Richard Thomas Bell
Biographic Data
| ID | 5747260 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Thomas Bell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Bell |
| SIGNATURE | BELL R T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Keble College, Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0004-3812 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Print Networks, Manuscript Pamphleteering, and the Development of Prison Politics in Seventeenth-Century London
The 1622 publication of Imprisonment of Mens Bodies for Debt marked the beginning of a decades-long tradition of anti-carceral activism in London's prisons. By recovering prison activists’ practices of publication and republication, the article reveals a vibrant world of textual production in prisons that enabled political interventions grounded in the material and structural conditions of incarceration. Anti-carceral activism relied on the varie…
Charity, debt and social control in England’s early modern prisons
From the mid-sixteenth century, the prison was increasingly fundamental to social relations and economic life in early modern England. An explosion of civil litigation was accompanied by unprecedented levels of imprisonment for debt, leaving many prisoners reliant upon a growing economy of prison charity. This article addresses the nature of such charity, its role in prison society and what it suggests about early modern attitudes towards impriso…
Alehouses and Good Fellowship in Early Modern England, by Mark Hailwood
In Mark Hailwood’s estimation, the alehouse offers a key to understanding the social, cultural and even political world of ordinary people in early modern England, reflecting and shaping both society and broader historical patterns of change. Endeavouring to demonstrate this, he concisely elucidates the place of alehouses within early modern towns and villages and the communities and practices of sociability that they fostered. By combining the s…
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Alehouses and Good Fellowship in Early Modern England, by Mark Hailwood
In Mark Hailwood’s estimation, the alehouse offers a key to understanding the social, cultural and even political world of ordinary people in early modern England, reflecting and shaping both society and broader historical patterns of change. Endeavouring to demonstrate this, he concisely elucidates the place of alehouses within early modern towns and villages and the communities and practices of sociability that they fostered. By combining the s…
Charity, debt and social control in England’s early modern prisons
From the mid-sixteenth century, the prison was increasingly fundamental to social relations and economic life in early modern England. An explosion of civil litigation was accompanied by unprecedented levels of imprisonment for debt, leaving many prisoners reliant upon a growing economy of prison charity. This article addresses the nature of such charity, its role in prison society and what it suggests about early modern attitudes towards impriso…
Print Networks, Manuscript Pamphleteering, and the Development of Prison Politics in Seventeenth-Century London
The 1622 publication of Imprisonment of Mens Bodies for Debt marked the beginning of a decades-long tradition of anti-carceral activism in London's prisons. By recovering prison activists’ practices of publication and republication, the article reveals a vibrant world of textual production in prisons that enabled political interventions grounded in the material and structural conditions of incarceration. Anti-carceral activism relied on the varie…
Criminology (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (2 works) · Imprisonment (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Media studies (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Prison (2 works)