Northern History, Volume 60, Issue 2 (2023)

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Editorial
Gordon Forster Essay Prize 2023
Page: 143
Published online: 18 Jun 2023
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Gordon Forster Essay Prize
Vanessa Wright
Page: 144
Published online: 07 Sep 2023
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Thomas Denton’s Perambulation: Two Counties, Three Kingdoms, and Four Nations History?
Euan David McArthur
Pages: 145-167
Published online: 01 Aug 2023
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‘The Dignity that May Clothe a Tradesman’s Life’: Joseph Mayer and Antiquarian Patronage in Nineteenth-Century England
Bonnie Effros & Hannah Schofield-Lea
Pages: 168-202
Published online: 22 Mar 2023
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The Coroner and the Medical Profession in Victorian Newcastle Upon Tyne ‘… Antagonism and Offence Towards the Medical Profession Such as has Rarely Been Exhibited.’
Helen J Rutherford
Pages: 203-226
Published online: 04 Jul 2023
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Policemen and Their Moustaches: (Self-)Fashioning Professional Identity in Nineteenth Century Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
Clare Sandford-Couch
Pages: 227-249
Published online: 01 May 2023
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Rethinking Ripon: Cuthbert’s Tonsure and Northumbrian Ecclesiastical Geography
A. Joseph McMullen
Pages: 250-261
Published online: 30 Aug 2023
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Book Review
JANE GRENVILLE and NIKOLAUS PEVSNER, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The North Riding
(London and New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2023. £45. 815 + xxii pp. ISBN: 9780300259032).
Adrian Green
Pages: 262-264
Published online: 30 Aug 2023
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J.P.T. SLEVIN (ed.), L. LOCKYER (trans.), The History of Alfred of Beverley
(Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2023. £85. lxxviii + 197 pp. ISBN: 9781783274888)
David Crouch
Pages: 264-265
Published online: 10 May 2023
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DAVID CROOK, Robin Hood: Legend and Reality
(Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2020. £65. 312 pages. ISBN: 9781783275434)
Adrian Jobson
Pages: 265-267
Published online: 07 Apr 2023
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DAVID ASQUITH and CHRISTOPHER J. WATSON (eds.), Wakefield Court Roll 1439–40 and Accounts 1265–66
(Leeds: Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society, 2021. £20 [pbk]. 182 + xviii pp. ISBN: 9781916506664)
Jeremy Goldberg
Pages: 267-269
Published online: 09 Jun 2023
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M. BAZLEY (ed.), An Edition of the Accounts of the Manor of Bickley, Cheshire, 1395–1465
(Manchester: Chetham Society, vol. 56, 2022. £39.95. viii + 219 pp. ISBN: 978-0-9554276-9-5; ISSN: 0080-0880)
Phillipp Schofield
Pages: 269-270
Published online: 09 Jul 2023
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DAVID CROUCH (ed.), The Metham Family Cartulary: Reconstructed from Antiquarian Transcripts
(Woodbridge: The Boydell Press for Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society Record Series, Vol. 167, 2022. £30 [hardback]. 384 pp. ISBN: 9781916506633)
Jenny M. McHugh
Pages: 271-272
Published online: 22 Jun 2023
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KATE GILES, The Wall Paintings of Pickering Church: Their Discovery, Restoration and Meaning
(Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2022. £20 [clothbound]. viii + 200 pp. and 62 colour ills. ISBN: 978-1-915774-01-9)
Julian Luxford
Pages: 272-274
Published online: 12 Jun 2023
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PETER ROEBUCK, Cattle Droving: Scotland & Ireland through Cumbria to the South
(Carlisle: Bookcase, 2022. £15.00. 249 pp. ISBN: 9781912181544).
Michael Winstanley
Pages: 274-275
Published online: 25 May 2023
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ALUN C. DAVIES, The Rise and Decline of England’s Watchmaking Industry, 1550–1930
(Abingdon: Routledge, 2022. £130 [hbk]. 414 pp. ISBN: 9781032131344)
Emily Akkermans
Pages: 276-277
Published online: 09 Jul 2023
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SOPHIE VASSET, Murky Waters: British Spas in Eighteenth-Century Medicine and Literature
(Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2022. £85 (hbk). ix + 290 pages. ISBN: 978 1 5261 5971 7).
Jennifer Wallis
Pages: 278-279
Published online: 07 Apr 2023
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JONATHAN OATES, Anti-Jacobitism and the English People, 1714–1746
(Abingdon: Routledge, 2023. £130 [hbk]. 280 pp. ISBN: 9780367634032)
Kirsteen M. MacKenzie
Pages: 279-281
Published online: 09 Jun 2023
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PETER COLLINGE and LOUISE FALCINI (eds), Providing for the Poor: The Old Poor Law, 1750–1834
(London: University of London Press, 2022. £24.99 [pbk]; free [open access download]. 239 pages. ISBN: 9781914477119).
Peter Jones
Pages: 281-283
Published online: 11 May 2023
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MICHAEL PEARSON AND IAN D. HODKINSON (eds), The Dark Path to Knowledge: The Autobiography of John Gough of Kendal (1757–1825), ‘Blind Philosopher’ and Polymath
(Kendal: Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society Tract Series, Vol. 29, 2021. £15. 140 pp. ISBN: 9781873124895).
Benjamin Wardhaugh
Pages: 283-285
Published online: 16 Apr 2023
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PETER BOUGHTON and IAN DUNN, George Cuitt (1779–1854) – ‘England’s Piranesi’: His Life and Work and a Catalogue Raisonné of His Etchings
(Chester: University of Chester Press, 2022. £35. ISBN: 978-1-910481-07-3)
Martin Hopkinson
Pages: 285-287
Published online: 31 Jan 2023
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JAMES MOORE, High Culture and Tall Chimneys: Art Institutions and Urban Society in Lancashire, 1780–1914
(Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018. £85 [hbk] and £25 [pbk]. 336 pp. ISBN: 978-1-7849-9147-0).
Abigail Harrison Moore
Pages: 287-289
Published online: 07 Jun 2023
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PETER BREARS, Traditional Food in the South Pennines
(Hebden Bridge History Society Occasional Publication No. 12, 2022. £11.99. 262 pp. ISBN: 978-0-9933920-7-8)
Annie Gray
Pages: 289-291
Published online: 27 Jun 2023
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ALAN BROOKE, Nature’s Missionary: Seth Lister Mosley – Naturalist, Museum Curator and Mystic 1848–1929 (Huddersfield: Huddersfield Local History Society, 2022. £15 [paperback]. 264 pages [Inc. 16 pages of full-colour plates]. ISBN: 9780992984151)
Matthew Holmes
Pages: 291-293
Published online: 07 May 2023
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STEPHEN CATTERALL and KEITH GILDART, Keeping the Faith: A History of Northern Soul
(Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020. £85 [Hardcover]. 307 pp. ISBN: 978-0-7190-9710-2).
Nabeel Zuberi
Pages: 293-295
Published online: 29 Aug 2023
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