Looking at History

Those publications with an asterisk (*) were co-written with C.W. Daniels. This list does not include editorials for Teaching History , book...

As early as 1851, there were women who worked with their husbands searching for gold. There were about twenty women, for instance, at the ...

By the 1850s, immigration to Canada was a far more attractive in the eyes of respectable women than to Australia that was still haunted b...

Tom Hughes Clerical Errors: A Victorian Series , Volume 1, (Kindle edition), £3.86 The behaviour of public figures has always been subj...

My appallingly bad yet typically English 'franglais' will never do justice to what is an elegantly written and much needed study of ...

Britain undergoes periods of democratic introspection about once every decade but what is often a frenzy of calls for constitutional change...

JUST PUBLISHED Although it’s only two years since I produced Sex, Work and Politics , writing a second edition has allowed me to extend it...

The outbreak of war saw an epidemic of ‘khaki fever’ across Britain. A sexual excitement among young women at the sight of soldiers in town...

This was, for instance, evident in increased levels drinking by women described in contemporary newspapers. Concerns about women drinking ...