Laura Harrison's Outputs (13)

Sex and the social order: Creative approaches to teaching the history of gender and sexuality in modern Britain (2025)
Journal Article

As History researchers and teachers, we want our students to discover the excitement that can be found in original historical research, and in how this research can be used to make a difference in and with our communities. Teaching, research, and pub... Read More about Sex and the social order: Creative approaches to teaching the history of gender and sexuality in modern Britain.

History-enhanced ICT For Sustainability education: Learning together with Business Computing students (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

his research explores the use of History to enhance education in the field of ICT For Sustainability (ICT4S) in response to a challenge from the ICT4S 2023 conference. No previous studies were found in ICT4S but the literature on History and Educatio... Read More about History-enhanced ICT For Sustainability education: Learning together with Business Computing students.

Everyone has a tale to tell: Family history, family historians and working-class histories (2024)
Book Chapter

In this chapter, Laura Harrison considers the multiple decade-long boom of family history and how it connects to the research and practice of working-class history. Family history, the chapter argues, has much to offer the historian both in terms of... Read More about Everyone has a tale to tell: Family history, family historians and working-class histories.

Doing Working Class History: Research, Heritage and Engagement (2024)
Book

Perhaps the most difficult aspect of researching, interpreting, and engaging with working-class history is how broad the terms of reference can be. Rarely a week seems to go by without the working-class, however defined (or undefined), being the subj... Read More about Doing Working Class History: Research, Heritage and Engagement.

Representations of working-class lives at criminal justice heritage sites (2024)
Book Chapter

This chapter is based on Wallis and Johnson’s practical, collaborative work with a number of British criminal justice heritage sites, where the majority of the personal stories interpreted for public audiences might be considered as ‘working-class’ l... Read More about Representations of working-class lives at criminal justice heritage sites.

Street life: The leisure spaces and places of working-class youth in Britain, c.1870-1960 (2024)
Book Chapter

One Sunday in early January 1954, the Rev. Peter Stanley, senior curate of St. Augustine’s Roman Catholic Church in Darlington, County Durham, pronounced in his weekly sermon that the young people parading in the Darlington main streets on the ‘monke... Read More about Street life: The leisure spaces and places of working-class youth in Britain, c.1870-1960.

Dangerous Amusements: Leisure, the young working class and urban space, c.1870-1939 (2022)
Book

In neighbourhoods and public spaces across Britain, young working people walked out together, congregated in the streets, and paraded up and down on the 'monkey parades'. The beginnings of a distinct youth culture can be traced to the late nineteenth... Read More about Dangerous Amusements: Leisure, the young working class and urban space, c.1870-1939.

Bread Winner: an intimate history of the Victorian economy: by Emma Griffin, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2020, xi + 320 pp., £20.00 (hardback), ISBN: 978-0-30023-006-2 (2021)
Journal Article

‘There wasn’t all that much to do … at least not here’: Memories of growing up in rural South West England in the early twentieth century (2020)
Journal Article

Stan was born in 1911 in a small village near the north Somerset coast. When recalling his life in the countryside, he felt that ‘there wasn’t much to do in the evenings … at least not here’. Drawing upon evidence from personal accounts of growing up... Read More about ‘There wasn’t all that much to do … at least not here’: Memories of growing up in rural South West England in the early twentieth century.

‘We didn’t think it was monotonous in those days, but…’ : Memories of growing up in rural South West England in the early twentieth century (2020)
Journal Article

‘The streets have been watched regularly’: The York Penitentiary Society, young working-class women, and the regulation of behaviour in the public spaces of York, c. 1845– 1919 (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. The York Penitentiary Society, a charitable female reformatory in York, aimed to transform ‘fallen’ women in the city into useful citizens through institutionalisation, domestic training... Read More about ‘The streets have been watched regularly’: The York Penitentiary Society, young working-class women, and the regulation of behaviour in the public spaces of York, c. 1845– 1919.

Book review: The routledge history handbook of gender and the urban experience (2018)
Journal Article

Book review: The Routledge History Handbook of Gender and the Urban Experience

Creating the slum: Representations of poverty in the Hungate and Walmgate districts of York, 1875-1914 (2015)
Journal Article

Using a range of sources, this article addresses the ways in which the press, social investigators and middle-class commentators constructed an image and reputation for the working-class districts of Walmgate and Hungate in York; a reputation which m... Read More about Creating the slum: Representations of poverty in the Hungate and Walmgate districts of York, 1875-1914.