There is a persistent myth about the British: that we are a nation of stoics, with stiff upper lips,
repressed emotions, and inactive lachrymal glands. Weeping Britannia-the first history of …

For decades, the history of sexuality has been a multidisciplinary project serving competing
agendas. Lesbian, gay, and queer scholars have produced powerful narratives by tracing …

Sissy home boys or domestic outlaws? Through a series of vivid case studies taken from
across the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Matt Cook explores the emergence of …

Historians have traditionally seen domestic service as an obsolete or redundant sector from
the middle of the twentieth century. Knowing Their Place challenges this by linking the early …

This book provides a short and accessible introduction to the field of gender history, one that
has vastly expanded in scope and substance since the mid 1970s. Paying close attention to …

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 …

Caring for the wounded of the First World War was tough and challenging work, demanding
extensive knowledge, technical skill, and high levels of commitment. Although allied nurses …

Abstract During the First World War, thousands of soldiers were treated for “shell shock,” a
condition which encompassed a range of physical and psychological symptoms. Shell shock …

The story of propaganda and patriotism in First World War Britain too often focuses on the
clichés of Kitchener,'over by Christmas' and the deaths of patriotic young volunteers at the …

The First World War, now a century ago, still shapes the world in which we live, and its
legacy lives on, in poetry, in prose, in collective memory and political culture. By the time the …