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1 online resource |
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Newspapers, Journals and Magazines -- PART I Experiences of Courtship and Marriage -- 1.1. Domestic arrangements in the British Isles -- 1.1.1 Marriage Regulations, Problems and Schemes for Improvement -- 1 'Soldiers' Wives', United Service Gazette, 25 July 1857, pages 4. -- 2 'The Marriage of Soldiers', United Service Gazette, 19 September 1857, pages 7. -- 3 'Soldiers' Wives', P.C.B., Army Chaplain, in Norman MacLeod (edition), Good Words for 1863, pp. 258-63 |
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4 'Soldiers' Wives', Pall Mall Gazette, 24 February 1869, pages 11. -- 5 'The Pall Mall on Soldiers' Wives', The Broad Arrow, Vol. 2. 20 March 1869, pp. 348-9. -- 6 'Quarters for Married Soldiers', The Lancet, 28 August 1869, pp. 317-18. -- 7 'Soldiers' Wives', The Broad Arrow, Vol. 3, No. 73, 20 November 1869, pages 641. -- 1.1.2. Travel -- 8 'The Half-Yearly Change', Pall Mall Gazette, 3 September 1867, pp. 6-7. -- 9 'A Soldier's Wife', The Broad Arrow, Vol. 16, 12 February 1876, pages 206. -- 1.1.3. Barrack Conditions |
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10 Florence Nightingale, Notes on the Health of the British Army (London: Harrison and Sons, 1858), pp. 469-76. -- 11 'Women at Aldershot', Household Words Conducted by Charles Dickens, Vol. 13 (19 April 1856), pp. 318-20. -- 12 General Report of the Commission Appointed for Improving the Sanitary Conditions of Barracks and Hospitals, British Parliamentary Papers Online, House of Commons (1861), pp. 51-5, 144-6, 153. -- 13 'Married Soldiers' Allowances', The Broad Arrow, Vol. 16. 6 May 1876, pages 590. -- 1.1.4. Morality and Reputation |
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14 Anon., Recollections of an Old Soldier (Birmingham: J. C. Aston, 1886), pp. 24-8, 38-41. -- 15 Robert Blatchford, My Life in the Army (London: Clarion Press, 1910), pp. 93-6. -- 1.1.5. Behaviour and Problems -- 16 Old Bailey Proceedings, Dennis Sweeney, 25 October 1858, trial of Dennis Sweeney for cutting and wounding Esther Cragin. -- 17 Wives' Punishment Book, 1866-1895, 82nd Regiment of Foot, Lancashire Infantry Museum, Preston. -- 18 Married Establishment, 82nd Regiment of Foot, 1868-76, The National Archives, UK, WO12/8660 |
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19 'Agricultural Society', Trewman's Exeter Flying Post or Plymouth and Cornish Advertiser, 16 November 1864, pages 6. -- 20 'A Women's Fight in Barracks', Hampshire Telegraph and Sussex Chronicle, 9 October 1875, pages 5. -- 21 A Private Dragoon, 'Soldiers' Wives', St. Paul's Magazine, Vol. 6 (1870), pp. 78-87. -- 22 Thomas McKeirnan, Experiences of a British Veteran Soldier (Port Talbot, Wales: Major Jones and Company, 1892), pp. 158-9. -- 1.1.6. Health -- 23 'Baby Farming in England', Freeman's Journal and Daily Commercial Advertiser, 3 January 1868, pages 3 |
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This series concentrates on women and the soldiers in the ranks whose lives they shared, assembling a wide body of evidence of their romantic entanglements and domestic concerns. The new military history of recent decades has demanded a broadening of the source base beyond elite accounts or those that concentrate solely on battlefield experiences. Armies did not operate in isolation, and men's family ties influenced the course of events in a variety of ways. Campfollowing women and children occupied a liminal space in campaign life. Those who travelled "on the strength" of the army received rations in return for providing services such as laundry and nursing, but they could also be grouped with prostitutes and condemned as a burden' by officers. Parents, wives, and offspring left behind at home remained in soldiers' thoughts, despite an army culture aimed at replacing kin with regimental ties. Soldiers' families' suffering, both on the march and back in Britain, attracted public attention at key points in this period as well. This series provides, for the first time in one place, a wide body of texts relating to common soldiers' personal lives: the women with whom they became involved, their children, and the families who cared for them. It brings hitherto unpublished material into print for the first time, and resurrects accounts that have not been in wide circulation since the nineteenth century. The collection combines the observations of officers, government officials and others with memoirs and letters from men in the ranks, and from the women themselves. It draws extensively on press accounts, especially in the nineteenth century. It also demonstrates the value of using literary depictions alongside the letters, diaries, memoirs and war office papers that form the traditional source base of military historians. This sixth volume covers the period 1856-1880 |
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Jennine Hurl-Eamon is Associate Professor of History at Trent University, Canada Lynn MacKay is Professor of History at Brandon University, Canada |
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Great Britain. Army -- History -- 19th century
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Great Britain. Army. fast (OCoLC)fst00533555 |
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Army spouses -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
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Army spouses -- Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 19th century
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Families of military personnel -- Great Britain -- History
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Families of military personnel -- Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 19th century
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HISTORY -- General.
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Army spouses.
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Families of military personnel.
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Great Britain.
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History.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Hurl-Eamon, Jennine, editor.
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MacKay, Lynn, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781003017981 |
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1003017983 |
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9781000028980 |
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1000028984 |
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100002895X |
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9781000028959 |
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9781000029017 |
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1000029018 |
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