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Routledge Revivals: Language, Gender and Childhood (1985)
First published in 1985, this book brings together recent work on women and children from the nineteenth-century to the present. The contributors explore in different ways, and …
Labours Lost
This is a unique account of the hidden history of servants and their employers in late eighteenth-century England and of how servants thought about and articulated their …
Policing the Victorian Community
The year 1856 saw the first compulsory Police Act in England (and Wales). Over the next thirty years a class society came to be policed by a largely working-class police. This …
Master and Servant
Leading historian Carolyn Steedman offers a fascinating and compelling account of love, life and domestic service in eighteenth-century England. This book, situated in the regional …
History and the Law
Focusing on everyday legal experiences, from that of magistrates, novelists and political philosophers, to maidservants, pauper men and women, down-at-heel attorneys and …
Strange Dislocations
Strange, deformed, and piercingly beautiful, the child acrobat Mignon sprang onto the public stage in 1795. No child at all, but a figment of Goethe’s fiction, Mignon appeared and …
An Everyday Life of the English Working Class
This book concerns two men, a stockingmaker and a magistrate, who both lived in a small English village at the turn of the nineteenth century. It focuses on Joseph Woolley the …
The Radical Soldier's Tale
First published in 1988, The Radical Soldier’s Tale is both an introduction to and a transcript of his ‘Memoirs’, written after his retirement in 1881. In this autobiography he …
Poetry for Historians
This is a book about the conflict between history and poetry – and historians and poets – in Atlantic World society from the end of the seventeenth century to the present day. …