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  • Old Age in Australia

    A History

    by Pat Jalland ...
    The Australian population is rapidly getting older, demanding important policy and service decisions. This groundbreaking book is the first to explore a 100-year history of older people in Australia from 1880 to 1980. Over that period the aged suffered as 'forgotten people' until 1945, when there was the promise of a new deal for the elderly.Major themes examined include family histories of aged ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Body and Mind

    Historical Essays in Honour of F.B. Smith

    by Graeme Davison, Pat Jalland, Wilfrid Prest ...
    Body and Mind pays tribute to one of Australia's most outstanding and influential historians, F. B. (Barry) Smith. Barry has made pioneering contributions to the political, social and cultural histories of Britain and Australia, and these essays range across the fields he made his own, especially the interconnected histories of medicine (body) and ideas (mind). The editors bring together several ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

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    by Kim E. Thomas ...
    Broadmoor, Britain's first asylum for criminal lunatics, was founded in 1863. In the first years of its existence, one in five patients was female. Most had been tried for terrible crimes and sent to Broadmoor after being found not guilty by virtue of insanity. Many had murdered their own children, while others had killed husbands or other family members. Drawing on Broadmoor's rich archive, this ... Read more

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  • A History of Drink and the English, 1500-2000

    by Paul Jennings ...
    Series series Perspectives in Economic and Social History
    A 2017 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title award winnerThis book is an introduction to the history of alcoholic drink in England from the end of the Middle Ages to the present day. Treating the subject thematically, it covers who drank, what they drank, how much, who produced and sold drink, the places where it was enjoyed and the meanings which drinking had for people. It also looks at the varied ... Read more

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  • Pioneering Women: Riddel Hall and Queens University Belfast

    by Gillian McClelland ...
    Few topics have produced more heroines than the struggle of women for their right to education. Foremost amongst the pioneers of third-level education for women in the north of Ireland were Eliza and Isabella Riddel. Never themselves having had the opportunity of university education, in 1913 they founded Riddel Hall as a residence for women students. Ruth Duffin, the hall’s formidable first ... Read more

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  • Social change and everyday life in Ireland, 1850–1922

    by Caitriona Clear ...
    Men and women who were born, grew up and died in Ireland between 1850 and 1922 made decisions - to train, to emigrate, to stay at home, to marry, to stay single, to stay at school - based on the knowledge and resources they had at the time. This, the first comprehensive social history of Ireland for the years 1850-1922 to appear since 1981, tries to understand that knowledge and to discuss those ... Read more

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  • Young People and the Shaping of Public Space in Melbourne, 1870-1914

    by Simon Sleight ...
    Series series Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present
    Baby booms have a long history. In 1870, colonial Melbourne was ’perspiring juvenile humanity’ with an astonishing 42 per cent of the city’s inhabitants aged 14 and under - a demographic anomaly resulting from the gold rushes of the 1850s. Within this context, Simon Sleight enters the heated debate concerning the future prospects of ’Young Australia’ and the place of the colonial child within the ... Read more

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  • No Distinction Of Sex?

    Women In British Universities, 1870-1939

    by Carol Dyhouse ...
    Series series Women's and Gender History
    In 1939 women represented nearly one quarter of the student population in British universities. Though tantamount to a "social revolution" in the eyes of many contemporaries, the process has recieved scant attention from historians. Whilst prejudice and hostility towards women lingered on in Oxford and Cambridge, it has often been assumed that the female presence was welcomed elsewhere. The ... Read more

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  • The Cost of Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Ireland

    Public, Voluntary and Private Asylum Care

    by Alice Mauger ...
    Series series Mental Health in Historical Perspective
    This open access book is the first comparative study of public, voluntary and private asylums in nineteenth-century Ireland. Examining nine institutions, it explores whether concepts of social class and status and the emergence of a strong middle class informed interactions between gender, religion, identity and insanity. It questions whether medical and lay explanations of mental illness and its ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • Mental health nursing

    The working lives of paid carers in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

    Edited by Anne Borsay, Pamela Dale ...
    Series series Nursing History and Humanities
    This book seeks to integrate the history of mental health nursing with the wider history of institutional and community care. It develops new research questions by drawing together a concern with exploring the class, gender, skills and working conditions of practitioners with an assessment of the care regimes staff helped create and patients’ experiences of them. Contributors from a range of ... Read more

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  • Gender and Medicine in Ireland

    1700-1950

    Edited by Margaret H. Preston, Gender and Medicine in Ireland 1700-1950 Margaret Ó hÓgartaigh ...
    Series series Irish Studies
    The essays in this collection examine the intersections between gender, medicine, and conventional economic, political, and social histories in Ireland between 1700 and 1950. Gathering many of the top voices in Irish studies and the history of medicine, the editors cover a range of topics including midwifery, mental health, alcoholism, and infant mortality.Composed of thirteen chapters, the volume ... Read more

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