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Emily Manktelow is a lecturer in British Imperial History. She is interested in the social, cultural and familial history of the British Empire in the nineteenth century, as well as colonial and postcolonial history more broadly. Having completed her PhD at King's College London in 2010, she spent two years as Teaching Fellow in Colonial and Postcolonial History at the University of Exeter, and one year as Lecturer in Modern British History at the University of York.
Her research interests have focussed on the history of missionary families in the nineteenth century and are strongly influenced by gender history, cultural history and colonial/postcolonial history. She is a founding member of the Christian Mission in Global History seminar at the Institute of Historical Research and her first academic monograph Missionary Families: Race, Gender and Generation on the Spiritual Frontier was published by Manchester University Press in August 2013.
Emily has a strong interest in the day-to-day dynamics of colonialism, and her current research is concerned with the social and global history of gossip. Her work (individual and collaborative) has been supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the University of London, Yale University (through the auspices of the David M. Stowe Fellowship), the Economic History Society and the Royal Historical Society. She is a founding member of the Family and Colonialism Research Network, and would be delighted to hear from anyone with an interest in families and colonialism.
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Rutherford College
University of Kent
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Publications
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Article
Manktelow, E. (2014). The rise and demise of missionary wives. Journal of Women's History [Online] 26:135-159. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jowh.2014.0011.
The white missionary couple is an assumed presence in mission history; its mid-nineteenth-century ubiquity read back into the formation of evangelical mission. This article questions that assumption by creating a chronological and conceptual framework for the professional trajectory of missionary women, and demonstrates that it was on the issue of female mission engagement that complex debates about the nature of mission were negotiated and defined. The rise of the missionary wife shaped mission history, through both the complementary rise of the civilizing mission and through active female spiritual agency. By the mid-nineteenth century, however, it was clear that missionary wives had created a space they could not fill in the evermore institutionalized and secularized world of mission building. The rise of single female religious engagement in Britain meanwhile provided a timely alternative to wifely activism, and missionary wives were increasingly institutionally marginalized by the very single female missionaries who had come to "assist" them.
Edited book
Jackson, W. and Manktelow, E.J. eds. (2015). Subverting Empire: Deviance and Disorder in the British Colonial World. [Online]. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137465870.
The British Empire was never as orderly as its architects would have us believe. Across the British imperial world, rules were broken, norms and social conventions were ignored and boundaries were transgressed. This is the first historical study to probe the colonial history of deviance, bringing to light stories of subversive behaviour that were deliberately covered up. With case studies ranging from Britain to New Zealand, India to East and Southern Africa, the book reveals what deviance in a colonial context actually entailed, as well as the ways in which deviants themselves were categorised, controlled and concealed. Ranging from murder to madness, forgery to fornication, Subverting Empire shows up the diverse ways in which governments attempted to enforce social order and the ingeniousness of those who undermined it.
Internet publication
Manktelow, E. (2015). Gender and the Family in Evangelical Mission [Online journal]. Available at: http://www.churchmissionarysociety.amdigital.co.uk/Explore/Essays/Manktelow.
"When it is well between me and my God, then it is well between me and my wife: and when it is well between me and my wife, then it is well between us and our children: and when it is well between us and our children, then it is well between our family and the servants: and when it is well within the house, then it is well between me and my people."
'Address of the Rev W. Jowett at the Opening of the Missionaries' Children's Home, Islington', CMS Gleaner 1:3 (June, 1850), p. 28.