‘Nicely Feminine, Yet Learned’: Student Rooms at Royal Holloway and the Oxford and Cambridge Colleges in Late Nineteenth‐Century Britain

Hamlett, Jane

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“…This has included the publication of pieces on how women's rooms and accommodation were styled, how these students and their lifestyles were portrayed in the press, the specific women's cultures that developed at these colleges, as well as the role of the female student in popular society -namely the «Girton Girl» who, according to Petra Clark, «epitomized a domain of female freedom where young women had the power to control their own surroundings»". 73 This has also been supported by the launch of a digital archive project at Oxford University titled «Education and activism: women at Oxford, 1878-1920» which has currently digitised over 7000 archival images from the records of the former women's colleges at the university (Lady Margaret Hall, Somerville, St Anne's, St Hilda's and St Hugh's), including admissions records, annual reports, calendars, photographs, scrapbooks, minutes and letters. 74 This material will undeniably change the way we understand women's education in Oxford and will offer researchers the opportunity to delve more closely in the unique experiences of women at these colleges.…”

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Research Perspectives on Students in Britain and Ireland, 1800-1945

Sharp

2022

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Historians of Britain and Ireland have long been interested in universities and students. They have acknowledged the importance of these institutions and individuals within the history of elites, the history of the state, intellectual history, the history of science, of social movements and of politics and political thought. Yet, for many years much of this research has centred around higher education institutions themselves rather than the student body that they cater for. Following the expansion of the higher education sector and the growth of the student movement in the 1960s the quantity and quality of literature on British and Irish students, rather than the institutions that they studied at, has grown substantially and has become a burgeoning historical field. This article surveys the development of this historiography and the key research perspectives on students in Britain and Ireland from 1800-1945, focusing on five thematic areas: student culture, student representation and politics, student life during war, students race and empire, and student women - to track the progress, development and connections between the different strands of this historiography over the past fifty years and to offer insights into potential avenues for further research.

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“…The masculine world of the late Victorian and Edwardian gentleman's club is examined by Milne‐Smith, who argues that, far from embodying a flight from domesticity, as is often suggested, clubs served many of the functions of a home, for both single and married men. In a prize‐winning essay, Hamlett investigates the decoration of student rooms at Royal Holloway and Oxbridge colleges in the late nineteenth century, finding many similarities between men's and women's rooms, and in particular a willingness among men to adopt ‘feminine’ decoration. Webb examines the Girls’ Best Friend , a Harmsworth magazine, in the 1890s, showing how it promoted gender roles among its readers, albeit in a ‘confusing and contradictory’ way.…”

Section: (V) 1850–1945 Mark Freeman and Julian Greaves University Of mentioning

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The Economic History Review

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Early Anglo-Saxon settlement sites have been revealed by several excavations. Dickens et al. report a substantial village and associated cemetery at Bloodmoor Hill, Suffolk. Finds included evidence for textile manufacture, but not specialist commodity production; occupation appears to have ceased in the late seventh or early eighth century. The settlement at Gamlingay, Cambridgeshire, published by Murray and McDonald, yielded an enclosed farmstead and cemetery, both in use until c.800. Evidence for textile production and the presence of Ipswich ware suggests the site's participation in an active trading network. Wright, on Orton Waterville, Peterborough, reports a long-lived settlement generating relatively modest material remains. The site at Shepperton, Middlesex, described by Poulton, appears to have been regularly laid out in the later Anglo-Saxon period, replacing a flourishing earlier settlement. Parallel ditches point to the 'toft and croft' arrangement of medieval villages.Debate continues over early population movement. Casting doubt on the historicity of Irish migration to western Britain in the fourth or fifth centuries, Dark postulates the pre-existing presence there of spoken Irish. This would contrast with the evidence for Anglo-Saxon migration, particularly to 'Anglian' areas, considered more secure. Bartholemew offers grounds for identifying 'Angulus', Continental homeland of the Angli described by Bede, as modern Frisia. Possible connections with Procopius's account, usually treated with scepticism, might suggest Frisia as the starting-point for a substantial part of the Anglo-Saxon migration into Britain. Addressing the subject of river-names, generally considered a good indicator of Anglo-Saxon displacement in lowland areas, Yeates offers evidence from the Cotswolds area showing the loss of Brittonic river-names occurring over a far longer period.Though not necessarily incompatible with the orthodox view, this may suggest a greater survival of Brittonic nomenclature originally in the west.In funerary archaeology, Hamerow explores the 'special' deposition of human and animal remains within areas of occupation. The relatively high percentage of dogs and horses, together with cattle, strengthens the impression of ritualistic activity, possibly directed towards fertility, while an association with sunken-featured buildings would make sense if such structures had been used for storage. Reconstructing the ritual of human cremation, Williams places the deceased body at the centre of an elaborate visual spectacle. Rather than a mourner-centred approach to interpretation, the body itself may have had some agency in a complex interrelationship between the living and the dead. Chester-Kadwell, evaluating metal-detector finds in Norfolk, suggests that if used carefully these can supplement the existing corpus of known early cemeteries. Lee's study of textile evidence in funerary contexts shows its value not only in relation to gender but also as an indicator of social status. The model of a 'final phase' o...

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“…Such an approach would reflect on the methods and processes of production but also factors such as patronage; she asks, “Under whose auspices was this photograph produced?” (Jordanova, p. 96) 28. For historian Jane Hamlett, “A criticism of a photograph should include the analysis of composition, an attempt to link the photograph to other records and to situate it within the genre in which it was produced” (Hamlett, p. 139) 42. For an analysis of patient photographs, this involves close content analysis of the subject of the photo, consideration of the photograph within the surrounding text that could be case notes, textbook content or captions and situating it within photographic portraiture, medical photography and medical practice more generally.…”

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‘She sits all day in the attitude depicted in the photo’: photography and the psychiatric patient in the late nineteenth century

Rawling

2017

Med Humanities

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The links between mental state and art in all its various forms and media have long been of interest to historians, critics, artists, patients, and doctors. Photographs of patients constitute an extensive but largely unexplored archive that can be used to recover patient experience in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century. The camera and the photograph became tools to communicate information about mental ill health between doctors, their patients, and their colleagues. They were published in textbooks and journals, exhibited, exchanged, and pasted into medical case books alongside case notes. But they were also used by patients to communicate their own experiences, identity, and sense of self. This article uses published and case book photographs from c. to examine the networks of communication between different stakeholders and discourses.

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‘Nicely Feminine, Yet Learned’: Student Rooms at Royal Holloway and the Oxford and Cambridge Colleges in Late Nineteenth‐Century Britain

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Research Perspectives on Students in Britain and Ireland, 1800-1945

Research Perspectives on Students in Britain and Ireland, 1800-1945

Review of periodical literature published in 2006

‘She sits all day in the attitude depicted in the photo’: photography and the psychiatric patient in the late nineteenth century

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