The Voluntary Action History Society and LSE invite you to celebrate the launch of Beveridge and voluntary action in Britain and the wider British world Edited by Melanie Oppenheimer and Nicholas... READ MORE
The Voluntary Action History Society and LSE invite you to celebrate the launch of Beveridge and voluntary action in Britain and the wider British world Edited by Melanie Oppenheimer and Nicholas... READ MORE
Material Relations: Domestic Interiors and Middle-Class Families in England, 1850-1910 by Jane Hamlett The launch of Material Relations will be held on Wednesday January 12th 6-9pm at Royal... READ MORE
Three of our titles have been awarded in the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Titles of 2010! The Politics of Alcohol by James Nicholls Fighting Like the Devil for the Sake of God by Mark Doyle... READ MORE
Summer 2010, Artisans of the body in early modern Italy is NEW IN PAPERBACK! ‘A phenomenally detailed picture of the lives of barbers and surgeons, based not on the prescriptive regulations of... READ MORE
Newly released The tide of democracy is a detailed account of British shipbuilding between 1870 and 1950. The title includes highly original detailed studies of the impact of new machinery on skills,... READ MORE
James Nicholls, author of The Politics of Alcohol will be appearing on a new BBC series to be broadcast on Radio Four next week. Britain on the Bottle: Alcohol and the State sees Mark Whitaker... READ MORE
On 7th January Lois S. Bibbings appeared on Ireland’s 4FM McGurk Show and discussed Telling Tales about men with Derek Davis. Bibbings’s book provides an intriguing account of how... READ MORE
David J. Appleby’s Black Bartholomew’s day has been awarded the Richard L. Greaves Award by the International John Bunyan Society. The Richard L. Greaves Award is an award that is... READ MORE
Summer 2010, Artisans of the body in early modern Italy is NEW IN PAPERBACK! ‘A phenomenally detailed picture of the lives of barbers and surgeons, based not on the prescriptive regulations of... READ MORE
I was invited to appear on Radio 4’s Thinking Allowed this week to discuss my new book, The Politics of Alcohol. I was impressed by Laurie Taylor’s ability to squeeze a huge range of issues into a... READ MORE