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This book explores the legal and social consequences of growing up illegitimate in England and Wales. Unlike most other studies of illegitimacy, Frost's book concentrates on the late-Victorian period and the early twentieth century, and takes the child's point of view rather than that of the mother or of 'child-saving' groups. Doing so allows for an extended analysis of criminal and civil cases involving illegitimacy, including less-studied aspects such as affiliation suits, the poor law and war pensions. In addition, the book explores the role of blended, extended and adoptive families, the circulation of children through different homes and institutions, and the prejudices children endured in school, work and home. While showing how the effects of illegitimacy varied both by class and gender, the book highlights the ways in which children showed resilience in surviving the various types of discrimination common in this period. It will appeal to anyone interested in British social history, childhood studies, or legal history.

Illegitimate children --- Bastard children --- Children of unmarried mothers --- Children --- Illegitimacy --- Unmarried mothers --- Social conditions --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- History --- England. --- Victorian children. --- Wales. --- affiliation suits. --- bastardy laws. --- child circulation. --- child-saving groups. --- criminal courts. --- fostering. --- gender. --- illegitimacy. --- late-Victorian period. --- legitimacy. --- married parents. --- non-maternal defendants. --- poor law. --- social discrimination. --- unwanted children. --- war pensions.

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Drawing on an eclectic range of primary and secondary sources Chaplin examines the development of darts in the context of English society in the early twentieth century. He reveals how darts was transformed during the interwar years to become one of the most popular recreations in England, not just amongst working class men and, to a lesser extent, working class women but even (to some extent) among the middle and upper classes. This book assesses the social, economic and cultural forces behind this transformation. This work also considers the growth of the darts manufacturing industry and assesses the overall effect the growing popularity of darts had on interwar society and popular culture, with particular reference to the changing culture and form of the English public house. This original study will be of interest to sports historians, social historians, business historians, sociologists and sports scientists.

Darts (Game) --- Social aspects --- History --- English pub. --- English public house. --- English society. --- National Darts Association. --- Victorian period. --- brewing industry. --- dartboards. --- darts manufacturing industry. --- darts. --- interwar society. --- mass leisure. --- middle classes. --- popular culture. --- popular recreation. --- upper classes. --- working class men. --- working class women.

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Literature of the city and the city in literature are topics of major contemporary interest. This volume enhances our understanding of Chaucer's iconic role as a London poet, defining the modern sense of London as a city in history, steeped in its medieval past. Building on recent work by historians on medieval London, as well as modern urban theory, the essays address the centrality of the city in Chaucer's work, and of Chaucer to a literature and a language of the city. Contributors explore the spatial extent of the city, imaginatively and geographically; the diverse and sometimes violent relationships between communities, and the use of language to identify and speak for communities; the worlds of commerce, the aristocracy, law, and public order. A final section considers the longer history and memory of the medieval city beyond the devastations of the Great Fire and into the Victorian period. Dr ARDIS BUTTERFIELD is Reader in English at University College London. Contributors: ARDIS BUTTERFIELD, MARION TURNER, RUTH EVANS, BARBARA NOLAN, CHRISTOPHER CANNON, DEREK PEARSALL, HELEN COOPER, C. DAVID BENSON, ELLIOT KENDALL, JOHN SCATTERGOOD, PAUL DAVIS, HELEN PHILLIPS.

Literature and society --- History --- Chaucer, Geoffrey, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Knowledge --- London (England) --- In literature. --- Literature --- Literature and sociology --- Society and literature --- Sociology and literature --- Sociolinguistics --- Social aspects --- Chaucer, Jeffrey, --- Chʻiao-sou, Chieh-fu-lei, --- Chieh-fu-lei Chʻiao-sou, --- Choser, Dzheffri, --- Choser, Zheoffreĭ, --- Cosvr, Jvoffrvi, --- Tishūsar, Zhiyūfrī, --- Ardis Butterfield. --- Aristocracy. --- Chaucer. --- Commerce. --- Law. --- London poet. --- Medieval London. --- Urban context. --- Urban theory. --- Victorian period.

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High Anxieties explores the history and ideological ramifications of the modern concept of addiction. Little more than a century old, the notions of "addict" as an identity and "addiction" as a disease of the will form part of the story of modernity. What is addiction? This collection of essays illuminates and refashions the term, delivering a complex and mature understanding of addiction. Brodie and Redfield's introduction provides a roadmap for readers and situates the fascinating essays within a larger, interdisciplinary framework. Stacey Margolis and Timothy Melley's pieces grapple with the psychology of addiction. Cannon Schmitt and Marty Roth delve into the relationship between opium and the British Empire's campaign to control and stigmatize China. Robyn R. Warhol and Nicholas O. Warner examine accounts of alcohol abuse in texts as disparate as Victorian novels, Alcoholics Anonymous literature, and James Fenimore Cooper's fiction. Helen Keane scrutinizes smoking, and Maurizio Viano turns to the silver screen to trace how the representation of drugs in films has changed over time. Ann Weinstone and Marguerite Waller's essays on addiction and cyberspace cap this impressive anthology.

Alcoholism in literature. --- Alcoholism in motion pictures. --- Drugs and literature. --- Drugs and motion pictures. --- Social aspects. --- Substance abuse. --- Substance abuse-- Social aspects. --- Virtual reality. --- Social Welfare & Social Work - General --- Social Welfare & Social Work --- Social Sciences --- Substance abuse --- Virtual reality --- Motion pictures and drugs --- Literature and drugs --- Motion pictures --- Literature --- academic. --- addiction. --- addicts. --- alcohol. --- anxiety. --- cinema studies. --- cultural history. --- cultural studies. --- cyberspace. --- desire. --- drugs. --- empire. --- essay anthology. --- essay collection. --- film studies. --- mental health. --- native american. --- opium. --- orient. --- pleasure. --- repression. --- resistance. --- rhetoric. --- scholarly. --- social history. --- social media. --- social studies. --- terminal illness. --- trauma. --- victorian period. --- virtual reality.

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What does it mean to live in the modern world? How different is that world from those that preceded it, and when did we become modern? In Distant Strangers, James Vernon argues that the world was made modern not by revolution, industrialization, or the Enlightenment. Instead, he shows how in Britain, a place long held to be the crucible of modernity, a new and distinctly modern social condition emerged by the middle of the nineteenth century. Rapid and sustained population growth, combined with increasing mobility of people over greater distances and concentrations of people in cities, created a society of strangers. Vernon explores how individuals in modern societies adapted to live among strangers by forging more abstract and anonymous economic, social, and political relations, as well as by reanimating the local and the personal.

History of the United Kingdom and Ireland --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1800-1999 --- anno 1700-1799 --- Civilization, Modern --- Civilization, Modern. --- Social change --- Modern civilization --- Modernity --- Civilization --- Renaissance --- Change, Social --- Cultural change --- Cultural transformation --- Societal change --- Socio-cultural change --- Social history --- Social evolution --- British influences. --- History. --- History --- Great Britain --- Civilization. --- 19th century britain. --- 19th century history. --- berkeley series in british studies. --- british studies. --- concentrated population. --- cultural studies. --- economic relations. --- european history. --- great britain. --- historians. --- historical. --- increased mobility. --- living among strangers. --- modern social condition. --- modern world. --- modernity. --- modernization. --- political. --- population growth. --- queen victoria. --- social. --- strangers. --- the charismatic state. --- urbanization. --- victorian period.