Böcker av Carolyn (University of Warwick) Steedman

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.

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.

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 fascinating account of love, life and domestic service in eighteenth-century England. The book focuses on the relationship between a Church of England clergyman and his pregnant maidservant and sheds new light on the history of domestic service, the poor law, literacy, education and the making of the working class.