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A history of English-speaking social democracy, 1880–2025
This book traces the evolution of social democratic thinking, leading towards the conclusion that fraternity is the key concept underlying the ideology of social democracy in the English-speaking world.
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Ultra-left aesthetics
This volume examines radical art practices across global contexts since the 1960s, proposing ‘ultraleft aesthetics’ as a framework for understanding art as direct political action shaped by collective praxis, social movements and counter-hegemonic visual strategies.
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Precarious objects
This is a timely exploration of the traffic between design and activism in the context of precarity – a social and material condition brought about by the growth of temporary, informal and irregular work. The book shows how design objects and practices open up possibilities to recode and reconfig...
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D.H. Lawrence and nineteenth-century French literature
This book offers a new perspective on Lawrence’s writing of sex and the body, arguing that he found precedents in French literature. This intercultural connection permits a queering of Lawrence’s work, as his depictions of sexual transgression and gender nonconformity are explored through compara...
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Gothic slavery
This book explores how British and Black Atlantic writers used the Gothic to represent slavery, rebellion and emancipation, revealing how the genre shaped evolving ideas of race, revolution and reform across the Atlantic world during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
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Atmospheres and activism
Left solidarity inevitably fails women of colour activists. This book examines how women of colour navigate, resist and transform this failure.
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Henry Irving in America
Sir Henry Irving pioneered North American touring by a British actor-manager, taking his Lyceum company, scenery and effects across the Atlantic from 1883 to 1904. This book explores the tours’ artistic, financial and cultural impact, Irving and Ellen Terry’s acting, and their place in transatlan...
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Romanticism and Julia Margaret Cameron’s photographic vision
This book reinterprets Julia Margaret Cameron’s photography through Romantic philosophy, showing how her images function as a form of visual thought that reimagines selfhood, spirituality and artistic practice in response to nineteenth-century debates about modernity.
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Plays and performance texts by women volume II
This volume brings together early twentieth-century plays by women that stage the politics of inequality, combining suffrage drama with works addressing labour, domestic life and civic exclusion across the Edwardian period and the First World War.
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The demonic and the dead
The Demonic and the Dead is the first book-length study to survey the importance of diabolical ideas to continuing belief in ghosts in early modern England. It focuses on the form the ghost took, the emotional response it supposedly engendered, and the ways in which these factors were shaped by t...
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Dreamlands of post-communist capitalism
This book develops a comprehensive and critical political economy account of ‘post-communist’ transformations in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
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The promise of green
An ethnographic analysis of European forests as political-ecological formations, examining governance, policy, and contested forest practices across diverse contexts to advance anthropological approaches to forest management, environmental change, and green transitions.
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Crypto crises
Crypto crises examines the real social impact of cryptocurrency, exposing how an industry built on promises of decentralisation and freedom is deepening inequality, fuelling exploitation, and reshaping power in the digital age.
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Palestinians in a post-national world
The book is a highly critical account of the Palestinian struggle for dignity against the violent and genocidal policies of the Israeli state.
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Critical Theory and the sociology of law
This book presents a new reading of Critical Theory, assessing the implications of Critical Theory for research in the sociology of law. It reconstructs Critical Theory by integrating ideas borrowed from the phenomenology of violence.
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Imperial steam
Imperial steam explores the early history of a steamship route which was at the heart of the functioning of the British Empire. More so than the practical changes wrought by steam, the book argues that the modernity associated with the steamship provided a powerful imaginative frame of reference ...
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The misogynists
This deeply researched book exposes the misogyny of six key modernist artists and explores how it shaped their art. It also looks at how that art has been received and preserved by museums and galleries and considers the wider cultural effects.
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Meter and meaning
This book examines how Shakespeare used meter and rhythm to shape meaning in the sonnets, combining close literary analysis with linguistic and statistical methods to reveal the expressive possibilities of poetic form.
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French popular cinema of the 1950s
This book reassesses French popular cinema of the 1950s, showing how collaborative filmmaking, genre experimentation and technological innovation enabled mainstream films to engage critically with postwar history, politics and gender despite censorship and material constraints.
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Football and climate change
This book is the first in-depth academic effort to explore football’s role in causing climate change, as well as its potential to address it. Football matters as an industry, but above all, as culture. The book explores how sustainability is understood in football, as well as how that needs to ch...
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Amal, Hezbollah, and Political Shi’ism in Lebanon
This book provides an in-depth account of intra-Shi'i political dynamics in Lebanon between 1982 and 2022.
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Craft in extremis
This volume examines how craft operated as a means of survival, rehabilitation and identity-making in contexts of war and displacement between 1890 and 1950, highlighting its cultural, economic and emotional significance in extreme conditions.
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Dirtbag dreams
Dirtbag dreams explores the rise of mountain, ultra and trail running from niche pastime to mainstream sport. Tracing 200 years of history, Carl Morris uncovers eccentric origins, iconic races and vibrant personalities. A must-read for anyone fascinated by the culture, evolution, and endurance of...
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Ageing radically
This thoughtful book looks at later life through a political lens, laying out a blueprint for ageing radically.
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The climate endgame
This bold and original book argues we have already entered the climate endgame and offers a map for navigating the world that awaits us.
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The Peak District
This book offers an unusual tour of the Peak District, exploring the strangeness of this remarkably varied landscape and discovered unusual kids of beauty.
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Mrs Dalloway
Mrs Dalloway: Biography of a novel offers readers new to Virginia Woolf a lively introduction to this timeless classic, while providing established lovers with a wealth of information about the novel’s writing, publication and reception.
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Ways of meaning
Ways of meaning presents short essays on the vocabulary of art and technology by female artists and scholars from around the world. Each contribution focuses on one word, ranging from aesthetics to worldbuilding.
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Courting Disaster
Drawing parallels with the #MeToo movement, this book explores how a series of brilliant female authors in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries cleverly used the novel as a vehicle for ground-breaking discussions about consent.
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Libraries gave us power
This book tells the story of how trade unions fought to expand education in Britain from the nineteenth-century to the present day.
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The knowledge broker
This is the first biography of Sir Howard Bernstein, chief executive of Manchester City Council from 1998 to 2017. It reveals the remarkable role he played in the city's revival and offers insights into leadership and power.
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How AI will revolutionise banking
When ChatGPT was launched in November 2022, it captured the imagination of the public as well as leading companies, including the banking sector. But as people explored ChatGPT they soon found flaws. Lawyers and judges realised they had relied on non-existent case law. Others discovered that Chat...
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The street that changed the world
This book tells the many stories of Manchester's Oxford Road, the street that made the modern world.
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Punk rock ruined my life
John Robb has been at the forefront of musical culture since the 1980s. In this compelling memoir, he looks back on a life lived through and for music.
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Manchester must dance
A gripping memoir of Mike Pickering's five decades in the music industry, which saw him DJing at the Haçienda, signing Happy Mondays and James to Factory Records and selling millions of albums with his band M People.
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Rebecca
Rebecca: Biography of a novel offers readers new to Daphne du Maurier a lively introduction to this timeless classic, while providing established lovers with a wealth of information about the novel’s writing, publication and reception.
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The land we are
This philosophical travelogue offers new ways of understanding human beings' relationship with the land.
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Drifting north
Scotland is closely tied to climate change and fossil capitalism, having played a pivotal role in its spread. Journalist Dominic Hinde travels between its Highlands, islands and cities, drawing parallels between his personal recovery and the uncertain transition from fossil fuels. He asks: can pa...
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James Baldwin Review
James Baldwin Review (JBR) is an annual journal that brings together a wide array of peer-reviewed critical and creative work on the life, writings, and legacy of James Baldwin. This edition brings together all of the articles published in this year's volume.
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Control, shift, govern
Control, shift, govern responds to growing calls to rethink the role of the state in an era of digital transformation, shedding light on the future of governance and the increasingly mediated relationships between governments and society.
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Besieged by sanctions
Besieged by sanctions: everyday encounters with economic warfare brings together sixteen original contributions examining Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Nicaragua, North Korea, Palestine, South Africa, South Sudan, Venezuela, Zimbabwe, and global capitalist markets, to better understand what sanctions...
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Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 102/1
The Bulletin of the John Rylands Library is a long-running journal that publishes research complementary to the John Rylands Library’s extensive special collections.
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Claude Autant-Lara
The first English-language study of Claude Autant-Lara, analysing his films, authorship, stylistic practice and reception while addressing the links between his work, his contentious personality and his later political views.
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Identity in Pakistan’s foreign policy
This book on Pakistan’s foreign policy examines how Islamic identity, alongside security and economic interests, shapes diplomacy. By foregrounding religion and the Ummah, it challenges geopolitics-first accounts and highlights the power of ideas in international relations.
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Inside Independent Producers Limited
Independent Producers Limited (IPL), a major British film group of the 1940s behind classics like The Blue Lagoon and Caesar and Cleopatra, remains largely overlooked in film history. Using unseen business records, this book reveals how IPL operated, reshaping its role and significance in British...
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Surrealist women artists and mental illness
Surrealists idealized feminine madness for its purportedly unfettered access to the unconscious. At the same time, an unusually large number of surrealist women artists, including Leonora Carrington and Frida Kahlo, experienced mental illness. Die these women find the dream of feminized, mad geni...
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Straight nation
Straight Nation dissects nationalism in postcolonial Singapore, exposing its reliance on the governance of sexuality. Dispelling liberal ideas of the nation, the book highlights nationalism's threatening nature and calls for an expansive, non-identarian approach to dismantling the entrenched hete...
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Twenty-five years of policing in Northern Ireland
A critical examination of the radical reform of policing in Northern Ireland after the Belfast-Good Friday Agreement and in the context of wider efforts at establishing peace, legitimacy and stability.
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Modern Carmelite nuns and contemplative identities
This book examines how modern Catholic contemplative nuns in the Netherlands envisioned their spirituality, offering a contextualised exploration of the discourses they adopted to shape their identity as a female spiritual elite in a male-dominated church and society.
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Radicalisation
This vital work deconstructs radicalisation's global dynamics. Radicalisation: A critical and integrated perspective challenges existing biases, offering original insights into its associations with identity, race, ethnicity, and effective 'bottom-up' counter-strategies.
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Outsiders, outcasts and eccentrics
The book explores the relationship between deviance, medicine, and experience in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. By discussing the potential of the novel concept of communities of experience, the book highlights the historical processes of defining and negotiating deviance.
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Viewing the asylum
Viewing the asylum takes readers into the Georgian and Regency asylum for the first time. Exploring how past cultures managed, navigated and responded to the display of mental illness, Jamieson sheds essential light on the politics and practices of late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century asy...
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Responding to the Jacobite threat
This book examines how various states and governments collectively responded to the Jacobite threat during the long eighteenth century. It emphasises the strategies and methods employed to dismantle Jacobitism and prevent a Jacobite restoration, thereby ensuring the Protestant Succession and the ...
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The reformation of the heathen
A study of the Biblical ‘heathen’ idea in the religious culture of the Protestant Atlantic world, illuminating its role as a catalyst of reformation, colonisation and evangelism in early modern England, Ireland, Virginia and New England.
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The Comedy of Errors
This book offers a comprehensive performance history of The Comedy of Errors, examining how stage, screen and musical adaptations from the eighteenth century to today have reshaped Shakespeare’s farce in response to changing ideas of comedy, identity and social difference.
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Hybrid healing
This book works from the premise that the tremendous diversity of Old English medical texts requires an equally diverse range of interpretative methodologies. Taking a case study approach, it offers close readings tailored to individual remedies, drawing from biology, rhetoric, archaeology, folkl...
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Legible bodies
This study examines dress, appearance and the female body in Victorian literature and women’s magazines, showing how sartorial detail shaped representations of sexuality, selfhood and social critique across realist fiction and wider visual and material culture.
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Crises, capitalist governance and the critique of liberalism
Ruling the Ruins explores the challenges of capitalist governance in light of the intensifying economic-social-environmental disasters we face.
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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...
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Anarchist writing in the contemporary United States
This book frames U.S. anarchism since the 1970s as a vitally important site of subversive literary production. It develops an innovative critical mode aligned with anarchist commitments, in which anarchist writers’ refusal of representation, and their preference for direct action, come to the fore.
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Histories of disability and emotions
This global volume shows how emotions—from pain to pride—have shaped disability and been skilfully used by disabled people across history. Spanning eras from the early modern period to today, it reveals emotion as both a force that defines disability and a tool for resistance and change.
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Imaginative pasts
Imaginative pasts explores how imagination permeates the researching and writing of history. It positions ‘thinking’ with the imagination as a central but often overlooked element of historical understanding.
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Citizen as diplomat
Citizen as Diplomat examines the role of private citizens in conducting diplomacy and influencing international relations, a departure from the conventional understanding of diplomacy as the exclusive domain of state representatives.
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Tigers and the imperial imagination
A study of British and French imperial cultures from 1700–2000, analysing how stories and representations of tigers in science, art, hunting, and state documents shaped understandings of nature, authority, and empire across European–Asian networks.
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The Gulf monarchies and Turkey
This book explores the relations between GCC states and Turkey during the Syrian civil war and the subsequent period following the collapse of the Bashar al-Assad regime by the end of 2024.
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Passages
This book is a multi-genre and transdisciplinary text that invites inquiry into today’s apocalyptic narratives, humanitarian reason, and international criminal justice regimes, as well as the precarity generated by citizen time and 'consulate time'.
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Imitating nature
A study of how non-remnant animal representations in natural history museums mediate extinction, construct exhibition narratives and reshape understandings of non-human life through case studies spanning contemporary museums and digital media.
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Narrative painting in nineteenth-century Europe
How do pictures tell stories? This ground-breaking book analyses visual narrative in nineteenth-century history and genre paintings across Europe. It reveals how artists constructed plots via objects, managing the tension between narrative and style and prompting viewers to weave their own tales.
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Evidence for transformative policymaking
This textbook offers a unique, practical guide to using quantitative evidence for transformative policymaking in an era of crisis. Written by the Common Sense Policy Group at Northumbria University, it combines economic microsimulation, public opinion research and narrative persuasion to address ...
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Multiple and One
This book examines queer and trans* global art practices through creolization, opacity and curatorial knowledge-making, offering decolonising approaches to art history across transcultural contexts from South Florida to Europe, the Americas and east Asia.
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Joseph Priestley and the rhetoric of Dissent
This study reassesses Joseph Priestley’s career by situating the 1791 Birmingham riots within wider Enlightenment debates, offering an interdisciplinary analysis of Dissent, metaphor and intellectual culture across Britain and the early United States.
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Complaints
A new edition of Spenser’s Complaints, with unrivalled critical apparatus and a reassessment of these fascinating poems.
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Being Catholic in post-Reformation England
As a study of the role of life-writing in the conduct of religious dispute amongst English Catholics, and in the formation of the religious and political identity of English Catholicism in the period down to 1640, the book seeks to place life-writing and memory at the centre of the post-Reformati...
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Labour, mobility and learning to be local
Drawing upon ethnographic observations and interviews with over 90 workers in Jordan, this book reveals how aid-as-work constructs and produces concurrent, polarised understandings of ‘the local’ that workers literally learn on-the-job.
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Technology, health, and the patient consumer in the twentieth century
This book examines the little explored relationship between a variety of medical, informational, and health technologies and patients’ roles as consumers from the early twentieth century to the present. It shows how patients as consumers have shaped such technologies, and equally, how technology ...
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Reimagining Britishness
This volume explores the evolving concept of Britishness, examining how the nation has been imagined across time through diverse sources and interdisciplinary perspectives. It highlights the entangled temporalities of the past, present, and future, offering critical insights into the complex dyna...
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The nineteenth-century present
This collection explores how a range of nineteenth-century authors, from their own historically contingent perspectives, were concerned with many of the same issues as scholars today looking back at the nineteenth century.
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We all die at the end
As the ravages of climate change throw our future into question, many of our stories are turning to the subject of extinction. This book is about what they are saying and why it demands our attention.
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Reformed identity and conformity in England, 1559–1714
This volume is the first collection of essays to focus specifically on how Reformed theology and ecclesiology related to one of the most consequential issues between the Elizabethan Settlement (1559) and the Hanoverian Succession (1714), namely conformity to the Church of England.
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Reassembling the social interior
This book is an interdisciplinary intervention into the history of interiors and collections, museology, archaeology, architectural history, art, and design history, and demonstrates a range of innovative methods and approaches, useful to historians, curators, and custodians of historical sites, ...
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Nomadism in Afghanistan
This book unpacks one of the most complicated and forgotten conflicts with a long history: the nomad-sedentary conflict in Afghanistan that has been continued in the modern era accelerated by the state formation process.
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Proxy war in Afghanistan
This book is about proxy war and the politics of state-wrecking in Afghanistan and examines how proxy war undermined the US-led state-building project in Afghanistan.
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Higher education and the UN Sustainable Development Goals
Higher education’s role in the sustainability agenda is shifting. This volume examines how universities can move beyond SDG 4 to become transformative actors in addressing global ecological and social crises, offering perspectives from the Global North and South.
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Translating Petrarch in early modern Britain
This collection of essays explores the translation of Petrarch’s vernacular verse (Canzoniere and Triumphi) in early modern Britain, from the first Tudor translations to its many literary transformations and cultural re-appropriations in the Elizabethan and Stuart periods.
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Fertile expectations
An engaging history of motherhood, demography, and infertility in twentieth-century France, this book details the fraught political and cultural meanings attached to the notion of an “ideal” family size. The author situates fertility medicine, artificial insemination by donor, and child adoption ...
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Empathy industry
Empathy industry examines how global markets shape fiction about the Global South for Global North consumption. Through the case of the post-9/11 anglophone Pakistani novel, it offers a sharp critique of human rights storytelling with implications for world literature at large.
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Teenage intimacies
Based upon over 300 personal testimonies, the book traces the everyday experiences of teenage girls of the post-war period, illuminating how matters of romance, sex and intimacy shaped their young lives. In doing so, it reveals the pivotal role that young women played in changing English sexual c...
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Healers and politics in African history
This edited volume focuses on the under-researched topic of specialist healers as political actors and agents of change in African history, privileging a multi-disciplinary perspective on the complex dynamics of healing and politics across the continent during pre-colonial, colonial and post-colo...
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Screening Sherlock
A cultural history of Sherlock Holmes adaptations in film and television from early cinema to the present.
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Living Black at university
This book exposes the racism faced by Black students and staff in higher education. Bringing together voices from across the sector, it challenges universities to move beyond tokenistic diversity and take meaningful action towards anti-racist transformation.
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Live art, Scotland and the curation of culture
This book offers a critical history of live art in Scotland, tracing how artists, curators and organisations have created the infrastructures that support interdisciplinary and experimental performance across three decades of cultural change.
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Enid Marx’s material modern
This book reassesses Enid Marx’s patterns as sites of queer history, imperial modernity and material innovation, offering an archival and contextual study of her designs within interwar British culture, craft networks and racialised constructions of the ‘primitive’.
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Castle and city
This book explores Dublin Castle within its urban context, analysing how relations between Castle and city shaped governance, economy and culture in Dublin between 1801 and 1923, and situating the city among Europe’s secondary and stateless capitals.
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Material masculinities
This book explores men’s material culture and consumer behaviour in the rapid social and economic transformations of eighteenth-century England, arguing that men came to rely on their possessions to make sense of their identities during such significant historical changes.
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