Mary Clare Martin
Biographic Data
| ID | 5906535 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary Clare Martin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary Clare |
| FAMILY NAME | Martin |
| SIGNATURE | MARTIN M C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Greenwich |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Labour Pains
British left-wing politics does not know what to think about mothers. In left-wing women’s movements, motherhood has been recognised as essential and difficult; necessary for future revolutions, not least in raising future revolutionaries. In less radical circles, it has been understood as a crucial contribution to the functioning of society, often forming the basis of women’s claims to citizenship and maternalist forms of politics. On the other …
Catechizing at Home, 1740–1870
Catechizing played an important part in domestic religious education in Britain in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as well as in the better documented early modern period. However, its significance has been neglected in comparison with family prayers (often deemed to be an expression of patriarchy), Sunday observance or even private prayers. This article analyses the incidence of catechizing across religious denominations in Britain from…
Creating Religious Childhoods in Anglo-World and British Colonial Contexts, 1800-1950
The state of play
This article provides an overview of the history of play from ancient times to the present. First analysing the value of contributions of different academic disciplines to this elusive subject, it then calls in question well-established grand narratives as represented by historians Philippe Aries and Gary Cross. It concludes by summarising the contribution of the Centre for the Study of Play and Recreation at the University of Greenwich, includin…
Dickens and the Imagined Child
This collection will be useful for those interested in the relationship between Dickens' work and ideas about nineteenth-century childhood not only for literary scholars or Charles Dickens speciali
In Market, Mansion or Mountain
The Rousseauvian view of the countryside as a place of healing, both physical and psychological, has remained extraordinarily pervasive until the present day. This essay explores the changing representation of disability in rural and urban contexts in selected popular texts for the young in Europe, the USA and Australia, between 1850 and 1950, the ‘age of great cities’. Whilst also examining small towns, most earlier texts reiterate the concept o…
Play, Toys and Memory in International Perspective
Welcome to this special issue of Childhood in the Past, the second issue of 2014, which presents essays on ‘Play, Toys, and Memory in International Perspective’, after the Second World War. Childho
Church, school and locality
The historiographical tradition which developed within the history of education from the 1970s regarded religious organisations as distractions from the “real” task of developing state-funded universal compulsory education. Despite more positive evaluations of voluntary agencies within the history of social policy, since the 1980s, the schools affiliated to the national co-ordinating religious societies are still regarded as potential agents of s…
Relationships Human and Divine
The place of repentance and retribution in children’s lives between 1740 and 1870 has not been viewed positively. E. P. Thompson famously claimed that ‘the child’ in Methodist Sunday schools and in pious homes, from about 1780, was subjected to ‘the worst kind of emotional bullying to confess his sins and come to a sense of salvation’. In the 1840s children in the mines allegedly reported that they had been taught at Sunday school that hell was a…
Church, school and locality
The historiographical tradition which developed within the history of education from the 1970s regarded religious organisations as distractions from the “real” task of developing state-funded universal compulsory education. Despite more positive evaluations of voluntary agencies within the history of social policy, since the 1980s, the schools affiliated to the national co-ordinating religious societies are still regarded as potential agents of s…
Relationships Human and Divine
The place of repentance and retribution in children’s lives between 1740 and 1870 has not been viewed positively. E. P. Thompson famously claimed that ‘the child’ in Methodist Sunday schools and in pious homes, from about 1780, was subjected to ‘the worst kind of emotional bullying to confess his sins and come to a sense of salvation’. In the 1840s children in the mines allegedly reported that they had been taught at Sunday school that hell was a…
Church, school and locality
The historiographical tradition which developed within the history of education from the 1970s regarded religious organisations as distractions from the “real” task of developing state-funded universal compulsory education. Despite more positive evaluations of voluntary agencies within the history of social policy, since the 1980s, the schools affiliated to the national co-ordinating religious societies are still regarded as potential agents of s…
In Market, Mansion or Mountain
The Rousseauvian view of the countryside as a place of healing, both physical and psychological, has remained extraordinarily pervasive until the present day. This essay explores the changing representation of disability in rural and urban contexts in selected popular texts for the young in Europe, the USA and Australia, between 1850 and 1950, the ‘age of great cities’. Whilst also examining small towns, most earlier texts reiterate the concept o…
Play, Toys and Memory in International Perspective
Welcome to this special issue of Childhood in the Past, the second issue of 2014, which presents essays on ‘Play, Toys, and Memory in International Perspective’, after the Second World War. Childho
The state of play
This article provides an overview of the history of play from ancient times to the present. First analysing the value of contributions of different academic disciplines to this elusive subject, it then calls in question well-established grand narratives as represented by historians Philippe Aries and Gary Cross. It concludes by summarising the contribution of the Centre for the Study of Play and Recreation at the University of Greenwich, includin…
Dickens and the Imagined Child
This collection will be useful for those interested in the relationship between Dickens' work and ideas about nineteenth-century childhood not only for literary scholars or Charles Dickens speciali
Creating Religious Childhoods in Anglo-World and British Colonial Contexts, 1800-1950
Catechizing at Home, 1740–1870
Catechizing played an important part in domestic religious education in Britain in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as well as in the better documented early modern period. However, its significance has been neglected in comparison with family prayers (often deemed to be an expression of patriarchy), Sunday observance or even private prayers. This article analyses the incidence of catechizing across religious denominations in Britain from…
Labour Pains
British left-wing politics does not know what to think about mothers. In left-wing women’s movements, motherhood has been recognised as essential and difficult; necessary for future revolutions, not least in raising future revolutionaries. In less radical circles, it has been understood as a crucial contribution to the functioning of society, often forming the basis of women’s claims to citizenship and maternalist forms of politics. On the other …
Sociology (7 works) · History (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Art (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (2 works)