So Clean Lord Leverhulme, soap and civilisation Brian Lewis This book is an unorthodox biography of William Hesketh Lever, 1st Lord Leverhulme (1851-1925), the founder of the Lever Brothers’... READ MORE

So Clean Lord Leverhulme, soap and civilisation Brian Lewis This book is an unorthodox biography of William Hesketh Lever, 1st Lord Leverhulme (1851-1925), the founder of the Lever Brothers’... READ MORE
This new series published by Manchester University Press responds to the growing interest in disability as a discipline worthy of historical research. The series has a broad international historical... READ MORE
States of suspense The nuclear age, postmodernism and United States fiction and prose Daniel Cordle When the atomic bomb exploded over Hiroshima on 6 August 1945, it precipitated... READ MORE
Congratulations to Kirsty Reid, author of Gender, crime and empire, which won the 2008 Australian Historical Association’s Kay Daniels Prize for early colonial history. Fantastic news! Find out... READ MORE
Shakespeare and laughter A cultural history Indira Ghose This book examines laughter in the Shakespearean theatre, and is the first study to focus specifically on laughter, not... READ MORE
Piercing the bamboo curtain Tentative bridge-building to China during the Johnson years by Michael Lumbers This new study is the first comprehensive account of U.S. Policy toward China during the... READ MORE
Whilst we bask in the sun, conference season stealthily creeps up on us, skittering on its little limbs. So here’s a list of those we will be attending in person this year, up until August... READ MORE
The civil service and the revolution in Ireland 1912-1938 ‘Shaking the blood-stained hand of Mr Collins’ by Martin Maguire The training of the civil service is intended to... READ MORE