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Editors’ Introduction: Journal of British Studies, 54:1 (January 2015)
Journal of British Studies, 2015
the address he gave at the 2013 North American Conference on British Studies upon the conclusion of his term as president. As an eminent historian who took the so-called imperial turn and has written on themes as varied as settler society in Kenya, the exploration of Australia, the maverick Victorian writer, explorer, and soldier Richard Burton, as well as hill stations in the British Raj, Kennedy has had a front-row seat to many conflicts over imperial history and its meanings. How has imperial history reflected wider political and social struggles during various periods? Why does it remain a popular field, even so long after the formal end of empire? In seeking to answer these questions, Kennedy draws on both his own experience and a deep knowledge of the field to argue that historians of empire need to be more self-reflexive about their practice and conscious of the ways in which the present shapes the past. The remaining articles in this issue include several iconoclastic pieces. Tobias Gregory rethinks Milton and his political relationship with Oliver Cromwell. Michelle Brock gives a sympathetic reading of Scottish reformation piety and the anxiety created by what she terms "internalizing the demonic." Richard Ward asks why it was paupers and not executed criminals whose bodies were made available for dissection to surgeons in the late eighteenth century. Two of our four articles focused on modern British history explore sources and methodology: Luke Blaxill argues for the value of a quantitative analysis of political discourse by using this technique to reassess the electoral reception of Joseph Chamberlain's "unauthorized program" of 1885, while Joe Moran gives a comprehensive overview of another type of source, the diary, and its uses in the twentieth century. Sarah Roddy, Julie-Marie Strange, and Bertrand Taithe examine what they term the "philanthropic marketplace" of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with a focus on scandal and concern about the financial probity of charities, while Alister Chapman makes an innovative contribution to the study of secularization in Britain from the 1960s onward, tying it to declining belief in a divinely sanctioned imperial mission. With Michelle Brock's "Internalizing the Demonic: Satan and the Self in Early Modern Scottish Piety," we find the devil in Scotland. Brock shows how belief in the devil informed religious life and thought in post-Reformation Scotland. She demonstrates that the religious introspection demanded by Protestant piety had its demonic corollary in satanic ideas and devilish influence. The Reformed impulse towards self-surveillance in matters of faith also created a palpable recognition that
Editors' Introduction -- Journal of British Studies 54:2 (April 2015)
Peter Lake, 'The “Political Thought” of the “Monarchical Republic of Elizabeth I,” Discovered and Anatomized' Beverly Lemire, ' “Men of the World”: British Mariners, Consumer Practice, and Material Culture in an Era of Global Trade, c. 1660–1800' Maria Zytaruk, 'Artifacts of Elegy: The Foundling Hospital Tokens' David G. Barrie, 'Naming and Shaming: Trial by Media in Nineteenth-Century Scotland' Daniel C. S. Wilson, 'J. A. Hobson and the Machinery Question' Tom Hulme, ' “A Nation Depends on Its Children”: School Buildings and Citizenship in England and Wales, 1900–1939' Deanne Van Tol, 'The Women of Kenya Speak: Imperial Activism and Settler Society, c.1930' Erika Hanna, 'Photographs and “Truth” during the Northern Ireland Troubles, 1969–72'
'Working Paper Number 2’, Modern British Studies
Modern British Studies, University of Birmingham, 2015
Contributed toward the working paper that opened the Centre of Modern British Studies at the University of Birmingham, 2015. This commemorated the 50 year anniversary of the establishment of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS) at the University.
Journal of British Studies, 2013
Forum: First Past the Post? The New Post-Revisionism in Early Stuart Political History "Michael Questier, 'Sermons, Separatists, and Succession Politics in Late Elizabethan England' Rei Kanemura, 'Kingship by Descent or Kingship by Election? The Contested Title of James VI and I' Richard Cust, 'Charles I and the Order of the Garter' Thomas Cogswell, 'The Human Comedy in Westminster: The House of Commons, 1604–1629' Peter King, 'Ethnicity, Prejudice, and Justice: The Treatment of the Irish at the Old Bailey, 1750–1825' V. Markham Lester, 'The Effect of Southern State Bond Repudiation and British Debt Collection Efforts on Anglo-American Relations, 1840–1940' Tamson Pietsch, 'Rethinking the British World' Andrew Wells, 'Sinking Feelings: Representing and Resisting the Titanic Disaster in Britain, 1914–ca.1960'"
Editor's introduction and table of contents, Journal of British Studies, 52(4), Nov 2013
T his issue begins with a pair of articles that address two very different senses of time and chronological change during the long eighteenth century in Britain. Ted McCormick explores the relationship between long-term, deep histories of the creation of the earth and the multiplication of its many peoples, and the emergence of a new science of "political arithmetic" in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Amanda Vickery, in contrast, looks at time as lived experience, and at the gendered body in time.
Politics, 2006
The study of British politics has become markedly more professionalised in recent decades, representing a wide range of intellectual interests and methodological approaches. At the same time a sense of managerialism has overtaken what had been a self-regulated discipline. This article makes two claims. First, it is increasingly difficult to speak of a 'British tradition' of political studies, as distinct from an American one. The sense that British academia is 'different' and needs to hold American influence at bay is misguided. The second is that in the field of British-EU studies it is time to move beyond the idea that British history and tradition are the best explanations for 50 years of awkwardness. Academics have been prone to taking politicians' claims a little too seriously, and this has retarded careful evaluation of competing explanations.