Yr Athro Garthine Walker

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Major Projects

Rape in England and Wales c.1500-c.1800

Funded by a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship

This project investigates the complex changes in the treatment of rape in the period 1500-1800. By examining a rich array of primary sources and situating rape in its broader cultural and individual contexts, I shall show that rape does have a history, but not one that we necessarily expect. How did the 'everyman-rapist' of the sixteenth century become the 'aberrant monster' of the late eighteenth? Why did seventeenth-century people seem to believe that guilty men were acquitted and their victims genuine? When and why did these perceptions change? What role did misogyny, religion, politics, and news play in changing attitudes? And what were the practical implications for women and children seeking justice? These questions will be explored in a number of articles and in a monograph. Early fruits of the project have been published in 2013 in History Workshop Journal and in Past & Present - my article in the latter was awarded the 2014 Sutherland Prize of the American Society for Legal History.

Women Negotiating the Boundaries of Justice: Britain and Ireland, c.1100-c.1750

Funded by an AHRC Research Project Grant, 2014–2018

This four-year project explores women’s relative access to justice in a wide range of different courts, from a comparative perspective. The project team includes Principal Investigator Dr Deborah Youngs (Swansea University), and Co-Investigators Dr Garthine Walker and Professor Alexandra Shepard (University of Glasgow), two Research Associates, and two PhD students. The project's objectives are:

• To challenge the essentialist assumption found in many studies that women's gender placed them at a monolithic disadvantage: much relevant historical research is narrowly focused and draws inappropriate comparisons over time, place, and jurisdiction. Here, attention is paid to the potential differences of jurisdiction and region, and to the significance of language, ethnicity, and other affiliations and identities of individuals and groups.
• To assess critically the frameworks within which women's engagement with the law has been studied, and to challenge the tendency within British legal history to work within discrete, national frameworks and assume that the English situation represents a norm.  Given that women still struggle to obtain equal access to justice, particularly in politically unstable regions, the project intervenes in contemporary debates about women's legal subjectivity and the extent to which inequities might be disrupted or modified by political change.
• To compare women's strategies at different times and in diverse legal structures. A more nuanced understanding of gender is possible by exploring comparative determinants of difference. This project examines women as perpetrators, victims, plaintiffs, petitioners, and witnesses by mapping their experience of justice in a number of discrete contexts: Anglo-Norman England (including a focus on Jewish women); the English colony in late medieval Ireland; late medieval and early modern Wales; early modern Scotland, and early eighteenth century Scotland, Wales and England. Criminal, civil and church courts allow the study of violent offences, property disputes, marital and child custody cases, punishment, alternative routes to justice and the hierarchy of resort.

Details of the research project can be found on the project homepage.

Publications

Books

The Extraordinary and the Everyday in Early Modern England: Essays in Celebration of the Work of Bernard Capp, co-edited with Angela McShane (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).

Gender & Change: Agency, Chronology and Periodisation, co-edited with Alexandra Shepard (Blackwell, 2009). Also published as a Special Issue of Gender & History 20:3 (November 2008), to celebrate the twentieth volume of the journal.

Writing Early Modern History (Hodder Arnold/Bloomsbury, 2005).

Crime, Gender and Social Order in Early Modern England [Studies in Early Modern British History Series] (Cambridge University Press, 2003), 140,000 words, 310pp.

Women, Crime and the Courts in Early Modern England, co-edited with Jenny Kermode (UCL Press and University of North Carolina Press, 1994).

Journal articles (excluding review articles)

‘Imagining the Unimaginable: Parricide in Early Modern England and Wales, c.1600–c.1760’, Journal of Family History 41:3 (July 2016), forthcoming.

‘Everyman or a Monster? The Rapist in Early Modern England’, History Workshop Journal 76 (2013), pp. 5-31. 

‘Rape, Acquittal and Culpability in Popular Crime Reports in England, c.1670–c.1750’, Past & Present, 220 (August 2013), pp. 115-42. Winner of the Sutherland Prize 2014 of the American Society for Legal History.

‘Gender, Change and Periodisation’, co-authored with Alexandra Shepard, Gender & History 20:3 (2008), pp. 453-462.

‘Widernatürliche Mütter? Die Tötung neugeborener Kinder und das englische Gesetz im siebzehnten Jahrhundert’, Querelles: Jahrbuch für Frauenforschung, Band 5 (2000), pp. 255-63.

‘Rereading Rape and Sexual Violence in Early Modern England’, Gender & History 10:1 (1998), pp. 1-25.

‘Expanding the Boundaries of Female Honour in Early Modern England’, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 6th ser., 6 (1996), pp. 235-45.

Book chapters

‘Historical Research’, in T. Loughran ed., A Practical Guide to Studying History: Skills and Approaches (Bloomsbury Academic, forthcoming, January 2017). In press.

‘Framing Premodern Desires: Between Sexuality, Sin and Crime. An Introduction’ in Framing Premodern Desires ed. Satu Lidman et al. [Crossing Boundaries Turku Medieval and Early Modern Studies] (University of Amsterdam Press, forthcoming 2016).

‘Child-Killing and Emotion in Early Modern England and Wales’, in Small Graves: Death, Emotion & Childhood in Early Modern Europe, ed. Katie Barclay, Ciara Rawnsley and Kim Reynolds (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 2016). In press.

‘Rape and Sexual Violence in Europe, 1500–1750’, in The Routledge History of Sex and the Body in the West, 1500 to the Present, eds Kate Fisher and Sarah Toulalan (Routledge, 2013).

‘The Strangeness of the Familiar: Witchcraft and the Law in Early Modern England’, in The Extraordinary and the Everyday in Early Modern England: Essays in Celebration of the Work of Bernard Capp, eds Angela McShane and Garthine Walker (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), 105-24.

‘Gender, Change and Periodisation’, co-authored with Alexandra Shepard, in Gender & Change: Agency, Chronology and Periodisation, co-edited with Alexandra Shepard (Blackwell, 2009), pp. 1-12.

‘Keeping it in the Family: Crime and the Early Modern Household’, in The Family in Early Modern England: Essays Presented to Anthony Fletcher, eds Helen Berry and Elizabeth Foyster (Cambridge University Press, 2007), pp. 67-95.

‘Modernization’, in Writing Early Modern History, ed. Garthine Walker (Hodder Arnold, 2005), pp. 25-48.

‘Introduction’ to Writing Early Modern History, ed. Garthine Walker (Hodder Arnold, 2005), pp. xi-xvii.

‘Telling Tales of Infant Death in Seventeenth-Century England’, in Culture and Change: Attending to Early Modern Women, eds Margaret Mikesell and Adele Seeff (University of Delaware Press and Associated University Presses, 2003), pp. 98-115.

‘Psychoanalysis and History’, in Writing History: Theory and Practice, eds Stefan Berger, Heiko Felder and Kevin Passmore (Arnold, 2003), pp. 141-60.

‘“Strange Kind of Stealing”: Abduction in Early Modern Wales’, in Women and Gender in Early Modern Wales, eds Michael Roberts and Simone Clarke (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2000), pp. 50-74.

‘“Demons in Female Form”: Representations of Women and Gender in Murder Pamphlets of the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries’, in Writing and the English Renaissance, eds William Zunder and Suzanne Trill (Longman, 1996), pp. 123-39.

‘Women, Theft and the World of Stolen Goods’ in Women, Crime and the Courts in Early Modern England, eds Jenny Kermode and Garthine Walker (UCL Press and University of North Carolina Press, 1994), pp. 81-105.

‘Introduction’ to Women, Crime and the Courts in Early Modern England, eds Jenny Kermode and Garthine Walker (UCL Press and University of North Carolina Press, 1994): pp. 1-25 [with Jenny Kermode].

Addysgu

Undergraduate

• Crime in England and Wales 1500-1750 - 30 credits (HS1841)
• The Dynamics of Witchcraft 1450-1750 [Europe, Britain and the New World] (HS1790)
• Dissertation - 30 credits (HS1801)
• Exploring Historical Debate - 30 credits (HS1702)
• Early Modern England and Wales - 20 credits (HS1106)
• History in Practice: Fury, Folly and Footnotes - 20 credits (HS1107)

Postgraduate

• Order & Disorder in Early Modern Society I - 20 credits (HST629)
• Order and Disorder in Early Modern Society II - 20 credits (HST888)
• Historiographical Study I: Key themes - 10 credits (HST698)
• Historiographical Study II: Key debates - 10 credits (HST699)
• Historical Theory and Historical Methods - 30 credits (HST644)
• Key Research Skills - 10 credits (HST643)
• An Introduction to Early Modern Palaeography - 10 credits (HST813)
• Analysing Early Modern Primary Sources - 10 credits (HST814)

Bywgraffiad

Anrhydeddau a dyfarniadau

Gwobrau, anrhydeddau, rhagoriaeth diweddar

2015  Ymddiriedolaeth Leverhulme Athro Gwadd i alluogi'r Athro Tim Stretton (Prifysgol y Santes Fair, Halifax, Canada) i dreulio chwe mis ym Mhrifysgol Caerdydd.

2015  Y Gymdeithas Hanesyddol Frenhinol, Grant Cynhadledd i drefnwyr cynadleddau i gefnogi costau cofrestru cynadleddau ar gyfer cynadleddau hanesyddol lle mae ymchwilwyr gyrfa gynnar (PGR ac ôl-ddoethuriaeth uniongyrchol) yn cymryd rhan sylweddol.

2015  Darlith Gyhoeddus Flynyddol, Canolfan Hanes Rhywedd, Prifysgol Glasgow.

Prosiect AHRC 2014  'Trafod Ffiniau Cyfiawnder: Prydain ac Iwerddon, c1100-c.1750' (48 mis).

2014 Gwobr Sutherland Cymdeithas Hanes Cyfreithiol America am yr erthygl orau ar Hanes Lloegr a gyhoeddwyd yn y flwyddyn flaenorol, am 'Rape, Acquittal and Culpability in Popular Crime Reports in England, c.1670–c.1750', Past & Present, 220 (Awst 2013), tt. 115-42. 

2013  Leverhulme Trust Cymrodoriaeth Ymchwil Fawr (36-mis).

Grant Datblygu Ymchwil 2013  , Ymchwil Hanes Cymru.

2012  Athro Gwadd / Directeur d'études, École des Hautes études en Sciences Sociale, Paris.

Aelodaethau proffesiynol

Byrddau golygyddol a chynghorol

• Gender & History, cydweithfa olygyddol, 2004-2019 (Golygydd Adolygiadau Llyfrau, 2004-2007).
• Journal of Social History, bwrdd golygyddol, 2005-2011.
• Adolygiad Hanes y Merched, bwrdd golygyddol, 2004-2009.
• Ailfeddwl Hanes, bwrdd golygyddol, 1997-presennol.
• Y Gyfraith, Trosedd a Hanes, bwrdd cynghori golygyddol, 2011-presennol.
• Crimes & Misdemeanours: Deviance and the Law in Historical Perspective, bwrdd cynghori golygyddol, 2007-2010.
• H-Frauen-L: Hanes Menywod a Rhyw yn Ewrop Modern Cynnar, Rhestr Trafodaeth H-Net, pwyllgor golygyddol, 1998-2002.

• Aelod o'r bwrdd ymgynghorol, Prosiect Ymchwil Ymddiriedolaeth Leverhulme, 'Gwaith Menywod yng nghefn gwlad Lloegr 1500-1700: Dull Methodolegol Newydd', 2015-2018 (PI: Yr Athro Jane Whittle, Caerwysg).
• Adolygiad Allanol Arbenigol, Cyfnodol o Raglenni Israddedig, Adran Hanes, Prifysgol Essex, 2013.
• Arbenigwr Pwnc Allanol i ddilysu MA mewn Hanes Modern Cynnar, Prifysgol Abertawe, 2006.

Meysydd goruchwyliaeth

Ymchwil Ôl-raddedig

Myfyrwyr Ymchwil (wedi'u cwblhau)

2019. Elizabeth Howard, 'Menywod a Throseddu yng Nghymru 1550-1660': [grant prosiect ymchwil], goruchwyliwr arweiniol hyd at 2017. 

2018 Abby Johns, 'Marwolaeth, Damweiniau a Phlant yng Nghymru a Lloegr 1600-1800': Cyllid AHRC [SWW-DTP], PhD, goruchwyliwr arweiniol hyd at 2017.

2018 Anna Field, 'Intimate Crime in Early Modern England and Wales 1660-1760': PhD a ariennir gan AHRC [SWW-DTP] PhD 2018, goruchwyliwr arweiniol hyd at 2017.

2016 Hector Roddan, 'Diffinio Gwahaniaethau: Dimensiwn Crefyddol Naratifau Teithio Modern Modern Cynnar Lloegr, c.1550-c.1840': goruchwyliwr arweiniol, a ariennir gan AHRC.

2015 Catherine Horler-Underwood, 'Troseddolrwydd menywod yng Nghymru, c.1660-c.1803': PhD a ariennir gan AHRC, goruchwyliwr arweiniol.

2014 Rachel Butler, 'Dirgelion cudd a chyfrinachau agored: negodi oedran yn niwylliant yr ail ganrif ar bymtheg a'r ddeunawfed ganrif': PhD a ariennir gan AHRC, goruchwyliwr arweiniol.

2006 Rachel Bowen, 'The anatomy of abuses': natur, artifice and the body, 1300-1700': PhD a ariennir gan AHRB, goruchwyliwr arweiniol.

2005 Kevin Stagg, 'Rhoi trefn ar y bwystfilod: mynachlogrwydd yn y gymdeithas fodern gynnar': PhD a ariennir gan AHRB, goruchwyliwr arweiniol.

2001 Patricia E. Brimer, 'Poblogaeth ym mhlwyf Awre: maint, twf a strwythur, 1538-1811': PhD, goruchwyliwr arweiniol.

2001 Anna Lovelock, 'Rhyw, stereoteipiau a straeon am gwrteisi a thrais domestig yn llysoedd Cymru a Lloegr fodern gynnar': MPhil, goruchwyliwr arweiniol.

Ar y gweill:

Wendy Hill, 'The Representation of Sexual Deviance in Jacobean Drama and a Presentist Study of its Reception', PhD rhan-amser, cyd-oruchwyliwr hyd at 2017 gyda Dr Ceri Sullivan yn yr Ysgol Saesneg, Cyfathrebu ac Athroniaeth.

Jasmine Losasso, 'Cyrff bradychu a Diymffrost Demeanours yn Lloegr Modern Cynnar c.1600-1750': Ariennir AHRC [SWW-DTP], goruchwyliwr arweiniol hyd at 2017.

Archwilio allanol

• Prifysgol Hull, PhD arholwr allanol, 2018.
• Coleg y Drindod Dulyn, Arholwr allanol PhD, 2016.
• Prifysgol Durham, MA Hanes, 2015-2017.
• Prifysgol Gorllewin Awstralia, PhD arholwr allanol, 2009. 
• Prifysgol East Anglia, PhD arholwr allanol, 2008. 
• Prifysgol St Andrews, Is-anrhydedd Israddedig Hanes, 2008-2012.
• Prifysgol Roehampton, MA mewn Ymchwil Hanesyddol, 2004-2009.
• Prifysgol Llundain, PhD arholwr allanol, 2002.