IT WAS A COMMONPLACE for America's founding fathers to evoke the ideal of the ancient
Greek and Roman citizen-soldier as a model for their own times, nurtured as they were on …

In today's society we increasingly create and consume written content and images. This
includes a range of sources, from social media posts to records held within organisations …

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 …

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 …

The First World War continues to loom large in the historiography of twentieth-century
masculinity, providing a further example of how gender studies have tended to work within …

Examining the memoirs and autobiographies of British soldiers during the Romantic period,
Neil Ramsey explores the effect of these as cultural forms mediating warfare to the reading …

Beatrice Curtis Brown believes that the outbreak of the First World War marked a turning
point in her life, a moment when she ceased to be a child and recognised for the first time …

Despite increasing academic interest in both the study of masculinity and the history of
consumption, there are still few published studies that bring together both concerns. By …

Jane Tynan offers new perspectives on the cultural history of the First World War by
examining the clothing worn by British combatants on the western front. Khaki emerges as a …

By considering the case of JB Middlebrook, this article sets out to consider the interrelation
between masculinity and male bodies as seen through the lens of male physical disability …