Josephine Butler ‘a non-repressive Puritan’ and Mary Jeffries the ‘Empress of Vice’
Claire A. Cunnington (Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield) In 1885 the UK Criminal Law Amendment Act passed after[…]
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Articles in this volume
Joan goes to Hollywood: Cecil B. DeMille’s Joan the Woman (1916) as Heritage Melodrama
Dan Clarke (School of English Literature, University of Sheffield) Joan of Arc is as much an artistic muse as she[…]
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Every Mother is a Working Mother?: an Overview of Women, Work and Domestic Labour in the Soviet Union, 1927-1941
Hannah Parker (Department of History, University of Sheffield) In the decades following the Revolutions of 1917 and the subsequent Civil[…]
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Discovering Sophia Gray (1814-1871): British Cape Colony “Architect to the Diocese”
Deirdre Thackray (Department of History of Art, University of York) This article is an edited and abridged version of the[…]
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The Gendered Construction of Blame in the Gospel of Mark’s Account of John the Baptist’s death.
Aysha Winstanley Musa (English Literature and Sheffield Institute for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies, University of Sheffield) John the Baptist Beheaded (Mark[…]
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‘So Abraham Took Hagar’: A Children’s Retelling of Abraham
Catherine H Kennedy (Department of Philosophy, University of Sheffield) Materials for children that retell the Bible in the context of[…]
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