Category: Domestic violence
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Shoplifting: woman stealing a tube of toothpaste, 1962 (Photo by RDB/ullstein bild via Getty Images) I recently wrote an article for The Conversation on the history of shoplifting, which has been a research interest of mine for some time now. In the article, I drew on was the memoirs written by women who had been…
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Content note – this article contains material relating to domestic violence, sexual abuse and childhood trauma. Image: Woman’s Wrongs, 1874 by Joseph Swain. Image via Getty Images. Domestic violence was not always taken seriously by the police or the state and was viewed as an almost inevitable aspect of working-class life. Sadly, the experience of…
Living on Poverty Street: Working-Class Memoirs and Life-Writing in Britain, 1918-1979 