'Whyman's stupendous research effot took her through more than 7,000 Verney letters,
written over twenty-five years. Her new and exciting dimension is the London world of the …

Recently considerable interest has developed about the degree to which anthropological
approaches to kinship can be used for the study of the long-term development of European …

Brothers and sisters are so much a part of our lives that we can overlook their importance.
Even scholars of the family tend to forget siblings, focusing instead on marriage and parent …

Little is known about the life and career of the Caroline dramatist John Ford. This book
draws on new research to situate him and his plays in some unexpected new contexts, and …

While historians have made the history of family life a key area of scholarly study, the
diversity of methods, sources, areas of interest and conclusions this has produced, have …

The saying “blessed are the peacemakers” was a Christian commonplace in early modern
Europe,“love your neighbor” a long-sanctioned moral tradition. Both the Protestant and …

The history of the family lies at the heart of the'new social history'which has, over recent
years, shifted the historiographical focus from political history and elites to the changing life …

How do gender and power relationships affect the expression of family, House and dynastic
identities? The present study explores this question using a case study of the House of …

How children should be educated was, and remains, a perennial problem at all levels of
society. Education is one of the key devices by which social groups reproduce themselves …

This article examines the nature of emotional exchange among the siblings who were the
children of William the Silent, the leader of the nascent Dutch Republic. Using evidence from …