Challenging Domesticity in Britain, 1890-1990

住房和住房的大规模供应是1890-1990年间英国社会改革和文化变革的核心。然而，建造房屋和清理贫民窟的计划标志着破坏和重建的循环，在这些循环中，规划者一直在质疑“家”的概念，似乎只有很少的居民投入。这使得研究房屋的学者将注意力集中在新房的设计、设施、生活水平以及清除贫民窟的影响上。随后，许多关于19世纪和20世纪英国及其他地区的研究强调了家庭生活和核心家庭的崛起以及家政理想化之间的联系。到二十世纪中叶，一种家庭理想主导了西方文化，在西方文化中，家仍然与隐私联系在一起，并作为躲避外部世界危险和风险的避难所。这个网络将挑战这些联系，并讨论家庭如何掩盖或允许一系列行为和活动，这些行为和活动乍一看似乎与家庭理想不符。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。第一本书考察了家庭如何可能促进了犯罪活动；第二本书阐述了激进主义历史中的家；第三本书讨论了关于家庭生活的想法如何促成了家庭是有治疗作用的，特别是作为对那些被认为是‘离经叛道’或穷人的道德待遇。该网络将产生一种新的研究方法，将重振历史学家思考家庭和家庭生活的方式。研究问题包括：“家”的含义在多大程度上受到阶级、性别、种族和地区的影响？个人可以在多大程度上颠覆家庭生活的语言或材料，以促进一系列行为和活动？“家”在多大程度上成为了罪犯和穷人的一种待遇？观察不同类型的住宅空间，包括较老类型的住宅，如何改变我们的理解？我们认为，该网络对使用新来源和方法框架的强调挑战了当前关于家庭生活的历史学，因为它表明，家庭生活文化可以被颠覆，并促进特定类型的行为和活动，这些行为和活动是现代家庭旨在充当避难所或治疗方法的。该网络将在曼彻斯特大学和潘克赫斯特中心之间建立新的合作伙伴关系。罪犯之家、激进之家和治疗之家的框架将增加我们对位于纳尔逊街60-62号的潘克赫斯特中心的重要性的理解。这座房子是1903年妇女社会和政治联盟第一次会议的地点，是激进的妇女参政运动和妇女激进主义历史的中心。它也可能被理解为犯罪之家，是克里斯塔贝尔·潘克赫斯特的住所，他与WSPU的其他成员一起因暴力好战而入狱。它也是一个有治疗作用的家。该中心位于圣玛丽NHS医院的院内，与妇女援助组织共享场地，为妇女中心提供便利，并为服务使用者提供治疗花园。这一伙伴关系将有助于中心进入一个令人兴奋的阶段，因为它开始了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编写关于潘克赫斯特之家历史的材料，公共讲座和播客旨在吸引新观众并宣传该博物馆，国际和平协会将为志愿者开展三个专题培训项目。共同的研究优先事项表明，潘克赫斯特中心和曼彻斯特大学之间有可能建立更长期的关系，网络的主要目标之一是发展与该中心和其他非高等教育机构合作伙伴的关系，以促进未来的研究合作。

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.