Male Professionals in Nineteenth Century Britain - Families, Intergenerational Mobility, and the Rise of the Professions

Built around a representative cohort of 750 'professional men' recorded in the 1851 census, this is the first statistically-based social, cultural, and familial history of a fast-growing and socially prominent section of the Victorian propertied classes.

List of contents

• List of Diagrams


• Note on Abbreviations


• Note on References


• Note on Proper Names


• 1: Introduction: Locating the mid nineteenth-century professional


• 2: Male Occupations and Career Mobility


• 3: Male Family Members and Intergenerational Wealth


• 4: Moving About


• 5: Male Leisure


• 6: Family, House, and Home


• 7: Fathers and Sons


• 8: The Domestic Circle


• 9: Wives and Daughters


• 10: The First World War and Beyond


• 11: Concluding Remarks

About the author

Laurence Brockliss was lecturer in history at the University of Hull from 1974 to 1984. From 1984 to 2017 he was a tutorial fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford, and a lecturer, reader, then professor of history at the University of Oxford. His principal fields of research have been the histories of childhood, education, science and medicine in Britain and France between 1400 and 1900. He is the author, co-author and editor of eighteen books and is a fellow of the British Academy.

Harry Smith is a Research Associate in the department of Geography at King's College London. He has worked on various aspects of the economic and social history of the United Kingdom in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including the history of entrepreneurship, and morbidity and mortality. He has published widely on these topics as well as on urban history.

Summary

Built around a representative cohort of 750 'professional men' recorded in the 1851 census, this is the first statistically-based social, cultural, and familial history of a fast-growing and socially prominent section of the Victorian propertied classes.

Product details

• Authors: Laurence Brockliss, Laurence (Emeritus Professor University Brockliss, Laurence (Emeritus Professor University of Oxford; emeritus fellow Magdalen College Oxford) Brockliss, Brockliss Laurence, Harry Smith, Harry (Research Associate Smith
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.06.2024
• EAN: 9780198897552
• ISBN: 978-0-19-889755-2
• No. of pages: 544
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, European History, HISTORY / Modern / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, British & Irish history, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Social and cultural history