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Affordable housing and urban politics in Spain, 1924-1937: Málaga’s ‘Garden City’, from Dictatorship to Republic (2024)
Journal Article

This article explores working class housing schemes and urban planning to gain a new angle for viewing successive national political crises in Spain in the 1920s and 1930s. It focuses on the southern city of Málaga through a micro-study of the Ciudad... Read More about Affordable housing and urban politics in Spain, 1924-1937: Málaga’s ‘Garden City’, from Dictatorship to Republic.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Reading his way to royalism? Sir Thomas Myddelton, side-changing and loyalty in England and Wales, 1639-1666 (2024)
Journal Article

Civil War allegiance has long been a preoccupation of early modern British historians. They have weighed geographical, religious, political, and pragmatic reasons for British people to choose sides in 1642. Just as important is a change of allegiance... Read More about Reading his way to royalism? Sir Thomas Myddelton, side-changing and loyalty in England and Wales, 1639-1666.

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.

Mr Newport: The Story of Aubrey Hames (2023)
Book

Aubrey Hames was one of the most iconic figures in the Welsh town of Newport in the decades following the second world war. He was a man of his time – someone who had experienced first-hand the difficulties of poverty and the horrors of conflict – an... Read More about Mr Newport: The Story of Aubrey Hames.

The Worcester riots of November 1831 (2023)
Digital Artefact

In October 1831 a wave of disturbances swept across England after the rejection of the Second Reform Bill in the House of Lords. These ‘reform riots’ began with serious disorder in the East Midlands (Derby, Nottingham) followed by unrest in towns in... Read More about The Worcester riots of November 1831.

The defeat of the Second Reform Bill in October 1831 – An overview of public responses PART 1 (2023)
Digital Artefact

The following series of three articles examine initial public responses to the news of the defeat of the Second Reform Bill in the House of Lords on 8th October 1831 across England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. The evidential basis for this article i... Read More about The defeat of the Second Reform Bill in October 1831 – An overview of public responses PART 1.

The defeat of the Second Reform Bill in October 1831 – An overview of public responses (part 2 – In the metropolis) (2023)
Digital Artefact

The following series of three articles examine initial public responses to the news of the defeat of the Second Reform Bill in the House of Lords on 8th October 1831 across England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. The evidential basis for this article i... Read More about The defeat of the Second Reform Bill in October 1831 – An overview of public responses (part 2 – In the metropolis).

The Sherborne Riots of 1831 (2023)
Digital Artefact

This case study covers the reform related riots in Sherborne in Dorset over the period 19-21 October 1831. It commences with an assessment of the demographics, economics and industry, and land ownership in the town and its environs. It considers the... Read More about The Sherborne Riots of 1831.

The Yeovil Riots of October 1831 (2023)
Digital Artefact

This case study covers the reform related riots in Yeovil, Somerset over the period 21-22 October 1831. The study commences with an assessment of the administration and government of the town with reference to the changes made by the 1830 Improvement... Read More about The Yeovil Riots of October 1831.

Bristol case study: The attack on the Bishops Palace 1831 (2023)
Digital Artefact

This case study analyses the targeting, sacking and raising of the Bishop’s Palace by rioters in Bristol on 29 October 1831. It begins by considering the public disapproval of the Anglican Bishops for their role in the defeat of the Second Reform Bil... Read More about Bristol case study: The attack on the Bishops Palace 1831.

The Blandford Forum riots of October 1831 (2023)
Digital Artefact

This case study covers the reform related riots in Blandford Forum in Dorset over the period 15-19 October 1831. The study commences with an assessment of the governance and jurisdiction of the town with reference to the borough boundary and brief co... Read More about The Blandford Forum riots of October 1831.

Preludes to the riots in Dorset and Somerset in 1831 (2023)
Digital Artefact

This essay considers a series of preludes in 1830 and 1831 to the riots in Dorset and south Somerset in October 1831. Although written from the perspective of Sherborne in north Dorset this paper provides useful context for case studies of riots in B... Read More about Preludes to the riots in Dorset and Somerset in 1831.

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.

In remembrance of the bloody fact: Coins, public execution and the gibbet in Hanoverian England (2023)
Book Chapter

Noteworthy eighteenth and nineteenth century public hangings were often marked by the circulation of associative souvenirs, and sometimes of coins. Some, like those professionally minted to mark the execution of James Blomfield Rush in 1849, restrict... Read More about In remembrance of the bloody fact: Coins, public execution and the gibbet in Hanoverian England.

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.

Beyond the ballot: Girls' education, women's welfare and the Bristol Suffragists (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution