This paper surveys historical geographies of drinking places designed for the consumption
of alcohol between about 1850 and 1950, covering work published in English on sites in …

This book addresses the multifaceted history of the domestic sphere in Europe from the Age
of Reformation to the emergence of modern society. By focusing on daily practice …

As a lexical concept, slum has been widely criticized by twenty-first-century researchers, but
the formulation and spread of the concept have profoundly altered actual cities in many parts …

The Rookery of London's St Giles-in-the-Fields became the city's most notorious slum by the
eighteenth century. This article asks why? Why there, why then and why for so long …

Part of a long-term ethnographic case study of Carmen West, a middle-class, heterosexual,
American single mother by choice (SMC) and her three children, this essay focuses on the …

Catholics and Protestants assumed that God instituted the family and that it had certain
spiritual functions to perform. In 1985, Colleen McDannell addressed changes in Christian …

This paper uses 16 years of targeted fieldwork on excavating workers' housing in the
Manchester region, UK, to assess a variety of research approaches to the investigation of …

Over the nineteenth century, hundreds of charitable residential institutions for so-called
fallen women were established by voluntary action across England. 1 Their purpose was the …

San José is a flourishing urban center within Silicon Valley that emerged from the first
pueblo in California. Recent results from five archaeological excavations provide a greater …

Abstract Tallis's Street Views describe London as a commercial and professional centre but
the visual representation of the street elevations gives an impression of quiet emptiness; it is …