Professor Julie-Marie Strange's Outputs (9)

Pet Revolution: Animals and the Making of Modern British Life (2023)
Book
Hamlett, J., & Strange, J.-M. (2023). Pet Revolution: Animals and the Making of Modern British Life. Reaktion Books

Pet Revolution tracks the British love affair with pets over the last two centuries, showing how the kinds of pets we keep, as well as how we relate to and care for them, has changed radically. The book describes the growth of pet foods and medicines... Read More about Pet Revolution: Animals and the Making of Modern British Life.

Banking for Jesus: Financial Services, Charity, and an Ethical Economy in Late Victorian and Edwardian Britain (2022)
Journal Article
Strange, J.-M., & Roddy, S. (2022). Banking for Jesus: Financial Services, Charity, and an Ethical Economy in Late Victorian and Edwardian Britain. Capitalism: A Journal of History and Economics, 3(1), 106-135. https://doi.org/10.1353/cap.2022.0003

This essay extends current analysis of the relationship between charity and capitalism by examining one charity's engagement with financial capitalism. The Salvation Army, established in 1878, transformed charity-run financial services from a welfare... Read More about Banking for Jesus: Financial Services, Charity, and an Ethical Economy in Late Victorian and Edwardian Britain.

When John met Benny: class, pets and family life in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain (2021)
Journal Article
Strange, J.-M. (2021). When John met Benny: class, pets and family life in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain. The History of the Family, 26(2), 214-235. https://doi.org/10.1080/1081602x.2021.1897028

Histories of human-animal companionship have expanded in recent years but studies of British pet keeping prior to the twentieth century have been skewed towards the middle and upper classes. Such models risk establishing middle-class values and pract... Read More about When John met Benny: class, pets and family life in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain.

The Charity Market and Humanitarianism in Britain, 1870-1912 (2018)
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Roddy, S., Strange, J.-M., & Taithe, B. (2018). The Charity Market and Humanitarianism in Britain, 1870-1912. Bloomsbury

The Invention of the Modern Dog: Breed and Blood in Victorian Britain (2018)
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Worboys, M., Strange, J.-M., & Pemberton, N. (2018). The Invention of the Modern Dog: Breed and Blood in Victorian Britain. Johns Hopkins University Press

Fatherhood and the British Working Class, 1865–1914 (2015)
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Strange, J.-M. (2015). Fatherhood and the British Working Class, 1865–1914. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781316027059

Fatherhood, providing and attachment in late-Victorian and Edwardian working-class families (2012)
Journal Article
Strange, J.-M. (2012). Fatherhood, providing and attachment in late-Victorian and Edwardian working-class families. Historical Journal, 55(4), 1007-1027. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x12000404

'She cried a very little': Death, grief and mourning in working-class culture, c . 1880-1914 (2002)
Journal Article
Strange, J.-M. (2002). 'She cried a very little': Death, grief and mourning in working-class culture, c . 1880-1914. Social History, 27(2), 143-161. https://doi.org/10.1080/03071020210128373

Working-class attitudes towards death and bereavement in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain have overwhelmingly been discussed in terms of the respectable and the pauper funeral. Analyses of the culture of grief (that is, the emotional responses of... Read More about 'She cried a very little': Death, grief and mourning in working-class culture, c . 1880-1914.

Menstrual fictions: languages of medicine and menstruation, c. 1850–1930 (2000)
Journal Article
Strange, J.-M. (2000). Menstrual fictions: languages of medicine and menstruation, c. 1850–1930. Women's History Review, 9(3), 607-628. https://doi.org/10.1080/09612020000200260

Gynaecological narratives of menstruation in the late nineteenth century placed woman firmly within the orbit of domesticity by virtue of her biology. In the rhetoric of medical ‘truths’, menstruation was defined as a ‘ldisability’, a physical ‘illne... Read More about Menstrual fictions: languages of medicine and menstruation, c. 1850–1930.