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New Directions in Social and Cultural History

NEW DIRECTIONS IN SOCIAL AND CULTURAL HISTORY

Series Editors: Sasha Handley (University of Manchester, UK), Rohan McWilliam (Anglia Ruskin University, UK) and Lucy Noakes (University of Essex, UK)

The New Directions in Social and Cultural History series brings together the leading research in social and cultural history, one of the most exciting and current areas for history teaching and research, contributing innovative new perspectives to a range of historical events and issues. Books in the series engage with developments in the field since the post-cultural turn, showing how new theoretical approaches have impacted on research within both history and other related disciplines. Each volume will cover both theoretical and methodological developments on the particular topic, as well as combine this with an analysis of primary source materials.

Forthcoming from Bloomsbury:

Debating New Approaches to History, edited by Marek Tamm and Peter Burke (2018)

History in Practice (3rd edition), by Ludmilla Jordanova (2018)

Writing History: Theory and Practice (3rd edition), edited by Stefan Berger, Heiko Feldner and Kevin Passmore (2018)

New Directions in Social and Cultural History

Edited By

SASHA HANDLEY,
ROHAN MCWILLIAM
AND LUCY NOAKES

Bloomsbury Academic

An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

CONTENTS

Sasha Handley, Rohan McWilliam and Lucy Noakes

Penny Summerfield

Rob Boddice

Judith A. Allen

Katrina Navickas

Donna Loftus

Jennifer Tucker

Paul Ashton and Meg Foster

Hilda Kean

Durba Ghosh

John Morgan

Nicola Whyte

Seth Denbo

New Directions in Social and Cultural History represents an attempt to probe how the historical discipline is changing in the early twenty-first century. It is an initiative of the Social History Society and inaugurates the publication of a new book series of the same name. We seek to provide readers with a series of insights into the intellectual ambition and creativity of history writing at the present time.

We are first of all extremely grateful to our contributors, who have been a pleasure to work with. Our aim was to draw in scholars who are generating new approaches from which others will learn. Their articles survey the state of recent methodological and theoretical interventions in their respective fields and suggest future directions that this work might take. Our thanks go the Social History Society and to the team at Bloomsbury, who made this series possible. The editors are also grateful to the following who have provided direct help, guidance or inspiration: Joanna Bourke, Kelly Boyd, Malcolm Chase, Beatriz Lopez, Linda Persson, Paul Warde, Andrew Wood and Keith Wrightson.

Sasha Handley

Rohan McWilliam

Lucy Noakes

Judith A. Allen, educated at the University of Sydney and Macquarie University, was Australias first chair of womens studies at Griffith University. She joined Indiana University in 1993 to found its interdisciplinary Department of Gender Studies. Her research undertakes histories of feminist theory and politics, the history of sex research and histories of interpersonal crimes and of reproduction and sexualities. Author of Sex and Secrets: Crimes Involving Australian Women since 1880 (1990), Rose Scott: Vision and Revision in Feminism, 18801925 (1994) and The Feminism of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Histories/Sexualities/Progressivism (2009), she co-edited London Low Life: Street Culture, Social Reform and the Victorian Underworld (2010). She is co-author of The Kinsey Institute: the First Seventy Years (2017) and has two monographs in preparation: Black Market in Misery: Criminal Abortion and British Sexual Cultures, 17801980 and Kinsey and the Feminine: The Making of the Second Kinsey Report. She is associate editor of the Journal of American History and senior research fellow of the Kinsey Institute.

Paul Ashton was professor of public history at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) until 2015. He is currently adjunct professor at Macquarie University, the University of Canberra and UTS. He is co-editor and co-founder of the journal Public History Review and is chair of the board of the digital Dictionary of Sydney. His numerous publications include Once Upon a Time: Australian Writers on Using the Past (2016).

Rob Boddice works at the Department of History and Cultural Studies, Freie Universitt Berlin. An historian of science, medicine and the emotions, he is the author of The Science of Sympathy: Morality, Evolution and Victorian Civilization (2016), Pain: A Very Short Introduction (2017), and the editor of Pain and Emotion in Modern History (2014). His forthcoming books include The History of Emotions (2017). Boddice is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Pamela Cox is professor of sociology and social history at the University of Essex. She was elected chair of the Social History Society in 2016. Her teaching and research cover questions of social policy, crime, gender and the life course. She recently presented two BBC series on womens work, Servants (2012) and Shopgirls (2014).

Seth Denbo is director of scholarly communication and digital initiatives at the American Historical Association. He has a PhD from the University of Warwick on the cultural history of eighteenth-century Britain. Over the past ten years, he has participated in the development of innovative digital tools and methods for historical scholarship. Drawing on his experience as a teacher and researcher, he played a key role in several international projects that expanded capacity for digital scholarship in the humanities.

Meg Foster is a PhD candidate in history at the University of New South Wales investigating the other bushrangers (those who were not white men) in Australian history and memory. After receiving first-class honours from the University of Sydney in 2013, Meg worked as a researcher with the Australian Centre of Public History at the University of Technology, Sydney. She is the recipient of numerous awards and prizes, and was the inaugural winner of the Deen De Bortoli Award in Applied History for her article Online and Plugged In?: Public History and Historians in the Digital Age, featured in the Public History Review (2014). As well as earning her PhD, Meg has worked as an historical consultant for television production companies and has a particular interest in making connections between history and the contemporary world.

Durba Ghosh is associate professor of history and is affiliated with Asian studies and feminist, gender, and sexuality studies at Cornell University. She teaches and researches modern South Asian history and focuses on the history of colonial governance and law, gender, sexuality and (increasingly) the tensions between security and democracy. She is the author of Gentlemanly Terrorists: Political Violence and the Colonial State in India, 19191947 (2017), Sex and the Family in Colonial India: The Making of Empire (2006) and with Dane Kennedy, the co-editor of Decentring Empire: Britain, India and the Transcolonial World (2006) as well as over a dozen chapters and articles in edited volumes and journals such as