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Cookery classes for men: A novel idea introduced by the Bristol Gas Company is a man's Household Management Class. The first of its kind in this country, (...) under the expert supervision of Miss Joan Langley, the Gas Company Demonstrator. October 15 1948. Credits: Topfoto

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Home and Hearth. Gender and Energies within the Domestic Space, 19th-21st C.

Households, gender, and energies: Issues and perspectives

Charles-François Mathis

Fabrice Virgili

Jean-Pierre Williot

Making coal sharp: Gendered consumers and users of mineral fuel in the 19th Century United States

Networks of power? Rethinking class, gender and entrepreneurship in English electrification, 1880-1924

Abigail Harrison Moore

Commercial strategies to promote domestic gas and electricity consumption, and the role of women (Lisbon, 1891-1970s)

Ana Cardoso de Matos

Electricity and the changing contours of masculinity in Los Angeles, 1900–1930

What a housewife should know: popularising electric devices in the Barcelona of the nineteen-thirties

Jordi Ferran Boleda

Relieving the housewife: Gender and the promise of geothermal district heating in Reykjavík, 1930s–1970s

The uptake of new domestic energy technology in the 1950s-1960s: how women got involved in France and the Netherlands

Mariëlle Feenstra

The breakthrough of the 21 degrees culture in Denmark. Undoing and doing gender in Danish home making after 1945

Mogens Rüdiger

Energy sources

Local perspectives of national energy projects: reconstructing the impact of post war nuclear power stations in north Wales from archival sources

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