These essays present a statement on the long-term development of welfare policy in Britain. Relating to current issues such as the cost of pensions, this work examines provisions for the poor, infirm and aged over four centuries of British history.
This book offers a new perspective on the social history of twentieth-century Europe by investigating the ideals and ideas, the life worlds and ideolo..
This volume provides a history of productivity, both as an economic concept and as a principle of the organization of production processes, showing ho..
Recovering Scotland’s memory of the black Atlantic through its long-forgotten Caribbean connections, this book re-examines Enlightenment- to Romantic-..
This is a book for those thousands of family historians who have already made some progress in tracing their family tree and have become interested in..
How are memories of migration kept, stored, forgotten, and indeed retrieved? Based on a variety of examples and conceptual approaches, this volume off..
By integrating the different themes across Folz's oeuvre in all its profusion and variety, Huey offers new insights as to the interaction of these the..
Jews in the Early Modern English Imagination explores how for English travellers, the Jew of the imagination contrasted with the Jew they actually enc..
Using turn-of-the-century Melbourne as a prime historical location for investigating the relationship between a discourse of youth, youthful experienc..
Focusing on seven literary texts produced in the post-millennial period, this monograph examines the relationship between space and Republican memory ..
Beginning with an examination of the nature of history and Britain in 1700, this volume focuses on the economic and social aspects of the Industrial R..
An innovative collection addressing the emergence of modern identities and cultural forms in urban England over the past 100 years. `This book will he..
These two volumes consider the significance of religion in post-war Britain, concentrating on the decline of the specifically 'Christian Society' and ..