Geoffrey Hunt, Benxi Zhang, Alexandra Bogren, Tamar Antin, and Margit Anne Petersen This blog accompanies the authors’ recently published article in Cultural and Social History. From the figure of the ‘wine mom’ to warnings about women ‘drinking like men’ and stigmatising labels such as the ‘lady lush’, contemporary language around female alcohol use is saturated … Continued
Jianhao Xu, Newcastle University. This blog accompanies Xu’s forthcoming article in Cultural and Social History. The historical context examined in this study is the profound social and political crisis experienced by China in the 1930s under the sustained pressure of Japanese aggression. Since the September 18 Incident, Japan’s military expansion in China had intensified continuously, … Continued
Until reading this blog, many of you have probably never heard of the Bradford Reform Jewish community. They are Britain’s third oldest Reform Jewish community and are still active today. Bradford’s earliest Jewish settlers arrived between the 1830s and 1870s. They were predominantly German woollen merchants because Bradford was the centre of the wool trade. … Continued
Blog by Dr Nicholas Collins, relating to his recent Open Access article in Cultural and Social History – read here! I’ve always been fascinated by a deceptively simple historical question: what did ordinary people in the past actually do all day? It’s a relatable topic, but it can be surprisingly difficult to study, and it’s … Continued
Rebekah Higgitt r.higgitt@nms.ac.uk Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin Kilburn-ToppinJ@cardiff.ac.uk with Noah Moxham When you think of scientific activity in seventeenth century London your thoughts probably turn to learned societies and their experiments, like those conducted by the Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, witnessed by gentleman natural philosophers. Our book Metropolitan Science suggests that such learned, … Continued
Oral History Project Led by Francesca Humi: Information and Call for Participants In Spring 2020, 22% of Covid-19 related deaths amongst NHS nurses were Filipino, despite them representing only 3.8% of NHS nurses. The pandemic threw health, care, and domestic work into the limelight and exposed the precarious working and visa conditions of many of … Continued
Mary Fraser, University of Glasgow mary.fraser.2@glasgow.ac.uk This so far untold story of the release of policemen into agriculture during the last two years of the First World War was a surprise! 1917 was the year of war weariness, when nothing seemed to go well for Britain: blockading started in earnest from February, a severe … Continued
On 29 November 2024 a symposium was held at the University of Leeds in memory of the late Professor Malcolm Chase, leading scholar of Chartism and a former Chair of the Social History Society. This free event was organised under the auspices of Northern History with invaluable support from the School of History at the … Continued
On Friday 8th November 2024 a workshop was held at the Institute of Historical Research (IHR), London in honour of Professor Pat Thane. This workshop was generously funded by the Royal Historical Society and the Social History Society and with the support of the IHR. Pat is a pathbreaking figure in the historical profession, spearheading … Continued
Jennifer McFarland and Olivia Formby, University of Cambridge jmm269@cam.ac.uk occf2@cam.ac.uk Held at St John’s College, University of Cambridge on 24 June 2024, Age and Health 1500-1800 brought together nine postgraduate and early career speakers working on various aspects of health and the life cycle, with a further thirty attendees in person and online. In … Continued
