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Joanna Bourke, author of the critically-acclaimed Fear, unflinchingly and controversially moves away from looking at victims to look at the rapists...

Integrating a variety of historical approaches and methods, Joanna Bourke looks at the construction of class within the intimate contexts of the bo...

Integrating a variety of historical approaches and methods, Joanna Bourke looks at the construction of class within the intimate contexts of the bo...

This book examines the lives of Irish women between 1890 and 1914, tracing the shift of their labour out of the fields and into the home. Joanna Bo...

Fear is one of the most basic and most powerful of all the human emotions. Sometimes it is hauntingly specific: flames searing patterns on the ceil...

It is almost universally accepted among writers on warfare that battle is a terrible experience, and that those who fight are at the very least so...

Birkbeck traces the 200-year history of Birkbeck, University of London from its founding at a time when social elites deplored the notion of educat...

In 1872, a woman known only as 'An Ernest Englishwoman' published an open letter entitled 'Are women animals?', in which she protested the fact tha...

Wars are frequently justified 'in our name'. Militarist values and practices co-opt us, permeating our language, invading our dream space, entertai...