Simon Rennie
Biographic Data
| ID | 6682907 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simon Rennie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simon |
| FAMILY NAME | Rennie |
| SIGNATURE | RENNIE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Exeter |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3365-9840 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
‘Gooin t’ schoo’
‘The Beddin’s Goan’, published in the Blackburn Times in November 1862 by W. A. Abram, begins with the lines ‘EH! Robbut! th’ lan’lord’s bin tu-day, | Whol tha wor deawn at th’class’, encapsulating links between unemployment, poverty, and education which became apparent to industrial workers during the Lancashire Cotton Famine. Examining poems from the Cotton Famine poetry database, this article considers how adult education and cultures of liter…
Afterword
My principal research concern for the past seven years has been the poetry (largely collected from newspapers) of the Lancashire Cotton Famine of 1861-1865 -the regional literary response to economic hardship caused by the Union's blockading of Confederate cotton exports during the American Civil War. The study of this topic would seem to epitomize an off-centre approach, a focus on cultures of provincialism. Initially, there may even have been a…
[Re-]forming Cotton Famine Poetry – Some Implications
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Roundtable Reflection
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This ‘Merikay War’
This article examines Lancashire commentary on the American Civil War during the Cotton Famine of 1861–65 through poetry which has recently been recovered from local newspapers. The complexity and variety of the often labouring-class subjectivities figured in the texts works to further disrupt the conventional historical view of a region united in moral and political sympathy with the Union cause, as exemplified by discourses surrounding Lincoln’…
Ernest Charles Jones (1819–69) – A Life of Adjacency
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This ‘Merikay War’
This article examines Lancashire commentary on the American Civil War during the Cotton Famine of 1861–65 through poetry which has recently been recovered from local newspapers. The complexity and variety of the often labouring-class subjectivities figured in the texts works to further disrupt the conventional historical view of a region united in moral and political sympathy with the Union cause, as exemplified by discourses surrounding Lincoln’…
Ernest Charles Jones (1819–69) – A Life of Adjacency
No abstract
This ‘Merikay War’
This article examines Lancashire commentary on the American Civil War during the Cotton Famine of 1861–65 through poetry which has recently been recovered from local newspapers. The complexity and variety of the often labouring-class subjectivities figured in the texts works to further disrupt the conventional historical view of a region united in moral and political sympathy with the Union cause, as exemplified by discourses surrounding Lincoln’…
[Re-]forming Cotton Famine Poetry – Some Implications
No description available
Roundtable Reflection
No description available
Afterword
My principal research concern for the past seven years has been the poetry (largely collected from newspapers) of the Lancashire Cotton Famine of 1861-1865 -the regional literary response to economic hardship caused by the Union's blockading of Confederate cotton exports during the American Civil War. The study of this topic would seem to epitomize an off-centre approach, a focus on cultures of provincialism. Initially, there may even have been a…
‘Gooin t’ schoo’
‘The Beddin’s Goan’, published in the Blackburn Times in November 1862 by W. A. Abram, begins with the lines ‘EH! Robbut! th’ lan’lord’s bin tu-day, | Whol tha wor deawn at th’class’, encapsulating links between unemployment, poverty, and education which became apparent to industrial workers during the Lancashire Cotton Famine. Examining poems from the Cotton Famine poetry database, this article considers how adult education and cultures of liter…
History (4 works) · Art (2 works) · Famine (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Poetry (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Adjacency list (1 work) · Aesthetics (1 work) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work)