Historia Lectures 2024

Reading List

LSE Digital Library has digitised many primary sources relating to the women's movement of the 19th/20th centuries: the Anti-Suffrage Review as well as pro-suffrage journals such as the Common Cause and Votes For Women can all be accessed as original scans here: https://lse-atom.arkivum.net/

Emily Coit, 'Mary Augusta Ward's Perfect Economist and the Logic of Anti-Suffragism', ELH (2015) available on JStor

David Thackeray, 'Home and Politics: Women and Conservative Activism in Early Twentieth-Century Britain', Journal of British Studies (2010) available on JStor

You should be able to gain free access to the books and articles listed above through your school or local county library service.

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The English Reports: Available at http://www.commonlii.org/uk/cases/EngR/ 

“Preface” in Sylvester Douglas, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench In the Nineteenth, Twentieth, and Twenty-first Years of the Reign of George III, Vol. I (1783), pp. i-viii: Available through Google Books

“Report of J. Smeaton upon the state and condition of Wells Harbour, in the county of Norfolk” in John Smeaton, Reports of the Late John Smeaton (1812), pp.18-37: Available through Internet Archive 

Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations: https://www.legalabbrevs.cardiff.ac.uk/ 

Barbara J. Shapiro, “Law and Science in Seventeenth-Century England.” Stanford Law Review, vol. 21, no. 4, 1969, pp. 727–66.

Accessible through JSTOR:  https://www.jstor.org/stable/1227566 

You should be able to gain free access to the books and articles listed above through your school or local county library service.

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​Emilie Amt, ‘Ela Longspee’s Roll of Benefits: Piety and Reciprocity in the Thirteenth Century’, Traditio, 64 (2009): 1-56

Jayne Ringrose, ‘The Foundress and Her College’, in Pembroke College, Cambridge: A Celebration, ed. by A. V. Grimstone (Cambridge, 1997), pp. 1-12

Michael Davis, ‘A Gift from the Queen : The Architecture of the Collège de Navarre in Paris’, in Medieval Women and their Objects, ed. by Jenny Adams and Nancy M. Bradbury (Ann Arbor, MI, 2017), pp. 71-96

A. B. Cobban, ‘Colleges and Halls 1380-1500’, in The History of the University of Oxford, II. Late Medieval Oxford, ed. by J. I. Catto and T. A. R. Evans (Oxford, 1992), pp. 581-633

Virginia Davis, ‘The Making of English Collegiate Statutes’, History of Universities, 12 (1993): 1-23

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​R. Newhauser (ed), A Cultural History of the Senses in the Middle Ages (London, 2018)

C.M. Woolgar, The Senses in Late Medieval England (New Haven, CT., 2006)

S.A. Harvey, Scenting Salvation: Ancient Christianity and the Olfactory Imagination (Berkeley, CA., 2006)

C. Nordenfalk, ‘The Five Senses in Late Medieval and Renaissance Art’, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 48 (1985), pp. 1-22 (available on JSTOR)

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F. Carnevali et al. (eds), Twentieth-Century Britain: Economic, Cultural and Social Change (London, 2007)

Mark Donnelly, Sixties Britain: Culture, Society and Politics (London, 2005)

https://www.thehistorypress.co.uk/articles/1966-when-britain-was-the-envy-of-the-world/

https://www.historyhit.com/1960s-britain-change/

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