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  • Did Soldiers Really Enlist to Desert Their Wives? Revisiting the Martial Character of Marital Desertion in Eighteenth-Century London

  • Jennine Hurl-Eamon
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    Journal of British Studies / Volume 53 / Issue 2 / April 2014
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    22 April 2014, pp. 356-377

  • Many historians of plebeian marriage have accepted David Kent's findings that married men in eighteenth-century London enlisted to desert their wives. This article argues that this was far from always the case. Enlistment could serve as a family survival strategy for pauper husbands, particularly during mobilization periods. Bounties, shorter terms of service, and pensions could entice responsible providers. The militia or guards regiments appealed to family men because of their stable income and low risk of foreign deployment. Accounts of agonized quayside partings indicate that some married recruits who left British soil had expected the army to allow their wives to accompany them. Kent considered every army wife who sought parish relief as abandoned, yet resort to the parish might form part of a complex family survival strategy that included wives’ begging and soldiers’ taking on extra work and sending home their pay. Some men used military service as a way to fulfill husbandly duties, not to avoid them.

  • JBR volume 53 issue 2 Cover and Back matter

  • Journal:
    Journal of British Studies / Volume 53 / Issue 2 / April 2014
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    22 April 2014, pp. b1-b5
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  • Editors’ Introduction: JBS 53.2 (April 2014)

  • Brian Cowan, Elizabeth Elbourne
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    Journal of British Studies / Volume 53 / Issue 2 / April 2014
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    22 April 2014, pp. 269-272
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  • Questioning a Late Victorian “Dyad”: Preservationism, Demolitionism, and the City of London Churches, 1860–1904

  • Ben Weinstein
  • Journal:
    Journal of British Studies / Volume 53 / Issue 2 / April 2014
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    22 April 2014, pp. 400-425

  • Between 1841 and 1904, fourteen of Sir Christopher Wren's City of London churches, accounting for over a third of the City's forty Wrens, were demolished. But for certain deficiencies in the legislation enabling City church demolition, the toll would have been much higher. At one point during the late 1860s, well over half of all City churches had been selected for demolition. City church demolition was the most focused and yet also the most sustained episode of Victorian “vandalism,” and it therefore offers a uniquely appropriate case study through which to draw larger conclusions about late Victorian attitudes to the relative merits of historic preservation and development. The debates surrounding the demolition of Wren's City churches suggest that many advocates of historic building demolition were not, as William Morris would have us believe, “utilitarian philistines.” Nor, for that matter, were all preservationists motivated by heritage concerns.

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