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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Servants Servants 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… OL17188371W
How to create the perfect wife How to create the perfect wife 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. OL19964323W
Inequalities in health Inequalities in health 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. OL21773208W
Imperial Masochism Imperial Masochism 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… OL3472497W
The perfect summer The perfect summer 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… OL8398716W