Eloise Mo
Biographic Data
| ID | 3962801 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eloise Mo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eloise |
| FAMILY NAME | Mo |
| SIGNATURE | MO E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0332-0045 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Social History Book Club: The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley (London: Spectre, 2024)
Social History Book Club: Jo Baker, Longbourn
[No abstract]
Social History Book Club: Zadie Smith, The Fraud
No abstract available
Social History Book Club: White Houses
Social History Book Club: Lyonel Trouillot, Antoine of Gommiers
Challenging domesticity in Britain, 1890-1990: Special Issue Introduction
The idealisation of the home and its centrality to women and children’s roles was central to British culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. As much historical scholarship has noted, a powerful vision of home as a place of refuge, privacy and cosy family life shaped how the British state, the press, and popular culture conceptualised domesticity, dictating the dominant representations of home life across the twentieth century. However,…
Photographing Crime Scenes in Twentieth-Century London: Microhistories of Domestic Murder
Reintegrating agency, regulation and the economy into histories of child emigration from North West England to Canada, 1860–1930
In this article we bring the records of Liverpool‐based child emigration agencies into conversation with the archives of ‘Home’ children held at Libraries and Archives Canada, the Archives of Ontario (Toronto) and the Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto Archives. Our aim is to provide the first study to consider why the North West emerged as the British centre of child emigration during the period 1860–1930, and examine the shared emigration infrastr…
Sexual Harassment, Victimhood and Affective Self‐Fashioning in Victorian England: The Bolton Workhouse Scandal, 1889–1890
In 1889, the Lancashire cotton town of Bolton was rocked by a scandal that consumed the local, regional, and national press.Nurse Rose Morris, employed at Bolton's Fishpool Workhouse, purported to have letters detailing her sexual assault by members of the Board of Guardiansincluding the Mayor.This article explores how Morris negotiated her status as victim under intense public and institutional scrutiny, succeeding in gaining widespread public s…
Lacking evidence for the association between frequent urine drug screening and health outcomes of persons on opioid agonist therapy
Dial 999 for Help!” The Three-Digit Emergency Number and the Transnational Politics of Welfare Activism, 1937–1979
Since 1937 calling for help has meant dialing three digits on a telephone. “999”—the emergency telephone number originally devised in London as the call signal for police, fire brigade, or ambulance assistance—has been appropriated as the model of emergency communications in 162 countries to date (with variations in the specific number used, such as 911 in America). In this article, I argue that the emergency number system provides a lens to reth…
The Littlehampton Libels: A Miscarriage of Justice & a Mystery about Words in 1920s England
London’s criminal underworlds, c. 1720–c.1930: A social and cultural history
Rethinking Child Welfare and Emigration Institutions, 1870–1914
This article challenges the entrenched image of child emigration as a failure in child welfare. By moving the analytical focus away from large, and at times corrupt, institutions, our analysis focuses on the emigration and rescue work undertaken by charities in Liverpool and Manchester. We argue that the image of the uncaring and emotionally distant institution does not reflect the ideology and practice of these societies. It shows we need to foc…
Consuming Behaviours: Identity, Politics, and Pleasure in Twentieth-Century Britain, ed. Erika Rappaport, Sandra Trudgen Dawson and Mark J. Crowley
This is an outstanding collection of essays, edited by Erika Rappaport, Sandra Trudgen Dawson and Mark J. Crowley, that should be required reading for both academics and students, for the sheer consistency of its scholarship and ambition across no fewer than fifteen chapters. The volume’s title does not, in fact, do justice to the scope of its contributors’ work. The essays in the first section of the monograph certainly use changing practices of…
Family Men: Fatherhood and Masculinity in Britain, 1914–1960
In this important and meticulously researched new study, Laura King demonstrates that fathers have been central to the experience and cultural construction of family life throughout the twentieth century—even when they have been physically absent during periods of war. By drawing on a wide range of primary material, including an impressive sample of c. 1800 newspaper and magazine articles, Mass Observation reports, wartime personal correspondence…
The scrapbooking detective: Frederick Porter Wensley and the limits of ‘celebrity’ and ‘authority’ in inter-war Britain
Frederick Porter Wensley was one of Scotland Yard's ‘Big Four’ detectives, head of the Metropolitan Police Criminal Investigation Department and responsible for establishing the Flying Squad. On his retirement in 1929, he used the two bound scrapbooks of press clippings and photographs he had collated to document his personal life and career to inform his 1931 autobiography Detective Days and serialized press articles. Through examining the inter…
How I Had Liked This Villain! How I Had Admired Him!”: A. J. Raffles and the Burglar as British Icon, 1898–1939
This article analyzes the literary, theatrical, and film versions of E. W. Hornung's fictional “gentleman” burglar Raffles produced between 1898 and 1939. It argues that the character functioned as a nexus for the articulation of a pleasure culture surrounding burglary, highlighting how approbatory and sexualized versions of burglars pervaded popular and official discourse in Britain and, through the character's commercial success, throughout Eur…
Soldier, Sailor, Beggarman, Thief: Crime and the British Armed Services since 1914, by Clive Emsley
Journal Article Soldier, Sailor, Beggarman, Thief: Crime and the British Armed Services since 1914, by Clive Emsley Get access Soldier, Sailor, Beggarman, Thief: Crime and the British Armed Services since 1914, by Clive Emsley (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2013; pp. xv + 216. £60). Eloise Moss Eloise Moss 1University of Manchester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 129, Issue 541…
Property Crime in London, 1850–Present
William M. Meier, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, vii+236 pp., ISBN 9780230114906, (£55.00) Britain after the First World War witnessed a sharp increase in the recorded incidence of crime, the
Burglary Insurance and the Culture of Fear in Britain, C. 1889–1939
This article explores the representations of burglary and burglars created by the burglary insurance sector in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain. Two lines of argument are developed: first, that the marketing strategy of the burglary insurance sector exacerbated existing fears about the nature and prevalence of burglary in a calculated bid to attract custom; and secondly, that the depictions of crime and criminal used in market…
Burglary Insurance and the Culture of Fear in Britain, C. 1889–1939
This article explores the representations of burglary and burglars created by the burglary insurance sector in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain. Two lines of argument are developed: first, that the marketing strategy of the burglary insurance sector exacerbated existing fears about the nature and prevalence of burglary in a calculated bid to attract custom; and secondly, that the depictions of crime and criminal used in market…
Reintegrating agency, regulation and the economy into histories of child emigration from North West England to Canada, 1860–1930
In this article we bring the records of Liverpool‐based child emigration agencies into conversation with the archives of ‘Home’ children held at Libraries and Archives Canada, the Archives of Ontario (Toronto) and the Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto Archives. Our aim is to provide the first study to consider why the North West emerged as the British centre of child emigration during the period 1860–1930, and examine the shared emigration infrastr…
How I Had Liked This Villain! How I Had Admired Him!”: A. J. Raffles and the Burglar as British Icon, 1898–1939
This article analyzes the literary, theatrical, and film versions of E. W. Hornung's fictional “gentleman” burglar Raffles produced between 1898 and 1939. It argues that the character functioned as a nexus for the articulation of a pleasure culture surrounding burglary, highlighting how approbatory and sexualized versions of burglars pervaded popular and official discourse in Britain and, through the character's commercial success, throughout Eur…
Sexual Harassment, Victimhood and Affective Self‐Fashioning in Victorian England: The Bolton Workhouse Scandal, 1889–1890
In 1889, the Lancashire cotton town of Bolton was rocked by a scandal that consumed the local, regional, and national press.Nurse Rose Morris, employed at Bolton's Fishpool Workhouse, purported to have letters detailing her sexual assault by members of the Board of Guardiansincluding the Mayor.This article explores how Morris negotiated her status as victim under intense public and institutional scrutiny, succeeding in gaining widespread public s…
Rethinking Child Welfare and Emigration Institutions, 1870–1914
This article challenges the entrenched image of child emigration as a failure in child welfare. By moving the analytical focus away from large, and at times corrupt, institutions, our analysis focuses on the emigration and rescue work undertaken by charities in Liverpool and Manchester. We argue that the image of the uncaring and emotionally distant institution does not reflect the ideology and practice of these societies. It shows we need to foc…
Burglary Insurance and the Culture of Fear in Britain, C. 1889–1939
This article explores the representations of burglary and burglars created by the burglary insurance sector in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain. Two lines of argument are developed: first, that the marketing strategy of the burglary insurance sector exacerbated existing fears about the nature and prevalence of burglary in a calculated bid to attract custom; and secondly, that the depictions of crime and criminal used in market…
Property Crime in London, 1850–Present
William M. Meier, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, vii+236 pp., ISBN 9780230114906, (£55.00) Britain after the First World War witnessed a sharp increase in the recorded incidence of crime, the
How I Had Liked This Villain! How I Had Admired Him!”: A. J. Raffles and the Burglar as British Icon, 1898–1939
This article analyzes the literary, theatrical, and film versions of E. W. Hornung's fictional “gentleman” burglar Raffles produced between 1898 and 1939. It argues that the character functioned as a nexus for the articulation of a pleasure culture surrounding burglary, highlighting how approbatory and sexualized versions of burglars pervaded popular and official discourse in Britain and, through the character's commercial success, throughout Eur…
Soldier, Sailor, Beggarman, Thief: Crime and the British Armed Services since 1914, by Clive Emsley
Journal Article Soldier, Sailor, Beggarman, Thief: Crime and the British Armed Services since 1914, by Clive Emsley Get access Soldier, Sailor, Beggarman, Thief: Crime and the British Armed Services since 1914, by Clive Emsley (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2013; pp. xv + 216. £60). Eloise Moss Eloise Moss 1University of Manchester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 129, Issue 541…
The scrapbooking detective: Frederick Porter Wensley and the limits of ‘celebrity’ and ‘authority’ in inter-war Britain
Frederick Porter Wensley was one of Scotland Yard's ‘Big Four’ detectives, head of the Metropolitan Police Criminal Investigation Department and responsible for establishing the Flying Squad. On his retirement in 1929, he used the two bound scrapbooks of press clippings and photographs he had collated to document his personal life and career to inform his 1931 autobiography Detective Days and serialized press articles. Through examining the inter…
Family Men: Fatherhood and Masculinity in Britain, 1914–1960
In this important and meticulously researched new study, Laura King demonstrates that fathers have been central to the experience and cultural construction of family life throughout the twentieth century—even when they have been physically absent during periods of war. By drawing on a wide range of primary material, including an impressive sample of c. 1800 newspaper and magazine articles, Mass Observation reports, wartime personal correspondence…
London’s criminal underworlds, c. 1720–c.1930: A social and cultural history
Rethinking Child Welfare and Emigration Institutions, 1870–1914
This article challenges the entrenched image of child emigration as a failure in child welfare. By moving the analytical focus away from large, and at times corrupt, institutions, our analysis focuses on the emigration and rescue work undertaken by charities in Liverpool and Manchester. We argue that the image of the uncaring and emotionally distant institution does not reflect the ideology and practice of these societies. It shows we need to foc…
Consuming Behaviours: Identity, Politics, and Pleasure in Twentieth-Century Britain, ed. Erika Rappaport, Sandra Trudgen Dawson and Mark J. Crowley
This is an outstanding collection of essays, edited by Erika Rappaport, Sandra Trudgen Dawson and Mark J. Crowley, that should be required reading for both academics and students, for the sheer consistency of its scholarship and ambition across no fewer than fifteen chapters. The volume’s title does not, in fact, do justice to the scope of its contributors’ work. The essays in the first section of the monograph certainly use changing practices of…
Dial 999 for Help!” The Three-Digit Emergency Number and the Transnational Politics of Welfare Activism, 1937–1979
Since 1937 calling for help has meant dialing three digits on a telephone. “999”—the emergency telephone number originally devised in London as the call signal for police, fire brigade, or ambulance assistance—has been appropriated as the model of emergency communications in 162 countries to date (with variations in the specific number used, such as 911 in America). In this article, I argue that the emergency number system provides a lens to reth…
The Littlehampton Libels: A Miscarriage of Justice & a Mystery about Words in 1920s England
Lacking evidence for the association between frequent urine drug screening and health outcomes of persons on opioid agonist therapy
Reintegrating agency, regulation and the economy into histories of child emigration from North West England to Canada, 1860–1930
In this article we bring the records of Liverpool‐based child emigration agencies into conversation with the archives of ‘Home’ children held at Libraries and Archives Canada, the Archives of Ontario (Toronto) and the Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto Archives. Our aim is to provide the first study to consider why the North West emerged as the British centre of child emigration during the period 1860–1930, and examine the shared emigration infrastr…
Sexual Harassment, Victimhood and Affective Self‐Fashioning in Victorian England: The Bolton Workhouse Scandal, 1889–1890
In 1889, the Lancashire cotton town of Bolton was rocked by a scandal that consumed the local, regional, and national press.Nurse Rose Morris, employed at Bolton's Fishpool Workhouse, purported to have letters detailing her sexual assault by members of the Board of Guardiansincluding the Mayor.This article explores how Morris negotiated her status as victim under intense public and institutional scrutiny, succeeding in gaining widespread public s…
Photographing Crime Scenes in Twentieth-Century London: Microhistories of Domestic Murder
Challenging domesticity in Britain, 1890-1990: Special Issue Introduction
The idealisation of the home and its centrality to women and children’s roles was central to British culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. As much historical scholarship has noted, a powerful vision of home as a place of refuge, privacy and cosy family life shaped how the British state, the press, and popular culture conceptualised domesticity, dictating the dominant representations of home life across the twentieth century. However,…
Social History Book Club: Zadie Smith, The Fraud
No abstract available
Social History Book Club: White Houses
Social History Book Club: Lyonel Trouillot, Antoine of Gommiers
Social History Book Club: The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley (London: Spectre, 2024)
Social History Book Club: Jo Baker, Longbourn
[No abstract]
Sociology (18 works) · Political science (13 works) · Law (12 works) · History (11 works) · History (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Art (7 works) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (7 works) · Criminology (5 works) · Politics (5 works)