A J Hammerton
Biographic Data
| ID | 691792 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A J Hammerton |
| GIVEN NAMES | A J |
| FAMILY NAME | Hammerton |
| SIGNATURE | HAMMERTON A J |
| AFFILIATIONS | La Trobe University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8415-2217 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Love, Class and Empire: An English Family Saga in the Middle East
Early twentieth-century Persia and the Persian Gulf presented a largely blank slate to the British, best known only as a vital conduit to India and a site of contest – the 'great game' – with the Russian Empire. As oil discoveries and increasing trade brought new attention, the expanding telegraph and river shipping industries attracted resourceful men into junior positions in remote outposts. Love, Class and Empire explores the experiences of tw…
Growing Up in “White Bread” England in the Sixties I Might as Well Have Come From Mars’: Cosmopolitanism and the City in the Lives of British Migrants in the Late Twentieth Century
A recurring theme in the testimony of British migrants to Australia in the two decades following World War Two, especially those from London and industrial cities, is the disappointment, often scorn, which they expressed for the quality of urban life in their new country. Amenities they had taken for granted, even in war damaged and austerity ravaged cities at home, seemed to be absent or inferior in Australian capital cities (as in the equivalen…
Books
A Sort of Conscience: The Wakefields. By Philip Temple. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2002. Pp. 584. NZ$69.95 cloth. The Irish in New Zealand: Historical Contexts and Perspectives. Edited by Brad Patterson. Wellington: Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies, 2002. Pp. xiv + 212. NZ$34.95 paper. Shifting Centres: Women and Migration in New Zealand History. Edited by Lyndon Fraser and Katie Pickles. Dunedin: University of Otago Press,…
The Quest for Family and The Mobility of Modernity in Narratives of Postwar British Emigration
In this article I focus on ways in which the postwar generation of British migrants to Canada and Australia construct their stories as epic struggles with family themes of both loss and triumph at the centre. While, during the postwar years, there is among some migrants evidence of the emergence of a more adaptable, sojourning 'mobility of modernity', most life stories told by the migrants suggest a more traditional pattern in which family themes…
Oral testimony and history's ‘fabrication’
(2003). Oral testimony and history's ‘fabrication’. History Australia: Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 110-113
Ten‐pound poms revisited: Battlers’ tales and British migration to Australia, 1947‐1971
(2001). Ten‐pound poms revisited: Battlers’ tales and British migration to Australia, 1947‐1971. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 25, Scatterlings of Empire, pp. 86-96
Pooterism or Partnership? Marriage and Masculine Identity in the Lower Middle Class, 1870–1920
I spent the evening quietly with Carrie, of whose company I never tire. We had a most pleasant chat about the letters on ‘Is Marriage a Failure?’ It has been no failure in our case. This was the confident opening passage in Charles Pooter's entry for 2 November in George Grossmith's famous satire, The Diary of a Nobody , serialized in Punch in 1888. Simultaneously it celebrated the lower-middle-class husband's eager commitment to domesticity and …
The perils of mrs pooter: Satire, Modernity and Motherhood in the Lower Middle Class in England, 1870-1920
This article examines some contrasting representations of lower middle-class women, marriage and motherhood in late Victorian and Edwardian England. Alongside traditional cutting images of white-collar men were misogynist criticisms of suburban women as obsessive consumers and irresponsible child-rearers who lowered racial and cultural quality. By contrast, the women who wrote about themselves in an 1898 Daily Telegraph series on working wives fo…
The Targets of ‘Rough Music’: Respectability and Domestic Violence in Victorian England
Emigrant Gentlewomen: Genteel Poverty and Female Emigration, 1830-1914
Emigrant Gentlewomen: Genteel Poverty and Female Emigration, 1830-1914
First published in 1979. This book examines the distressed gentlewoman stereotype, primarily through a study of the experience of emigration among single middle-class women between 1830 and 1914. Based largely on a study of government and philanthropic emigration projects, it argues that the image of the downtrodden resident governess does inadequate justice to Victorian middle-class women's responses to the experience of economic and social decl…
Emigrant Gentlewomen: Genteel Poverty and Female Emigration, 1830-1914
New Trends in the History of Working Women in Britain
The growth of women's history in recent years has been accompanied by regular reminders in Anglo-Saxon countries that the assumptions and sources appropriate to the history of male (and female) elites are no longer adequate.1 Male definitions of work, in particular, have been seen as inapplicable to women, most of whom worked traditionally in the household. The response of historians to these reminders has been slow, but the process of redefiniti…
Pooterism or Partnership? Marriage and Masculine Identity in the Lower Middle Class, 1870–1920
I spent the evening quietly with Carrie, of whose company I never tire. We had a most pleasant chat about the letters on ‘Is Marriage a Failure?’ It has been no failure in our case. This was the confident opening passage in Charles Pooter's entry for 2 November in George Grossmith's famous satire, The Diary of a Nobody , serialized in Punch in 1888. Simultaneously it celebrated the lower-middle-class husband's eager commitment to domesticity and …
The Quest for Family and The Mobility of Modernity in Narratives of Postwar British Emigration
In this article I focus on ways in which the postwar generation of British migrants to Canada and Australia construct their stories as epic struggles with family themes of both loss and triumph at the centre. While, during the postwar years, there is among some migrants evidence of the emergence of a more adaptable, sojourning 'mobility of modernity', most life stories told by the migrants suggest a more traditional pattern in which family themes…
Growing Up in “White Bread” England in the Sixties I Might as Well Have Come From Mars’: Cosmopolitanism and the City in the Lives of British Migrants in the Late Twentieth Century
A recurring theme in the testimony of British migrants to Australia in the two decades following World War Two, especially those from London and industrial cities, is the disappointment, often scorn, which they expressed for the quality of urban life in their new country. Amenities they had taken for granted, even in war damaged and austerity ravaged cities at home, seemed to be absent or inferior in Australian capital cities (as in the equivalen…
Ten‐pound poms revisited: Battlers’ tales and British migration to Australia, 1947‐1971
(2001). Ten‐pound poms revisited: Battlers’ tales and British migration to Australia, 1947‐1971. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 25, Scatterlings of Empire, pp. 86-96
The perils of mrs pooter: Satire, Modernity and Motherhood in the Lower Middle Class in England, 1870-1920
This article examines some contrasting representations of lower middle-class women, marriage and motherhood in late Victorian and Edwardian England. Alongside traditional cutting images of white-collar men were misogynist criticisms of suburban women as obsessive consumers and irresponsible child-rearers who lowered racial and cultural quality. By contrast, the women who wrote about themselves in an 1898 Daily Telegraph series on working wives fo…
The Targets of ‘Rough Music’: Respectability and Domestic Violence in Victorian England
New Trends in the History of Working Women in Britain
The growth of women's history in recent years has been accompanied by regular reminders in Anglo-Saxon countries that the assumptions and sources appropriate to the history of male (and female) elites are no longer adequate.1 Male definitions of work, in particular, have been seen as inapplicable to women, most of whom worked traditionally in the household. The response of historians to these reminders has been slow, but the process of redefiniti…
Emigrant Gentlewomen: Genteel Poverty and Female Emigration, 1830-1914
First published in 1979. This book examines the distressed gentlewoman stereotype, primarily through a study of the experience of emigration among single middle-class women between 1830 and 1914. Based largely on a study of government and philanthropic emigration projects, it argues that the image of the downtrodden resident governess does inadequate justice to Victorian middle-class women's responses to the experience of economic and social decl…
Emigrant Gentlewomen: Genteel Poverty and Female Emigration, 1830-1914
Emigrant Gentlewomen: Genteel Poverty and Female Emigration, 1830-1914
The Targets of ‘Rough Music’: Respectability and Domestic Violence in Victorian England
Pooterism or Partnership? Marriage and Masculine Identity in the Lower Middle Class, 1870–1920
I spent the evening quietly with Carrie, of whose company I never tire. We had a most pleasant chat about the letters on ‘Is Marriage a Failure?’ It has been no failure in our case. This was the confident opening passage in Charles Pooter's entry for 2 November in George Grossmith's famous satire, The Diary of a Nobody , serialized in Punch in 1888. Simultaneously it celebrated the lower-middle-class husband's eager commitment to domesticity and …
The perils of mrs pooter: Satire, Modernity and Motherhood in the Lower Middle Class in England, 1870-1920
This article examines some contrasting representations of lower middle-class women, marriage and motherhood in late Victorian and Edwardian England. Alongside traditional cutting images of white-collar men were misogynist criticisms of suburban women as obsessive consumers and irresponsible child-rearers who lowered racial and cultural quality. By contrast, the women who wrote about themselves in an 1898 Daily Telegraph series on working wives fo…
Ten‐pound poms revisited: Battlers’ tales and British migration to Australia, 1947‐1971
(2001). Ten‐pound poms revisited: Battlers’ tales and British migration to Australia, 1947‐1971. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 25, Scatterlings of Empire, pp. 86-96
Oral testimony and history's ‘fabrication’
(2003). Oral testimony and history's ‘fabrication’. History Australia: Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 110-113
Books
A Sort of Conscience: The Wakefields. By Philip Temple. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2002. Pp. 584. NZ$69.95 cloth. The Irish in New Zealand: Historical Contexts and Perspectives. Edited by Brad Patterson. Wellington: Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies, 2002. Pp. xiv + 212. NZ$34.95 paper. Shifting Centres: Women and Migration in New Zealand History. Edited by Lyndon Fraser and Katie Pickles. Dunedin: University of Otago Press,…
The Quest for Family and The Mobility of Modernity in Narratives of Postwar British Emigration
In this article I focus on ways in which the postwar generation of British migrants to Canada and Australia construct their stories as epic struggles with family themes of both loss and triumph at the centre. While, during the postwar years, there is among some migrants evidence of the emergence of a more adaptable, sojourning 'mobility of modernity', most life stories told by the migrants suggest a more traditional pattern in which family themes…
Growing Up in “White Bread” England in the Sixties I Might as Well Have Come From Mars’: Cosmopolitanism and the City in the Lives of British Migrants in the Late Twentieth Century
A recurring theme in the testimony of British migrants to Australia in the two decades following World War Two, especially those from London and industrial cities, is the disappointment, often scorn, which they expressed for the quality of urban life in their new country. Amenities they had taken for granted, even in war damaged and austerity ravaged cities at home, seemed to be absent or inferior in Australian capital cities (as in the equivalen…
Love, Class and Empire: An English Family Saga in the Middle East
Early twentieth-century Persia and the Persian Gulf presented a largely blank slate to the British, best known only as a vital conduit to India and a site of contest – the 'great game' – with the Russian Empire. As oil discoveries and increasing trade brought new attention, the expanding telegraph and river shipping industries attracted resourceful men into junior positions in remote outposts. Love, Class and Empire explores the experiences of tw…
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