Meanings of (yummy) motherhood in (early) modern London
On 15 October 2012 the London Evening Standard ran a headline screaming “Yummy mummies ‘are ruining Primrose Hill’”. The story beneath blamed the closure of many small business in areas such as Camden...
View ArticleWomen, work and wages – what keeps going wrong?
In the Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon, Karl Marx commented that all history occurs twice; the first time as tragedy, the second as farce. It’s difficult to know whether to laugh or cry when...
View ArticleI remember when all this used to be streets
For thousands of years most Europeans lived in small rural communities, worked the land, often as slaves and serfs, and were subject to the vagaries of the natural world to an extent which is difficult...
View ArticleAristotle’s Masterpiece
This is a short post to draw attention to the sale of a book which historians of gender and medicine will be familiar with, but which most people probably haven;t heard of. Later this month a house...
View ArticleRevisiting Warwick University Limited
As a graduate of the University of Warwick I’ve been following the recent reports covering student protests about the pay rise of £42,000 awarded to Warwick’s vice-chancellor, Nigel Thrift with much...
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