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  • Family Life in Britain, 1650–1910

    Edited by Carol Beardmore, Cara Dobbing, Steven King ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book explores the ways that families were formed and re-formed, and held together and fractured, in Britain from the sixteenth to twentieth century. The chapters build upon the argument, developed in the 1990s and 2000s, that the nuclear family form, the bedrock of understandings of the structure and function of family and kinship units, provides a wholly inadequate lens through which to view ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

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  • Family Secrets

    The Things We Tried to Hide

    by Deborah Cohen ...
    A Sunday Telegraph and Times Higher Education 'Book of the Week', Deborah Cohen's Family Secrets is a gripping book about what families - Victorian and modern - try to hide, and why.In an Edinburgh town house, a genteel maiden lady frets with her brother over their niece's downy upper lip. Would the darkening shadow betray the girl's Eurasian heritage? On a Liverpool railway platform, a ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • 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

    $37.59 CAD

  • Policing Gender, Class And Family In Britain, 1800-1945

    by Linda Mahood ...
    Series series Women's and Gender History
    This book is intended for undergraduate courses on modern British history, women's history, courses on family, sexuality and childhood. Women's studies, history of education, sociology. ... Read more

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  • Child Sexual Abuse in Victorian England

    by Louise A. Jackson ...
    Series series Women's and Gender History
    Child Sexual Abuse in Victorian England is the first detailed investigation of the way that child abuse was discovered, debated, diagnosed and dealt with in the Victorian and Edwardian periods.The focus is placed on the child and his or her experience of court procedure and welfare practice, thereby providing a unique and important evaluation of the treatment of children in the courtroom. Through ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Gender and History

    Ireland, 1852–1922

    Edited by Jyoti Atwal, Ciara Breathnach, Sarah-Anne Buckley ...
    This book provides an overview of Irish gender history from the end of the Great Famine in 1852 until the foundation of the Irish Free State in 1922. It builds on the work that scholars of women’s history pioneered and brings together internationally regarded experts to offer a synthesis of the current historiography and existing debates within the field. The authors place emphasis on highlighting ... Read more

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  • The Magdalenes

    Prostitution in the Nineteenth Century

    by Linda Mahood ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Women's History
    The nineteenth century witnessed a discursive explosion around the subject of sex. Historical evidence indicates that the sexual behaviour which had always been punishable began to be spoken of, regulated, and policed in new ways. Prostitutes were no longer dragged through the town, dunked in lakes, whipped and branded. Medieval forms of punishment shifted from the emphasis on punishing the body ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Poverty and Poor Law Reform in Nineteenth-Century Britain, 1834-1914

    From Chadwick to Booth

    by David Englander ...
    Series series Seminar Studies
    The Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 is one of the most important pieces of social legislation ever enacted. Its principles and the workhouse system dominated attitudes to welfare provision for the next 80 years. This new Seminar Study explores the changing ideas to poverty over this period and assesses current debates on Victorian attitudes to the poor. David Englander reviews the old system of ... Read more

    Was $79.99 CAD Now $71.44 CAD

  • Girls Growing Up in Late Victorian and Edwardian England

    by Carol Dyhouse ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Women's History
    Girls learn about "femininity" from childhood onwards, first through their relationships in the family, and later from their teachers and peers. Using sources which vary from diaries to Inspector’s reports, this book studies the socialization of middle- and working-class girls in late Victorian and early-Edwardian England. It traces the ways in which schooling at all social levels at this time ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Votes For Women

    Edited by Sandra Holton, Dr June Purvis, June Purvis ...
    Series series Women's and Gender History
    Votes for Women provides an innovative re-examination of the suffrage movement, presenting new perspectives which challenge the existing literature on this subject.This fascinating book charts the history of the movement in Britain from the nineteenth century to the postwar period, assessing important figures such as;* Emmeline Pankhurst and the militant wing* Millicent Garrett Fawcett, leader of ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • The Lost Elementary Schools of Victorian England

    The People's Education

    by Philip Gardner ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Published in 1984. As late as 1870, a substantial proportion of working class pupils receiving an elementary education were attending private schools, run by the working class itself, instead of schools which were publicly sponsored. Previous studies in this area have concentrated on the latter, however, the author of this study adopts a wider approach by focusing on the relation between the ... Read more

    $68.70 CAD

  • Childhood and Child Labour in Industrial England

    Diversity and Agency, 1750�1914

    by Katrina Honeyman ...
    The purpose of this collection is to bring together representative examples of the most recent work that is taking an understanding of children and childhood in new directions. The two key overarching themes are diversity: social, economic, geographical, and cultural; and agency: the need to see children in industrial England as participants - even protagonists - in the process of historical ... Read more

    $82.44 CAD