Professor Hilary Marland's monograph -' Health and Girlhood in Britain, 1874-1920' - July 2013, now available via Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood.

This first book-length study of girls' health in modern Britain explores how debates and advice on healthy girlhood, invoking new visions and practices of health, shaped ideas about the lives and potential of adolescent girls from the 1870s to the 1920s. It demonstrates how the 'modern girl' with her 'modern body' was created during this period, as a range of new experts promoted innovative approaches to hygiene, diet and exercise. Theories concerning the biological limitations of female adolescence were challenged and replaced with a growing emphasis on the importance of behaviour in producing good health, and girls deemed responsible for taking care of their own wellbeing. New practices of health, though varying significantly across the social classes, enabled the extension of girls' roles in education, work, sport, and recreation, and fed into the creation of a new cultural category of 'girlhood' as a discrete and important phase between childhood and womanhood. (Palgrave)

For more information please see: http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=667943 

Dr Claire Jones' forthcoming book, The Medical Trade Catalogue in Britain, 1870–1914 will be published October 2013 as part of Pickering and Chatto's popular series, Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century, and looks at the development of the medical trade catalogue and its role in the changing nature of medical professionalism. The author examines the use of the catalogue in connecting the previously separate worlds of medicine and commerce and discusses its importance to the study of print history more widely.

Christopher Lawrence, University College London says, ‘Jones’s exciting study vastly expands our understandings of the modern medical profession by locating much of its growth and shape in the late Victorian and Edwardian commercial world.’

For more information please see web: http://www.pickeringchatto.com/titles/1707-9781848934436-medical-trade-catalogue-in-britain-1870-1914 

Dr Angela Davis' piece entitled 'The Party of the Family' now published on the openDemocracy website:

http://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/angela-davis/party-of-family