A Flight to Domesticity? Making a Home in the Gentlemen's Clubs of London, 1880–1914

Milne‐Smith, Amy

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“…He shows that the writings of the Irish rifleman Patrick MacGill sustained a heroic interpretation of the war and his own role in it. The masculine world of the late Victorian and Edwardian gentleman's club is examined by Milne‐Smith, who argues that, far from embodying a flight from domesticity, as is often suggested, clubs served many of the functions of a home, for both single and married men. In a prize‐winning essay, Hamlett investigates the decoration of student rooms at Royal Holloway and Oxbridge colleges in the late nineteenth century, finding many similarities between men's and women's rooms, and in particular a willingness among men to adopt ‘feminine’ decoration.…”

Section: (V) 1850–1945 Mark Freeman and Julian Greaves University Of mentioning

confidence: 99%

Review of periodical literature published in 2006

Pratt¹,

Schofield²,

French

et al. 2008

The Economic History Review

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Early Anglo-Saxon settlement sites have been revealed by several excavations. Dickens et al. report a substantial village and associated cemetery at Bloodmoor Hill, Suffolk. Finds included evidence for textile manufacture, but not specialist commodity production; occupation appears to have ceased in the late seventh or early eighth century. The settlement at Gamlingay, Cambridgeshire, published by Murray and McDonald, yielded an enclosed farmstead and cemetery, both in use until c.800. Evidence for textile production and the presence of Ipswich ware suggests the site's participation in an active trading network. Wright, on Orton Waterville, Peterborough, reports a long-lived settlement generating relatively modest material remains. The site at Shepperton, Middlesex, described by Poulton, appears to have been regularly laid out in the later Anglo-Saxon period, replacing a flourishing earlier settlement. Parallel ditches point to the 'toft and croft' arrangement of medieval villages.Debate continues over early population movement. Casting doubt on the historicity of Irish migration to western Britain in the fourth or fifth centuries, Dark postulates the pre-existing presence there of spoken Irish. This would contrast with the evidence for Anglo-Saxon migration, particularly to 'Anglian' areas, considered more secure. Bartholemew offers grounds for identifying 'Angulus', Continental homeland of the Angli described by Bede, as modern Frisia. Possible connections with Procopius's account, usually treated with scepticism, might suggest Frisia as the starting-point for a substantial part of the Anglo-Saxon migration into Britain. Addressing the subject of river-names, generally considered a good indicator of Anglo-Saxon displacement in lowland areas, Yeates offers evidence from the Cotswolds area showing the loss of Brittonic river-names occurring over a far longer period.Though not necessarily incompatible with the orthodox view, this may suggest a greater survival of Brittonic nomenclature originally in the west.In funerary archaeology, Hamerow explores the 'special' deposition of human and animal remains within areas of occupation. The relatively high percentage of dogs and horses, together with cattle, strengthens the impression of ritualistic activity, possibly directed towards fertility, while an association with sunken-featured buildings would make sense if such structures had been used for storage. Reconstructing the ritual of human cremation, Williams places the deceased body at the centre of an elaborate visual spectacle. Rather than a mourner-centred approach to interpretation, the body itself may have had some agency in a complex interrelationship between the living and the dead. Chester-Kadwell, evaluating metal-detector finds in Norfolk, suggests that if used carefully these can supplement the existing corpus of known early cemeteries. Lee's study of textile evidence in funerary contexts shows its value not only in relation to gender but also as an indicator of social status. The model of a 'final phase' o...

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Section: (V) 1850–1945 Mark Freeman and Julian Greaves University Of mentioning

confidence: 99%

Review of periodical literature published in 2006

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Schofield²,

French

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The Economic History Review

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“…This emerges in Quintin Colville's study of shipboard material culture in the British navy, in this collection, and Amy Milne-Smith's examination of male domesticity in the club. 13 Smith's analysis is, however, confined to the upper classes. Deborah Cohen's recent study has confirmed that nineteenth-century middle-class men were often active purchasers of goods for the home.…”

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‘The Dining Room Should Be the Man's Paradise, as the Drawing Room Is the Woman's’: Gender and Middle‐Class Domestic Space in England, 1850–1910

Hamlett

2009

Gender & History

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In the middle‐class home in late nineteenth‐century England, drawing rooms, morning rooms and boudoirs became increasingly associated with women, while dining rooms, studies and smoking rooms were viewed as male spaces. Historians have linked this to the exclusion of women from social power and a male ‘flight from domesticity’. This article questions these interpretations and explores gendered space through advice manuals, inventories and sale catalogues, and autobiographies. While the notion that domestic space should be divided between men and women had considerable cultural purchase, the ways in which this should occur were subject to dispute and limited by the practical contingencies of everyday living. In homes where gendered material culture was present, it exerted a powerful influence on childhood experience and the formation of adult identities.

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The Macmillans: A Leviathan House

Joseph

2019

Victorian Literary Businesses

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A Flight to Domesticity? Making a Home in the Gentlemen's Clubs of London, 1880–1914

Cited by 25 publications

References 5 publications

Review of periodical literature published in 2006

Review of periodical literature published in 2006

‘The Dining Room Should Be the Man's Paradise, as the Drawing Room Is the Woman's’: Gender and Middle‐Class Domestic Space in England, 1850–1910

The Macmillans: A Leviathan House

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