Achieving Archive Service Accreditation as a Volunteer Led Archive: A Step by StepGuide

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This dissertation intends to enable community and charitable bodies with archives to access Archive Service Accreditation in a way which is easy to use for non-archivists in a beginners guide format. The aims will be achieved by providing context for the achievement of Archive Service Accreditation through a literature review to demonstrate the current situation… Continue reading Achieving Archive Service Accreditation as a Volunteer Led Archive: A Step by StepGuide

OSCAR WILDE: LITERATURE AND THE EXPRESSION OF SEXUALITY

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The publications and public profile of Oscar Wilde demonstrate the extent to which celebrity protected, or did not protect a person’s sexual and gender identity. The public trials, and the fact that Wilde appeared to be made an example of under the 1885 Criminal Amendment Act suggests that fame did not protect anyone from criminal… Continue reading OSCAR WILDE: LITERATURE AND THE EXPRESSION OF SEXUALITY

MATILDA JAMES: LEGISLATION AND THE PROFESSIONALISATION OF THE SEX INDUSTRY

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Matilda James, actively employed as a prostitute during the 1870s in Portsmouth, would have experienced the stigma attached to sex work first hand throughout her lifetime. James’ experience would have been affected by acts such as the CDAs and the Vagrancy Act, 1824, which criminalised and stigmatised her work. James’ experience does, however, demonstrate the… Continue reading MATILDA JAMES: LEGISLATION AND THE PROFESSIONALISATION OF THE SEX INDUSTRY

ANNE LISTER: DIARIES AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEXUAL LANGUAGE

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Anne Lister (1791-1840), owner of Shibden Hall is considered to be key to the development of the sexual language used by women who loved women (lesbians) during the nineteenth century; her diaries were instrumental in dispelling the idea that nineteenth century female friendships could not be sexual.[1] The detailed record she left of her sexual… Continue reading ANNE LISTER: DIARIES AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEXUAL LANGUAGE

Understanding the ‘English Civil War’ through an Archipelagic perspective

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The events between 1637 and 1660 occurred over a wide political and social base, becoming, in part, an international conflict as Irish and Scottish involvement became greater, although for the English and those outside the multiple kingdom it may have seemed to be a single conflict.[1] However, viewing these conflicts from an archipelagic perspective may… Continue reading Understanding the ‘English Civil War’ through an Archipelagic perspective

I say potatoes, you say potatoes: defining cultural transfer in 16th century America

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There are several examples of cultural transfer across the Atlantic and within the Atlantic World, whether this was through force, necessity, choice or simply prolonged exposure. There are also many kinds of cultural transfer, although high culture and religious ideals may have been the intended form of culture that Europeans wished to take to the… Continue reading I say potatoes, you say potatoes: defining cultural transfer in 16th century America

Leigh Park: A Study of 19th Century Pleasure Gardens

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The gardens at Leigh Park, (now Staunton Country Park, Havant, Hampshire) combined many of the key elements of a nineteenth-century pleasure garden, although it was not classed as such until 1827. This status may have been given in 1827 due to the changes made to the estate gardens by George Staunton as not only did… Continue reading Leigh Park: A Study of 19th Century Pleasure Gardens

‘What if [she] was one of us’: 16th century monarchs and their culture

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Throughout history it has been common place to have three related male monarchs ruling their respective nations, perhaps making the closely linked rules of Elizabeth Tudor, Mary Stuart and Catherine de Medici an unsurprising topic of focus. However, the gender of the monarchs appears to sway the focus of analysis, rather than anaylising the political… Continue reading ‘What if [she] was one of us’: 16th century monarchs and their culture