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London Zoo examined in its nineteenth-century context, looking at its effect on cultural and soci...

This book offers the first regional study of women in thirteenth-century England, making pioneeri...

The living standards of the rural poor suffered a severe decline in the first half of the ninetee...

Against a background of crises experienced in both the First and Second World Wars, M. Doughty as...

Here is a richly detailed account of the relationship between Lollard heresy and orthodox religio...

The Scottish Borders experienced dramatic change on James VI's succession to the throne of Englan...

The port of Trieste, standing at a crucial strategic point at the head of the Adriatic, had a tur...

After an evening spent drinking with Irish conspirators, an inebriated Owen Connelly confessed to...

It is generally assumed that the language of patriotism and national identity belongs to the poli...

Winner of the Economic History Society's Best First Monograph award.The emergence of the joint-st...

By the 1890s Victorians assumed that London's hospitals were facing an endemic financial crisis w...