STORRE Collection: Electronic copies of History and Politics book reviews.
http://hdl.handle.net/1893/2145
Electronic copies of History and Politics book reviews.2024-03-28T11:39:51ZThe Minute Book of the Bristol Library Society, 1771–1801, by Max Skjönsberg and Mark Towsey (eds.)
http://hdl.handle.net/1893/35199
Title: The Minute Book of the Bristol Library Society, 1771–1801, by Max Skjönsberg and Mark Towsey (eds.)
Author(s): Smith, Joshua
Abstract: First paragraph: This edited transcription of the minutes of the Bristol Library Society is published to mark the 250th anniversary of the Library Society’s founding, providing a fresh view into the administration and proceedings of a British subscription library and the bibliographical and literary culture of a British city in the later eighteenth century. An introductory essay ably introduces the minutes, providing a history of the library in the eighteenth century, its inception and administrative proceedings, and establishes the library’s links to Bristol’s political and literary society in this period. Skjönsberg’s and Towsey’s careful editing, together with regular biographical and contextual footnotes, produces a valuable source to those interested in books, reading, and society in an eighteenth-century city.2023-06-14T00:00:00ZReview: James Epstein and David Karr, British Jacobin Politics, Desires, and Aftermaths: Seditious Hearts (London: Routledge, 2021) in Romance, Revolution & Reform 5 (Jan 2023).
http://hdl.handle.net/1893/34840
Title: Review: James Epstein and David Karr, British Jacobin Politics, Desires, and Aftermaths: Seditious Hearts (London: Routledge, 2021) in Romance, Revolution & Reform 5 (Jan 2023).
Author(s): Smith, Joshua
Abstract: First paragraph: ‘I ADOPT THE term Jacobinism without hesitation’, wrote John Thelwall in 1796, ‘because it is fixed upon us, as a stigma by our enemies’. In Seditious Hearts, James Epstein and David Karr seek to understand the motives of those who, like Thelwall, committed themselves, often openly, to radical reform. The introduction and opening chapter of this monograph are co-authored by Epstein and Karr, who each contribute four further chapters respectively. A number of these essays have appeared as earlier versions elsewhere, here they are expanded and brought together to constitute a robust analysis of British radicalism in the last decade of the eighteenth century and the early nineteenth century. The work is structured into two parts. The first analyses a ‘strain’ of Jacobinism existing in British radicalism in the 1790s, the second examines its resurrection in 1817 and memorialisation during the 1830s. The work concludes with a consideration of the political and intellectual life of social historian E.P. Thompson (1924-1993).2023-01-01T00:00:00ZReview: James Epstein and David Karr, British Jacobin Politics, Desires, and Aftermaths: Seditious Hearts (London: Routledge, 2021) in Romance, Revolution & Reform 5 (Jan 2023).
http://hdl.handle.net/1893/34821
Title: Review: James Epstein and David Karr, British Jacobin Politics, Desires, and Aftermaths: Seditious Hearts (London: Routledge, 2021) in Romance, Revolution & Reform 5 (Jan 2023).
Author(s): Smith, Joshua
Abstract: First paragraph: ‘I ADOPT THE term Jacobinism without hesitation’, wrote John Thelwall in 1796, ‘because it is fixed upon us, as a stigma by our enemies’. In Seditious Hearts, James Epstein and David Karr seek to understand the motives of those who, like Thelwall, committed themselves, often openly, to radical reform. The introduction and opening chapter of this monograph are co-authored by Epstein and Karr, who each contribute four further chapters respectively. A number of these essays have appeared as earlier versions elsewhere, here they are expanded and brought together to constitute a robust analysis of British radicalism in the last decade of the eighteenth century and the early nineteenth century. The work is structured into two parts. The first analyses a ‘strain’ of Jacobinism existing in British radicalism in the 1790s, the second examines its resurrection in 1817 and memorialisation during the 1830s. The work concludes with a consideration of the political and intellectual life of social historian E.P. Thompson (1924-1993).2023-01-01T00:00:00ZBook review: Exploring Emotion, Care, and Enthusiasm in Unloved Museum Collections, edited by Anna Woodham, Rhianedd Smith and Alison Hess, Leeds, ARC Humanities Press, 2020
http://hdl.handle.net/1893/34801
Title: Book review: Exploring Emotion, Care, and Enthusiasm in Unloved Museum Collections, edited by Anna Woodham, Rhianedd Smith and Alison Hess, Leeds, ARC Humanities Press, 2020
Author(s): Morgan, Jennie
Abstract: First paragraph: The majority of the chapters in this edited book have their origins in the ‘Who Cares? Interventions in “Unloved” Museum Collections’ conference held in 2015 at the Dana Research Centre, Science Museum (London). The conference marked the culmination of a UK Arts and Humanities Research Council funded project of the same name. Like the project and conference, this new book shines a light on ‘unloved’ museum collections. A term, the editors explain, which refers to stored collections, and more broadly objects with limited public appeal and for which ‘significance may be harder to recognize’ (p 1). Yet to speak of ‘unloved’ collections is not to suggest that they are disregarded. On the contrary, this book takes the reader beyond public displays into the hidden space of museum storerooms to look at who cares for such collections, and in doing so reveals a range of individuals, groups and institutions who care intensely. Driven by the applied aim of considering what happens ‘when people who care about stored collections are brought into the research, engagement, and curatorial process’ (p 7), the book addresses a broader challenge for the museum sector: how to find new ways to understand, interpret and use ‘unloved’ collections in ways that will enable the public ‘to value them as much as, if not more than, objects which are “easy to love”’ (p 201).2021-05-01T00:00:00Z