The essays in this book explore what the material culture - the objects that we own and which surround us in everyday culture -in Great Britain from 1600-1940 tells us about gendered identities and how gender reveals meaning of spaces and things. The essays are written by scholars in a range of history-related disciplines. The essays offers exposés of research methods and interests with the aim of demonstrating to students and other researchers how a relationship between material culture and gender is being addressed. .Contains: Introduction: gender and material culture : Gender and material culture in the early modern London guilds : Women's letters: eighteenth-century letter-writing and the life of the mind : Men's hair: managing appearances in the long eighteenth century : Craftsmen in common: objects, skills and masculinity in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries : Stitching women: unpicking histories of Victorian clothes : Grooming men: the material world of the nineteenth-century barbershop : Queer things: men and make-up between the wars : Manly drinkers: masculinity and material culture in the interwar public house. .The list of resources contains online museum and gallery catalogues, projects and blogs.