Centre for Regional and Local History

Research output

Research output per year 1992 2009 2011 2013 2015 2017 2018 2019 2023 2026

• 55 Article
• 32 Chapter (peer-reviewed)
• 22 Book
• 8 Chapter
• 29 More
  • 6 Scholarly edition
  • 6 Book/Film/Article review
  • 4 Review article
  • 2 Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary
  • 2 Abstract
  • 2 Comment/debate
  • 1 Anthology
  • 1 Commissioned report
  • 1 Conference contribution
  • 1 Paper
  • 1 Editorial
  • 1 Special issue
  • 1 Other contribution

Research output per year

Research output per year

Search results

• 2023

  Building Amenity in Areas of Non-outstanding Natural Beauty in the Southern Pennines

  Navickas, K., 8 Jun 2023, New Lives, New Landscapes Revisited: Rural Modernity in Britain: Proceedings of the British Academy. Ross, L., Navickas, K., Kelly, M. & Anderson, B. (eds.). Oxford University Press (OUP), p. 92-114 (British Academy Publications).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

  2 Downloads (Pure)
• 2021

  Narratives of the Witch, the Magician, and the Devil in Early Modern Grimoires

  Davies, O., 30 Sept 2021, Fictional Practice: Magic, Narration, and the Power of Imagination. Johannsen, D. & Otto, B.-C. (eds.). Brill Academic Publishers, Vol. 30. p. 91-110 19 p. (Aries Book Series).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

  • DEVil 100%
  • Witches 100%
  • magician 100%
  • Devil 100%
  • Magician 100%
• 2019

  Witchcraft Accusations in Nineteenth - and Twentieth - Century Europe

  Davies, O., 24 Dec 2019, The Routledge History of Witchcraft. Dillinger, J. (ed.). 1st ed. Routledge, p. 289-298 10 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Satan 100%
  • Witchcraft Accusations 100%
  • Twentieth-century Europe 100%
  • Nineteenth-century Europe 100%
  • Europe 100%
  940 Downloads (Pure)

• The Material Culture of Post-Medieval Domestic Magic in Europe: Evidence, Comparisons and Interpretations

  Davies, O., 10 May 2019, The Materiality of Magic. Boschung, D. & Bremmer, J. (eds.). Oxford and Havertown, PA: Fink-Verlag, p. 379-417

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

  Open Access

  File
  631 Downloads (Pure)
• 2018

  Political trials and the suppression of popular radicalism in England, 1799-1820

  Navickas, K., 31 Dec 2018, (E-pub ahead of print) Political Trials in an Age of Revolution: Britain and the North Atlantic, 1793-1848. Pentland, G., Macleod, E. & Davis, M. T. (eds.). 1 ed. Palgrave Macmillan, p. 185-212

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Popular 100%
  • England 100%
  • Suppression 100%
  • sedition 100%
  • Treason 100%
  23 Downloads (Pure)

• Géographie incarnée de la résistance en Angleterre: nouvelles tactiques et réactions, 1830-1848

  Translated title of the contribution: Embodied geographies of resistance in England: new tactics and resistance, 1830-1848': translated by Laurent BuryNavickas, K., 1 Dec 2018, L’Empire britannique, une communauté de destins?. Dunyach, J.-F. & Gautier, A. (eds.). Presses Universitaires de Rennes, p. 135-158 24 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

  Open Access

  File
  31 Downloads (Pure)

• Concealed and Revealed: Magic and Mystery in the Home

  Ceri Houlbrook & Davies, O., 29 Aug 2018, Spellbound: Magic, Ritual & Witchcraft. 1st ed. Ashmolean Museum, p. 67-97

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

• A return to materialism? Putting social history back into place

  Navickas, K., 22 Feb 2018, New Directions in Cultural and Social History. Handley, S., McWilliam, R. & Noakes, L. (eds.). 1st ed. London: Bloomsbury Academic, (New Directions in Social and Cultural History).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

  Open Access

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  70 Downloads (Pure)
• 2017

  Researching Reverse Witch Trials in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century England

  Davies, O., Oct 2017, Cultures of Witchcraft in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Present. Palgrave Macmillan

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

• The Wretch of Today, may be Happy Tomorrow: poverty in England, c 1700-1840

  Lloyd, S., 10 Aug 2017, Suffering and happiness in England 1400-1850: Narratives and Representations. Innes, J. & Braddick, M. (eds.). 1st ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press (OUP), (The Past and Present).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Poverty 100%
  • Happiness 100%
  • England c 100%
  • Parish 33%
  • Interior Life 33%
  30 Downloads (Pure)

• Ghosts

  Davies, O., 16 Jun 2017, Routledge Companion to Death and Dying. Moreman, C. (ed.). Abingdon: Routledge

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

• We Consumers - Tastes, Rituals and Waves

  Morris, J., 4 Jan 2017, The Craft and Science of Coffee. Folmer, B. (ed.). Elsevier, (Food Science, Technology and Nutrition).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

  6 Citations (Scopus)
• 2015

  Magic in Common and Legal Perspectives

  Davies, O., Mar 2015, The Cambridge History of Magic and Witchcraft in the West: From Antiquity to the Present. Collins, D. J. (ed.). Cambridge University Press, p. 521-46 Ch.17

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed)

• Wesley’s invisible world: witchcraft and the temperature of preternatural belief

  Davies, O., 1 Jan 2015, Perfecting Perfection: Essays in Honor of Henry D. Rack. Webster, R. (ed.). Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, p. 147-173

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed)

  Open Access

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  764 Downloads (Pure)

• Cunning-folk and the Production of Magical Artefacts

  Davies, O. & Easton, T., 2015, Physical Evidence for Ritual Acts, Sorcery, and Witchcraft in Christian Britain: A Feeling for Magic. Hutton, R. (ed.). Palgrave Macmillan, p. 209-232

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

• Grimoires

  Davies, O., 2015, The Occult World. Partridge, C. (ed.). Routledge, p. 603-611

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

• The wider picture: Parallel evidence in America and Australia

  Davies, O., Evans, I. & Manning, M. C., 2015, Physical Evidence for Ritual Acts, Sorcery, and Witchcraft in Christian Britain: A Feeling for Magic. Hutton, R. (ed.). 1 ed. London: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 232-255 24 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
• 2014

  Regions, 1700-1870

  Goose, N., Oct 2014, The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain. Floud, R., Humphries, J. & Johnson, P. (eds.). Cambridge University Press, Vol. 1. p. 149-177

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed)

• The 'Spirit of Loyalty': Material Culture, Space and the Construction of an English Loyalist Memory, 1790-1840

  Navickas, K., 15 May 2014, Loyalism and the Formation of the British World, 1775-1914. Blackstock, A. & O'Gorman, F. (eds.). Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, p. 43-60 17 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

• 2013

  Espresso by Design: The Creation of the Italian Coffee Machine

  Morris, J., Nov 2013, Made in Italy: Rethinking a Century of Italian Design. Lees-Maffei, G. & Fallan, K. (eds.). Bloomsbury Academic, p. 225-238

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed)

  • Espresso Machine 100%
  • By Design 100%
  • Coffee Machine 100%
  • Espresso 100%
  • Technical Innovation 50%

• Child Employment Prospects in Nineteenth-Century Hertfordshire in Perspective: Varieties of Childhood?

  Goose, N., Oct 2013, Childhood and Child Labour in Industrial England: Diversity and Agency, 1750-1900. Goose, N. & Honeyman, K. (eds.). Ashgate Publishing, p. 157-214

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed)

  • Child Employment 100%
  • Hertfordshire 100%
  • Nineteenth Century 100%
  • Employment Prospects 100%
  • Prospect 100%
  3 Citations (Scopus)

• Gender Perspectives on the Elderly in Town and Countryside in Victorian England

  Goose, N., Sept 2013, Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Aging in Nineteenth-Century Culture . Boehm, K., Farkas, A. & Zwierlein, A. (eds.). Routledge, p. 57-74 (Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed)

• 2012

  'Theaw Kon Ekspect No Mooar Eawt ov a Pig thin a Grunt': Searching for the Radical Dialect Voice in Industrial Lancashire and the West Riding, 1798–1819

  Navickas, K., Aug 2012, United Islands?: The Languages of Resistance. Kirk, J., Noble, A. & Brown, M. (eds.). Pickering and Chatto, (Poetry and Song in the Age of Revolution).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed)

• 2011

  Joys of the Cottage: Labourers’ Houses, Hovels and Huts in Britain and the British Colonies, 1770-1830

  Lloyd, S., 2011, Accommodating Poverty : the housing and living arrangements of the English Poor, c1600-1850. McEwan, J. & Sharpe, P. (eds.). Palgrave Macmillan, p. 102-121 20 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed)

  • British Colonies 100%
  • Hovels 100%
  • Laborers 100%
  • Cottage 100%
  • cottage 100%
• 2009

  European Folk Medicine

  Davies, O., 2009, Traditional Medicine: A Global Perspective. Kayne, S. B. (ed.). Pharmaceutical Press, p. 25-44

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed)

• 2008

  Decriminalising the witch: The origin of and response to the 1736 Witchcraft Act

  Davies, O., 2008, Witchcraft and the Act of 1604 . Newton, J. & Bath, J. (eds.). Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, p. 207-232 (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions; vol. 131).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed)

  2 Citations (Scopus)
• 2007

  A Comparative Perspective on Scottish Cunning-folk and Charmers

  Davies, O., 2007, Witchcraft and Belief in Early Modern Scotland. Goodare, J., Martin, L. & Miller, J. (eds.). Palgrave Macmillan, p. 185-205 20 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed)

• Female healers in nineteenth-century England

  Davies, O., 2007, Women’s Work in Industrial England: Regional and Local Perspectives . Goose, N. (ed.). Local Population Studies Society, p. 228-249 21 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed)

• 2006

  Angels in elite and popular magic, 1650-1790

  Davies, O., 2006, Angels in the Early Modern World. Marshall, P. & Walsham, A. (eds.). Cambridge University Press, p. 297-319 22 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed)

• Hexereivorwurfe im England des 19. und fruhen 20. Jahrhunderts

  Davies, O., 2006, Wunderwelten: Religiöse Ekstase und Magie in der Moderne . Freytag, N. & Sawicki, D. (eds.). Fink-Verlag, p. 143-162

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed)

• 2004

  French healing charms and charmers

  Davies, O., 2004, Charms and charming in Europe. Roper, J. (ed.). Palgrave Macmillan, p. 91-110 19 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed)

• Witchcraft accusations in France 1850-1990

  Davies, O., 2004, Witchcraft Continued: Popular Magic in Modern Europe . de Blecourt, W. & Davies, O. (eds.). Manchester University Press, p. 107-132 25 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed)