How medieval English towns built, sustained, and reimagined the lifelines of urban life. In the bustling market towns and growing cities of medieval England between 1200 and 1600, public works were the lifelines of urban society. In Urban...Loe edasi...
Following the passage of the 1834 New Poor Law, parishes in England and Wales were organized into unions, each of which had at least one workhouse, a public institution where impoverished individuals and families were housed, fed, and put to work. B...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526198099)
In 1975 the UK voted yes, by 67, to the European Community (EC). Since 1 January 1973, when the UK first joined, Edward Heath and Harold Wilson sought a fundamental transformation of the UKs relationship with the EC in terms of membership and pu...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526198013)
Survival Capitalism is a cultural history of the 1980s financial revolution. It ranges in scope across the Thatcher government, the Bank of England, London Stock Exchange and member firms, and Lloyds of London. It offers timely new perspectives on t...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526197979)
For the Victorian working class, lodging in someone elses home was commonplace. Drawing on hundreds of coroners inquests reported in the Victorian press, Living with lodgers traverses Englands domestic dwelling lodgings, providing an intimate portra...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781807070410)
Using a micro-historical approach, this book explores how the culture of covenanting shaped lived experiences and communities in seventeenth-century Scotland and offers a more complete understanding of protestant identity in the early modern Atlan...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526199775)
This volume explores the shifting nature of anti-racism in Britain through 11 illuminating case studies. Together, they highlight the tensions between solidarity and paternalism, demonstrate the interplay between local, national and transnational fo...Loe edasi...
An overview of the early years of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI), highlighting the debates about how far the organisation should be self-supporting or state-funded....Loe edasi...
This text offers a comprehensive and tightly focused account of the emergence and flourishing of British modern-life paintings at midcentury....Loe edasi...
In the wake of both Joycean and Dantean celebrations, this volume aims to investigate the fecund influence of Italian culture on Samuel Becketts work, with a specific focus on the Twentieth Century....Loe edasi...
Edinburghs Unruly Women examines experiences of church discipline across parish communities through Edinburgh and its environs. The book argues that experiences of discipline were not universal, varying according to any number of factors such as ag...Loe edasi...
This book explores the major political debates in England during the final decades of the eighteenth century, a period when responses to the American and French Revolutions were a major concern and the entire future of public life in England was in...Loe edasi...
The funeral of Paddy Dignam in James Joyces Ulysses serves as the pivotal event of the Hades episode. This volume explores how Dignams interment in Glasnevin Cemetery allowed Joyce the freedom to consider the conventions, rituals and superstitions a...Loe edasi...
This book provides readers with the first biography in English on Leonor of England, bringing to life an understudied figure who has been overshadowed by her famed parents and brothers. Leonor, or Eleanor, was queen consort of Castile (1170-1214), t...Loe edasi...
This book provides readers with the first biography in English on Leonor of England, bringing to life an understudied figure who has been overshadowed by her famed parents and brothers. Leonor, or Eleanor, was queen consort of Castile (1170-1214), t...Loe edasi...
This study emphasizes the legacies of British internationalism in the international organizations of the twentieth century while examining British responses to the end of the British Empire....Loe edasi...
This book offers the first major analysis of William Wilberforce’s clerical networks, demonstrating that while a devoted Anglican, he was deeply intertwined with evangelicals of various ecclesiastical traditions. This book offers th...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: William Collins, ISBN-13: 9780008743246)
From awe-inspiring Norman castles, to the homes we live in, Simon Thurley explores how the architecture of this small island influenced the world....Loe edasi...
Lady Charlotte Susan Maria Bury née Campbell is one of the most influential womens rights activists of the 19th century. The Divorced has been out of circulation in the UK for almost two centuries; this new edition redefines her work not as silver-f...Loe edasi...
A tribute to the distinguished diplomatic historian, Professor Michael Dockrill (1936-2018), this collection provides a comprehensive overview of the field of twentieth-century British foreign and strategic policy. With contributions from the most e...Loe edasi...
A tribute to the distinguished diplomatic historian, Professor Michael Dockrill (1936-2018), this collection provides a comprehensive overview of the field of twentieth-century British foreign and defence policy. With contributions from the most est...Loe edasi...
This book breaks new ground by exploring regional scenes beyond London during the years 1965 to 1975. Whilst many accounts of this era have tended to focus on the Capital, John Griffiths journeys beyond its boundaries to assess how far the cultures...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198821458)
The index volume of the definitive scholarly edition of the Letters and Charters of Henry II, King of England 1154-1189. Edited by Nicholas Vincent, this scholarly set is the most considerable body of charter evidence ever presented for the history o...Loe edasi...
Fashioning London charts the history of clothing in Englands capital through its manufacture, promotion, cultural significance, and the unique styles of dress that, ultimately, challenged the fashion dominance of Paris, Milan and New York....Loe edasi...
Fashioning London charts the history of clothing in Englands capital through its manufacture, promotion, cultural significance, and the unique styles of dress that, ultimately, challenged the fashion dominance of Paris, Milan and New York....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198867050)
We all know that inns and taverns occupy a special place in British history and our culture today. A Night at the Inn shows that inns were not just important as social spaces - somewhere to meet friends for a drink - but essential parts of the toolk...Loe edasi...
This book explores the European stances of three of Northern Ireland’s political parties, culminating in one of the most tumultuous episodes in recent UK, Irish, and European politics....Loe edasi...
Balmoral Castle and its 50,000-acre estate has been the private Highland retreat of The Royal Family since the 1850s. Queen Victoria and Prince Albert fell in love with the Scottish Highlands in the 1840s and built the present Grade A lis...Loe edasi...
How medieval English towns built, sustained, and reimagined the lifelines of urban life. In the bustling market towns and growing cities of medieval England between 1200 and 1600, public works were the lifelines of urban society. In Urban...Loe edasi...
Following the passage of the 1834 New Poor Law, parishes in England and Wales were organized into unions, each of which had at least one workhouse, a public institution where impoverished individuals and families were housed, fed, and put to work. B...Loe edasi...
Sumeromania uncovers the dramatic and complex story behind one of the British Museums most important holdings: its vast collection of objects from the ancient Sumerian city of Girsu (modern Tello, Iraq). From statues of rulers to thousands of cuneif...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526198099)
In 1975 the UK voted yes, by 67, to the European Community (EC). Since 1 January 1973, when the UK first joined, Edward Heath and Harold Wilson sought a fundamental transformation of the UKs relationship with the EC in terms of membership and pu...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526198013)
Survival Capitalism is a cultural history of the 1980s financial revolution. It ranges in scope across the Thatcher government, the Bank of England, London Stock Exchange and member firms, and Lloyds of London. It offers timely new perspectives on t...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526197979)
For the Victorian working class, lodging in someone elses home was commonplace. Drawing on hundreds of coroners inquests reported in the Victorian press, Living with lodgers traverses Englands domestic dwelling lodgings, providing an intimate portra...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781807070410)
Using a micro-historical approach, this book explores how the culture of covenanting shaped lived experiences and communities in seventeenth-century Scotland and offers a more complete understanding of protestant identity in the early modern Atlan...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526199775)
This volume explores the shifting nature of anti-racism in Britain through 11 illuminating case studies. Together, they highlight the tensions between solidarity and paternalism, demonstrate the interplay between local, national and transnational fo...Loe edasi...
An overview of the early years of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI), highlighting the debates about how far the organisation should be self-supporting or state-funded....Loe edasi...
This text offers a comprehensive and tightly focused account of the emergence and flourishing of British modern-life paintings at midcentury....Loe edasi...
In the wake of both Joycean and Dantean celebrations, this volume aims to investigate the fecund influence of Italian culture on Samuel Becketts work, with a specific focus on the Twentieth Century....Loe edasi...
Edinburghs Unruly Women examines experiences of church discipline across parish communities through Edinburgh and its environs. The book argues that experiences of discipline were not universal, varying according to any number of factors such as ag...Loe edasi...
This book explores the major political debates in England during the final decades of the eighteenth century, a period when responses to the American and French Revolutions were a major concern and the entire future of public life in England was in...Loe edasi...
The funeral of Paddy Dignam in James Joyces Ulysses serves as the pivotal event of the Hades episode. This volume explores how Dignams interment in Glasnevin Cemetery allowed Joyce the freedom to consider the conventions, rituals and superstitions a...Loe edasi...
This book provides readers with the first biography in English on Leonor of England, bringing to life an understudied figure who has been overshadowed by her famed parents and brothers. Leonor, or Eleanor, was queen consort of Castile (1170-1214), t...Loe edasi...
This book provides readers with the first biography in English on Leonor of England, bringing to life an understudied figure who has been overshadowed by her famed parents and brothers. Leonor, or Eleanor, was queen consort of Castile (1170-1214), t...Loe edasi...
This study emphasizes the legacies of British internationalism in the international organizations of the twentieth century while examining British responses to the end of the British Empire....Loe edasi...
