John Tosh's book is a signal event. It celebrates the full coming of age of the history of masculinity as a recognised academic sub-discipline. If Davidoff and Hall laid the foundations in this respect, Tosh finally establishes and opens up the field. The book will be of great interest to all serious students of VictorianContinue reading “A Man’s Place: Masculinity and the Middle-Class Home in Victorian England”
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The Oxford Illustrated History of Tudor and Stuart Britain
The only appropriate beginning to this review is to salute a tremendous collective achievement: as a publishing project the book is stupendous and this must owe much to the picture researcher Gill Metcalfe, the OUP production team and the editor; as a parade of high scholarship the book does great credit to its eighteen contributors.Continue reading “The Oxford Illustrated History of Tudor and Stuart Britain”