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PhD History University of Sussex
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According to Wikipedia, Carolyn Kay Steedman, FBA is a British historian, specialising in the social and cultural history of modern Britain and exploring labour, gender, class, language and childhood. Since 2013, she has been Emeritus Professor of History at University of Warwick, where she had previously been a Professor of History since 1999. Steedman graduated from the University of Sussex with an undergraduate degree in English and American Studies in 1968, and then completed a master's degree at Newnham College, Cambridge, in 1974. She was a teacher from then until 1982, when she joined the Institute of Education in the University of London as a researcher; for the 1983–84 year, she was a Fellow there, before lecturing at the University of Warwick, where she was appointed Senior Lecturer in 1988, Reader in 1991 and Professor of Social History in 1995. For the year 1998–99, she was Director of Warwick's Centre for Study of Social History. Steedman returned to Newnham College to complete her doctorate, which was awarded in 1989.

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Carolyn Steedman's Published Works

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Landscape for a good woman : a story of two lives (1986) (469)
Dust: The Archive and Cultural History (2001) (368)
Strange Dislocations: Childhood and the Idea of Human Interiority, 1780-1930 (1998) (305)
From landscape for a good woman (1987) (299)
Something she called a fever: Michelet, Derrida, and dust. (2001) (112)
The tidy house : little girls writing (1982) (105)
‘The Mother Made Conscious’: The Historical Development of a Primary School Pedagogy (1985) (103)
Childhood, Culture, and Class in Britain: Margaret McMillan, 1860-1931 (1990) (90)
Past Tenses: Essays on Writing, Autobiography and History (1992) (82)
Language, Gender and Childhood (1985) (80)
Enforced narratives : stories of another self (2000) (79)
The space of memory: in an archive (1998) (73)
Policing the Victorian community : the formation of English provincial police forces, 1856-80 (1984) (70)
‘The Tidy House’ (1980) (65)
Labours Lost: Domestic Service and the Making of Modern England (2009) (54)
The servant's labour: The business of life, England, 1760-1820 (2004) (44)
Culture, cultural studies, and the historians (1992) (39)
Master and servant (2007) (32)
Master and Servant: Love and Labour in the English Industrial Age (2007) (28)
After the Archive (2011) (24)
An Everyday Life of the English Working Class: Work, Self and Sociability in the Early Nineteenth Century (2013) (23)
Servants and Their Relationship to the Unconscious (2003) (22)
The Radical Soldier's Tale: John Pearman, 1819-1908 (1988) (21)
Policing the Victorian community (1984) (21)
What a Rag Rug Means (1998) (19)
A Weekend with Elektra (1997) (19)
A woman writing a letter (1999) (19)
Bodies, figures and physiology : Margaret McMillan and the late nineteenth century remaking of working class childhood (1992) (18)
Cries unheard, sights unseen : writing the Eighteenth-Century metropolis (2012) (18)
Francis Green and David Kynaston, Engines of Privilege: Britain’s Private School Problem (2020) (17)
Battlegrounds : history in primary schools (1984) (16)
Lord Mansfield's Women (2002) (16)
Inside, outside, Other: accounts of national identity in the 19th century (1995) (15)
State sponsored autobiography (1999) (15)
Writing the self : the end of the scholarship girl (1997) (14)
Feminist Autobiography in the 1980s (1991) (14)
Poetry for historians: Or, W. H. Auden and history (2018) (14)
Public and private children: infant education in the 1820s and 1830s (1985) (14)
Intimacy in research: accounting for it (2008) (13)
Poetical Maids and Cooks Who Wrote (2005) (13)
Prisonhouses (1985) (12)
A Boiling Copper and Some Arsenic: Servants, Childcare, and Class Consciousness in Late Eighteenth‐Century England (2007) (12)
The Price of Experience: Women and the Making of the English Working Class (1994) (11)
Women's biography and autobiography : forms of history, histories of form (1989) (11)
"A conviction of the reality of things": Material Culture, North American Indians and Empire in Eighteenth-Century Britain (2005) (10)
The mother made conscious (1988) (9)
At Every Bloody Level: A Magistrate, a Framework-Knitter, and the Law (2012) (9)
About ends: on the way in which the end is different from an ending (1996) (8)
'Listen, how the caged bird sings' : Amarjita's song (1985) (6)
Bimbos from hell (1994) (6)
‘Public’ and ‘Private’ in Women's Lives (1990) (5)
Difficult Stories: Feminist Auto/biography (1995) (4)
On a Horse (2012) (4)
Maps and polar regions : a note on the presentation of childhood subjectivity in fiction of the 18th and 19th centuries (1995) (4)
On not writing biography (2009) (3)
Living historically now (1991) (3)
Landscape for a Good Woman [Extract] (1986) (2017) (3)
Death of a good woman (1995) (3)
The watercress seller (2000) (3)
An Everyday Life of the English Working Class: An introduction, shewing what kind of history this is; what it is like, and what it is not like (2013) (3)
The domestic servant (2005) (3)
Middle-Class Hair (2017) (3)
Linguistic Encounters of the Fourth Kind (1996) (3)
Mayhew: On Reading, About Writing (2014) (3)
A Lawyer’s Letter: Everyday Uses of the Law in Early Nineteenth-Century England (2016) (3)
Service and servitude in the world of labor : servants in England, 1750-1820 (2002) (2)
New time : Mignon and her meanings (1992) (2)
Living with the Dead (2014) (2)
Threatening Letters: E. E. Dodd, E. P. Thompson, and the Making of ‘The Crime of Anonymity’ (2016) (2)
The Poetry of It (Writing History) (2015) (2)
Englishness, clothes and little things : towards a political economy of the corset (2002) (2)
About a Play: Stanley Middleton’s Pentrich Revolution (2022) (1)
Archive Fever, Ghostly Histories (2018) (1)
The peculiarities of English autobiography : an autobiographical education, 1945-1975 (1995) (1)
An Everyday Life of the English Working Class. Work, Self and Sociability in the Early Nineteenth Century Timo Luks (Chemnitz) (2015) (1)
Failure of imagination (1986) (1)
The Cambridge Handbook of Literacy: Literacy, Reading, and Concepts of the Self (2009) (1)
Fatherhood and the British Working Class, 1865–1914, by Julie-Marie Strange (2016) (1)
The Secret Life of Objects (2011) (1)
Intertextualities [Review of Language, structure and reproduction : an introduction to the sociology of Basil Bernstein, by Atkinson, P.] (1986) (1)
Fictions of engagement : Eleanor Marx, biographical space (2000) (1)
Respectable: The Experience of Class by Lynsey Hanley (2016) (1)
Book Reviews (1999) (1)
Social history comes to Warwick (2020) (1)
Private persons versus public someones: class, gender and politics in England, 1780-1850 (2016) (1)
Master and Servant: Labour (2007) (1)
Master and Servant: Conclusion: Phoebe in Arcadia (2007) (0)
Poor girl : service, apprenticeship and bodies in relationship - England 1800 (2005) (0)
Nobody’s place : on eighteenth-century kitchens (2010) (0)
Master and Servant: Map of the Haworth, Slaithwaite, Huddersfield and Halifax region, 1795 (2007) (0)
Knitting and frames (2013) (0)
Review of Margaret McMillan : portrait of a pioneer, by Bradburn, E. (1990) (0)
An Everyday Life of the English Working Class: A note on texts and transcription (2013) (0)
Book Reviews (1992) (0)
All written up (2011) (0)
Ellen Ross. Love and Toil: Motherhood in Outcast London, 1870-1918 . New York: Oxford University Press. 1993. Pp. xii, 308. $55.00 cloth, $19.95 paper. ISBN 0-19-503957-0. (1994) (0)
Review of Reconstructing the criminal : culture, law and policy in England, 1830-1914, by Wiener, M. J. (1993) (0)
Bodies, Figures and Physiology (2013) (0)
Review of Policing and prosecution in Britain, 1750-1850, by Hay, D. and Snyder, F., eds. (1991) (0)
Servant tax, servant’s labour (2004) (0)
Security: the campaign for police pension rights (2015) (0)
Master and Servant: Wool, worsted and the working class: myths of origin (2007) (0)
Lord Mansfield’s Voices (2018) (0)
:Age Relations and Cultural Change in Eighteenth-Century England (2023) (0)
Some conclusions: writing everyday (2013) (0)
Poor girl : service, childcare and class consciousness in late eighteenth-century England (2006) (0)
Fears as loyons: drinking and fighting (2013) (0)
On not writing about the self (2010) (0)
Going to Middlemarch: History and the Novel (2001) (0)
Review of Formations of class and gender : becoming respectable, by Skeggs, B. (1999) (0)
Hanne Østhus, Contested Authority: Master and Servant in Copenhagen and Christiania, 1750–1850 (Florence: European University Institute, 2013). v + 432 pp. (2014) (0)
Government and Policing (2015) (0)
On the Edge of the World (1988) (0)
How He Saw It (2020) (0)
Albion's mums (1986) (0)
In the past : literature, history and writing (2002) (0)
The notes, the markings: along the margins of the years (2022) (0)
Prologue: what are they like? (2013) (0)
The Politics of Domestic Authority in Britain since 1800 (2010) (0)
Vomiting in the marital bed (1990) (0)
History and the Law (2020) (0)
Waiting: Arnold Wesker and The Nottingham Captain (2020) (0)
Master and Servant: Lives and writing (2007) (0)
History and the Law: A Love Story (2020) (0)
Review of The politics of domestic authority in Britain since 1800, by Delap, L., Griffin, B. and Wills, A., eds. (2010) (0)
On poetry, lists and loneliness. In an archive (2006) (0)
An Everyday Life of the English Working Class: Getting and spending (2013) (0)
JEH volume 70 issue 3 Cover and Back matter (2010) (0)
W. H. Auden and the servants (2018) (0)
Review of Uncertain unions : marriage in England, 1630-1753, by Stone, L. (1992) (0)
5. The ILP and Education: the Bradford Charter (1992) (0)
Master and Servant: Sketch map of the woollen and worsted producing areas of the West Riding, late eighteenth century (2007) (0)
Caesura: A worker reads history and a historian writes poetry (2018) (0)
Knowing their Place: Domestic Service in Twentieth-Century Britain. By Lucy Delap. Oxford University Press. 2011. xii + 260pp. £68.00. (2013) (0)
The Useful Knowledge of William Hutton: culture and industry in eighteenth-century Birmingham (2020) (0)
A Policeman’s Life (2015) (0)
An Everyday Life of the English Working Class: Sex and the single man (2013) (0)
Review of The woman reader, 1837-1914, by Flint, K. (1994) (0)
Review of Circling my mother, by Gordon, M. (2009) (0)
The uses of Clio (2018) (0)
Lewis Jane. Women and Social Action in Victorian and Edwardian England. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press. 1991. Pp. vii, 338. $39.50. (1992) (0)
An Everyday Life of the English Working Class: Bibliography (2013) (0)
W. H. Auden and me (2018) (0)
The tidy house revisited (1986) (0)
Working for a living (2007) (0)
The investment in class (2008) (0)
How to cross some class boundaries : the law, poetry and a pair of stays (2008) (0)
Review of Women and social action in Victorian and Edwardian England, by Lewis, J. (1992) (0)
Schools of writing (1980) (0)
Some Way Out of Here (2009) (0)
Forum : what is history? The great debate (1984) (0)
Review of Respectable lives : social standing in rural New Zealand, by Hatch, E. (1993) (0)
Story tellers of the western world : Nelly Dean as the historian in Wuthering Heights (2006) (0)
Review of The alchemy of race and rights, by Williams, P. J. (1992) (0)
An Everyday Life of the English Working Class: The knocking at the gate: General Ludd (2013) (0)
How did she get away with it? : Poetry and class consciousness in the later eighteenth century (2006) (0)
How to write the history of everyday life (2008) (0)
Servants, stereotypes and historical stories : England’s transition to modernity (2005) (0)
The ILP and education : the Bradford charter (1992) (0)
Review of The secret life of objects, by Graves, J. (2011) (0)
Book Review:Reconstructing the Criminal: Culture, Law, and Policy in England, 1830- 1914. Martin J. Wiener (1993) (0)
An Everyday Life of the English Working Class: Family and friends (2013) (0)
Interview with Angela Rodaway (1988) (0)
Bodies in service : waged domestic work and the making of modern persons (2011) (0)
Makers of History (2018) (0)
The servant’s verse, the master’s dinner : verse and cooking as commodity production (2007) (0)
Books do furnish a mind (2013) (0)
Book Reviews (1992) (0)
Sad Historian (2022) (0)
Class of heroes (1989) (0)
Out of Somerset (2019) (0)
Routledge Revivals: Language, Gender and Childhood (1985) (2016) (0)
Respectable Lives: Social Standing in Rural New Zealand.Elvin Hatch (1993) (0)
Review of Love and toil : motherhood in outcast London, 1870-1918, by Ross, E. (1994) (0)
Homage to Clio (2018) (0)
The Ridiculous Historian’s Hopes (2018) (0)
Master and Servant: Bibliography (2007) (0)
On a Bridge (2015) (0)
Master and Servant: The Gods (2007) (0)
Master and Servant: Nelly's version (2007) (0)

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