Greek and Roman Classics in the British Struggle for Social Reform
- Submitting institution
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King's College London
- Unit of assessment
- 29 - Classics
- Output identifier
- 108496091
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Bloomsbury
- ISBN
- 9781138212831
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- June
- Year of publication
- 2015
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- Yes
- Additional information
- This volume has its roots in research on the inter-relationship of Classics and social class on which Hall first embarked in the early 1980s, and incudes references to interviews she conducted at that time with elderly left-wing classicists including Geoffrey de Ste Croix, Robert Browning and George Thomson. Over thirty-five years of thought and information-gathering underlie the volume’s conception. About half the chapters derive from papers delivered at a 2010 conference on Classics and Class fully funded by the British Academy; the remainder were delivered at workshops run at KCL by Hall’s AHRC-funded research project under the same name which ran from 2013-2016 on which Stead was PDRA. This entailed many research visits to local museums and archives across England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales by both Hall and Stead. Hall wrote the first draft of the 19-page Introduction which explores the different resonances of the term ‘reform’ in the period of British/Irish history under consideration and the methodological challenges facing classicists seeking to excavate unfamiliar aspects of their subject’s history. She also contributed 3 substantive chapters: a 17-page article reassessing Dickens’ attitude to Classics across his entire oeuvre, a 19-page one on female classicists in the early Independent Labour Party which required extensive research in archives at the Manchester People’s History Museum, and a third of 21 pages on Christopher Caudwell based on archival research at the Marx Memorial Library in Clerkenwell Green. Hall’s authorial contribution to the volume totals over 35% of the text.
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