Pub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/0078172X.2023.2239858
E. McArthur
This article uses a late seventeenth-century county survey as a key to understand conceptions of county, national, and international identity. Previous historians of ‘Britain’ and its composite nations have insufficiently attended to the interaction between these elements. Thomas Denton’s Perambulation of Cumberland, with additions on Westmorland, the Isle of Man, and Ireland, contains a wealth of evidence as to how a Cumbrian, English, and British subject integrated these elements in this period. In addition to showing the assimilation of subjects within and across these boundaries, it equally reveals their differentiation and exclusion. Denton impugns English political and religious opponents, deals uneasily with Scottish and Manx otherness, and firmly scorns the Irish. National distinctions are, ultimately, less assured than negotiable. It is argued that intensive focus of this kind alerts us to exchanges of ideas and identities within an individual, rather than seeing identity groups as necessarily in opposed camps.
本文使用17世纪末的一项郡调查作为理解郡、国家和国际认同概念的关键。以前的“英国”及其复合国家历史学家对这些元素之间的相互作用关注不足。托马斯·丹顿（Thomas Denton）的《坎伯兰的漫游》（Perambulation of Cumberland），加上对威斯特摩兰、马恩岛和爱尔兰的补充，包含了大量证据，证明坎布里亚语、英语和英国语在这一时期是如何融合这些元素的。除了显示主体在这些边界内和边界外的同化，它还同样揭示了主体的分化和排斥。丹顿指责英国的政治和宗教对手，不安地处理苏格兰和马恩岛的另类，并坚决蔑视爱尔兰人。归根结底，国家的区别与其说是可以协商的，不如说是可以确定的。有人认为，这种集中关注提醒我们注意个人内部的思想和身份交流，而不是将身份群体视为必然处于对立阵营。
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Pub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/0078172x.2023.2227671
Helen J Rutherford
Studies of the coroner in nineteenth century England suggest that inquests became increasingly medicalised. Much of this research was conducted in London. My research reveals that in Newcastle upon Tyne medicine did not dominate: the solicitor coroner used his skills and knowledge to maintain the legal focus of the inquest. This study reveals a fascinating dynamic between the legally qualified coroner and the local medical profession. In presenting an analysis of examples of the interactions between the Newcastle coroner and the medical profession, this article makes a significant contribution to scholarship on the relationship between medicine and law in the Victorian coroner’s court. I offer insight into inquests in an important provincial town and discover that the coroner relocated the Newcastle court from official buildings to the public house, its traditional home. Rather than a story of increased medicalisation, the inquest in Newcastle was firmly the preserve of the law. The character and choices of an individual coroner are revealed to have a significant impact on the relationship between law and medicine in the coroner’s court. I seek to encourage further research into the work of coroners, to develop a fuller picture of the inquest in the nineteenth century.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/0078172x.2023.2228844
E. Akkermans
The Rise and Decline of England ’ s Watchmaking Industry is a well-researched and excellent addition to horological literature. The book traces the watchmaking industry in England by examining it in three parts — the rise, the challenge to, and the eventual decline of British watchmaking. Davies examines how a watchmaking industry developed in Clerkenwell alongside other luxury industries, thanks to the arrival of Huguenots fleeing persecution and the arrival of Swiss economic migrants. The industry flourished in Clerkenwell where hundreds of outworkers in different specialisations worked in their own home. Davies provides a fascinating account detailing the geographical area the industry was concentrated in and why it was here that the industry flourished. Although Clerkenwell was an important centre for hor-ology, Davies provides excellent account of other ‘ hubs ’ of horology north of London, exploring the business in Prescot, Liverpool, and Coventry. Davies provides an interesting analysis of these regions, exploring how and why the industry developed and flourished in these specific locations.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/0078172x.2023.2226693
P. Schofield
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Pub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/0078172x.2023.2249039
A. Green
introduction
介绍
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Pub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/0078172X.2023.2248232
A. McMullen
This article reconsiders the motivation of the author of the anonymous Life of Cuthbert to insist that the saint received the Petrine tonsure at Ripon instead of (the more likely Irish tonsure) at Melrose, as Bede recounts. While scholars widely agree that this detail was meant to provide Cuthbert with a Roman background less contentious than his actual Irish-influenced upbringing, I will propose a parallel motivation from the perspective of ecclesiastical geography. I argue that the anonymous author used the tonsure as one further method of attempting to expand Lindisfarne’s sphere of influence in early medieval Northumbria.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/0078172X.2023.2248217
N. Zuberi
because Miall – like Mosley and Ormerod – was active in the field of economic entomology and communicated with such prestigious naturalists as Charles Darwin and D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson. If these connections had been more closely investigated, we might productively question how connected Mosley remained to his working-class roots and what role natural history played in social mobility. Nature’s Missionary paints a vivid picture of the physical, institutional, and social landscape in which Mosley lived, while delving into the complexities of his thought, including his mysticism, vegetarianism, and anti-vaccination activism (p. 42). Brooke makes the decision not to indulge in the ‘dangerous venture’ of amateur psychology in his examination of Mosley (p. 215), a simultaneously sensible and frustrating choice. Nature’s Missionary is generally well written and contains some beautiful illustrations. The index, however, is not overly helpful. Overall, the book will be useful for historians of the Northern counties who wish to trace scientific societies, museums, or even reconstruct past landscapes and biodiversity. More broadly, it provides historians of natural history and biology with a valuable case study of a working-class naturalist.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-27DOI: 10.1080/0078172X.2023.2227663
Annie P. Gray
ciently powerful explanation for why particular types of institutions emerged’ (p. 3). The focus on systems of consumption and art dealing, however, is well done, drawing in recent studies of value creation in the art market. The merging of wider cultural, economic and semiological codes with a sense of individual taste and distinction is expertly handled. Likewise, the way private networks and activity were joined together into institutional forms is an important theme and Moore looks at how and why the personal became public in Lancashire in the late Victorian period. This book adds to and enhances the literature on histories of museums that really engages in the synergy between individuals and institutions. I particularly appreciated the way Moore linked educational systems with the development of networks of cultural institutions – placing these within a wider history of the way knowledge was shaped in the late nineteenth century. He very usefully addresses the problem of the image of a ‘race of [Northern] men... independent, practical, rough, calculating and enterprising, with little interest in the genteel or liberal arts’ (p. 5). This regional stereotype still remains – look for example the rhetoric around Brexit and the ‘Red Wall’ constituencies, or at the consistent imbalance in educational spend and access to cultural capital, highlighted in the 2018 Children’s Commissioner’s report ‘Growing up North’ and a National Curriculum that denies the poorest equal access to arts and creativity. Moore’s insightful and well-written history of the development of cultural capital in Lancashire reminds us that stereotypes can be long-lived and destructive and demands that we make a greater effort to explore and understand the histories of culture in places that have been previously overlooked. A tight geographical focus allows Moore to bring new ideas and new archives to the reader’s attention making this book an important addition to museum, gallery and heritage studies and to the wider literature on histories of the North.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-22DOI: 10.1080/0078172x.2023.2225574
Jenny M. McHugh
The Methams of Yorkshire were a leading gentry family in the medieval period, whose origins can be traced back to the married clergy of Howden Minster in the twelfth century. When Thomas Metham commissioned the creation of the cartulary in c.1405, the family’s estates spanned across the East Riding and Vale of York. As this edition reveals, the Methams were involved in many of the pivotal events of the late medieval period, such as the civil wars between English kings and Simon de Montfort (d.1265) and Thomas, earl of Lancaster (d. 1322), and the Anglo-Scottish wars. In 2014, David Crouch described the late medieval cartulary that disappeared after 1680 as the ‘greatest loss’ to the Methams’ family archive because it contained an estimated 1,200 deeds over 250 folios. His latest offering, a scholarly edition of this cartulary based on antiquarian transcripts, reconstructs the text of some 700 of these deeds. The work also offers a detailed introduction that is split into nine parts, which discusses the text’s history, the sources for the edition, the disappearance of the original manuscript, the antiquarians’ relationships with the manuscript and their copies, and Crouch’s approach to reconstructing the ‘Metham Archive’. The edition itself provides material from the opening flyleaves, the main text of the cartulary, and the endpapers. There are also a further three appendices: the full text of the calendared deeds, a family history to 1416, and a discussion of the widowhood of Sybil Metham (n ee Hambleton), who was abducted after the death of John Metham for her claim to the considerable portfolio of properties created by her marriage to John. Therefore, the volume is packed with material that will undoubtedly be of great value to many future scholars. What first strikes the reader when perusing this volume is the enormous amount of work that Crouch has put into this edition. The text of the cartulary has been constructed from eight manuscript sources held by five different libraries and archives. In most cases the editor has given preference to James Torre’s English version of the text and Dr Nathaniel Johnston’s Latin abstracts (if they proved more detailed than Torre’s version), preserved in the Bodleian’s MS Top. Yorks b 14 and MS Top. gen. c56 respectively. These transcripts evidently brought diverse challenges to this project, as Crouch notes that Torre only had a limited knowledge of Latin and medieval dating clauses. Meanwhile, he describes Johnston’s handwriting as ‘abominable’ and in need of a ‘minor Rosetta Stone’ to help ‘decode’ the mysteries of his transcript (p. xl). Crouch even provides photographic evidence of this, should the reader doubt his assertions (p. xlii). In other places, where Torre and Johnston’s works are less revealing, the editor interweaves deeds and other information from the other manuscripts to form the most comprehensive reconstruction of the cartulary as possible. I particularly liked how deletions to the tex
约克郡的Methams家族是中世纪的一个主要士绅家族，其起源可以追溯到12世纪豪登明斯特的已婚神职人员。大约1405年，托马斯·梅瑟姆委托创建了这座马车，当时这家人的庄园横跨东莱德和约克谷。正如本版所揭示的那样，Methams家族参与了中世纪晚期的许多关键事件，如英国国王与西蒙·德·蒙福特（公元1265年）和兰开斯特伯爵托马斯（公元1322年）之间的内战，以及盎格鲁-苏格兰战争。2014年，大卫·克劳奇（David Crouch）将1680年后消失的中世纪晚期手书描述为Methams家族档案的“最大损失”，因为它包含了大约1200份超过250对开本的契约。他最新出版的这本基于古物抄本的学术版漫画，重建了其中700多篇事迹的文本。这部作品还提供了一个分为九个部分的详细介绍，其中讨论了文本的历史、版本的来源、原始手稿的消失、考古学家与手稿及其副本的关系，以及克劳奇重建“甲烷档案馆”的方法。该版本本身提供了从扉页、图册正文和尾页的材料。此外还有三个附录：日历契约的全文、1416年的家族史，以及关于Sybil Metham（n ee Hambleton）守寡的讨论，她在John Metham去世后被绑架，因为她声称拥有与John结婚所创造的大量财产。因此，这本书所包含的材料无疑对许多未来的学者具有重要价值。当读者仔细阅读这本书时，首先映入眼帘的是克劳奇在这本书中所做的大量工作。该图册的文本由五个不同的图书馆和档案馆持有的八个手稿来源构成。在大多数情况下，编辑优先选择詹姆斯·托雷的英文版文本和纳撒尼尔·约翰斯顿博士的拉丁摘要（如果它们被证明比托雷的版本更详细的话），这些摘要保存在博德利的MS Top中。约克b 14和MS上衣。分别为c56代。这些文字记录显然给这个项目带来了各种各样的挑战，因为克劳奇指出，托雷对拉丁语和中世纪断代条款的了解有限。与此同时，他形容约翰斯顿的笔迹“令人憎恶”，需要一块“小罗塞塔石碑”来帮助“破解”他的成绩单的奥秘（第xl页）。克劳奇甚至提供了这方面的照片证据，如果读者怀疑他的断言（第xlii页）。在其他地方，托雷和约翰斯顿的作品不太具有启发性，编辑将其他手稿中的事迹和其他信息交织在一起，形成对漫画最全面的重建。我特别喜欢使用删除线文本来显示对文本的删除
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