Louise A. Jackson is Reader in Modern Social History in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh
53 Ebooks by Cordelia Beattie
Cordelia Beattie & Matthew Frank Stevens: Married Women and the Law in Premodern Northwest Europe
Fresh approaches to how premodern women were viewed in legal terms, demonstrating how this varied from country to country and across the centuries.
There has been a tendency in scholarship on pre …
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€32.99
Cordelia Beattie: Medieval Single Women
The single woman is a troubling and disruptive category. Does it denote all unmarried women, therefore creating a group which every female was part of at some stage in her life? Or, were the …
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€140.48
Louise Jackson: Women police
Women Police examines the professional roles, identities, activities and everyday experiences of women employed within the UK police service since the First World War against a backdrop of social and …
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€26.99
Laura Schwarz: Infidel feminism
Infidel feminism is the first in-depth study of a distinctive brand of women’s rights that emerged out of the Victorian Secularist movement. It looks at the lives and work of a number of female …
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€30.99
Melanie Tebbutt: Being boys
This original and fresh approach to the emotions of adolescence focuses on the leisure lives of working-class boys and young men in the inter-war years. Being Boys challenges many stereotypes about …
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€33.99
Simha Goldin: Jewish Women in Europe in the Middle Ages
Goldin’s study explores the relationships between men and women within Jewish society living in Germany, northern France and England among the Christian population over a period of some 350 years. Lo …
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€34.99
Lynn Abrams: Myth and materiality in a woman’s world
Shetland has a history unique in Europe, for over the past two centuries it was a place where women dominated the family, economy, and the cultural imagination. Women ran households and crofts …
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€26.99
Angela Davis: Modern motherhood
This book examines women’s experiences of motherhood in England in the years between 1945 and 2000. Based on a new body of 160 oral history interviews, the book offers the first comprehensive histori …
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€29.99
Emma Vickers: Queen and country
The first study of its kind in the UK, Queen and country examines the complex intersection between same-sex desire and the British Armed Forces during the Second World War. It illuminates how men and …
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€25.99
Susan M. Johns: Gender, nation and conquest in the high Middle Ages
Nest of Deheubarth was one of the most notorious women of the Middle Ages, mistress of Henry I and many other men, famously beautiful and strong-willed, object of one of the most notorious …
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€134.99
Rochelle Rowe: Imagining Caribbean womanhood
Over fifty years after Jamaican and Trinidadian independence, Imagining Caribbean womanhood examines the links between beauty and politics in the Anglophone Caribbean, providing a first cultural hist …
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English
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€33.99
Sarah Browne: The women’s liberation movement in Scotland
This is the first book-length account of the women’s liberation movement in Scotland, which, using documentary evidence and oral testimony, charts the origins and development of this important social …
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English
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€34.99
Dana Wessell Lightfoot: Women, dowries and agency
This book examines labouring-status women in late medieval Valencia as they negotiated the fundamentally defining experience of their lives: marriage. Through the use of notarial records and civil co …
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€33.99
Emma Robinson-Tomsett: Women, travel and identity
The years between 1870 and 1940 are often considered a ‘golden age’ of travel: as larger and evermore sumptuous ships and trains were built, including the Orient Express, Blue Train, Lusitania and …
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€134.99
Kate Hill: Women and museums 1850–1914
This book recovers the significant contribution made by women to museums, not just in obvious roles such as workers, but also as donors, visitors, volunteers and patrons. It suggests that women persi …
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€33.99
Teresa Phipps: Medieval women and urban justice
This book provides a detailed analysis of women’s involvement in litigation and other legal actions within their local communities in late-medieval England. It draws upon the rich records of three …
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English
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€134.99
Caitriona Beaumont: Housewives and citizens
After an extremely successful debut in hardback, Housewives and citizens is now available in paperback for the first time. This book explores the contribution that five conservative, voluntary and po …
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English
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€32.99
Cathryn Spence: Women, credit, and debt in early modern Scotland
Uses court records to re-evaluate women’s economic roles in early modern …
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€129.99
Leonie Hannan: Women of letters
Women of letters writes a new history of English women’s intellectual worlds using their private letters as evidence of hidden networks of creative exchange. The book argues that many women of this …
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English
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€33.99
Ginger Frost: Living in sin
Living in sin is the first book-length study of cohabitation in nineteenth-century England, based on research into the lives of hundreds of couples. ‘Common-law’ marriages did not have any legal basi …
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English
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€29.99
Carol Engelhardt-Herringer: Victorians and the Virgin Mary
This interdisciplinary study of competing representations of the Virgin Mary examines how anxieties about religious and gender identities intersected to create public controversies that, whilst osten …
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English
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€29.99
Jennifer M. Lloyd: Women and the shaping of British Methodism
A response to the prominent Methodist historian David Hempton’s call to analyse women’s experience within Methodism, this book is the first to deal with British Methodist women preachers over the …
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English
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€129.99
Megan Smitley: The feminine public sphere
At a time when women were barred from clerical roles, middle-class women made use of the informal power structures of Victorian and Edwardian associationalism in order to actively participate as …
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English
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€129.99
Maureen Wright: Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy and the Victorian Feminist Movement
This book provides the first full-length biography of Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy (1833–1918) – someone referred to among contemporaries as ‘the grey matter in the brain’ of the late-Victorian …
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English
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€30.99
Lynne Attwood: Gender and housing in Soviet Russia
This book explores the housing problem throughout the 70 years of Soviet history, looking at changing political ideology on appropriate forms of housing under socialism, successive government policie …
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English
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€43.99
Katie Barclay: Love, Intimacy and Power
Winner of the 2012 Senior Hume Brown Prize in Scottish History and the 2012 Women’s History Network (UK) Book Prize Through an analysis of the correspondence of over one hundred couples from the Scot …
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€27.99
Lucy Bland: Modern women on trial
Modern women on trial looks at several sensational trials involving drugs, murder, adultery, miscegenation and sexual perversion in the period 1918–24. The trials, all with young female defendants, …
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English
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€29.99
Anne Wohlcke: The ‘perpetual fair’
Each summer, a ‘perpetual fair’ plagued eighteenth-century London, a city in transition overrun by a burgeoning population. City officials attempted to control disorderly urban amusement according to …
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English
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€29.99
Susan M. Johns: Noblewomen, aristocracy and power in the twelfth-century Anglo-Norman realm
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. The first major work on noblewomen in the twelfth century and Normandy, and of the ways in …
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€0.00
Heloise Brown: The truest form of patriotism’
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This book explores the pervasive influence of pacifism on Victorian feminism. It provides an …
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English
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€0.00
Teresa Phipps: Medieval women and urban justice
This book provides a detailed analysis of women’s involvement in litigation and other legal actions within their local communities in late-medieval England. It draws upon the rich records of three …
PDF
English
DRM
€100.07
Susan M. Johns: Noblewomen, aristocracy and power in the twelfth-century Anglo-Norman realm
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. The first major work on noblewomen in the twelfth century and Normandy, and of the ways in …
PDF
English
DRM
€3.75
Heloise Brown: truest form of patriotism’
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This book explores the pervasive influence of pacifism on Victorian feminism. It provides an …
PDF
English
DRM
€3.71
James Bothwell & P J P Goldberg: The Problem of Labour in Fourteenth-Century England
Attitudes towards `labour’, in the wake of the Black Death, shown to range from early protest literature to repressive authoritarianism.
At the very moment that the image of the honest labourer s …
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English
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€32.99
Emma Vickers: Queen and country
The first study of its kind in the UK, Queen and country examines the complex intersection between same-sex desire and the British Armed Forces during the Second World War. It illuminates how men and …
EPUB
English
DRM
€18.73
Anne Wohlcke: The ”Perpetual Fair”
Each summer, a ”perpetual fair” plagued eighteenth-century London, a city in transition overrun by a burgeoning population. City officials attempted to control disorderly urban amusement according …
EPUB
DRM
€22.54
Susan M. Johns: Gender, nation and conquest in the high Middle Ages
Nest of Deheubarth was one of the most notorious women of the Middle Ages, mistress of Henry I and many other men, famously beautiful and strong-willed, object of one of the most notorious …
EPUB
English
DRM
€99.81
Rochelle Rowe: Imagining Caribbean womanhood
Over fifty years after Jamaican and Trinidadian independence, Imagining Caribbean womanhood examines the links between beauty and politics in the Anglophone Caribbean, providing a first cultural …
EPUB
English
DRM
€25.02
Sarah Browne: women’s liberation movement in Scotland
This is the first book-length account of the women’s liberation movement in Scotland, which, using documentary evidence and oral testimony, charts the origins and development of this important social …
EPUB
English
DRM
€24.98
Dana Wessell Lightfoot: Women, dowries and agency
This book examines labouring-status women in late medieval Valencia as they negotiated the fundamentally defining experience of their lives: marriage. Through the use of notarial records and civil …
EPUB
English
DRM
€24.93
Emma Robinson-Tomsett: Women, travel and identity
The years between 1870 and 1940 are often considered a ‘golden age’ of travel: as larger and evermore sumptuous ships and trains were built, including the Orient Express, Blue Train, Lusitania and …
EPUB
English
DRM
€99.77
Caitriona Beaumont: Housewives and citizens
After an extremely successful debut in hardback, Housewives and citizens is now available in paperback for the first time. This book explores the contribution that five conservative, voluntary and …
EPUB
English
DRM
€23.79
Cathryn Spence: Women, Credit, and Debt In Early Modern Scotland
This text provides the first full-length consideration of women”s economic roles in early modern Scottish towns. Drawing on tens of thousands of cases entered into burgh court litigation between …
EPUB
DRM
€106.54
Leonie Hannan: Women of letters
Women of letters writes a new history of English women”s intellectual worlds using their private letters as evidence of hidden networks of creative exchange. The book argues that many women of this …
EPUB
DRM
€26.05
Carol Engelhardt-Herringer: Victorians and the Virgin Mary
This interdisciplinary study of competing representations of the Virgin Mary examines how anxieties about religious and gender identities intersected to create public controversies that, whilst …
EPUB
English
DRM
€21.29
Ginger Frost: Living in sin
Living in sin is the first book-length study of cohabitation in nineteenth-century England, based on research into the lives of hundreds of couples. ‘Common-law’ marriages did not have any legal …
EPUB
English
DRM
€21.29
Lynne Attwood: Gender and housing in Soviet Russia
This book explores the housing problem throughout the 70 years of Soviet history, looking at changing political ideology on appropriate forms of housing under socialism, successive government …
EPUB
English
DRM
€31.23
Jennifer M. Lloyd: Women and the shaping of British Methodism
A response to the prominent Methodist historian David Hempton’s call to analyse women’s experience within Methodism, this book is the first to deal with British Methodist women preachers over the …
EPUB
English
DRM
€99.82
Megan Smitley: feminine public sphere
At a time when women were barred from clerical roles, middle-class women made use of the informal power structures of Victorian and Edwardian associationalism in order to actively participate as …
EPUB
English
DRM
€99.78
Katie Barclay: Love, Intimacy and Power
Through an analysis of the correspondence of over one hundred couples from the Scottish elites across the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, this book explores how ideas around the nature of …
EPUB
English
DRM
€20.04
Maureen Wright: Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy and the Victorian Feminist Movement
This book provides the first full-length biography of Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy (1833-1918) – someone referred to among contemporaries as ‘the grey matter in the brain’ of the late-Victorian …
EPUB
English
DRM
€22.54
Lucy Bland: Modern women on trial
Modern women on trial looks at several sensational trials involving drugs, murder, adultery, miscegenation and sexual perversion in the period 1918-24. The trials, all with young female defendants, …
EPUB
English
DRM
€22.52
