Daniel Renshaw

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Lecturer
Areas of interest
My main research focus is on migration, diaspora and identity in Britain and Europe from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present day. I am interested in the complex ways in which relationships are formed between minority groups and the host society, and between minority and migrant communities sharing geographical or chronological space. These ideas informed my first book, which examined communal migrant politics in East London before the First World War. I am also interested in the evolution of prejudice and anti-migrant sentiment over the last two centuries, out of which grew my recently-published work on conceptions of repatriation and removal in modern Britain.
My current research examines confluences between migration, prejudice and the late-gothic fiction of the fin-de-siecle. In particular I am looking at the relationship between English and French vampire fiction and antisemitism, and how this reflected on the societies that created these cultural outputs. I am also planning a detailed study of the attitudes of the British Church institutions towards migration and minority identity over the course of the twentieth century.
Teaching
Undergraduate
Year One – Arriving in Britain: A History of Immigration, 1685-2004
Year One – Journeys in History One (Course Convenor)
Year Two – Europe in the Twentieth Century
Year Three – Poor Law to Hostile Environment: Repatriation, Deportation and Exclusion from Britain, 1800-2016
Year Three – Dissertation Supervision
Postgraduate MA (postgraduate taught)
History: Theory, Practice and Themes
Research projects
Websites/blogs
Here is my recent blog on the ‘other’ in seasonal gothic fiction
https://unireadinghistory.com/2021/12/13/the-gothic-other-at-christmas/
Selected publications
Publications
- Renshaw, D. (2023) ‘And now you love me, and there is no way out of it’: marital engagement, misogyny and violence in the Victorian fin-de-siècle gothic short story. Women's History Review , 32 (1). pp. 82-100. ISSN: 1747-583X | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2022.2103894
- Renshaw, D. (2022) ‘A fine fellow… although rather Semitic’: Jews and antisemitism in Jules Verne’s Le Château des Carpathes and Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Jewish Culture and History , 23 (4). pp. 289-306. ISSN: 1462-169X | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1462169X.2022.2131060
- Renshaw, D. (2022) Old prejudices and new prejudices: state surveillance and harassment of Irish and Jewish communities in London – 1800-1930. Immigrants and Minorities , 40 (1-2). pp. 79-105. ISSN: 0261-9288 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02619288.2021.1934673
- Renshaw, D. (2021) The discourse of repatriation in Britain, 1845-2016: a political and social history. Routledge Studies in Modern British History Routledge , Abingdon. pp 240. ISBN: 9781138579637
- Renshaw, D. (2020) The Queen’s loyal ‘Others’ –the Metropolitan Jewish and Catholic hierarchies, the communal press and the Diamond Jubilee of 1897. Immigrants and Minorities , 38 (3). pp. 184-204. ISSN: 0261-9288 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02619288.2020.1855422
- Renshaw, D. (2020) A letter to the editor, a challenge to the status quo? Radical and transgressive correspondence in the Anglo-Jewish press, 1901-1914. In: O'Hagan, L. , (eds.) Rebellious Writing: Contesting Marginalisation in Edwardian Britain. Writing and Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century Peter Lang , Oxford.
- Renshaw, D. (2020) Monsters in the capital: Helen Vaughan, Count Dracula and demographic fears in fin-de-siècle London. Gothic Studies , 22 (2). pp. 148-164. ISSN: 2050-456X | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.3366/gothic.2020.0046
- Renshaw, D. (2019) The other diasporas - Western and Southern European migrants in Charles Booth’s Life and Labour of the People in London. Journal of Migration History , 5 (1). pp. 134-159. ISSN: 2351-9924 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1163/23519924-00501006
- Renshaw, D. (2019) The disillusionment of Robert Dell: the intellectual journey of a Catholic socialist. Intellectual History Review , 29 (2). pp. 337-358. ISSN: 1749-6985 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17496977.2017.1370898
- Renshaw, D. (2018) Investigating the “other” – a comparative study of migrant settlement in the work of Charles Booth and Jacob Riis in Victorian London and New York. In: Ruiz, M. , (eds.) International Migrations in the Victorian Era. Studies in Global Social History , 33/11. Brill pp. 278-302. ISBN: 9789004366398
- Renshaw, D. (2018) The violent frontline: space, ethnicity and confronting the state in Edwardian Spitalfields and 1980s Brixton. Contemporary British History , 32 (2). pp. 231-252. ISSN: 1743-7997 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13619462.2018.1434001
- Renshaw, D. (2018) Socialism and the diasporic 'other': a comparative study of Irish Catholic and Jewish radical and communal politics in East London, 1889-1912. Studies in Labour History 11 Liverpool University Press , Liverpool, UK. pp 288. ISBN: 9781786941220
- Renshaw, D. (2016) Prejudice and paranoia: a comparative study of antisemitism and Sinophobia in turn-of-the-century Britain. Patterns of Prejudice , 50 (1). pp. 38-60. ISSN: 1461-7331 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0031322X.2015.1127646
- Renshaw, D. (2014) Control, cohesion and faith – a comparative discussion of immigrant communal control in the turn-of-the-century East End. Socialist History , 45 ISSN: 0969-4331