Charlotte Wildman
Biographic Data
| ID | 950767 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charlotte Wildman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charlotte |
| FAMILY NAME | Wildman |
| SIGNATURE | WILDMAN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1131-0720 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
False Desertion and Fancy Men
This article argues that women welfare claimants, particularly lone mothers, were disproportionately targeted by invasive and punitive anti-fraud measures in the post-1945 welfare state because they were considered most likely to commit fraud through their perceived sexual immorality and reckless childbearing. Although the issue of welfare fraud has influenced high-profile policy and legislation, existing historical scholarship is scant and we kn…
Photographing Crime Scenes in 20th-Century London
We are perhaps so used to ‘seeing’ crime scenes and being exposed to the minute details of murder investigations that its development as a method and process of criminal inquiry has been taken for granted. Neale’s excellent Photographing Crime Scenes provides a fascinating, valuable, and important insight into the use of forensic photographs to understand how crime scenes were understood historically. Focusing on domestic murders in London, Neale…
Challenging domesticity in Britain, 1890-1990
The idealisation of the home and its centrality to women and children’s roles was central to British culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. As much historical scholarship has noted, a powerful vision of home as a place of refuge, privacy and cosy family life shaped how the British state, the press, and popular culture conceptualised domesticity, dictating the dominant representations of home life across the twentieth century. However,…
Viewpoint
62 Nelson Street possesses is an almost mythical status in the history of British feminism. Home to Emmeline Pankhurst and her family between 1898 and 1907, in 1903 its parlour famously hosted the first meeting of the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU), the militant wing of the women’s suffrage movement. It is now home to the Pankhurst Centre, housing a museum to the history of the Pankhurst family and to women’s activism more generally, a…
Working-Class Women and the Buying and Selling of Stolen Goods in Urban Communities in the North West of England and Belfast, 1918–1960
The buying and selling of stolen goods by working-class women was a relatively widespread and accepted practice in some inner urban communities in the North West of England and in Belfast between 1918 and 1960. It relied on the training and engagement of children and the co-operation and compliance of neighbours, and was facilitated by the spatial dynamics within inner urban terraced homes. This article analyses local court records, memoirs and c…
An ‘epidemic of shoplifting’? Working-class women, shop theft and Manchester’s new retail culture, 1918–1939
The problem of the working-class female shoplifter emerged prominently within press and police discourse in interwar Manchester following a dramatic shift in the city’s retail culture. Providing the first non-metropolitan study of shoplifting in early twentieth-century Britain, this research identifies how the new retail culture was blamed for attracting shoplifters to Manchester. It addresses depictions of shoplifters from the late 1920s in rela…
Reintegrating agency, regulation and the economy into histories of child emigration from North West England to Canada, 1860–1930
In this article we bring the records of Liverpool‐based child emigration agencies into conversation with the archives of ‘Home’ children held at Libraries and Archives Canada, the Archives of Ontario (Toronto) and the Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto Archives. Our aim is to provide the first study to consider why the North West emerged as the British centre of child emigration during the period 1860–1930, and examine the shared emigration infrastr…
Prince of tricksters
Who was Netley Lucas—‘gentleman crook’, confidence trickster, journalist, writer? Does it matter? Matt Houlbrook’s fascinating monograph focuses on the many lives of the beguiling Lucas as a prism
Rethinking Child Welfare and Emigration Institutions, 1870–1914
This article challenges the entrenched image of child emigration as a failure in child welfare. By moving the analytical focus away from large, and at times corrupt, institutions, our analysis focuses on the emigration and rescue work undertaken by charities in Liverpool and Manchester. We argue that the image of the uncaring and emotionally distant institution does not reflect the ideology and practice of these societies. It shows we need to foc…
Miss Moriarty, the Adventuress and the Crime Queen
This article demonstrates the reconceptualisation of female criminality in interwar British popular culture. It argues that in fiction and the popular press, the period signalled the rise of the strategic female career criminal who challenged traditional gendered patterns of law-breaking, appropriated wider notions of fashionable modernity and transgressed social and geographic boundaries as poorer women embraced new opportunities for masquerade …
The Architecture of Pleasure
Originating in New York’s Coney Island, the early twentieth century witnessed a boom in the emergence of amusement parks in Britain, with nearly forty major new parks appearing between 1900 and 1940. Josephine Kane’s monograph offers the first comprehensive historical account of this thrill-based pleasure culture, which she compares with other forms of newly emerging commodified leisure pursuits. Like the cinema, by 1939 amusement parks attracted…
A City Speaks
A City Speaks was made by Paul Rotha for Manchester Corporation. It was completed in 1947 after plans for a civic film were first raised in 1938 in conjunction with the centenary celebrations of the city's incorporation. A City Speaks depicts the workings of local government, the city's economy, developments in health and housing and ends with a striking sequence of leisure and popular attractions in Manchester. The film is used in this article t…
Urban Transformation in Liverpool and Manchester, 1918–1939
Liverpool and Manchester have come to typify twentieth-century urban decay and their demise is strongly associated with the perceived decline of local government after 1918. By the 1930s, contemporaries had stereotyped northern cities as places of poverty and deprivation, in comparison to the prosperous south. The divide was reinforced by economic historians who focused on regional variations in unemployment and economic depression. This article …
Religious selfhoods and the city in inter-war Manchester
Manchester's processional tradition began in the nineteenth century and every Whit weekend, until the 1960s, Catholics and Protestants organized separate large celebrations. This article argues that the Catholic Whit celebrations peaked in importance between the two world wars and that this was related to the impact of Manchester Corporation's wider investment in urban redevelopment. It is a story about religion and the self, which reveals import…
Urban Transformation in Liverpool and Manchester, 1918–1939
Liverpool and Manchester have come to typify twentieth-century urban decay and their demise is strongly associated with the perceived decline of local government after 1918. By the 1930s, contemporaries had stereotyped northern cities as places of poverty and deprivation, in comparison to the prosperous south. The divide was reinforced by economic historians who focused on regional variations in unemployment and economic depression. This article …
Reintegrating agency, regulation and the economy into histories of child emigration from North West England to Canada, 1860–1930
In this article we bring the records of Liverpool‐based child emigration agencies into conversation with the archives of ‘Home’ children held at Libraries and Archives Canada, the Archives of Ontario (Toronto) and the Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto Archives. Our aim is to provide the first study to consider why the North West emerged as the British centre of child emigration during the period 1860–1930, and examine the shared emigration infrastr…
Religious selfhoods and the city in inter-war Manchester
Manchester's processional tradition began in the nineteenth century and every Whit weekend, until the 1960s, Catholics and Protestants organized separate large celebrations. This article argues that the Catholic Whit celebrations peaked in importance between the two world wars and that this was related to the impact of Manchester Corporation's wider investment in urban redevelopment. It is a story about religion and the self, which reveals import…
Rethinking Child Welfare and Emigration Institutions, 1870–1914
This article challenges the entrenched image of child emigration as a failure in child welfare. By moving the analytical focus away from large, and at times corrupt, institutions, our analysis focuses on the emigration and rescue work undertaken by charities in Liverpool and Manchester. We argue that the image of the uncaring and emotionally distant institution does not reflect the ideology and practice of these societies. It shows we need to foc…
Working-Class Women and the Buying and Selling of Stolen Goods in Urban Communities in the North West of England and Belfast, 1918–1960
The buying and selling of stolen goods by working-class women was a relatively widespread and accepted practice in some inner urban communities in the North West of England and in Belfast between 1918 and 1960. It relied on the training and engagement of children and the co-operation and compliance of neighbours, and was facilitated by the spatial dynamics within inner urban terraced homes. This article analyses local court records, memoirs and c…
An ‘epidemic of shoplifting’? Working-class women, shop theft and Manchester’s new retail culture, 1918–1939
The problem of the working-class female shoplifter emerged prominently within press and police discourse in interwar Manchester following a dramatic shift in the city’s retail culture. Providing the first non-metropolitan study of shoplifting in early twentieth-century Britain, this research identifies how the new retail culture was blamed for attracting shoplifters to Manchester. It addresses depictions of shoplifters from the late 1920s in rela…
Miss Moriarty, the Adventuress and the Crime Queen
This article demonstrates the reconceptualisation of female criminality in interwar British popular culture. It argues that in fiction and the popular press, the period signalled the rise of the strategic female career criminal who challenged traditional gendered patterns of law-breaking, appropriated wider notions of fashionable modernity and transgressed social and geographic boundaries as poorer women embraced new opportunities for masquerade …
Religious selfhoods and the city in inter-war Manchester
Manchester's processional tradition began in the nineteenth century and every Whit weekend, until the 1960s, Catholics and Protestants organized separate large celebrations. This article argues that the Catholic Whit celebrations peaked in importance between the two world wars and that this was related to the impact of Manchester Corporation's wider investment in urban redevelopment. It is a story about religion and the self, which reveals import…
A City Speaks
A City Speaks was made by Paul Rotha for Manchester Corporation. It was completed in 1947 after plans for a civic film were first raised in 1938 in conjunction with the centenary celebrations of the city's incorporation. A City Speaks depicts the workings of local government, the city's economy, developments in health and housing and ends with a striking sequence of leisure and popular attractions in Manchester. The film is used in this article t…
Urban Transformation in Liverpool and Manchester, 1918–1939
Liverpool and Manchester have come to typify twentieth-century urban decay and their demise is strongly associated with the perceived decline of local government after 1918. By the 1930s, contemporaries had stereotyped northern cities as places of poverty and deprivation, in comparison to the prosperous south. The divide was reinforced by economic historians who focused on regional variations in unemployment and economic depression. This article …
Miss Moriarty, the Adventuress and the Crime Queen
This article demonstrates the reconceptualisation of female criminality in interwar British popular culture. It argues that in fiction and the popular press, the period signalled the rise of the strategic female career criminal who challenged traditional gendered patterns of law-breaking, appropriated wider notions of fashionable modernity and transgressed social and geographic boundaries as poorer women embraced new opportunities for masquerade …
The Architecture of Pleasure
Originating in New York’s Coney Island, the early twentieth century witnessed a boom in the emergence of amusement parks in Britain, with nearly forty major new parks appearing between 1900 and 1940. Josephine Kane’s monograph offers the first comprehensive historical account of this thrill-based pleasure culture, which she compares with other forms of newly emerging commodified leisure pursuits. Like the cinema, by 1939 amusement parks attracted…
Rethinking Child Welfare and Emigration Institutions, 1870–1914
This article challenges the entrenched image of child emigration as a failure in child welfare. By moving the analytical focus away from large, and at times corrupt, institutions, our analysis focuses on the emigration and rescue work undertaken by charities in Liverpool and Manchester. We argue that the image of the uncaring and emotionally distant institution does not reflect the ideology and practice of these societies. It shows we need to foc…
Prince of tricksters
Who was Netley Lucas—‘gentleman crook’, confidence trickster, journalist, writer? Does it matter? Matt Houlbrook’s fascinating monograph focuses on the many lives of the beguiling Lucas as a prism
Reintegrating agency, regulation and the economy into histories of child emigration from North West England to Canada, 1860–1930
In this article we bring the records of Liverpool‐based child emigration agencies into conversation with the archives of ‘Home’ children held at Libraries and Archives Canada, the Archives of Ontario (Toronto) and the Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto Archives. Our aim is to provide the first study to consider why the North West emerged as the British centre of child emigration during the period 1860–1930, and examine the shared emigration infrastr…
An ‘epidemic of shoplifting’? Working-class women, shop theft and Manchester’s new retail culture, 1918–1939
The problem of the working-class female shoplifter emerged prominently within press and police discourse in interwar Manchester following a dramatic shift in the city’s retail culture. Providing the first non-metropolitan study of shoplifting in early twentieth-century Britain, this research identifies how the new retail culture was blamed for attracting shoplifters to Manchester. It addresses depictions of shoplifters from the late 1920s in rela…
Working-Class Women and the Buying and Selling of Stolen Goods in Urban Communities in the North West of England and Belfast, 1918–1960
The buying and selling of stolen goods by working-class women was a relatively widespread and accepted practice in some inner urban communities in the North West of England and in Belfast between 1918 and 1960. It relied on the training and engagement of children and the co-operation and compliance of neighbours, and was facilitated by the spatial dynamics within inner urban terraced homes. This article analyses local court records, memoirs and c…
Photographing Crime Scenes in 20th-Century London
We are perhaps so used to ‘seeing’ crime scenes and being exposed to the minute details of murder investigations that its development as a method and process of criminal inquiry has been taken for granted. Neale’s excellent Photographing Crime Scenes provides a fascinating, valuable, and important insight into the use of forensic photographs to understand how crime scenes were understood historically. Focusing on domestic murders in London, Neale…
Challenging domesticity in Britain, 1890-1990
The idealisation of the home and its centrality to women and children’s roles was central to British culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. As much historical scholarship has noted, a powerful vision of home as a place of refuge, privacy and cosy family life shaped how the British state, the press, and popular culture conceptualised domesticity, dictating the dominant representations of home life across the twentieth century. However,…
Viewpoint
62 Nelson Street possesses is an almost mythical status in the history of British feminism. Home to Emmeline Pankhurst and her family between 1898 and 1907, in 1903 its parlour famously hosted the first meeting of the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU), the militant wing of the women’s suffrage movement. It is now home to the Pankhurst Centre, housing a museum to the history of the Pankhurst family and to women’s activism more generally, a…
False Desertion and Fancy Men
This article argues that women welfare claimants, particularly lone mothers, were disproportionately targeted by invasive and punitive anti-fraud measures in the post-1945 welfare state because they were considered most likely to commit fraud through their perceived sexual immorality and reckless childbearing. Although the issue of welfare fraud has influenced high-profile policy and legislation, existing historical scholarship is scant and we kn…
Sociology (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Art (6 works) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (6 works) · History (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Media studies (5 works) · Politics (5 works)