The royal touch was the religious healing ceremony at which the monarch stroked the sores on the ...

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...

This book explores the theory and practice of social investigation in rural England in the period...

In the early eighth century, the Muslim general Tariq ibn Ziyad led his forces across the Straits...

Thomas Hodgskin was one of the most significant thinkers of nineteenth-century radicalism. An act...

Anglican clergymen in Britain's Australian colonies in their earliest years faced very particular...

This study examines the evolution of national and regional, cultural and political identities in ...

The land question loomed large in late Victorian and Edwardian politics, playing a major part in ...

Mid-seventeenth century Ireland experienced a revolution in landholding. Coming in the aftermath ...

The Rotrou family ruled the Perche from around the year 1000 until 1226. They took part in many o...

Catherine of Aragon (r.1509-33) and her sister-in-law Margaret Tudor (r.1503-13) presided as quee...

Two main legal jurisdictions held sway in England over family relations during the high middle ag...

The University of Cambridge has long been heralded as the nursery of the English Reformation: a p...

Examination of major changes in political behaviour in 19c Cornwall, withwider implications for t...

The 1790s saw a lively 'French Revolution Debate' in England, with much space and intellectual en...

The treaty which Germany and the Soviet Union concluded in the small Italian seaside resort of Ra...

It was common knowledge in early modern England that sexual desire was malleable, and could be in...

The strengthening of ties between crown and locality in the fourteenth century is epitomised by t...

This book charts the political transformation of Britain that resulted from the 'Great' Reform Ac...

The ways in which saints' cults operated across and beyond political, ethnic and linguistic bound...

Social welfare, increasingly extensive during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, was by th...

Drawing upon detailed local sources, Dr Morris's study of the town and suburbs of Croydon concent...

A survey of the changes in medical care for those approaching death in the early modern period.Fr...

Space was not simply a passive backdrop to a social system that had structural origins elsewhere;...

This first full-length study of the 1739 war with Spain, the so-called `War of Jenkins' Ear', loo...

Between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries, Rouen was one of the greatest cities in western Euro...

Few texts offer as many insights into the history of Valois Burgundy as the work of George Chaste...

In his day, 'Josh' Wedgwood was one of Britain's best-known and most outspoken Radical politician...

The then Labour government's efforts to promote East-West detente and to improve Anglo-Soviet rel...

Revolutionary France bequeathed to the modern world the concept of the 'nation-in-arms', a potent...

This is the first modern account to describe the emergence of the northern French county of the P...

The nineteenth-century city was characterised by the development of a wide variety of voluntary a...

The Moravian Church became widely known and respected for its 'missions to the heathen', achievin...

Ripon Minster was St Wilfrid's church, and its vast parish at the edge of the Yorkshire dales was...

The Baron d'Holbach, a prominent figure in the French Enlightenment, is best known for his writin...

The Crown Agents Office played a crucial role in colonial development. Acting in the United Kingd...

It was common knowledge in early modern England that sexual desire could be increased or decrease...

Of all the wars fought by Britain between 1815 and 1914, the South African War (1899-1902) was th...