Academic staff

Undergraduate

• U67779 Making Men: masculinities in England 1700-1918 (Third Year)
• U67723 Culture, Community and Family (Second Year)

Postgraduate

• P67501 Key Concepts and Methods for Humanities Research in History

Professor Joanne Begiato is a historian of early modern, Georgian and Victorian Britain, with particular interests in marriage, marriage breakdown, family relationships, the domestic economy, parenting, masculinities, and identities. She is fascinated by the ways in which people encountered their material and emotional worlds and draws on a range of different types of primary sources to investigate them, from the printed word, to visual images, to objects and spaces.

She recently completed Manliness in Britain 1760-1900: Bodies, Emotions, and Material Culture, which will be published by Manchester University Press in 2020. This book uses the concept of emotionalised bodies and material culture to explain how ideas about manliness and unmanliness were constructed, disseminated, sustained, and fixed in individuals and society.

Her book Sex and the Church in England 1688-1832, co-authored with Professor William Gibson was published by I B Tauris early in 2017. It reassesses the role of the Anglican Church in ideas about sex, its discipline, and its practice.

Joanne published Parenting in England c.1760-1830: emotions, self-identity and generation in 2012. See a review here. This study traces parenting both as a concept and a mode of being in an era marked by the cultures of Sensibility and Romanticism. The golden thread connecting these movements was the expression of emotion and this research therefore analyses the interplay between practices, feelings and ideas during a period of change in ideas about childhood, family, gender and self.

Her first monograph was Unquiet Lives: marriage and marriage breakdown in England 1660-1800 (CUP, 2003, re-issued in paperback in January 2009). See a review of this book.

In addition Joanne has published numerous articles on topics as diverse as nostalgia and the family, changes in embodied manliness through the long nineteenth century, depictions of the Jack Tar, representations and experiences of fatherhood and masculinity, the role of space and material culture in constructing domestic violence, pauper parenting, the relationship between memories of parents and the formation of personal identity, married women's experience of coverture and an analysis of the use of church court records as an historical source. She has also published chapters in edited collections on the emotions of pregnancy, the links betweeen unmanliness and bodily and mental decline, dysfunctional family life, and many other aspects of family, gender, and material culture.

Books

• Begiato J, Manliness in Britain 1760-1900: Bodies, Emotions, and Material Culture, Manchester University Press (2020)
  
• Lobban M, Begiato J, Green A, Ed., Law, Lawyers and Litigants in Early Modern England: Essays in memory of Christopher W. Brooks, Cambridge University Press (2019)
  
• Brown M, Barry A, Begiato J, Ed., Martial Masculinities: Experiencing and Imagining the Military in the long Nineteenth Century, Manchester University Press (2019)
  ISBN: 9781526135629 eISBN: 9781526135643
  Abstract

  This collection explores the role of martial masculinities in shaping nineteenth-century British culture and society in a period framed by two of the greatest wars the world had ever known. It offers a fresh, interdisciplinary perspective on an emerging field of study and draws on historical, literary, visual and musical sources to demonstrate the centrality of the military and its masculine dimensions in the shaping of Victorian and Edwardian personal and national identities. Focusing on both the experience of military service and its imaginative forms, it examines such topics as bodies and habits, families and domesticity, heroism and chivalry, religion and militarism, and youth and fantasy. This collection will be required reading for anyone interested in the cultures of war and masculinity in the long nineteenth century.
  

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• Begiato J, Gibson W, Sex and the Church in the long eighteenth century: religion, enlightenment and the sexual revolution, I B Tauris (2017)
  ISBN: 9781784533779
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• Bailey J, Parenting in England, 1760-1830: emotion, identity and generation, Oxford University Press (2012)
  ISBN: 9780199565191 eISBN: 9780191740664
  Abstract Parenting in England is the first study of the world of parenting in late Georgian England. The author, Joanne Bailey, traces ideas about parenthood in a Christian society that was responding to new cultural trends of sensibility, romanticism and domesticity, along with Enlightenment ideas about childhood and self. All these shaped how people, from the poor to the genteel, thought about themselves as parents, and remembered their own parents.Website 
• Begiato J, Ed., Unquiet lives: marriage and marriage breakdown in England, 1660-1800, Cambridge University Press (2009)
  ISBN: 9780521093118 eISBN: 9780511495670
  Abstract Based on vivid court records and newspaper advertisements, this 2003 book is a pioneering account of the expectations and experiences of married life among the middle and labouring ranks in the long eighteenth century. Its original methodology draws attention to the material life of marriage, which has long been dominated by theories of emotional shifts or fashionable accounts of spouses' gendered, oppositional lives. Thus it challenges preconceptions about authority in the household, by showing the extent to which husbands depended upon their wives' vital economic activities: household management and child care. Not only did this forge co-dependency between spouses, it undermined men's autonomy. The power balance within marriage is further revised by evidence that the sexual double standard was not rigidly applied in everyday life. The book also shows that ideas about adultery and domestic violence evolved in the eighteenth century, influenced by new models of masculinity and femininity.Website 

Journal articles

• Begiato J, 'Selfhood and "Nostalgia:" Sensory and Material Memories of the Childhood House in late Georgian Britain'
  Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies (2019)
  ISSN: 1754-0194 eISSN: 1754-0208
  Abstract

  Focusing on autobiographies written from the 1790s to the 1820s, this article demonstrates that material, emotional, and sensorial memories of the childhood house and its location were integral to constructions of self. Firstly, it traces the interplay between prevailing cultural forms, family memory, and identity, and proposes that these changed over time, shaped by cultural, social and economic factors. Secondly, in analysing these personal memories, it contributes to the debates around the meanings of the ‘emotional disposition’ of nostalgia, arguing that it was central to the formation of both national culture and individual selfhood.
  

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• Begiato J, 'Beyond the rule of thumb: the materiality of marital violence in England, c.1700-1857'
  Cultural and Social History 15 (1) (2017) pp.39-59
  ISSN: 1478-0038 eISSN: 1478-0046
  Abstract Marital violence is profoundly shaped by the material world. Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century court cases catalogue abusive husbands’ use of dwellings and domestic objects to imprison, beat, threaten, and intimidate their wives. Print culture from this era similarly viewed wife beating in material terms. The author of ‘Overcrowded Dwellings’ (1857) for example, linked cheap, poor quality houses to domestic violence. Cramped and dirty, the ‘male portions of the households dislike the appearance and the noisomeness of their room, and they stop at the parlour of the public house.’ Their wives followed suit or became slatterns; the result ‘a perpetual motion of a moral and immoral character,’ expressed in marital violence.  This article contends that investigating the materiality of marital abuse through its articulation in and around particular places, spaces, and objects focuses our attention upon its intensely visceral dimensions, exposing the human suffering at its centre. It also adopts the conceptual premise that spaces and objects are ‘actants,’ a term coined by the theorist Bruno Latour ‘to describe anything that has agency (and for Latour, everything does).’  Thus, the article explores the patriarchal tensions embedded in the physical structure of the household and its control, arguing that space and objects shaped marital violence both as an act and an idea. Moreover, it proposes that the material culture of marital abuse performed 'emotional work' in the sense that it acted upon people’s perceptions, influencing social and cultural constructions of wife beating across the period. Website 
• Begiato J, 'Between poise and power: embodied manliness in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British culture'
  Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 26 (2016) pp.125-147
  ISSN: 0080-4401 eISSN: 1474-0648
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  This article explores representations of the manly body and the ways in which its relationship with masculine identity and embodied selfhood changed over time and class. It spans a period in which different types of masculinities were dominant, from the later eighteenth-century man of feeling to the later nineteenth-century muscular Christian, and proposes that an embodied approach offers a more nuanced consideration of the ways in which ideals of masculinity were culturally viewed and utilised. First, it provides a chronology of the manner in which the ideal manly body changed over the two centuries, demonstrating that abstract masculine values were always rooted in male bodies. Secondly, it proposes that although most idealised masculine identities were elite, attention to the more corporeal aspects of gender offers evidence that there were features of the manly body, for example hardness, that appealed across social ranks 1 Elite men valorised idealised working-class men’s bodies and saw in them something to emulate. Moreover, working-class men used classically-inspired figures to represent themselves when formulating class and gender identities.

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• Begiato J, 'Tears and the manly sailor in England, c. 1760–1860'
  Journal for Maritime Research 17 (2) (2015) pp.117-133
  ISSN: 2153-3369
  Abstract This article explores the apparent paradoxes in representations of the British Jack Tar in order to reconsider the ways in which his figure came to embody idealised attributes of manliness in the period 1760–1860. Naval historians have revealed that images of sailors were closely related to ideas about class, sex, and nation, identifying distinctive types of Jack Tar such as the drunken carouser, the fatalistic, fearless but simple Tar, and the domesticated family man. Notions of heroism changed over the period too. The officer was the hero in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and notions of valour only extended to the lower ranks by the mid-nineteenth century. Thus the picture is of the ordinary tar emerging as manly hero once his character was scrubbed clean of its less salubrious aspects. This article argues that there were not diverse and distinct Jack Tars successively climbing the ladder of morality over time. The tar was not sanitised and civilised, but was given feelings. In particular, tears identified the sailor as a man of feeling as well as a fearless fighter, stressing his tenderness, fidelity, duty, and self-sacrificing love for his brother sailor, his ‘Poll’, and his nation. But he still loved grog, dance, and girls. The Jack Tar was thus the everyman, which aided his popularity and democratised the manly hero.Website 
• Begiato J, 'The history of mum and dad: recent historical research on parenting in England'
  History Compass 12 (6) (2014) pp.489-507
  ISSN: 1478-0542
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• Bailey J, 'Marital cruelty: reconsidering lay attitudes in England, c.1580 to 1850'
  History of the Family 18 (3) (2013) pp.289-305
  ISSN: 1081-602X
  Abstract The mid-eighteenth century is seen as a turning point after which English legal and lay attitudes to cruelty expanded from life-threatening violence to include a wider range of behaviours. This article reconsiders this chronology of changing ideas about marital cruelty. It follows the lead of recent scholarship that challenges the thesis of a ‘civilising’ process in attitudes towards state-violence and inter-personal violence and draws on new conclusions about marital relationships, spouses' gendered roles, and early modern manhood, which complicate simplistic views of patriarchal unions. Focusing upon the full array of acts – not just life-threatening ones – discussed in cruelty cases from c. 1580 onwards, this article questions the convention that social toleration for husbands' use of violence against their wives declined from the 1750s as part of an overall civilising process.Website 
• Bailey J, 'Paternal power: the pleasures and perils of indulgent fathering in Britain in the long eighteenth century'
  History of the Family 17 (3) (2013) pp.326-342
  ISSN: 1081-602X
  Abstract Historical and literary studies have identified shifts in paternal power in Britain from authoritative and patriarchal to benign and affectionate during the long eighteenth century. This article re-examines the power of fathers through the prism of paternal indulgence with insights gained from histories of masculinities. Historians have mostly commented upon the association between indulgence and mothering, drawing particular attention to contemporary pejorative accounts of such maternity. While indulgent mothers could be blamed for spoiling their children, this term is also very revealing of attitudes towards fathers' authority. Its analysis reveals that paternal power was not transformed in the long eighteenth century and was riven with tensions. As the primary bearers of authority in the family and household, men had to coordinate tenderness and appropriate levels and types of paternal discipline with notions of manhood. Too much of either severity or indulgence damaged their children's wellbeing and future, undermined the filial bond, and injured their masculine identity. Overall, an examination of indulgent fatherhood shows that acting with tenderness and power was a burden as well as a dividend for men.Website 
• Bailey J, 'The "afterlife" of parenting: memory, parentage, and personal identity in Britain c. 1760-1830'
  Journal of Family History 35 (3) (2010) pp.249-270
  ISSN: 0363-1990 eISSN: 1552-5473
  Abstract Remembering parentage and parents in life writings in Britain c. 1760-”1830 served four functions. First, recounting parentage enabled the writer to situate himself or herself in terms of social status, personal value, and worth. Second, memories of parents helped an individual understand and make meaning of the path his or her life had taken. Third, the process was bound up with a range of emotions, which gave parents power after childhood and had repercussions and meaning throughout the writer" s life. Finally, the memories selected and accorded specific significance were often those from times of emotional crisis and disruption and recalling them may have enabled writers to impose some stability upon the insecurities of life. Overall, such memories offer insights into attitudes toward family, indicate the emotional significance of the role that parents played in their offsprings" lives from childhood to old age, and were important in the formation of personal identities.Website 
• Bailey J, '"Think wot a mother must feel" : parenting in English pauper letters c.1760-1834'
  Family and Community History 13 (1) (2010) pp.5-19
  ISSN: 1463-1180
  Abstract This article examines the representation of parenting in a series of pauper letters received by parishes in Berkshire, Hampshire, Lancashire, Oxfordshire, Northamptonshire, Shropshire, and Staffordshire. It shows that labouring parents saw themselves as thwarted providers for their children and argues that this was not a gender-specific role, but one shared by fathers and mothers. Through a close reading of the descriptive terms used to illustrate the paupers' needs as parents and their sufferings in failing to support their children, it proposes that writers called upon a rhetoric of family and benevolence that originated in the wider cultural discourse of sensibility.Website 
• Bailey J, '"A very sensible man": imagining fatherhood in England, c.1750-1830'
  History 95 (319) (2010) pp.267-292
  ISSN: 0018-2648
  Abstract Fathers are at once everywhere and nowhere in the historiography of eighteenth-century England. They interact with children in family history, bear authority in histories of women, gender and marriage, use the role to demonstrate virility, and the capacity for household mastery and citizenship in the history of masculinity, and are metaphors in political culture. Yet there is little sustained work on what constituted the key attributes of fatherhood before 1830. This article shows that the ideal father in the period c.1750 to 1830 was tenderly affectionate, sensitized and moved by babies; he provided hugs, material support and a protective guiding hand. Engrossed in his offspring to the exclusion of much else apart from his wife and national duties, he offered his children a moral example and instruction and possessed a deep understanding of his children's personalities. The genesis of this imagined fatherhood lay in fundamental eighteenth-century concerns about social, class, gender and familial relationships, and national strength. His form and the language used to describe him owed much to the combined forces of the culture of sensibility and of general Christian ideals antedating Evangelical revival.Website 
• Bailey J, 'I dye [sic] by inches: locating wife beating in the concept of a privatization of marriage and violence in eighteenth-century England'
  Social History 31 (3) (2006) pp.273-294
  ISSN: 0307-1022
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• Bailey J, 'Favoured or oppressed? : married women, property and "coverture" in England, 1660-1800'
  Continuity and Change 17 (3) (2002) pp.351-372
  ISSN: 0268-4160
  Abstract In the eighteenth century, the condition of English wives under ‘coverture’ was both defended as one of privilege and attacked as worse than slavery. This article suggests that married women were not in reality confined within coverture's regulations on credit and property ownership. Their economic activities were fairly broad and flexible and they had an instinctive sense of possession over some goods during wedlock, perceiving their contributions to marriage as a pooling of resources for familial benefit. It will be suggested that wives did not necessarily think that their conduct in acting as if some marital property was legally theirs was illegitimate, because it was facilitated by coverture and the legal devices that allowed it to function.Website 
• Bailey J, 'Voices in court: lawyers or litigants?'
  Historical Research 74 (186) (2001) pp.392-408
  ISSN: 0950-3471 eISSN: 1468-2281
  Abstract Written records of litigation lie at the heart of numerous studies of English society and culture. Although some documents appear to demonstrate individuality, historians advise that they be used cautiously since the words of litigants and deponents were filtered through the legal profession. This article uncovers the process of mediation by exploring the interaction between litigants and their legal advisers, using correspondence received by church court proctors. It reveals that some parties had an active role in their litigation and, crucially, that their own motives could obscure the reality underlying their lawsuits as much as the legal process.Website 

Book chapters

• Brown M, Begiato J, 'Visualising the aged veteran in nineteenth century Britain: Memory, masculinity and nation' in Martial Masculinities: Experiencing and Imagining the Military in the long Nineteenth Century, Manchester University Press (2019)
  ISBN: 9781526135643
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• Begiato J, '"So now you are wed enough": clandestine unions in the north-west of England in the first half of the eighteenth century' in Michael Lobban, Joanne Begiato, Adrian Green (ed.), Law, Lawyers and Litigants in Early Modern England: Essays in memory of Christopher W. Brooks, Cambridge University Press (2019)
  ISBN: 9781108491723 eISBN: 9781108754118
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• Begiato J, 'Punishing the unregulated manly body and emotions in early Victorian England' in Joanne Ella Parsons, Ruth Heholt (ed.), The Victorian Male Body, Edinburgh University Press (2018)
  ISBN: 9781474428606 eISBN: 9781474428637
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• Begiato J, 'Bearing Grudges: Marriage and the Inter-generational Family' in DiPlacidi, Jenny; Leydecker, Karl (ed.), After Marriage in the Long Eighteenth Century Literature, Law and Society, Palgrave (2018)
  ISBN: 9783319600970 eISBN: 9783319600987
  Abstract Joanne Begiato draws upon a wealth of accounts of marital experiences in eighteenth-century and early nineteenth-century correspondence, diaries and autobiography to explore conflictual marital relationships. This expands our understanding of marital conflict by shifting the focus away from the litigation records that resulted from the couple’s interaction with the law following marriage breakdown and recourse to formal separation. The chapter confirms that economic issues and lack of marital respect undermined marital relationships, as previous scholarship demonstrates, but it also reveals the significance of religious differences, temperamental clashes, and the crucial role of other family members in marriage disputes. Strikingly these informal records also show that conflict impacted the inter-generational family as well as spouses, and it could endure across generations for as long as people’s capacities to bear grudges.Website 
• Begiato J, 'Afterword. Moving Objects: Emotional Transformation, Tangibility, and Time-Travel' in Stephanie Downes, Sally Holloway, and Sarah Randles (ed.), Feeling Things: Objects and Emotions through History, Oxford University Pres (2018)
  ISBN: 9780198802648
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• Begiato J, '"Breeding" a "little stranger": perceptions of pregnancy in the Late Georgian Period' in Meehan C, Evans J (ed.), Perceptions of pregnancy from the seventeenth to the twentieth century, Palgrave Macmillan (2017)
  ISBN: 978-3319441672
  Abstract

  Pregnancy was a routine, often regular, experience for women across their childbearing years in the long eighteenth century since the majority of women wed in their mid-twenties and bore children until menopause. Pregnancy was limited only by fertility, health, and sexual abstinence before the “fertility transition”. As such pregnancy from its earliest stages to birth was a topic consistently discussed in family correspondence and diaries among the literate social ranks. Although individual circumstances were often different, one common theme emerges across these relatively mundane commentaries on pregnancy: a pervasive sense of apprehension. This chapter surveys the language used to describe pregnancy and the unborn child in order to shed more light about the bodily and emotional experience of pregnancy in late Georgian England.

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• Begiato J, 'Pregnancy and childbirth' in Susan Broomhall (ed.), Early modern emotions : an introduction, Routledge (2017)
  ISBN: 9781138925748;9781138925 eISBN: 9781315441368
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• Bailey J, '"All he wanted was to kill her that he might marry the girl": broken marriages and cohabitation in the long eighteenth century' in Rebecca Probert (ed.), Cohabitation and non-marital births in England and Wales, 1600-2012, Palgrave MacMillan (2014)
  ISBN: 9781349484553 eISBN: 9781137396273
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• Bailey J, 'Masculinity and fatherhood in England, c.1760-1830' in What is masculinity? : historical dynamics from antiquity to the contemporary world, Palgrave Macmillan (2011)
  ISBN: 9780230278134 eISBN: 9780230307254
  Abstract This chapter explores the ways in which a research agenda focused upon gender and identity advances the history of men as fathers. It suggests that our understanding of fatherhood is enriched when historians use a conceptual framework informed by four themes that have emerged from the theorising of masculinities: the plurality of masculinities, the concept of a hierarchy of masculinities, the recognition that masculinities are constructed in relation to each other, not simply in opposition to femininities, and that masculinities change over time and place. This chapter also proposes that explicitly addressing the relationship between manhood, fatherhood and fathering offers new directions for research into masculinity more broadly.Website 
• Bailey J, 'Cruelty and adultery: offences against the institution of marriage' in Histories of Crime: Britain 1600-2000 , Macmillan Publishers (2010)
  ISBN: 9780230224704
  Abstract Providing a rounded and coherent history of crime and the law spanning the past 400 years, Histories of Crime explores the evolution of attitudes towards crime and criminality over time. Bringing together contributions from internationally acknowledged experts, the book highlights themes, current issues and key debates in the history of deviance and bad behaviour, including: -   marital cruelty and adultery -   infanticide -   murder -   the underworld -   blasphemy and moral crimes -   fraud and white-collar crime -   the death penalty and punishment. Individual case studies of violent and non-violent crime are used to explore the human means and motives behind criminal practice. Through these, the book illuminates society's wider attitudes and fears about criminal behaviour and the way in which these influence the law and legal system over time. This fascinating book is essential reading for students and teachers of history, sociology and criminology, as well as anyone interested in Britain's criminal past.
• Bailey J, 'Family relationships' in Elizabeth Foyster and James Marten (ed.), A cultural history of childhood and family. Vol. 4, In the age of Enlightenment, Berg Publishers (2010)
  ISBN: 9781847887979
  
• Bailey J, 'Stitchers in time and space: women in the long eighteenth century' in Quilts, 1700-2010 : hidden histories, untold stories, V&A Publications (2010)
  ISBN: 9781851775958
  Abstract Quilts evoke the past ' they stimulate our earliest memories of security and comfort and resonate with historical and cultural references challenging the assumption that stitching is simply 'women's work'. Using stunning new photography, this book explores the personal and social histories which reveal the maker's complex engagement with the wider world. The myths and narratives handed down with each intricately pieced patchwork and stitched whole cloth are as much a part of our heritage as the silks, velvets and cottons which document our textile history. Primary sources, such as inventories, diaries and letters add context to the personal narratives documented by the quilts, exploring responses to marriage, childbirth, love and loss. The book includes contemporary material to show how artists such as Grayson Perry and Tracey Emin respond to the tradition of quilt making.

Reviews

• Bailey J, review of Mans Estate: Landed Gentry Masculinities C. 1660-1900., in Continuity and Change 28 (2013) pp.149-151ISSN: 0268-4160
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• Bailey J, review of Educating the Child in Enlightenment Britain: Beliefs, Cultures, Practices, in Journal for Eighteenth-century Studies 35 (2012) pp.251-252ISSN: 1754-0194
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• Bailey J, review of Marriage Law and Practice in the Long Eighteenth Century: a Reassessment, in Journal of Legal History 32 (2012) pp.241-244ISSN: 0144-0365
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• Bailey J, review of Cultures of Shame: Exploring Crime and Morality in Britain, 1600-1900, in Journal of British Studies 51 (2012) pp.1025-1027ISSN: 0021-9371
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• Bailey J, review of Finding the Family in Medieval and Early Modern Scotland, in Scottish Historical Review 90 (2012) pp.328-330ISSN: 0036-9241
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• Bailey J, review of The Dress of the People: Everyday Fashion in Eighteenth-century England, in Textile History 41 (2010) pp.137-138ISSN: 0040-4969 eISSN: 1743-2952
  
• Bailey J, review of Marriage and Violence: the Early Modern Legacy, in English Historical Review 124 (2009) pp.971-972ISSN: 0013-8266
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• Bailey J, review of Gender and Space in Early Modern England, in Social History 34 (2009) pp.386-386ISSN: 0307-1022
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• Bailey J, review of Children Remembered: Responses to Untimely Death in the Past, in Continuity and Change 23 (2008) pp.365-366ISSN: 0268-4160
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• Bailey J, review of Bleak Houses: Marital Violence in Victorian Fiction, in Journal of Womens History 19 (2008) pp.144-153ISSN: 1042-7961 eISSN: 1527-2036
  
• Bailey J, review of Marital Violence: An English Family History, in Journal of Womens History 19 (2008) pp.144-153ISSN: 1042-7961 eISSN: 1527-2036
  
• Bailey J, review of Marital Violence: An English Family History, 1660-1857., in Continuity and Change 21 (2006) pp.374-375ISSN: 0268-4160
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Membership of professional bodies

Joanne is a member of the Advisory Board for the Bibliography of British and Irish History.

She served as a member of the Advisory Group for the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation funded Database Project (2007-2010): Cause Papers in the Diocesan Courts of the Archbishopric of York 1300-1858, Borthwick Institute for Archives, University of York.

Conferences

Conferences

Invited Plenary and Conference Presentations:

• ‘Tender Maternity’, Basic Instincts Symposium, Birkbeck, Nov 2017 (part of Basic Instincts Exhibition Sept 2017-Jan 2018), Foundling Hospital, London.
• ‘”John, the soldier, Jack the tar”: Emotional Objects and Manliness in Georgian and Victorian England’ at the Annual Conference of the International Society for Cultural History in Umeå, 26-29 June, 2017 (panel: ‘Materialising Love and Loss: Objects and Identity in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Britain)
• Plenary Roundtable, Histories of Religion and Sexuality, University of Nottingham, April 2017
• ‘a hardy man and bred up in pitch and tar”: Manliness and the Jack Tar’. At Maritime Masculinities 1815-1940, Dec 2016, St Anne’s College, Oxford
• 'Anxiety, Anger, and Tears: Emotions and Masculine Identities in the Long Nineteenth Century, Royal Holloway University of London, Centre for Victorian Studies, Oct 2016.
• ‘Emotional Lives’ Professorial Inaugural Open Lecture, Oxford Brookes University, June 2016
• ‘Sex and the Church in the Long Eighteenth Century’ with Bill Gibson, Long Eighteenth Century Seminar, IHR, June 2016
• ‘Manly bodies before muscular manliness: grace, strength and dexterity, England 1750-1850’, Royal Historical Symposium: Masculinity and the Body in Britain, 1500-1900, University of Northampton, 18 June 2015
• ‘Village Heroes and Hearts of Oak: the cultural power of the military in constructing English masculine identity 1790-1850, Military Masculinities in the Nineteenth Century, University of Hull, 20-21 May 2015.
• ‘Medieval and Early Modern Pregnancy and Parents’, Perceptions of Pregnancy Conference, July 2014, University of Hertfordshire.
• ‘English Manly Intimacy and Power in Representations of St George and the Dragon c. 1750-1950’ at Royal Historical Symposium: Intimacy, Power and Authority in European Perspectives, Bath Spa University, October 2013.
• ‘Pandora’s Box: opening up the cultures of domestic violence’ at European Perspectives of Cultures of Violence conference, University of Leicester, June 2013.
• 'Beds and the Making of the Domestic Landscape’ with Dr Angela McShane, ‘The body in bed’ Seminar series, The History Department, Royal Holloway University of London, October, 2010.
• ‘Problems and opportunities in investigating gender identities: the case study of parents’, ‘Engendering Gender: production, transmission and change’, University of Exeter, July 2010.
• ‘Being, doing, and embodying: rethinking histories of masculinities’, Conceptualising Men: Collective Identities and the 'Self'’ conference, University of Exeter, July 2009.
• ‘Fashioning Fatherhood in eighteenth-century England: or, the rise and influence of the 'Sentimental Father in visual and textual culture', Masculinity and the Other Conference, Balliol College, August 2007.

Invited Conference Papers (from 2008):

• Chair/organizer ‘Law and Society Memorial Symposium in Honour of Professor Christopher Brooks, University of Durham, March 2016
• 'The Voice of the House: Material Culture and Emotion', Small Worlds Symposium, No 1 Royal Crescent, Bath, Nov 2015.
• One of four invited panel members, Emotions Round Table, Royal Holloway, held at IHR Oct 2015
• ‘From the 'kicking districts' to Andy Capp: wife-beating and working-class masculinities’, Crime & Legal History Group, Oxford Brookes University, 5 March 2014.
• ‘From the 'kicking districts' to Andy Capp: wife-beating and working-class masculinities’, Industrialism and Masculinity in Comparative Regional Context, c. 1840-1939’, Aberystwyth University, September 2013. 
• “all he wanted was to kill her that he might marry the Girl:” Broken marriages and cohabitation in the long eighteenth century’, Workshop: Changing Relationships? Cohabitation and births outside marriage, 1600-2012, University of Warwick, Dec 2012
• '"Mr Bulcock could no more marry you than that Dog": marriage and the regulation of society', 'Taming the Many-Headed Monster: Regulating Society in Early Modern England', A colloquium and reception in honour of Dr Martin Ingram, University of Oxford, June 2012.
• ‘In the bosom of the family: visualising parents 1700-1830’, Exeter Early Modern Seminar, University of Exeter, March 2012. 
• ‘Changing relationships: parents and the life-course in Georgian England’, Life-Cycles Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, University of London, Oct 2011.
• ‘Marital Law and Lawlessness in Eighteenth-Century Society’ at the Interdisciplinary Workshop, ‘After Marriage in the Long Eighteenth Century,’ University of Kent, June 2011.
• ‘Re-facing marital cruelty in England from 1590 onwards’ With Professor Loreen Giese, Medieval and Tudor London Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, University of London, May 2011.
• ‘Marking Marital Respect in English Ecclesiastical Court Records from the Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries’ With Professor Loreen Giese at ‘Sex, Violence, and Religion in the Northern Provinces 1300-1858’, a conference celebrating the launch of the York Cause Papers Database, 13 Nov, 2010. 
• ‘Getting the measure of marriage and household authority in 17th and 18th century Britain’, Workshop on Marriage, University of Warwick, 5 February 2010.
• ‘The Convergence of the Twain': analysing the ‘twin' categories of masculinity and fatherhood‘, Gender & History Seminar, Wadham College, Oxford, October 2008. 

Press, publicity and reviews

Activities outside the University include contributing to television and radio history programmes on BBC1, BBC2, BBC 4, and Radio 3.