A History of Biography

Caine, Barbara

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“…In the tradition of 'great men' biography, the world of the personal was ruled out of court. 81 But such an approach would make it impossible to sketch and understand the strength of the social networks of women social workers/reformers and male social scientists/policy experts which form a significant background to the LSE Affair. Feminist social science has been keen to emphasise the 'truism that individual experiences are inherently political and deeply embedded in relations of power'.…”

Section: The Problem Of Gender-awarenessmentioning

confidence: 99%

The History of Gendered Social Science: a personal narrative and some reflections on method

Oakley¹

2015

Women's History Review

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The History of Gendered Social Science: a personal narrative and some reflections on method

Oakley¹

2015

Women's History Review

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“…Other scholars are also in agreement with this perspective: that the previously unknown subjects of microhistory can be said to be representative of their peers, and that it is precisely in this representativeness that the illustrative power of their stories lies. 53 The debate on representativeness vs. uniqueness is an active and fruitful dialogue in the life writing discipline. One historian in particular, Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon, has voiced a contrasting view that even for previously little-known subjects, the microhistorical approach is valuable for highlighting the unique aspects of the person, without necessarily needing to be related to the grander narratives and perspectives of history.…”

Section: Microhistorical Approachmentioning

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Ordinary Yet Emblematic: The Transnational Correspondence Between an American GI and His Sweetheart during the Korean War

Bruns¹

2019

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Operating on the core premise of microhistory, that the lives of ordinary people are endowed with explanatory power for a specific period or event in history, this article analyses the war-time letters from the 1950s written by an American serviceman and his girlfriend, later wife, during the Korean War. The author addresses methodological concerns regarding implications that the unique characteristics of personal letters have on the utilization of them as primary source material in historical and biographical writing, in addition to reflections on the author’s close familial relationship to the historical subjects and how this impacts the overall objectivity of the article. An analysis of the letters demonstrates how the couple developed various techniques to mitigate the effects of distance and how they coped with the pervasive sense of uncertainty and fear that consumed Cold War America. This study broadly contributes to the existing life writing literature by demonstrating how a life writing approach, when applied to a particular moment in history, can be utilized in historical study to tell a previously untold part of that particular moment.

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“…The religious foundations of the colleges offer a starting point for a debate on the role of religious communities in education in the past and in the present (Martin, 2013). The close connections of artists belonging to the Arts and Crafts movement with Whitelands College that are well documented through their artworks and documents in the archive allow biographical research, yet another form of historical study (Caine, 2010;Vaninskaya, 2012;Carter, 2015). This variety of theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of different aspects of university and campus contribute to the learning outcomes of the two programmes.…”

Section: The New Modulementioning

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The Roehampton Campus Project: Using campus, collections and memories of the university as a learning and teaching resource for Humanities students

Behr

Nevin

2018

Arts and Humanities in Higher Education

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In this article we present a newly developed undergraduate module that is taught in the Humanities Department of the University of Roehampton. Campus and university themselves are the topics of the module. The module provides an opportunity for the students to engage academically with their environment. They study not only many interesting stories related to the campus, its buildings and artworks and the history(ies) of the university and its constituent colleges, they also explore their historical contexts. They have the rare chance to engage with original artefacts and archival materials directly unmediated by editorial and scholarly work. For their assignments the students conduct research projects that are based on the resources of campus and university. They are required to present the results of their research in a public forum to provide them, early in their university studies, with experience of public engagement.

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A History of Biography

Cited by 13 publications

References 7 publications

The History of Gendered Social Science: a personal narrative and some reflections on method

The History of Gendered Social Science: a personal narrative and some reflections on method

Ordinary Yet Emblematic: The Transnational Correspondence Between an American GI and His Sweetheart during the Korean War

The Roehampton Campus Project: Using campus, collections and memories of the university as a learning and teaching resource for Humanities students

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