James Kneale
@jameskneale
Cultural/historical geographer: drink/temperance, insurance, literary geogs, sf/fantastic/horror
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Great to see James Kneale on #WDYTYA talking about #Temperance Life Insurance.
Don't forget that the Salvation Army had its own Insurance Society. That's right, The Salvation Army Assurance Society (formerly The Salvation Army Life Assurance Society). archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archive… James did once explain to us the different between Assurance and Insurance... 🤔
Dr Vicky Holmes FRHistS and I are thrilled to announce that our book Objects of Poverty: Material Culture in Britain from 1700 is now complete and with Bloomsbury. This is the first-ever edited collection devoted to the material culture of poverty and features many brilliant contributors.
Time to go, Lord (Eric) Pickles. Retweet if you agree. theguardian.com/politics/artic…
Share widely + join the first event of a PolGRG seminar series: 'Student solidarities with Palestine'. We have wonderful speakers involved in student encampments in Ireland, Canada, the Netherlands, and the UK incl. Majd al-Shihabi 🏴 // @[email protected] Ellie Armon Azoulay, PhD, #UCU @joharame forms.gle/TNEmvdiG9Ewnvu…
🚨 Associate Professor James Kneale joined Melanie C / Mel C on @bbc's Who Do You Think You Are? to explore her ancestor's involvement in temperance and reform. 📜📺 James tells us about his experience working with the former Spice Girl. #UCLGeography #HistoricalResearch
170 years after the Preston Strike and Lock-Out of 1853-54, enjoy some new Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire research on the dispute which inspired Dickens and Gaskell, from Michael Sanders , Robert Poole, Janet Greenlees, Simon Rennie , Máirtín Ó Catháin, Lewis Darwen , Jack Southern, Sarah Ann Kennedy & me