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  • Financing the Landed Estate

    Power, Politics and People on the Marquis of Anglesey’s Estate, 1812–1854

    by Carol Beardmore ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    While there is an extensive historiography which explores English agriculture in the nineteenth century, there has been less attention paid to individual estates and in particular the role of the land agent within their management, administration and participation in rural community relationships. Nowhere is this more obvious in the lack of research into the financial history of the landed estate, ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • In Their Own Write

    Contesting the New Poor Law, 1834–1900

    by Steven King, Paul Carter, Natalie Carter, Peter Jones, Carol Beardmore ...
    Series Book 6 - States, People, and the History of Social Change
    Few subjects in European welfare history attract as much attention as the nineteenth-century English and Welsh New Poor Law. Its founding statute was considered the single most important piece of social legislation ever enacted, and at the same time, the coming of its institutions – from penny-pinching Boards of Guardians to the dreaded workhouse – has generally been viewed as a catastrophe for ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • 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

    $89.09 USD

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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

    $33.69 USD

  • 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

    $57.99 USD

  • 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

    $57.99 USD

  • 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

    $59.99 USD

  • 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

    $47.99 USD

  • The Politics of Nursing Knowledge

    by Anne Marie Rafferty ...
    The Politics of Nursing Knowledge puts into context the historical factors which have shaped and sometimes limited the development of nurse education. Anne Marie Rafferty makes a critical reappraisal of Florence Nightingale's vision of nursing and looks at how training and policy-making have evolved from the origins of hospital reform in the 1860s to the start of the National Health Service in ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Cruelty and Companionship

    Conflict in Nineteenth Century Married Life

    by A. James Hammerton ...
    Cruelty and Companionship is an account of the intimate but darker sides of marriage in Victorian and Edwardian England. Hammerton draws upon previously unpublished material from the records of the divorce court and magistrates' courts to challenge many popular views about changing family patterns.His findings open a rare window onto the sexual politics of everyday life and the routine tensions ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Medicine and the Workhouse

    by Jonathan Reinarz, Leonard Schwarz, Leonard Smith, Rita Pemberton, Romola Davenport, Samantha Shave, Susannah Ottoway, Virginia Crossman, Alannah Tomkins0, Alistair Ritch1, Angela Negrine2, Jeremy Boulton3, K80169 King4, Kevin Siena5 ...
    Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries workhouses were a key provider of medical care to the poor. Workhouse beds in Britain far outnumbered beds provided by charitable hospitals, and a high percentage of inmates wereelderly and infirm, needing not only accommodation and work but also medical relief.Historians of welfare, the English poor laws, and medicine have been aware of the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • 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

    $72.99 USD