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
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Harrison, L. (2021). 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. Social History, 46(2), 228-230. https://doi.org/10.1080/03071022.2021.1896241
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‘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)
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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/S0956793320000199Stan 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)
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Harrison, L. (2020). ‘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. The Regional Historian, 2, 69-74
‘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)
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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.
Book review: The routledge history handbook of gender and the urban experience (2018)
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Harrison, L. (2018). Book review: The routledge history handbook of gender and the urban experience. Women's History Review, 27(4), 659-661. https://doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2018.1457129Book 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)
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Harrison, L. (2015). Creating the slum: Representations of poverty in the Hungate and Walmgate districts of York, 1875-1914Using 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.