Patel rethinks the development of the European Communities and the European Union from first principles...

Braniff and McLaughlin center Belfast, the complex political situation of Northern Ireland just before the Troubles, and the Blues...

Bowen shows how John Poyer played a critical role in the civil wars...

Paradis explores the myriad ways in which the Sudan, whose internal politics were influenced and shaped by Britain...

Conely examines the over 1400 trials of women accused of homicide in London from 1674-1913,..

When we think of early American political thought, we tend to overlook the powerful influence of the natural environment on the formation of settlement in both theory and practice...

Mahatma Gandhi called Dadabhai Naoroji the “father of the nation,” a title that today is reserved for Gandhi himself....

The Restoration of the Stuart monarchy in 1660 changed the lives of English republicans for good....

Black turns away from the image-making and back to the archives, and instead locates George's life within his age: as a king who faced the loss of key colonies, rebellion in Ireland, insurrection in London...

The authors propose that whilst making music is therapeutic, making a career from music can be traumatic...

Mandler charts the tension between demands for democracy and the defence of meritocracy within both elite and public discourses, showing how this tension plays out in Britain’s complex and fragmented education system...

Stunt shows how Tregelles moved from humble origins, overcoming educational barriers through ambition and determination, to become a serious rival to textual critics like Constantin von Tischendorf,..

Audrey Horning revisits the fraught connections between Ireland and colonial Virginia...

Tracing the changes and evolution of writings on political counsel during the “monarchy of counsel,” from the end of the Wars of the Roses to the end of the English Civil War, Joanne Paul examines English thought in its domestic and transnational context...

Muller argues that we need to re-think our understanding of the debate about “free will” – he prefers “free choice” – and divine sovereignty...

The 1790s were a decade of turmoil and strife across the West. With the French Revolution, a new era of wars began that invoked the language of equal rights...

Based on detailed ethnographic research, this book explores the varied experiences of women who have converted to Buddhism in contemporary Britain....

Long before the English became involved in the African slave trade, they imagined Africans as monstrous and deformed beings...

Billy Coleman reveals an influential strand of conservative music-making that exerted influence on public life from the beginning of Washington’s government until the Civil War.

Delahaye tells the story of John Winthrop’s tenure as governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the 1630’s...

McCarthy offers readings of work by Shakespeare, Lanyer, Donne and many other poets to show that early printings of their work organised their texts in order to make specific points about both poetry and poets...

Britain's declaration of war on Germany on 3 September, 1939, made Nigeria, like many other African societies, active participants in the war against the Axis powers...

One of the most monumental and recognisable landmarks from Zanzibar’s years as a British Protectorate is the distinctive domed building of the Zanzibar Museum...