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A Soldier and a Woman
The question of women's role in the military is extremely topical. A Woman and a Soldier covers the experiences of women in the military from the late mediaeval period to the …
Gender, Power and the Unitarians in England, 1760-1860
This new study explores the role the Unitarians played in female emancipation. Many leading figures of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries were Unitarian, or were …
A History of Women in Ireland, 1500-1800
The first general survey of the history of women in early modern Ireland. Based on an impressive range of source material, it presents the results of original research into women’s …
Medieval Memories
Who, exactly, was responsible for the preservation of knowledge about the past? How did people preserve their recollections and pass them on to the next generation? Did they write …
Gender, Church and State in Early Modern Germany
This text brings together eleven important pieces by Merry Wiesner, several of them previously unpublished, on three major areas in the study of women and gender in early modern …
Medieval Memories
Who, exactly, was responsible for the preservation of knowledge about the past? How did people preserve their recollections and pass them on to the next generation? Did they write …
More than Munitions
Clare Wightman explores the key issue of gender in explaining the experience of men and women at work. She uses women's employment in the engineering industries between 1900 and …
Blood, Bodies and Families in Early Modern England
This collection of essays contains a wealth of information on the nature of the family in the early modern period. This is a core topic within economic and social history …
Disorderly Women in Eighteenth-Century London
This is the first full-length study of prostitution in London during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It is a compelling account, exposing the real lives of the …
English Masculinities, 1660-1800
This collection of specially commissioned essays provides the first social history of masculinity in the ‘long eighteenth century’. Drawing on diaries, court records and …
Women and Ageing in British Society since 1500
Women have always made up the majority of older people: this examination of the lives of elderly women in Britain in the period 1500 to the present reveals attitudes towards the …
Widowhood in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
This new collection of essays brings together brand new research on widowhood in medieval and early modern Europe. The volume opens with an introductory chapter by the Editors …