Crewe, V. and Hadley, D.M. (2013) ‘Uncle Tom was there, in crockery’: Material Culture and a Victorian Working-class Childhood. Childhood in the Past, 6 (2). pp. 89-105. ISSN 1758-5716
Abstract
British archaeologists have long recognised the potential for the archaeology of working-class neighbourhoods to illuminate communities that typically left few direct traces of their own in the written record. They have also emphasised that the diversity of material culture from such sites provides alternative perspectives to the textual evidence, which is often moralising and condemnatory. Drawing on a case-study from Sheffield in Yorkshire, England, this paper explores what material culture can reveal about working-class childhoods. It argues that childhood was depicted and experienced at the intersections of the chapel, mine and pub, and that competing conceptions of childhood and family were pivotal to the struggle for working-class identity.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © Oxbow Books Ltd and the Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past 2013. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in Childhood in the Past. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | working-class; Methodism; temperance; ceramics; work; nineteenth century |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Sheffield) > Department of Archaeology (Sheffield) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number Higher Education Innovation Fund X/3871 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 18 May 2017 09:08 |
Last Modified: | 06 Feb 2018 13:17 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1179/1758571613Z.0000000008 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1179/1758571613Z.0000000008 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:115087 |