Uploaded January 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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My guest today is John Tosh, Professor Emeritus of History at Roehampton University and the author of many books, including 'A Man's Place: Masculinity and the Middle-Class Home in Victorian England' and 'Masculinities in Politics and War: gendering modern history.'

We spoke about the effect that the industrial revolution had on British masculinity, in particular the idealisation of domesticity, the rise of 'the angel of the house', and the reconceptualisation of the home and of the proper role of the patriarch.

In the extended part of the episode we spoke about Victorian attitudes towards male sexuality, and also about the men who rejected the cult of domesticity in favour of Imperial adventure

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