Fatherhood And The British Working Class 1865 1914

Author : Julie-Marie Strange
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107084872

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Fatherhood and the British Working Class, 1865-1914 by Julie-Marie Strange Pdf

A pioneering study of Victorian and Edwardian fatherhood, investigating what being, and having, a father meant to working-class people. Based on working-class autobiography, the book challenges dominant assumptions about absent or 'feckless' fathers, and reintegrates the paternal figure within the emotional life of families. Locating autobiography within broader social and cultural commentary, Julie-Marie Strange considers material culture, everyday practice, obligation, duty and comedy as sites for the development and expression of complex emotional lives. Emphasising the importance of separating men as husbands from men as fathers, Strange explores how emotional ties were formed between fathers and their children, the models of fatherhood available to working-class men, and the ways in which fathers interacted with children inside and outside the home. She explodes the myth that working-class interiorities are inaccessible or unrecoverable, and locates life stories in the context of other sources, including social surveys, visual culture and popular fiction.

Author : Joseph Harley,Vicky Holmes,Laika Nevalainen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030892739

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The Working Class at Home, 1790–1940 by Joseph Harley,Vicky Holmes,Laika Nevalainen Pdf

This book examines life in the homes inhabited by the working class over the long nineteenth century. These working-class homes are often imagined as distinctly unhomely spaces, which the inhabitants struggled to fill with even the most basic of furniture, let alone acquire the comforts associated with middle-class domestic space. The concerned reformers of industrialising towns and cities painted a picture of severe deprivation, of rooms that were both cramped yet bare at the same time, and disease-ridden spaces from which their subjects required rescue. It is an image which is not only inadequate, but which also robs working-class people of their agency in creating domestic spaces which allowed for the expression of personal and familial feeling. Bringing together emerging scholars who challenge these ideas and using a range of innovative sources and approaches, this edited collection presents a new understanding of working-class homes.

Author : Laura Ugolini
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000381214

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Fathers and Sons in the English Middle Class, c. 1870–1920 by Laura Ugolini Pdf

This book explores the relationship between middle-class fathers and sons in England between c. 1870 and 1920. We now know that the conventional image of the middle-class paterfamilias of this period as cold and authoritarian is too simplistic, but there is still much to be discovered about relationships in middle-class families. Paying especial attention to gender and masculinities, this book focuses on the interactions between fathers and sons, exploring how relationships developed and masculine identities were negotiated from infancy and childhood to adulthood and old age. Drawing on sources as diverse as autobiographies, oral history interviews, First World War conscription records and press reports of violent incidents, this book questions how fathers and sons negotiated relationships marked by shifting relations of power, as well as by different combinations of emotional entanglements, obligations and ties. It explores changes as fathers and sons grew older and assesses fathers’ role in trying to mould sons’ masculine identities, characters and lives. It reveals negotiation and compromise, as well as rebellion and conflict, underlining that fathers and sons were important to each other, their relationships a significant – if often overlooked – aspect of middle-class men’s lives and identities.

Author : Natacha Chevalier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429769399

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Food in Wartime Britain by Natacha Chevalier Pdf

Based on deep analysis of Mass Observation wartime diaries, Food in Wartime Britain explores the food experience of the British middle classes in their own words throughout the course of the Second World War. It reveals that, while the food practices of the population were modified by rationing and food scarcity, social class and personal circumstances were key dimensions of the wartime food experience that demand to be taken into account in the historical narrative of the Home Front.

Author : Claudia Soares
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780192897473

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A Home from Home? by Claudia Soares Pdf

A pioneering study of children's social care in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, A Home From Home? presents new information and develops conceptual thinking about the history of children's care by investigating the centrality of key ideas about home, family, and nurture that shaped welfare provision for children at this time.

Author : Maggie Andrews,N. C. Fleming,Marcus Morris
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030499396

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Histories, Memories and Representations of being Young in the First World War by Maggie Andrews,N. C. Fleming,Marcus Morris Pdf

This book seeks to place children and young people centrally within the study of the contemporary British home front, its cultural representations and its place in the historical memory of the First World War. This edited collection interrogates not only war and its effects on children and young people, but how understandings of this conflict have shaped or been shaped by historical memories of the Great War, which have only allowed for several tropes of childhood during the conflict to emerge. It brings together new research by emerging and established scholars who, through a series of tightly focussed case studies, introduce a range of new histories to both explore the experience of being young during the First World War, and interrogate the memories and representations of the conflict produced for children. Taken together the chapters in this volume shed light on the multiple ways in which the Great War shaped, disrupted and interrupted childhood in Britain, and illuminate simultaneously the selectivity of the portrayal of the conflict within the more typical national narratives.

Author : Emma Griffin
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300230062

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Bread Winner by Emma Griffin Pdf

The forgotten story of how ordinary families managed financially in the Victorian era--and struggled to survive despite increasing national prosperity "A powerful story of social realities, pressures, and the fracturing of traditional structures."--Ruth Goodman, Wall Street Journal "Deeply researched and sensitive."--Simon Heffer, Daily Telegraph, "Best History Books of 2020" Nineteenth century Britain saw remarkable economic growth and a rise in real wages. But not everyone shared in the nation's wealth. Unable to earn a sufficient income themselves, working-class women were reliant on the 'breadwinner wage' of their husbands. When income failed, or was denied or squandered by errant men, families could be plunged into desperate poverty from which there was no escape. Emma Griffin unlocks the homes of Victorian England to examine the lives - and finances - of the people who lived there. Drawing on over 600 working-class autobiographies, including more than 200 written by women, Bread Winner changes our understanding of daily life in Victorian Britain.

Author : John Benson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317268802

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The Working Class in England 1875-1914 by John Benson Pdf

First published in 1985. Too often aspects of working-class life have been treated as distinct and separate. The contributors to this volume are aware of the dangers of such atomisation and have attempted to bring together a collection of studies which add to our knowledge of life in that time. The examinations of family, health, work, leisure and criminal trends form the basis of this work, and suggest that the everyday lives and values of the working-class were even more varied, creative and complex than is generally believed. This title will be of interest to students of history.

Author : George Douglas Howard Cole
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1112512040

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British Working Class Politics, 1832-1914 by George Douglas Howard Cole Pdf

Author : David Kynaston
Publisher : London : Allen & Unwin
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Political Science
ISBN : IND:39000003347841

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King Labour by David Kynaston Pdf

Author : Julie-Marie Strange
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2005-07-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139445870

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Death, Grief and Poverty in Britain, 1870–1914 by Julie-Marie Strange Pdf

With high mortality rates, it has been assumed that the poor in Victorian and Edwardian Britain did not mourn their dead. Contesting this approach, Julie-Marie Strange studies the expression of grief among the working class, demonstrating that poverty increased - rather than deadened - it. She illustrates the mourning practices of the working classes through chapters addressing care of the corpse, the funeral, the cemetery, commemoration, and high infant mortality rates. The book draws on a broad range of sources to analyse the feelings and behaviours of the labouring poor, using not only personal testimony but also fiction, journalism, and official reports. It concludes that poor people did not only use spoken or written words to express their grief, but also complex symbols, actions and, significantly, silence. This book will be an invaluable contribution to an important and neglected area of social and cultural history.

Author : George D. H. Cole
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:631092688

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British working class politics 1832-1914 by George D. H. Cole Pdf

Author : Gary Kelly,Edd Applegate
Publisher : Dictionary of Literary Biograp
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105023165546

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British Reform Writers, 1832-1914 by Gary Kelly,Edd Applegate Pdf

Essays on British reform writers during a time when Britain struggled to establish a new and stable political, social and economic order. Includes major writers as well as others known mainly as sociopolitical thinkers, reformers, and socialists as well as reform oriented critics and educators.

Author : Trev Lynn Broughton,Helen Rogers
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230207851

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Gender and Fatherhood in the Nineteenth Century by Trev Lynn Broughton,Helen Rogers Pdf

Despite current debate over the paternal role, fatherhood is a relatively new area of investigation in literary, historical and cultural studies. The contributors to this illustrated, interdisciplinary volume - one of the first extended investigations of paternity in 19th century Britain and its empire - penetrate the stereotype of the Victorian paterfamilias to uncover intimate and involved, authoritarian and austere fathers. Finding surprising precursors of the 'new man' and the 'lone father', Trev Lynn Broughton and Helen Rogers provide an essential overview of changing ideologies and practices of fatherhood as the family acquired its distinctively modern form. Gender and Fatherhood in the Nineteenth Century: - Offers nuanced re-readings of artistic and literary representations of domesticity, investigations of fathering at home and at work, and of legal, political and religious discourses, suggesting that fatherhood generated more anxiety and debate than previously acknowledged. - Explores how traditional conceptions of paternal authority worked to accommodate the 'cult of motherhood'. - Examines how paternal power was embedded in social institutions. - Shows how models of social fatherhood provided powerful men with a means of negotiating their relationship with working-class men and colonized subjects. As these innovative essays demonstrate, the history of fatherhood can illuminate our understanding of class, society and empire as well as of gender and the family. Together they form an indispensable resource for anyone studying Victorian fatherhood as part of a history, literature, art, social or cultural studies course.

Author : S. Cordery
Publisher : Springer
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2003-06-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230598041

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British Friendly Societies, 1750-1914 by S. Cordery Pdf

The first monograph on this topic since 1961, this book provides an innovative interpretation of the Friendly Societies in Britain from the perspectives on social, gender and political history. It establishes the central role of the Friendly Societies in the political activism of British workers, changing understandings of masculinity and femininity, the ritualised expression of social tensions and the origins of the welfare state.