This page provides links to freely accessible full-text versions of my peer-reviewed published articles and other work. All of these works are available for study and research purposes, with just a few caveats:

1. you may link directly to any of the URLs of the texts, and you may download or print off single copies for personal use, but you may not republish or redistribute (eg, by email attachment) any of the files anywhere else;
2. you must acknowledge the source fully and accurately (see note below) if you quote directly from any of the texts in any publication, academic essay, webpage, etc.

Past publications

It should be remembered that self-archiving is a supplement to traditional publishing rather than a replacement, intended to help ideas and research circulate more freely beyond audiences with access to well-funded university libraries. Some of these e-texts will be copies of the work exactly as it appeared in the publication, but others will merely be copies of the final draft version that was accepted for publication (and therefore will lack the formatting, pagination and final proofreading of the published version); I will always state which. If it’s the latter you should always give preference to the publisher’s version if you can get access to it - particularly if your work is in turn intended for academic publication - and if this is not possible you must make it clear that you are citing the archive version and include the URL in the citation.

Sharon Howard, ‘Investigating responses to theft in early modern Wales: communities, thieves and the courts’, Continuity and Change, 19:3 (2004), 409-30.
Published by Cambridge University Press. PDF copy of the published article archived at this site (opens in a new window).

Sharon Howard, ‘Imagining the pain and peril of seventeenth-century childbirth: travail and deliverance in the making of an early modern world‘, Social History of Medicine, 16:3 (2003), 367-382.
Published by Oxford University Press. PDF copy of final draft of article, archived at this site (opens in a new window).

Sharon Howard, ‘Riotous community: crowds, politics and society in Wales, c.1700–1840‘, Welsh History Review, 20:4 (2001), pp.656-86.
Published by University of Wales Press. PDF copy of final draft of article, archived at this site (opens in a new window). As far as I know, this article is not available elsewhere online.

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Other writing

Conference papers, unpublished essays, etc

Sharon Howard, Crime, communities and authority in early modern Wales: Denbighshire c.1660-1730, unpublished PhD dissertation, University of Wales, 2003.
PDF copy of the accepted dissertation, archived at Crime Notes (opens in a new window).

Sharon Howard, ‘Communities policing “criminal” bodies in early modern Wales’
PDF copy of a slightly revised version of a paper delivered at the conference ‘Controlling Bodies: The Regulation of Conduct 1650-2000’, held at the University of Glamorgan, June 2002, archived at this site (opens in a new window).

Sharon Howard, ‘Gender and defamation in York, 1661-1700: reputation, authority and the power of words’, unpublished MA dissertation, University of York, 1999.
PDF copy of the accepted dissertation, archived at this site (opens in a new window).

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This page was created by Sharon Howard, May 2006