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The agency of a marmalade machine: Gender, class and mechanical gadgets in the British Kitchen, c.1870–1938

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores the marmalade machine, a mechanical device designed to slice orange peel. These niche objects were manufactured between roughly 1870 and 1938 in Britain. As a so‐called ‘labour‐saving’ gadget, the marmalade machine sliced orange peel quickly and effectively, removing the tedious process of slicing orange peel by hand ...
Katie Carpenter
wiley   +1 more source

First evidence of bronze production in the Iron Age I southern Levant: A direct link to the Arabah copper polity. [PDF]

PLoS One
Eshel T, Bornstein Y, Bermatov-Paz G, Bar S.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Civility, honour and male aggression in early modern English jestbooks

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article discusses the comical representation of inter‐male violence within early modern English jestbooks. It is based on a rigorous survey of the genre, picking out common themes and anecdotes, as well as discussing their reception and sociable functions. Previous scholarship has focused on patriarchs, subversive youths and impoliteness.
Tim Somers
wiley   +1 more source

Regional disparities in US media coverage of archaeology research. [PDF]

Sci Adv
Alex B, Ji J, Flad R.
europepmc   +1 more source

Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
wiley   +1 more source

Navigating the Narrative: Integrating Traditional Knowledge and Embodied Practice within Computational Models of Ancient Seafaring. [PDF]

J Marit Archaeol
Farr H, Bérard B, Genz J, Leidwanger J, Slayton E.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Disability, Gender and Segregation in the Britain–Australia Convict System

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article assesses the gendered experiences of disability and segregation among prisoners in colonial (1830s) New South Wales. I use the distinction between impairment and disability from the ‘social model of disability’ to show that the disabling capacities of impairments varied depending on wider social structures and beliefs, and on each
Emily Cock
wiley   +1 more source

Multidisciplinary study of human remains from the 3rd century mass grave in the Roman city of Mursa, Croatia. [PDF]

PLoS One
Novak M, Yavuz OE, Carić M, Filipović S, Posth C.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
wiley   +1 more source

Strontium and oxygen isotope analysis reveals changing connections to place and group membership in the world's earliest village societies. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Plug JH, Blevins KE, Abbès F, Akkermans PMMG, Bach Gómez AM, Chambrade ML, Chamel B, Coqueugniot E, Molist M, Orange M, van der Plicht J, Galata S, Nowell G, Montgomery J, Pearson J, Fernández-Domínguez E.   +15 more
europepmc   +1 more source