Joanne Bailey
I'm a Reader in History at Oxford Brookes University. I teach social and cultural British History from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. My specialisms include marriage, parenting, family and masculinities.
Categories used most frequently by the blogger:
Family Emotion Marriage Masculinity Gender Identity Material Culture Fatherhood Domestic violence Motherhood Social media Writing Private and Public Memory emotions marital violence Eighteenth century Father Georgian Parent children
Fathers in the Home: the Longview
11 June 2021
Family, home, work, and schooling have collided in the last year thanks to Covid. This has made visible the tensions between different parts of our lives and brought into stark relief...
15 April 2021
Historians’ motivation for researching the subjects they are passionate about are varied. It’s only in the last few years that we’ve been able to acknowledge the...
Favouritism in Georgian England
8 April 2021
Today we see favouring one child over another as a risk to happy family life and psychologically damaging for those who are least favoured. This is by no means new. Moral commentators...
Manliness in Britain 1760 – 1900: From Brookes to Book
5 December 2020
The story of my book, Manliness in Britain, 1760-1900: bodies, emotion, and material culture, is one that has at its heart my teaching. I think this is significant for a couple of reasons....