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From Skinned Cats to Angels in Fur: Feline Traces and the Start of the Cat-Human Relationship in Victorian England
This article focuses on the changing status of cats from various backgrounds during the nineteenth century in Britain. Although the introduction of initial animal welfare legislation improved the relative condition of some forms of cattle and horses, cats continued in the early decades to be skinned and tortured. By analysing both court and newspaper reports, as well as parliamentary procedures, the lives of a range of cats were being started to be changed later in the nineteenth century. Further, the impact of eating different types of food over time also influenced cats. The issuing of manuals on cat welfare, as well as analysis of cats’ employment in different institutions, led to additional perspectives on cats. By the late nineteenth century cats started to be regarded in far more positive ways than those who were treated badly many years before.
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People, Historians, and Public History: Demystifying the Process of History Making
This article discusses the experience of teaching public history at Ruskin College, Oxford since 1996 to consider debates on the role of the “historian” and “the public.” Drawing on ideas of Rosenzweig and Thelen as well as Samuel, this explores approaches to public history adopted within the M.A. program at the College. It develops themes raised in the collectionPeople and their Pasts: Public History Todayto consider the concept of furthering historical understanding based on common experiences and breaking down rigid distinctions between “the historian” and “the public.” The article describes practical approaches adopted in the teaching of public history and draws on other examples, such as the television program,Who Do You Think You Are?
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Making History in Bethnal Green: Different Stories of Nineteenth‐Century Silk Weavers
Standard economic histories dealing with the silk‐weaving industry in nineteenth‐century Spitalfields and Bethnal Green have conventionally told of a slow and terminal decline. These accounts have also informed and reflected influential social and cultural histories of East London that tell similar tales of a community experiencing massive discontinuity, deprivation and decay. This article critically examines such narratives by developing the authors' recent study of census returns for a number of streets in a small area of nineteenth‐century Bethnal Green and augmenting them through detailed readings of a range of other contemporary institutional and administrative records for the same area. From these materials the authors have been able to construct an intriguing series of individual and family stories, many of which tend to challenge and disrupt much that has been written about the area and its inhabitants. Rather than endorsing conventional accounts of industrial decline, demographic instability and social dislocation, these new narratives often depict a highly cohesive and stable community, with strong social and cultural ties and traditions, and a remarkable consistency in both its employment and geographical attachment. The authors suggest that their approach provides a basis for constructing new maps and stories of lives in nineteenth‐century Bethnal Green. In a more general sense, the article also demonstrates how relatively under‐utilized materials such as the census can be used imaginatively and creatively in constructing narratives of communities and areas in the past.
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