Outputs (22)

Bad Blood in Georgian Bristol: The Murder of Sir John Dineley (2023)
Book
Poole, S., & Rogers, N. (2023). Bad Blood in Georgian Bristol: The Murder of Sir John Dineley. Bristol: Redcliffe Press

In 1741, Sir John Dineley, a gentleman with substantial west country land holdings was abducted on the streets of Bristol in broad daylight, rowed down the Avon to the Channel and forced onto a warship captained by his own brother, Samuel Goodere. Th... Read More about Bad Blood in Georgian Bristol: The Murder of Sir John Dineley.

4 ‘The instinct for hero worship works blindly’: English radical democrats and the problem of memorialization (2020)
Journal Article
Poole, S. (2020). 4 ‘The instinct for hero worship works blindly’: English radical democrats and the problem of memorialization. Patterns of Prejudice, 54(5), 503-512. https://doi.org/10.1080/0031322X.2021.1942402

Poole’s essay explores a number of historical precedents for today’s debates concerning statuary memorialization. Early-nineteenth-century radicals shared many of the same discussions and tactics that feature in modern controversies over memorial sta... Read More about 4 ‘The instinct for hero worship works blindly’: English radical democrats and the problem of memorialization.

Heritage empath: Of home and each other (2019)
Digital Artefact
Poole, S. (2019). Heritage empath: Of home and each other. [Video]

Interactive audio story experienced in the real world, where the audience gets the opportunity to follow the story of Kelechi, a migrant from Nigeria, as she negotiates the process of leaving family and home in one country to forge a new one in anoth... Read More about Heritage empath: Of home and each other.

Pleasure...and shame: Reputation and respectability in Sydney Gardens, Bath, 1820-30 (2019)
Journal Article
Poole, S. (2019). Pleasure...and shame: Reputation and respectability in Sydney Gardens, Bath, 1820-30. Bath History, 15, 134-147

"Some examples should be made": Prosecuting reform bill rioters in 1831-32 (2018)
Book Chapter
Poole, S. (2018). "Some examples should be made": Prosecuting reform bill rioters in 1831-32. In M. T. Davis, E. Macleod, & G. Pentland (Eds.), Political Trials in an Age of Revolutions: Britain and the North Atlantic, 1793—1848 (237-263). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98959-4_10

Following the House of Lords’ rejection of the parliamentary Reform Bill in the autumn of 1831, severe rioting broke out in a number of English towns. In the judicial retribution that followed, some 259 people were prosecuted, seven of them hanged an... Read More about "Some examples should be made": Prosecuting reform bill rioters in 1831-32.

Bristol from Below: Law, Authority and Protest in a Georgian City (2017)
Book
Poole, S., & Rogers, N. (2017). Bristol from Below: Law, Authority and Protest in a Georgian City. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer

Bristol from Below captures the substance and scale of popular politics and protest in Bristol over the course of the long eighteenth century. It charts the lives of ordinary Bristolians in the making of their city and devotes particular attention to... Read More about Bristol from Below: Law, Authority and Protest in a Georgian City.

Ghosts in the Garden: locative gameplay and historical interpretation from below (2017)
Journal Article
Poole, S. (2018). Ghosts in the Garden: locative gameplay and historical interpretation from below. International Journal of Heritage Studies, 24(3), 300-314. https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2017.1347887

© 2017 Steve Poole. Published with licence by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. The heritage industry now makes extensive use of digital audioguides and similar interpretation tools to reach new audiences but many remain rooted... Read More about Ghosts in the Garden: locative gameplay and historical interpretation from below.

'For the benefit of example': Crime scene executions in England, 1720-1830 (2015)
Book Chapter
Poole, S. (2015). 'For the benefit of example': Crime scene executions in England, 1720-1830. In R. Ward (Ed.), A Global History of Execution and the Criminal Corpse (71-101). London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137444011_3

Progressive accounts of the English encounter between capital punishment and modernity have made much of the abandonment c. 1783-1800 of lengthy processions to customary sites on urban peripheries and their replacement with drop systems on elevated p... Read More about 'For the benefit of example': Crime scene executions in England, 1720-1830.

A Knight’s Peril - Bodiam Castle (2015)
Digital Artefact
Poole, S. (2015). A Knight’s Peril - Bodiam Castle. [Video]

A film about A Knight's Peril - an interactive audio adventure at Bodiam Castle - A National Trust property in East Sussex, England.

More like savages than men: Foreign sailors and knife crime in nineteenth century Bristol (2013)
Book Chapter
Poole, S. (2013). More like savages than men: Foreign sailors and knife crime in nineteenth century Bristol. In S. Poole (Ed.), A City Built Upon the Water: Maritime Bristol 1750-1900 (155-174). Bristol: Redcliffe Press