Ms Joanna Innes
M.A.
Lecturer (CUF) in Modern History
Email: joanna.innes@some.ox.ac.uk
Research Interests
Joanna Innes worked for many years on eighteenth-century British social policy. She is now working on a study of 'Loyalism, liberalism and social policy 1784-1818'. She is also engaged in a collaborative project, 'Reimagining Democracy: Europe and the Americas 1750-1850'.
Supervision Interests
Topics in the history of society and government in the British Isles c1680-1840. Theses recently supervised have focussed on such topics as Publishing painting in late seventeenth and early eighteenth-century England; Benjamin Franklin's networks: print culture and science in the Atlantic world; Religion and masculinity in late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century England and Popular periodicals and the 'march of intellect' in early nineteenth-century London
Selected Publications:
- 'State, Church and Voluntarism in European Welfare 1690-1850' in Charity, Philanthropy and Social Reform: From the 1690s to 1850. (London, 1998) pp. 15-65
- 'Origins of the Factory Acts: the Health and Morals of Apprentices Act 1802' in Law, Crime and English Society, 1660-1830. (Cambridge, 2002) pp. 230-255
- 'Legislating for Three Kingdoms: How the Westminster Parliament Legislated for England, Scotland and Ireland, 1707-1830' in Parliaments, Nations and Identities in Britain and Ireland, 1660-1850. (Manchester, 2003) pp. 15-47
- (ed.) Rethinking the Age of Reform Britain 1780-1850 . (Cambridge, 2003) 1-70, 71-97pp.
- Inferior Politics: social problems and social policy in eighteenth-century Britain. (2009)
Future Publications:
- 'National education: British and Irish debate in European perspective 1760-1815', Annales. (2010)
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