One British Archive
Seeing the Rev. John Clifford Archives and the Gender of Passive Resistance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10066049 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Seth Koven (0000-0002-4264-9989, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 63 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 1-7 |
| Publication date | 2024-04-17 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of British Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-9371 • E-ISSN: 1545-6986 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/jbr.2024.56 |
| OpenAlex | W4394884441 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
This article discusses the archives of Westbourne Park Baptist Church in London and its world-renowned pastor in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Dr. John Clifford. As leader of the National Passive Resistance League, the fiery Clifford came to be synonymous with the Nonconformist conscience at the height of its political influence in the early twentieth century. The article foregrounds the tension between what I call archival intimacy and archival precarity, while analyzing the power of seeing the diverse photographs in this collection as evidence of the gendered politics of passive resistance in the early twentieth century. Some— though not all—of the collection that I consulted at Westbourne Park Baptist Church in 2016 has now been transferred to the Angus Library, Regent's Park College, Oxford
Art history · League · Media studies · Nonconformist · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Regent · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History · Law
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |