Sonya J Morgan
Biographic Data
| ID | 88313 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sonya J Morgan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sonya J |
| FAMILY NAME | Morgan |
| SIGNATURE | MORGAN S J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leeds Beckett University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7436-3248 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Radical North 1779–1914: An Introduction
John Bright in Anglo-American relations: Why an English radical became an American hero
This article explores the development of John Bright’s heroic status in America for his activities in helping to defuse Anglo-American tensions during the American Civil War and his promotion of the Union cause to British audiences. It argues that while revisionists have questioned the extent of Bright’s influence on British public opinion, they overlook his value to Lincoln’s administration as evidence of a putative ‘silent’ pro-northern majorit…
Middle-Class Life in Victorian Belfast , by Alice Johnson
Journal Article Middle-Class Life in Victorian Belfast, by Alice Johnson Get access Middle-Class Life in Victorian Belfast, by Alice Johnson(Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2020; pp. ix + 361. £80). Simon J Morgan Simon J Morgan Leeds Beckett University, UK [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7436-3248 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, cead200, http…
Experience of Sexual Healthcare by Māori and Non-Māori Young People: An Online Survey of 15–24 Year Olds in Hawkes Bay, New Zealand
Objectives: To understand young people's expectations of, and experience with sexual healthcare in New Zealand. Methods: Online survey of 15-24 year olds in a region with high socioeconomic deprivation, with selected outcomes compared for Māori and Europeans. Results: Of 500 respondents, 60% had received sexual healthcare (74.3% in general practice) and 81% were happy with care received. Fewer Māori and people not in education, employment, or tra…
John Deakin Heaton and the ‘elusive civic pride of the Victorian middle class’
Civic pride is rarely studied at the individual level. The journals of Dr John Deakin Heaton provide a unique insight into the motivations of a man linked to many institutions and civic sites of Leeds, celebrated by historians as a progenitor of its famous town hall and the city's first university. This article uses those journals to investigate the matrix of family honour, Anglicanism and professional identity, tempered by self-interest, underpi…
Crossing boundaries: Harriet Beecher Stowe as literary celebrity and anti-slavery campaigner
This article examines Harriet Beecher Stowe as a literary celebrity who became an early example of a ‘celebrity activist’ or ‘celebrity humanitarian’ by attempting to use her fame as a novelist to
Case Study Observational Research: A Framework for Conducting Case Study Research Where Observation Data Are the Focus
Case study research is a comprehensive method that incorporates multiple sources of data to provide detailed accounts of complex research phenomena in real-life contexts. However, current models of case study research do not particularly distinguish the unique contribution observation data can make. Observation methods have the potential to reach beyond other methods that rely largely or solely on self-report. This article describes the distincti…
Everyday Heroism: Victorian Constructions of the Heroic Civilian
To read this book, one may wonder how anyone ever lived to be awarded an Albert Medal for gallantry in the saving of life. The criteria, devised by the sheltered assortment of clerks and undersecre
A perspective from key stakeholders on football and health improvement
Football is one of the most popular sports worldwide. Much of the research literature is primarily focused on contributions from the academic community. Given this, the Editors were motivated to provide an opportunity for practitioners and commissioners from applied settings to share their perspectives. This applied article offers insights from ‘key players' activity involved in football-led health improvement interventions
Material Culture and the Politics of Personality in Early Victorian England
This article uses the insights of material culture studies to explore the role of objects in the development of a politics of personality in the first half of the nineteenth century. Political objects were part of a broader material culture of fame and recognition in this period, encompassing a wide range of public figures such as royalty, military heroes and authors. These artefacts acquired agency, playing an important role in the construction …
Celebrity: Academic ‘Pseudo-Event’ or a Useful Concept for Historians
Celebrity is an emergent theme in historical studies. However, except when searching for the antecedents of modern celebrity, theorists have largely ignored the historical context, while few historians have applied contemporary celebrity theory to the period before 1900. This article gives a general introduction to the topic, reinterpreting the assumed relationship between celebrity and modernity and arguing for the existence of distinct celebrit…
Between Public and Private: Gender, Domesticity, and Authority in the Long Nineteenth Century
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Historicising celebrity
The Anti-Corn Law League and British Anti-Slavery in Transatlantic Perspective, 1838–1846
This article reassesses relations between the free-trade and anti-slavery movements in the mid-nineteenth century. It places well-known controversies over the removal of preferential import duties on free-grown sugar into the context of a broader and more complex relationship, in which the Anti-Corn Law League borrowed many of the tactics pioneered by the abolitionists, while also attempting to assume anti-slavery's mantle of moral reform. In par…
A Victorian Woman's Place: Public Culture in the Nineteenth Century
While the image of bourgeois Victorian women as 'angels in the house' isolated from the world in private domesticity has long been dismissed as an unrealistic ideal, women have remained marginalised in many recent accounts of the public culture of the middle class. Simon Morgan aims to redress the balance, by drawing on a variety of sources including private documents, he argues that women actually played an important role in the formation of the…
The reward of public service: Nineteenth-Century Testimonials in Context
Testimonials were a ubiquitous form of public ritual in nineteenth-century Britain, and probably the most important way in which individual public service was recognized and rewarded. This article charts the emergence, development and decline of the testimonial, using accounts in the press, biographies and privately printed pamphlets. By placing them in their cultural context, it demonstrates the complex patterns of meaning that could be develope…
A sort of land debatable: Female Influence, Civic Virtue and Middle-Class Identity, C 1830- C 1860[1]
The recent emphasis on the bourgeois public sphere as a predominantly masculine space means that the wider meanings and interpretations of respectable women's presence at public occasions have been ignored or misunderstood. This article addresses the contribution of urban middle-class women to the public construction and expression of middle-class identity in the mid-nineteenth century, and examines the way in which women were written into civic …
Celebrity: Academic ‘Pseudo-Event’ or a Useful Concept for Historians
Celebrity is an emergent theme in historical studies. However, except when searching for the antecedents of modern celebrity, theorists have largely ignored the historical context, while few historians have applied contemporary celebrity theory to the period before 1900. This article gives a general introduction to the topic, reinterpreting the assumed relationship between celebrity and modernity and arguing for the existence of distinct celebrit…
The Anti-Corn Law League and British Anti-Slavery in Transatlantic Perspective, 1838–1846
This article reassesses relations between the free-trade and anti-slavery movements in the mid-nineteenth century. It places well-known controversies over the removal of preferential import duties on free-grown sugar into the context of a broader and more complex relationship, in which the Anti-Corn Law League borrowed many of the tactics pioneered by the abolitionists, while also attempting to assume anti-slavery's mantle of moral reform. In par…
Case Study Observational Research: A Framework for Conducting Case Study Research Where Observation Data Are the Focus
Case study research is a comprehensive method that incorporates multiple sources of data to provide detailed accounts of complex research phenomena in real-life contexts. However, current models of case study research do not particularly distinguish the unique contribution observation data can make. Observation methods have the potential to reach beyond other methods that rely largely or solely on self-report. This article describes the distincti…
Historicising celebrity
A sort of land debatable: Female Influence, Civic Virtue and Middle-Class Identity, C 1830- C 1860[1]
The recent emphasis on the bourgeois public sphere as a predominantly masculine space means that the wider meanings and interpretations of respectable women's presence at public occasions have been ignored or misunderstood. This article addresses the contribution of urban middle-class women to the public construction and expression of middle-class identity in the mid-nineteenth century, and examines the way in which women were written into civic …
Material Culture and the Politics of Personality in Early Victorian England
This article uses the insights of material culture studies to explore the role of objects in the development of a politics of personality in the first half of the nineteenth century. Political objects were part of a broader material culture of fame and recognition in this period, encompassing a wide range of public figures such as royalty, military heroes and authors. These artefacts acquired agency, playing an important role in the construction …
John Deakin Heaton and the ‘elusive civic pride of the Victorian middle class’
Civic pride is rarely studied at the individual level. The journals of Dr John Deakin Heaton provide a unique insight into the motivations of a man linked to many institutions and civic sites of Leeds, celebrated by historians as a progenitor of its famous town hall and the city's first university. This article uses those journals to investigate the matrix of family honour, Anglicanism and professional identity, tempered by self-interest, underpi…
A perspective from key stakeholders on football and health improvement
Football is one of the most popular sports worldwide. Much of the research literature is primarily focused on contributions from the academic community. Given this, the Editors were motivated to provide an opportunity for practitioners and commissioners from applied settings to share their perspectives. This applied article offers insights from ‘key players' activity involved in football-led health improvement interventions
A sort of land debatable: Female Influence, Civic Virtue and Middle-Class Identity, C 1830- C 1860[1]
The recent emphasis on the bourgeois public sphere as a predominantly masculine space means that the wider meanings and interpretations of respectable women's presence at public occasions have been ignored or misunderstood. This article addresses the contribution of urban middle-class women to the public construction and expression of middle-class identity in the mid-nineteenth century, and examines the way in which women were written into civic …
A Victorian Woman's Place: Public Culture in the Nineteenth Century
While the image of bourgeois Victorian women as 'angels in the house' isolated from the world in private domesticity has long been dismissed as an unrealistic ideal, women have remained marginalised in many recent accounts of the public culture of the middle class. Simon Morgan aims to redress the balance, by drawing on a variety of sources including private documents, he argues that women actually played an important role in the formation of the…
The reward of public service: Nineteenth-Century Testimonials in Context
Testimonials were a ubiquitous form of public ritual in nineteenth-century Britain, and probably the most important way in which individual public service was recognized and rewarded. This article charts the emergence, development and decline of the testimonial, using accounts in the press, biographies and privately printed pamphlets. By placing them in their cultural context, it demonstrates the complex patterns of meaning that could be develope…
The Anti-Corn Law League and British Anti-Slavery in Transatlantic Perspective, 1838–1846
This article reassesses relations between the free-trade and anti-slavery movements in the mid-nineteenth century. It places well-known controversies over the removal of preferential import duties on free-grown sugar into the context of a broader and more complex relationship, in which the Anti-Corn Law League borrowed many of the tactics pioneered by the abolitionists, while also attempting to assume anti-slavery's mantle of moral reform. In par…
Historicising celebrity
Celebrity: Academic ‘Pseudo-Event’ or a Useful Concept for Historians
Celebrity is an emergent theme in historical studies. However, except when searching for the antecedents of modern celebrity, theorists have largely ignored the historical context, while few historians have applied contemporary celebrity theory to the period before 1900. This article gives a general introduction to the topic, reinterpreting the assumed relationship between celebrity and modernity and arguing for the existence of distinct celebrit…
Between Public and Private: Gender, Domesticity, and Authority in the Long Nineteenth Century
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Material Culture and the Politics of Personality in Early Victorian England
This article uses the insights of material culture studies to explore the role of objects in the development of a politics of personality in the first half of the nineteenth century. Political objects were part of a broader material culture of fame and recognition in this period, encompassing a wide range of public figures such as royalty, military heroes and authors. These artefacts acquired agency, playing an important role in the construction …
A perspective from key stakeholders on football and health improvement
Football is one of the most popular sports worldwide. Much of the research literature is primarily focused on contributions from the academic community. Given this, the Editors were motivated to provide an opportunity for practitioners and commissioners from applied settings to share their perspectives. This applied article offers insights from ‘key players' activity involved in football-led health improvement interventions
Everyday Heroism: Victorian Constructions of the Heroic Civilian
To read this book, one may wonder how anyone ever lived to be awarded an Albert Medal for gallantry in the saving of life. The criteria, devised by the sheltered assortment of clerks and undersecre
John Deakin Heaton and the ‘elusive civic pride of the Victorian middle class’
Civic pride is rarely studied at the individual level. The journals of Dr John Deakin Heaton provide a unique insight into the motivations of a man linked to many institutions and civic sites of Leeds, celebrated by historians as a progenitor of its famous town hall and the city's first university. This article uses those journals to investigate the matrix of family honour, Anglicanism and professional identity, tempered by self-interest, underpi…
Crossing boundaries: Harriet Beecher Stowe as literary celebrity and anti-slavery campaigner
This article examines Harriet Beecher Stowe as a literary celebrity who became an early example of a ‘celebrity activist’ or ‘celebrity humanitarian’ by attempting to use her fame as a novelist to
Case Study Observational Research: A Framework for Conducting Case Study Research Where Observation Data Are the Focus
Case study research is a comprehensive method that incorporates multiple sources of data to provide detailed accounts of complex research phenomena in real-life contexts. However, current models of case study research do not particularly distinguish the unique contribution observation data can make. Observation methods have the potential to reach beyond other methods that rely largely or solely on self-report. This article describes the distincti…
Experience of Sexual Healthcare by Māori and Non-Māori Young People: An Online Survey of 15–24 Year Olds in Hawkes Bay, New Zealand
Objectives: To understand young people's expectations of, and experience with sexual healthcare in New Zealand. Methods: Online survey of 15-24 year olds in a region with high socioeconomic deprivation, with selected outcomes compared for Māori and Europeans. Results: Of 500 respondents, 60% had received sexual healthcare (74.3% in general practice) and 81% were happy with care received. Fewer Māori and people not in education, employment, or tra…
Middle-Class Life in Victorian Belfast , by Alice Johnson
Journal Article Middle-Class Life in Victorian Belfast, by Alice Johnson Get access Middle-Class Life in Victorian Belfast, by Alice Johnson(Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2020; pp. ix + 361. £80). Simon J Morgan Simon J Morgan Leeds Beckett University, UK [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7436-3248 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, cead200, http…
John Bright in Anglo-American relations: Why an English radical became an American hero
This article explores the development of John Bright’s heroic status in America for his activities in helping to defuse Anglo-American tensions during the American Civil War and his promotion of the Union cause to British audiences. It argues that while revisionists have questioned the extent of Bright’s influence on British public opinion, they overlook his value to Lincoln’s administration as evidence of a putative ‘silent’ pro-northern majorit…
The Radical North 1779–1914: An Introduction
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