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Wildly different
For millennia the ‘wild’ was a place heroic men went on epic quests. This book traces the lives of five women who fought against prejudice for their right to work in, enjoy and help save the earth’s wild places.
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Caroline Aherne
This book offers a touching tribute to the work of Caroline Aherne, whose unforgettable characters and ground-breaking programmes remain much-loved years after her untimely death.
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Privatising humanity
This short, powerful book exposes how our essential services have become the assets of international finance, with devastating implications for the future.
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What's in a name?
In What's in a name?, historian Susan Amussen traces William Shakespeare's life through early modern England to show how a glover's son could have become the world's greatest author.
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Between the salt and the ash
Jake Morris-Campbell sets out on a pilgrimage from Lindisfarne to Durham Cathedral, exploring thirteen-hundred years of social change and asking what stories the North East can tell about itself in the wake of Christianity and coal.
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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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The poetry of suicide
Interweaving stories of poets who took their own lives with the long history of suicide in his own family, J. T. Welsch reveals how poetry can help us to understand and come to terms with these difficult deaths.
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Downward spiral
This book draws on the author's expertise as a KC and original interviews with political insiders to tell the story of declining ethical standards during the government of Boris Johnson and propose concrete reforms.
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Postcapitalist cities
Postcapitalist cities explores, analyses & celebrates how to transform cities into equitable, solarpunk, and community-driven spaces, challenging the dominance of capitalism, and highlights case studies from all corners of the globe.
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Order and rebellion
This book, written by two authors with longstanding familiarity with the party, provides an in-depth and nuanced analysis of the different managerial strategies pursued by three Labour leaders, Ed Miliband, Jeremy Corbyn and Keir Starmer, in the tumultuous years of opposition from 2010 to 2024.
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The Parliament of Bees
A critical edition of John Day’s The Parliament of Bees, with a photofacsimile and full diplomatic transcription.
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Political enthusiasm
This book traces the changing ways enthusiasm has been understood politically, exploring how political actors use enthusiasm to motivate allegiances, how we have come to think on the dangers of enthusiasm in democratic politics, and how else we might think about enthusiasm today.
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Approaches to emotion in Middle English literature
A significant new account of emotion in Middle English literature, proposing key methodologies for the analysis of feeling and affect in literary texts. It shows how contemporary audiences learned to understand emotion in themselves and others, through empathetic response, the development of fict...
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Humour, subjectivity and world politics
What can a turn to humour offer International Relations? This book suggests a focus on comic practice illuminates the relationship between global politics, culture and the everyday. It offers a theoretically rich examination of humour's contribution to the making and unmaking of subjectivity, ide...
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Artificial Intelligence and international security
Artificial Intelligence and International Security critically examines the rise of AI-driven Arms Races, exploring its ethical, legal, and security challenges while proposing solutions for responsible deployment and global stability.
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Latin America–European Union relations in the twenty-first century
A unique and worthwhile examination of EU relations with South America in the first decades of the twenty-first century, focusing in particular on the evolution of negotiations for new generation preferential trade agreements.
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The art of darkness
This is the first comprehensive history of goth music and culture. John Robb explores the origins and legacy of this enduring scene, which has its roots in the post-punk era.Drawing on his own experience as a musician and journalist, Robb covers the style, the music and the clubs that spawned got...
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emotions in liberal writing, c.1790–c.1920
This volume from a selection of distinguished international scholars is the first of its kind to explore in depth the emotional dimensions of liberal writing in Britain over the long nineteenth century. Addressing liberal writing in the public sphere rather than high political or parliamentary li...
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Vulnerability
This volume explores how the language of ‘vulnerability’ transforms social policy and national security programmes, through case studies drawn from Europe, Africa, North America and the Middle East.
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The Florentine florin
Locatelli revises our understanding of the leading currency of the Middle Ages, the florin, by investigating it as a medium with hitherto neglected political, social, and cultural dimensions in the interactions between the Florentine merchants, the Angevin Crown, and the Papacy.
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Solidarity: Nature, grounds, and value
Andrea Sangiovanni presents a ground-breaking essay on the important but contested concept of solidarity, which is then critiqued by a group of leading philosophers and political theorists.
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Showing resistance
This study charts how exhibitions were used for propaganda and political intervention during the two decades from 1933: giving urgent warnings against the rise of fascism, providing practical information about how to live frugally and signalling international political alignments, beliefs and aff...
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Researching animal research
Through a sustained and critical engagement with the histories, social relations and cultures surrounding animal research, this book asks what the sector can teach us about the relations between science, society and animals in the twenty-first century.
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Publics and their health
Why are some groups and individuals seen as problems for public health? How does this change over time and place? Through a series of case-studies, this collection explores the making of ‘problem publics’ and their relationship with public health authorities.
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Posters, protests, and prescriptions
The National Health Service determines how Britons receive healthcare. It is a source of national pride, a workplace and a symbol. This book explores how the cultural meanings of the NHS developed and changed since its foundation in 1948, shaped by activism, labour, consumerism, space and represe...
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Personalised cancer medicine
Bringing the experiences of patients, carers and practitioners to the fore, this book explores how individual and collective futures are crafted through their work and care. The authors chart the different kinds of care and work involved in efforts to personalise cancer medicine, as well as the w...
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Performing the jumbled city
Collectively written with indigenous artists and activists, this book engages with subversive representations of the (post)colonial city. At the intersection of ethnography, art, performance, and the urban space, the book elaborates on the epistemological and creative possibilities arising from c...
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Peace and the politics of memory
The book explores how the politics of memory impacts peace in societies transitioning from a violent past. It finds that three elements of memory politics – inclusivity, pluralism, and dignity – play a key role for a just peace.
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Motherhood confined
When we imagine life behind the high walls of the fortress-like prisons that were built and modified as the modern prison system was created in the mid-nineteenth century, we conjure up scenes where strict regulation prevailed to control people in body and in mind. An image that poses something o...
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Living the urban periphery
An empirically rich analysis of the drivers and lived experiences of urban change in African peripheries with a focus on city-regions in Ethiopia, South Africa and Ghana. The book proposes five peripheral logics which frame the formation and character of urban peripheries and explores these on th...
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Medical histories of Belgium
Medical histories of Belgium reshapes Belgian history of medicine by bringing together a new generation of scholars and engage with broader European developments in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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Histories of HIV/AIDS in Western Europe
This edited collection showcases exciting new work on lesser-known histories of HIV/AIDS, from the earliest days of the crisis to the present day. Focusing on regions of western Europe, it offers new perspectives on the development and implementation of policy, the nature of activism and expertis...
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Global counter-terrorism
This collection proposes a novel contribution to counterterrorism studies by challenging Eurocentrism and methodological nationalism in existing approaches. It explores how colonial epistemes shape everyday practices of counterterrorism.
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Forensic cultures in modern Europe
This book makes an important contribution to our knowledge of modern European forensic practices. It shows how the performance of forensic scientists has been shaped by political regimes, law and ideology, leading to different forensic cultures.
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Cold, hard steel
Cold, hard steel anatomises the surgical stereotype in modern and contemporary Britain. It offers a new social, cultural and emotional history of this specialty, explores the development of its professional identity and foregrounds experiences of surgeons at work.
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Assemblages of cancer
A qualitative, social science study using multi-sited ethnography and qualitative interviews with patients and medical professionals that analyses breast cancer experiences and how they are shaped by the interaction with biomedical, institutional and cultural contexts in the UK, France and Italy.
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Caryl Phillips, David Dabydeen and Fred D'Aguiar
This book focuses on representations of slavery in the works of contemporary British authors Caryl Phillips, David Dabydeen and Fred D’Aguiar, specifically exploring how racial anxieties in twenty-first century Britain may be seen as legacies of this largely ignored, but deeply significant, past.
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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.
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Vibes as value
Vibes as value explores the relationship between subjectivity, labour and value in the hospitality industry. It develops an approach to hospitality work as a form of affective labour that produces value in the form of ‘vibes’, showing how youth, gender, sexuality, race and social class are embodi...
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Creative research communication
Creative research communication provides a theoretically grounded introduction to a range of practical approaches to research engagement, as well as addressing emerging issues, such as inclusivity, professionalism and ethics.
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Medical care, humanitarianism and intimacy in the long Second World War, 1931-1953
This book explores underexamined sites of interactions and encounters between humanitarians and medical workers during the long Second World War (1931-1953).It traces circulations of humanitarian actors, knowledge, and practices across the world from a conflict to another. In doing so, it demonst...
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Unhappy mothers
How did the experiences and emotions of unhappy mothers come to light in postwar Britain? This history looks at the role of five communities in drawing attention to the struggles of early mothering, unpicking the professional, political and social motivations that drove efforts to break silences ...
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The first ordained women in the Church of Sweden
Based on the narratives of vocation and recognition of the first ordained women in the Church of Sweden, this book aims to complement and challenge standard historical accounts of a ground-breaking reform and contribute to the understanding of similar processes of change in other churches.
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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...
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Dancing through the dissonance
This book explores the relationship between peacebuilding and dance, including insights dance provides on key debates around peace and conflict.It investigates the application, practice, and analysis of a dance-focused peacebuilding programme and tells the important story of young people who enga...
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The anthropology of ambiguity
This is an anthropological exploration of the existential and philosophical qualities of ambiguity as a generative force of political and socio-cultural transformation in contemporary human life trajectories.
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Conceptualising China through translation
This book provides an innovative methodology for investigating how China has been conceptualised historically, tracing the development of four key concepts (filial piety, face, fengshui, and guanxi) in English and Chinese. It explores how specific ideas about the uniqueness of Chinese culture inf...
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Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 101/1
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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Lifework
This collection explores what Roland Barthes termed the ‘autobiographical turn’ in art, literature and critical theory since the mid-1960s. Through a variety of perspectives, it examines the relationship between work and life, notions of the ‘self’ and what autobiography might mean today.
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Sexual politics in revolutionary England
This book explores the sudden emergence of graphic sex-talk in English print culture during the events of the English Revolution (1640–60) and argues for the long-term significance of that development for the political culture of late Stuart England and beyond.
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Relics, dreams, voyages
This book presents a wide-ranging and original meditation on cartographies of connection in all the arts of the baroque period.
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Neither use nor ornament
Neither use nor ornament is a book about personal productivity, narrated from the perspective of its obstacles: clutter and procrastination. It offers a challenge to the self-help promise of a clutter-free life and unravels the moral narratives that hold individuals to account for their inefficie...
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British Bangladeshi Muslims in the East End
This book delves into an in-depth discussion around dress and languages and how they have shaped the changes in the British Bangladeshi Muslim community in the East End of London.
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Fantastic histories
Details the political and cultural contexts of the entry of fairies to the historical record in twelfth century England, and the subsequent political uses of fairy narratives in both insular and continental history and romance, revealing the fairy as a contested marker of historicity and fictiona...
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Italian graphic design
This book tells the story of graphic designers in Milan from the 1930s to the 1960s. Focusing on design education, everyday practice, organisational strategies, mediating channels and modernism, it contributes to our understanding of the role graphic design has played in the history of Italian vi...
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David, Donne, and Thirsty Deer
Essays by Anne Lake Prescott on French and English early modern writers and cultures, from Du Bellay to Spenser, Ronsard to Donne.
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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...
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Thomas Nashe and literary performance
Thomas Nashe is typically regarded as an urban author and a University wit, but his writings are inflected and shaped by regional travel, ‘non-literary’, non-elite works, and oral culture. The essays in this collection address Nashe’s use of the past, his engagement with the Elizabethan present, ...
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An empire of many cultures
Based upon original research and bringing to life the words and actions of Bahá’í, Muslim, and Jewish leaders during the early 20th century, this study sheds light on each found meaning and value in the diversity that characterised the British Empire, enabling the creation of relationships that w...
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The loneliness room
The loneliness room is a richly evocative account of loneliness as told through the photographs, videos, songs, poems, and writings supplied by its participants.
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The Cinema of Cecilia Bartolomé
Fusing a distinctive feminist aesthetics with a startling vision of twentieth-century Spain, the work of Cecilia Bartolomé casts a new light on the histories of both Spanish national film, and transnational women’s cinema. This book places Bartolomé among other key auteurs of national Spanish, an...
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Agents of European overseas empires
Agents of European overseas empires examines networks of trade and communication on a global scale whose activities enabled early modern European overseas empires.
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Gothic dreams and nightmares
This interdisciplinary text combines an attention to socio-historical and cultural contexts with a rigorous close reading of literary, artistic, and televisual works, both classic and lesser known. It investigates how the Gothic and the concepts of dreams and nightmares have intersected from the ...
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On trial
The book explores the early days of industry-sponsored clinical research in psychiatry. Examining how the clinic, patients, doctors, nursing staff, corporations, and authorities interacted, it reconstructs the experimental practices in a psychiatric hospital from 1940-80 whilst telling a larger s...
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Haunted Britain
Haunted Britain offers a new emotional and cultural history of the Great War as told through the spiritualist and psychical research movements between 1914 and 1939.
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The sociology of sovereignty
The book examines the intellectual history of the concept of sovereignty and argues that its essential value lies in its historical role as a political instrument to handle paradoxes of power.
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After the end
Through sources from literature and film to comics, music and the built environment across the globe, this work studies the enduring legacy of Cold War culture in current debates and concerns around risk, security, borders, environmental justice, inequality and apocalypse.
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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...
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Sir Philip Sidney: The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
This is an edition of Sir Philip Sidney’s New Arcadia in modern spelling that makes the text accessible through an enhanced glossary and expanded commentary covering book history, reception history, and Sidney’s contribution to the English language.
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Threads of globalization
Threads of globalization is an interdisciplinary volume that brings fashion-specific garments, motifs, materials, and methods of production—into dialogue with gender and identity in various cultures throughout Asia during the long twentieth century.
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At home with the poor
This book opens the doors to the homes of the forgotten poor and traces the goods they owned before, during and after the industrial revolution. Using a vast range of sources, it argues that the poor owned greater numbers and varieties of items with each generation and that poverty did not always...
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A book of monsters
This book presents a cultural history of Promethean Horror in the modern age, tracing the rise of a sub-genre of gothic fiction in the twentieth-century and examining post-modern revisions of Modernist “Promethean” tropes in an eclectic range of gothic, fantasy and SF writing.
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Inner empire
This book presents for the first time a coherent analysis of the British Isles as an imperial setting understood through its buildings, spaces, and infrastructure. It considers ‘internal’ colonisation and its infrastructures of order and suppression, alongside wider relationships between architec...
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Capitalism in contemporary Iran
The book situates Iran within the motions and tendencies of global capitalism and resulting geopolitics to analyse the process of Iranian neoliberalisation and its impacts on the reconfiguration of the ruling class; reshaping of the subaltern classes and their struggles; reorganisation of the for...
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The common writer in modern history
This edited collection focusses on the writing of ordinary, semi-literate people in history, emphasising the agency and voices of the subordinate classes and contesting conventional histories that treat them as passive or silent. It analyses ‘ordinary writings’ across a range of geographical area...
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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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The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia
This book provides a novel approach towards the urban life of working-class communities, using the example of Russia’s post-industrial cities. Focusing on the sensual, imaginary and practical aspects of everyday struggles, this approach helps explain how workers produce micro-change in urban spac...
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Fantasies of music in nostalgic medievalism
This book studies the ways in which three fields of creative activity inspired by the medieval – musical performance, literature, cinema and their reception – have worked together to produce and sustain the fantasy of a long-lost, long-mourned paradisal home.
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Exhibiting Irishness
This book uncovers that exhibitions uniquely reveal the changing landscape of Irishness over two centuries by analysing the politics of display. It demonstrates how questions of Irishness intersected with broader ideas of citizenship, race and ethnic construction in Ireland, the United Kingdom an...
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Thierry and Theodoret
This is the first fully annotated, single-volume critical edition of Fletcher, Massinger, and Field's Thierry and Theodoret, with an introduction that reassesses sources (including Shakespeare) and discusses the authorship and reception of this captivating play, pointing the way for future study,...
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Rethinking right-wing women
Rethinking Right-wing Women traces the mobilization of women for the UK Conservative Party from the period before their enfranchisement to Theresa May. As party workers and organisers, MPs and leaders, and as voters, women have been fundamental to the success of the Conservative Party.
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Feminist mental health activism in England, c. 1968-95
This book provides the first in-depth examination of feminist mental health activism in England from c.1968-1995. It explores how feminist activists initially rejected Freud before using psychoanalysis to enhance their politics; examines the development of feminist therapy; and charts the influen...
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Theatre, activism, subjectivity
In modern times of political confusion, when Leftist agendas and struggles often collapse or become appropriated by Right, this book stress the necessity of recovering the Leftist ethos of solidarity, social justice, and care for the commons.
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The spatiality and temporality of urban violence
This interdisciplinary edited volume studies practices and representations of urban violence from a spatiotemporal perspective. It discusses how the spatial and temporal characteristics of the urban can produce and shape violence, and how practices as well as memories of violence transform spatia...
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Law and healing
A critical and colourful commentary on the history of the fractious relationship between law and medicine over several centuries reveals compelling stories how law regulated healers and healing . Any view that the law consistently deferred to medical practitioners is shown to be wrong. From th...
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Witchcraft narratives in Germany
Looks at why witch-trials failed to gain momentum and escalate into 'witch-crazes' in certain parts of early modern Europe. Exames the rich legal records of the German city of Rothenburg ob der Tauber, a city which experienced a very restrained pattern of witch-trials and just one execution for w...
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Herminie and Fanny Pereire
This book, a companion to the author's acclaimed Emile and Isaac Pereire (2015), sheds new light on elite Jewish families in nineteenth-century France.
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Mid-century women's writing
This book re-examines British women’s writing in the mid-century and its relationship to public and domestic spaces.
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Decolonizing images
Decolonizing images focuses on Egypt’s local visual heritage and continues the urgent process of decolonizing the canon of photography. It presents a new account of the visual cultures produced and exhibited in Egypt by interpreting the camera’s ability to conceal as much as it reveals in a compl...
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Anticlerical legacies
This book offers a new study of Hobbes’s reception among seventeenth- and eighteenth- century deists and freethinkers, showing how influential Hobbes was for anticlerical thinking through a close analysis of the works of a large number of writers, including Charles Blount, John Toland, Antony Col...
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Jewish refugees and the British nursing profession
This book bears witness to the personal experiences of Jewish refugees from Nazi Europe in the highly gendered profession of nursing.
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Pierrot and his world
The stock theatrical character Pierrot is an enduring figure in French visual art, where he emerges at the intersection of theatricality and the marketplace. This book offers an account of Pierrot’s recurrence in painting, prints, photography and film, tracing this distinctive type from the art o...
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Premodern ruling sexualities
This book brings together a range of methodological approaches to highlight royal and elite sexualities – the sexualities of rulers, and those who were ruled by their sexualities – and how these case studies might contribute to our broader knowledge of premodern gender and sexualities.
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Pasticcio opera in Britain
This study overturns twentieth-century thinking about pasticcio opera, redefining it as method not genre, and recontextualising it among many artforms which created new works from pre-existing parts. Its history is interwoven with society’s transition from a predominantly oral to literate culture...
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Prussians, Nazis and Peaceniks
In this book, historians and political scientists show how radically external images of Germany changed over the 20th century, from the ‘Prussian military state’ to the ‘bulwark of liberalism.’ They also explore how such images of Germany affected the evolution of international relations theory a...
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Protestant missionary children's lives, c.1870-1950
Protestant missionary children’s historical lives are examined from the perspectives of parents, churches and children, to reveal complicated existences. This book takes a comparative approach across a range of settings, drawing on oral history, childhood history and histories of emotion. It exte...
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National perspectives on a multipolar order
This book explores how the concept of a multipolar order is being used for different purposes in different national contexts. It examines the ways that debates about power and order in the world are shaping the policies of rising and established powers alike.
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