Between 1700 and 1830, men and women in the English-speaking territories framing the Atlantic gained unprecedented access to material things. The British Atlant

What does material culture tell us about gendered identities and how does gender reveal the meaning of spaces and things? If we look at the objects that we own,

Sources are the raw material of history, but where the written word has traditionally been seen as the principal source, today historians are increasingly recog

Tracing the emergence of the domestic kitchen from the 17th to the middle of the 19th century, Sara Pennell explores how the English kitchen became a space of s