete indifference. While transportation had figured in the seventeenth century as both a political means of dealing with rebellion, and a judicial method of disposing of those reprieved from the gallows, it is unclear t…
Introduction
In August 1752, a performance of The Beggar’s Opera was advertised at the New Theatre, Upper Marlborough, by the Company of Comedians from Annapolis, capital of Maryland. Whether there were many convicts eager to be in the audience in what one visitor noted as a ‘tobaccohouse’, is not recorded, but there is a certain irony in the fact that England’s best-known dramatic representation of criminals was going to be performed in the colony with the h…
Eighteenth-Century Criminal Transportation
This is the first major study of the convict in the Atlantic world of the eighteenth century. It concentrates on the diverse characters of the transported men, women and children, and their fate in th
Running away and returning home
The myth of return – that many English criminals transported to the American colonies ran away and returned home – dominated eighteenth-century views of the punishment. In both criminal biographies and political discussion this was widely believed. Yet data from both sides of the Atlantic suggest that few in fact returned successfully. The systems of surveillance in the colonies, designed to detect and recapture escaping slaves, servants and conv…
The magistrate, the community and the maintenance of an orderly society in eighteenth-century England
The lone magistrate was the central figure of early modern English law enforcement, yet few records of his activities survive. This study of one of the rare notebooks kept by a local J.P. in north-east England in the eighteenth century suggests that his primary purpose was to negotiate peace between disputants rather than to secure prosecution and conviction of those accused of crimes. Prosecutions in court were few. Reconciliation was mixed with…
Tobacco control research in managed care
A combination of recent scientific advances and social, legal, and public policy developments provides an unprecedented opportunity to reduce the burden of death and disease caused by tobacco use. The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has long played a vital and leading role in the battle against tobacco use. Our research programs have provided critical insights into why people smoke and why they find quitting so diYcult. Nevertheless, the historic…
Forced Founders
Emancipation studies
Freedom By Degrees: Emancipation in Pennsylvania and Its Aftermath. By GARY B. NASH and JEAN R. SODERLUND. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. xvi, 249 pp. £20. Somewhat More Independent: The End of Slavery in New YorkCity, 1770–1810. By SHANE WHITE. Athens, Ga. and London: University of Georgia Press, 1991. xviii, 278 pp. $35
The Hegemony of the Law
Journal Article The Hegemony of the Law: Richard County, Virginia, 1692–1776 Get access Morgan Gwenda, The Hegemony of the Law: Richard County, Virginia, 1692–1776. Edited by John Murrin. Outstanding Studies in Early American History. New York & London: Garland Publishing Inc., 1989. ix, 242 pp. $48.00. Mark F. Fernandez Mark F. Fernandez Southwest Texas State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Ame…
The Hegemony of the Law
Arthur Lee
Faithful Magistrates and Republican Lawyers
Eighteenth-Century Criminal Transportation
This is the first major study of the convict in the Atlantic world of the eighteenth century. It concentrates on the diverse characters of the transported men, women and children, and their fate in th
Running away and returning home
The myth of return – that many English criminals transported to the American colonies ran away and returned home – dominated eighteenth-century views of the punishment. In both criminal biographies and political discussion this was widely believed. Yet data from both sides of the Atlantic suggest that few in fact returned successfully. The systems of surveillance in the colonies, designed to detect and recapture escaping slaves, servants and conv…
Liberty's Prisoners
Jen Manion's book examines how, in the wake of the American Revolution, the new American states, rejecting the “bloody code” of the mother country, addressed the issue of reforming their systems of punishment in accordance with enlightenment thinking and liberal reform. What they achieved, however, argues Manion, was a harsh regime of punishment centered on the penitentiary and a system of incarceration for minor offenders driven (though not expl…
Faithful Magistrates and Republican Lawyers
Arthur Lee
The Hegemony of the Law
Journal Article The Hegemony of the Law: Richard County, Virginia, 1692–1776 Get access Morgan Gwenda, The Hegemony of the Law: Richard County, Virginia, 1692–1776. Edited by John Murrin. Outstanding Studies in Early American History. New York & London: Garland Publishing Inc., 1989. ix, 242 pp. $48.00. Mark F. Fernandez Mark F. Fernandez Southwest Texas State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Ame…
The Hegemony of the Law
Emancipation studies
Freedom By Degrees: Emancipation in Pennsylvania and Its Aftermath. By GARY B. NASH and JEAN R. SODERLUND. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. xvi, 249 pp. £20. Somewhat More Independent: The End of Slavery in New YorkCity, 1770–1810. By SHANE WHITE. Athens, Ga. and London: University of Georgia Press, 1991. xviii, 278 pp. $35
Tobacco control research in managed care
A combination of recent scientific advances and social, legal, and public policy developments provides an unprecedented opportunity to reduce the burden of death and disease caused by tobacco use. The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has long played a vital and leading role in the battle against tobacco use. Our research programs have provided critical insights into why people smoke and why they find quitting so diYcult. Nevertheless, the historic…
Forced Founders
Running away and returning home
The myth of return – that many English criminals transported to the American colonies ran away and returned home – dominated eighteenth-century views of the punishment. In both criminal biographies and political discussion this was widely believed. Yet data from both sides of the Atlantic suggest that few in fact returned successfully. The systems of surveillance in the colonies, designed to detect and recapture escaping slaves, servants and conv…
The magistrate, the community and the maintenance of an orderly society in eighteenth-century England
The lone magistrate was the central figure of early modern English law enforcement, yet few records of his activities survive. This study of one of the rare notebooks kept by a local J.P. in north-east England in the eighteenth century suggests that his primary purpose was to negotiate peace between disputants rather than to secure prosecution and conviction of those accused of crimes. Prosecutions in court were few. Reconciliation was mixed with…
Gangs, Gentlemen and Gypsies
In August 1752 the Maryland Gazette carried a report from Bristol concerning the movement of convicts to Bideford for shipment: Last Monday morning a great number of People resorted before Newgate, to see the 11 transports carried away for Bideford. Ten of the Prisoners were mounted two upon a Horse chain’d. People were chiefly concerned to see [Daniel] Bishop who had murdered his sweetheart. They rode them through the crowd who yelled at him and…
Conclusion
The American Revolution did not end the story of transatlantic convict transportation. As the last ship to arrive before hostitilies fully developed, the Jenny from Newcastle, came in to the Chesapeake to land its cargo in April 1776, no one in Britain imagined that this was the demise of the convict trade to America. 1 In 1769, the Virginia Gazette noted that the Conversation Club in London had debated the question, ‘is transportation a proper m…
Cities, Regions and their Criminals
The early eighteenth century was not a period devoted to the collection and publication of statistics on matters of social concern such as crime. Most efforts were, and remained, private, and commentators were frequently more concerned with economic or trade data than crime. State information on criminal matters, by contrast was confined to records of individual cases and their progress. No one attempted to bring together the scattered decisions …
Flight, Escape and Return
When John Poulter and an accomplice held up a post-chaise belonging to Dr William Hancock on Claverton Down near Bath one Wednesday evening in March 1753, he set in motion a chain of events which led not only to his own execution and a nationwide hunt for his former accomplices, but also to the publication of The Discoveries of John Poulter, alias Baxter , one of the best-known and most remarkable of eighteenthcentury criminal biographies 1 The D…
Panics and Recriminations
It is clear that convict transportation after 1718 involved a massive effort by the authorities in both England and the colonies. The London government maintained expensive subsidies for shipping felons, and local counties and regions entered into similar, often long-term, arrangements. Equally important were the common interest in criminals which this trade generated, and the exchange of news and cultural representations associated with it. The …
Pedlars in the Outports
The varying willingness to adopt transportation as a regular part of the armoury of punishment is most apparent at the county level, where local magistrates responded to the 1718 Act with everything from apparent enthusiasm to complete indifference. While transportation had figured in the seventeenth century as both a political means of dealing with rebellion, and a judicial method of disposing of those reprieved from the gallows, it is unclear t…
Introduction
In August 1752, a performance of The Beggar’s Opera was advertised at the New Theatre, Upper Marlborough, by the Company of Comedians from Annapolis, capital of Maryland. Whether there were many convicts eager to be in the audience in what one visitor noted as a ‘tobaccohouse’, is not recorded, but there is a certain irony in the fact that England’s best-known dramatic representation of criminals was going to be performed in the colony with the h…
Eighteenth-Century Criminal Transportation
This is the first major study of the convict in the Atlantic world of the eighteenth century. It concentrates on the diverse characters of the transported men, women and children, and their fate in th
Print culture, crime and transportation in the criminal Atlantic
Stories of transported criminals were exchanged in the print culture of the eighteenth-century British Atlantic, creating images of the incorrigibility of transported criminals and of the failures of transportation, with many either re-offending in America or returning to do so in England. This discourse also framed images that each side of the Atlantic had of the other. The British learnt that the plantations were a place of slavery, the America…
Fraud and Freedom
This paper takes three examples of women convicts reinventing themselves in the American colonies, to explore the processes of self-fashioning in the eighteenth century. The fabrication of new identities as a means of survival places female agency at the heart of the stories, yet their appearance in printed and other sources suggests that they were not entirely successful. Thus the deceptions were detected in the British Atlantic world by the cir…
American Revolution, The
Arson, Treason and Plot
The problems of arson, treason and national security became entangled in the politics of Britain and its Atlantic empire between 1770 and 1777. Fears of French military terrorism were compounded by the increasingly violent resistance of the American colonies. Two dockyard fires in Portsmouth, in 1770 and 1777, and the attack on, and burning of, the royal navy ship Gaspee off Rhode Island in 1772, provoked both legal and political difficulties for…
Liberty's Prisoners
Jen Manion's book examines how, in the wake of the American Revolution, the new American states, rejecting the “bloody code” of the mother country, addressed the issue of reforming their systems of punishment in accordance with enlightenment thinking and liberal reform. What they achieved, however, argues Manion, was a harsh regime of punishment centered on the penitentiary and a system of incarceration for minor offenders driven (though not expl…
Crime, Policing and Punishment in England, 1660–1914
Few will fail to be impressed by the scope of Drew D. Gray’s new book but how they will use it is debateable. The author describes it as a textbook and doubtless students will find it useful as a r
Catherine Armstrong, Landscape and identity in North America’s southern colonies from 1669 to 1745
Catherine Armstrong, Landscape and identity in North America’s southern colonies from 1669 to 1745." The Seventeenth Century, 32(2), pp. 222–223
Political science (22 works) · History (21 works) · Law (20 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (12 works) · History (12 works) · Law (12 works) · Criminology (10 works) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (9 works)