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British History
Peter Marshall, Warwick University, UK Reformation England 1480-1642 provides a clear and accessible narrative account of the English Reformation, explaining how historical interpretations of its major themes have changed and developed over the past few decades, where they currently stand and where they seem likely to go. This new edition is updated and revised to take into account developments in the field.
UK January 2022 • US January 2022 • 320 pages • 9 bw illus PB 9781350140479 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781350140486 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePub 9781350140493 • £22.49 / $29.96 ePdf 9781350140509 • £22.49 / $29.96 Bloomsbury Academic A Social and Political History of Britain since 1870
Martin Pugh, Newcastle University, UK Now in its 6th edition, this landmark textbook moves beyond the 2015 General Election to examine the major social and political events in Britain, with particular attention paid to COVID-19, Brexit and the rise in identity politics. In doing so, it encourages students to think critically about modern British history.
UK February 2022 • US February 2022 • 560 pages PB 9781350243101 • £26.99 / $36.95 • HB 9781350243095 • £80.00 / $110.00 ePub 9781350243125 • £24.29 / $32.56 ePdf 9781350243118 • £24.29 / $32.56 Bloomsbury Academic
HISTORY – British History
The Biopolitics of Care in Second World War Britain
Kimberly Mair, University of Lethbridge, Canada During the crisis of the Second World War in Britain, official Air Raid Precautions made the management of daily life a moral obligation of civil defence by introducing new prescriptions for the care of homes, animals, and persons displaced through evacuation. This book examines how the Mass-Observation movement recorded and shaped the logics of care that became central to those daily routines in homes and neighbourhoods.
UK January 2022 • US January 2022 • 240 pages • 6 bw illus HB 9781350106918 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350106932 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350106925 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: The Mass-Observation Critical Series • Bloomsbury Academic
Operation Crusader and the Desert War in British History and Memory
“What is Failure? What is Loyalty?”
Alexander Joffe, Independent Scholar Using newly discovered evidence, Alexander Joffe rethinks Operation Crusader and the events that brought about the sudden relief of its commanding officer, including insubordination. He then discusses how narratives regarding the operation were created, were incorporated into British and Commonwealth official and unofficial historical writing about the war, and contributed to British historical memory. Based on a decade of archival work, the book presents a new and detailed analysis of a consequential battle and, importantly, of how its history was written and received in the context of post-war Britain.
UK February 2022 • US February 2022 • 272 pages • 10 bw illus PB 9781350202610 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350132870 ePub 9781350132894 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350132887 • £76.50 / $100.32 Bloomsbury Academic
The Political Lives of Postwar British MPs
An Oral History of Parliament
Edited by Emma Peplow, History of Parliament Trust, UK & Priscila Pivatto, History of Parliament Trust, UK In this book, Emma Peplow and Priscila Pivatto draw on the History of Parliament Trust's collection of oral history interviews with postwar British MPs to highlight their diverse political experiences in Parliament. Featuring extracts from a collection of interviews with over 160 former MPs who sat from the 1950s until the 2000s, The Political Lives of Postwar British MPs gives a voice to those MPs’ stories. In the process, readers will be given rare glimpse into the spaces inhabited by MPs, the political rivalries and friendships and the rising and falling of their careers.
UK February 2022 • US February 2022 • 288 pages PB 9781350201699 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350089266 ePub 9781350089280 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350089273 • £76.50 / $100.32 Bloomsbury Academic
Jews in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Charity, Community and Religion, 1830-1880
Alysa Levene, Oxford Brookes University, UK This book examines Jewish communities in Britain in an era of immense social, economic and religious change: from the acceleration of industrialisation to the end of the first phase of large-scale Jewish immigration from Europe. Using the 1851 census alongside extensive charity and community records, Jews in Nineteenth-Century Britain tests the impact of migration, new types of working and changes in patterns of worship on the family and community life of seven of the fastest-growing industrial towns in Britain.
UK March 2022 • US March 2022 • 264 pages PB 9781350201767 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350102187 ePub 9781350102200 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350102194 • £76.50 / $100.32 Bloomsbury Academic
Information Culture and the Quest for Knowledge in Early Modern England
Donna A. Seger, Salem State University, USA. What sort of information did people in early modern England seek? In The Practical Renaissance Donna Seger explores the diffusion and reception of prescriptive publications over the 16th and 17th centuries. Published in an age of dynamic religious and political change, these texts demonstrate the universal desire for health and wealth, a fortified body and an orderly household.
UK February 2022 • US February 2022 • 224 pages • 10 bw illus PB 9781350200241 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781350200203 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePub 9781350200227 • £22.49 / $29.96 ePdf 9781350200210 • £22.49 / $29.96 Bloomsbury Academic
The Collision of Two Worlds
Jonathan Hughes, University of Exeter, UK Engagingly written and meticulously researched, Dante's Divine Comedy in Early Renaissance England compares the world of Dante in 13thcentury Florence with that of a group of English intellectuals gathered around Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester in 15th-century England.
UK February 2022 • US February 2022 • 416 pages • 12 bw illus PB 9781350146273 • £22.99 / $30.95 • HB 9781350146280 • £70.00 / $95.00 ePub 9781350146297 • £20.69 / $27.35 ePdf 9781350146303 • £20.69 / $27.35 Bloomsbury Academic World English
Warrior Generation 1865-1885
Militarism and British Working Class Boys
Richard Fulton, Washington State University, USA Richard Fulton's Warrior Generation fundamentally rethinks the efficacy of an institutional drive among influential middle-class opinion leaders to militarize lower-class boys in Victorian Britain. He contends that instead of engendering this desired militarism, as has been commonly argued, their push had merely contributed to a fastdeveloping culture of adventure and masculinity.
UK February 2022 • US February 2022 • 344 pages • 12 bw illus PB 9781350197169 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350138759 ePub 9781350138773 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350138766 • £76.50 / $100.32 Bloomsbury Academic
History of Crime, Deviance and Punishment
Anne-Marie Kilday, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Probation and the Policing of the Private Sphere in Britain, 1907-1962
Louise Settle, University of Helsinki, Finland In 1907 the Probation of Offenders Act introduced a system which allowed offenders to be rehabilitated at home under supervision, rather than being sent to prison. This book explores how the probation system was used to regulate the private and emotional lives of offenders in Britain during this period, enriches our understanding of the role of the state in policing, monitoring and promoting the well-being of its citizens, and explores the nuances of probation’s dual purpose as a form of social control and as protection for the most vulnerable in society.
UK January 2022 • US January 2022 • 256 pages • 10 bw illus HB 9781350233454 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350233478 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350233461 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: History of Crime, Deviance and Punishment • Bloomsbury Academic
Combating London’s Criminal Class
A State Divided, 1869-95
Matthew Bach, Member of Parliament in the State of Victoria, Australia This book considers the notion of the ‘criminal class’; a violent, immoral and dissolute subsection of Victorian London’s population. Using court reports, official documents and archival research Matthew Bach asks whether they existed at all, or whether the criminal class, and the attempts to control them, were instead perpetuated efforts of top-down social control. Demonstrating that Police and Magistrates were not always willing tools of the British state, this book questions whether the state did gain control over offenders in the Victorian era.
UK January 2022 • US January 2022 • 208 pages • 5 bw illus PB 9781350197176 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350156210 ePub 9781350156234 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350156227 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: History of Crime, Deviance and Punishment • Bloomsbury Academic
Photographing Crime Scenes in Twentieth-Century London
Microhistories of Domestic Murder
Alexa Neale, Sussex University, UK With 10 case studies and 30 images, this book will take you inside the homes that were murder crime scenes to read their geographical and symbolic meanings in the light of the development of crime scene photography, forensic analysis and psychological testing. In doing so, it reveals how photographs of domestic objects and spaces were often used to recreate a motive for the murder based on the defendant's identity rather than to prove if they committed the crime at all.
UK February 2022 • US February 2022 • 232 pages • 25 bw illus PB 9781350202535 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350089419 ePub 9781350089433 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350089426 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: History of Crime, Deviance and Punishment • Bloomsbury Academic
