Soap and water : cleanliness, class and gender, 1880-1914
The aim of this thesis is to examine attitudes towards and the practice of cleanliness in the British working classes between 1880 and 1914. This was a period when the quality of cleanliness was highly valued, partly because sanitary reform activity and the emergence of germ theory had established n...
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Royal College of Art
2005
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.565968 |