University of London Press Catalogue 2021

Publications 2021

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“A remarkable text that will be read widely, and deservedly so.”

-Antipode

Queer Between the Covers: Histories of Queer Publishing and Publishing Queer Voices

Coal Country: The Meaning and Memory of Deindustrialization in Postwar Scotland

Edited by Leila Kassir and Richard Espley

Ewan Gibbs

Senate House Library

RHS New Historical Perspectives Series

Available Open Access

Institute of Historical Research

978-1-913002-04-6 (pb), 120pp, £15

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978-1-913002-05-3 (PDF)

978-1-912702-54-1 (hb), 250pp, £40

May 2021

978-1-912702-55-8 (pb), 250pp, £25

Queer Between the Covers presents a history of radical queer publishing and literature from 1880 to the modern day. Chronicling the gay struggle for acceptance and liberation, this book demonstrates how the fight for representation was often waged secretly between the covers of books at a time when public spaces for queer identities were taboo.

The chapters provide an array of voices and histories- from the famous, Derek Jarman and Oscar Wilde, to the lesser-known, John Wieners and Valerie Taylor. It includes first-hand accounts of seminal moments in queer history, including the birth of Hazard Press and the Defend Gay’s the Word Bookshop campaign in the 1980s.

A fascinating and poignant analysis of some key historic moments for queer lib in publishing and book history, this is an essential read for those interested in how LGBTQ people throughout modernity have used literature as an important forum for self-expression and self-actualisation. sas.ac.uk/publications

978-1-912702-56-5 (epub), £5 978-1-912702-57-2 (Kindle), £5 978-1-912702-58-9 (PDF) February 2021

Coal Country presents the first book-length account of deindustrialization in the Scottish coalfields. It draws on archival research using records from UK government, the nationalized coal industry and trade unions, as well as the words and memories of former miners, their wives and children.

In this book, big changes in cultural identities are explained as the outcome of longterm economic developments. The oral testimonies bring to life transformations in gender relations and distinct generational workplaces experiences. This book argues that major alterations to the politics of class and nationhood have their origins in deindustrialization.

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The Politics of Women’s Suffrage: Local, National and International Dimensions

Precarious Professionals: Gender, Identities and Social Change in Modern Britain

Edited by Alexandra Hughes-Johnson and

Edited by Heidi Egginton and Zoë Thomas

Lyndsey Jenkins

RHS New Historical Perspectives Series

RHS New Historical Perspectives Series

Institute of Historical Research

Institute of Historical Research

Available Open Access

Available Open Access

978-1-912702-59-6 (hb), 300pp, £40

978-1-912702-95-4 (hb), 300pp, £40

978-1-912702-60-2 (pb), 300pp, £25

978-1-912702-96-1 (pb), 300pp, £25

978-1-912702-61-9 (epub), £5

978-1-912702-97-8 (Kindle), £5

978-1-912702-62-6 (Kindle), £5

978-1-912702-98-5 (PDF)

978-1-912702-63-3 (PDF)

November 2021

Bringing together early career and established scholars, this collection represents some of the most exciting work emerging from the 2018 centenary of women’s suffrage in Britain, building on the significant feminist scholarship on suffrage and reshaping the conversation for a new generation.

From 1832 to the present day, from the countryside in Wales to the Comintern in Moscow, from America to Finland and Ireland to Australia, from the girls’ school to the stage, we examine how women sought to work within, and remake, political systems and structures.

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October 2021

Precarious Professionals uncovers the inequalities and insecurities which lay at the heart of professional life in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain.

The collection offers twelve fascinating studies of women and men who held positions in art and science, high culture and popular journalism, private enterprise and public service between the 1840s and the 1960s.

From pioneering women lawyers and scientists to ballet dancers, secretaries, historians, humanitarian relief workers, social researchers, and Cold War diplomats, the book reveals that precarity was a thread woven throughout the very fabric of modern professional life, with farreaching implications for the study of power, privilege, and expertise.

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The Control Of The Past Herbert Butterfield and the Pitfalls of Official Histories

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Providing a unique overview of the main trends of official history in Britain since the Second World War, the book details how Butterfield came to suspect that the British government was trying to suppress vital documents revealing the Duke of Windsor’s dealings with Nazi Germany. This seemed to confirm his long-held belief that all governments would seek to manipulate history if they could, and conceal the truth if they could not. At the beginning of the 21st century, official history is still being written and the book concludes with an insider’s perspective on the many issues it faces today– from freedom of information, social media and reengaging with our nation’s colonial legacy. Governments have recently been given many reminders that history matters, and it is Herbert Butterfield above all who reminds us that we must remain vigilant in monitoring how they respond to the challenge.

Patrick Salmon

he Control f The Past:

Written by one of the few historians employed by the British government today, this critical new book details how Britain has applied a selective approach to its past in order to tell or re-tell its own national history, with implications into the future.

The Contol of the Past : Herbert Butterfield and the Pitfalls of Official Histories

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Herbert Butterfield (1900–1979) was one of the earliest and strongest critics of what he saw as the British government’s attempts to control the past by restricting access to official archives and through the commissioning of so-called, ‘official histories’. His famous diatribe against the ‘pitfalls’ of official history first appeared in 1949, at a time when the British government was engaged in publishing official history on an unprecedented scale following the Second World War. But why was Butterfield so hostile to official history, and why do his views still matter today?

PATRICK SALMON

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Children’s Experiences of Welfare in Modern Britain Edited by Siân Pooley and Jonathan Taylor IHR Conference Series Institute of Historical Research Available Open Access 978-1-912702-86-2 (hb), 300pp, £40 978-1-912702-87-9 (epub), £5 978-1-914477-00-3 (Kindle), £5 978-1-912702-88-6 (PDF) September 2021

Children’s Experiences of Welfare in Modern Britain writes the history of child welfare through the eyes of children. It shows that the young were integral to the making, interpretation, delivery and impact of welfare services. The book brings together the latest research on welfare provided by the state, charities and families in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain.

The ten chapters consider a wide range of investments in young people’s lives, including residential institutions, emigration schemes, hospitals and clinics, schools, social housing and familial care. Drawing upon thousands of personal testimonies, including a wealth of writing by children themselves, the book shows that we can only understand the history and impact of welfare if we listen to children’s experiences.

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The Control of the Past: Herbert Butterfield and the Pitfalls of Official Histories Patrick Salmon IHR Shorts Institute of Historical Research Available Open Access 978-1-914477-19-5 (pb), 118pp, £12 978-1-914477-22-5 (epub), £5 978-1-914477-20-1 (Kindle), £5 978-1-914477-21-8 (PDF) December 2021

Herbert Butterfield (1900–1979) was one of the earliest and strongest critics of what he saw as the British government’s attempts to control the past by commissioning so-called, ‘official histories’. His famous diatribe against the ‘pitfalls’ of official history first appeared in 1949, at a time when the British government was engaged in publishing official history on an unprecedented scale following the Second World War. But why was Butterfield so hostile to official history, and why do his views still matter today?

Written by one of the few historians employed by the British government today, this critical new book details how Britain has applied a selective approach to its past in order to tell or re-tell its own national history, with implications into the future.

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Star Chamber Matters: An Early Modern Court and its Records

Church and People in Interregnum Britain Fiona McCall

Edited by Natalie Mears and Krista Kesselring

RHS New Historical Perspectives Series

IHR Conference Series

Institute of Historical Research

Institute of Historical Research

Available Open Access

Available Open Access

978-1-912702-64-0 (hb), 300pp, £40

978-1-912702-89-3 (hb), 300pp, £40

978-1-912702-65-7 (pb), 300pp, £25

978-1-912702-91-6 (epub), £5

978-1-912702-68-8 (epub), £5

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September 2021

Star Chamber Matters details some of the fascinating, tragic and startling cases brought before the Star Chamber, an English court which sat at the royal Palace of Westminster, from the late 15th century to the mid-17th century.

Through close examination of the breadth and depth of cases brought before the court in its day, we are permitted a view of life, love, death; the trials and tribulations of early modern Britain in all its colour and variety, from changing gender roles, mercantilism, shifting religious views and the birth of English common law as we know it today.

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June 2021

The English Civil War was followed by a period of unprecedented religious tolerance and the spread of new religious ideas and practices.

From the Baptists, to the “government of saints”, Britain experienced a period of socalled ‘Godly religious rule’ and a breakdown of religious uniformity that was perceived as a threat to social order by some and a welcome innovation to others.

The period of Godly religious rule has been significantly neglected by historian. This volume addresses these issues by investigating important questions concerning the relationship between religion and society in the years between the first Civil War and the Restoration.

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The Terms of Our Surrender: Colonialism, Dispossession and the Resilience of the Innu Elizabeth Cassell Institute of Commonwealth Studies Available Open Access 978-1-912250-45-5 (pb), 300pp, £25 978-1-912250-46-2 (epub), £5 978-1-912250-47-9 (Kindle), £5 978-1-912250-48-6 (PDF) September 2021

Based on extensive fieldwork and oral history, The Terms of Our Surrender is a powerful critical appraisal of unceded indigenous land ownership in eastern Canada. Focusing on the Innu peoples of Quebec and Labrador, whose land has been taken for resource extraction and development, the book strips back the fiduciary duty to its origins, challenging the inroads which have been made on the nature and extent of indigenous land tenure—arguing for preservation of land ownership and positioning First Nations people as natural land defenders amidst a devastating climate crisis. It offers a voice to the Innu people, detailing the spirituality practices, culture and values that make it impossible for them to willingly cede their land.

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“A valuable resource for practitioners and academics” -EJLT

“Scrupulous documentation and argument.”

-Colin Samson

Electronic Evidence and Electronic Signatures Edited by Stephen Mason and Daniel Seng Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Available Open Access 978-1-911507-26-0 (hb), 800pp, £75 978-1-911507-22-2 (pb), 800pp, £55 978-1-911507-23-9 (epub), £5 978-1-911507-25-3 (Kindle), £5 978-1-911507-24-6 (PDF) August 2021

In this updated edition of the well-established practitioner text, Stephen Mason and Daniel Seng have brought together a team of experts in the field to provide an exhaustive treatment of electronic evidence and electronic signatures. This fifth edition continues to follow the tradition in English evidence text books by basing the text on the law of England and Wales, with appropriate citations of relevant case law and legislation from other jurisdictions.

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Seeing and Defining Fascism: Police States in 1930s Spain & 2020s USA Matthew Kerry To explain the energy of the Spanish Asturian insurrection in 1934 requires going beyond the language and conceptualisation of fascism. Rather we need to appreciate how these perceptions of far-right activism combined with fears about the new centreright government’s possible slide into authoritarianism—and from there to more overt forms of fascism. Such anxieties were rooted in readings of the international context: recent dictatorships in Germany and Austria had been established through political machinations and legal machinations from above. What exacerbated fears in Asturias was a new heavy-handed policing strategy which served to materialise and render plausible the threat of authoritarianism in everyday life.

This took the form of searching workers and left-wing political centres for arms in order to combat unrest.

There was already little love lost between the national police forces, the Civil Guard, and the working-class left. However, the actions of the police were qualitatively different in 1934, and sparked escalating waves of demonstrations and strikes. Previously, policing and protest had displayed an implicit choreography: the Civil Guard and left-wing militants understood one another’s role. Yet in spring 1934 policing crossed a threshold, literally and figuratively.

Mass searches of workers’ centres, their bodies and their homes were an escalation in tactics.

In response, the number and intensity of strikes and demonstrations rose sharply. The searches 8

brought home, on a personal and intimate level, the change in the political direction of the country. Left-wing militants accused the government of betraying those who formed the backbone of support for the Second Republic and of deploying tactics used in colonial warfare against them.

The strikes and demonstrations were exacerbated by the refusal of the civil governor, in contrast with previous occasions, to mediate or diffuse the situation. In similar scenes to those recently observed in the US, calm was only restored once the police withdrew.

On several occasions in spring 1934 trade unions kept order on the streets. In doing so they offered a powerful expression of an alternative political order and of the impossible coexistence of the police and protestors.

This intersection of the language, presumption and now apparent manifestation of fascism created a fissure between the state and society.

In the Asturian coalfields the maintenance of public order became increasingly politicised and disputed. By the end of summer 1934, the socialist press consistently described the police as an ‘occupying army’, warning darkly that armies caused wars. This created an extremely fragile environment. When it came in October, the spark for the Asturian rising had its origins in Madrid. The entry into government of a right-wing party with dubious republican credentials triggered half-made plans by the socialist movement for revolt. Yet events in Madrid are incapable of explaining the magnitude of the insurrection in Asturias.

Spain in the 1930s is no oracle for what may happen in the United States or in the wider world over the coming months. Even so, historical examples can help us dissect the present by encouraging us to think carefully about the questions we ask and the scales of analyses we use. Examining the events of the 1930s—even in the most unlikely context of the coal valleys of northern Spain—can help provide us with more informed approaches to the present via the past. For example, if the fascist precedent is reduced to the case of 1930s Germany, what is being done and lost in such a comparison? How far do ideas of fascism cut through and fuel or influence actions on the ground? sas.ac.uk/publications

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Shortlisted for Whitfield Book Prize 2020

Unite, Proletarian Brothers! Masculinity and Danger Radicalism and Revolution on the Eighteenth-Century Grand Tour in the Spanish Second Sarah Goldsmith Republic Matthew Kerry RHS New Historical Perspectives Series Institute of Historical Research Available Open Access 978-1-912702-49-7 (hb), 250pp, £40 978-1-912702-50-3 (pb), 250pp, £25 978-1-912702-51-0 (epub), £5 978-1-912702-52-7 (Kindle), £5 978-1-912702-53-4 (PDF) September 2020

In October 1934 the northern Spanish region of Asturias was the scene of the most important outburst of revolution in Europe between the early 1920s and the Spanish Civil War. Thousands of left-wing militants took up arms and fought the Spanish army in the streets of Oviedo while in the rear-guard, committees proclaimed a revolutionary dawn. After two weeks, however, the insurrection was crushed.

Weaving together a range of everyday disputes and arenas of conflict, from tenant activism to strikes, boycotts to political violence, Unite, Proletarian Brothers! sheds new light on the long-debated process of ‘radicalisation’ during the Second Republic, as well as the wider questions of protest, revolutionary politics and social and political conflict in interwar Europe. sas.ac.uk/publications

RHS New Historical Perspectives Institute of Historical Research Available Open Access

978-1-909646-94-0 (hb), 300pp, £40 978-1-909646-98-8 (pb), 300pp, £25 978-1-909646-96-4 (epub), £5 978-1-912702-24-4 (Kindle), £5 978-1-912702-25-1 (PDF) November 2020

The Grand Tour, a customary trip of Europe undertaken by British nobility and wealthy landed gentry during the 17th and 18th centuries, played an important role in the formation of contemporary notions of elite masculinity. Known as Grand Tourists, young people willingly tackled a variety of social, geographical and physical perils; scaling mountains, volcanoes and glaciers, and encountering war and disease.

Examining letters, diaries and other records left by Grand Tourists, tutors and their families, this book demonstrates how the Grand Tour was used to educate elite young men in a wide variety of skills and teach them ‘masculine’ values that existed outside polite society. Goldsmith argues that seeking out of dangerous experiences on the Tour helped prepare Britain’s next generation of leaders to govern a rapidly-changing nation and its burgeoning Empire.

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“A powerful new book!”

-New Books Network

A Horizon of (im) Possibilities: A Chronicle of Brazil’s Conservative Turn edited by Katerina Hatzikidi and Eduardo Dullo

Mapping Crisis: Participation, Datafication and Humanitarianism in the Age of Digital Mapping

Institute of Latin American Studies

Doug Specht

Available Open Access

Human Rights Consortium

978-1-908857-89-7 (pb), 250pp, £25

Institute of Commonwealth Studies

978-1-908857-91-0 (epub), £5 978-1-908857-90-3 (Kindle), £5 978-1-908857-92-7 (PDF) September 2021

A gripping in-depth account of politics and society in Brazil today, this new volume brings to together a myriad of different perspectives to help us better understand the political events that shook the country in recent years.

Combining ethnographic insights with political science, history, sociology, and anthropology, the interdisciplinary analyses included offer a panoramic view on social and political change in Brazil, spanning temporal and spatial dimensions.

Starting with the 2018 presidential election, the contributors discuss the country’s recent –or more distant– past in relation to the present.

Pointing to the continuities and disruptions in the course of those years, the analyses offered are an invaluable guide to unpacking and understanding the limits of political democracy, including what has already come to pass, but also what is yet to come.

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Available Open Access 978-1-912250-33-2 (pb), 230pp, £30 978-1-912250-37-0 (epub), £30 978-1-912250-36-3 (Kindle), £30 October 2020

The digital age throws questions of representation, participation and humanitarianism back to the fore, as machine learning, algorithms and big data centres take over the process of mapping the subjugated and subaltern. This book questions whether, as we map crises, it is the map itself that is in crisis.

This book brings together critical perspectives on the role that mapping people, knowledges and data now plays in humanitarian work, both in cartographic terms and through data visualisations. Since the rise of Google Earth in 2005, there has been an explosion in the use of mapping tools to quantify and assess the needs of the poor, including those affected by climate change and the wider neo-liberal agenda.

Yet, while there has been a huge upsurge in the data produced around these issues, the representation of people remains questionable.

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Mapping Crisis: How to map an emergency in the age of COVID-19?

Doug Specht The use of contemporary digital tracing apps and so-called ‘big data’ now drives the daily movements of billions of people in a way that we have never before seen. People are being asked to stay home, go to work, wear masks, or send their children to school based on the invisible hand data, and the interpretations and collection of this data can be problematic.

For instance, doctors and politicians can look at the same data to draw wildly different conclusions about the best course of action to take. Issues of privacy, control, vicarious mapping, incomplete data, dark data, prejudice in reading data and inequality of access have all become increasing concerns.

Even in the richest of countries, those without a smartphone will be missed from any digital tracing apps designed to protect people.

Likewise, the British government’s much contested ‘track and trace’ app has come under fire for its poor track record, but more recently for apparent data breaches. A whitepaper report produced in June 2020, suggested that 84% of British people fear their data will be misused by tracing apps.

None of these issues being faced here are new.

Many of the present tactics and methods have already been trialed on the less privileged.

Migrants and refugees around the world have sas.ac.uk/publications

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Talking Point

long been reduced to data points, tracked by drones; their lives dictated by algorithm, computation, and the biases built into these technologies.

Closer to home, there are those who risk having their benefits denied by a Blackbox computer system, and the issues of hegemony in mapping are highlighted when you try looking for any of the more than 2,000 Mosques or Masjid on an ordnance survey map of the UK. Many communities have long experienced the negative consequences of being seen as data to be mapped, or left off of maps. In 2020, however, Covid-19 has brought the world of data-driven crisis management and social organisation to the doorstep of the whole world.

I don’t suggest here that we shouldn’t be harnessing all the tools, data and resources we can in the fight to save lives during this pandemic. This is not an argument against science, although it may be wilfully misinterpreted by anti-vaxxers and Covid conspiracy theorists, rather Covid-19 has shone a light on the many issues of the data driven mapping of crisis.

This is an opportunity to examine the many of its flaws and ramifications and should provide food for thought on how data collation is managed moving forward.

Who is missing from the data? Who was never asked, forgotten or excluded? Who loses in data-driven solutions? By asking these questions we strive towards more inclusive mapping, more inclusive data, and can cautiously move towards a world in which data can play a part in creating a more just society.

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“A dazzling cornucopia!”

-Neil F. Safier, Director of Brown Library

New World Objects of Knowledge: A Cabinet of Curiosities Edited by Mark Thurner and Juan Pimental Institute of Latin American Studies Available Open Access 978-1-908857-82-8 (hb), 232pp, £40 978-1-908857-83-5 (PDF) March 2021

From the late-fifteenth century to our own day, the New World has been plundered for its many ‘treasures’ and ‘wonders’ by different conquerors, empires and explorers. As a consequence, many of its natural and cultural productions have been scattered all over the world.

A Cabinet of Curiosities delves into the hidden histories of 40 of the New World’s most iconic objects, from the Inca Mummy, to Darwin’s Hummingbird. Richly-illustrated and marked with accompanying essays, we discover the dynamic, often global itineraries of key New World objects and how they have helped shape our modern world.

Revisiting the FalklandsMalvinas Question: Transnational and Interdisciplinary Perspectives Edited by Guillermo Mira and Fernando Pedrosa Institute of Latin American Studies Available Open Access 978-1-908857-56-9 (pb), 232pp, £25 February 2021

Almost forty years after the Falklands, the causes and consequences of the military conflict between Argentina and the United Kingdom in 1982 still reverberate in a sea of feverish memory. Every aspect of the archipelago that makes up the Falkland/ Malvinas Islands (including its very name) is surrounded by complexities, controversies and antagonisms.

This book combines approaches from history, political science, sociology and cultural studies, defined in a broad sense. It includes testimony from war veterans and exiles, essays on the films of Julio Cardoso, Argentine nationalism and patriotism as witnessed in contemporary literature and pedagogy.

Through taking different perspectives, which cut across each other and dialogue, it moves beyond traditional approaches to the conflict based on nationalism, geopolitics or military achievements to a more expansive discussion.

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Christian Felix Weiße the Translator: Cultural Transfer and Literary Entrepreneurship in the Enlightenment

Opposing Patriarchy: Women and the Law in Action in Pre-Unification Italy (1815-1865) Sara Delmedico

Tom Zille

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imlr books

Institute of Modern Languages Research

Institute of Modern Languages Research

978-0-85457-278-6 (pb), 260pp, £20

978-0-85457-273-1 (pb), 250pp, £20 June 2021

Christian Felix Weiße (1726-1804) is best known as a dramatist and influential children’s writer of the Enlightenment period. This is the first book to explore his singularly extensive output as a literary translator, investigating the conditions which allowed Weiße to become the most prolific German translator of English literature in the eighteenth century, a popular translator of French drama, and an influential editor and ‘entrepreneur’ of the translations of others.

Drawing on previously unpublished correspondence, the study examines Weiße’s wide-ranging professional networks as a cultural mediator of European significance.

Special attention is paid to his role in the German reception of Ossian, his introduction of English children’s literature to Germany, his translations of popular prose, and the intersections between his original writing and translations.

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November 2021

Shifts in state boundaries and socio-economic structures deeply affected the political landscape in nineteenth-century Italy; this includes a radical overhaul to the nation’s legal system.

The patriarchal, hierarchical and strict class stratification of society saw women redefining their sense of self and rethinking their identities beyond the traditional domestic roles of daughter, wife and mother. This volume charts this process by focusing on women’s attitudes towards the law and their interaction with the legal system. By analysing the law in action and women’s use of the law, the author seeks to recover the forgotten voices and lives of those ordinary women, who, in their everyday life, reacted against the limitations and constraints imposed upon them by society, and who refused to accept their status passively.

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“An ode to a devoted bibliophile!”

-Fine Books & Collections

A British Book Collector: Rare Books and Manuscripts in the R.E. Hart Collection, Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery

The Metopes of the Temple of Apollo Epikourios at Bassai: New Discoveries, Thoughts and Interpretations

Edited by Cynthia Johnson

by Peter Higgs

Institute of English Studies

BICS Supplement 144

978-0-9927257-9-2 (pb), 248pp, £30

Institute of Classical Studies

February 2021

978-1-914477-41-6 (pb), 368pp, £100

A British Book Collector celebrates one of the finest collections of manuscripts and rare books in the north west of England. From the turn of the twentieth century through the Second World War, Robert Edward Hart, a ropemaker of Blackburn, Lancashire, quietly amassed a phenomenal collection of medieval manuscripts and early printed books.

In this volume, leading scholars from the fields of the history of art, and the history of the book, examine anew the internationally important manuscripts and rare printed books in Hart’s collection, and the practice of collecting itself in the context of the waning of the industrial revolution. Copiously illustrated with colour prints, this volume marks R.E. Hart’s achievement as a collector who collected for himself, and for his community for posterity.

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December 2021

This major book brings together for the first time the sculpture fragments which formed the metopes from the Temple of Apollo at Bassai.

Recent research by the author and colleagues has yielded fresh discoveries in the British Museum, Athens and at the ancient site itself.

Further sculptural fragments have been added to this marble jigsaw puzzle, making new joins possible and connections viable, which has greatly enhanced our knowledge about the appearance and subject matter of the metopes from this famous temple.

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Menander ‘Misoumenos’ or ‘The Hated Man’: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary

by William D. Furley

The Ties That Bind: The Economic Relationships of Twelve Tebtunis Families Edited by Ryosuke Takahashi BICS Supplement 142

BICS Supplement 143

Institute of Classical Studies

Institute of Classical Studies

978-1-905670-91-8 (hb), 200pp, £70

978-1-905670-91-8 (hb), 236pp, £70 October 2021

Misoumenos, or ‘The Hated Man’, is one of Menander’s most popular plays to have survived from classical times. Dating to approximately 300 BCE, it tells the story of a mercenary soldier and the girl he meets whilst on campaign in Cyprus. Throughout, the girl spurns his advances and slowly turns against him, and the play follows the soldier’s growing despair and culminates in his suicidal thoughts.

The play belongs to the ancient genre of New Comedy, of which Menander was the acknowledged master. This edition is the fullest to date of any English language edition of the play.

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August 2021

Tebtunis in the Fayum, one of the best documented villages in Roman Egypt, yields a dozen contemporary family papers all dated to the second century AD, belonging to families of different classes. This unique documentation provides a rare opportunity to explore how local elites under Roman rule exploited their wealth in the countryside and interacted with its rural inhabitants.

This book for the first time investigates these family papers holistically, focusing on the economic activities in which the families engaged: land leases, loans in cash and kind, and the employment of managers and labourers on landed estates. Issues addressed in this study include strategies and decisionmaking among both elite families and villagers, the complexity of interfamilial relationships, the implications of this social networking, and the way in which relying on the evidence of single families can distort our picture of economic life in the village. This microhistorical study thus elucidates the diversity of socio-economic life in a village where no single family dominated.

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Themes in Plato, Aristotle, The Afterlife of Apuleius and Hellenistic Philosophy: Edited by C. Boidin, R. Mouren and F. Bistagne BICS Supplement 141 Keeling Lectures 2011–18 Edited by Fiona Leigh Keeling Memorial Lecture Institute of Classical Studies 978-1-905670-90-1 (hb), 250pp, £65 January 2021

The present volume collects together papers from the prestigious annual Keeling Memorial Lecture in ancient philosophy given between 2011–18.

Susanne Bobzein argues that Frege plagiarised the Stoics in respect of logic, Gail Fine compares uses of doxa and episteme in the Phaedo to contemporary notions of belief and knowledge, David Sedley offers a novel interpretation of ‘safe’ causal explanation in the Phaedo, and Gábor Betegh understands the ingredients of the soul in the Timaeus.

Dorothea Frede presents new considerations against a ‘particularist’ reading of Aristotle’s ethics, Lesley Brown examines the role of agreement in establishing what is just and the correctness of names in Plato, and Gisela Striker gives an analysis of the role of Stoic therapy in the good life. A. A. Long details a new reading of divinity in the Republic that reveals the Good as the essence of the divine, and Malcolm Schofield explores the tension between unfettered theoretical debate and the demand of determinacy in practical philosophy in Cicero.

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Institute of Classical Studies

978-1-905670-88-8 (hb), 230pp, £70 January 2021

Apuleius’ literary and philosophical fortune has been considerable since antiquity, mostly through the reception of The Golden Ass. The aim of this collection of essays is to highlight a few major aspects of this afterlife, from the High Middle Ages to early Romanticism, in the fields of literature, linguistics and philology, within a wide geographical scope.

The first part of the book focuses on The Golden Ass and its historical and geographical diffusion, from High Medieval Europe to early modern Mexico. The oriental connections of the book are also taken into account. The second part of the book examines the textual and visual destiny of Psyche’s story from the Apuleian fabula to allegorical retellings, in poetical or philosophical books and on stage.

As the third series of essays indicates, the fortunes of the book led many ancient and early modern writers and translators to use it as a canonical model for reflections about the status of fiction. It also became, mostly around the beginning of the 15th century, a major linguistic and stylistic reference for lexicographers and neo-Latin writers: the last papers of the book deal with Renaissance polemics about ‘Apuleianism’ and the role of editors and commentators.

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