From one to twelve apart from play
Boys and girls have lots to say

They laugh and cry and have fun to

Always finding things to do

Aunties uncles and lots more
Sometimes come in through the door

so written here some things they say

while waiting to go out to play

Seaside Christmas dentists to
Playschool, paper planes that flew

in verses here inside the pages

It's clear that growing up takes ages

Come and meet the creatures
As they are passing by
Some of them
they hop and crawl
And others they can fly
They play out in the garden
Until they stop to eat
So don't forget when passing
To leave for them a treat

This book explores the rich, diverse opportunities and challenges afforded by research that analyses the stories told by, for and about women. Bringing together feminist scholarship and narrative approaches, it draws on empirical material, social theory and methodological insights to provide examples of feminist narrative studies that make explicit the links between theory and practice. Examining the story as told and using examples of narratives told about childhood sexual abuse, domestic/relationship abuse, motherhood, and seeking asylum, it raises wider issues regarding the role of...

Volume 32 of Transactions of the Royal Historical Society (Sixth Series) includes: 'The Making and Breaking of Kinetic Empire: Mobility, Communication and Political Change in the Eastern Mediterranean, c. 950-1100 CE'; 'A (Dis)entangled History of Early Modern Cannibalism: Theory and Practice in Global History'; 'Popular Propaganda: John Heywood's Wedding Ballad and Mary I's Spanish Match'; 'The Roads Not Taken: Liberty, Sovereignty and the Idea of the Republic in Poland-Lithuania and the British Isles, 1550-1660'; 'Four Axes of Mission: Conversion and the Purposes of Mission in Protestant...