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  • Public Indecency in England 1857-1960

    'A Serious and Growing Evil’

    by Kim Stevenson, Candida Harris, Judith Rowbotham, David Cox ...
    Series series Routledge SOLON Explorations in Crime and Criminal Justice Histories
    Throughout the nineteenth century and twentieth century, various attempts were made to define and control problematic behaviour in public by legal and legislative means through the use of a somewhat nebulous concept of ‘indecency’. Remarkably however, public indecency remains a much under-researched aspect of English legal, social and criminal justice history.Covering a period of just over a ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

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  • Occasions of Sin

    Sex and Society in Modern Ireland

    by Diarmaid Ferriter ...
    Ferriter covers such subjects as abortion, pregnancy, celibacy, contraception, censorship, infanticide, homosexuality, prostitution, marriage, popular culture, social life and the various hidden Irelands associated with sexual abuse - all in the context of a conservative official morality backed by the Catholic Church and by legislation. The book energetically and originally engages with subjects ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

  • A Social History of Women in Ireland, 1870–1970

    An Exploration of the Changing Role and Status of Women in Irish Society

    by Rosemary Cullen Owens ...
    A Social History of Women in Ireland is an important and overdue book that explores the role and status of women in Ireland from 1870 until 1970, looking at politics, sociology, marriage patterns, religion, education and work among other topics. It provides a vital missing piece in the jigsaw of modern Irish history. Using a combination of primary research and published works, A Social History of ... Read more

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  • Child Sexual Abuse in Victorian England

    by Louise A. Jackson ...
    Series series Women's and Gender History
    Child Sexual Abuse in Victorian England is the first detailed investigation of the way that child abuse was discovered, debated, diagnosed and dealt with in the Victorian and Edwardian periods.The focus is placed on the child and his or her experience of court procedure and welfare practice, thereby providing a unique and important evaluation of the treatment of children in the courtroom. Through ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Crime in Early Modern England 1550-1750

    by James A Sharpe ...
    Series series Themes In British Social History
    Still the only general survey of the topic available, this widely-used exploration of the incidence, causes and control of crime in Early Modern England throws a vivid light on the times. It uses court archives to capture vividly the everyday lives of people who would otherwise have left little mark on the historical record. This new edition - fully updated throughout - incorporates new thinking ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Birth of Industrial Britain

    1750-1850

    by Kenneth Morgan ...
    Series series Seminar Studies
    The Industrial Revolution had a profound and lasting effect on socioeconomic and cultural conditions in Britain.The Birth of Industrial Britain examines the impact of early industrialisation on British society in the century before 1850, coinciding with Britains transition from a late pre-industrial economy to one based on industrialisation and urbanisation.This fully revised and updated second ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Poverty and Poor Law Reform in Nineteenth-Century Britain, 1834-1914

    From Chadwick to Booth

    by David Englander ...
    Series series Seminar Studies
    The Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 is one of the most important pieces of social legislation ever enacted. Its principles and the workhouse system dominated attitudes to welfare provision for the next 80 years. This new Seminar Study explores the changing ideas to poverty over this period and assesses current debates on Victorian attitudes to the poor. David Englander reviews the old system of ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • The Magdalenes

    Prostitution in the Nineteenth Century

    by Linda Mahood ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Women's History
    The nineteenth century witnessed a discursive explosion around the subject of sex. Historical evidence indicates that the sexual behaviour which had always been punishable began to be spoken of, regulated, and policed in new ways. Prostitutes were no longer dragged through the town, dunked in lakes, whipped and branded. Medieval forms of punishment shifted from the emphasis on punishing the body ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Politics of The Rope

    the campaign to abolish capital punishment in Britain 1955-1969

    by Neville Twitchell ...
    This illuminating broad-based political and cultural study presents the efinitive account of the campaign to abolish capital punishment in the period 1955-69. It comprises a work of contemporary history exploring the theme from a number of angles, both pro and contra, which have not been covered so extensively before.It asks why the campaign succeeded when so many others facing lesser ... Read more

    $10.13 USD

  • Politics, Society and Homosexuality in Post-War Britain

    The Sexual Offences Act of 1967 and Its Significance

    by Keith Dockray, Alan Sutton ...
    The Sexual Offences Act of 1967 was ground-breaking in the UK and Politics, Society and Homosexuality in Post-War Britain: The Sexual Offences Act of 1967 and its Significance marks the fiftieth anniversary of its successful path to the statute book.The act was not without controversy and was fiercely fought over by the likes of Mary Whitehouse and right-wing reactionary Tories who in typical ... Read more

    $9.54 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Modern Britain Third Edition

    A Social History 1750-2011

    by Prof. Edward Royle ...
    Praise for the first edition:'Royle calls on an impressive range of materials (supported by an excellent bibliography) to offer a judicious review of most of the issues currently confronted by social historians. His agenda contains both traditional and novel elements [...] all are presented with admirable clarity and balance. [...] A volume which shows an astonishing command of such a wide range ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Gender and History

    Ireland, 1852–1922

    Edited by Jyoti Atwal, Ciara Breathnach, Sarah-Anne Buckley ...
    This book provides an overview of Irish gender history from the end of the Great Famine in 1852 until the foundation of the Irish Free State in 1922. It builds on the work that scholars of women’s history pioneered and brings together internationally regarded experts to offer a synthesis of the current historiography and existing debates within the field. The authors place emphasis on highlighting ... Read more

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