All Outputs (22)

Bad Blood in Georgian Bristol: The Murder of Sir John Dineley (2023)
Book

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 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

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

"Some examples should be made": Prosecuting reform bill rioters in 1831-32 (2018)
Book Chapter

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

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

© 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

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

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

Ghosts in the garden (2013)
Digital Artefact

Creating a real world game experience in the gardens of the Holburne Museum in Bath - bringing the halcyon days of this Georgian Pleasure Garden back to life using the magic of Special Listening Devices that tune people into the past.

Thunderer, recluse or apostate? Interruptions and continuities in the life of a Jacobin fox (2010)
Journal Article

An essay in review, critically reconsidering the political writings of John Thelwall (1764-1834), radical democrat, republican, political theorist, pioeer speech therapist and Romantic poet.

Forty years of rural history from below: Captain Swing and the historians (2010)
Journal Article

An historiographical essay reflecting on the legacy and impact of E J Hobsbawm and George Rudé's benchmark history of nineteenth century agricultural protest, Captain Swing, in the 40 years since its first publication in 1969. It forms the introducti... Read More about Forty years of rural history from below: Captain Swing and the historians.

John Thelwall: Radical romantic and acquitted felon (2009)
Book

Not precedents to be followed but examples to be weighed: John Thelwall and the Jacobin sense of the past (2009)
Book Chapter

Essay critically examining the historical writing and historiographical theory of the English radical Jacobin, John Thelwall (1764-1834), and contextualising it within English 18th century historical practice and methodology.

The character and reputation of an acquitted felon (2009)
Book Chapter

Introductory essay to edited collection on the life and work of John Thelwall (1764-1834).

'A lasting and salutary warning': Incendiarism, rural order and England's last scene of crime execution (2008)
Journal Article

Agricultural incendiarism was a perennial factor in social relations in some areas of nineteenth-century rural England and is often understood by historians as an expression of 'covert' social protest. However, such categorisation risks oversimplifyi... Read More about 'A lasting and salutary warning': Incendiarism, rural order and England's last scene of crime execution.

Always something wanting: The troubled history of the British moonlight (2008)
Book Chapter

A short catalogue essay on the critical reception of British moonlight painting c.1720-1860.

'Bringing great shame upon this city': Sodomy, the courts and the civic idiom in eighteenth-century Bristol (2007)
Journal Article

During the 1730s, Bristol acquired an unenviable reputation as a city in which sodomy was endemic and rarely punished by the civil power. Although the cause lay partly in difficulties experienced in securing convictions, the resolve of magistrates wa... Read More about 'Bringing great shame upon this city': Sodomy, the courts and the civic idiom in eighteenth-century Bristol.

'Till our liberties be secure': Popular sovereignty and public space in Bristol, 1780-1850 (1999)
Journal Article

Struggles over the symbolic ownership of Bristol's open spaces were often influenced by association with conflicts between mercantile elites and 'the people' over the definition and nature of civic identity. Shifting political and cultural readings o... Read More about 'Till our liberties be secure': Popular sovereignty and public space in Bristol, 1780-1850.