John Milton’s Paradise Lost (1667) is widely recognised as the greatest epic poem in the English language...

Professor Black shows the reader how criticisms of the legacy of the British Empire are, in part, criticisms of the reality of American power today.

Lachs looks at London's Yiddish popular culture...

From its humble beginnings as a crossing point over the river Thames Londinium grew into the largest city in Roman Britain...

Who is excluded from science?

Pullin reconstructs the Meetings that monitored the lives of Quaker women...

Eighteenth-century England was a place of both the enlightenment and progress: new ideas abounded in science, politics, transportation, commerce, philosophy, religion, and the arts...

Histories of the British occupation of Havana in 1762 have focused on imperial rivalries and the actions and decisions of European planters, colonial officials, and military officers...

Throughout modern history, British and American rivalry has gone hand in hand with common interests...

Kupperman shifts the lens on the well-known narrative of Virginia’s founding to reveal the previously untold and utterly compelling story of the youths who, often unwillingly, entered into cross-cultural relationships...

In an empire built on racial slavery, what roles do blood purity and citizenship play in the creation of subject citizens?

In the information age, knowledge is power. Hence, facilitating the access to knowledge to wider publics empowers citizens and makes societies more democratic...

Professor Fede’s account traces the variations in restrictions on slave owners and third parties’ treatment upon the murder of a slave.

The Indian caste system is an ancient, pervasive institution of social organization within the subcontinent – or is it?

Slate paints a picture of the two countries as learning perpetually from each other...

The Westminster Assembly (1643-53) was one of the most important ecclesiastical councils in the history of Reformed Protestantism, but until very recently it had received little in the way of scholarly attention...

There can be little doubt that Hong Kong has stood out as a particularly intense East Asian news hotspot in recent years...

Though not as well known today as some of her literary contemporaries, Charlotte Lennox wrote numerous works during the mid-18th century that won her critical acclaim...

What are the characteristics of the 21st Century arts leader?

How can insights from psychoanalysis help us understand digital culture?

In creating a detailed impression of the medieval race-making that would be reconfigured into the biological racism of the modern era, Heng reaches beyond medievalists and race-studies scholars to anyone interested in the long history of race.

Bingham argues against several centuries of historical interpretation of the new religious movement that emerged in London in the late 1630s and now numbers around 35 million adherents worldwide...

In the aftermath of the Second World War, Great Britain was forced to give up the bulk of its vast, globe-spanning empire...

The current debate about Brexit has shown how important historical arguments can be in public discourse

This book, which unpacks the census itself, leads the reader to consider how this mundane tool actually translates the abstraction of the state into a concrete entity...