On Wednesday, 20th March 2024, Dr Lucinda Matthews-Jones joined us to discuss her current research project: the talk was titled ‘Walls, Doors and Windows: Urban Homemaking Through Settlement Houses, 1884-1920′. The seminar took place in MB0312, beginning at 4.30pm.
Lucie is a Reader in Victorian History at Liverpool John Moores University. Her research explores the role of home, gender and class in the British university and social settlement movement. She is currently working on a monograph provisionally entitled ‘Settling at Home: The Making of the British Settlement Movement, 1883-1920’. Her research has been published in leading journals including ‘Victorian Studies’, ‘Journal of Victorian Culture’, ‘Women’s History’, ‘Cultural and Social History’, and in the edited collection ‘What is Masculinity? and A Cultural History of Home’. She also has a secondary interest in lived religion. She edited, with Timothy Jones (University of Melbourne), ‘Material Religion in Modern Britain: The Spirit of Things’ and has recently had a book chapter published on working-class religious practices in Jane Hamlett’s edited book ‘A Cultural History of Home’.
This event was co-organised by The Nineteenth-Century Research Group and the Lincoln School of Humanities and Heritage Research Seminar.