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 …

A People's History of Classics explores the influence of the classical past on the lives of
working-class people, whose voices have been almost completely excluded from previous …

Postfeminism and Body Image is a groundbreaking work that provides a poststructuralist
and psychosocial analysis of key issues at the intersections of body image, psychology and …

This article explores aspects of young men's gender identities as they serve time in an
English Young Offender Institution. Based on qualitative research, the article discusses three …

" An Equal Burden forms the first scholarly study of the Army Medical Services in the First
World War to focus on the roles and experiences of the men of the ranks of the Royal Army …

During the First World War the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic, in Queen
Square, London, then Britain's leading centre for neurology, took a key role in the treatment …

The shell-shock epidemic of 1915 challenged the capacity and expertise of the British
Army's medical services. What appeared to be a novel and complex disorder raised …

More than 16,000 Canadian soldiers suffered from shell shock during the Great War of 1914
to 1918. Despite significant interest from historians, we still know relatively little about how it …

Shell‐shock is a powerful symbol of the devastating effects of the First World War on men.
Until recently, scholars of gender and trauma tended to follow the lines established by …

This article investigates the development of child analysis in Britain between the wars, as the
anxious child succeeded the shell-shocked soldier as a focus of psychoanalytic enquiry …