Emma Griffin
Biographic Data
| ID | 3766231 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emma Griffin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emma |
| FAMILY NAME | Griffin |
| SIGNATURE | GRIFFIN E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of East Anglia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
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…
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…
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
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…
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 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…
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…
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
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
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…
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…
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…
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