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Labours lost : domestic service and the making of modern England
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ISBN: 9780521516372 9780521736237 0521736234 0521516374 Year: 2009 Publisher: Cambridge, UK ; New York Melbourne : Cambridge University Press,

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"This is a unique account of the hidden history of servants and their employers in late eighteenth-century England and of how servants thought about and articulated their resentments. It is a book which encompasses state formation and the maidservant pounding away at dirty nappies in the back kitchen; taxes on the servant's labour and the knives he cleaned, the water he fetched, and the privy he shovelled out. Carolyn Steedman shows how deeply entwined all of these entities, objects and people were in the imagination of those doing the shovelling and pounding and in the political philosophies that attempted to make sense of it all. Rather than fitting domestic service into conventional narratives of industrial revolution' or the making of the English working class' she offers instead a profound re-reading of this formative period in English social history which restores the servants' lost labours to their rightful place"--Provided by publisher.

Master and servant : love and labour in the English industrial age
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ISBN: 9780521697736 9780521874465 0521697735 0521874467 9786610959693 0511295782 0511294212 0511573820 0511618948 128095969X 051129655X 0511295014 9780511618949 1107181658 9780511296550 0511292619 9780511292613 9780511295782 9780511294211 9780511295010 6610959692 9781107181656 9780511573828 Year: 2007 Volume: 10 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Leading historian Carolyn Steedman offers a fascinating and compelling account of love, life and domestic service in eighteenth-century England. This book, situated in the regional and chronological epicentre of E. P. Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class and Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, focuses on the relationship between a Church of England clergyman (the Master of the title) and his pregnant maidservant in the late eighteenth century. This case-study of people behaving in ways quite contrary to the standard historical account sheds new light on the much wider historical questions of Anglicanism as social thought, the economic history of the industrial revolution, domestic service, the poor law, literacy, education, and the very making of the English working class. It offers a unique meditation on the relationship between history and literature and will be of interest to scholars and students of industrial England, social and cultural history and English literature.

Dust : the archive and cultural history
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ISBN: 0813530474 0813530466 9780813530468 9780813530475 Year: 2002 Publisher: New Brunswick Rutgers University Press


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Strange dislocations : childhood and the idea of human interiority, 1780-1930
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ISBN: 0674839781 9780674839786 Year: 1995 Publisher: Cambridge (MA) : Harvard University Press,

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Poetry for historians : Or, W. H. Auden and history
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ISBN: 1526125226 9781526125248 1526125242 9781526125224 9781526125217 9781526125231 1526125218 9781526125217 1526125234 9781526125231 Year: 2018 Publisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press,

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This is a book about the conflict between history and poetry - and historians and poets - in Atlantic World society from the end of the seventeenth century to the present day. Blending historiography and theory, it proceeds by asking: what is the point of poetry as far as historians are concerned? The focus is on W. H. Auden's Cold War-era history poems, but the book also looks at other poets from the seventeenth century onwards, providing original accounts of their poetic and historical educations. An important resource for those teaching undergraduate and postgraduate courses in historiography and history and theory, Poetry for historians will also be of relevance to courses on literature in society and the history of education. General readers will relate it to Steedman's Landscape for a Good Woman (1987) and Dust (2001), on account of its biographical and autobiographical insights into the way history operates in modern society. --


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An everyday life of the English working class : work, self and sociability in the early nineteenth century
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ISBN: 9781461953883 146195388X 9781107055155 1107055156 9781107046214 1107046211 9781107670297 1107670292 1107503086 1139893793 1107506808 1107517222 1107497515 1107504139 Year: 2013 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This book concerns two men, a stockingmaker and a magistrate, who both lived in a small English village at the turn of the nineteenth century. It focuses on Joseph Woolley the stockingmaker, on his way of seeing and writing the world around him, and on the activities of magistrate Sir Gervase Clifton, administering justice from his country house Clifton Hall. Using Woolley's voluminous diaries and Clifton's magistrate records, Carolyn Steedman gives us a unique and fascinating account of working-class living and loving, and getting and spending. Through Woolley and his thoughts on reading and drinking, sex, the law and social relations, she challenges traditional accounts which she argues have overstated the importance of work to the working man's understanding of himself, as a creature of time, place and society. She shows instead that, for men like Woolley, law and fiction were just as critical as work in framing everyday life.

Dust
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ISBN: 9780719060151 071906015X Year: 2006 Publisher: Manchester Manchester University Press

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History and the law : a love story
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ISBN: 1108623506 110862670X 1316999408 1108486053 Year: 2020 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Focusing on everyday legal experiences, from that of magistrates, novelists and political philosophers, to maidservants, pauper men and women, down-at-heel attorneys and middling-sort wives in their coverture, History and the Law reveals how people thought about, used, manipulated and resisted the law between the eighteenth and the twentieth centuries. Supported by clear, engaging examples taken from the historical record, and from the writing of historians including Laurence Sterne, William Godwin, and E. P. Thompson, who each had troubled love affairs with the law, Carolyn Steedman puts the emphasis on English poor laws, copyright law, and laws regarding women. Evocatively written and highly original, History and the Law accounts for historians' strange ambivalent love affair with the law and with legal records that appear to promise access to so many lives in the past.


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Childhood, culture, and class in Britain : Margaret McMillan, 1860-1931
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ISBN: 1853811238 Year: 1990 Publisher: London : Virago,

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History and the law: a love story
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ISBN: 9781108736985 Year: 2020 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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