The murder of the Archbishop of St Andrews and its place in the politics of religion in restoration Scotland and England

Debate over the godliness and usefulness of having bishops govern the Church of Scotland took place across the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In part debate was intellectual and literary, being expressed in pamphlets and printed tracts and sermons. On occasion however argument about episcopacy spilled over into actual violence. Bishops and archbishops were attacked but in turn faced accusations of severity and of martyring their Presbyterian opponents. Debate over episcopacy opened a space to contest and claim particular identities. The turns and counterturns of religious policy in seventeenth-century Scotland meant that Presbyterian ministers and episcopal clergy were alternately dispossessed and restored to office and power. Occasions of dispossession allowed clergy to present themselves as martyrs, and the identity of martyr was in turn central to both Presbyterian and episcopal accounts of church authority

Lines-of-inquiry and sources of evidence in work-based research

There is synergy between the investigative practices of police detectives and social scientists, including work-based researchers. They both develop lines-of-inquiry and draw on multiple sources of evidence in order to make inferences about people, trends and phenomena. However, the principles associated with lines-of-inquiry and sources of evidence have not so far been examined in relation to work-based research methods, which are often unexplored or ill-defined in the published literature. We explore this gap by examining the various direct and indirect lines-of-inquiry and the main sources of primary and secondary evidence used in work-based research, which is especially relevant because some work-based researchers are also police detectives. Clearer understanding of these intersections will be useful in emerging professional contexts where the work-based researcher, the detective, and the social scientist cohere in the one person and their research project. The case we examined was a Professional Studies programme at a university in Australia, which has many police detectives doing work-based research, and from their experience we conclude there is synergy between work-based research and lines of enquiry. Specifically, in the context of research methods, we identify seven sources of evidence: 1) creative, unstructured, and semi-structured interviews; 2) structured interviews; 3) consensus group methods; 4) surveys; 5) documentation and archives; 6) direct observations and participant observations; and 7) physical or cultural artefacts, and show their methodological features related to data and method type, reliability, validity, and types of analysis, along with their respective advantages and disadvantages. This study thereby unpacks and isolates those characteristics of work-based research which are relevant to a growing body of literature related to the messy, co-produced and wicked problems of private companies, government agencies, and non-government organisations and the research methods used to investigate them

My Secret Life and the Sexual Economy of Fin-de-Siècle England

This paper proposes that the volumes of My Secret Life reveal an explicit linkage and juxtaposition of the respectable and perverse which was at the heart of fin-de-siècle British culture. In particular this paper reads ‘Walter’s’ text as a parody of materialism that terminates in fin-de-siècle ‘exhaustion’ and decline - ‘free-enterprise’ itself beyond control. Confession opens a site for resistance and subversion, ‘Walter’s’ text legitimating deviance and rejecting ideas of the thrift of sperm which characterized the discursive controls of the late-nineteenth century

Doctor Who and the early modern world

Marcus Harmes in ‘Doctor Who and the early modern world‘ examines the differences between the many English histories in the classic series and the new. He considers the recently emphasised Elizabethan England and the transitions between two very different early modern ‘Englands’. Implicit in the reading is a sense of the treatment of the Tudor, Elizabethan and Stuart periods in the production as they have changed over show’s own history

Children's Picturebooks, Epiphanies, and the 1914 Christmas Truce

Given the widespread expectation that children's war literature should be morally instructive, it is not surprising that epiphanies are a regular plot device used in children's picture books. This article will analyze four chil­dren's picturebooks about the 1914 Christmas Truce that are framed by epiphanic experiences: Shooting at the Stars: The Christmas Truce of 1914 (Hendrix; 2014), And the Soldiers Sang (Lewis; 2011), The Christ­mas Truce (Duffy; 2014), and The Christmas Truce: The Place Where Peace Was Found (Robinson; 2014)

Beyond incarcerated identities: identity, bias and barriers to higher education in Australian prisons

Incarcerated students face multiple obstacles and constraints while attempting to complete tertiary and pre-tertiary educational programs within Australian prisons. Some of these barriers relate to the individual’s attitudes and actions, during and prior to imprisonment, while other barriers may relate to systemic bias and social disadvantages, which the individual cannot control. The classed and racialized realities of Australia’s criminal justice system are evident in the dramatically disproportionate rate of imprisonment of Indigenous people, and in Australian state governments’ increasingly punitive approach to crime and sentencing which typically captures already excluded and marginalised populations. This prevailing ‘criminology of the other,’ creates particular tensions for incarcerated students, who are typically attempting to construct positive student identities, as an alternative to being defined as ‘other,’ ‘criminal’ or ‘deviant.’ Using data from a focus group discussion with 12 male incarcerated students inside an Australian prison, this article gives voice to our incarcerated university students, their attempts to construct new horizons for the self through education, and the numerous barriers they encounter along the way

Re-living First Year -the first weeks

Abstract Using data from a survey and interviews with Firs

My secret life and the sexual economy of fin-de-siecle England

This paper proposes that the volumes of My Secret Life reveal an explicit linkage and juxtaposition of the respectable and perverse which was at the heart of fin-de-siècle British culture. In particular this paper reads 'Walter’s' text as a parody of materialism that terminates in fin-de-siècle 'exhaustion' and decline - 'free-enterprise' itself beyond control. Confession opens a site for resistance and subversion, 'Walter’s' text legitimating deviance and rejecting ideas of the thrift of sperm which characterized the discursive controls of the late-nineteenth century

Domitian, the fathers and the persecution of the church

The portrayal of the Emperor Domitian in early Christian sources relates to mental journey which the Church undertook in formulating its relations with Roman civil authorities. Historians have seen Domitian as an example of a ‘bad’ emperor which indicated the obedience Christians would offer to emperors who did not persecute. But Patristic sources not only distinguished between good and bad emperors, but made good emperors out of bad, insisting on conversions and patronage as emanating from the imperial court. Using distinctive features of the Patristic records of the Domitianic persecution, including records of his victims, this paper reconstructs how Patristic writers undertook a mental journey to integrate Church and State, locating Christians at the very centre of imperial power

Protestant bishops in restoration England

The reconstruction of the Church of England’s hierarchy after 1660 has attracted extensive scholarly attention. Scholars have evaluated how far the doctrinal and ecclesial positions of the Laudian Church shaped the reconstruction of the episcopal hierarchy up to and beyond 1660, especially the Laudian recourse to theories of Jure divino episcopacy as justifying episcopal status and power. Detailed analysis of two texts, John Gauden’s The Looſing of St Peters Bands and Arthur Duck’s Life of Henry Chichele (a medieval archbishop of Canterbury) will demonstrate how the restored episcopate was prepared to appeal to its late-medieval past and to its immediate context in order to justify its authority and demonstrate its self-conception as being an agent of reformed authority