Books in the Family, Sexuality and Social Relations in Past Times series

A Woman's Place is based upon Elizabeth Roberts's interviews with 160 elderly people from the towns of Barrow, Lancaster and Preston. They recall their memories of family life as children, youths and adults in the period between the last decade of the nineteenth century and the outbreak of the Second World War.

* Argues against those who see the history of modern sexuality as a tale of liberation* Contends that sexuality is socially constructed and is remade by each generation for its own social and cultural context* Draws on interdisciplinary research. .

This is an account of three English working--class communities in England from 1940 to 1970. The story is told through the words and memories of those who lived through it. The book is at once vivid, moving and eye--opening.

This is an account of the lives of the families and the servants of the British country house from the end of the Napoleonic wars to the onset of the Great War. It is a pioneering history based on contemporary records, diaries, private and public autobiographies, and on the childhood recollections of living descendants.