Pub Date : 2014-12-01DOI: 10.1017/S0018246X14000399
Emma L Jones, Neil Pemberton
This article addresses the social, cultural, and political history of backstreet abortion in post-war Britain, focusing on the murders of Beryl Evans and her daughter Geraldine, at Ten Rillington Place in 1949. It shows how the commonplace connection of John Christie to abortion and Beryl Evan's death was not a given in the wider public, legal, political, and forensic imagination of the time, reflecting the multi-layered and shifting meanings of abortion from the date of the original trials in the late 1940s and 1950s, through the subsequent judicial and literary reinvestigations of the case in the 1960s, to its cinematic interpretation in the 1970s. Exploring the language of abortion used in these different contexts, the article reveals changes in the gendering of abortionists, the increasing power and presence of abortion activists and other social reformers, the changing representation of working-class women and men, and the increasing critique of the practice of backstreet abortion. The case is also made for a kind of societal blind spot on abortion at the time of both the Evans and Christie trials; in particular, a reluctance to come to terms with the concept of the male abortionist, which distorted the criminal investigations and the trials themselves. Only when public acceptance for legalizing abortion grew in the more liberal climate of the 1960s and beyond did a revisionist understanding of the murder of Beryl Evans, in which abortion came to be positioned as a central element, gain a sustained hearing.
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Pub Date : 2006-12-01DOI: 10.1017/S0018246X06005784
Virginia Berridge
A key current concern is how scientific knowledge may inform policy in relation to major environmental and health concerns. There are distinct schools of analysis about this relationship between science and policy. They stress rational relationships; denial and delay; or the role of networks. History is important in modifying such perspectives: smoking policy in the 1950s and 1960s is the case study here. The initial response in the 1950s to the link between smoking and lung cancer was in part conditioned by the role of the tobacco industry and the financial importance of tobacco: the British tobacco industry had closer relationships with government than the American one, and did not rely on public relations. Public health interests worked with the industry. But politicians were concerned also about the fluidity of the epidemiological evidence; the dangers of stirring up further pressure over air pollution; the financial and ideological implications of health education and its location; and the electoral dangers of intervening in a popular mass habit. In the 1960s the British and American medical reports stimulated the growth of a public health 'policy community'. The initial political considerations began to weaken and these years marked the beginning of a new style of public health.
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Pub Date : 2001-01-01DOI: 10.1017/s0018246x01001753
B Capp
{"title":"Women and the everyday in early modern Europe.","authors":"B Capp","doi":"10.1017/s0018246x01001753","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x01001753","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47458,"journal":{"name":"Historical Journal","volume":"44 1","pages":"291-96"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/s0018246x01001753","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"27580596","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2001-01-01DOI: 10.1017/s0018246x01001546
P Withington
{"title":"Two renaissances: urban political culture in post-Reformation England reconsidered.","authors":"P Withington","doi":"10.1017/s0018246x01001546","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x01001546","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47458,"journal":{"name":"Historical Journal","volume":"44 1","pages":"239-67"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/s0018246x01001546","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"27654153","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2001-01-01DOI: 10.1017/s0018246x01001649
M Peltonen
{"title":"Francis Bacon, the Earl of Northampton, and the Jacobean anti-duelling campaign.","authors":"M Peltonen","doi":"10.1017/s0018246x01001649","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x01001649","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47458,"journal":{"name":"Historical Journal","volume":"44 1","pages":"1-28"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/s0018246x01001649","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"27817184","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2001-01-01DOI: 10.1017/s0018246x01001819
H Smith
{"title":"English \"feminist\" writings and Judith Drake's An essay in defence of the female sex.","authors":"H Smith","doi":"10.1017/s0018246x01001819","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x01001819","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47458,"journal":{"name":"Historical Journal","volume":"44 3","pages":"727-47"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/s0018246x01001819","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"27721973","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2001-01-01DOI: 10.1017/s0018246x01001637
G Baldwin
{"title":"Individual and self in the late Renaissance.","authors":"G Baldwin","doi":"10.1017/s0018246x01001637","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x01001637","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47458,"journal":{"name":"Historical Journal","volume":"44 2","pages":"341-64"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/s0018246x01001637","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"27817183","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2001-01-01DOI: 10.1017/s0018246x01001807
B Donagan
{"title":"The web of honour: soldiers, Christians, and gentlemen in the English Civil War.","authors":"B Donagan","doi":"10.1017/s0018246x01001807","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x01001807","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47458,"journal":{"name":"Historical Journal","volume":"44 2","pages":"365-89"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/s0018246x01001807","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"27810631","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2000-01-01DOI: 10.1017/s0018246x99001120
D R Ransome
{"title":"Village tensions in early Virginia: sex, land, and status at the Neck of Land in the 1620s.","authors":"D R Ransome","doi":"10.1017/s0018246x99001120","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x99001120","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47458,"journal":{"name":"Historical Journal","volume":"43 2","pages":"365-81"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2000-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/s0018246x99001120","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"26113798","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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