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This book explores the ways that families were formed and
re-formed, and held together and fractured, in Britain from the
sixteenth to twentieth century. The chapters build upon the
argument, developed in the 1990s and 2000s, that the nuclear family
form, the bedrock of understandings of the structure and function
of family and kinship units, provides a wholly inadequate lens
through which to view the British family. Instead the volume's
contributors point to families and households with porous
boundaries, an endless capacity to reconstitute themselves, and an
essential fluidity to both the form of families, and the family and
kinship relationships that stood in the background. This book
offers a re-reading, and reconsideration of the existing pillars of
family history in Britain. It examines areas such as: Scottish
kinship patterns, work patterns of kin in Post Office families,
stepfamily relations, the role of family in managing lunatic
patients, and the fluidity associated with a range of professional
families in the nineteenth century. Chapter 8 of this book is
available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at
link.springer.com
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