1. The Endurance of Shame and its Transformation in Modern Britain
2. White Feathers and Black Looks: Cowardice, Conscientious Objection and Shame in The Great War
3. ‘This Tribune of the People, This Uncrowned King of Britain’: Horatio Bottomley – Shame, the Public Sphere and the Betrayal of Populism
4. The Rector of Stiffkey - ‘The Lower He Sinks the Greater their Crime’: Clerical Scandal, Prurience and the Archaeology of Reputation
5. The Silent Scream of Shame? Abortion in Modern Britain
6. Modern Charivari or Merely Private Peccadillo? Lord Lambton and the Archetypal Sex Scandal
7. Lady Isobel Barnett: Shoplifting and Sympathy – The Last Gasp of Presumptive Shame?
8. From Blackmail and the Closet to Pride and Shame: Homosexuality and Identity – The Military Example
9. Conclusion.