This is a version of papers I gave at the European Social Science History Conference (Vienna 2014) and the British Crime Historians Symposium (Liverpool 2014). It explores what we can learn from multiple historical records about the friendship networks and survival strategies of boys and young men, transported to Van Diemen’s Land in the 1830s […]
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On Christmas Day 1839 inmates at Yarmouth Gaol tucked into a hearty meal of roast beef and plum pudding paid for by the Mayor. I hope it was washed down with ale, as it had been in 1837. The festive dinner must have made a welcome change from the monotonous prison diet of bread and […]
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Exploring the Relationship Between Charles Dickens and the City of Liverpool
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Irish Families in Victorian Stafford
Home to the Seasalter Smuggling Company
I am an historian reading for a DPhil in History at Balliol College, University of Oxford. My research is most concerned with housing in Britain during and after the First World War. I've been called a political historian, a social historian, and a cultural historian. I don't see any reason to be one and not the other.
Literature, Science, Art and Culture in the long Nineteenth-Century.
By Lesley Hulonce
Cold War history and other musings
Early Canadian History
Commentary. Reflection. Judgment.
An ESRC funded research collaboration between the Universities of Southampton, Birmingham and Surrey and the Mass Observation Archive
An Architectural Gazetteer
Conviction 