Young Criminal Lives is the first cradle-to-grave study of the experiences of some of the
thousands of delinquent, difficult and destitute children passing through the early English …

Examining nineteenth-century British hymns for children, Alisa Clapp-Itnyre argues that the
unique qualities of children's hymnody created a space for children's empowerment. Unlike …

This article interrogates historiographical debates over discipline and charity in the penal
reform era. We cannot evaluate philanthropy solely in terms of class discipline or …

Reading has changed with consumer adoption of digital technologies, and its changes are
many: from the new ways in which users of such technologies can now access texts to the …

Focusing on the interaction between teachers and scholars, this book provides an intimate
account of" ragged schools" that challenges existing scholarship on evangelical child-saving …

This article explores the education ragged schools imparted in the mid-nineteenth century. It
argues that the ragged school movement filled an important need within communities …

The abstract for your paper is included below. This will appear online only. After a briefly
prominent career in Chartism, Robert Kemp Philp (1819–82) became one of the most widely …

Drawing together a range of visual and textual materials, this thesis explores the multiple
social, political and cultural meanings of the workhouse in the period 1834-1900. Chapter …

This thesis examines the fascinating and complex body of work surrounding the missionary
hero as a product of late imperial ideas of the heroic produced in the form of biography. It will …

Book thieves were a familiar figure to the reading public of Australia and other English-
speaking nations during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Their exploits were …