Jeff James
Biographic Data
| ID | 4511041 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeff James |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeff |
| FAMILY NAME | James |
| SIGNATURE | JAMES J |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Archives |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1961 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Women-Floggers of St Marylebone
This article examines punishment, agency, and abuse in Victorian workhouses. The article builds on recent research on punishment in mostly rural workhouses, with a study of the punishment of young women in the metropolitan workhouse of St Marylebone. It complements David Green’s research into discipline and unrest in London workhouses and builds on Alysa Levene’s work on St Marylebone under the Old Poor Law. Local and national sources are confect…
The Historical Manuscripts Commission
This is an edited and elaborated version of the address given by Jeff James as historical manuscripts commissioner to the symposium held on 14 October 2019 to mark the 150th anniversary of the creation of the Historical Manuscripts Commission in 1869. He reviews The National Archives’ current activities and priorities as a contemporary expression of the objectives of the HMC royal warrant and concludes that the Historical Manuscripts Commission s…
Punishing paupers? Control, discipline and mental health in the Southwell workhouse (1836–71)
This article focuses on the way that staff and guardians in the rural Nottinghamshire workhouse of Southwell sought to exert control and containment over pauper inmates. Fusing together local and central records for the period 1834–71, including locally held punishment books and correspondence at The National Archives, Kew (TNA), we argue that the notional power of the workhouse authorities was heavily shaded. Most paupers most of the time did no…
Sophia Heathfield of Hawnes, Bedfordshire
This article explores the nature of power and control under the New Poor Law to better engage with the Victorian approach to discipline and punishment in ‘closed’ institutions, such as workhouses. Through the mechanism of an empirical case study it will illustrate that, far from being static, approaches to punishment evolved considerably over time. The article employs sophisticated record linkage work, at the local and national level, to analyse …
Raising Sand, Soil and Gravel’ Pardon Refusers On-Board Prison Hulks (1776–1815)
For a short period of time at the end of the eighteenth-century and the beginning of the nineteenth-century a small number of convicted felons refused the offer of a royal pardon. Drawing heavily on evidence from The National Archives this article considers the possible and actual fate of fifty convicted felons on-board prison hulks at the turn of the nineteenth-century who declined the offer of pardons on condition of serving in the army abroad.…
Land Use and the Changing Power Industry in England and Wales
Land Use and the Changing Power Industry in England and Wales
Punishing paupers? Control, discipline and mental health in the Southwell workhouse (1836–71)
This article focuses on the way that staff and guardians in the rural Nottinghamshire workhouse of Southwell sought to exert control and containment over pauper inmates. Fusing together local and central records for the period 1834–71, including locally held punishment books and correspondence at The National Archives, Kew (TNA), we argue that the notional power of the workhouse authorities was heavily shaded. Most paupers most of the time did no…
Sophia Heathfield of Hawnes, Bedfordshire
This article explores the nature of power and control under the New Poor Law to better engage with the Victorian approach to discipline and punishment in ‘closed’ institutions, such as workhouses. Through the mechanism of an empirical case study it will illustrate that, far from being static, approaches to punishment evolved considerably over time. The article employs sophisticated record linkage work, at the local and national level, to analyse …
Land Use and the Changing Power Industry in England and Wales
Raising Sand, Soil and Gravel’ Pardon Refusers On-Board Prison Hulks (1776–1815)
For a short period of time at the end of the eighteenth-century and the beginning of the nineteenth-century a small number of convicted felons refused the offer of a royal pardon. Drawing heavily on evidence from The National Archives this article considers the possible and actual fate of fifty convicted felons on-board prison hulks at the turn of the nineteenth-century who declined the offer of pardons on condition of serving in the army abroad.…
Sophia Heathfield of Hawnes, Bedfordshire
This article explores the nature of power and control under the New Poor Law to better engage with the Victorian approach to discipline and punishment in ‘closed’ institutions, such as workhouses. Through the mechanism of an empirical case study it will illustrate that, far from being static, approaches to punishment evolved considerably over time. The article employs sophisticated record linkage work, at the local and national level, to analyse …
Punishing paupers? Control, discipline and mental health in the Southwell workhouse (1836–71)
This article focuses on the way that staff and guardians in the rural Nottinghamshire workhouse of Southwell sought to exert control and containment over pauper inmates. Fusing together local and central records for the period 1834–71, including locally held punishment books and correspondence at The National Archives, Kew (TNA), we argue that the notional power of the workhouse authorities was heavily shaded. Most paupers most of the time did no…
The Historical Manuscripts Commission
This is an edited and elaborated version of the address given by Jeff James as historical manuscripts commissioner to the symposium held on 14 October 2019 to mark the 150th anniversary of the creation of the Historical Manuscripts Commission in 1869. He reviews The National Archives’ current activities and priorities as a contemporary expression of the objectives of the HMC royal warrant and concludes that the Historical Manuscripts Commission s…
The Women-Floggers of St Marylebone
This article examines punishment, agency, and abuse in Victorian workhouses. The article builds on recent research on punishment in mostly rural workhouses, with a study of the punishment of young women in the metropolitan workhouse of St Marylebone. It complements David Green’s research into discipline and unrest in London workhouses and builds on Alysa Levene’s work on St Marylebone under the Old Poor Law. Local and national sources are confect…
Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Criminology (4 works) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Poorhouse (3 works) · Power (physics (3 works)