Hugh Cunningham (historian)
Hugh St Clair Cunningham (born 1942) is a historian and retired academic. A specialist in the history of childhood, nationalism, philanthropy and leisure, he is an emeritus professor of social history at the University of Kent.
Career
Born in 1942,[1] Cunningham completed a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Cambridge, graduating in 1963.[2] He was then a lecturer at the University of Sierra Leone from 1963 to 1966.[1] He returned to studying, completing a doctorate at the University of Sussex; his DPhil was awarded in 1969[2] for his thesis "British Public Opinion and the Eastern Question 1877–1878".[3]
In 1969, Cunningham became a lecturer at the University of Kent, where he was promoted to a senior lecturership in 1984 and then to be professor of social history in 1991.[1] He was still on the faculty at the end of the 2001–2002 year,[4] but had retired by March 2004.[5] He was appointed an emeritus professor on retirement.[5] In a staff profile, he listed his specialisms as: the "history of childhood; leisure; popular nationalism; British history 1832–1918".[6] More recently, he has studied charity and philanthropy.[7]
Bibliography
Books
- Cunningham, Hugh (1975). The Volunteer Force: A Social and Political History 1859–1908. London: Croom Helm. ISBN 9780856642579.
- Cunningham, Hugh (1980). Leisure in the Industrial Revolution, c. 1780–c. 1880. London: Croom Helm. ISBN 9780312478940.
- Cunningham, Hugh (1991). The Children of the Poor: Representations of Childhood since the Seventeenth Century. Oxford: Blackwell. ISBN 9780631171621.
- Cunningham, Hugh (1995). Children and Childhood in Western Society since 1500. London: Longman. ISBN 9780582238534.
- Cunningham, Hugh; Viazzo, Pier Paolo, eds. (1996). Child Labour in Historical Perspective, 1800–1985: Studies from Europe, Japan and Colombia (PDF). Florence: UNICEF International Child Development Centre. ISBN 9788885401273.
- Cunningham, Hugh, ed. (1996). Barn og Barndom fra Middelalder til Moderne Tid. Oslo: Ad Notam Gyldendal. ISBN 9788241707117.
- Cunningham, Hugh; Innes, Joanna, eds. (1998). Charity, Philanthropy and Reform: From the 1690s to 1850. Basingstoke: Macmillan Press. ISBN 9781349266838.
- Cunningham, Hugh (2001). The Challenge of Democracy: Britain, 1832–1918. Harlow: Pearson Education. ISBN 9780582313040.
- Cunningham, Hugh (2005). Children and Childhood in Western Society since 1500 (2nd ed.). Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781315835495. ISBN 9781315835495.
- Cunningham, Hugh (2006). Die Geschichte des Kindes in der Neuzeit. Düsseldorf: Artemis and Winkler. ISBN 9783538072299.
- Cunningham, Hugh (2006). The Invention of Childhood. London: BBC Books. ISBN 9780563493907.
- Cunningham, Hugh (2007). Grace Darling: Victorian Heroine. London: Hambledon Continuum. ISBN 9781852855482.
- Cunningham, Hugh (2014). Time, Work and Leisure: Life Changes in England since 1700. Studies in Popular Culture. Manchester: Manchester University Press. ISBN 9780719085208.
- Cunningham, Hugh (2020). Children and Childhood in Western Society since 1500 (3rd ed.). Abingdon: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781003033165. ISBN 9781003033165.
- Cunningham, Hugh (2020). The Reputation of Philanthropy Since 1750: Britain and Beyond. Manchester: Manchester University Press. doi:10.7765/9781526146397. ISBN 9781526146373. S2CID 216333341.
Peer-reviewed articles and chapters
- Cunningham, Hugh (1969). "Jingoism and the Working Classes, 1877–78". Bulletin of the Society for the Study of Labour History. 19: 6–9. doi:10.3828/lhr.19.1.4.
- Cunningham, Hugh (1971). "Jingoism in 1877–78". Victorian Studies. 14 (4): 429–453. JSTOR 3825960.
- Cunningham, Hugh (1977). "The Metropolitan Fairs: A Case Study in the Social Control of Leisure". In Donajgrodzki, A. P. (ed.). Social Control in Nineteenth-Century Britain. London: Croom Helm. pp. 163–184. ISBN 9780874718805.
- Cunningham, Hugh (1981). "The Language of Patriotism, 1750–1914". History Workshop Journal. 12 (1): 8–33. doi:10.1093/hwj/12.1.8.
- Cunningham, Hugh (1981). "Class and Leisure in Mid-Victorian England". In Waites, Bernard; Bennett, Tony; Martin, Graham (eds.). Popular Culture: Past and Present. London: Croom Helm. pp. 66–91. doi:10.4324/9781315002408-11. ISBN 9780415040334.
- Cunningham, Hugh (1985). "Leisure". In Benson, John (ed.). The Working Class in England, 1875–1914. London: Croom Helm. pp. 133–164. ISBN 9781317268802.
- Cunningham, Hugh (1986). "The Conservative Party and Patriotism". In Colls, Robert; Dodd, P. (eds.). Englishness: Politics and Culture, 1880–1920. London: Croom Helm. pp. 283–307. ISBN 9780709945628.
- Cunningham, Hugh (1987). "Child Labour in the Industrial Revolution". The Historian. 14: 3–8.
- Cunningham, Hugh (1990). "The Employment and Unemployment of Children in England, c.1680–1851". Past and Present. 126 (126): 115–150. doi:10.1093/past/126.1.115. JSTOR 650811.
- Cunningham, Hugh (1990). "Leisure and Culture". In Thompson, F. M. L. (ed.). The Cambridge Social History of Britain, 1750–1950. Vol. 2. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 279–340. doi:10.1017/CHOL9780521257893.007. ISBN 9781139055598.
- Cunningham, Hugh (1994). "The Rights of the Child from the Mid-Eighteenth to the Early Twentieth Century". Aspects of Education. 50: 2–16.
- Cunningham, Hugh (1994). "The Nature of Chartism". In Catterall, Peter (ed.). Britain 1815–1867. History Briefings. London: Heinemann. pp. 45–50. ISBN 9780435310004.
- Cunningham, Hugh (1995). "Leisure". In Leventhal, Fred M. (ed.). Twentieth-Century Britain: An Encyclopedia. New York and London: Garland Publishing. pp. 450–452. ISBN 9780824072056.
- Cunningham, Hugh; Viazzo, Pier Paolo (1996). "Some Issues in the Historical Study of Child Labour". In Cunningham, Hugh; Viazzo, Pier Paolo (eds.). Child Labour in Historical Perspective, 1800–1985: Studies from Europe, Japan and Colombia (PDF). Florence: UNICEF International Child Development Centre. pp. 11–22. ISBN 9788885401273.
- Cunningham, Hugh (1996). "Combating Child Labour: The British Experience". In Cunningham, Hugh; Viazzo, Pier Paolo (eds.). Child Labour in Historical Perspective, 1800–1985: Studies from Europe, Japan and Colombia (PDF). Florence: UNICEF International Child Development Centre. pp. 41–56. ISBN 9788885401273.
- Cunningham, Hugh (1996). "The History of Childhood". In Hwang, C. Philip; Lamb, Michael E.; Sigel, Irving E. (eds.). Images of Childhood. Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. pp. 27–35. ISBN 9780805817010.
- Cunningham, Hugh (1998). "Histories of Childhood". The American Historical Review. 103 (4): 1195–1208. doi:10.1086/ahr/103.4.1195. JSTOR 2651207.
- Cunningham, Hugh (1998). "Introduction". In Cunningham, Hugh; Innes, Joanna (eds.). Charity, Philanthropy and Reform: From the 1690s to 1850. Basingstoke: Macmillan Press. pp. 1–15. ISBN 9781349266838.
- Cunningham, Hugh (2000). "The Decline of Child Labour: Labour Markets and Family Economies in Europe and North America since 1830". The Economic History Review. 53 (3): 409–428. doi:10.1111/1468-0289.00165.
- Cunningham, Hugh (2001). "The Rights of the Child and the Wrongs of Child Labour: An Historical Perspective". In Leiten, Kristoffel; White, Ben (eds.). Child Labour: Policy Options. Amsterdam: Aksant Academic Publishers. pp. 13–26. ISBN 9789052600086.
- Cunningham, Hugh (2003). "Children's Changing Lives from 1800 to 2000". In Maybin, Janet; Woodhead, Martin (eds.). Childhoods in Context. Chichester: John Wiley and the Open University. pp. 81–128. ISBN 9780470846933.
- Cunningham, Hugh (2003). "Elites and the Army in Britain, 1850–1950". In Bosbach, Franz; Robbins, Keith; Urbach, Karina (eds.). Geburt oder Leistung?: Elitenbildung im Deutsch-Britischen Vergleich. Prinz-Albert-Studien. Vol. 21. Munich: K. G. Saur. pp. 91–100. doi:10.1515/9783110967968.91. ISBN 9783110967968.
- Cunningham, Hugh (2004). "Childhood Histories". Journal of Victorian Culture. 9 (1): 90–96. doi:10.3366/jvc.2004.9.1.90.
- Cunningham, Hugh (2005). "How Many Children Were 'Unemployed' in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century England?: Reply". Past and Present. 187 (187): 203–215. doi:10.1093/pastj/gti006. JSTOR 3600711.
- Cunningham, Hugh; Stromquist, Shelton (2005). "Child Labour and the Rights of Children: Historical Patterns of Decline and Persistence". In Weston, Burns H. (ed.). Child Labour and Human Rights: Making Children Matter. London: Lynne Rienner. pp. 55–83. ISBN 9781588263247.
- Cunningham, Hugh (2008). "Dickens as a Reformer". In Paroissien, David (ed.). A Companion to Charles Dickens. Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 159–173. doi:10.1002/9780470691908.ch10. ISBN 9781405130974.
- Cunningham, Hugh (2011). Lieten, Kristoffel; van Nederveen Meerkerk, Elise (eds.). Child Labour's Global Past, 1650-2000. International and Comparative Social History. Bern: Peter Lang. pp. 61–74. doi:10.3726/978-3-0351-0218-5. ISBN 9783034305174.
- Cunningham, Hugh (2012). "Saving the Children, c.1830–c.1920". In Morrison, Heidi (ed.). The Global History of Childhood Reader. Routledge Readers in History. London: Routledge. pp. 359–374. ISBN 9780415782494.
- Cunningham, Hugh (2016). "The Multi-Layered History of Western Philanthropy". In Jung, Tobias; Phillips, Susan D.; Harrow, Jenny (eds.). The Routledge Companion to Philanthropy. The Routledge Companions. Abingdon: Routledge. pp. 42–55. doi:10.4324/9781315740324. ISBN 9781315740324.
- Cunningham, Hugh (2016). "Philanthropy and Its Critics: A History". In Morvaridi, Behrooz (ed.). New Philanthropy and Social Justice: Debating the Conceptual and Policy Discourse. Bristol: Policy Press. pp. 17–32. doi:10.1332/policypress/9781447316978.001.0001. ISBN 9781447316992.
References
- The Writers' Directory 2005, vol. 1 (2005), p. 373.
- The Academic Who's Who (A. and C. Black, 1973), p. 110.
- "British Public Opinion and the Eastern Question 1877–1878", EThOS (British Library). Retrieved 7 June 2021.
- "Our Academic Staff", University of Kent. Archived at the Internet Archive on 15 August 2002.
- "Staff at the School of History", University of Kent. Archived at the Internet Archive on 7 March 2004.
- "Professor Hugh Cunningham", University of Kent. Archived at the Internet Archive 29 April 2001.
- "Hugh Cunningham", University of Kent. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
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