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C18thGirl: September 2014
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Tuesday, 30 September 2014. Review: Kane, Bronach; Williamson, Fiona (2013) Women, Agency and the Law, 1300–1700, Pickering and Chatto. This collection of ten essays concerns the interaction of ordinary women with the legal system of England and Wales. A common theme running through them is the extent to which the individual narrative of female petitioners, defendants and witnesses can be extracted from deposition statements, despite the mediation of court clerks in the creation of those documents. Young...
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C18thGirl: July 2013
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Sunday, 28 July 2013. Part 5: The Parish Workhouse in Eighteenth-CenturyThames Ditton. The Poor Relief Act of 1601 determined that every individual parish of England and Wales was responsible for the provision and administration of poor relief to those in need and. Resident in that parish. Knatchbull’s Act of 1723 authorised. The same Act introduced the ‘workhouse test’,. Rising to 1,912 by 1776,. Each with between 20 and 50 inmates . Children and the Workhouse. Two specific policies were set out in the.
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C18thGirl: August 2013
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Friday, 30 August 2013. Part 1: The rise of the male medical professional in the field of midwifery: the work of William Gifford. Which did not mention midwives specifically but placed the licensing of medical practitioners in the hands of the Bishops, in order to prevent the practice of witchcraft. As a result of which, a woman of good moral character might obtain a licence from a Bishop to set herself up as a midwife, although any training was generally gained by working alongside an established. I was...
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C18thGirl: Review: Anne Leah Greenfield (ed.) (2013) Interpreting Sexual Violence, 1660–1800, Pickering & Chatto
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Monday, 17 November 2014. Review: Anne Leah Greenfield (ed.) (2013) Interpreting Sexual Violence, 1660–1800, Pickering and Chatto. Over the centuries society has placed a great deal of importance on a woman’s chastity, therefore, r. Ape has been seen in terms of an assault upon a man’s property, patriarchy and. Anne Greenfield has brought together an eclectic. Relationship between representations of and responses to sexual violence. In courtroom reports, plays, literature and art: it. Followed by an anal...
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C18thGirl: July 2014
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Friday, 11 July 2014. History of Crime: Problems with Legal Sources for the Eighteenth Century. As described in my previous blog, http:/ c18thgirl.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/locating-and-selecting-primary-sources.html. TNA ASSI 41/3 March 1740, extract from the Crown Minute Books for the Northern Circuit - showing the verdict but not the sentence. Thursday, 3 July 2014. Locating and selecting primary sources on the History of Crime. When I embarked on my PhD I was already aware that a. He two sample periods (.
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C18thGirl: December 2013
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Monday, 9 December 2013. Micro-histories (and blogs): a search for the meaning of life or an exercise in privileging the marginal, the bizarre and the obscure? In The Kiss of Lamourette. Robert Darnton suggested that ambition of historians in studying individual people, documents or rituals was ‘ to understand the meaning of life. That put me in mind in Douglas Adams’ The Restaurant at the End of the Universe,. In which Ford Prefect concluded that a search for ‘ the meaning of life’. Relates the events o...
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C18thGirl: November 2013
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Sunday, 24 November 2013. The ‘measure of iniquity’ of an unmarried, pregnant woman in eighteenth-century England. The Leeds Intelligencer,. Last Wednesday the Coroner’s inquest sat upon the Body of a Child found dead, shockingly mangled and torn. It appeared to have been clandestinely buried [in St. Peter’s churchyard] at night and thro haste buried near the surface so that dogs or swine had rooted it out. When people throw aside all Care. For their own Children. Into the Christian Church. It may have b...
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C18thGirl: From English Skittles to Ten Pin Bowling in the Archives.
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Thursday, 20 August 2015. From English Skittles to Ten Pin Bowling in the Archives. Skittles or nine pins is a traditional game played in English pubs and involves players taking turns to throw wooden balls down a lane in an attempt to knock over nine wooden skittles at the end of the lane. It is the fore-runner of the relatively modern game of ten pin b. The game differs from lawn bowls, in which the aim is to bring the ball to rest near a stationary ball called a jack. Early sixteenth century woodcut.
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C18thGirl: August 2015
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Thursday, 20 August 2015. From English Skittles to Ten Pin Bowling in the Archives. Skittles or nine pins is a traditional game played in English pubs and involves players taking turns to throw wooden balls down a lane in an attempt to knock over nine wooden skittles at the end of the lane. It is the fore-runner of the relatively modern game of ten pin b. The game differs from lawn bowls, in which the aim is to bring the ball to rest near a stationary ball called a jack. Early sixteenth century woodcut.