TY - JOUR
T1 - Irregular Marriages: Unorthodox Working-Class Domestic Life in Liverpool, Birmingham and Manchester, 1900-1939
T2 - Unorthodox working-class domestic life in Liverpool, Birmingham, and Manchester, 1900-1939
AU - Klein, Joanne
PY - 2005/4/1
Y1 - 2005/4/1
N2 - English police personnel records provide a perspective on working-class marriages not available in standard sources. Police officers were respectable workingclass men expected to uphold the reputation of the force both on and off the job, and yet 119 cases of irregular marriages appear in police records in Liverpool, Birmingham, and Manchester. Their affairs, separations, cohabitation, and other unorthodox marital arrangements clearly demonstrate that attempts to impose a strict legal model of marriage on police officers could not displace the more flexible ideas of matrimony still common to respectable working-class culture in the first half of the twentieth century.
AB - English police personnel records provide a perspective on working-class marriages not available in standard sources. Police officers were respectable workingclass men expected to uphold the reputation of the force both on and off the job, and yet 119 cases of irregular marriages appear in police records in Liverpool, Birmingham, and Manchester. Their affairs, separations, cohabitation, and other unorthodox marital arrangements clearly demonstrate that attempts to impose a strict legal model of marriage on police officers could not displace the more flexible ideas of matrimony still common to respectable working-class culture in the first half of the twentieth century.
KW - affair
KW - cohabitation
KW - marriage
KW - police
KW - separation
KW - working class
UR - https://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/history_facpubs/4
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0363199004270049
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=16244369470&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/0363199004270049
DO - 10.1177/0363199004270049
M3 - Article
VL - 30
SP - 210
EP - 229
JO - History Faculty Publications and Presentations
JF - History Faculty Publications and Presentations
IS - 2
ER -