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A brave, disciplined book about longing, not sexual longing as such but the endless longing of the under-privileged that history (and life) be different from what it has been and what it still is' John Berger

Focusing on everyday legal experiences, from that of magistrates, novelists and political philosophers, to maidservants, pauper men and women, down-at-heel attorneys and middling-sort wives, History and the Law reveals how people thought about, used, manipulated and resisted the law between the eighteenth and the twentieth centuries.

Focusing on everyday legal experiences, from that of magistrates, novelists and political philosophers, to maidservants, pauper men and women, down-at-heel attorneys and middling-sort wives, History and the Law reveals how people thought about, used, manipulated and resisted the law between the eighteenth and the twentieth centuries.

The position of poetry as a historical force is explored here, with specific attention to W.H. Auden's Cold War-era output. "Poetry For Historians" is a useful resource for courses in historiography and history and theory.

This book is about the long, convoluted relationship between poets and historians, poetry and history. Sometimes antagonistic, sometimes harmonious, this relationship has always been a kind of love story. Using the poetry of W. H. Auden as a lens, Carolyn Steedman examines developments in academic, public and popular history. In doing so, she provides a new 'history of History', encompassing history writing, historical thinking and history-in-...

First published in 1988, The Radical Soldier¿s Tale is both an introduction to and a transcript of his `Memoirs¿, written after his retirement in 1881. In this autobiography he presents his life as a soldier during the Sikh Wars, his life as a policeman, and the ideologies which divided people from each other in the societies he had known and read about.

First published in 1988, The Radical Soldier¿s Tale is both an introduction to and a transcript of his `Memoirs¿, written after his retirement in 1881. In this autobiography he presents his life as a soldier during the Sikh Wars, his life as a policeman, and the ideologies which divided people from each other in the societies he had known and read about.

A unique and fascinating account of English working-class life at the turn of the nineteenth century. Through Joseph Woolley and his thoughts on reading and drinking, sex, the law and social relations, leading historian Carolyn Steedman challenges traditional views of how the working man understood himself and society around him.

Dust is a witty and highly original investigation into the development of modern history writing. This book considers how history writing belongs to the currents of thought shaping the modern world, and suggests that, like dust, the 'matter of history' can never go away or be erased. -- .

This book is about lives lived out on the borderlands, lives for which the central interpretative devices of the culture don't quite work. "It has a childhood at its centre - my childhood, a personal past - and it is about the disruption of that fifties childhood by the one my mother had lived out before me, and the stories she told about it."Intricate and inspiring, this unusual book uses autobiographical elements to depict a mother and her d...

In this witty, engaging, and challenging book, Carolyn Steedman has produced an original -- and sometimes irreverent -- investigation into how modern historiography has developed. Dust: The Archive and Cultural History considers our stubborn set of beliefs about an objective material world -- inherited from the nineteenth century -- with which modern history writing and its lack of such a belief, attempts to grapple. Drawing on her own publish...

Unique and fascinating account of English working-class life at the turn of the nineteenth century by celebrated historian Carolyn Steedman.

Leading historian Carolyn Steedman offers a fascinating and compelling account of love, life and domestic service in eighteenth-century England. The book, situated in the regional and chronological epicentre of E. P. Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class and Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, focuses on the relationship between a Church of England clergyman (the Master of the title) and his pregnant maidservant in the late eighteen...

Leading historian Carolyn Steedman offers a fascinating and compelling account of love, life and domestic service in eighteenth-century England. The book, situated in the regional and chronological epicentre of E. P. Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class and Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, focuses on the relationship between a Church of England clergyman (the Master of the title) and his pregnant maidservant in the late eighteen...

In this witty, engaging, and challenging book, Carolyn Steedman has produced an original -- and sometimes irreverent -- investigation into how modern historiography has developed. Dust: The Archive and Cultural History considers our stubborn set of beliefs about an objective material world -- inherited from the nineteenth century -- with which modern history writing and its lack of such a belief, attempts to grapple. Drawing on her own publish...

Restoring servants' lost labours to their rightful place, Carolyn Steedman's unique account of the hidden history of servants and their employers in late eighteenth-century England provides a profound re-reading of this formative period in English social history, examining how servants thought about and articulated their resentments.

A unique account of the hidden history of servants and their employers in late eighteenth-century England.