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  • Childhood and Child Labour in the British Industrial Revolution

    by Jane Humphries ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series
    This is a unique account of working-class childhood during the British industrial revolution, first published in 2010. Using more than 600 autobiographies written by working men of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Jane Humphries illuminates working-class childhood in contexts untouched by conventional sources and facilitates estimates of age at starting work, social mobility, the extent of ... Read more

    $33.69 USD

  • A Fighting Chance

    Supporting Young Children Experiencing Disruptive Change

    by Jane Humphries, Kari Rains ...
    Many children have to cope with complicated and disruptive situations. Often the classroom becomes the most stable environment. Learn to embrace disruptive change, address it with professionalism, and utilize strategies to affect the direction of children’s lives in a positive way and give them a fighting chance to succeed.Dr. Jane Humphries has decades of experience in early childhood education, ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain: Volume 2, Growth and Decline, 1870 to the Present

    Edited by Roderick Floud, Jane Humphries, Paul Johnson ...
    A new edition of the leading textbook on the economic history of Britain since industrialization. Combining the expertise of more than thirty leading historians and economists, Volume 2 tracks the development of the British economy from late nineteenth-century global dominance to its early twenty-first century position as a mid-sized player in an integrated European economy. Each chapter provides ... Read more

    $62.39 USD

  • The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain: Volume 1, Industrialisation, 1700–1870

    Edited by Roderick Floud, Jane Humphries, Paul Johnson ...
    A new edition of the leading textbook on the economic history of Britain since industrialization. Combining the expertise of more than thirty leading historians and economists, Volume 1 tracks Britain's economic history in the period ranging from 1700 to 1870 from industrialisation to global trade and empire. Each chapter provides a clear guide to the major controversies in the field and students ... Read more

    $62.39 USD

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    "Emma Griffin gives a new and powerful voice to the men and women whose blood and sweat greased the wheels of the Industrial Revolution" (Tim Hitchcock, author of Down and Out in Eighteenth-Century London).This "provocative study" looks at hundreds of autobiographies penned between 1760 and 1900 to offer an intimate firsthand account of how the Industrial Revolution was experienced by the working ... Read more

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  • Policing Gender, Class And Family In Britain, 1800-1945

    by Linda Mahood ...
    Series series Women's and Gender History
    This book is intended for undergraduate courses on modern British history, women's history, courses on family, sexuality and childhood. Women's studies, history of education, sociology. ... Read more

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  • Oxford Town and Gown

    by Peter Collison ...
    Oxford: Town and Gown is a unique look at the relationships between universities and their local communities, the result of a wide-ranging sociological survey carried out by Peter Collison in 1960s Oxford, at the pivotal moment when the world depicted by authors like Evelyn Waugh and Thomas Hardy changed forever. Surveys carried out at the same time in York and Reading, two university towns of ... Read more

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  • Middle Classes

    Their Rise and Sprawl

    by Simon Gunn, Rachel Bell ...
    The first general history of the English middle classes, based on BBC TV programme of which Will Self said "No simple overview can do justice to this programme - an exemplary series and mandatory viewing'.Afternoon tea, the Women's Institute, Mrs Beeton, department stores, suburbia, seaside holidays and cycling clubs - all preserves of the great middle class. But where did the middle classes come ... Read more

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  • Clothing the Poor in Nineteenth-Century England

    by Vivienne Richmond ...
    In this pioneering study Vivienne Richmond reveals the importance of dress to the nineteenth-century English poor, who valued clothing not only for its practical utility, but also as a central element in the creation and assertion of collective and individual identities. During this period of rapid industrialisation and urbanisation formal dress codes, corporate and institutional uniforms, and the ... Read more

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  • Double Lives

    A History of Working Motherhood

    by Helen McCarthy ...
    SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2021Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2021Longlisted for the HWA Non-Fiction Crown 2021'Fabulous' - The Times'A milestone in women's history' - Observer'Groundbreaking ... a fascinating read' - HeraldIn Britain today, three-quarters of mothers are in employment and paid work is an un... ... Read more

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  • Sickness, medical welfare and the English poor, 1750-1834

    by Steven King ...
    Series Book 14 - Social Histories of Medicine
    At the core of this book are three central contentions: That medical welfare became the totemic function of the Old Poor Law in its last few decades; that the poor themselves were able to negotiate this medical welfare rather than simply being subject to it; and that being doctored and institutionalised became part of the norm for the sick poor by the 1820s, in a way that had not been the case in ... Read more

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  • Class, Politics, and the Decline of Deference in England, 1968-2000

    by Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite ...
    Series series The Past and Present Book Series
    In late twentieth-century England, inequality was rocketing, yet some have suggested that the politics of class was declining in significance, while others argue that class identities lost little power. Neither interpretation is satisfactory: class remained important to 'ordinary' people's narratives about social change and their own identities throughout the period 1968-2000, but in changing ways ... Read more

    $89.99 USD