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Routledge History of the Working Class in the West (2024)
Book
Harrison, L. O. Betts, & L. Price (Eds.). Routledge History of the Working Class in the West. Routledge. Manuscript submitted for publication

The proverbial “interesting times” of the current shifting global landscape calls out, we believe, for a new edited collection that critically examines the working class. The UK’s vote to trigger Brexit, the surprise upset election of Donald Trump in... Read More about Routledge History of the Working Class in the West.

Dangerous Amusements: Leisure, the young working class and urban space, c.1870-1939 (2022)
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Harrison, L. (2022). Dangerous Amusements: Leisure, the young working class and urban space, c.1870-1939. Manchester: Manchester University Press

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.

‘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
Harrison, L. (2020). ‘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. Rural History, 31(2), 165-180. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0956793320000199

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.

‘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
Harrison, L. (2019). ‘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. Women's History Review, 28(3), 457-478. https://doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2018.1477105

© 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.

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

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.