Challenging Domesticity in Britain, 1890-1990

1890-1990年，住房和大规模提供住房是英国社会改革和文化变革的核心。然而，住房建设和“贫民窟”清除方案标志着破坏和再生的循环，在这一循环中，“家”的概念不断受到规划者的质疑，似乎居民的投入很少。这使得住宅的学者们把注意力集中在新房子的设计、设施、生活水平以及贫民窟清理的影响上。随后，许多关于19世纪和20世纪英国及其他地区的研究都强调了女性主义与核心家庭的兴起和家庭主妇的理想化之间的联系。到了世纪中期，一种家庭理想主导了西方文化，在这种文化中，家仍然与隐私联系在一起，是躲避外部世界危险和风险的避难所。该网络将挑战这些关联，并讨论家庭如何掩盖或促成一系列乍一看似乎与家庭理想不协调的行为和活动。研究网络的目的是组织三个研讨会，通过这些研讨会，我们将创新分析家庭和家庭生活的方法。第一个研究如何家庭可能促进了犯罪企业;第二个地址的激进主义的历史中的家;和第三个讨论如何的想法，关于自律有助于“家”的想法作为治疗，特别是作为道德治疗那些被认为是“越轨”或穷人。该网络将产生一种新的研究方法，这将振兴历史学家对家庭和家庭生活的思考方式。研究问题包括：阶级、性别、种族和地区的交叉在多大程度上塑造了“家”的含义？个人在多大程度上可以颠覆语言或材料的非线性，以促进一系列的行为和活动？“家”在多大程度上成为罪犯和穷人的一种治疗方式？如何看待不同类型的家庭空间，包括旧类型的住房，改变我们的解释？我们认为，该网络的重点是采用新的来源和方法框架的挑战，目前的历史编纂的非自治性，表明文化的非自治性可以被颠覆和促进的行为和活动，“现代”的家庭旨在作为避难所或治疗against.The网络将建立一个新的伙伴关系之间的曼彻斯特大学和Pankhurst中心。犯罪之家、激进之家和治疗之家的框架将增加我们对纳尔逊街60-62号潘克赫斯特中心重要性的理解。这座房子是1903年妇女社会和政治联盟第一次会议的场所，也是激进的妇女参政运动和妇女行动主义历史的中心。它也可以被理解为一个犯罪之家，作为克里斯特贝尔潘克赫斯特的住所，他沿着其他WSPU成员，因暴力好战而被监禁。它也是一个治疗之家。该中心位于圣玛丽国民保健服务医院内，与妇女援助组织共用其房舍，为妇女中心提供便利，并为服务使用者提供治疗花园。该伙伴关系将有助于该中心进入一个令人兴奋的阶段，因为它将开始一个雄心勃勃的扩张、筹资和重建时期。该网络将协助培训指南和制作关于Pankhurst家园历史的材料，公共讲座和播客旨在吸引新的观众和宣传博物馆，PI将为志愿者的三个专题培训项目做出贡献。共同的研究重点表明，Pankhurst中心和曼彻斯特大学之间的长期关系的潜力和关键网络的目标之一是发展与该中心和其他非HEI合作伙伴的关系，为未来的研究合作。

Housing and the mass provision of homes were central to social reform and cultural change in Britain, 1890-1990. Yet programmes of house building and 'slum' clearance marked cycles of destruction and regeneration in which the notion of 'home' was continually contested by planners, seemingly with minimal input from residents. This has led scholars of the home to focus on the design of new houses, their amenities, living standards, and the implications of slum clearance. Subsequently, much research on the nineteenth and twentieth-century in Britain and beyond emphasises the links between domesticity and the rise of the nuclear family and the idealisation of housewifery. By the mid-twentieth century a domestic ideal dominated western culture wherein the home remained associated with privacy and as a refuge from the dangers and risks of the external world. This Network will challenge these associations and discuss how the home could mask or enable a range of behaviours and activities that seem, on first sight, to be incongruous with the domestic ideal.The purpose of the Research Network is to organise three workshops, through which we will innovate approaches to analysing the home and domesticity. The first examines how the home may have facilitated criminal enterprise; the second addresses the home within the history of activism; and the third discusses how ideas about domesticity contributed to the idea of 'home' as curative, especially as moral treatment for those considered 'deviant' or the poor. The Network will produce a new research methodology that will revitalise the way historians think about the home and domesticity. Research questions include: How far were meanings of 'home' shaped by intersections of class, gender, race, and region? To what extent could individuals subvert the language or materials of domesticity to facilitate a range of behaviours and activities? To what extent did 'home' become a form of treatment for the offenders and the poor? How does looking at different types of domestic spaces, including older types of housing, transform our interpretations? We suggest that the Network's emphasis on employing new sources and methodological frameworks challenges current historiography on domesticity by showing that cultures of domesticity could be subverted and fostered the very kinds of behaviours and activities that 'modern' homes aimed to act as refuges from or treatments against.The Network will forge a new partnership between the University of Manchester and the Pankhurst Centre. The framework of the criminal home, radical home, and curative home will add to our understanding of the importance of the Pankhurst Centre at 60-62 Nelson Street. The house was the setting for the first meeting of the Women's Social and Political Union in 1903, and is central to the history of the militant suffragette movement and women's activism. It might also be understood as a criminal home, being the residence of Christabel Pankhurst who, along with other members of the WSPU, was jailed for violent militancy. It is also a curative home. Standing within the grounds of Saint Mary's NHS Hospital and sharing its premises with Women's Aid, the Centre facilitates a women's centre and provides a therapeutic garden for service users. The partnership will contribute to an exciting phase for the Centre as it embarks on an ambitious period of expansion, fundraising and redevelopment. The Network will assist in training guides and producing materials on the history of the Pankhurst home, public lectures and podcasts aim to attract new audiences and promote the museum, and the PI will contribute to three thematic training projects for volunteers. The shared research priorities indicate potential for a longer-term relationship between the Pankhurst Centre and the University of Manchester and one of the key Network aims is to develop relationships with the Centre and other non-HEI partners for future research collaborations.