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	<description>A blog about homes &#38; households in Victorian Britain.</description>
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		<title>Whose house is this? A capital FAMILY MANSION, 1854</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2012 21:43:05 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Landlordism & the property business]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In theory there is a lot of time to write when you’re on maternity leave but I’m an archival historian and&#8230; well&#8230; babies and archives just don’t mix. So it was a blessing when Thomas Walker at Historic Newspapers sent &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://www.alisonkay.com/historicaljunky/?p=929">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Candleford, lone women &amp; household headship</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Feb 2012 13:37:21 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Historical Household]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Household headship and masculinity have been closely entwined throughout history. In the Victorian period household headship was closely allied with notions of manhood (not surprisingly given the laws of coverture). Yet overlooked by many historians has been the significant incidence &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://www.alisonkay.com/historicaljunky/?p=768">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The houses of Crystal Palace Park &#8211; new pamphlet for charity</title>
		<link>http://www.alisonkay.com/historicaljunky/?p=864</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 10:17:45 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Book reviews]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alison C Kay]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The lovely Melvyn Harrison and people at the Crystal Palace Foundation have long kept a watchful eye over the heritage and development of Crystal Palace Park. Recently they asked if they could reproduce my London Journal research article on the &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://www.alisonkay.com/historicaljunky/?p=864">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The origins of fire insurance (&amp; &#8216;lusty able body&#8217;d firemen&#8217;)</title>
		<link>http://www.alisonkay.com/historicaljunky/?p=821</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 16:16:53 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Historical Household]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[London history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fire insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Fire of London]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[historian Alison Kay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[history of fire insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Phoenix]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Great Fire of London (1666) destroyed more than 13,000 houses and displaced about 100,000 people but it took a couple of decades for its embers to spark the first blaze of the fire insurance business. Nicholas Barbon was probably the first &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://www.alisonkay.com/historicaljunky/?p=821">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A woman’s business. Part 2: To honour thy husband’s debts</title>
		<link>http://www.alisonkay.com/historicaljunky/?p=746</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 11:57:33 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Historical Household]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The majority of women who married in late eighteenth and nineteenth century Britain did not get to live out the idealized role of the Angel in the House from Coventry Patmore&#8217;s 1854 poem. Women of the working class were of &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://www.alisonkay.com/historicaljunky/?p=746">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A woman&#8217;s business. Part 1: To marry or not to marry</title>
		<link>http://www.alisonkay.com/historicaljunky/?p=726</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 14:06:12 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Historical Household]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women's History]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Elizabeth Wolstenholme]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[English Woman's Journal]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Contrary to popular stereotype, women could and did run businesses in eighteenth and nineteenth century Britain. True, it was somewhat easier for single or widowed women to flex their dainty entrepreneurial ambitions than married women. However, marriage was surprisingly, given &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://www.alisonkay.com/historicaljunky/?p=726">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Ship shape: property ownership of the floating variety</title>
		<link>http://www.alisonkay.com/historicaljunky/?p=697</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 14:26:57 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Ships and vessels]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I thought I would turn my attention to a different type of property for this blog post. I&#8217;ve mentioned in an earlier post that home ownership was not the common form of property ownership in the eighteenth and nineteenth century. &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://www.alisonkay.com/historicaljunky/?p=697">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;What to do with the Crystal Palace?&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.alisonkay.com/historicaljunky/?p=643</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2011 17:02:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What better time to appreciate second chances than at the the beginning of a new year. The Crystal Palace [a name of fairy tale splendor, if ever I heard one] sparkled as the stage for Britain&#8217;s Great Exhibition of 1851 but &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://www.alisonkay.com/historicaljunky/?p=643">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Flu wars &amp; sweet memories</title>
		<link>http://www.alisonkay.com/historicaljunky/?p=632</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 19:04:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Between Christmas, flu and the children&#8217;s school holidays, I haven&#8217;t had any time for blogging. My next installment is coming soon&#8230; in the meantime, I leave you with my latest review article for the BBC History Magazine (January 2011): &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>When Santa got stuck up the chimney</title>
		<link>http://www.alisonkay.com/historicaljunky/?p=596</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 22:16:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[A Visit from St. Nicholas]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s my son&#8217;s nativity play this week and this has put me in a festive mood. He&#8217;s been practicing  songs about Santa, bags of toys and chimneys and this got me thinking. Why do I say &#8216;Father Christmas&#8217; but so &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://www.alisonkay.com/historicaljunky/?p=596">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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