This book underlines the importance of writing for the subordinate classes, and the variety of us...

Martyn Lyons surveys the changing relationships enjoyed by men and women with the written word, f...

As war and mass emigration across oceans increased the distances between ordinary people in the l...

As war and mass emigration across oceans increased the distances between ordinary people in the l...

Martyn Lyons offers a fresh interpretation of European history in the half-century following the ...

The Napoleonic period cannot be interpreted as a single historical 'block'. Bonaparte had many di...

Historians have often assumed that the lives of the poor and illiterate can never be known becaus...

This book investigates the history of writing as a cultural practice in a variety of contexts and...

Martyn Lyons offers a fresh interpretation of European history in the half-century following the ...

Martyn Lyons surveys the changing relationships enjoyed by men and women with the written word, f...

This book demonstrates that the interval between Robespierre's fall and Bonaparte coming to power...

This book investigates the history of writing as a cultural practice in a variety of contexts and...