Shakespeare's borrowed feathers

This book uses the latest techniques in textual analysis to reveal the influence of a community of English playwrights on the celebrated works of William Shakespeare.

Ageing selves and everyday life in the north of England

Seeking to better understand what it means to grow older in contemporary Britain from the perspective of older people themselves, this richly detailed ethnographic study engages in debates over selfhood and people’s relationships with time.

My Voice: Jack Aizenberg

Jack'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. As a child, Jack experienced life in hiding, working in a munitions factory and in the harrowing conditions of concentration camps, befo...

Political ecologies of the far right

This book offers a unique perspective on one of today’s most disturbing convergences, the rise of the far right and the ongoing ecological crisis. Through case studies from around the world, the book interrogates the multifaceted ways these two trends intersect.

Doing digital history

A practical guide to digital history, which shows just how much can be done without writing any code. This book will give researchers in history or related fields the skills and confidence to approach existing digital resources and to create their own. Assuming no prior knowledge, the guide focus...

Roy Ward Baker

This book traces the career of one of the great survivors of the British film and television industry over more than sixty years, who directed landmark British films, worked at Twentieth Century Fox and Rank in Hollywood, moved to television series such as 'The Avengers' and re-emerged as a major...

Using film as a source

A hands-on study skills guide that explores how film and moving image can be used as sources.

Campaspe and Sappho and Phao

One of a series of play texts by Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatists other than Shakespeare, this volume discusses the plays "Campaspe" and "Sappho and Phao" by John Lyly. The series aims to throw light on the plays and to offer views of the plays that have been neglected in the past.

Austerity baby

Austerity Baby might best be described as an ‘oblique memoir’. Janet Wolff’s fascinating volume is a family history – but one that is digressive and consistently surprising. The central underlying and repeated themes of the book are exile and displacement; lives (and deaths) during the Third Rei...

Mutinous memories

The French mutinies of 1919 stretched from the Soviet Union through to France’s naval ports. It is the first study to try to understand the subjective world of the mutineers.

Beginning film studies

The perfect one-stop-shop for anyone starting film studies.

The experience of occupation in the Nord, 1914–18

A study of actual and perceived French civilian behaviours under German military occupation in 1914-18, from complicity and criminality to forms of resistance. Providing a new conceptual vocabulary, the book posits that an ‘occupied culture’ existed and guided civilian responses to the German pre...

Teaching Information Literacy Reframed

In this important new book, bestselling author and expert instructional librarian Burkhardt decodes the Framework, putting its conceptual approach into straightforward language while offering more than 50 classroom-ready Framework-based exercises. Guiding instructors towards helping students cros...

Country houses and the British Empire, 1700–1930

Assesses the economic and cultural links between country houses and the empire between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries

The last taboo

This is the first academic book ever written on women and body hair. The study argues that body hair plays a central role in constructing masculinity and femininity and sexual and cultural identitiesThe chapters each analyse through a specific focus how body hair underpins ideas of the ‘cultural’...

A defence of witchcraft belief

This edition of a previously unpublished manuscript defence of witchcraft belief offers a unique insight into learned opinion on the subject in Elizabethan England. It includes a comprehensive analytical introduction and will appeal to scholars with an interest in witchcraft across disciplinary b...

Red closet

Based on newly discovered sources, this is the first book to tell the story of the oppression of LGBTQ people in the USSR.

The Northern Ireland Troubles in Britain

This book investigates the history of responses to, engagements with and memories of the Northern Irish conflict in Britain, exploring the lessons to be learned from post-conflict efforts to 'deal with the past' in Northern Ireland and providing a starting point for wider academic and public deba...

Manchester minds

Publishing to mark the University of Manchester's bicentenary, this book is packed with compelling stories about the great scholars and scientists who have shaped the institution and helped to advance numerous fields of knowledge.

Epicene, or The Silent Woman

Epicene is now one of the most widely-studied of Johnson’s plays. Brilliantly exploiting the Jacobean convention whereby boys played female roles, it satirises the newly fashionable and sexually ambiguous world of the West End of London, where courtly wit rubs shoulders with commercial values.Thi...

Russian Orientalism in a global context

This volume features new research by an international group of scholars on Russia’s historic relationship with Asia and the ways in which it was mediated and represented in the fine, decorative, and performing arts and architecture from the mid-eighteenth century to the first two decades of Sovie...

The Cossacks

An exceptional book covering 500 years of the history of the Cossacks - the recklessly brave, wild horsemen or the romantic hero of the steppe or the brutal mounted policemen, as they have been remembered throughout history.

Pistols in St Paul's

Investigating a series of cutting-edge acoustic experiments in twentieth-century Britain, this unique book reveals how exciting new ideas from science and music had a lasting effect on architectural design.

Imperial nostalgia

A short, polemical study of the persistence of imperial nostalgia in modern British culture, politics, heritage and media.

Proscribing peace

Proscribing peace shows how the listing of armed groups as terrorists has made pre-negotiations harder and more prolonged. Drawing on fieldwork in Colombia during the negotiation with the FARC, Sophie Haspeslagh introduces the concept of ‘linguistic ceasefire’ which becomes a central pre-conditio...

Doubting sex

This groundbreaking analysis of nineteenth-century European clinical case histories of hermaphrodites shows how sex changed from an outward appearance inscribed in a social body to something to be found deep inside body and self.

Clanship to Crofters' War

Charts the story of the people of the Scottish Highlands from medieval times to the great crofter's rebellion in the 1880s

The plantation of Ulster

The first major academic study of the Ulster Plantation in over 25 years. This collection of essays by leading scholars in the field on a broad range of historical and literary topics redresses the previous coverage of the plantations, moving away from an exclusive colonial perspective, to includ...

What a waste

Documents how outsourcing has penetrated every part of the public sector, and balances critique with practical suggestions for policy reform

Objects of belief

The eight studies presented here on late medieval religious objects provide new insight into miracle stories, spiritual writings, religious drama, and medieval English poetry.

Mathematics for economists

Self-contained treatment of all the mathematics needed by undergraduate and masters-level students of economics starting from a very low level. Topics covered include calculus, matrix algebra, probability, dynamics and static and dynamic optimisation, all illustrated by examples and problems from...

Clyde Walcott

West Indies legend Sir Clyde Walcott was one of the greatest cricketers of all time, but he was also an important administrator and activist. This first biography offers a detailed examination of his extraordinary life and achievements.

The business of time

This book follows the emergence and transformation of the watch industry throughout the world from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present day. It sheds new light on the way the global economy became established.

Stories from small museums

This book tells the story of the boom in smalls museums that took place in Britain from the 1960s onwards. Drawing on extensive interview materials, it explores why community groups, families and individuals were inspired to set up museums, teasing out the connections between personal experience ...

Anthony Burgess and America

This book is a critical biography and literary cultural analysis of Burgess’s interactions with the United States of America and American society, using newly discovered documents, archival research and Burgess’s entire canon to investigate the profound influence of America on Burgess’s life and ...

Death in modern theatre

This book analyses representations of death and dying in modern Western theatre from the late nineteenth century onward, examining how and why historically informed conceptions of mortality are dramatized and staged.

Late Merovingian France

This collection of documents in translation brings together the seminal sources for the late Merovingian Frankish kingdom. It inteprets the chronicles and saint's lives rigorously to reveal new insights into the nature and significance of sanctity, power and power relationships.

Hermits and anchorites in England, 1200–1550

This book provides an unprecedented range of sources for the solitary life in late-medieval England, including many that have never before been published, alongside a scholarly introduction and commentary by one of the foremost experts in the field.

Barbara Comyns

This biography of Barbara Comyns presents a twentieth-century author whose life was as extraordinary as her novels. Hundreds of unpublished letters reveal an occasionally desperate but resourceful and witty woman whose complicated life ranged from enduring poverty when young to mixing with spivs,...

Bordering Britain

(B)ordering Britain argues that Britain is the spoils of empire, its immigration law is colonial violence and irregular immigration is anti-colonial resistance.

The Black Atlantic’s triple burden

This book demonstrates the continuities of five centuries of European-led slavery and colonialism in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Americas, examining calls for reparations in all three regions for what many now regard to have constituted crimes against humanity.

In the company of wolves

This volume of essays presents innovative research from a variety of perspectives on the cultural significance of wolves, children raised by wolves, and werewolves, as portrayed in different media and genres.

Penguin Books and political change

This book employs the history of Penguin Books to offer a new account of Britain’s post-war politics.

In solidarity, under suspicion

A collection of original research on far-left groups and activists in Britain from the 1950s onwards, focusing in particular on themes of international solidarity, British Black Power, experiences of policing and surveillance, and relationships to the Labour Party.

A Practice of Pleasure

A Practice of Pleasure is an intimate and panoramic entrée into the life and work of Joanna Frueh (1948-2020), an art historian and performance practitioner for whom life and art were inseparable. Written during a key transitional moment in her life and work (2005-2012), the volume makes availabl...

Critical games

Critical Games is about the games we play, the ways we play them, and what happens when they get out of hand. With readings of a range of cultural texts, from the Ancient Greeks to contemporary auto-fiction, it pinpoints what is critical in games and game-playing.

A grand strategy of peace

This book tells the story of Britain’s role in the creation of the United Nations Organization during the Second World War.

Negotiating in/visibility

This volume documents the (in)visibility of women in science in the twentieth century. It combines individual and collective portraits with discussions of institutional structures, work cultures, science and domesticity, the pedagogy of science and the gendered dimensions of science communication.

Counter Print

This collection explores the role of newsletters, magazines, and journals in shaping contemporary art’s practices, histories, and communities, uncovering the impact of queer, feminist, Black, and transnational networks on Britain’s cultural landscape.

Don't Shoot the Journalists

Born out of the University of Oregon’s “Extra!! Don’t Kill the Messenger: Migrating to Stay Alive” international symposium on journalism-in-exile, this volume brings together the presentations, conversations, and reflections of writers, reporters, and scholars who have faced dangers and threats t...

Finntopia

What have the Finns got right that other nations haven't?

Analysing Corruption

An authoritative and engaging introduction to the field of corruption analysis and the challenges facing its researchers.

How to Save the City

Paul Chatterton engages, inspires and empowers the reader to take action to make cities more sustainable, liveable and safer places. He guides the reader through a sequence of challenges, strategies, players, moves and practical tactics of how to save their city.

Dictionary of Corruption

Written by an expert team, this is a comprehensive resource for students, academics, practitioners and professionals. It establishes a common interpretation of the language and terminology in the field of corruption and anti-corruption studies. From amakudari to zero tolerance, over 250 key terms...

False Prophets of Economics Imperialism

In this deeply researched and wide-ranging intellectual history, Matthew Watson exposes the essential flaw in the claims of economics imperialists. Their market models reveal mathematical truths only about themselves, not social truths related to the world of directly lived experiences.

Sustainable Development and Water Security

This book uses Sustainable Development Goal 6 to consider the concept of sustainable water resources management and how to improve global water security. It provides a critical synthesis of water resources planning and management issues across all water-using sectors.

Lexicon for an Affective Archive

To study an archive or archival materials is to encounter an affective and critical practice involved in the construction of memory. Lexicon for an Affective Archive is an international collection of these encounters, offering glimpses into the intimate relations inherent in finding, remembering ...

Kira O'Reilly

Artist Kira O'Reilly's works use the uncertain boundaries of bodies to ask what kind of societies become possible in collaborations across species, organisms and bodies. She explores these questions through sustained and experimental engagements with politics, biopolitics, change and the complex ...

Serious Play

Slapstick comedy is the primary mode of performance for clowns, and in Serious Play, drama scholar Louise Peacock explores the evolution over the past fifty years of this unique brand of physical comedy. Though an analysis of clowning in a range of settings—theaters, circuses, hospitals, refugee...

Equity and Trusts

Equity and Trusts is written for students on LLB and law conversion courses and will also be useful for those on any SQE pathway. The book provides students with all they need to understand the complexities of the English law of equity and trusts in principle and in practice.

Pollyanna

Potential of alternative feed ingredients in fish feed

Aquatic animal production has reached 130.9 million tons, with over 89% destined for human consumption. The remaining portion is dedicated to producing fishmeal and fish oil. It is crucial to recognize that feed-related expenses constitute 40-70% of total costs within the aquaculture sector, main...

The St Ives Artists: New Edition

New in paperback: Michael Bird's bestselling chronicle of the St Ives artists, illustrated in colour throughout.

Underground Cities

Underground City explores how new ideas and technologies are transforming the ways we build and inhabit underground space and how these innovations can help to make our increasingly dense, climate-stressed cities both more resilient and more of a pleasure to live in.

Petty Tyranny and Oppression

This book focuses on one of the most contentious areas of English and Welsh poor law history: the exercise of petty tyranny by officials on the workhouse poor. The book examines the period from the late-eighteenth-century crisis of the Old Poor Law, through the adoption of the New Poor Law reform...

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’...

Interactive Exhibits

The core aim of this book is to help museum and heritage professionals become more discerning and savvy buyers of interactive exhibits. It will help them better understand what quality and value for money look like, how to gain the maximum benefit from the money they invest and how to care from t...

Prostitution, Repentance and Social Welfare in Renaissance Florence

This book explores the survival of Sant'Elisabetta delle Convertite, the Florence monastery for repentant prostitutes, during the long Renaissance. Archival and manuscript sources reveal the strategies developed by the authorities and Convertite nuns, offering valuable insights into the relations...

Cambridge Bookbinding, 1450–1770

This is the first time that Cambridge bookbinding has been comprehensively documented. Generously illustrated with over a hundred full-colour illustrations of bindings, it also includes 365 photographs of binding tools alongside a chronological narrative of the evolution of binding styles and pra...

Suave Mechanicals

This volume is dedicated to the work of Bernard C. Middleton, MBE, who died in January 2019. In the dedicatory section, the voices of numerous friends and colleagues are present, and they, in various ways, tell us a lot about Middleton and his contributions to the history and practice of hand boo...

The Boggart

The little-studied and once much-feared boggart is a supernatural being from the north of England. Using long-forgotten sources as well as social media surveys and personal interviews, this ground-breaking book reveals that almost everything we thought we knew about the boggart is wrong.

The Exeter Companion to Fairies, Nereids, Trolls and other Social Supernatural Beings

For centuries, Europeans believed in a parallel world of the ‘social supernatural’. The social supernatural realm mirrored and interacted with our own, causing disasters and providing fertility. Bringing together eighteen experts, this book explores how diverse cultures across Europe envisioned t...

Fairy Encounters in Medieval England

Strange tales from many medieval genres prove that experience, not fiction, underlay fairy beliefs. Supernatural beings took on similar forms whether they were supposed to be ghosts or goblins, saints or demons. First-person oral testimony is backed up by place-names which show how wells, pools a...

Mermaids

Women with fish tails are among the oldest and most popular of mythological creatures. This book presents a comprehensive, interdisciplinary and beautifully illustrated study of mermaids and their influence on Western culture. The roots of mermaid mythology and its metamorphosis through the centu...

Trends in fungicide resistance in North-West Europe

Agriculture is important and highly productive in North-West Europe with major crops including wheat, barley, potato, sugar beet, oilseed rape, apple and grapevine. The maritime climate of West Europe is very prone to fungal diseases that require the input of fungicides. Fungicide resistance has ...

AI for the Information Professional

The book explains the ways that Artificial Intelligence impacts the work of information professionals working in any role or sector. This book prompts readers to become engaged with developments in AI and understand how they may be able to use this or criticise its use.

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.

Moss Safari

This book takes readers on an inspiring journey into the hidden world of moss, revealing the fascinating lives of the Microscopic Big Five, while exploring their vital role within moss, the global ecosystem and in science.

A Snorkeller’s Guide to the Mediterranean

A snorkeller’s identification guide to the most frequently encountered marine species of the Mediterranean. Presented in an informative yet readable way, includes numerous tips on how to make the most of your snorkelling.

Wildlife Photography Fieldcraft

An approachable step-by-step guide on how to find UK wildlife and use natural history understanding to aid successful photography. Inspiring images and comprehensive detail make this book an essential tool for the amateur wildlife photographer or naturalist who wishes to document their finds.

The Vanishing Mew Gull

A rich and detailed consideration of the names and naming of the birds of the Western Palaearctic.

The Social Lives of Bats

Bats live in highly complex social groups. From attracting a mate to maintaining life-saving friendships, they exhibit a huge variety of fascinating social behaviour. This ground-breaking book reveals the intimate secrets of bat society and relationships.

Traffication

The trillions of miles we drive each year are just as destructive to our natural environment as any of the better known threats, such as habitat loss or intensive farming. Traffication does for road traffic what Silent Spring did for agrochemicals: awakening us from our collective road-blindness ...

European Deserts

This is the first book to identify, investigate and celebrate Europe’s little-known sandy lowland deserts. Arid and infertile, they present landscapes profoundly different from their surroundings and offer refuge for scarce flora and fauna with nowhere else to go, yet the continued existence of m...

Africa's Threatened Rhinos

Africa’s surviving rhinos are seriously threatened. This timely book considers all kinds of human interactions with these magnificent and enigmatic animals, offering a significant contribution to our understanding of wildlife in the African continent.

My Voice: John Goldsmith

John’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 Hans Goldschmidt in Germany, John escaped to England, before being interned in Britain and Canada, and later becoming a pioneer in ...

My Voice: Jack Cygelman

Jack’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. Raised in Poland and deported through Radom, Auschwitz and Vaihingen, Jack Cygelman arrived in England with 'The Boys', going on to buil...

My Voice: Susan Pollack

Susan’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 Hungary in 1930, Susan Pollack was deported to Auschwitz as a teenager and after liberation rebuilt her life in Britain, becomi...

Mycology for Architecture

Investigates the potential of mycelium as a sustainable material within architecture and design. It combines theoretical perspectives, practical methodologies and digital fabrication processes to present techniques, critical analysis and emerging applications. The book serves as a comprehensive r...

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...

Cold War humanitarians

This book compares Oxfam and MSF’s humanitarian programmes in the 1980s to illuminate how British and French political cultures conditioned their opposing interpretations of ethical action during the Cold War. In so doing, it demonstrates that emerging norms of humanitarian intervention and human...

Achieving net zero dairy farming: weighing the options arising from new understanding

This concluding chapter to the book Achieving net zero dairy farming takes stock of the key insights provided by individual chapters in the book. It reviews the evidence relating to the emission of greenhouse gases (GHG) and other pollutants, approaches to their mitigation, and the potential for ...

Lynn Chadwick Sculptor

Lynn Chadwick (1914-2003) was one of the leading British sculptors of his generation. This essential illustrated catalogue raisonne of his sculpture is published in a new, fourth edition to coincide with Chadwick's centenary in 2014 and incorporates a new illustrated listing of his lithographs a...

The Edwardians and their Houses

This book analyses beautiful and varied style of Edwardian domestic architecture within a broad context, including Edwardian political thought and contemporary literature. 

Collaborations in Housing Design

Over the past three decades, Baylight Properties have been working in collaboration with some of the finest British architects to develop a series of award-winning housing projects, each one marked by a poetic sensitivity and thoughtful use of materials. This book addresses the particular challen...

Architecture through Drawing

Architecture Through Drawing examines architectural drawings as objects which encapsulate complex spatial and cultural ideas.