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  • Well-being Past and Present

    The History and Contemporary Practice of a Cultural Phenomenon in Britain

    Edited by Siobhan Hyland, Dr Paul Jackson, Mark Rothery ...
    In this exciting interdisciplinary volume, researchers, archivists, curators and social scientists offer a fresh exploration of the concept of well-being in Britain throughout history and in the present day.Well-being Past and Present examines the various ways well-being has been invoked as a concept or term throughout historical periods, attending to its multifarious meanings and its significance ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

  • Consumption and the Country House

    by Jon Stobart, Mark Rothery ...
    This study explores the consumption practices of the landed aristocracy of Georgian England. Focussing on three families and drawing on detailed analysis of account books, receipted bills, household inventories, diaries and correspondence, Consumption and the Country House charts the spending patterns of this elite group during the so-called consumer revolution of the eighteenth century. Generally ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

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  • Social Class in the 21st Century

    by Mike Savage ...
    Series series Pelican Books
    A fresh take on social class from the experts behind the BBC's 'Great British Class Survey'.Why does social class matter more than ever in Britain today?How has the meaning of class changed?What does this mean for social mobility and inequality?In this book Mike Savage and the team of sociologists responsible for the Great British Class Survey look beyond the labels to explore how and why our ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • Born to Rule

    The Making and Remaking of the British Elite

    by Aaron Reeves, Sam Friedman ...
    The Economist, Best Books of 2024**The Times, Best Ideas Books of 2024A uniquely data-rich analysis of the British elite from the Victorian era to today: who gets in, how they get there, what they like and look like, where they go to school, and what politics they perpetuate.**Think of the British elite and familiar caricatures spring to mind. But are today’s power brokers a conservative ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Behind Closed Doors

    At Home in Georgian England

    by Amanda Vickery ...
    From the award-winning author of The Gentleman's Daughter,a witty and academic illumination of daily domestic life in Georgian England.In this brilliant work, Amanda Vickery unlocks the homes of Georgian England to examine the lives of the people who lived there. Writing with her customary wit and verve, she introduces us to men and women from all walks of life: gentlewoman Anne Dormer in her ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Biography of Loneliness

    The History of an Emotion

    by Fay Bound Alberti ...
    'A compassionate, wide-ranging study.' Terry Eagleton, The Guardian Despite 21st-century fears of a modern 'epidemic' of loneliness, its history has been sorely neglected. A Biography of Loneliness is the first history of its kind to be published in English, offering a radically new interpretation of loneliness as an emotional language and experience. Using letters and diaries, philosophical ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

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  • Up and Down Stairs

    The History of the Country House Servant

    by Jeremy Musson ...
    Country houses were reliant on an intricate hierarchy of servants, each of whom provided an essential skill. Up and Down Stairs brings to life this hierarchy and shows how large numbers of people lived together under strict segregation and how sometimes this segregation was broken, as with the famous marriage of a squire to his dairymaid at Uppark. Jeremy Musson captures the voices of the servants ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Privacy

    A Short History

    by David Vincent ...
    Privacy: A Short History provides a vital historical account of an increasingly stressed sphere of human interaction. At a time when the death of privacy is widely proclaimed, distinguished historian, David Vincent, describes the evolution of the concept and practice of privacy from the Middle Ages to the present controversy over digital communication and state surveillance provoked by the ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • Mental Health

    Edited by Jeremy Weinstein ...
    Series series Critical and Radical Debates in Social Work
    Mental health social work is at an impasse. On the one hand, the emphasis in recent policy documents on the social roots of much mental distress ,and in the recovery approaches popular with service users seems to indicate an important role for a holistic social work practice. On the other hand, social workers have often been excluded from these initiatives and the dominant approach within mental ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • The Penguin Social History of Britain

    English Society in the Eighteenth Century

    by Roy Porter ...
    A portrait of 18th century England, from its princes to its paupers, from its metropolis to its smallest hamlet. The topics covered include - diet, housing, prisons, rural festivals, bordellos, plays, paintings, and work and wages. ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

  • Museums and Education

    Purpose, Pedagogy, Performance

    by Eilean Hooper-Greenhill ...
    Series series Museum Meanings
    At the beginning of the 21st century museums are challenged on a number of fronts. The prioritisation of learning in museums in the context of demands for social justice and cultural democracy combined with cultural policy based on economic rationalism forces museums to review their educational purposes, redesign their pedagogies and account for their performance.The need to theorise learning and ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Life Below Stairs: The Real Lives of Servants, the Edwardian Era to 1939

    by Pamela Horn ...
    In 1931 domestic service remained the largest female occupation in Britain. We view it today as an undesirable job, owing to the class divide it has come to represent, and this is reflected in the portrayals of mistresses and servants in books and on the screen. However, it was seen as the perfect way to equip young women with the skills necessary to become good wives and mothers, and continues to ... Read more

    $8.59 USD