Shaping the Day: A History of Timekeeping in England and Wales 1300-1800

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Paul Glennie and Nigel Thrift

Paul Glennie and Nigel Thrift are cultural geographers who work with historians at the intersection of the humanities and social sciences. They have ranged widely for examples and evidence, but their citations come more commonly from secondary sources than from archives. Their structure is episodic, deliberately eschewing a linear narrative. They write like a committee, frequently pausing to summarize, to reiterate, to repeat or explain themselves. The work is supported by 50 figures, 42 tables, and eleven plates on the temporal and spatial distribution of clocks and timekeeping practices.

Though the work covers England and Wales, many of the maps stop at the borders of England. Time awareness, for Glennie and Thrift, was so deeply naturalized that most people took it for granted. It depended less on devices than on practices.

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Their case-study of the availability and use of clock time in late-medieval and early-modern Bristol illustrates the multiple utilities of time-knowledge, earlier than and independent of the rise of industrial capitalism. From schoolboys to wage workers, civic leaders to market regulators, and across religious, business, and leisure activities, the authors find cultures of time-consciousness, independent of the ownership of clocks and watches.

Time, it seems, belongs subtly and pervasively to the public sphere. The point is driven home by trawls through diaries, churchwardens' accounts, and both public and private records from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries, in which chronological precision is casually noted.

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Shaping the day a history of timekeeping in England and Wales, 1300-1800

Preview — Shaping the Day by Paul Glennie. Timekeeping is an essential activity in the modern world, and we take it for granted that our lives our shaped by the hours of the day. Yet what seems so ordinary today is actually the extraordinary outcome of centuries of technical innovation and circulation of ideas about time.

Shaping the Day is a pathbreaking study of the practice of timekeeping in England and Wales bet Timekeeping is an essential activity in the modern world, and we take it for granted that our lives our shaped by the hours of the day.

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Shaping the Day is a pathbreaking study of the practice of timekeeping in England and Wales between and Drawing on many unique historical sources, ranging from personal diaries to housekeeping manuals, Paul Glennie and Nigel Thrift illustrate how a particular kind of common sense about time came into being, and how it developed during this period. Many remarkable figures make their appearance, ranging from the well-known, such as Edmund Halley, Samuel Pepys, and John Harrison, who solved the problem of longitude, to less familiar characters, including sailors, gamblers, and burglars.

Overturning many common perceptions of the past-for example, that clock time and the industrial revolution were intimately related-this unique historical study will engage all readers interested in how "telling the time" has come to dominate our way of life. Hardcover , pages.

Shaping the Day: A History of Timekeeping in England and Wales by Paul Glennie

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This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Mar 17, Ian Fraser rated it really liked it. Very worthwhile, interesting and useful social history of timekeeping though I thought the chapter on John Harrison was not up to the standard of the rest of the book.