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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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Camps are emblems of the modern world, but they first appeared under the imperial tutelage of Victorian Britain. Comparative and transnational in scope, Barbed-Wire Imperialism situates the concentration and refugee camps of the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902) within longer traditions of controlling the urban poor in metropolitan Britain and managing ";suspect"; populations in the empire. Workhouses and prisons, along with criminal tribe settlements and enclosures for the millions of Indians displaced by famine and plague in the late nineteenth century, offered early prototypes for mass encampment. Venues of great human suffering, British camps were artifacts of liberal empire that inspired and legitimized the practices of future regimes.

Internment camps --- South African War, 1899-1902 --- History --- Concentration camps. --- Great Britain --- Colonies --- 1800s. --- 1900s. --- 19th century. --- anglo boer war. --- artifacts. --- british colony. --- british history. --- camps. --- colonial. --- colonialism. --- concentration camp. --- crime. --- criminal. --- early 20th century. --- empire. --- human suffering. --- imperialism. --- indians in britain. --- indians. --- liberal empire. --- mass encampment. --- metropolitan. --- modern world. --- populations. --- poverty. --- prison. --- punishment. --- refugee camp. --- urban poor. --- urban. --- victorian britain. --- victorian period. --- work camp. --- workhouse. --- world history.

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Just as the preoccupations of any given cultural moment make their way into the language of music, the experience of music makes its way into other arenas of life. To unearth these overlapping meanings and vocabularies from the Victorian era, Ruth A. Solie examines sources as disparate as journalism, novels, etiquette manuals, religious tracts, and teenagers' diaries for the muffled, even subterranean, conversations that reveal so much about what music meant to the Victorians. Her essays, giving voice to "what goes without saying" on the subject-that cultural information so present and pervasive as to go unsaid-fill in some of the most intriguing blanks in our understanding of music's history. This much-anticipated collection, bringing together new and hard-to-find pieces by an acclaimed musicologist, mines the abundant casual texts of the period to show how Victorian-era people-English and others-experienced music and what they understood to be its power and its purposes. Solie's essays start from topics as varied as Beethoven criticism, Macmillan's Magazine, George Eliot's Daniel Deronda, opera tropes in literature, and the Victorian myth of the girl at the piano. They evoke common themes-including the moral force that was attached to music in the public mind and the strongly gendered nature of musical practice and sensibility-and in turn suggest the complex links between the history of music and the history of ideas.

Music --- Art music --- Art music, Western --- Classical music --- Musical compositions --- Musical works --- Serious music --- Western art music --- Western music (Western countries) --- Social aspects. --- Music and society --- MUSIC --- Genres & Styles --- Classical. --- History & Criticism. --- Social aspects --- 1800-1899. --- beethoven. --- classical music. --- daniel deronda. --- diaries. --- domesticity. --- drawing room music. --- elsie dinsmore. --- entertainment. --- etiquette manuals. --- femininity. --- finishing school. --- gender roles. --- gender. --- george eliot. --- girl at piano. --- girlhood. --- history. --- journalism. --- journals. --- macmillans. --- music at home. --- music history. --- music. --- musicology. --- opera. --- parlor piano. --- piano music. --- playing piano. --- religious tracts. --- schubert. --- secular humanism. --- sensibility. --- transatlantic. --- victorian culture. --- victorian music. --- victorian novels. --- victorian period. --- women. --- womens history.

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This book examines changing perceptions of sex between men in early Victorian Britain, a significant yet surprisingly little explored period in the history of Western sexuality. Looking at the dramatic transformations of the era-changes in the family and in the law, the emergence of the world's first police force, the growth of a national media, and more-Charles Upchurch asks how perceptions of same-sex desire changed between men, in families, and in the larger society. To illuminate these questions, he mines a rich trove of previously unexamined sources, including hundreds of articles pertaining to sex between men that appeared in mainstream newspapers. The first book to relate this topic to broader economic, social, and political changes in the early nineteenth century, Before Wilde sheds new light on the central question of how and when sex acts became identities.

Gay men --- Men --- Homosexuality --- Sex --- Gender (Sex) --- Human beings --- Human sexuality --- Sex (Gender) --- Sexual behavior --- Sexual practices --- Sexuality --- Sexology --- Same-sex attraction --- Sexual orientation --- Bisexuality --- Human males --- Males --- Effeminacy --- Masculinity --- Gays, Male --- Homosexuals, Male --- Male gays --- Male homosexuals --- Urnings --- Gays --- History. --- Social conditions. --- History --- Great Britain --- Social conditions --- Sex - Great Britain - History - 19th century. --- age of reform. --- british police. --- british society. --- changing perceptions. --- discussion books. --- early 19th century. --- early victorian period. --- economic changes. --- england. --- family changes. --- great britain. --- historical account. --- history buffs. --- history of sexuality. --- homosexuality. --- law changes. --- literary. --- national media. --- nonfiction. --- oscar wilde. --- perceptions of sex. --- political changes. --- queer theory. --- same sex attraction. --- same sex desire. --- sex between men. --- social perspective. --- western sexuality.