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  • Objects of Poverty

    Material Culture in Britain from 1700

    Edited by Joseph Harley, Vicky Holmes ...
    Objects of Poverty is the first volume dedicated to analysing the material culture of poverty in British history from 1700 to the present.The book examines the history of poverty through the objects 'owned' by the poor and those crafted, repurposed or simply encountered by them, offering critical new insights into the experience of being impoverished.This collection brings together leading and ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • In Bed with the Victorians

    The Life-Cycle of Working-Class Marriage

    by Vicky Holmes ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book examines the life-cycle of Victorian working-class marriage through a study of the hitherto hidden marital bed. Using coroners’ inquests to gain intimate access to the working-class home and its inhabitants, this book explores their marital, quasi-marital, and post-marital beds to reveal the material, domestic, and emotional experience of working-class marriage during everyday life and ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • The Working Class at Home, 1790–1940

    Edited by Joseph Harley, Vicky Holmes, Laika Nevalainen ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book examines life in the homes inhabited by the working class over the long nineteenth century. These working-class homes are often imagined as distinctly unhomely spaces, which the inhabitants struggled to fill with even the most basic of furniture, let alone acquire the comforts associated with middle-class domestic space. The concerned reformers of industrialising towns and cities painted ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

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  • Clothing the Poor in Nineteenth-Century England

    by Vivienne Richmond ...
    In this pioneering study Vivienne Richmond reveals the importance of dress to the nineteenth-century English poor, who valued clothing not only for its practical utility, but also as a central element in the creation and assertion of collective and individual identities. During this period of rapid industrialisation and urbanisation formal dress codes, corporate and institutional uniforms, and the ... Read more

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  • Ladies Can’t Climb Ladders

    The Pioneering Adventures of the First Professional Women

    by Jane Robinson ...
    It is a myth that either of the World Wars liberated women.The Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act of 1919 was one of the most significant pieces of legislation in modern Britain. It marked at once political watershed and a social revolution; the point at which women of 21 and over were recognised in law as being as competent as men. But were they? What actually happened when this bill was passed? ... Read more

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  • Women's Lives

    Researching Women's Social History, 1800–1939

    by Jennifer Newby ...
    Series series How Your Ancestors Lived
    "Helps you put those in your female line into context, whether they were factory workers, Land Girls, aristocrats, or even criminals!" — Family History MonthlyWomen's lives have traditionally gone unrecorded in history. But housewives, factory girls and servants all had their own distinctive voices, and, if you know where to look, there are plenty of sources to explore.Jennifer Newby's guide to ... Read more

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  • A Man's Place

    Masculinity and the Middle-Class Home in Victorian England

    by Professor John Tosh ...
    Domesticity is generally treated as an aspect of women’s history. In this fascinating study of the nineteenth-century middle class, John Tosh shows how profoundly men’s lives were conditioned by the Victorian ideal and how they negotiated its many contradictions.Tosh begins by looking at the experience of boyhood, married life, sex, and fatherhood in the early decades of the nineteenth century ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The English in Love

    The Intimate Story of an Emotional Revolution

    by Claire Langhamer ...
    Love has a history. It has meant different things to different people at different moments and has served different purposes. This book tells the story of love at a crucial point, a moment when the emotional landscape changed dramatically for large numbers of people. It is a story based in England, but informed by America, and covers the period from the end of the First World War until the break ... Read more

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  • Childhood and Child Labour in the British Industrial Revolution

    by Jane Humphries ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series
    This is a unique account of working-class childhood during the British industrial revolution, first published in 2010. Using more than 600 autobiographies written by working men of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Jane Humphries illuminates working-class childhood in contexts untouched by conventional sources and facilitates estimates of age at starting work, social mobility, the extent of ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Below Stairs

    Domestic Service Remembered in Dublin and Beyond, 1880-1922

    by Mona Hearn ...
    A hundred years ago sevants underpinned middle- and upper-class life in Ireland, and domestic service was the major source of employment for women before social conditions changed utterly after the First World War and labour-saving appliances took their place. Two generations on, the domestic servant is an almost extinct species. This book examines an area of life which has never been adequately ... Read more

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  • The Victorian Girl and the Feminine Ideal

    by Deborah Gorham ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Women's History
    In Victorian England, the perception of girlhood arose not in isolation, but as one manifestation of the prevailing conception of femininity. Examining the assumptions that underlay the education and upbringing of middle-class girls, this book is also a study of the learning of gender roles in theory and reality. It was originally published in 1982.The first two sections examine the image of women ... Read more

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