The Imposteress Rabbit Breeder : Mary Toft and Eighteenth-Century England
- Submitting institution
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The University of Birmingham
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 54138554
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN
- 9780198734888
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2020
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This is the first microhistory of a landmark monstrous birth case. Taking over 7 years of research and writing, it combines in-depth and painstaking research into the local, social and criminal history of the case with an analysis of its wider cultural, medical and national political context. Research examined a large volume and wide range of sources, including some newly discovered: manuscript reports and court records, and printed newspapers, books, pamphlets and engravings. Piecing together these disparate sources, particularly around the local, criminal and political dimensions of the case, has generated original arguments about the wider impact of the case.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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