Matt Houlbrook wrote an interesting blog post just recently, On men, make-up and the “imitation woman”which engaged with the rise in the cosmetics industry in the interwar period and the impact cosmetics use had on potentially blurring lines of social class and gender. This put me in mind of some legal cases I encountered undertaking …
Putting the world to rights, one blog post at a time, over tea and cake.
(Formerly Hatful of History)
A blog about museums, heritage, stories and people
Matt Houlbrook: mobile historian; beard growing, head shaving; occasional cycling.
PhD History, University of Essex
stories from a nineteenth-century prison
the bent bookish blog that's a reel waist of thyme...
Fathers, Fatherhood and Families in Scotland, c.1970-1995
Research in Ontario's post-war labour, gay and lesbian movements
Detective policing and criminal justice in the Victorian capital
My great aunt Norah's wartime diaries
lifestyle. beauty. feminism.
