Lynn Abrams
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Scottish historian
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Lynn Abrams is a historian and Professor of History at the University of Glasgow, and a Fellow of the British Academy . She is Chair in Modern History at the University of Glasgow, where her research and teaching interests include the history of women and gender relations in Britain, and oral history.
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- "There was nobody like my Daddy": fathers, the family and the marginalisation of men in modern Scotland. (1999) (36)
- Liberating the female self: epiphanies, conflict and coherence in the life stories of post-war British women (2014) (32)
- Ideals of Womanhood in Victorian Britain (2012) (31)
- The German Bourgeoisie: Essays on the Social History of the German Middle Class from the Late Eighteenth to the Early Twentieth Century. (1992) (30)
- The making of modern woman (2002) (24)
- Knitting, Autonomy and Identity: The Role of Hand-Knitting in the Construction of Women's Sense of Self in an Island Community, Shetland, c. 1850–2000 (2006) (23)
- Aspiration, Agency, and the Production of New Selves in a Scottish New Town, c.1947-c.2016. (2018) (22)
- The Mighty Scot: Nation, Gender, and the Nineteenth-Century Mystique of Scottish Masculinity (review) (2010) (19)
- Workers' Culture in Imperial Germany: Leisure and Recreation in the Rhineland and Westphalia (1992) (18)
- A Social and Economic History of Central European Jewry (1990) (18)
- Memory as both source and subject of study: The transformations of oral history (2014) (16)
- Concubinage, Cohabitation and the Law: Class and Gender Relations in Nineteenth‐Century Germany (1993) (13)
- The Taming of Highland Masculinity: Inter-personal Violence and Shifting Codes of Manhood, c.1760–1840 (2013) (12)
- Story-telling, Women’s Authority and the ‘Old Wife’s Tale’: ‘The Story of the Bottle of Medicine’ (2012) (10)
- Myth and Materiality in a Woman's World (2005) (9)
- The making of modern woman: Europe 1789-1918 (2002) (9)
- From demon to victim : the infanticidal mother in Shetland, 1699-1899 (2002) (8)
- From scullery to conservatory: everyday life in the Scottish home (2009) (8)
- Heroes of Their Own Life Stories: Narrating the Female Self in the Feminist Age (2019) (8)
- Long Term Experiences of Tenants in Social Housing in East Kilbride: an Oral History Study (2011) (7)
- Slum clearance and relocation: a reassessment of social outcomes combining short-term and long-term perspectives (2017) (7)
- “There Is Many a Thing That Can Be Done with Money”:Women, Barter, and Autonomy in a Scottish Fishing Community in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (2012) (7)
- Isolated and dependent: women and children in high-rise social housing in post-war Glasgow (2019) (6)
- Whores, Whore-Chasers, and Swine: the Regulation of Sexuality and the Restoration of Order in the Nineteenth Century German Divorce Court (1996) (6)
- The Unseamed Picture: Conflicting Narratives of Women in the Modern European Past (2008) (6)
- Mothers and daughters: negotiating the discourse on the 'good woman' in 1950s and 1960s Britain (2013) (5)
- 'Blood is thicker than water': family, fantasy and identity in the lives of Scottish foster children (2001) (5)
- From Control to Commercialization: the Triumph of Mass Entertainment in Germany 1900–25? (1990) (4)
- ‘People and their homes rather than housing in the usual sense’? Locating the tenant’s voice in Homes in High Flats (2019) (4)
- Revisiting Akenfield: forty years of an iconic text (2009) (4)
- THE SELF AND SELF-HELP: WOMEN PURSUING AUTONOMY IN POST-WAR BRITAIN (2019) (4)
- A History of Everyday Life in Twentieth-Century Scotland (2010) (3)
- Alienated affections: the scottish experience of divorce and separation, 1648-1830 (1999) (2)
- Book Review: Witnesses of War: Children's Lives Under the Nazis (2006) (2)
- The welfare state generation: women, agency and class in Britain since 1945 (2022) (2)
- Recognising the Co-dependence of Machine and Hand in the Scottish Knitwear Industry (2021) (2)
- German nationalism and religious conflict. Culture, ideology, politics, 1870–1914 . By Helmut Walser Smith. Pp. xv + 271 incl. map, 2 figs and 6 tables. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995. £33.50 ($39.50). 0 691 03624 1 (1996) (2)
- Martyrs or matriarchs? working-class women's experience of marriage in Germany before the first world war (1992) (2)
- The realities and narratives of paid work: The Scottish workplace in the twentieth century (2010) (1)
- Place, memory and the British high rise experience: negotiating social change on the Wyndford Estate, 1962–2015 (2020) (1)
- A wartime family romance: narratives of masculinity and intimacy during World War Two (2017) (1)
- A day in the life: conceiving the everyday in the twentieth century (2010) (1)
- DRINK AND THE WORKING CLASS IN LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY BOCHUM (1986) (1)
- Crime against marriage? Wife-beating, the law and divorce in nineteenth-century Hamburg : Divorce laws (2002) (1)
- Introduction: conceiving the everyday in the twentieth century (2010) (1)
- Families of the Imagination: Myths of Scottish Family Life in Scottish Child Welfare Policy (2007) (1)
- Reviews : Edward Ross Dickinson, The Politics of German Child Welfare from the Empire to the Federal Republic, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, ISBN 0-674688627, 1996; viii + 365 pp.; £29.95 (1997) (0)
- C'The Business of Everyday Life: Gender, Practice and Social Politics in England, 16001900 By Beverly Lemire (2007) (0)
- Carolyn Strange, Toronto's Girl Problem. The Perils and Pleasures of the City, 1880–1930. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995. xi + 299pp. Illustrations. Bibliography. £32.50 Hbk, £15.00 Pbk. (1996) (0)
- Reviews : W. L. Guttsman, Workers' Culture in Weimar Germany. Between Tra dition and Commitment, Oxford, Berg, 1990; xiv + 332 pp.; £35.00 (1992) (0)
- Conclusions: a working-class leisure culture? (1992) (0)
- Aberlour Orphanage and Aberlour Child Care Trust, 1930s-1990s: Report for the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry (2020) (0)
- Popular Culture, Leisure, and Recreation in Imperial Germany: With Particular Reference to Bochum and Düsseldorf (1989) (0)
- ESTHER BREITENBACH and ELEANOR GORDON (eds.), Out of Bounds: Women in Scottish Society 1800-1945. (Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 1992, pp. viii and 228, Pbk. £16.95). (1993) (0)
- Reviews : Larry Eugene Jones and James Retallack, eds, Elections, Mass Politics and Social Change in Modern Germany. New Perspectives, Cambridge and New York, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-41846-1, 1992; xiii + 430 pp.; £35.00 (1995) (0)
- LEAH LENEMAN and ROSALIND MLTCHISON,Girls in Trouble. Sexuality and Social Control in Rural Scotland 1660-1780Edinburgh, Scottish Cultural Press, 1998, pp.viii + 133, Pbk. £10.95 (1999) (0)
- Reviews : Catharina Lis and Hugo Soly, Disordered Lives: Eighteenth-Century Families and their Unruly Relatives, trans. Alexander Brown, Cambridge, Polity Press, 1996; ISBN 0-745-61422-1; x + 230 pp.; £39. 50/$49.95 (1998) (0)
- Book Reviews : Isabel V. Hull, Sexuality, State, and Civil Society in Germany, 1700-1815. Ithaca, NY, and London: Cornell University Press, 1996, pp. 467 (1997) (0)
- Housing, Everyday Life and Wellbeing over the Long-term: Glasgow 1950-1975 (2015) (0)
- Eric A. Johnson, Urbanization and Crime: Germany, 1871–1914 . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. x + 246 pp. Illustrations. Tables. £35.00. $44.95. (1996) (0)
- Remembering Shani D’Cruze (1954–2021) (2021) (0)
- Talking about the female self across the life course: Self realisation in interview and in life (2017) (0)
- Book Review: Languages of Labor and Gender. Female Factory Work in Germany, 1850-1914 (1998) (0)
- Glasgow: High-Rise Homes, Estates and Communities in the Post-War Period (2020) (0)
- Dr Barnardo's Homes (Dr Barnardo's/Barnardo's Scotland) 1930s-1990s: Report for the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry (2020) (0)
- Reviews : Bernard P. Bellon, Mercedes in Peace and War. German Automobile Workers, 1903-1945, New York and Oxford, Columbia University Press, 1990; xv + 356 pp.; US $37.50 (1993) (0)
- Reviews : Harriet Anderson, Utopian Feminism. Women's Movements in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, ISBN 0-300-05736-9, 1992; xiii + 322 pp.; £28.00 (1994) (0)
- Lives of Scottish Women: Women and Scottish Society, 1800–1980 (review) (2008) (0)
- "Oral History Theory", Lynn Abrams, Berlin 2010 : [recenzja] / Marta Kurkowska-Budzan. (2012) (0)
- Companionship and conflict: the negotiation of marriage relations in the nineteenth century (2017) (0)
- Finding the Female Self: Women’s Autonomy, Marriage and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century Germany (2015) (0)
- Aspects of popular culture, leisure and recreation in Imperial Germany with particular reference to Bochum and Düsseldorf. (Volumes I and II). (1989) (0)
- ELEANOR GORDON and ESTHER BREITENBACH (eds.), The World is Ill Divided: Women's Work in Scotland in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries. (Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 1990, pp. viii and 186, £32.50, Pbk. £12.95). (1992) (0)
- Executive Summary: Quarrier's, Aberlour and Barnardo's Reports: Report for the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry (2020) (0)
- Book Review: The War from Within: German Working-Class Women in the First World War (2000) (0)
- David I. Kertzer and Mario Barbagli (eds.), Family life in the long nineteenth century, 1789–1913. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002.) Pages xxxviii+420. £30.00. (2004) (0)
- Everyday masculinity in twentieth century scotland (2010) (0)
- Quarrier's Homes, 1930s-1990s: Report for the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry (2020) (0)
- Creativity and Design in a Contemporary Knitwear Business: An Interview with Di Gilpin and Sheila Greenwell (2023) (0)
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