Dr Joanne Bailey

Dr Joanne Bailey is a Reader in History at Oxford Brookes University. She works on the history of the family and marriage in Britain. Her most recent book is Parenting in England c1760-1830: Emotions, Identity and Generation (OUP, 2012) and she has published a series of articles on fatherhood and parenting. She has also authored a monograph on married life in the long eighteenth century: Unquiet Lives: marriage and marriage Breakdown in England 1660-1800 and related articles on marital violence and married women and the law. She is currently working on a history of British manliness 1750-1918.