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Holmes, Vicky, ‘Accommodating the Lodger: The Domestic Arrangements of Lodgers in Working-Class Dwellings in a Victorian Provincial Town’, Journal of Victorian Culture, 19:3 (2014), 314–331. DOI: 10.1080/13555502.2014.947181

Holmes, Vicky, ‘Death of an Infant: Coroners’ Inquests and the Study of Victorian Domestic Practice’, Home Cultures, 11:3 (2014), 305–331. DOI: 10.2752/175174214X14035295691319

Holmes, Vicky, In Bed with the Victorians: The Life-Cycle of Working-Class Marriage (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)

Holmes, Vicky, ‘Pulling Back the Covers: Uncovering Beds in the Victorian Working-Class Home’, in Joseph Harley, Vicky Holmes, and Laika Nevalainen (eds), The Working Class at Home, 1790–1940 (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), pp. 73–95

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Horrell, Sara and Jane Humphries, ‘The Origins and Expansion of the Male Breadwinner Family: The Case of Nineteenth-Century Britain’, International Review of Social History, 42:s5 (1997), 25–64. DOI: 10.1017/S0020859000114786

Horrell, Sara, Jane Humphries, and Jacob Weisdorf, ‘Beyond the Male Breadwinner: Life-cycle Living Standards of Intact and Disrupted English Working Families, 1260–1850’, Economic History Review, 75:2 (2022), 530–560. DOI: 10.1111/ehr.13105

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Hoskins, Lesley and Rebecca Preston, ‘Chickens, Ducks, Rabbits, and Me Dad’s Geraniums: The Use and Meaning of Yards, Gardens and Other Outside Spaces of Urban Working-class Homes’, in Joseph Harley, Vicky Holmes, and Laika Nevalainen (eds), The Working Class at Home, 1790–1940 (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), pp. 145–169

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Unpublished works

Holmes, Vicky, ‘Dangerous Spaces: Working-Class Homes and Fatal Household Accidents in Suffolk, 1840–1900’ (PhD thesis, University of Essex, 2012)

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Living with lodgers

Everyday life, household economy, and social relations in working-class Victorian England

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