This groundbreaking history challenges traditional assumptions about the development of British democracy and the struggle for women's rights.

Sexual attitudes and behaviour have changed radically in Britain between the Victorian era and the twenty-first century. However, Lesley A. Hall reveals how slo

This study of gender and power in Victorian Britain is the first book to examine the contribution made by women to the public culture of the British aristocracy

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`What a pleasure to see this pathbreaking research in print! Karl Ittmann's analysis of Bradford pushes forward our knowledge of the quiet revolution in social