Donald Hankey was a writer who saw himself as a ’student of human nature’ and peacetime Edwardian Britain as a society at war with itself. Wounded...
War is often characterised as one percent terror, 99 per cent boredom. Whilst much ink has been spilt on the one per cent, relatively little work has...
Cities in the ancient world relied on private generosity to provide many basic amenities, as well as expecting leading citizens to pay for 'bread and...
This book examines the marriages of British peers to American women within the context of the opening up of London and New York society and the...
Examining the influence of gender constructs on the international regime protecting war-affected civilians, R. Charli Carpenter examines how in...
This book presents fresh, lively translations of fourteen such homilies, the majority for the first time in English. The homilies were delivered in...
Originally published in 1980 ‘Luxury’ Fleet (the phrase was Winston Churchill’s) was the first history of the Imperial German navy from 1888 to 1918...
In this lively social history, first published in 1988, Lionel Rose explores in detail the plight of the street poor between 1815 and 1985. He...
Between the Crimean War and the end of the First World War the British Army underwent a dramatic change from being an anachronistic and frequently...
'The Damned Fraternitie': Constructing Gypsy Identity in Early Modern England, 1500–1700 examines the construction of gypsy identity in England...