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  • Special Forum: Handwriting and Power in Early Stuart England Introduction

  • Noah Millstone
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    Journal of British Studies / Volume 62 / Issue 1 / January 2023
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    03 March 2023, pp. 132-133
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  • Early Stuart England was awash in handwriting. Handwriting was the medium of property records, law, account books, and scholarly note taking. A large share of government was conducted through handwritten policy briefs, registers, and circular letters. Equally, it was the medium of prisoners, beggars, petitioners, and village wits. Collectors compiled handwritten poems, prophecies, speeches, recipes, and anecdotes. The number of English people who knew how to operate a printing press was probably in the low hundreds, the number who could write at least a bit likely in the hundreds of thousands. Writing was accessible, widely understood, and practiced. It was the medium to hand.

  • JBR volume 62 issue 1 Cover and Front matter

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    Journal of British Studies / Volume 62 / Issue 1 / January 2023
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    03 March 2023, pp. f1-f8
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  • Politeness, Civility, and Violence on the New South Wales “Frontier,” 1788–1816

  • Rosi Carr
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    Journal of British Studies / Volume 62 / Issue 1 / January 2023
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    03 March 2023, pp. 21-48

  • Interrogating the relationship between politeness and violence in Warrane/Sydney, 1788–ca. 1816, this article investigates the impact of Enlightenment thought in the transoceanic British colonial world. The author argues that polite sociability was crucial to the imposition and self-justification of the British occupation of Eora country. Principally examining the published and personal journals and diaries of First Fleet officers, the author reveals how politeness was a display of European notions of civility understood within a stadial model of progress: Enlightenment ideology enabled the ruling naval elite to consider their invasion friendly, despite the lethal violence of colonial occupation. Foregrounding the construction and performance of a status-specific whiteness in colonial space, the author shows how politeness in the colonial context justified rather than mitigated violence. In so doing, they hope to destabilize our understanding of the Scottish Enlightenment, politeness, and violence. In what is primarily a study of Enlightenment and settler colonialism, Indigenous perspectives provide a crucial framework to comprehend the British naval elites’ commitment to the imposition of civility by force in Warrane/Sydney.

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