The politics of women's suffrage

Women’s suffrage was the most significant challenge to the constitution since 1832, seeking not only to settle demands for inclusion and justice but to expand and redefine definitions of citizenship. This book advances ongoing debates within suffrage history whilst also bringing new materials and...

Le septième siècle: changements et continuités/the seventh century: change and continuity

Star chamber matters

Star Chamber was an extraordinary court which came into its own over the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. This volume explores the history of an age through both the practices of its courts and the disputes of the people who came before them. With Star Chamber, we view a court that came...

Studies on wealth in the ancient world (bics supplement 133)

Menander 'misoumenos' or 'the hated man'

Judging from the numerous recovered papyrus fragments, Menander’s Misoumenos, or ‘The Hated Man’ was one of his most popular plays. This edition is the fullest to date of any English language edition of the play and aims to restore as much of the original action as possible through painstaking re...

Writing and the west german protest movements: the textual revolution

The 1960s protest movements marked an astonishing moment for West Germany. They developed a political critique, but are above all distinctive for their overwhelming emphasis on culture and the symbolic. In particular, reading and writing had a uniquely prestigious status for West German protester...

Menander 'epitrepontes' (bics supplement 106)

Medieval merchants and money

The essays in this volume were written in celebration of the scholarship of the medieval historian Professor James L. Bolton. They address a variety of questions in medieval economic and social history, and some look more widely at patterns of immigration to London, trade and royal policy, and th...

Queer between the covers

Queer Between the Covers presents a history of radical queer publishing and literature from 1880 to the modern day. The book demonstrates how the queer community could be brought together through shared literature and how LGBTQ people throughout modernity have used literature as an important foru...

Ernst kitzinger and the making of medieval art history

This volume brings together the papers given at the colloquium held at the Warburg Institute to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of Ernst Kitzinger. His work has been, and still is, fundamentally influential on the present-day discipline of art history in a wide range of topics. The first ...

Greek into latin from antiquity until the nineteenth century

Becoming a historian

Writing history is an art and a craft, which can sometimes make it feel intimidating. Becoming a Historian debunks the myths and demystifies the world of research for both research students and independent scholars. It outlines techniques to help design large-scale research projects, demonstrates...

The margins of late medieval london, 1430-1540

This book explores the complexity of medieval London’s urban fringe communities. Going beyond London’s institutional structures, it casts new light on urban life at the level of the neighbourhood and considers the differences in economy, society and sociability which existed in different areas of...

The afterlife of inscriptions: reusing, rediscovering, reinventing, revitalizing ancient inscriptions (bics supplement 75)

The glasgow sugar aristocracy

This important book is the first to outline Scotland’s colonial past and Glasgow’s direct links with the slave trade through sugar plantations. It traces how significant fortunes and investments made through chattel slavery percolated into the Scottish economy and wider society, and examines, via...

A world you do not know

A World You Do Not Know explores the wilful ignorance demonstrated by NorthAmerica’s settlers in establishing their societies on lands already occupied by indigenous nations.

The victoria history of herefordshire: cradley

Drawing extensively on local archival sources, this volume charts the social, economic, religious and political history of Cradley in Herefordshire. It explores the fragmented model of land ownership and the development of a powerful body of wealthy yeomanry that shaped the distinctive character ...

Blackburn’s ‘worthy citizen’: the philanthropic legacy of r.e. hart

The exceptionally fine colour images in this catalogue are selections from the R.E. Hart Collection held by the Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery. Seven medieval manuscripts and three incunables from the Collection were exhibited at Senate House Library in November of 2013. This project, Blackburn...

Technology's pulse: essays on rhythm in german modernism

Modernity, as has often been observed, was fundamentally concerned with questions of temporality. The period around 1900, in particular, witnessed numerous efforts to define, discipline or 'liberate' temporal experience. Within this broader framework of thinking about temporality, 'rhythm' came t...

Roman military diplomas vi

This sixth volume in the Roman Military Diplomas series catalogues, transcribes and reconstructs the 179 diplomas published between 2004 and 2007 alongside contextual information helping to illuminate everything from the commanders of units to the social lives of soldiers. It is an essential refe...

Shaping migration between europe and latin america: new perspectives and challenges

Focusing on Latin America and Europe, two world regions historically linked by human mobility and cultural exchange, this insightful examination of their changing international migration patterns details their responses to significant demographic changes and new migration trends. The volume exami...

Cultural worlds of the jesuits in colonial latin america

The volume demonstrates the diversity of Jesuit contributions to Latin American culture. They pioneered an interest in indigenous languages and cultures, compiling dictionaries and writing some of the earliest ethnographies of the region. They also explored the region’s natural history and made s...

A liberal tide?

Over the past decade, a paradigm shift in migration and asylum law and policymaking appears to have taken place in Latin America. Does this apparent ""liberal tide"" of new laws and policies suggest a new approach to the hot topics of migration and refugees in Latin America distinct from the regr...

Names on terra sigillata. volume 5. l to masclus ii (bics supplement 102.5)

Writing and muslim identity: representations of islam in german and english transcultural literature, 1990-2006

Writing and Muslim Identity is a comparative study of Islam in contemporary German- and English-language literature. At a time when the non-Islamic world seems to be defining itself increasingly in contrast to the Islamic world, this literary exploration of Islam-related issues sheds new and valu...

Freedom seekers

Freedom Seekers reveals the hidden stories of enslaved and bound people who attempted to escape from captivity in 17th-century London. It was the joint winner of the prestigious Frederick Douglass Book Prize from Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Ab...

Innovations in teaching history

An essential teaching companion offering practical strategies for enhancing learning for all teachers of history in higher education, this collection of seven case studies reflects on how we teach the history of the long eighteenth century. It is grounded in real academic practice and focuses on ...

Petrarch’s famous men in the early renaissance: the illuminated copies of felice feliciano’s edition

Greek & roman philosophy 100 bc-200 ad. volumes 1-2 (bics supplement 94.1-2)

Aristotle and after (bics supplement 68)

Contesting clio's craft

Offers thoughts on approaches to the study of the Canadian past. This book contains essays that emphasises on international, transnational, and comparative approaches to the past. It covers such topics as the Atlantic World, oral history, postcolonialism, public history, historical periodization,...

Precarious professionals

Precarious Professionals uncovers the inequalities and insecurities which lay at the heart of professional life in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain. Through twelve fascinating studies of women and men on the margins, this volume re-evaluates the relationship between professional identity...

Opposing patriarchy: women and the law in action in pre-unification italy (1815-1865)

Shifts in state boundaries and socio-economic structures deeply affected the political landscape in nineteenth-century Italy, coinciding with changes to the legal system. The patriarchal, hierarchical and strict class stratification of society saw women redefining their sense of self and rethinki...

The victoria history of middlesex: st clement danes, 1660-1900

St Clement Danes was home to a mix of rich and poor residents, including lawyers, artisans, servants and prostitutes. From being the site of aristocratic riverside houses in the 17th century, it became a commercial and cultural hub in in the 18th. After decaying into slums by the 1800s, it was su...

Masculinity and danger on the eighteenth-century grand tour

The Grand Tour was a journey to continental Europe undertaken by British nobility and wealthy landed gentry during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. As a rite of passage, the Tour also played an important role in the formation of contemporary notions of elite masculinity. Examining letter...

Philoponus and the rejection of aristotelian science (2nd edition) (bics supplement 103)

Currency & exchange in ancient pompeii

The victoria history of hampshire: medieval basingstoke

Though Basingstoke is often seen as the product of the last decades of the 20th century, its beginnings go back to c.1000. By 1500 it was among the top 60 towns in England by wealth and taxpayers, and the centre of a major industrial area, whose manufactured cloths formed part of international pa...

The digital classicist 2013

This wide-ranging volume is a collection of papers that initially emanated from presentations at Digital Classicist seminars and conference panels and showcases exemplary applications of digital scholarship to the ancient world. It critically examines the many challenges and opportunities afforde...

Sifting the soil of greece. the early years of the british school at athens (1886–1919) (bics supplement 111)

The victoria history of essex: harwich, dovercourt and parkeston in the 19th century

This book explores the changing character of Harwich, Dovercourt and Parkeston over the course of the 19th century, including the borough’s economic, social and political history. Its coastal location dictated its prominent role as a port and naval base from the 14th century onwards, and it retai...

Contemporary challenges in securing human rights

This volume is published in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the MA in Understanding and Securing Human Rights offered at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. The chapters reflect on cutting-edge challenges in the field of human rights. Topics include refugee protection, wome...

Guilds, society and economy in london 1450-1800

This book is made up of a collection of papers from the 'Revisiting the livery companies of early modern London' conference held in April 2000 by the CMH, exploring the history of London livery companies from a variety of perspectives. Employing historical and interdisciplinary approaches, it exa...

Anti-communism in britain during the early cold war

A revisionist history of anti-communism in Britain during the early Cold War, this is the first book to examine how British Cold War anti-communism transpired and manifested. Drawing from a wealth of archival material, it argues that an overreaction to the communist threat occurred and explores, ...

Out of arcadia: classics and politics in germany in the age of burckhardt, nietzsche and wilamowitz (bics supplement 79)

Cinemas and cinema-going in the united kingdom

In the first half of the twentieth century, cinema-going was the most popular commercial leisure activity century. But with the transition to peacetime, leisure habits changed. During the 1950s increased affluence, the growth of television ownership and the diversification of leisure led to rapid...

Themes in plato, aristotle, and hellenistic philosophy

The present volume collects together papers based on the annual Keeling Memorial Lecture in ancient philosophy given at University College London, over 2011-18 (and one from 2004, previously unpublished). It contains contributions to theoretical as well as practical ancient philosophy, and in som...