Book Reviews
Reviews in History is an electronic publication which reviews and reappraises significant work in all fields of historical interest, covering the principal areas of the subject as taught in institutions of higher education. The reviews listed below relate to the Victorian era.
Men and Women
Sex, Gender and Social Change in Britain Since 1880
by Lesley A. Hall
Review by Dr. Paula
Bartley
Lesley A. Hall's Response
Aristocratic Women and Political Society in Victorian Britain
by K.D Reynolds
Review by Professor Peter Mandler
A Woman's Place, an Oral history of Working Class Women
by Elizabeth Roberts
Review by Professor Sally
Alexander
Elizabeth Roberts's response
A Mans Place: Masculinity and the Middle-Class Home in Victorian England
by John Tosh
Review by Professor Anthony
Fletcher
John Tosh's response
Fertility, Class and Gender in Britain 1860-1940
by Dr. Simon Szreter
Review by Michael Mason
Simon Szreter's response
Ireland
A Death-Dealing Famine: the Great Hunger in Ireland
by Christine Kinealy
Review by Dr. L.A. Clarkson
Christine Kinealy's response
The Great Famine and Beyond: Irish Migrants in Britain in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
by Donald M. MacRaild (ed.)
Review by Paul O'Leary
Donald M. MacRaild's response
The Irish in Victorian Britain: the Local Dimension
by Roger Swift and Sheridan Gilley
Review by Alexander Peach
Newspapers and Nationalism: the Irish provincial press, 1850-1892
by Marie-Louise Legg
Review by John McGurk
Marie-Louise Legg's response
Social History
Prostitution: Prevention and Reform in England 1860-1914
by Paula Bartley
Review by Dr. Maria Luddy
Paula Bartley's response
Artful Dodgers: Youth and Crime in Early Nineteenth Century London
by Heather Shore
Review by John Springhall
Heather Shore's response
Insanity, Institutions and Society, 1800-1914: a Social History of Madness in Comparative Perspective
by Joseph Melling
Review by Dr Anne Borsay
Joseph Melling's response
Politics
Gladstone. Heroic Minister, 1865-1898
by Professor R. T. Shannon
Review by Eugenio F. Biagini
Professor R. T. Shannon's response
The Great Exhibition
The Great Exhibition of 1851: a Nation on Display
by Jeffrey A Auerbach
Review by Dr. John R. Davis