British History

What kinds of metaphors do spirits, ghosts, mediums, mesmerists, theosophists, spectral actresses, evil servants, dead bodies and vampires offer in understanding womanhood in the nineteenth century? This collection examines the many interpretations of the occult in nineteenth-century culture and the..

Examining over 150 years of women's employment history, this essential student resource considers how class, age, marital status, race and wider economic and political issues have affected women's opportunities and status in the workplace...

Examining over 150 years of women's employment history, this essential student resource considers how class, age, marital status, race and wider economic and political issues have affected women's opportunities and status in the workplace...

An examination of the ways in which women challenged the British educational, employment and welfare systems after the franchise. Helen Jones explores how women adapted their strategies to confront the system from within, and what constraints were imposed on them. She also examines the active role t..

An examination of the ways in which women challenged the British educational, employment and welfare systems after the franchise. Helen Jones explores how women adapted their strategies to confront the system from within, and what constraints were imposed on them. She also examines the active role t..

This collection re-visions the history of girls and women in Britain in the 1950s and offers new ways of thinking about established and new categories of historical analysis. Its methodological and conceptual interventions enrich and extend women’s history. It was originally published as a special i..

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

This edited volume is the first comprehensive overview of women, gender and religious change in modern Britain spanning from the evangelical revival of the early 1800s to interwar debates over women’s roles and ministry. Includes case studies, further reading lists and a survey of existing scholarsh..

This edited volume is the first comprehensive overview of women, gender and religious change in modern Britain spanning from the evangelical revival of the early 1800s to interwar debates over women’s roles and ministry. Includes case studies, further reading lists and a survey of existing scholarsh..

This is a study of the nature and extent of the education of women at this time in the context of both Protestant and Catholic ideological debates. This book offers wider insights into the controls placed on women and the freedom available to them...

This textbook looks at the construction of class within the intimate contexts of the body, the home, the marketplace, the locality and the nation to assess how the subjective identity of the `working class' has been maintained...