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BRITISH ABOLITIONISM AND THE QUESTION OF MORAL PROGRESS IN HISTORY

Edited by DONALD A YERXA

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The idea of progress may well be one of the most important products of Western civilisation. Yet most historians avoid the subject, especially the notion that there has been significant moral progress... Learn More
PANORAMAS OF LOST LONDON
Work, Wealth, Poverty and Change, 1870-1945

PHILIP DAVIES

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This absorbing book reproduces historic photographs commissioned by the London County Council -- many of them in the early days of photography -- to capture individual buildings and streets that, alon... Learn More
THE MALIGNED MILITIA
The West Country Militia of the Monmouth Rebellion, 1685

CHRISTOPHER L SCOTT

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Despite its failure to unseat King James II, the Monmouth Rebellion had a profound influence on English politics. This book revisits the events of 1685 to assess the militia’s performance in helping... Learn More
THE LONG TWELFTH-CENTURY VIEW OF THE ANGLO-SAXON PAST

Edited by MARTIN BRETT and DAVID A WOODMAN

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This volume of essays scrutinises how the Anglo-Saxon past continued to be reused and recycled throughout the longue durée of the twelfth century, as opposed to the early decades that are usua... Learn More
LONDON’S TRIUMPH
Merchants, Adventurers and Money in Shakespeare’s City

STEPHEN ALFORD

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At the start of the sixteenth century, England was hardly involved in the wider world and London remained a gloomy, introverted medieval city. Alford shows how Renaissance merchants and global explora... Learn More
IRISH POLITICAL PRISONERS, 1920-1962
Pilgrimage of Desolation

SEAN McCONVILLE

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Drawing on archives and special collections in three jurisdictions and interviews with survivors from the period, the author demonstrates how punishment came to embody and shape Irish nationalist cons... Learn More
THE HISTORY OF THE MERCHANT TAYLORS’ COMPANY

MATTHEW DAVIES and ANNE SAUNDERS

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One of the ‘Great Twelve’ livery companies of the City of London, the Merchant Taylors’ Company has been in existence for some seven hundred years. This history charts the remarkable story of th... Learn More
CHURCHILL’S MINISTRY OF UNGENTLEMANLY WARFARE
The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler’s Defeat

GILES MILTON

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In the spring of 1939, a secret organisation with a pugnacious philosophy and devilishly inventive spirit began plotting the destruction of Hitler’s war machine. The guerrilla campaign that followed... Learn More
BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS FROM BALFOUR TO BROWN

ROBERT PEARCE and GRAHAM GOODLAD

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From the dawn of the twentieth century to the early years of the twenty-first, both the power and the significance of the role of Prime Minister have been entirely transformed. This book explores the ... Learn More
RATS ALLEY
Trench Names of the Western Front, 1914-1918

PETER CHASSEAUD

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In this updated second edition, the gazetteer has been extended to more than 20,000 trench names, complete with map references. We discover when, how and why British trenches were first named and foll... Learn More

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BRITISH ABOLITIONISM AND THE QUESTION OF MORAL PROGRESS IN HISTORY

Edited by DONALD A YERXA

PANORAMAS OF LOST LONDON Work, Wealth, Poverty and Change, 1870-1945

PHILIP DAVIES

THE MALIGNED MILITIA The West Country Militia of the Monmouth Rebellion, 1685

CHRISTOPHER L SCOTT

THE LONG TWELFTH-CENTURY VIEW OF THE ANGLO-SAXON PAST

Edited by MARTIN BRETT and DAVID A WOODMAN

LONDON’S TRIUMPH Merchants, Adventurers and Money in Shakespeare’s City

STEPHEN ALFORD

IRISH POLITICAL PRISONERS, 1920-1962 Pilgrimage of Desolation

SEAN McCONVILLE

THE HISTORY OF THE MERCHANT TAYLORS’ COMPANY

MATTHEW DAVIES and ANNE SAUNDERS

CHURCHILL’S MINISTRY OF UNGENTLEMANLY WARFARE The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler’s Defeat

GILES MILTON

BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS FROM BALFOUR TO BROWN

ROBERT PEARCE and GRAHAM GOODLAD

RATS ALLEY Trench Names of the Western Front, 1914-1918

PETER CHASSEAUD

PANORAMAS OF LOST LONDON
Work, Wealth, Poverty and Change, 1870-1945

THE MALIGNED MILITIA
The West Country Militia of the Monmouth Rebellion, 1685

LONDON’S TRIUMPH
Merchants, Adventurers and Money in Shakespeare’s City

IRISH POLITICAL PRISONERS, 1920-1962
Pilgrimage of Desolation

CHURCHILL’S MINISTRY OF UNGENTLEMANLY WARFARE
The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler’s Defeat

RATS ALLEY
Trench Names of the Western Front, 1914-1918