Desistance and Persistence: Women and Habitual Violence in Late Victorian and Edwardian England

Suicide in Victorian and Edwardian England

that organization of medical services was, by itself insufficient to meet this problem. The food policy ofthe British government during the Second World War, as well as being economically and politically necessary, was also seen as a health policy based on the principles ofneed, access, and income, not on "hierarchical regionalism". Many of the medical investigations launched by the Medical Res...

Socialists and Social Reformers in Late Victorian and Edwardian Britain

Women and drink in Edwardian England.

The borderland of imbecility: medicine, society and the fabrication of the feeble mind in late Victorian and Edwardian England

commentators indicted male irresponsibility and "lasciviousness". Nearly everyone condemned prostitutes, especially "amateur" ones, a category that could include virtually any sexually active unmarried woman. Stigma was structured not only by gender anxieties but also by those surrounding race and, especially, class. The virtue of young Scottish womanhood was threatened, so it was feared, by th...

A Work-Life History of Policemen in Victorian and Edwardian England*