Bouverie's book is a groundbreaking history of the disastrous years of indecision, failed diplomacy and parliamentary infighting that help to make Hitler’s domination of Europe possible...

A shoe molds to the foot and captures a facet of the physical characteristics of its wearer, as well as, by extension, an element of his or her personal history...

Vallance examines ‘loyal addresses’ as mechanisms for the expression of public opinion, and as links between the local and national contexts of politics...

The year 1453 marked the end of an intermittent yet seemingly endless series of wars between the Kingdom of France and the Kingdom of England that, some four hundred years later, was dubbed the Hundred Years War...

Fennell challenges our understanding of the Second World War and of the relationship between conflict and socio-political change...

Peterson discusses how this self-governing Atlantic trading center began as a refuge from Britain’s Stuart monarchs and how—through its bargain with slavery and ratification of the Constitution—it would tragically lose integrity and autonomy as it became incorporated into the greater United States...

Black focuses on the major developments in the world of print journalism and sets the history of the press in wider currents of English history, political, social, economic and technological...

MacKenzie re-examines the political and constitutional bonds that were implied by the covenant to which the English and Scottish parliaments had subscribed at the beginning of the first civil war, and considers why so many Presbyterians understood the Cromwellian occupation to represent a breach of the covenant’s obligations...

In 1919 a man named Ohlohr Maigi died of tuberculosis in London, in deep poverty...

"Properties of Empire" challenges assumptions about the relationship between Indigenous and imperial property creation in early America...

John Dryden is often regarded as one of the most conservative writers in later seventeenth-century England, a time-serving “trimmer” who abandoned his early commitments to the English Republic to become the poet laureate and historiographer royal of Charles II’s new regime...

Richardson examines the cultural presence of Indians in the novels, poetry, plays and material culture of the eighteenth-century...

Hinke tells the stories of millionaires and pastry chefs, popcorn vendors, and perfume salesmen, all gathered aboard the gargantuan ship for its celebrated maiden voyage in 1912.

Erika recounts the special relationship between two intellectual juggernauts, Huxley and Osmond, and their discussions about drugs, addiction, and death and dying...

Hanley seeks to shift the focus of black history away from a slavery and abolition, and toward something more complex...

Crossland describes the emergence of various movements in the second half of the 19th. century...

For centuries the purpose of Hadrian’s Wall, and the life of those who built it and lived near it, were shrouded in archaeological mystery...

Black explores the forty-one years from the beginning of the Great War in August 1914 to the surrender of Japan in August 1945....

Beiner argues for the complexities and ambiguities of communal recollection by focusing on the contested memories of one of the shortest and certainly the bloodiest of politically driven Irish insurrections...

John Owen is one of the most significant seventeenth-century Protestant theologians...

Woodbridge focuses on a small but very significant evangelical community, the so-called Plymouth Brethren, and documents the attempts made by their missionaries in China during the first half of the twentieth century...

Edelson shows how the Crown and the Board of Trade initiated the mapping of every new corner of Britain’s American dominions – places that were also the ancestral homes of Native Americans and the site of emerging settler republics...

Reese, explores the social effects of the British empire, and its attending conditions, on Muslims in the port city of Aden...

Does publishing have a diversity problem?

Hackenbracht's book opens up questions about how seventeenth-century writers understood the Christian doctrine of the last judgement, and how the thought of that final reckoning shaped new attitudes to church and to nation....