David Vincent
Biographic Data
| ID | 3895004 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Vincent |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Vincent |
| SIGNATURE | VINCENT D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Keele University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4351-1209 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Keeping Community During a Pandemic
The purpose of this qualitative exploratory study was to better understand how LGBTQ+ senior centers created virtual communities and implemented organizational adaptation in the earliest stages of the pandemic. Three focus groups (n=22) were conducted with program facilitators and senior center employees to better understand how these key stakeholders contributed to the transition from in person senior center to virtual senior center programming …
Bread, Knowledge and Freedom
First published in 1981, Bread, Knowledge and Freedom is a study of 142 working class autobiographies all of which cover some part of the period between 1790 and 1850. It is a full-scale examination of a form of source material that is significantly extensive. The book illustrates many aspects of ordinary working-class family life as well as the working-class pursuit of knowledge and literacy and the attempts of the middle-class educators to impo…
Katie Hindmarch-Watson. Serving a Wired World. London’s Telecommunications Workers and the Making of an Information Capital
Journal Article Katie Hindmarch-Watson. Serving a Wired World. London’s Telecommunications Workers and the Making of an Information Capital. Get access Katie Hindmarch-Watson. Serving a Wired World. London’s Telecommunications Workers and the Making of an Information Capital. Oakland: University of California Press, 2020. Pp. xi, 270. Cloth $29.95. David Vincent David Vincent The Open University UK Email: [email protected] Search for ot…
Group Analysis
The Littlehampton Libels
The Littlehampton Libels is an early twentieth-century micro-history. The tradition of using court evidence generated by an intensely local incident to interrogate otherwise opaque historical transitions stretches back to Montaillou. What distinguishes this enterprise is the relative modernity of the events, which began in 1920, and the absolute mundanity of the subject-matter. Here are no arguments over the fundamentals of religious belief or th…
Response to Christine Thornton
Response to Foulkes 41st Lecture
The Age of Asa
The invention of counting
This article examines the invention of counting literacy on a national basis in nineteenth-century Britain. Through an analysis of Registrar Generals' reports, it describes how the early statisticians wrestled with the implications of their new-found capacity to describe a nation's communications skills in a single table and how they were unable to escape their model of a society of isolated individuals divided into the literate and illiterate. T…
Deborah Cohen. Family Secrets
Deborah Cohen has written a pathbreaking history of the British family over two centuries. No attempt is made to cover the full range of developments from the late eighteenth century onward; rather, the narrative proceeds through a series of case histories of topics ranging from Indian nabobs, to divorce, to homosexuality, to disabled children, to confessional journalism, to marriage guidance and sexual liberation. Neither is there an ambition to…
Alfabetização e desenvolvimento
Este artigo analisa a dinâmica da recente alfabetização em massa na Inglaterra no contexto de práticas em países modernos em desenvolvimento, incluindo o Brasil. A Grã-Bretanha começou a investir em educação durante as décadas de 1860 e 1870, aproximadamente, e desenvolveu técnicas para medir os índices de alfabetização, os quais influenciaram profundamente as concepções de leitura e escrita de hoje e do passado. Redes de poder e ações eram ignor…
Secord's Sensation
The Progress of Literacy
Literacy is inextricably linked to notions of progress. Its measurement in the nineteenth century was a means by which societies began to calibrate their advance, and in developed as well as developing countries command of the basic skills of written communication is still seen as central to economic growth. 1 As a subject of historical study on the other hand, literacy as a narrative of progress has fallen into disrepute. The confident associati…
Reading Lives
Shorter Notices
Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access DAVID VINCENT DAVID VINCENT University of Keele Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXIII, Issue 453, September 1998, Pages 1047–1048, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXIII.453.1047 Published: 01 September 1998
Pathways to Social Class
Crime and Punishment in England
Part 1 The medieval inheritance: defining crime the medieval system in its prime. Part 2 The pre-industrial response to crime: Tudor crime imposing the law riots and political crime punishments manor courts. Part 3 Crime in industrial England: the control of society threats to public order crimes against property and the person statutory creation of new crimes law reform - policing, sentencing and punishing. Part 4 The making of the modern crimin…
Crime and Punishment in England
Ordering punishment
Jabez Balfour was one of the occasional symbolic victims of nineteenth-century justice. Using extensive nonconformist connections he had established the rapidly expanding Liberator Building Society, which attracted the savings of working people anxious to become home-owners. On the basis of his financial success, he entered parliament as a Liberal MP and established himself as an authority on commercial matters. In 1892 his business empire collap…
Short notices
John Edwards (transl. and ed.), The Jews in Western Europe 1400–1600 (1994), xvi + 159 (Manchester University Press, Manchester Medieval Sources Series, £14.95). Eric Hopkins, Childhood Transformed. Working‐Class Children in Nineteenth‐Century England (1994), viii + 343 (Manchester University Press, Manchester, $79.95, paperback $24.95). P. J. van der Merwe, The Migrant Farmer in the History of the Cape Colony 1657–1842, trans. Roger B. Beck (199…
Secrecy and the city, 1870–1939
This paper discusses the treatment of space and social interaction in the emerging modern city, and argues that the notion of ‘reserve’ developed by Georg Simmel blurs the key polarity between secrecy and privacy. Case histories of home visiting and gossip are used to examine how the boundaries between the two forms of blocked communication were constructed and negotiated in the late nineteenth and early twentiethcentury British city. There was n…
Social Paralysis and Social Change
Building European Society
Building European Society
Poor Citizens
Preface 1. Strategies of poverty 1900-14 2. Poverty and power 1914-39 3. Poverty and history 1939-64 4. Poverty and growth 1964-90 Glossary Bibliography Index
Love and death and the nineteenth‐century working class
Alfabetização e desenvolvimento
Este artigo analisa a dinâmica da recente alfabetização em massa na Inglaterra no contexto de práticas em países modernos em desenvolvimento, incluindo o Brasil. A Grã-Bretanha começou a investir em educação durante as décadas de 1860 e 1870, aproximadamente, e desenvolveu técnicas para medir os índices de alfabetização, os quais influenciaram profundamente as concepções de leitura e escrita de hoje e do passado. Redes de poder e ações eram ignor…
The Progress of Literacy
Literacy is inextricably linked to notions of progress. Its measurement in the nineteenth century was a means by which societies began to calibrate their advance, and in developed as well as developing countries command of the basic skills of written communication is still seen as central to economic growth. 1 As a subject of historical study on the other hand, literacy as a narrative of progress has fallen into disrepute. The confident associati…
Secrecy and the city, 1870–1939
This paper discusses the treatment of space and social interaction in the emerging modern city, and argues that the notion of ‘reserve’ developed by Georg Simmel blurs the key polarity between secrecy and privacy. Case histories of home visiting and gossip are used to examine how the boundaries between the two forms of blocked communication were constructed and negotiated in the late nineteenth and early twentiethcentury British city. There was n…
Building European Society
The Origins of Public Secrecy in Britain
The first modern crisis of public secrecy was set in motion in the Spring of 1844 when a little-known Italian exile began sending himself letters in which he had placed grains of sand, poppy seeds or fine hairs. The discovery that the additional contents were disappearing in transit confirmed Joseph Mazzini's suspicions that his correspondence was being opened by Sir James Graham, the Home Secretary, at the request of the Austrian ambassador. The…
Stabilisation strategies in primary commodity exporting countries
The short-run impact of fluctuating primary commodity prices on three developing economies
Love and death and the nineteenth‐century working class
Bread, knowledge and freedom.
Bread, Knowledge and Freedom
The short-run impact of fluctuating primary commodity prices on three developing economies
Stabilisation strategies in primary commodity exporting countries
Bread, Knowledge, and Freedom
Short notices
Euan Cameron, The Reformation of the Heretics: The Waldenses of the Alps, 1480–1580 (1984), xviii+291 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, £22.50). Ruth McClure, Coram's Children: The London Foundling Hospitalin the Eighteenth Century (1981), xiii+321 (Yale University Press, New Haven, £15.00). Anthony S. Wohl, Endangered Lives: Public Health in Victorian Britain (1983), 440 (J. M. Dent & Sons, £17.50). Melanie Tebbutt, Making Ends Meet: Pawnbroking and Wor…
Current Interests, Work in Progress
Current Interests, Work in Progress
Literacy and popular culture
Literacy and Popular Culture
In l750, half the population were unable to sign their names; by l9l4 England, together with a handful of advanced Western countries, had for the first time in history achieved a nominally literate society. This book seeks to understand how and why literacy spread into every corner of English society, and what impact it had on the lives and minds of the common people.
A Land of 'Boundless Opportunity
Literacy and Popular Culture
The Origins of Public Secrecy in Britain
The first modern crisis of public secrecy was set in motion in the Spring of 1844 when a little-known Italian exile began sending himself letters in which he had placed grains of sand, poppy seeds or fine hairs. The discovery that the additional contents were disappearing in transit confirmed Joseph Mazzini's suspicions that his correspondence was being opened by Sir James Graham, the Home Secretary, at the request of the Austrian ambassador. The…
Literacy and Popular Culture
Building European Society
Poor Citizens
Preface 1. Strategies of poverty 1900-14 2. Poverty and power 1914-39 3. Poverty and history 1939-64 4. Poverty and growth 1964-90 Glossary Bibliography Index
Social Paralysis and Social Change
Building European Society
Short notices
John Edwards (transl. and ed.), The Jews in Western Europe 1400–1600 (1994), xvi + 159 (Manchester University Press, Manchester Medieval Sources Series, £14.95). Eric Hopkins, Childhood Transformed. Working‐Class Children in Nineteenth‐Century England (1994), viii + 343 (Manchester University Press, Manchester, $79.95, paperback $24.95). P. J. van der Merwe, The Migrant Farmer in the History of the Cape Colony 1657–1842, trans. Roger B. Beck (199…
Secrecy and the city, 1870–1939
This paper discusses the treatment of space and social interaction in the emerging modern city, and argues that the notion of ‘reserve’ developed by Georg Simmel blurs the key polarity between secrecy and privacy. Case histories of home visiting and gossip are used to examine how the boundaries between the two forms of blocked communication were constructed and negotiated in the late nineteenth and early twentiethcentury British city. There was n…
Crime and Punishment in England
Ordering punishment
Jabez Balfour was one of the occasional symbolic victims of nineteenth-century justice. Using extensive nonconformist connections he had established the rapidly expanding Liberator Building Society, which attracted the savings of working people anxious to become home-owners. On the basis of his financial success, he entered parliament as a Liberal MP and established himself as an authority on commercial matters. In 1892 his business empire collap…
Crime and Punishment in England
Part 1 The medieval inheritance: defining crime the medieval system in its prime. Part 2 The pre-industrial response to crime: Tudor crime imposing the law riots and political crime punishments manor courts. Part 3 Crime in industrial England: the control of society threats to public order crimes against property and the person statutory creation of new crimes law reform - policing, sentencing and punishing. Part 4 The making of the modern crimin…
Shorter Notices
Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access DAVID VINCENT DAVID VINCENT University of Keele Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXIII, Issue 453, September 1998, Pages 1047–1048, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXIII.453.1047 Published: 01 September 1998
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