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Professor Julie-Marie Strange's Outputs (22)

Pet Revolution: Animals and the Making of Modern British Life (2023)
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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)
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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)
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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.

Humanitarian accountability, bureaucracy, and self‐regulation: the view from the archive (2015)
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Roddy, S., Strange, J., & Taithe, B. (2015). Humanitarian accountability, bureaucracy, and self‐regulation: the view from the archive. Disasters, 39(s2), s188-s203. https://doi.org/10.1111/disa.12153

This paper contains a systematic exploration of local and national archives and sources relevant to charities and humanitarian fund appeals of the late Victorian and Edwardian eras (1870–1912) in Great Britain. It shows that the charitable world and... Read More about Humanitarian accountability, bureaucracy, and self‐regulation: the view from the archive.

The Charity-Mongers of Modern Babylon: Bureaucracy, Scandal, and the Transformation of the Philanthropic Marketplace, c.1870–1912 (2015)
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Roddy, S., Strange, J.-M., & Taithe, B. (2015). The Charity-Mongers of Modern Babylon: Bureaucracy, Scandal, and the Transformation of the Philanthropic Marketplace, c.1870–1912. Journal of British Studies, 54(1), 118-137. https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2014.163

This essay sheds new light on the supposedly familiar world of Victorian philanthropy by considering charity in relation to market regulation. Focusing on the “charity fraud,” we suggest that in the shaping of this exclusive and paradoxical marketpla... Read More about The Charity-Mongers of Modern Babylon: Bureaucracy, Scandal, and the Transformation of the Philanthropic Marketplace, c.1870–1912.

Henry Mayhew at 200 – the ‘Other’ Victorian Bicentenary (2014)
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Roddy, S., Strange, J.-M., & Taithe, B. (2014). Henry Mayhew at 200 – the ‘Other’ Victorian Bicentenary. Journal of Victorian Culture, 19(4), 481-496. https://doi.org/10.1080/13555502.2014.968362

The New Agenda introduction puts forward the case for a much-needed revision of the scholarship devoted to Henry Mayhew – journalist and wit, playwright, co-founder of Punch, educational writer, novelist for children, travel writer, hack, social expl... Read More about Henry Mayhew at 200 – the ‘Other’ Victorian Bicentenary.

British Family Life, 1780–1914, Volume 5 (2013)
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Nelson, C., Strange, J.-M., & Egenolf, S. B. (2013). British Family Life, 1780–1914, Volume 5. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003112716

The five volumes of this collection focus on various aspects of family life. Drawing on rare printed sources and archival material, this collection will provide a balanced, contextualized picture of family life, during a period of intense social chan... Read More about British Family Life, 1780–1914, Volume 5.

Fatherhood, furniture and the inter-personal dynamics of working-class homes,c. 1870–1914 (2013)
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Strange, J.-M. (2013). Fatherhood, furniture and the inter-personal dynamics of working-class homes,c. 1870–1914. Urban History, 40(2), 271-286. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0963926813000060

Drawing on life stories, this article considers the relationship between urban working-class men and domesticity. Focusing on the spaces, objects and rites of men's homecoming, it questions perceptions of working-class men as peripheral to the inter-... Read More about Fatherhood, furniture and the inter-personal dynamics of working-class homes,c. 1870–1914.

In Full Possession of Her Powers: Researching and Rethinking Menopause in early Twentieth-century England and Scotland (2012)
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Strange, J.-M. (2012). In Full Possession of Her Powers: Researching and Rethinking Menopause in early Twentieth-century England and Scotland. Social History of Medicine, 25(3), 685-700. https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkr170

This essay examines the attempts by the Medical Women's Federation, founded in 1917, to challenge a medical narrative of menopausal malaise. A survey begun in 1926 of 1,000 women's menopausal experience concluded that, contrary to dominant paradigms... Read More about In Full Possession of Her Powers: Researching and Rethinking Menopause in early Twentieth-century England and Scotland.

Tramp: Sentiment and the Homeless Man in the Late-Victorian and Edwardian City (2011)
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Strange, J.-M. (2011). Tramp: Sentiment and the Homeless Man in the Late-Victorian and Edwardian City. Journal of Victorian Culture, 16(2), 242-258. https://doi.org/10.1080/13555502.2011.589683

The recent rehabilitation of sentiment as a topic worthy of scholarly engagement tends to focus on the work of Adam Smith and early to mid-Victorian visual and literary cultures. Focusing on the League of Welldoers, a Liverpool charity that catered f... Read More about Tramp: Sentiment and the Homeless Man in the Late-Victorian and Edwardian City.

Where Angels Fear to Tread: Academics, Public Engagement and Popular History (2010)
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Davies, A., & Strange, J.-M. (2010). Where Angels Fear to Tread: Academics, Public Engagement and Popular History. Journal of Victorian Culture, 15(2), 268-279. https://doi.org/10.1080/13555502.2010.491663

Academic researchers are under growing pressure to disseminate their scholarship and demonstrate its impact beyond the academy. In Australia, Europe and the UK, higher education and research councils are taking increasing account of knowledge exchang... Read More about Where Angels Fear to Tread: Academics, Public Engagement and Popular History.

Death, Grief and Poverty in Britain, 1870–1914 (2005)
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Strange, J.-M. (2005). Death, Grief and Poverty in Britain, 1870–1914. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511496080

With high mortality rates, it has been assumed that the poor in Victorian and Edwardian Britain did not mourn their dead. Contesting this approach, Julie-Marie Strange studies the expression of grief among the working class, demonstrating that povert... Read More about Death, Grief and Poverty in Britain, 1870–1914.

‘Tho’ lost to sight, to memory dear’: pragmatism, sentimentality and working-class attitudes towards the grave, c.1875-1914 (2003)
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Strange, J.-M. (2003). ‘Tho’ lost to sight, to memory dear’: pragmatism, sentimentality and working-class attitudes towards the grave, c.1875-1914. Mortality, 8(2), 144-159. https://doi.org/10.1080/1357627031000087398

This essay explores the significance of the grave within working-class cultures of death and bereavement. Drawing on little-used municipal burial board records from the northwest of England, it analyses a culture of trading in grave space alongside t... Read More about ‘Tho’ lost to sight, to memory dear’: pragmatism, sentimentality and working-class attitudes towards the grave, c.1875-1914.

'She cried a very little': Death, grief and mourning in working-class culture, c . 1880-1914 (2002)
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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.