Books by Simon (University of Cambridge) Szreter

Based on vivid and compelling oral testimony from a diverse range of people, this book provides the first rounded account of sexuality in marriage in early and mid twentieth-century England. The authors look beyond the conventions of silence among the respectable majority to challenge stereotypes of ignorance and inhibition.

This book examines the dramatic fall in family size in Britain between 1860 and 1940. It overturns current thinking and presents new and surprising findings about the importance of sexual abstinence and widely spaced births.