Fathers are often neglected in histories of family life in Britain. Family Men provides the first
academic study of fathers and families in the period from the First World War to the end of …

Parenting in England is the first study of the world of parenting in late Georgian England.
The author, Joanne Bailey, traces ideas about parenthood in a Christian society that was …

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 …

Small businesses were at the heart of the economic growth and social transformation that
characterized the Industrial Revolution in Britain. In towns across north-west England, shops …

This article argues that fatherhood was invested with a greater significance in mid-twentieth-
century Britain than has previously been recognised. It assesses the current …

This article is concerned with the longing for home of British soldiers during the First World
War. What, it asks, can such longings reveal about the psychological impact of trench …

Parenting has a complex but only recently examined history. This article surveys this
scholarship, which is driven by the histories of gender, emotions, medicine, bodies, material …

This article traces the ways that gendered and generational family practices were
remembered across time in the context of working-class homes in Victorian Britain. Two …

• 3• domestic, family and personal details. As the Daily Mail put it, this was 'the missing piece
of the wartime jigsaw puzzle'. This is an exaggeration. There is no doubt that military matters …

This book explores the competing demands of family, war and duty in the lives of eighteenth-
century naval men and their families. It covers not just the men afloat and their wives ashore …