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Nursing and Midwifery in Britain Since 1700

By: Anne Borsay,Billie Hunter

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Nursing and Midwifery in Britain Since 1700

By: Anne Borsay,Billie Hunter

Nurses and midwives, both qualified and in training, have a lively interest in how their professions have developed. A stimulating collection of research-based essays, this book explores and compares the distinct histories of nursing and midwifery in Britain from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the modern day.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1137024216

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Disabled Children

Contested Caring, 1850-1979

By: Anne Borsay

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Disabled Children

Contested Caring, 1850-1979

By: Anne Borsay

This volume of essays attempts to identify the shared experiences of disabled children and examine the key debates about their care and control. The essays follow a chronological progression while focusing on the practices in a number of different countries.

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369

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Routledge

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1317320379

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Medicine and Charity in Georgian Bath

A Social History of the General Infirmary, c.1739-1830

By: Anne Borsay

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Medicine and Charity in Georgian Bath

A Social History of the General Infirmary, c.1739-1830

By: Anne Borsay

First published in 1999, this rewarding volume offers a close and systematic analysis of the General Infirmary at Bath, which was founded in 1739 to grant ‘lepers and cripples, and other indigent strangers’ access to the spa waters. Four main themes are pursued in order to locate the hospital within its economic, socio-cultural and political contexts: arrangements for management and finance under the conditions of a prospering commercial economy; the rewards and restrictions experienced by the physicians and surgeons who donated their professional services free of charge; and the constructions of an integrated social and political élite around the physical and moral rehabilitation of the sick poor. In this way, the example of Bath – a stylish resort whose visitors and residents exemplified the dynamic of fashionable philanthropy – is used to open up issues of significance to our understanding of Georgian Britain as a whole.

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Routledge

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0429832680

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Disability and Social Policy in Britain since 1750

A History of Exclusion

By: Anne Borsay

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Disability and Social Policy in Britain since 1750

A History of Exclusion

By: Anne Borsay

This approachable study explores experiences of physical and mental impairment in Britain since the Industrial Revolution. Using literary, visual, and oral sources to complement documentary evidence, Anne Borsay pays particular attention to the testimonies of disabled people. Disability and Social Policy in Britain since 1750: - Places disability policies within their historical context - examines citizenship and social exclusion from a historical perspective - Sketches the key characteristics of modern industrial societies - Focuses on the shifting mixed economy of welfare, the development of social rights and the construction of identity - Assesses institutional living in workhouses, hospitals, asylums, and schools - Appraises community living with reference to employment, financial relief and community care - Reviews social policies post-1979 Borsay argues that disabled people were excluded from the full rights of citizenship because they were marginal to the labour market and suggests that history may play a role in raising personal and political consciousness. Containing illustrations, and clearly structured, this book is an ideal guide for all those with an interest in the history of disability and social policies.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1137181095

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9781137181091

Self-Help and Civic Culture

Citizenship in Victorian Birmingham

By: Anne B. Rodrick

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Self-Help and Civic Culture

Citizenship in Victorian Birmingham

By: Anne B. Rodrick

First published in 2004. The nineteenth century witnessed a flowering of the culture of self-improvement that was reflected in a plethora of institutes, societies and journals that sprang up across Britain with the goal of spreading knowledge and learning to a wide spectrum of society. The prophets of self-improvement believed that not only was self-improvement a laudable goal in its own right, but more importantly, it would contribute towards a general improvement in society. In an age in which direct participation in the political processes was restricted to a minority, education and self-improvement could act as an alternative force by creating a sophisticated and knowledgeable population. In other words, self-improvement was also seen as a way of creating active and responsible citizens. Focusing on the city of Birmingham, and drawing on both local and national sources, Self Help and Civic Culture explores the changing nature of self improvement and citizenship in Victorian Britain. By approaching the concept of citizenship from a new perspective, provincial identity and its relationship to wider ideas of 'Englishness' and 'Britishness', a distinct ideal of citizenship is elucidated that adds further nuance to current scholarship. By drawing together various issues of citizenship, self-improvement, class and political power, this work brings a new perspective to the on-going attempts to determine who could claim the full rights, duties, privileges and responsibilities of the larger social body, thus illuminating the relationship between culture and power in nineteenth century England.

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270

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Routledge

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1351149466

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9781351149464

Hannah More

The First Victorian

By: Anne Stott

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Hannah More

The First Victorian

By: Anne Stott

This is the first substantial biography of More for 50 years and the first to make extensive use of her unpublished correspondence.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199245320

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Errant Plagiary

The Life and Writing of Lady Sarah Cowper, 1644-1720

By: Anne Kugler

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Errant Plagiary

The Life and Writing of Lady Sarah Cowper, 1644-1720

By: Anne Kugler

This is the story of Lady Sarah Cowper, based on a diary that she kept from 1700 to 1716. She reveals not only her personal life, but also her thoughts about religion, politics, and society, weaving her own words with unattributed quotations from conduct manuals, sermons, periodicals, and other sources.

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Stanford University Press

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0804734186

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The 'perpetual fair'

Gender, disorder, and urban amusement in eighteenth-century London

By: Anne Wohlcke

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The 'perpetual fair'

Gender, disorder, and urban amusement in eighteenth-century London

By: Anne Wohlcke

Each summer, a 'perpetual fair' plagued eighteenth-century London, a city in transition overrun by a burgeoning population. City officials attempted to control disorderly urban amusement according to their own gendered understandings of order and morality. Frequently derided as locations of dangerous femininity disrupting masculine commerce, fairs withstood regulation attempts. Fairs were important in the lives of ordinary Londoners as sites of women’s work, sociability, and local and national identity formation. Rarely studied as vital to London’s modernisation, urban fairs are a microcosm of London’s transforming society, demonstrating how metropolitan changes were popularly contested. This study contributes to our understanding of popular culture and modernisation in Britain during the formative years of its global empire. Fascinating examples drawn from literary and visual culture make this an engaging study for scholars and students of late Stuart and early Georgian Britain, urban and gender history, World’s Fairs and cultural studies.

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Manchester University Press

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1526101130

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9781526101136

The History of Old Age in England, 1600-1800, Part I Vol 1

By: Lynn Botelho,Susannah R Ottaway,Anne Kugler

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The History of Old Age in England, 1600-1800, Part I Vol 1

By: Lynn Botelho,Susannah R Ottaway,Anne Kugler

What did it mean to be old in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England? This eight-volume edition brings together selections from medical treatises, sermons, legal documents, parish records, almshouse accounts, private letters, diaries and ballads, to investigate cultural and medical understanding of old age in pre-industrial England.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040249892

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Making a Medical Living

Doctors and Patients in the English Market for Medicine, 1720-1911

By: Anne Digby

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Making a Medical Living

Doctors and Patients in the English Market for Medicine, 1720-1911

By: Anne Digby

A socio-economic history of medical practice from the first voluntary hospital to national health insurance.

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376

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Cambridge University Press

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0521524512

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9780521524513

Virtuous Bankers

A Day in the Life of the Eighteenth-Century Bank of England

By: Anne L. Murphy

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Virtuous Bankers

A Day in the Life of the Eighteenth-Century Bank of England

By: Anne L. Murphy

An intimate account of the eighteenth-century Bank of England that shows how a private institution became “a great engine of state” The eighteenth-century Bank of England was an institution that operated for the benefit of its shareholders—and yet came to be considered, as Adam Smith described it, “a great engine of state.” In Virtuous Bankers, Anne Murphy explores how this private organization became the guardian of the public credit upon which Britain’s economic and geopolitical power was based. Drawing on the voluminous and detailed minute books of a Committee of Inspection that examined the Bank’s workings in 1783–84, Murphy frames her account as “a day in the life” of the Bank of England, looking at a day’s worth of banking activities that ranged from the issuing of bank notes to the management of public funds. Murphy discusses the bank as a domestic environment, a working environment, and a space to be protected against theft, fire, and revolt. She offers new insights into the skills of the Bank’s clerks and the ways in which their work was organized, and she positions the Bank as part of the physical and cultural landscape of the City: an aggressive property developer, a vulnerable institution seeking to secure its buildings, and an enterprise necessarily accessible to the public. She considers the aesthetics of its headquarters—one of London’s finest buildings—and the messages of creditworthiness embedded in that architecture and in the very visible actions of the Bank’s clerks. Murphy’s uniquely intimate account shows how the eighteenth-century Bank was able to deliver a set of services that were essential to the state and commanded the confidence of the public.

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Princeton University Press

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0691248524

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9780691248523

Agincourt

Great Battles Series

By: Anne Curry

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Agincourt

Great Battles Series

By: Anne Curry

From Shakespeare to The Beatles, the battle of Agincourt has dominated the cultural landscape as one of the most famous battles in British history. Anne Curry seeks to find out how and why the legacy of Agincourt has captured the popular imagination. Agincourt (1415) is an exceptionally famous battle, one that has generated a huge and enduring cultural legacy in the six hundred years since it was fought. Everybody thinks they know what the battle was about. Even John Lennon, aged 12, wrote a poem and drew a picture headed 'Agincourt'. But why and how has Agincourt come to mean so much, to so many? Why do so many people claim their ancestors served at the battle? Is the Agincourt of popular image the real Agincourt, or is our idea of the battle simply taken from Shakespeare's famous depiction of it? Written by the world's leading expert on the battle, this book shows just why it has occupied such a key place in English identity and history in the six centuries since it was fought, exploring a cultural legacy that stretches from bowmen to Beatles, via Shakespeare, Dickens, and the First World War. Anne Curry first sets the scene, illuminating how and why the battle was fought, as well as its significance in the wider history of the Hundred Years War. She then takes the Agincourt story through the centuries from 1415 to now, from the immediate, and sometimes surprising, responses to it on both sides of the Channel, through its reinvention by Shakespeare in King Henry V (1599), and the enduring influence of both the play and the film versions of it, especially the patriotic Laurence Olivier version of 1944, at the time of the D-Day landings in Normandy. But the legacy of Agincourt does not begin and end with Shakespeare's play: from the eighteenth century onwards, on both sides of the Channel and in both the English and French speaking worlds the battle was used as an explanation of national identity, giving rise to jingoistic works in print and music. It was at this time that it became fashionable for the gentry to identify themselves with the victory, and in the Victorian period the Agincourt archer came to be emphasized as the epitome of 'English freedom'. Indeed, even today, historians continue to 'refight' the battle.

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273

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OUP Oxford

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0191502774

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9780191502774

Household Medicine in Seventeenth-Century England

By: Anne Stobart

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Household Medicine in Seventeenth-Century England

By: Anne Stobart

How did 17th-century families in England perceive their health care needs? What household resources were available for medical self-help? To what extent did households make up remedies based on medicinal recipes? Drawing on previously unpublished household papers ranging from recipes to accounts and letters, this original account shows how health and illness were managed on a day-to-day basis in a variety of 17th-century households. It reveals the extent of self-help used by families, explores their favourite remedies and analyses differences in approaches to medical matters. Anne Stobart illuminates cultures of health care amongst women and men, showing how 'kitchin physick' related to the business of medicine, which became increasingly commercial and professional in the 18th century.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1472580370

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9781472580375

The Evolution of British General Practice, 1850-1948

By: Anne Digby

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The Evolution of British General Practice, 1850-1948

By: Anne Digby

This book focuses on a formative period in the development of modern general practice. The foundations of present-day health care in Britain were created in the century before the National Health Service of 1948, when medicine was transformed in its structure, professional status, economic organization, and therapeutic power. In the first full-length study of general practice for these years, Anne Digby deploys an impressive range of hitherto unused archival material and oral testimony to probe the character of general practitioners careers and practices, and to assess their relationships with local communities, a wider society, and the state. An evolutionary approach is adopted to explain the origins and nature of the many changes in medical practice, and the lives of ordinary doctors. The study also explores the gendered nature of medical practice as reflected in the experience of a golden band of women GPs, and examines the hidden role of the doctors wife in the practice.

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Clarendon Press

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019154230X

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Nursing and Midwifery in Britain Since 1700

By: Anne Borsay,Billie Hunter

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Nursing and Midwifery in Britain Since 1700

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Medicine and Charity in Georgian Bath

A Social History of the General Infirmary, c.1739-1830

By: Anne Borsay

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A Social History of the General Infirmary, c.1739-1830

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0429832672

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Medicine, Charity and Mutual Aid

The Consumption of Health and Welfare in Britain, c.1550–1950

By: Dr Anne Borsay,Dr Peter Shapely

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Medicine, Charity and Mutual Aid

The Consumption of Health and Welfare in Britain, c.1550–1950

By: Dr Anne Borsay,Dr Peter Shapely

The history of the voluntary sector in British towns and cities has received increasing scholarly attention in recent years. Nevertheless, whilst there have been a number of valuable contributions looking at issues such as charity as a key welfare provider, charity and medicine, and charity and power in the community, there has been no book length exploration of the role and position of the recipient. By focusing on the recipients of charity, rather than the donors or institutions, this volume tackles searching questions of social control and cohesion, and the relationship between providers and recipients in a new and revealing manner. It is shown how these issues changed over the course of the nineteenth century, as the frontier between the state and the voluntary sector shifted away from charity towards greater reliance on public finance, workers' contributions, and mutual aid. In turn, these new sources of assistance enriched civil society, encouraging democratization, empowerment and social inclusion for previously marginalized members of the community. The book opens with an introduction that locates medicine, charity and mutual aid within their broad historiographical and urban contexts. Twelve archive-based, inter-related chapters follow. Their main chronological focus is the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, which witnessed such momentous changes in the attitudes to, and allocation of, charity and poor relief. However, individual chapters on the early modern period, the eighteenth century and the aftermath of the Second World War provide illuminating context and help ensure that the volume provides a systematic overview of the subject that will be of interest to social, urban, and medical historians.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409479633

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9781409479635

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