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  • Gender in Modern Welsh History

    Perspectives on Masculinity and Femininity in Wales from 1750 to 2000

    Edited by Beth Jenkins, Paul O'Leary, Stephanie Ward ...
    Series series Gender Studies in Wales
    This innovative collection offers a reappraisal of gender as a category of analysis in modern Welsh history. Beginning with sex work in the eighteenth century and concluding with women’s late twentieth-century anti-nuclear activism, the contributors show how gender has been constructed, represented, performed and experienced by men and women at different times and places throughout Wales’s modern ... Read more

    $28.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Graduate Women and Work in Wales, 1880–1939

    Nationhood, Networks and Community

    by Beth Jenkins ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book traces the social backgrounds, educational experiences and subsequent lives of women who attended the university colleges in Wales from their inception to the outbreak of the Second World War. Using a sample of 2,000 graduates, the book foregrounds the experience of working-class women and critically assesses the claim of social inclusivity built around education in Wales. It charts ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

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  • Middle Classes

    Their Rise and Sprawl

    by Simon Gunn, Rachel Bell ...
    The first general history of the English middle classes, based on BBC TV programme of which Will Self said "No simple overview can do justice to this programme - an exemplary series and mandatory viewing'.Afternoon tea, the Women's Institute, Mrs Beeton, department stores, suburbia, seaside holidays and cycling clubs - all preserves of the great middle class. But where did the middle classes come ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Class, Politics, and the Decline of Deference in England, 1968-2000

    by Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite ...
    Series series The Past and Present Book Series
    In late twentieth-century England, inequality was rocketing, yet some have suggested that the politics of class was declining in significance, while others argue that class identities lost little power. Neither interpretation is satisfactory: class remained important to 'ordinary' people's narratives about social change and their own identities throughout the period 1968-2000, but in changing ways ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • Empire's Children

    Child Emigration, Welfare, and the Decline of the British World, 1869–1967

    by Ellen Boucher ...
    Between 1869 and 1967, government-funded British charities sent nearly 100,000 British children to start new lives in the settler empire. This pioneering study tells the story of the rise and fall of child emigration to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Southern Rhodesia. In the mid-Victorian period, the book reveals, the concept of a global British race had a profound impact on the practice of ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Regulating sexuality

    Women in twentieth-century Northern Ireland

    by Leanne McCormick ...
    This is a groundbreaking examination of the attempts to regulate female sexuality in twentieth-century Northern Ireland, which opens up new and exciting areas of a previously neglected history.A wide-ranging study, it explores the sexual experiences of women in the context of the distinctive religious, political and social circumstances of Northern Ireland during the twentieth century. The ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • The Schooling of Working-Class Girls in Victorian Scotland

    Gender, Education and Identity

    by Jane McDermid ...
    Series series Woburn Education Series
    The portrayal of Scotland as a particularly patriarchal society has traditionally had the effect of marginalizing Scottish women, both teachers and students, in both Scottish and British history. The Schooling of Working-Class Girls in Victorian Scotland examines and challenges this assumption and analyzes in detail the course of events which has led to a more enlightened system.Education was, and ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Rethinking right-wing women

    Gender and the Conservative Party, 1880s to the present

    Edited by Clarisse Berthezène, Julie Gottlieb ...
    Series Book 1 - New Perspectives on the Right
    Rethinking Right-Wing Women explores the institutional structures for and the representations, mobilisation, and the political careers of women in the British Conservative Party since the late 19th century. From the Primrose League (est.1883) to Women2Win (est.2005), the party has exploited women’s political commitment and their social power from the grass-roots to the heights of the establishment ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • People and Society in Scotland, 1830–1914

    Edited by W. Hamish Fraser, R. J. Morris ...
    This is the second volume of a three-volume study of Scottish social change and development from the eighteenth century to the present day, originally published by John Donald in association with the Economic and Social History Society of Scotland.The series covers the history of industrialisation and urbanisation in Scottish society and records many experiences which Scotland shared in common ... Read more

    $24.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Scotland No More?

    Emigration from Scotland in the Twentieth Century

    by Marjory Harper ...
    Shortlisted for Scottish History Book of the Year at the Saltire Society Literary Awards 2013Scotland No More? taps into the need we all share — to know who we are and where we come from. Scots have always been on the move, and from all quarters we are bombarded with evidence of interest in their historical comings and goings. Earlier eras have been well covered, but until now the story of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • No Distinction Of Sex?

    Women In British Universities, 1870-1939

    by Carol Dyhouse ...
    Series series Women's and Gender History
    In 1939 women represented nearly one quarter of the student population in British universities. Though tantamount to a "social revolution" in the eyes of many contemporaries, the process has recieved scant attention from historians. Whilst prejudice and hostility towards women lingered on in Oxford and Cambridge, it has often been assumed that the female presence was welcomed elsewhere. The ... Read more

    $75.99 USD

  • Women and the Irish Nation

    Gender, Culture and Irish Identity, 1890-1914

    by J. MacPherson ...
    Series series History (R0)
    At the turn of the twentieth century women played a key role in debates about the nature of the Irish nation. Examining women's participation in nationalist and rural reform groups, this book is an important contribution to our understanding of Irish identity in the prelude to revolution and how it was shaped by women. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD