Penelope J Corfield
Biographic Data
| ID | 543044 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Penelope J Corfield |
| GIVEN NAMES | Penelope J |
| FAMILY NAME | Corfield |
| SIGNATURE | CORFIELD P J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Royal Holloway University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8829-2690 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 65 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 43 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
O iluminismo experimental da Grã-Bretanha
Trata-se de apresentar um panorama geral do iluminismo, tal como ocorreu na Grã-Bretanha dezoitista. Ao longo do texto, esse movimento será mostrado não apenas no que diz respeito a seus aspectos filosóficos, mas também no que toca ao trabalho de cientistas e literatos em geral. O quadro que emergirá a partir daí será o de um período preocupado não apenas com a racionalidade, mas, também, com a inovação, pautada por um conhecimento de matizes for…
Egalitarian greetings: The social spread of the handshake in urbanizing Britain, 1700–1850
Handshaking has a long multi-cultural history. This article focuses upon its diffusion in Britain 1700–1850. Two networks boosted the handshaking salutation. One was a mercantile network, extending across Europe’s urban/commercial regions. The other featured ‘middling sort’ Quaker men and women, who shook hands on principle. Gradually, the salutation became widely diffused – and acquired a range of egalitarian meanings. Handshaking was not an eli…
Uniting the human race
is the distinct possibility that Trump's return to the White House will be accompanied and sustained by more than a variety of morbid symptoms.A frightening perspective
Media and Mediation in the Eighteenth Century
While eighteenth-century print media in essence rested on the same technical apparatus as in previous centuries - letterpress printing, woodcuts, and intaglio prints - the growth in quantity created a media revolution. The effect was a qualitative shift in terms of literacy, growth of newspapers, the spread of images and distribution of knowledge, but also of misinformation and propaganda. In this volume eight scholars from three continents inves…
Fleeting gestures and changing styles of greeting: Researching daily life in British towns in the long eighteenth century
Researching the history of daily greetings is challenging, because references are casual and scattered through many sources. Nonetheless, some broad trends are apparent. In eighteenth-century Britain, the old tradition of deep bowing and curtseying was slowly attenuating into a brisker touching of the cap or head (for men) and a quick bob (for women). Yet that transition was not the whole story. Simultaneously, a new form of urban greeting, in th…
E than K leinberg . Haunting History: For a Deconstructive Approach to the Past
Haunting History: great alliteration, great title. It summons to mind seminal memories that refuse to go away: the Brits standing alone, fists clenched to the sky, as in summer 1940; the Russians scorching the earth while retreating tactically before foreign invaders, as in 1709, 1812, and 1941; the American pioneers circling the wagons while their foes brandish weapons and attack, as in the nineteenth-century Wild West. Well, no, this book is no…
Michael Thompson's Intellectual Outlook
Michael Thompson (F.M.L. Thompson) was a classic liberal, braced by a strong strand of Quaker egalitarianism. By ‘liberal’, I don’t mean what is today called a ‘neo-liberal’ follower of Friedrich Hayek and the members of the Adam Smith Institute, who are dedicated to shrinking or abolishing the state. Michael Thompson strongly opposed such a viewpoint.1 Nor by ‘liberal’ do I mean someone who could be described as a ‘bleeding-heart liberal’. Micha…
An Age of Infidelity’: Secularization in eighteenth-century England
Growing secularization and keen campaigns of religious revivalism are by no means polar opposites. The latter process is, indeed, often a response to the former. So it was in eighteenth-century Eng
Mark Salber Phillips. On Historical Distance
Distance is in, it seems! Historical proximity and historical teleology are out! Not only does Mark Salber Phillips here provide a richly nuanced analysis of how historians cope with the “otherness” of the past, but in literary studies, Franco Moretti has very recently collected his observations under the title Distant Reading (2013). It is all reminiscent of the celebrated dictum from L. P. Hartley's 1953 elegiac novel The Go-Between: “The past …
Business leaders and town gentry in early industrial Britain: Specialist occupations and shared urbanism
Three major conclusions are derived from close study of Britain's pioneering directories in the 1770s and 1780s. First, they show that over 30,000 leading townsmen and women were enmeshed into the burgeoning knowledge grid through the public listings of their addresses, status and occupations. Secondly, a close examination of that information reveals a notable extent of occupational specialization – among both men and women, and among individuals…
Post-Medievalism/Modernity/Postmodernity
Studying human history means studying the recoverable stock of past human experiences and the retrospective assessments of those experiences. But recent arguments about how and whether historians can study earlier times have not yet sufficiently highlighted the questions of periodisation. This essay urges that such a debate is long overdue. In practice, historians are eclectic and many invoke their own preferred timespans. Yet the collective 'def…
Ideology, Absolutism and the English Revolution: Debates of the British Communist Historians, 1940-1956
Firstly, a declaration of interest: as the niece of Christopher Hill, the eminent Marxist historian, I must declare my warm affection for him. However, nieces are by no means obliged to agree with uncles over questions of historical periodisation. Hence this review is coloured by personal interest, not Hill partisanship. The debates within the Communist Historians Group, which are recovered from obscurity in this welcome edition by David Parker, …
Author's Response
From Poison Peddlers to Civic Worthies: The Reputation of the Apothecaries in Georgian England
Trust is not automatically granted to providers of professional services. The doctors of Georgian England were, by later standards, deficient in medical knowhow, particularly before the mid-nineteenth-century scientific understanding of antiseptics, and much satirised. Nonetheless, the emergence of a coherent medical profession indicates that the picture was far more intricate and positive than the satirists implied. Patients sought care as well …
Time and the Shape of History
Penelope Corfield explores the relationship between time and history and shows how an appreciation of long-term time helps to make sense of the past. The text is devoted to a wide-ranging analysis of the way different societies have conceived and interpreted time.
Multiple Dimensions
This chapter reevaluates the longitudinal “shapes” of history and argues for a threefold approach. It considers the question of how to best frame the multi-dimensionality of the past without forcing things into preset stages or patterns that suit some cultural traditions and not others and without fragmenting knowledge into meaningless details that are unattached in time. It considers the time frames of history and argues for an interlocking or l…
Parliament, Nations and Identities in Britain and Ireland, 1660–1850
Journal Article Parliament, Nations and Identities in Britain and Ireland, 1660–1850 Get access Penelope J. Corfield Penelope J. Corfield Royal Holloway, University of London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXI, Issue 490, February 2006, Pages 222–224, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cej024 Published: 01 February 2006
We are All One in the Eyes of the Lord: Christopher Hill and the Historical Meanings of Radical Religion
Christopher Hill’s responses to his intellectual roots in Biblical Protestantism are traced throughout his career, with reference initially to his Methodist upbringing and more specifically to early family influences and to the impact upon him of an impressive Methodist circuit preacher, T. S. Gregory. It was Gregory in the later 1920s who stirred the young Hill by stressing the topical relevance of traditional Christian teachings about spiritual…
Westminster Man: Charles James Fox and his Electorate, 1780–1806
The State of History
Shorter notice. Learning the Law: Teaching and the Transmission of English Laws, 1150-1900. JA Bush, A Wijffels [edd]
Journal Article Shorter notice. Learning the Law: Teaching and the Transmission of English Laws, 1150-1900. JA Bush, A Wijffels [edd] Get access PJ Corfield PJ Corfield Royal Holloway, University of London, London, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 115, Issue 462, June 2000, Pages 691–692, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/115.462.691 Published: 01 June 2000
From women's history to gender history: A reply to ‘playing the gender history game’
(1999). From women's history to gender history: A reply to ‘playing the gender history game’. Rethinking History: Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 339-341
A Conversation with Vera Bácskai: Urban History in Hungary
Continuity, change, and specialization within metropolitan London: The economy of Westminster, 1750-1820
History and the challenge of gender history∗
This essay provides a critical assessment of debates within and about gender history. The fruitfulness of the field is absolutely and unquestionably great. Women's history, now mutating into gender history, is notably broadening and enriching historical studies. That is incontestable. But success has also posed challenges. Despite the initial 'hype', women's history has not subverted the discipline by producing a new general interpretation or, mo…
Class by Name and Number in Eighteenth-Century Britain
History and the challenge of gender history∗
This essay provides a critical assessment of debates within and about gender history. The fruitfulness of the field is absolutely and unquestionably great. Women's history, now mutating into gender history, is notably broadening and enriching historical studies. That is incontestable. But success has also posed challenges. Despite the initial 'hype', women's history has not subverted the discipline by producing a new general interpretation or, mo…
Walking the City Streets: The Urban Odyssey in Eighteenth-Century England
Giving directions to the town’: The early town directories
Swift's poetic jibe was aimed at the ever-friendless literary critic; but there were many others who shared in the polymorphic business of ‘giving directions’ to the unwieldy town. Some very literally so: the makers of the early directories provided names, addresses, and occupations of leading urban residents, plus staple information about transport services, posts, banks and miscellaneous local offices. Itemizing and classifying a complex urbani…
The English Gentleman: Images and Ideals in Literature and Society
Rooms and room use in Norwich housing, 1580–1730
The search for 'total history', combined with improvements in flexible computer techniques, has focused fresh analytical attention upon multiform documentary records relating to everyday living and working conditions. Prominent among such sources, for the early modern period of English history, are probate inventories. Their richly detailed and intricate contents are now under renewed scrutiny for many purposes. This survey looks briefly at the g…
The Development of the Irish Town
Business leaders and town gentry in early industrial Britain: Specialist occupations and shared urbanism
Three major conclusions are derived from close study of Britain's pioneering directories in the 1770s and 1780s. First, they show that over 30,000 leading townsmen and women were enmeshed into the burgeoning knowledge grid through the public listings of their addresses, status and occupations. Secondly, a close examination of that information reveals a notable extent of occupational specialization – among both men and women, and among individuals…
From Poison Peddlers to Civic Worthies: The Reputation of the Apothecaries in Georgian England
Trust is not automatically granted to providers of professional services. The doctors of Georgian England were, by later standards, deficient in medical knowhow, particularly before the mid-nineteenth-century scientific understanding of antiseptics, and much satirised. Nonetheless, the emergence of a coherent medical profession indicates that the picture was far more intricate and positive than the satirists implied. Patients sought care as well …
Parliament, Nations and Identities in Britain and Ireland, 1660–1850
Journal Article Parliament, Nations and Identities in Britain and Ireland, 1660–1850 Get access Penelope J. Corfield Penelope J. Corfield Royal Holloway, University of London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXI, Issue 490, February 2006, Pages 222–224, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cej024 Published: 01 February 2006
Fleeting gestures and changing styles of greeting: Researching daily life in British towns in the long eighteenth century
Researching the history of daily greetings is challenging, because references are casual and scattered through many sources. Nonetheless, some broad trends are apparent. In eighteenth-century Britain, the old tradition of deep bowing and curtseying was slowly attenuating into a brisker touching of the cap or head (for men) and a quick bob (for women). Yet that transition was not the whole story. Simultaneously, a new form of urban greeting, in th…
An Age of Infidelity’: Secularization in eighteenth-century England
Growing secularization and keen campaigns of religious revivalism are by no means polar opposites. The latter process is, indeed, often a response to the former. So it was in eighteenth-century Eng
Post-Medievalism/Modernity/Postmodernity
Studying human history means studying the recoverable stock of past human experiences and the retrospective assessments of those experiences. But recent arguments about how and whether historians can study earlier times have not yet sufficiently highlighted the questions of periodisation. This essay urges that such a debate is long overdue. In practice, historians are eclectic and many invoke their own preferred timespans. Yet the collective 'def…
The State of History
Continuity, change, and specialization within metropolitan London: The economy of Westminster, 1750-1820
The Idea of the City in Nineteenth-Century Britain
The Development of the Irish Town
Towns in Societies: Essays in Economic History and Historical Sociology
Rooms and room use in Norwich housing, 1580–1730
The search for 'total history', combined with improvements in flexible computer techniques, has focused fresh analytical attention upon multiform documentary records relating to everyday living and working conditions. Prominent among such sources, for the early modern period of English history, are probate inventories. Their richly detailed and intricate contents are now under renewed scrutiny for many purposes. This survey looks briefly at the g…
Bath: A Social History, 1680-1850
Urban history and the computer
The Impact of English Towns, 1700-1800
Madrid and the Spanish economy, 1560–1850
Giving directions to the town’: The early town directories
Swift's poetic jibe was aimed at the ever-friendless literary critic; but there were many others who shared in the polymorphic business of ‘giving directions’ to the unwieldy town. Some very literally so: the makers of the early directories provided names, addresses, and occupations of leading urban residents, plus staple information about transport services, posts, banks and miscellaneous local offices. Itemizing and classifying a complex urbani…
The Transformation of English Provincial Towns, 1600-1800
John Thelwall in Wales: New Documentary Evidence
P. J. Corfield, Chris Evans; John Thelwall in Wales: New Documentary Evidence, Historical Research, Volume 59, Issue 140, 1 November 1986, Pages 231–239, h
Ways to Wealth: The Cust Family of Eighteenth-Century Armagh
Class by Name and Number in Eighteenth-Century Britain
The English Gentleman: Images and Ideals in Literature and Society
Walking the City Streets: The Urban Odyssey in Eighteenth-Century England
London and the English Economy, 1500-1700
This book brings together the articles on which Fisher's reputation was founded. It deals with central features of the English economy, in particular the importance of London, both as a social and economic hub, and the nature of internal and external trade. The essays can rightly be described as classics
Work in Towns, 850-1850
Continuity and development in urban trades - problems of concepts and the evidence, Derek Keene craft and industry in Anglo-Scandinavian York, Dominic Tweddle artisans in the urban economy - the documentary evidence from York, Heather Swanson town and country in late medieval England - the hide and leather trade, Maryanne Kowaleski ceramic consumption and supply in early modern Amsterdam - local production and long-distance trade, Jan M.Baart wom…
New Approaches for Old Towns
Power and the Professions in Britain, 1700-1850
The modern professions have a long history that predates the development of formal institutions and examinations in the nineteenth century. Long before the Victorian era the emergent professions wielded power through their specialist knowledge and set up informal mechanisms of control and self-regulation. Penelope Corfield devotes a chapter each to lawyers, clerics and doctors and makes reference to many other professionals - teachers, apothecari…
History and the challenge of gender history∗
This essay provides a critical assessment of debates within and about gender history. The fruitfulness of the field is absolutely and unquestionably great. Women's history, now mutating into gender history, is notably broadening and enriching historical studies. That is incontestable. But success has also posed challenges. Despite the initial 'hype', women's history has not subverted the discipline by producing a new general interpretation or, mo…
From women's history to gender history: A reply to ‘playing the gender history game’
(1999). From women's history to gender history: A reply to ‘playing the gender history game’. Rethinking History: Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 339-341
A Conversation with Vera Bácskai: Urban History in Hungary
Continuity, change, and specialization within metropolitan London: The economy of Westminster, 1750-1820
Shorter notice. Learning the Law: Teaching and the Transmission of English Laws, 1150-1900. JA Bush, A Wijffels [edd]
Journal Article Shorter notice. Learning the Law: Teaching and the Transmission of English Laws, 1150-1900. JA Bush, A Wijffels [edd] Get access PJ Corfield PJ Corfield Royal Holloway, University of London, London, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 115, Issue 462, June 2000, Pages 691–692, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/115.462.691 Published: 01 June 2000
Westminster Man: Charles James Fox and his Electorate, 1780–1806
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