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Servants
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Lucy Lethbridge |
From the immense staff running a lavish Edwardian estate and the lonely maid-of-all-work cooking in a cramped middle-class house to the poor child doing chores in a slightly less poor household, serv… |
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Byron and the Websters
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Stewart, John |
"Arguably the most offensive, despised, and ridiculed dandy of the Regency period, Sir James Webster-Wedderburn would be forgotten were it not for an alleged affair between his wife and his friend, p… |
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Class in Britain
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David Cannadine |
David Cannadine's unique history examines the British preoccupation with class and the different ways the British have thought about their own society. From the eighteenth through the twentieth centu… |
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How to create the perfect wife
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Wendy Moore |
Wendy Moore's exploration of British writer Thomas Day's mission to groom his ideal mate captures the radicalism--and deep contradictions-- at the heart of the Enlightenment. |
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Inequalities in health
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Great Britain. Working Group on Inequalities in Health |
A condensed version of the report of the working group on Inequalities in Health, published by the Department of Health and Social Security, 1980. |
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Growing up girl
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Helen Lucey,June Melody,Valerie Walkerdine |
"Growing up Girl traces the lives of girls from their early childhood to young adulthood to explore how transformations in class identities are impacting on their lives. Set against a backdrop of dei… |
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Gender and class in English asylums, 1890-1914
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Louise Hide |
"The Victorian period saw an unprecedented rise in the number of people who were committed to 'lunatic asylums'. We know something of why this happened, but far less about what life was like inside t… |
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Consumed
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Harry Wallop |
'Harry Wallop is one of the sharpest and funniest journalists writing in Britain today. He has an instinct for the killer detail that truly brings a story to life.' Jay Rayner. This is the story of h… |
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Imperial Masochism
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John Kucich |
"In Imperial Masochism, John Kucich reveals the central role masochistic forms of voluntary suffering played in late-nineteenth-century British thinking about imperial politics and class identity. Pl… |
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Class in Modern Britain
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Kenneth Roberts |
"In this introductory text, Ken Roberts argues that Britain is far from becoming a classless society. He demonstrates that class still permeates virtually every part of its inhabitants lives, though … |
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Making a Living in the Middle Ages
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Christopher Dyer |
"In this survey, Christopher Dyer reviews our thinking about the economy of Britain in the middle ages. By analysing economic development and change, he allows us to reconstruct, often vividly, the d… |
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The perfect summer
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Juliet Nicolson |
Before the Great War tore England apart and changed the way people lived forever, there was the glorious summer of 1911, when the country seemed full of promise and blissfully unaware of the coming s… |
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The English aristocracy at war
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David Simpkin |
A new appraisal of the military careers and activities of soldiers from elite medieval families.
In 1277, the recently-crowned king of England, Edward I, invaded Wales with a small army. Most of h… |
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