Julie-Marie Strange

Claudia Nelson

Susan B Egenolf

The five volumes of this collection focus on various aspects of family life. Drawing on rare printed sources and archival material, this collection will provide a balanced, contextualized picture of family life, during a period of intense social change. It will appeal to scholars of social history, gender studies and the long nineteenth century.

British Family Life, 1780–1914, Volume 3

British Family Life, 1780–1914, Volume 2

British Family Life, 1780–1914, Volume 4

Paul Johnson

Francesca Carnevali

Aimed at undergraduate history students, this text presents a study of the 20th century, dealing with the economic, social and cultural change of the period.

Economic, Cultural and Social Change

Twentieth-century Britain

A study of expression of grief among the working class in Victorian and Edwardian Britain.

Death, Grief and Poverty in Britain, 1870-1914

A pioneering study of Victorian and Edwardian fatherhood, investigating what being, and having, a father meant to working-class people. Based on working-class autobiography, the book challenges dominant assumptions about absent or 'feckless' fathers, and reintegrates the paternal figure within the emotional life of families. Locating autobiography within broader social and cultural commentary, Julie-Marie Strange considers material culture, everyday practice, obligation, duty and comedy as sites for the development and expression of complex emotional lives. Emphasising the importance of separating men as husbands from men as fathers, Strange explores how emotional ties were formed between fathers and their children, the models of fatherhood available to working-class men, and the ways in which fathers interacted with children inside and outside the home. She explodes the myth that working-class interiorities are inaccessible or unrecoverable, and locates life stories in the context of other sources, including social surveys, visual culture and popular fiction.

Fatherhood and the British Working Class, 1865-1914

Death and Bereavement in Working-class Culture, C.1880-1914

This Mortal Coil

Michael Worboys

Neil Pemberton

Connecting the emergence and development of certain dog breeds to both scientific understandings of race and blood as well as Britain’s posture in a global empire, The Invention of the Modern Dog demonstrates that studying dog breeding cultures allows historians to better understand the complex social relationships of late-nineteenth-century Britain.

Julie-Marie Strange

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