Author: Pamela Horn

For many women the 1920s was a time of change after the pressures - and opportunities - of the First World War. For a number, war casualties me...

Reformatted and redesigned, Read-Aloud Classics collects the most beloved stories of children''s literature.Reading to your child is the best way t...

By the end of the 1920s domestic service remained the largest female occupation in Britain. We view it today as an undesirable job, owing to the cl...

'The world was at the beginning of a new era, the era of machinery and scientific discovery. Values and conditions of life were changing everywhere...

It was a paradox of nineteenth-century Britain that while work was the bedrock upon which the Victorian vision of progress was constructed, the yea...

We view domestic service today as an undesirable job, owing to the class divide it has come to represent, and this is reflected in the portrayals o...

In the early twenty-first century, juvenile crime has become a matter of widespread social and political concern and debate. Young Offenders examin...

Abingdon History Tour is a unique insight into the illustrious history of this Oxfordshire town. This is an exciting guided walk around Abingdon, i...

The First World War particularly affected the landed classes with their long military tradition; country houses were turned into military hospitals...

In the world of the late-Victorian and Edwardian country house the mistress and her daughters had many social duties and responsibilities to carry ...

'What is our purpose in this Bill? Briefly this, to bring elementary education within the reach of every English home, aye, and within the reach of...