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The impact of the Troubles on the Republic of Ireland, 1968–79
This book tells the story of how the war in Northern Ireland threatened to engulf the Republic. It explains how popular opinion responded to the crisis from marching in solidarity with nationalists to increasing disengagement and fear.
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The Cooke sisters
A study of five remarkable sixteenth-century women. Part of the select group of Tudor women allowed access to formal humanist education, the Cooke sisters were also well-connected through their marriages to influential Elizabethan politicians.
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A minority and the state
This is the only general history of Britain's travelling communities in the twentieth century and covers state and legal developments affecting Travellers as well as their experiences of missions, education, warand welfare.
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Serving the empire in the Great War
Explores the role of both mules and mule drivers to the British war effort and in particular the social and economic aspects of the Cypriot contribution to the Great War. It also questions why Cypriots forgot this extraordinary contribution.
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Masculinities, militarisation and the End Conscription campaign
Explores the gendered dynamics of apartheid-era South Africa's militarisation, analysing the defiance of compulsory military service and the anti-apartheid activism of the white men and women in the End Conscription Campaign.
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Laudian and Royalist polemic in seventeenth-century England
Looks at one of the most prolific and controversial polemical authors of the seventeenth century, whose writings lie at the heart of the rule of Charles I, the Civil War, and the restoration of Charles II. In the process, the author presents an important new interpretation of the origins and natu...
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My Voice: Fay Phillips
Fay'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. Fay Phillips was born in Belgium, escaped to France with her family when war broke out and was later hidden by the Resistance. She went o...
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Nobility and patrimony in modern France
This is a study of noble families’ collective memory and transmission of tangible and intangible cultural heritage.
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‘England’s darling’
In the nineteenth century, Alfred the Great was a figure who rivalled King Arthur in the popular imagination. This book asks why Alfred was so important in Victorian Britain, examines the ways in which he was rewritten by authors and artists of the time, and investigates how Alfred is no longer ...
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My Voice: Ursula Rosenfeld
Ursula'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. Ursula Rosenfeld escaped from Germany to England on the Kindertransport, and went on to work as a nurse, health visitor and magistrate...
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My Voice: Renée Mosbacher
Renée'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. Renée Mosbacher was born in Vienna and witnessed the growth of antisemitism in Austria and the horror of Kristallnacht. After a dangero...
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Hometown Hamburg
‘Hometown Hamburg’ explores the role of institutionalized historical continuity in the collapse of urban democracy in the Weimar Republic.
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My Voice: Ivor Wieder
Ivor'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. Ivor grew up in Barsana in Romania, experienced the horrors of Auschwitz, where his father was killed, and Bergen-Belsen, and moved to L...
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Disability and the Victorians
Disability and the Victorians investigates the attitudes of Victorians towards people with impairments, illustrates how these influenced the interventions they introduced to support such people and considers the legacies they left behind by their actions and perspectives. A range of impairments a...
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Mancunians
Mancunians: Where do we start, where do I begin? is the authentic account of Manchester at the turn of the Millennium, told through a mixture of memoir and interviews with well-known local figures from music and sports.
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The business of birth control
This volume provides a new commercial perspective on contraception in modern Britain. It examines contraceptives as commodities and demonstrates the significance of the contraceptive industry in shaping sexual knowledge alongside the medical profession, the birth control movement, and the state b...
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Ikarians in South Australia, 1900-1945
This book looks at a little-researched diaspora, originating on the Greek Aegean Island of Ikaria. Ikaria, being a small, isolated island, close to the Turkish coast, had a long and independent history, with periods of autonomy, including the short-lived Free State of Ikaria in 1912, which was th...
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Gendered transactions
Explores Indian gender issues through diverse sources including letters, memoirs, fiction, housekeeping manuals, and forgotten texts from the colonial archives.
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Cinemas and cinemagoing in wartime Britain, 1939–45
In this groundbreaking book, Richard Farmer provides a social and cultural history of cinemas and cinemagoing in Britain between 1939 and 1945, and explores the impact that the war had on the places in which British people watched films.
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Home front heroism
Home front heroism explores how civilians were framed as heroic during the Second World War. Through a focus on London, this book explores how the effects and demands of conflict created increased opportunities for heroics, and created a need for heroism to be acknowledged, awarded and celebrated.
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Shinners, Dissos and Dissenters: Irish republican media activism since the Good Friday Agreement
This book provides a compelling picture of Irish republican activist media outlets like newspapers, magazines and Internet journals and the role that they played ideologically during the tumultuous years that followed the end of the 30-year civil war that was the Troubles and signing of the Good ...
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Architectures of survival
Architectures of survival investigates how airpower influenced urbanism and debates about the future of cities in modern Britain. It traces the targeting of cities and militarisation of urban space from interwar to Cold War and highlights how air raids became incorporated into civilian planning d...
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The family tree detective
The long-awaited fourth edition of this best-selling manual continues to offer up-to-date guidance both to newcomers and to the more experienced, on how to make best use of the labyrinth of genealogical sources in England and Wales. It takes into account recent, and even some future, changes to t...
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A progressive education?
A Progressive Education? argues that the period after WWII witnessed a fundamental transformation in concepts of childhood and adolescence in England and Wales.
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Assembling cultures
Assembling cultures charts the development of workplace activism in the British motor industry between 1945 and 1982.
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'At Duty's Call'
In this book, Reader attempts to understand the extraordinary mass voluntary enlistment of two and a half million men in the British army in the first sixteenth months of the Great War
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Defending the realm?
Britain is often revered for its extensive experience of waging ‘small wars’. Its long imperial history is littered with high profile counter-insurgency campaigns, thus marking it out as the world’s most seasoned practitioner of this type of warfare. This is the first book to detail the tactical ...
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Crowns and colonies
Explores the multiple connections between European monarchs and their overseas colonies
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Beyond Nightingale
This book studies Crimean War nursing from a transnational perspective setting nursing in the five combatant armies into the wider context of European statecraft.
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The secret vice
It is the first book on shine light on the hitherto neglected topic of female masturbation, especially as it pertains to women in clinical writing and the bestselling popular medical works aimed at the female reader
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Humanitarianism and the Greater War, 1914–24
This book offers fresh perspectives on the history of humanitarianism and its impact on domestic and international politics in the era of the Great War.
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My Voice: Adash Bulwa
Adash'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. Adash Bulwa experienced harrowing ordeals in the concentration camps of Belzec and Buchenwald. He later emigrated to England and became...
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Comedy, caricature and the social order, 1820–50
In offering an overview of the market for comic images between 1820 and 1850, this book makes a case for the importance of a largely neglected area of visual culture. It draws on a wide range of commercially produced print genres, including song books, play-texts, comic annuals and magazines as w...
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Memory, Place and Aboriginal-Settler History
Taking the absence of Aboriginal people in South Australian settler descendants’ historical consciousness as a starting point, ‘Memory, Place and Settler‒Aboriginal History’ combines the methodologies and theories of historical enquiry, anthropology and memory studies to investigate the multitudi...
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The Creation of Modern China, 1894–2008
No country has undergone a greater period of sustained and convulsive change than China in the twentieth century. This is its story, tracing the emergence of a modern China.
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This England
A celebration of Englishness in the sixteenth century. Appeals equally to students of early modern history and its literary culture, presenting a view of 'Tudor England' and offering a firmer historical background to evaluating the English Renaissance.
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The Influence of José da Silva Lisboa’s Journalism on the Independence of Brazil (1821-1822)
This work analyses the influence of the publications from 1821–1822 written by José da Silva Lisboa, the future Viscount of Cairu, on the events that led to the independence of Brazil in 1822.
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Iron Men
A nuts and bolts history of engineering enterprise in the first half of the nineteenth century, based on the life and work of Henry Maudslay and his followers
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Blood on the Stone
'Blood on the Stone' is a gripping account of the cartel, warlords, gun runners and shadowy traders who populated Africa’s bloody diamond wars, and the faltering, decade-long effort to clean up an entire industry.
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Dispossession and the Making of Jedda
Dispossession and the Making of Jedda (1955)' brings together a history of race relations, pastoral boom and film-making. It is a personal account of coming to terms with a history of dispossession and colonial power relations in a place that has offered the author a strong sense of belonging and...
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American Arabists in the Cold War Middle East, 1946–75
This book examines US State Department’s Middle East area experts during the Cold War, known as Arabists or Middle East hands, showing how their backgrounds and education differed crucially from that of their predecessors. This study focuses on these individuals’ transformative role in US foreign...
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Banned Books and Counterfeit Notes
This study examines how convicts sent to France’s most notorious penal colony in French Guiana would use the colonial postal system to document and challenge lived experiences of transportation and forced labour.
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Austria Supreme (if it so Wishes) (1684): 'A Strategy for European Economic Supremacy’
‘Austria Supreme, if It So Wishes (1684)’ provides a scholarly introduction to the Austrian-German mercantilist classic ‘Oesterreich über Alles Wann es Nur Will’ (1684) by Philipp Wilhelm von Hörnigk.
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The many lives of corruption
This edited collection provides a uniquely expansive history of how corruption has undermined and exercised public life in modern Britain, from the mid-eighteenth century to the mid-twentieth. It provides the first account that pays equal attention to the successes and limitations of anticorrupti...
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The debate on the decline of Spain
Looks at when, why and how Spain declined in status from its pre-eminent position as a leading world power in the seventeenth century, examining the methodologies and schools of inquiry that have shaped the discourse and how historians’ perceptions have been influenced by time and circumstance.
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The supernatural in early modern Scotland
This book is a collection of chapters on supernatural belief and practice in Scotland between 1500 and 1800. It deals with elite culture – from political prophecy to astrology, theology and poetic visions. And it deals with popular culture – from trances and visionary encounters with ghosts and f...
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Developing Africa
Investigates development in British, French and Portuguese colonial Africa during the last decades of colonial rule
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War and welfare
This book examines the experiences of the millions of service dependents created by total war, particularly those of men taken captive in both Europe and the Far East.
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Money in the medieval English economy 973–1489
The importance of money as one of the key variables in the workings of the medieval economy is often overlooked. This new study first provides the reader with a background to the problems of modelling the medieval economy and the value of the Fisher equation of exchange to monetary historians, to...
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My Voice: Peter Adler
Peter'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. Peter Adler was born in Berlin, escaped to England with his family in 1938 and was evacuated during the Blitz. He later became a doctor...
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Ireland in crisis
This book presents new research on a crucial period in Irish history, looking at how individuals and institutions responded to an unprecedented crisis in church and state. It provides perspectives on the roles of English intervention, Confederate politics and the Catholic and Protestant churches,...
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My Voice: Gisela Feldman
Gisela'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. Gisela Feldman grew up in Berlin, escaped Germany on the SS St Louis, a liner bound for Cuba, but finally found refuge in England, whe...
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Indispensable immigrants
Indispensable immigrants recreates the world of peasants who streamed into the cities of late-medieval and early modern northern Italy to carry crushingly heavy containers of wine. Written in an easily accessible and unassuming style, it is solidly grounded in previously untapped archival and vis...
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Catholic police officers in Northern Ireland
Explores historically the problematic relationship between Catholics and the police in Northern Ireland. Using strong, empirical evidence from the frank, personal stories of Catholic police officers the study questions whether the PSNI is likely to succeed where the RUC failed in delivering polic...
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Church polity and politics in the British Atlantic world, <i>c</i>. 1635–66
This volume explores church polity and its relationship to politics in the British Atlantic world during the mid-seventeenth century. It addresses the conflicts between church and state, the ecclesial factions of episcopalianism, presbyterianism and congregationalism and the effects of these conf...
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The anxiety of sameness in early modern Spain
The author examines a very broad range of fiction and non fiction works, many relatively unknown, to analyse how discourses about non-elites, conversos and moriscos, reveal anxieties in their Old Christian readers and authors.
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Contesting home defence
Contesting home defence is a new history of the Home Guard, a novel national defence force of the Second World War composed of civilians who served as part-time soldiers: it questions accounts of the force and the war, which have seen them as symbols of national unity. It scrutinises the Home Gua...
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Witchcraft and Whigs
The first detailed account of the life and work of Bishop Francis Hutchinson (1660-1739), author of one of the most important witchcraft texts of the early modern period, An historical essay concerning witchcraft (1718). This work has captivated readers for centuries and still a vital source for ...
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Exploring Russia in the Elizabethan commonwealth
Concentrates on the fascinating life and work of Giles Fletcher, the elder (1546–1611) and his analysis of government and commonwealth, through the image of Russia. His account of Russia remains the most comprehensive early modern western European account of the 'barbaric' land on Christendom’s b...
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Violent Victorians
First book to bring together the wide range of violent entertainments that characterised popular culture in nineteenth-century London and seriously assesses their origins, functions and impact. Draws upon the methodologies of social and cultural history to better understand the texture of Victori...
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My Voice: Ruth Edwards
Ruth'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. Ruth Edwards escaped to England during World War II, which meant a difficult separation from her parents. She went on settle in Manchest...
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My Voice: Ruth Lachs
Ruth'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. Ruth Lachs began life in Hamburg in 1936 and went on to live in Manchester and work in healthcare.
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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.
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Ordering Africa
provides the first comparative overview of the role of anthropology in colonial Africa. With essays exploring metropolitan research institutes, Africans as ethnographers and the transnational features of knowledge production, this volume both consolidates and extends a range of new research quest...
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Francophone Africa at fifty
Explores the complexities of France's role in Africa over the past century
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The souls of white folk
A striking new interpretation of white settlement in early colonial Kenya
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Conflict, Politics and Proselytism
An exploration of Methodist missionaries working in Upper Burma between 1887 and 1966
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Trials of the self
Duellists, drunks and remorseful murderers populate Trials of the self, which highlights the criminal court as a space for publicising and negotiating models of the self. Using criminal trial records, the book argues that inner depth became increasingly important around 1800, not only for elites,...
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My Voice: Henry Monath
Henry'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. Henry Monath was born in Kraków, and his mother arranged escape to England for Henry and his sister. He experienced the war in Manchest...
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Disability in the Industrial Revolution
This book asks what happened to disabled people during industrialization by examining the experiences of those disabled in the coal industry. It presents new perspectives on disabled people’s working lives in the past, and for the first time places disabled people at the heart of the story of Bri...
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Red closet
Based on unique and previously undiscovered sources, this is the first book to tell the story of the oppression of LBGT people in the USSR.
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My Voice: Sonja Sternberg
Sonja'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. Sonja Sternberg was born in Berlin. Her family escaped Germany in 1939 by sailing to Cuba but their ship was turned away. Eventually, S...
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Dangerous amusements
Drawing on an extensive range of sources, from newspapers and institutional records to oral histories and autobiography, Dangerous amusements explores the beginnings of a distinct youth culture in the streets and neighbourhood spaces of late nineteenth and early twentieth century Britain.
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Child, nation, race and empire
In the second half of the nineteenth century, prominent English child rescuers, reconstituted the vulnerable body of the child at risk as central to the survival of nation, race and empire. The book explains how the project contributed to the neglect and abuse disclosed in recent enquiries into t...
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Redefining the French Republic
Redefining the French Republic is an innovative work. Explicitly adopting a multidisciplinary approach, the book investigates continuity and change in contemporary French politics, society and culture.
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In the club
A comprehensive examination of social clubs across South Asia
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Falling from grace
This original new study examines how members of the English medieval nobility and their families fell from position and power in the period 1075-1455. Based on extensive research in chronicle, administrative, artistic and other interdisciplinary sources, the study spans from the Earls’ Revolt of...
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Genteel women
This book examines the transfer and adaptation of British female gentility in various locations across the British Empire, including Africa, New Zealand and India, as expressed through their personal and household possessions, specifically their dress, living rooms, gardens and food.
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Aesthetics and subjectivity
Reconsiders the path of German philosophy from Kant to Nietzsche, in relation to consciousness, aesthetics and language. The book traces the beginning of modern debates on aesthetics and politics, as well as hermeneutics, paying attention to the significance of music in modern philosophy.
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My Voice: Werner Conn
Werner'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. Werner Conn spent his early childhood in Berlin and was sent to the UK on the Kindertransport when life became very difficult for Jews...
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Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy and the Victorian Feminist Movement
This book provides the first full-length biography of Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy (1833–1918) – someone referred to among contemporaries as ‘the grey matter in the brain’ of the late-Victorian women’s movement.
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Jews and other foreigners
Drawing on a wide range documentary and oral sources, including interviews with refugees, this book explores the responses in Manchester to those threatened by the rise of Fascism in Europe.
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Doubtful and dangerous
Examines the pivotal influence of the succession question on the politics, religion and culture of the post-Armada years of Queen Elizabeth’s reign
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Negotiating relief and freedom
This book investigates both short- and long-term responses to disaster in the British Caribbean. It is the first to examine the informal negotiations that took place on the ground between the colonial authorities and the African-Caribbean population, and the formal negotiations undertaken by colo...
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Martial masculinities
This collection explores the role of martial masculinities in shaping nineteenth-century British culture and society.
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Moving Stories
This is a unique collaboration between a historian and four ordinary women who were extraordinary letters-writers, family photographers and memoirists. Taken together, these stories enrich and complicate our understanding of key themes in twentieth century British and Australian women’s history.
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Working-class writing and publishing in the late twentieth century
From the early 1970s, working class writing and publishing in local communities rapidly proliferated into a national movement. This book is the first full evaluation of these developments and opens up new perspectives on literature, culture, class and identity over the past 50 years.
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Understanding the imaginary war
Presents a comparative overview of the cultural imaginations of nuclear weapons and the anticipation of nuclear destruction. It considers representations of elements of the Cold War in popular culture and thought across Europe, Japan, USSR and the USA, providing a significant addition to Cold Wa...
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British imperialism in Cyprus, 1878–1915
This book explores the tensions underlying British imperialism in Cyprus, explaining how the Union Jack came to fly over the island and why after thirty-five years the British wanted it lowered. Cyprus’ importance was always more imagined than real and was enmeshed within widely held cultural sig...
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Hard sell
Hard sell explores advertising in Britain in the 1950s and 60s through extensive new archival research in Britain and America, combining the study of business practices with analysis of television and press advertisements.
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Sport and physical culture in Occupied France
Sport and physical culture in Occupied France is a scholarly and readable account of French sport during the Vichy regime. It explores two competing phenomena: the state’s promotion of physical culture to rehabilitate French people during the Occupation and athletes’ and sporting associations’ us...
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