Desalination of Historic Buildings, Stone and Wall Paintings

The result of research from the European Desalination project which investigates the use of poultices to treat salt damage in porous cultural heritage objects. While poulticing is widely practiced, its effects are often irreversible.

A Perfect Ground

Maartje Stols-Witlox offers the first in-depth study of historical recipes for preparatory ground layers used by painters in North West Europe between 1550 and 1900.

Conservation of Plaster Casts

A collection of papers that examines the role that plaster itself plays in the process of creating a sculpture. There is an outline of the history of plaster casts and deals with the techniques of conservation including cleaning, consolidation, gluing, reintegration and preventive conservation an...

Arms and Armour

The work of curators, conservators and scientists is brought together to consider a range of historic weapons and armour held in collections worldwide.

Cennino Cennini's Il Libro dell'Arte

This volume offers a new, critically revised translation of Il Libro dell’Arte, deepening our understanding of Cennino Cennini’s life, context, and the artistic practices of 14th-century Italy.

Rebel women between the wars

An original history of thirteen interwar women who successfully challenged male dominance in a wide range of occupations, from mountaineering to motoring and humanitarian activism. Through their diaries, letters and other personal writings, we see the strategies they used to break free from domes...

Eva Gore-Booth: Irish radical poet, rebel and reformer

This anniversary reissue of the acclaimed biography tells the remarkable life story of Eva Gore-Booth, an author and activist who rejected her aristocratic heritage and became a champion of Irish independence and women's suffrage.

impact of sociocultural factors on women smallholder farmers: Middle East and North Africa

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Developing Talent and Managing People in the Family Enterprise

Developing Talent and Managing People in the Family Enterprise explores the unique people-related challenges that families and their advisers face.

Medical and Dental Guidance Notes (Second Edition)

This second edition addresses the safe use of ionising radiations (e.g., radioactive substances, X-rays, protons, neutrons, and electron beams) in the UK. These notes include general best practices of the Ionising Radiation (Medical Exposure) Regulations (IR(ME)R) 2017. Following the instructions...

Current crop models

This book reviews the current range of crop models, the ways they explore the complex interplay between genetic, environmental and management (G x E x M) variables and how these can be optimised to create a more sustainable and resilient agriculture.

Family Offices

Prepared in association with STEP, the world’s leading organisation for private wealth professionals, this new edition of Family Offices has been fully updated and features a number of new chapters, all written by the leading experts in the field.

Legal Operations in the Age of AI and Data

Combining both theory and practice from industry leaders, insight is provided from legal tech, in-house legal departments, law firms, and academia. Legal Operations in the Age of AI and Data is your guide to navigating the fast-evolving landscape of AI in the legal field with step-by-step practic...

Partner Retirement in Law Firms

In this 2025 edition, edited by partnership and employment specialist Ronnie Fox, expert contributors offer up-to-date guidance to navigating the difficult aspects of retirement in the broad context of career planning

Practicing Legal Design

Drawing on extensive experience in legal design, innovation, and transformation, this book blends strategic vision with hands-on experience.

The Outperformers

Through candid, first-hand accounts from top law firm leaders, the book explores how visionary management, detailed planning, consensus-building and disciplined execution have driven extraordinary performance and enduring success compared to their competition.

The Non-Executive Directors' Handbook, 5th edition

Coal Country

This is the first book-length account of deindustrialization in the Scottish coalfields. The flooding and subsequent closure of Scotland’s last deep coal mine in 2002 brought a centuries long saga to an end. Colliery closures and job losses were not just experienced in economic terms: they had pr...

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 ...

Before Grenfell

On 14 June 2017, flames engulfed Grenfell Tower, a residential block of flats in West London. Seventy-two people lost their lives and many hundreds more were traumatised as a national ‘cladding crisis’ unfolded. Before Grenfell traces the underlying causes of the fire through more than four decad...

British Working-Class and Radical Writing Since 1700

At a time when working-class writing is gaining long-overdue recognition and radical ideas are more important than ever, this collection examines the intersection of British working-class and radical writing from the eighteenth century to the present. Topics include the obstacles facing writers, ...

Ray Petri

Scottish-born stylist Ray Petri (1948–1989), founder of the Buffalo collective, defined the look of radical 1980s magazines The Face, i-D, and Arena. This book traces how Petri’s radical casting, genderplay, and iconography of homoeroticism boldly politicized the relationship between fashion an...

Safe as houses

As the tragedy of the Grenfell tower fire has slowly revealed a shadowy background of outsourcing, private finance initiatives and a council turning a blind eye to health and safety concerns, many questions need answers.Stuart Hodkinson has those answers.

Construction Law

Now in its fourth edition, Construction Law by Julian Bailey is the definitive work of reference for construction law practitioners internationally. In three volumes, spanning more than 3,300 pages, it provides the most comprehensive treatment of the major issues arising out of construction and e...

Advances in sheep production

This collection reviews the key challenges facing sheep production, including evolving consumer expectations, concerns about sustainability, as well as One Health issues. The book also considers how grazing systems and nutritional approaches can be managed to optimise sheep health and welfare.

Advances in poultry nutrition

This collection provides a comprehensive overview of the range of research on recent advances in poultry nutrition, focussing primarily on broilers for meat production. The book also reviews the development of novel feed sources and their role in optimising gut function in poultry.

Land and labour

This book is a history of the Potters’ Emigration Society from its founding in 1844 to its dissolution in early 1851. The Society, which became a national organisation after 1848, sought to solve the problems of surplus labour by turning workers into frontier farmers. It was the most significan...

Graveyard Gothic

This collection of essays considers the significance of graveyards in Gothic literature, film, television and video games. The chapters incorporate discussion of Gothic texts from around the world, offering a compelling new account of the graveyard’s importance as a key location for Gothic art an...

Reanimating grief

This book explores how literature, theatre and music revive the dead to explore the dynamics of grief and mourning. Combining expressive and analytical writing, it offers a critical poetics of loss to show how ghosts, scenes of mourning, memories of reading or viewing, and acoustic fragments, all...

Aegean Bronze Age Rhyta

This comprehensive study of Bronze Age rhyta from the Aegean addresses questions of typology, function, context, and the uses of these vessels. Rhyta are among the most appealing yet enigmatic classes of artefacts from the Aegean Bronze Age, produced in a wide range of forms and media with a cons...

Working in the Suburbs

Excavations at the ancient Egyptian archaeological site of Amarna identified a workshop for glass and faience. This book presents a record of the workshop site, offering an archaeological and architectural evaluation alongside in-depth analyses of material culture, including archaeobotany, charc...

The Athenian Agora Museum Guide

Written for the general visitor, the Athenian Agora Museum Guide is a companion to the 2010 edition of the Athenian Agora Site Guide and leads the reader through all of the display spaces within the Stoa of Attalos in the Athenian Agora - the terrace, the ground-floor colonnade, and the newly ope...

The Early Iron Age

This volume, the first of two dealing with the Early Iron Age deposits from the Athenian Agora, publishes the tombs from the end of the Bronze Age through the transition from the Middle Geometric to Late Geometric period.

The fantasy fiction formula

A guide to the nuts and bolts of fantasy writing that illustrates techniques with examples drawn from published fantasy fiction and offers plentiful drills and exercises to help students hone their writing skills.

Understanding displacement aesthetics

Understanding displacement aesthetics explores how visual culture and art shape and challenge ideas about forced displacement. Bridging cultural and art history with curatorial studies, it offers a new framework for ‘displacement aesthetics’ and highlights artistic and institutional responses to ...

Fighting for the Soul of General Practice

A view of contemporary general practice from two practising GPs. Themes include industrialisation versus craftsmanship; the effect of protocol; and the breakdown of relational care. The theoretical perspectives introduced are illustrated through a series of anonymised anecdotes. 15 b/w illus. Fr...

The Intellect Handbook of Popular Music Methodologies

The Intellect Handbook of Popular Music Methodologies provides a comprehensive overview of methodological approaches within the field of popular music studies. The volume includes a wide range of methodologies, including semiotics, ethnography, psychology, intersectionality, archeology, livestrea...

David Bowie, Enid Blyton and the sun machine

A dazzling act of literary-critical rebellion, casting new light on the lives of David Bowie and Enid Blyton

Restless justice

An ethnographic study alongside refused and destitute asylum seekers in Manchester and the employees and volunteers working to support them. It offers a new conceptual understanding of borders and advocates for a restless justice in both theory and practice.

Monarchy in the Age of Liberty

Drawing on a great variety of sources, this book studies the ideological foundations of monarchy as an institution in eighteenth-century Sweden. Its wide scope and inventive method are of interest to anyone interested in early-modern European politics.

Monasticism and renewal in southern Italy

The Chronicle of Montecassino is a crucial source for the history of monasticism and that of southern Italy in the early Middle Ages, as well as for the art and architecture of the period.

Connoisseurs and conmen

This book examines the art collector and trickster John Hilditch’s struggle to become a renowned collector and expert in early twentieth-century Britain. Through his life it explores how cultural authority was constructed, challenged and forged during a period of social, cultural and political de...

From Cataloguing to Metadata Creation

From Cataloguing to Metadata Creation is a cultural and methodological introduction to the evolution of cataloguing towards metadata creation process in the digital era. It is a journey through the founding principles and the objectives of the 'information organisation' service that libraries offer.

Let's Roll

This book guides school and public librarians on how to run tabletop roleplaying games in a library setting.

The Freedom of Information Officer's Handbook

This book provides a comprehensive guide to the practical management of freedom of information compliance, including interpretation of the Act as well as the Environmental Information Regulations.

Lords and pastors

This book presents six medieval biographies of bishops from the German Empire, translated into English for the first time. The texts span the tenth to thirteenth centuries, and offer fascinating windows onto politics and society in the central Middle Ages.

Privileged Spaces

Drawing on the knowledge and experience of library leaders, estates directors, space managers and researchers, Privileged Spaces provides an insight into changing demands in academic library estates strategy.

RDA Essentials

This concise guide to cataloguing with RDA: Resource Description and Access is essential for those seeking a simplified path to creating basic RDA records.

Information Law

This fully up-to-date guide adopts a practical hands-on approach to information law, which is viewed from both an operational and strategic perspective.

Bog bodies

Reinterpreting the latest research and discoveries, and featuring a ground-breaking study of Worsley Man, this book brings the bogs to life through both natural history and folklore, revealing them as places that were rich and fertile yet dangerous. It also reflects on the debate over whether bog...

Advanced SCAT Practice Tests

This book contains three full-length verbal and quantitative practice tests to prepare students in grades 6 and above to take the Advanced School and College Ability Test (SCAT) administered by the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth (CTY), an above-grade level test designed at grades 9 to 12...

Dr Faustus: The A- and B- texts (1604, 1616)

Dr. Faustus is one of the jewels of early modern English drama, and is still widely performed today. Interestingly, the play has come down to the contemporary audience in two distinct versions that have become known as the 'A' and the 'B' texts. David Bevington and Eric Rasmussen, who edited the ...

Driving with strangers

Driving with strangers is an ambitious, timely and intellectually eclectic contribution to how we think about mobility, the rationale behind its different forms and why our philosophy of travel and societal structures are closely related.

Rethinking the Carolingian reforms

This book sets out to challenge current interpretations of Carolingian culture, and especially its perceived correctio (correction), reform or renaissance. When we consider authors who operated outside the direct sphere of influence of the court, a much more dynamic image of Carolingian culture c...

Walking in the dark

This beautiful and deeply personal book blends memoir and biography with literary criticism to offer a new perspective on the legendary American writer James Baldwin.

My Voice: Anne Super

Anne's book is part of the My Voice Project, a collection of firsthand accounts of Holocaust survivors and refugees from Nazi persecution who settled in the UK. Anne Super was born in Warsaw and experienced a traumatic separation from her parents. She was later adopted by an uncle in South Africa...

My Voice: Tomi Komoly

Tomi's book is part of the My Voice Project, a collection of firsthand accounts of Holocaust survivors and refugees from Nazi persecution who settled in the UK. Tomi Komoly was born in Budapest, experienced the ordeals endured there by Hungarian Jews. He fled to Vienna and then England and went o...

The making of German democracy

This is the first English language source reader that deals with post-war (West) Germany. Over 160 commented sources describe the political, social and economic developments that changed Germany from the abyss of Nazism into a prosperous ally of the West and into one of the driving forces of Euro...

Leeds and its Jewish community

The definitive history of the third-largest Jewish community in the UK, which analyses the factors which contributed to its growth and success and explores the disproportionate influence the community had on the modern history of Leeds.

The Academic Teaching Librarian's Handbook

The Academic Teaching Librarian’s Handbook is a comprehensive resource on teaching and professional development for information professionals and instructors at all career stages. It explores the current landscape of teaching librarianship, and highlights and discusses the important developments,...

My Voice: Lydia Tischler

Lydia's book is part of the My Voice Project, a collection of firsthand accounts of Holocaust survivors and refugees from Nazi persecution who settled in the UK. Lydia was born in Czechoslovakia and experienced harrowing conditions in the Theresienstadt and Auschwitz camps. After liberation, she ...

Stage rights!

Drawing upon previously unseen archival material, this book brings to life the story of the Actresses' Franchise League from 1908-1958, building a picture of this diverse, exciting and innovative organisation that opens up and extends previous scholarship of the suffrage movement, and of politica...

Wild colonial boys

In this compelling memoir, Thomas Paul Burgess recounts his time as a member of Ruefrex, one of Northern Ireland’s most successful punk rock bands. Through a series of revealing vignettes, he traverses strife-torn Belfast and bohemian London, revealing another side of the punk rock story.

My Voice: Sam Laskier

Sam's book is part of the My Voice Project, a collection of firsthand accounts of Holocaust survivors and refugees from Nazi persecution who settled in the UK. Sam Laskier experienced terrible ordeals at labour camps and then Auschwitz-Birkenau. He was brought to Windermere in England after WWII ...

Frankland

Commemoration of work by Professor Nelson on early medieval history, Frankish culture and its effect on Europe.

The history of emotions

Fully revised and updated, The history of emotions is the most up-to-date and comprehensive guide to the theories, methods and problems in this field of historical inquiry and its intersections with other disciplines. It emphasises the importance of this kind of historical work for general unders...

'Curing queers'

Drawing on a rich array of source materials including previously unseen, fascinating (and often quite moving) oral histories, archival and news media sources, 'Curing queers' examines the plight of men who were institutionalised in British mental hospitals to receive ‘treatment’ for homosexuality...

Democratic passions

This book takes a fresh look at British radicalism in the first-half of the nineteenth century from the new perspective of the history of emotions. It changes the way in which we look not only at popular radicalism but also at the affective qualities of politics itself in modern Britain and beyond.

Framing

This cutting-edge book draws on the latest ideas from economics and evolutionary theory to provide a toolkit for understanding how issues are framed in the media, built around the key elements of texture, temperature, position and size.

Britain’s ‘brown babies’

This book recounts a little-known history of an estimated 2,000 children born to black GIs and white British women in World War II. Stories from over 50 of these children, alongside many photographs, reveal the racism and stigma of growing up in what was then a very white country.

The hippie trail

Tracing the history of the Hippie Trail and those who followed it, this book explores the motivations and experiences of these young travellers, mapping their everyday interactions with locals and the joys and hardships of independent budget travel.

Belfast punk and the Troubles: An oral history

This book is an oral history of punk in Belfast from the mid-70s to the mid-80s. It reads a small number of interviews in close detail to place them in the context of the Troubles and to draw out the imaginative ways that interviewees evoke the experience of growing up in Northern Ireland and pun...

Men and masculinities in modern Britain

Men and masculinities provides a critical overview of ongoing debates in the history of masculinities and the making of men’s lives and ideas of masculinity in Britain between the 1890s and present day.It proposes a new agenda, urging histories to reflect on the enduring influence of patriarchy i...

Queer beyond London

Looking beyond the London-centric narratives of British LGBTQ life, this exciting book explores the queer dimensions of four English cities – Manchester, Leeds, Plymouth and Brighton.

The sea in Russian strategy

This book brings together leading specialists from public policy and academia to reflect on historical and contemporary aspects of Russian maritime power.

Carbon colonialism

Outsourcing climate breakdown shows how the impact of climate change, including the slow-burn disasters of droughts and floods, is traded out by wealthier countries and imported by less wealthy ones as the price of economic growth.

The Black Death

This book surveys contemporary responses to the Black Death. The sources illustrate the fear that spread with the disease and the diverse ways that such terror influenced social behaviour.

The Fairy Tales of Jim Henson

This book provides a new perspective on the work of Jim Henson, the important but often overlooked creator of screen fairytales.

Welcome to the club

Hacienda resident and Manchester legend DJ Paulette celebrates the highs, lows and lessons of a 30-year career at the forefront of UK dance music as a ground-breaking Black female DJ.

Hands, Wrists, Fingers

Hands, Wrists, Fingers is a practical book offering concepts and tools to help musicians of all abilities become comfortable using their hands in healthy and expressive ways.

Reimagining the Public Library

Library and Information Science has always been a contested space. This book captures some of the major debates that have taken place within the profession over the past 25 years and suggests how these can be used to inform the future development of libraries.

Entity Modelling

This guide aims to improve the principles of the third generation of cataloguing and, more widely, to contribute to the shift of paradigm related to the emerging bibliographic ecosystem. Readers will learn the importance of adopting new methods to remain relevant in modern and international setti...

The 'New' Science of Scientific Writing

A revision and expansion of Gopen’s highly acclaimed and widely influential 1990 American Scientist article “The Science of Scientific Writing,” this book introduces the Reader Expectation Approach—how writers need to understand certain expectations of readers in order to control both the writer’...

Shout for freedom

Bringing together histories of politics, sound, and music in new ways, Shout for freedom offers a radical reassessment of the significance of the Chartist movement in British political history, arguing that the movement’s extraordinary eruption and forced silencing reveal both the nature, and the...

From Jikji to Gutenberg

An investigation into the origins of moveable type and the first books printed from it in both the East and the West. 

Planning for Nature

Planning for Nature tells the story of planning battles to save special places for nature in the UK, but also imagines a better future and key principles of good planning for nature. There are hints and tips for campaigners who love nature and want to protect important places from bad development.

Bat Roosts in Trees

This is a guide to finding tree-roosts for ecologists and tree-care professionals. It is the result of the collaborative efforts of surveyors and amateur naturalists across Europe as part of the Bat Tree Habitat Key project.

Social Calls of the Bats of Britain and Ireland

The social calls of bats are increasingly being recognised as a useful aid to identification. Accompanied by an extensive downloadable library of sound files, this expanded and updated new edition summarises what is understood so far about social calls of the bat species occurring in Britain and ...

Seashore Plankton

A practical guide of the collection and observation of marine plankton in the tidal water of seashores. Identification is aided with 400 photographs and descriptions with notes on their biology. A final section looks at adaptations, the ecology of plankton and the implications of human activity.

My Voice: Jacques Weisser

Jacques’s book is part of the My Voice Project, a collection of firsthand accounts of Holocaust survivors and refugees from Nazi persecution who settled in the UK. Born in Antwerp in 1942 and hidden across orphanages, hospitals and safe houses, Jacques Weisser later rebuilt his life in Belgium, S...

Bat Calls of Britain and Europe

A comprehensive guide to the calls of 44 species of bat occurring in Europe. Following on from the British Bat Calls by Jon Russ, this new book substantially updates all sections and expands the book to inform sound analysis and species identification of all bats in Europe.

Shakespeare and Manchester

Both a theatrical and a cultural history, it examines the makers of an urban, libertarian, Mancunian Shakespeare using hitherto unexplored primary sources, principally a rich trove of digitised newspapers. It contextualises Manchester’s engagement with Shakespeare’s works in the light of Victoria...

Living in the shadow of empire

Drawing on a range of public and private sources, including multiple micro-histories, the book examines how the wives of China consular officials shaped, and were shaped by, the treaty port world, and how, despite facing significant challenges, they helped forge and sustain the British presence a...

Studio Potters

This book celebrates and catalogues the Bell Collection of British studio pottery and is an important resource for all those interested in 20th-century ceramics. The collection is centred on the pioneering work of Bernard Leach and his followers.

Waterloo Bridge and London River

As a subject, Waterloo Bridge fascinated writers and artists such as Dickens, Constable, Monet and Derain. This book tells the story of a bridge’s place in the city – its history in use, its inextricable connection with the great river which it crosses, and the character and activities of the two...

Kay Fisker

Beautifully illustrated with photographs and architectural drawings, this book documents and critically analyses three of Kay Fisker's seminal housing projects in Copehagen: Hornbaekhus (1923); Vestersohus (1935-39); and Dronningegarden (1943-58).

Fat Performance

Fat Performance is the first published edited collection dedicated to fat performance. The text connects materials from across scholarship on fat performance and provides the readership with routes into this area of artistic practice and scholarly enquiry.