Pamela Sharpe
Biographic Data
| ID | 3945794 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pamela Sharpe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pamela |
| FAMILY NAME | Sharpe |
| SIGNATURE | SHARPE P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bristol |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Women before the court
Infidel feminism
Housewives and citizens
This book explores the contribution that five conservative, voluntary and popular women's organisations made to women's lives and to the campaign for women's rights throughout the period 1928 to 1964. The five groups included in this study are: the Mothers' Union, the Catholic Women's League, the National Council of Women, the National Federation of Women's Institutes and the National Union of Townswomen's Guilds. The book challenges existing his…
Women's Liberation Movement in Scotland
Modern women on trial
Focusing on a number of sensational trials with young female defendants involving drugs, murder, adultery, miscegenation and sexual perversion in the period 1918-1924, the books suggests that the figure of the modern woman/flapper was a personification of the upheavals of the time, representing anxieties about modernity, and instabilities of gender, class, race and national identity. Later she came to stand for the ‘roaring’ 1920s, but in the per…
Liberty's Dawn
Can we be surprised that a protracted cataclysmic event such as the British Industrial Revolution continues to inspire such interest—from the opening ceremony of the British Olympics to the central subject matter of university courses in economic history? Yet books about the Industrial Revolution only rarely reach the shelves of the bookstores of Hobart, Tasmania where I am based. Emma Griffin's Liberty's Dawn: A People's History of the Industria…
The History Woman
It should not surprise us that the passing of Joan Thirsk in October 2013 resulted not only in many obituaries but also in workshops and conference sessions that took inspiration from her work. Thirsk was a pioneer female historian working in a male-dominated institution (Oxford University) and a male-orientated field (economic history). According to a recent Royal Historical Society report on gender equality in history, the members and participa…
Explaining the short stature of the poor
This article examines the relationship between human growth, final height, and the environment in early nineteenth-century England. While the reasons for stuntedness are multifactoral and involve lack of nourishment andin uteroconditions, we should also give emphasis to respiratory, gastro-enteric, and bone disease along with the inadequate and sometimes harmful arrangements for convalescence, involving opiates and inadequate rest. Hard work and …
Accommodating Poverty
This book offers a detailed examination of the living arrangements and material circumstances of the poor betweeen 1650 and 1850. Chapters investigate poor households in urban, rural and metropolitan
Lace and Place
While the occupational community was a common feature of work in the European past, it has been little analysed apart from the salient exception of Mary Prior’s Fisher Row. Analysis of lace‐making communities shows the interdependent elements of work; the geographical concentration of the lace trade, and the ways in which the trade was perpetuated through sibling groups, through skills passed from mothers to daughters or where work took place in …
The Experience of Urban Poverty, 1723-82
Alannah Tomkins Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2006 PP. xi + 289. £55.00. ISBN 0719075041 A great deal of fascinating new research has recently been published about the history of poverty
The Business of Women
Hannah Barkers lucid and succinct book opens a fascinating window onthe world of the lower-middling sort in the rapidly growing towns of Manchester,Leeds, and Sheffield during the key period of the Industrial Revolution
The Significance of Brawn
The Significance of Brawn
It has been interesting to follow Joyce Burnette's work over the last few years and to see its culmination in Gender, Work, and Wages in Industrial Revolution Britain (2008). As will be obvious to the book's readers, much of it is an argument with me and several other feminist economic historians who have a different take on the reason that female wages were, in general, so much lower than male wages in the period 1750–1850. It is worth saying at…
The feminine public sphere
Women, Gender and Labour Migration
Women, Gender and Labour Migration
1. Introduction: gender and the experience of migration Pamela Sharpe 2. Women migrants as global and local agents: new research strategies on gender and migration Christiane Harzig 3. Leaving home to help the family? Male and female temporary migrants in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Spain Carmen Saras 4. Labour migration, family and community in early modern Japan Mary Louise Nagata 5. Women and long distance trade migration in the nineteen…
The Shiners
Following research by a number of scholars, this article explores the structure of the proto-industrial household as a work unit. The data is used to test the theory of the ‘adaptive family economy’ formulated by Richard Wall. It reviews the evidence for the division of the framework-knitting trade into high quality and cheaper branches, and its impact on rural households. The analysis centres on two rural framework-knitting communities in Nottin…
Dealing with Love
Peter Scholliers, Wages, manufacturers and workers in the nineteenth-century factory . (Oxford and Washington
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Chronicling Poverty
Over the last twenty years more and more historians of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries have turned their eyes away from the records of central administration, towards local archives, and the lives of the poor. What they have found is a wealth of sources some of which chronicle the lives, and many of which record the words, of working people. This book will bring together some of the best work based on these sources
Short Reviews
Journal Article Short Reviews Get access Philip Stell, Medical Practice in Medieval York, York: University of York, Borthwick Institute Publication/(No 90) 1996. Pp. i + 35. £3 (pbk). ISBN 0524-0913 PAM SHARPE PAM SHARPE University of Bristol Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 10, Issue 3, December 1997, Pages 499-a–499, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/10.3.499-a Publishe…
Women's employment and industrial organisation
The early nineteenth century saw expanding work opportunities for women in commercial lace embroidery in Britain. This article traces the connection between the development of commercial lace embroidery in several locations – Nottingham, Essex and Limerick. Despite the fame of the Irish industry, it has received almost no academic attention. The differing structures of the Irish and English industries are examined. Aspects of lace manufacture hig…
Adapting to Capitalism
A History of the County of Essex, IX
Explaining the short stature of the poor
This article examines the relationship between human growth, final height, and the environment in early nineteenth-century England. While the reasons for stuntedness are multifactoral and involve lack of nourishment andin uteroconditions, we should also give emphasis to respiratory, gastro-enteric, and bone disease along with the inadequate and sometimes harmful arrangements for convalescence, involving opiates and inadequate rest. Hard work and …
Literally spinsters
Pamela Sharpe, Literally Spinsters: A New Interpretation of Local Economy and Demography in Colyton in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, The Economic History Review, New Series, Vol. 44, No. 1 (Feb., 1991), pp. 46-65
Dealing with Love
Continuity and Change
Poor children as apprentices in Colyton, 1598–1830
L'étude présentée ici combine la documentation concernant l'apprentissage des pauvres dans la paroisse de Colyton (Devonshire) et la reconstitution des families de la paroisse pour décrire I'âge et les conditions familiales des enfants pauvres de la ville. Les types d'apprentissage des pauvres correspondent aux circonstances locales, tant de l'offre que de la demande. Jusqu'à la moitié du 18è siècle les enfants étaient mis en apprentissage suite …
The Women's Harvest
Increasing attention has recently been given by historians to the many informal ways in which women made economic contributions to rural labouring households in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Both Jane Humphries and Peter King have shown how important the exploitation of common rights, by gleaning for example, could be to the family economy. This is not to overlook the fact that certain types of women's and children's employment, such a…
Lace and Place
While the occupational community was a common feature of work in the European past, it has been little analysed apart from the salient exception of Mary Prior’s Fisher Row. Analysis of lace‐making communities shows the interdependent elements of work; the geographical concentration of the lace trade, and the ways in which the trade was perpetuated through sibling groups, through skills passed from mothers to daughters or where work took place in …
Poor children as apprentices in Colyton, 1598–1830
L'étude présentée ici combine la documentation concernant l'apprentissage des pauvres dans la paroisse de Colyton (Devonshire) et la reconstitution des families de la paroisse pour décrire I'âge et les conditions familiales des enfants pauvres de la ville. Les types d'apprentissage des pauvres correspondent aux circonstances locales, tant de l'offre que de la demande. Jusqu'à la moitié du 18è siècle les enfants étaient mis en apprentissage suite …
Literally spinsters
Pamela Sharpe, Literally Spinsters: A New Interpretation of Local Economy and Demography in Colyton in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, The Economic History Review, New Series, Vol. 44, No. 1 (Feb., 1991), pp. 46-65
Child labor and the industrial revolution
(1992). Child labor and the industrial revolution. History of European Ideas: Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 448-449
Women, texts and histories, 1575-1760
De-industrialization and re-industrialization
The relationship between changes in the local economy of the town and region of Colchester are explored in relation to women's employment opportunities. Economic decline and technological change in the woollen industry, as well as diminishing agricultural work for females, provided a ‘push’ factor for women to move to Colchester. In the town, urban rejuvenation meant expansion in the service sector. Yet Colchester was unable to absorb all the lab…
The Women's Harvest
Increasing attention has recently been given by historians to the many informal ways in which women made economic contributions to rural labouring households in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Both Jane Humphries and Peter King have shown how important the exploitation of common rights, by gleaning for example, could be to the family economy. This is not to overlook the fact that certain types of women's and children's employment, such a…
Uncertain Unions
Thomas Sokoll, Household and family among the poor
Thomas Sokoll, Household and family among the poor: the case of two Essex communities in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. (Bochum: Universitätsverlag Dr. Norbert Brockmeyer, 1993.) Pages 383. 59.80 DM. - Volume 10 Issue 1
Anne Laurence, Women in England 1500–1760
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Poor Women and Children in the European Past
Introduction Section 1: Children 1. Family Structures and the Early Phase in the Individual Life-cycle: A Southern European Perspective Pier Paolo Viazzo 2. Illegitimacy and the Abandonment of Children in the Basque Country, 1500-1800 Lola Valverde 3. 'Perche non avea chi la ghovernasse'. Cultural Values, Family Resources and Abandonment in teh Florence of Lorenzo de Medici, 1467-1485 Philip Gavitt 4. Between the Home and the Hospice. The Plight …
Industry in the Countryside
Continuity and Change
Women's employment and industrial organisation
The early nineteenth century saw expanding work opportunities for women in commercial lace embroidery in Britain. This article traces the connection between the development of commercial lace embroidery in several locations – Nottingham, Essex and Limerick. Despite the fame of the Irish industry, it has received almost no academic attention. The differing structures of the Irish and English industries are examined. Aspects of lace manufacture hig…
Adapting to Capitalism
A History of the County of Essex, IX
From Artisans to Paupers
Chronicling Poverty
Over the last twenty years more and more historians of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries have turned their eyes away from the records of central administration, towards local archives, and the lives of the poor. What they have found is a wealth of sources some of which chronicle the lives, and many of which record the words, of working people. This book will bring together some of the best work based on these sources
Short Reviews
Journal Article Short Reviews Get access Philip Stell, Medical Practice in Medieval York, York: University of York, Borthwick Institute Publication/(No 90) 1996. Pp. i + 35. £3 (pbk). ISBN 0524-0913 PAM SHARPE PAM SHARPE University of Bristol Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 10, Issue 3, December 1997, Pages 499-a–499, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/10.3.499-a Publishe…
Dealing with Love
Peter Scholliers, Wages, manufacturers and workers in the nineteenth-century factory . (Oxford and Washington
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Shiners
Following research by a number of scholars, this article explores the structure of the proto-industrial household as a work unit. The data is used to test the theory of the ‘adaptive family economy’ formulated by Richard Wall. It reviews the evidence for the division of the framework-knitting trade into high quality and cheaper branches, and its impact on rural households. The analysis centres on two rural framework-knitting communities in Nottin…
Women, Gender and Labour Migration
1. Introduction: gender and the experience of migration Pamela Sharpe 2. Women migrants as global and local agents: new research strategies on gender and migration Christiane Harzig 3. Leaving home to help the family? Male and female temporary migrants in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Spain Carmen Saras 4. Labour migration, family and community in early modern Japan Mary Louise Nagata 5. Women and long distance trade migration in the nineteen…
Women, Gender and Labour Migration
The Business of Women
Hannah Barkers lucid and succinct book opens a fascinating window onthe world of the lower-middling sort in the rapidly growing towns of Manchester,Leeds, and Sheffield during the key period of the Industrial Revolution
The Significance of Brawn
Historical Economic and Social Studies (23 works) · Political science (20 works) · Sociology (20 works) · History (16 works) · Economics (14 works) · Law (13 works) · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies (9 works) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Archaeology (7 works)