This book discusses and analyses the last three decades of British political history, looking at why Britain found itself shut out from its immediate neighbours on the continent in 2016, twenty years after the country was celebrated as a prosperous,...Loe edasi...
This book considers the shift in the regional administrative centre from Wroxeter to Shrewsbury, the powerful evidence for investment in the material fabric of the middle Welsh March, particularly between the late 11th and 13th centuries, and Shrops...Loe edasi...
First published in 1991, Northern Ireland: Faith and Faction examines the provinces unique communal strife, tracing Ulsters evolution from seventeenth-century plantations to today. Insightful analysis of religious communities makes it vital for hist...Loe edasi...
This book proposes new understandings of modern life in Britain by bringing constructs of female spirituality centre stage and examining three forgotten artists identified with the Pre-Raphaelites and Victorianism....Loe edasi...
Whether Britain is apart from or a part of Europe (D. Abulafia) has gained significance in recent years. This book reassesses an underexplored field of early modern transnational history: the variety of ways in which connections between Britain an...Loe edasi...
The United Kingdom Since 1945 is an economic and social history providing an appraisal of seventy-five years of British and Northern Irish history....Loe edasi...
In offering a holistic analysis of the vast array of evidence and literature pertaining to the Whitechapel Murders committed in Londons East-End in the Autumn of 1888, this volume offers a multi-disciplinary and multi-dimensional consideration of th...Loe edasi...
This book draws on a wide range of sources to provide the first comprehensive account of the experience of eighteenth-century working girlhood across all regions of Britain, examining the lifecycle stage of growing up for the middling and lower clas...Loe edasi...
This book explores how questions of Ireland and Irishness are represented in online environments, and what these phenomena say about contemporary Irish identities both within the country and globally. It will interest Irish Studies, Media Studies, C...Loe edasi...
This volume offers readers a comprehensive and vivid picture of medieval death and burial in England, bringing the fascinating beliefs and rituals surrounding mortality into sharp focus....Loe edasi...
Bede is the inaugural volume in the Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture series, which seeks to comprehensively map British literary culture from 500 to 1100 CE....Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1954, this work is a history of university representation in England from its beginning in 1604, when King James first gave the two universities the right to send two members each to the House of Commons, to the close of the...Loe edasi...
In all of the literature on Anglo-Saxon England, rarely has the question of social class been confronted head-on. This study draws upon recent research into topics such as religious practice, emotions, daily life, and intellectual culture to investi...Loe edasi...
This volume boldly reinterprets Britains maritime history through multidisciplinary scholarship, exploring how the sea fundamentally shaped British development....Loe edasi...
Its 57 essays continue to celebrate the life and work of the men and women who played roles in a variety of spheres in the history of Anglo-Japanese relations and deserve to be recorded and remembered. They give a picture of facets of modern history...Loe edasi...
This newest volume in a long-running work of mapping the sources of Anglo-Saxon literary culture in England from 500 to 1100 CE takes up one of the most important authors of the period, the eighth-century monk-scholar known as the Venerable Bede....Loe edasi...
This collection of essays moves plants to the foreground of analysis and brings together some of the rich and innovative ways that scholars are expanding the discussion of plants and botany in Shakespeares writings...Loe edasi...
This volume comprises some fifty essays on different themes and personalities, grouped thematically: portraits of key figures such as Stamford Raffles and Lord Lytton; history of Japanese trade and investment in the UK, such as NSK and Mitsubishi El...Loe edasi...
This book focuses on five saints: the four female Irish saints who have extant medieval biographies (Darerca, Brigid, Íte, and Samthann), and Patrick, whose writings -- fifth-century Irelands sole surviving texts -- attest to the centrality of wome...Loe edasi...
