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Barbara's Daughters: Women's Boxing and Social Memory in Britain

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract A pioneer of post‐war boxing, Barbara Buttrick fought in fairgrounds and on music‐hall stages in Britain and France before making a career in the United States during the 1950s. She fought against practical obstacles, prejudice and discrimination to become the Women's World Flyweight and Bantamweight Champion in 1957. This article examines her
Matthew Taylor
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Reimagining Book History Creatively for Twenty‐First‐Century Publishing Students

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Teaching book history to twenty‐first‐century publishing students often proves a delightful challenge as some grapple with appreciating how this history is relevant to not only their pursuit of a career in the publishing industry but also the publishing industry generally.
Jocelyn Hargrave
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‘The Girls Themselves Are Deluded into Thinking That This Sort of Football Was Sport’: Exploring the Development of Women's Football in Interwar Scotland

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract The First World War brought with it many new opportunities for women, amongst them the chance to play football. The game became popular and an important way of raising funds for charity. However, when the war ended, there was a push to return to the pre‐war social order, which ended many of the activities women had enjoyed for the duration of ...
FIONA SKILLEN
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The ‘Great Frost’ of 1708–9 in Britain and the Condescensions of Posterity

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores the ‘great frost’ of 1709 and its impact on economic life in Britain, challenging a popular view that, based on gross domestic product (GDP) estimates, it was catastrophic. It shows that the annual GDP figures for the period have such wide error margins that they cannot establish the scale of the disruption; that the ...
Julian Hoppit
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THE URBANOLOGISTS COME TO TOWN: Professional Life and Work in the Urban Solutions Industry

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article charts the upsurge of an eclectic global community of professionals new to the field of urban policy and governance, animated by playful and celebratory attitudes towards cities and urbanization: the urbanologists. It contributes to debates in critical urban theory and critical ethnographies of technology to problematize ...
Rachel Bok
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