History roundup 2023

The authoritative sequel to Female Fortune, continuing the diaries of Anne Lister up to 1838, when she was at her most powerful.

This book reveals the varied and often eccentric lives of the Victorians who helped define dogs as we know them today.

A vivid account of the rise of terrorism in the late nineteenth century and the hysterical media response it provoked

Based on unique and previously undiscovered sources, this is the first book to tell the story of the oppression of LBGT people in the USSR.

This book uncovers the contribution that homegrown women's magazines made to shaping complex debates about the position of women in society in 1960s Ireland. Woman's Way is explored alongside the lesser-known titles Woman's View, Woman's Choice, and Young Woman.

Ireland, slavery and the Caribbean interrogates the complex relationship between two island archipelagos at the peak of the slave economy. Employing a broad range of islands, sources, sites, and methods creates a transnational, trans-imperial and interdisciplinary history of Ireland, slavery and the Caribbean.

This book charts the history of first-time Australian motherhood across the last 75 years, drawing upon oral history interviews with a diverse group of mothers. Through thematic chapters covering pregnancy, birth, childrearing, relationships, work and identity, the book analyses change and continuity in experiences of becoming a mother since 1945.

Now that's what I call a history of the 1980s is a political and cultural History of Britain in the long 1980s in ten objects or moments. Neither a top down history, nor nostalgic celebration, it reframes the decade around local, national, and global politics of gender, race, age and sexuality.

This book follows the afterlives of empire from 1945 to present day, providing an interdisciplinary analysis of how the legacy of empire continues to shape the cultures, politics, spaces and memories of contemporary Britain. The essays it contains illustrate this with reference to a series of local histories, individual texts and institutions.

Fashioning Italian youth examines representations of Italian young people's style trends and bodily practices in teen magazines, Musicarelli films and TV programmes. It explores changes in the media construction of young people's generational, national and gender identity, and contextualises them in the history of 1960-1970s Italian society.