… , charts the fragility of privacy in an era in which it was supposedly sacrosanct. I start with
the secrets that followed British adventurers home from empire. As British men built the …

… For researchers of modern British history it would have been valuable to learn how other
groups negotiated their family secrets. The discussion of the late twentieth century in the …

… family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all of our discontents” (p.
228). At one level, Family Secrets … times, particularly the “exhibitionist privacy” of the Facebook …

… media that move in and out of Family Secrets. Similarly, the author might have … s secret
liaisons and mixed-race offspring discussed at the beginning of the book. Granted, Family Secrets …

… of secrecy and privacy in the British family over the last two centuries. The book sets out to
show “what families attempted to hide in the past and why” (1), aiming to illustrate the part that …

… We all talk about the necessity of privacy because nowadays it … Secrecy may well have
negative connotations; privacy on the … told a compelling story of family secrets in modern Britain. …

… to hide himself from view as his family played a game of tennis. "… Family Secrets a stand-out
text in terms of contextualising the effects of shame and the notion of privacy in modern Britain…

… of shame and secrets in modern Britain, illuminating as never before the alterations that
took place in families as social dictates changed between the nineteenth century and today. …

… In Family Secrets, deborah Cohen analyzes the connections among privacy, secrecy, and
shame in Britain from the Victorians to the present. For us, privacy is about doing what you …

… various sorts of shame that could be visited upon families – an … bulwark of privacy and why
secrecy and privacy have come … point of today’s confessional culture, the family secret figures …