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The social world of the school
£80.00
This book argues that the interwar classroom shaped twentieth-century Britain. It recreates and analyses life in London's elementary schools in the 1920s and 1930s, building a mosaic of the educational experience. It argues that schools were grounded in their local communities and should be seen as key drivers of social change.
£20.00
Explores and compares the queer dimensions of four English cities - Manchester, Leeds, Plymouth, and Brighton
£25.00
This book documents the lives and historical pursuits of the generations in Australia, Britain and Germany who grew up in the shadow of the First World War. Although they were not direct witnesses to the conflict, through the intimate experience of coming after, they have played a key role in shaping the memory of the First World War since 1918
Researching urban space and the built environment
£12.99
Researching urban space and the built environment is a unique and accessible guide to the planning, researching and writing of spatial histories.
£12.99
A practical guide to digital history, which shows just how much can be done without writing any code. This book will give researchers in history or related fields the skills and confidence to approach existing digital resources and to create their own. Assuming no prior knowledge, the guide focuses on hands-on techniques for working with text.
History through material culture
£12.99
Material culture is central to human experience and represents a vital but under-used source for historians. Written in a lively and accessible style, this guide provides clear and practical guidance on how to incorporate the study of objects into historical practice.
£12.99
A hands-on study skills guide that explores how film and moving image can be used as sources.
£19.99
An updated edition of this accessible critical reader, with additional chapters including an introduction that contextualises the rise of each theoretical perspective and draw links between them.
£90.00
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.
£14.99
This book recounts a little-known history of an estimated 2,000 children born to black GIs and white British women in World War II. Stories from over 50 of these children, alongside many photographs, reveal the racism and stigma of growing up in what was then a very white country.
£25.00
A Progressive Education? argues that the period after WWII witnessed a fundamental transformation in concepts of childhood and adolescence in England and Wales.
Histories of HIV/AIDS in Western Europe
£85.00
This edited collection showcases exciting new work on lesser-known histories of HIV/AIDS, from the earliest days of the crisis to the present day. Focusing on regions of western Europe, it offers new perspectives on the development and implementation of policy, the nature of activism and expertise and which (or whose) histories are remembered.
Measuring difference, numbering normal
£30.00
This book argues that health measurements are given artificial authority if they are particularly amenable to calculability and easy measurement, and shows that problems often coalesce around disabilities that do not lend themselves to easy quantification.
£25.00
Disability and the Victorians investigates the attitudes of Victorians towards people with impairments, illustrates how these influenced the interventions they introduced to support such people and considers the legacies they left behind by their actions and perspectives. A range of impairments are addressed in a variety of contexts.
£90.00
This book brings together a range of methodological approaches to highlight royal and elite sexualities - the sexualities of rulers, and those who were ruled by their sexualities - and how these case studies might contribute to our broader knowledge of premodern gender and sexualities.
Sexual politics in revolutionary England
£85.00
This book explores the sudden emergence of graphic sex-talk in English print culture during the events of the English Revolution (1640-60) and argues for the long-term significance of that development for the political culture of late Stuart England and beyond.
£85.00
This book opens the doors to the homes of the forgotten poor and traces the goods they owned before, during and after the industrial revolution. Using a vast range of sources, it argues that the poor owned greater numbers and varieties of items with each generation and that poverty did not always mean living in squalor.
£25.00
This book takes a fresh look at British radicalism in the first-half of the nineteenth century from the new perspective of the history of emotions. It changes the way in which we look not only at popular radicalism but also at the affective qualities of politics itself in modern Britain and beyond.
£85.00
This book is a history of the Potters' Emigration Society from its founding in 1844 to its dissolution in early 1851. The Society, which became a national organisation after 1848, sought to solve the problems of surplus labour by turning workers into frontier farmers. It was the most significant industrial emigration scheme of its period.
Celebrities, heroes and champions
£25.00
Celebrities, heroes and champions examines the popular politician in British and Irish society from the Napoleonic Wars to the Second Reform Act. Covering a range of political movements, it offers a unique perspective on contemporary political culture including the connections between popular politics and an evolving culture of celebrity.
Women in exile in early modern Europe and the Americas
£90.00
Women in exile in early modern Europe and the Americas presents the important yet largely untold stories of a diverse group of women exiled across the Atlantic world in the early modern period. The book provides a new vantage point from which to enrich the study of exile and also contributes important new scholarship to the history of women.
Ideas of poverty in the Age of Enlightenment
£90.00
This collection of essays examines the ways in which poverty was conceptualised in the social, political, and religious discourses of eighteenth-century Europe and North America.
Men and masculinities in modern Britain
£25.00
Men and masculinities provides a critical overview of ongoing debates in the history of masculinities and the making of men's lives and ideas of masculinity in Britain between the 1890s and present day.It proposes a new agenda, urging histories to reflect on the enduring influence of patriarchy in contemporary Britain.
£17.99
Fully revised and updated, The history of emotions is the most up-to-date and comprehensive guide to the theories, methods and problems in this field of historical inquiry and its intersections with other disciplines. It emphasises the importance of this kind of historical work for general understandings of the meaning of human experience.
The common writer in modern history
£90.00
This edited collection focusses on the writing of ordinary, semi-literate people in history, emphasising the agency and voices of the subordinate classes and contesting conventional histories that treat them as passive or silent. It analyses 'ordinary writings' across a range of geographical areas, historical periods and scholarly disciplines.
Let's spend the night together
£95.00
This collection seeks to locate the sex in the well-known trilogy of 'sex & drugs & rock 'n' roll'. By looking at how sex and sexuality were expressed, presented and received, the collection shows youth culture to be crucial to the changes and challenges that informed British society into the late twentieth century.
£90.00
This volume explores the ideas, institutions, and experiences that shaped Catholic, Lutheran, Calvinist, and Anabaptist charity in early modern Europe.
Feminist mental health activism in England, c. 1968-95
£85.00
This book provides the first in-depth examination of feminist mental health activism in England from c.1968-1995. It explores how feminist activists initially rejected Freud before using psychoanalysis to enhance their politics; examines the development of feminist therapy; and charts the influence of feminism on national mental health charities.
£85.00
Haunted Britain offers a new emotional and cultural history of the Great War as told through the spiritualist and psychical research movements between 1914 and 1939.
Now that's what I call a history of the 1980s
£14.99
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.
£17.99
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.
£25.00
This book combines the approaches of historians and archaeologists to explore past individuals as embodied subjects by examining the material and experiencing body in England, 1700-1850. It explores precisely how the biological, physical, environmental, cultural and social interacted in the production of the embodied experiences.
£16.99
This book tells the story of the boom in smalls museums that took place in Britain from the 1960s onwards. Drawing on extensive interview materials, it explores why community groups, families and individuals were inspired to set up museums, teasing out the connections between personal experience and national change.
£85.00
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.
£85.00
Based upon original research and bringing to life the words and actions of Bahá'í, Muslim, and Jewish leaders during the early 20th century, this study sheds light on each found meaning and value in the diversity that characterised the British Empire, enabling the creation of relationships that would have an impact on future generations.
£85.00
Home front heroism explores how civilians were framed as heroic during the Second World War. Through a focus on London, this book explores how the effects and demands of conflict created increased opportunities for heroics, and created a need for heroism to be acknowledged, awarded and celebrated.