The Pursuit of History: Aims, Methods and New Directions in the Study of Modern History (6th edn, Routledge, 2015)
A Man’s Place: Masculinity and the Middle Class Home in Victorian England (Yale University Press, 1999)
(editor) Historians on History (3rd edn, Routledge, 2018)
Manliness and Masculinities in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Pearson Education, 2005)