Karen Harvey

Accepting PhD Students

PhD projects

I offer PhD supervision in several areas of eighteenth-century British history, particularly cultural and social history and the history of gender. I welcome collaborations with external partners. I am currently supervising PhDs including ones on women landowners in Shropshire, 1760-1860 (Sara Downs), black women in eighteenth-century England (Montaz Marche), curiosity in the eighteenth century (Jenni Dixon), women in seventeenth-century ballads (Eleanor Sutton) and experiences of separation in East India Company families (Anna Dearden).

Research activity per year

34 Article
8 Chapter
7 Book
3 Chapter (peer-reviewed)

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2025
Feeling old in eighteenth-century Britain
Harvey, K. & Fox, S., 4 Mar 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of British Studies.
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Ties of Intimacy: The Body and the Early Modern Family
Harvey, K., Vine, E. & Fox, S., 2025, Rethinking the Early Modern Family. Berry, H. & Foyster, E. (eds.). Cambridge University Press
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
2024
Archives of Embodiment: Body and Experience in the Archaeological and Historical Record
Harvey, K., Feb 2024, The Material Body: Embodiment, History and Archaeology in Industrializing England, 1700-1850. Craig-Atkins, E. & Harvey, K. (eds.). 1 ed. Manchester University Press, p. 22-46 24 p. (Social Archaeology and Material Worlds).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
Being Alongside: the practice of collaborative public history
Harvey, K., King, L. & McClellan, J., 15 Jan 2024, In: Rethinking History. 27, 4, p. 559-563 5 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Body
Harvey, K., 23 Jan 2024, (Accepted/In press) Cambridge History of Britain 1500-1750. Amussen, S., Monod, P. & Taylor, M. (eds.). Cambridge University Press, Vol. 5. 23 p. (The New Cambridge History of Britain; vol. 5).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
Introduction: Transformations in the Enlightenment Culture of Beauty
Harvey, K., 2 Feb 2024, (Accepted/In press) A Cultural History of Beauty in the Age of Enlightenment (1700 - 1800). Harvey, K. (ed.). London: Bloomsbury, Vol. 4. 36 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Introduction: The material body in archaeology and history
Harvey, K. & Craig-Atkins, E., Feb 2024, The Material Body: : Embodiment, History and Archaeology in Industrializing England, 1700-1850. Craig-Atkins, E. & Harvey, K. (eds.). 1 ed. Manchester University Press, p. 1-21 21 p. (Social Archaeology and Material Worlds).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Prayer for family and friends: the body and religion in eighteenth-century Britain
Harvey, K. & Vine, E., 26 Mar 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Historical Journal.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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The Material Body: Embodiment, History and Archaeology in Industrializing England, 1700-1850
Craig-Atkins, E. & Harvey, K., Feb 2024, 1 ed. Manchester University Press. 264 p. (Social Archaeology and Material Worlds )
Research output: Book/Report › Book
2023
Introduction
Harvey, K., Goldsmith, S. & Haggerty, S., 4 Jul 2023, Letters and the Body, 1700-1830: Writing and Embodiment. Harvey, K., Goldsmith, S. & Haggerty, S. (eds.). 1 ed. Routledge, p. 1-14 14 p. (Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Cultures and Societies).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Letters and the Body, 1700-1830: Writing and Embodiment
Goldsmith, S. (Editor), Haggerty, S. (Editor) & Harvey, K. (Editor), 4 Jul 2023, 1 ed. New York: Routledge. 286 p. (Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Cultures and Societies)
Research output: Book/Report › Book
Sympathy in practice: Eighteenth-century letters and the material body
Harvey, K., 4 Jul 2023, Letters and the Body, 1700-1830: Writing and Embodiment. Harvey, K., Goldsmith, S. & Haggerty, S. (eds.). 1st ed. Routledge, p. 85-102 18 p. (Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Cultures and Societies).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
Sympathy in practice: Eighteenth-century letters and the material body
Harvey, K., 4 Jul 2023, Letters and the Body, 1700-1830: Writing and Embodiment. Goldsmith, S., Haggerty, S. & Harvey, K. (eds.). 1 ed. Routledge, p. 85-102 17 p. (Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Cultures and Societies).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
2020

One British Thing: A History of Embodiment: Ann Purvis, ca.1793–1849
Harvey, K., Jan 2020, In: Journal of British Studies.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
The Game of Love in Georgian England: courtship, emotions, and material culture
Harvey, K., 2020, In: Social History.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
THE GREAT RABBIT HOAX
Harvey, K., 2020, In: History Today.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
The Imposteress Rabbit Breeder: Mary Toft and Eighteenth-Century England
Harvey, K., 23 Jan 2020, Oxford University Press. 224 p.
Research output: Book/Report › Book
2019
Epochs of embodiment: men, women and the material body
Harvey, K., Dec 2019, In: Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies. 42, 4, p. 455-469 15 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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2018
Rabbits, Whigs and Hunters: Women and Protest in Mary Toft’s monstrous births of 1726
Harvey, K., Feb 2018, In: Past & Present. 238, 1, p. 43–83 41 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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Sex and the Church in the Long Eighteenth Century: religion, enlightenment and the sexual revolution
Harvey, K., 2018, In: Social History. 43, 3, p. 404
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
2017

The Secrets of Generation: Reproduction in the Long Eighteenth Century
Harvey, K., 2017, In: Bulletin of the History of Medicine.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
2016

Tangible Things: making history through objects
Harvey, K., 2016, In: Social History.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
2015

Craftsmen in Common: Skills, Objects and Masculinity in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Harvey, K., 2015, Gender and Material Culture c.1750-1950: Hannah Greig, Jane Hamlett and Leonie Hannan. Palgrave Macmillan
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Men of parts: masculine embodiment and the male leg in Eighteenth-Century England
Harvey, K., 1 Oct 2015, In: Journal of British Studies. 54, 4, p. 797-821 25 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
10 Citations (Scopus)
What Mary Toft felt: women's voices, pain, power and the body
Harvey, K., 23 Sept 2015, In: History Workshop Journal. 80, 1, p. 33-51 19 p.
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‘Envisioning the Past: Art, Historiography and Public History’
Harvey, K., 2 Oct 2015, In: Cultural and Social History. 12, 4, p. 527-543 17 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
5 Citations (Scopus)
2014

Oeconomy and the eightenth-century house: A cultural history of social practice
Harvey, K., 2014, In: Home Cultures.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Politics by Design: Consumption, Identity and Allegiance
Harvey, K., 2014
Research output: Book/Report › Book
The manuscript history of Tristram Shandy
Harvey, K., 2014, In: Review of English Studies.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
2013

Cruelty and Laughter: Forgotten Comic Literature and the Unsentimental Eighteenth Century
Harvey, K., 2013, In: Journal of British Studies. 52, 2, p. 499-500
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Gender II: Masculinity acquires a history
Harvey, K., 2013
Research output: Book/Report › Book
Parenting in England, 17601830: Emotion, Identity, & Generation
Harvey, K., 2013, In: Family & Community History.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
2012

Ritual encounters: Punch parties and masculinity in the eighteenth century
Harvey, K., 2012, In: Past and Present.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
The Little Republic : Masculinity and Domestic Authority in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Harvey, K., 2012
Research output: Book/Report › Book
2011

Men Making Home: Masculinity and Domesticity in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Harvey, K., 2011, Homes and Homecomings: Gendered Histories of Domesticity and Return.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
2010

Domestic Affairs: Intimacy, Eroticism, and Violence between Servants and Masters in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Harvey, K., 2010, In: American Historical Review.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Le Siècle du sexe? Genre, corps et sexualité au dix-huitème siècle
Harvey, K., 2010, In: Clio: Histoire, Femmes et Societes.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Locating Privacy in Tudor London
Harvey, K., 2010, In: Cultural and Social History. 7, 3, p. 399-400
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
The century of sex? Gender, body and sexuality in the eighteenth century (about 1650-about 1850)
Translated title of the contribution: Le siècle du sexe? Genre, corps et sexualité au dixhuitième siècle (vers 1650-vers 1850)Harvey, K., 2010, In: Clio: Histoire, Femmes et Societes. p. 207-238
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Visualizing Reproduction: A Cultural History of Early-Modern and Modern Medical Illustrations
Harvey, K., 2010, In: Journal of Medical Humanities.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
2008
Barbarity in a teacup? Punch, domesticity and gender in the eighteenth century
Harvey, K., 2008, In: Journal of Design History. 21, 3, p. 205-211
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Household Gods: A History of the British and Their Possessions
Harvey, K., 2008, In: English Historical Review.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
2006

Birthing the nation: Sex, science, and the conception of eighteenth-century Britons
Harvey, K., 2006, In: Journal of British Studies.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Designing women: The dressing room in eighteenth-century English literature and culture
Harvey, K., 2006, In: Eighteenth Century Studies.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
2005

Sexuality and the body
Harvey, K., 2005, Women's History, Britain 1700-1850: An Introduction.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
The history of masculinity, circa 1650-1800
Harvey, K., 2005, In: Journal of British Studies. 44, 2, p. 296-311
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
What have historians done with masculinity? Reflections on five centuries of British history, circa 1500-1950
Harvey, K. & Shepard, A., 2005, In: Journal of British Studies. 44, 2, p. 274-280
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
2004

Fashioning adultery: Gender, sex and civility in England, 1660-1740
Harvey, K., 2004, In: Social History.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Reading Sex in the Eighteenth Century: Bodies and Gender in English Erotic Culture
Harvey, K., 2004
Research output: Book/Report › Book
2002

The century of sex? gender, bodies, and sexuality in the long eighteenth century
Harvey, K., 2002, In: Historical Journal.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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