For the first time on record, the number of people who are married has dropped below 50 per cent in England and Wales. Helen Coffey asks the experts why getting hitched is no longer the norm
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Zora Simic has never been married, nor wanted to. She assesses two new books about feminism and marriage – Clementine Ford’s polemic against it and Rachael Lennon’s history of its reformation.
A new history takes in everything from ancient Roman weddings to Don’t Tell The Bride to ask: can we redefine this patriarchal institution for the future?