University of London Press Catalogue 2022 by School of Advanced Study

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“This compelling book shows us Restoration London, but not as we know it. The book is a restoration in many senses: of dignity and of global context to the world of Samuel Pepys and the Great Fire.” —Professor Corinne Fowler (Director of Colonial Countryside: National Trust Houses Reinterpreted)

Freedom Seekers: Escaping from Slavery in Restoration London Simon P. Newman IHR Shorts Institute of Historical Research Available Open Access 978-1-912702-93-0 (pb), 250pp, £12 978-1-912702-94-7 (PDF)

“Painstaking research and luminous interpretation reveal a community of enslaved Black people in Restoration England, yearning to escape. Evocative prose and interactive illustrations enable us to imagine their flights on the streets of London.” —Vincent Brown, author of Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War

“Brimming with revelations at every turn... Simon Newman gives us a new way of seeing British slavery.” —Matthew J. Smith (Director, Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery, UCL)

February 2022

Freedom Seekers: Escaping from Slavery in Restoration London reveals the hidden stories of enslaved and bound people in England’s capital. This book brings to light for the first time the history of slavery in England as revealed in the stories of resistance by enslaved workers. Featuring a series of case-studies of individual “freedom-seekers”, this book explores the nature and significance of escape attempts as well as detailing the likely routes and networks they would take to gain their freedom. Freedom Seekers shows that not only were enslaved people present in Restoration London but that White Londoners of this era were intimately involved in the construction of the system of racial slavery, a process that traditionally has been regarded as happening in the colonies rather than the British Isles. An unmissable and important book that seeks to delve into Britain’s colonial past. sas.ac.uk/publications

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The Margins of Late Medieval London, 14301540 Charlotte Berry

Giving Birth in EighteenthCentury England Sarah Fox RHS New Historical Perspectives Series

RHS New Historical Perspectives Series

Institute of Historical Research

Available Open Access

978-1-914477-05-8 (hb), 300pp, £40

978-1-914477-01-0 (hb), 300pp, £40 978-1-914477-02-7 (pb), 300pp, £25 978-1-914477-04-1 (Kindle), £5 978-1-914477-03-4 (PDF) February 2022

The Margins of Late Medieval London is a powerful study of medieval London’s urban fringe. Seeking to unpack the complexity of urban life in the medieval age, this volume offers a detailed and novel approach to understanding London beyond its institutional structures. Using a combination of experimental digital, quantitative and qualitative methodologies, the volume casts new light on urban life at the level of the neighbourhood and considers the differences in economy, society and sociability which existed in different areas of a vibrant premodern city. It focuses on the dynamism and mobility that shaped city life, integrating the experiences of London’s poor and migrant communities and how they found their place within urban life. It describes how people found themselves marginalized in the city, and the strategies they would employ to mitigate that precarious position. 4

978-1-914477-06-5 (pb), 300pp, £25 978-1-914477-09-6 (Kindle), £5 978-1-914477-07-2 (PDF) April 2022

This fascinating new book radically rewrites all that we know about eighteenth-century childbirth by placing women’s voices at the center of the story. From quickening through to confinement, giving caudle, delivery, and lying-in, birth was once a complex ritual that involved entire communities. Drawing on an extensive and under-researched body of materials, such as letters, diaries, and recipe books, this book offers critical new perspectives on the history of the family, community, and the lives of women in the coming age of modern medicine. It explores rituals of contemporary childbirth—from foods traditionally eaten before and after birth, birthing clothing, and how a woman’s relationship with her family, husband, friends, and neighbours changed during and after pregnancy. In this important and deeply moving study, we are invited onto a detailed and emotive journey through motherhood in an age of immense socio-cultural and intellectual change. sas.ac.uk/publications

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The Glasgow Sugar Aristocracy: Scotland and Caribbean Slavery, 17751838 Stephen Mullen RHS New Historical Perspectives Series Institute of Historical Research Available Open Access 978-1-909646-77-3 (hb), 300pp, £40 978-1-912702-33-6 (pb), 300pp, £25 978-1-909646-93-3 (epub), £5 978-1-912702-92-3 (Kindle), £5 978-1-909646-78-0 (PDF) July 2022

The Glasgow Sugar Aristocracy outlines Scotland’s colonial past and Glasgow’s direct links with the slave trade through sugar plantations. West India merchants and plantation owners based in Glasgow made nationally significant fortunes, some of which boosted Scottish capitalism, as well as the temporary Scottish economic migrants who travelled to some of the wealthiest of the Caribbean islands. This book adds much needed nuance to the argument in a Scottish context; revealing methods of repatriating wealth from the Caribbean as well as mercantile investments in industry, banking and land and philanthropic initiatives. A must-read that adds to a necessary, growing history of Britain’s dealings with the trade of enslaved people and slavery. sas.ac.uk/publications

Providing for the Poor: The Old Poor Law, 1750-1834 Edited by Louise Falcini and Peter Collinge RHS New Historical Perspectives Series Institute of Historical Research Available Open Access 978-1-914477-10-2 (hb), 300pp, £40 978-1-914477-11-9 (pb), 300pp, £25 978-1-914477-12-6 (epub), £5 978-1-914477-13-3 (Kindle), £5 978-1-914477-14-0 (PDF) August 2022

The Old Poor Law in England and Wales, administered by the local parish, dispensed benefits to paupers providing a uniquely comprehensive, pre-modern system of relief. The law remained in force until 1834, and provided goods and services to keep the poor alive. Combining short and long-form articles and essays, Providing for the Poor brings together academics and practitioners from across disciplines, to re-examine the micro-politics of poverty in the long eighteenth-century through the eyes of the poor, their providers and enablers. From the providence of the parochial sixpence given in order to move a beggar on, to coercive marriages, plebeian clothing and the much broader implications of vagrancy towards the end of the long eighteenth century, this volume aims to bridge the gaps in our understanding of the experiences of people across the social spectrum whose lives were touched by the Old Poor Law. 5

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Poets Laureate in the Long Eighteenth Century, 16681813

A Very British Witch-Hunt: Anti-communism in Britain During the Early Cold War

Leo Shipp

Matthew Gerth

RHS New Historical Perspectives Series

RHS New Historical Perspectives

Institute of Historical Research

Available Open Access

978-1-914477-29-4 (hb), 300pp, £40

978-1-914477-34-8 (hb), 300pp, £40

978-1-914477-30-0 (pb), 300pp, £25

978-1-914477-35-5 (pb), 300pp, £25

978-1-914477-33-1 (epub), £5

978-1-914477-36-2 (epub), £5

978-1-914477-31-7 (Kindle), £5

978-1-914477-37-9 (Kindle), £5

978-1-914477-32-4 (PDF)

978-1-914477-38-6(PDF)

September 2022

The long eighteenth-century was a period of unequivocal societal change in Britain. The nation became infinitely more commercial, more middle-class, and more conscious of a British national identity. Literature moved away from the court and became a pursuit to be enjoyed by all, and the Poet Laureates were amongst the most celebrated and widelyread writers of their time. A highly prominent, important, and respectable institution throughout the long eighteenth-century, the laureateship encapsulated some of the most vital trends in eighteenth-century culture. Starting at the late-Stuart period, the book analyses the various laureate appointments over the course of the century investigating their relationship with the public, newspaper presses and the royal court itself and what this says about the changing nature and extent of British identity, culture and society. 6

December 2022

A Very British Witch-Hunt investigates British anti-communism during the Cold War as demonstrated through state policies, political rhetoric, party politics and war with the trade union movement. The shadowy anti-communism that emerged in Britain during the Cold War has often been eclipsed by the comparative excesses of American McCarthyism. This new book demonstrates that not only did governmental and political anti-communism exist in Britain, but that the country developed its own distinctive and often insidious remedies that were markedly British. It will uncover how a nationalised fear of Fifth Columnists, Soviet spies, agent provocateurs, fellow travellers, and cryptocommunists was met with state repression, redbaiting, and the ‘othering’ of fellow citizens, including alleged abuse of domestic communists by MI5. sas.ac.uk/publications

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Geyl and Britain: Encounters, Controversies, Impact Stijn van Rossem and Ulrich Tiedau IHR Conference Series Institute of Historical Research Available Open Access 978-1-915249-00-5 (hb), 118pp, £40 978-1-915249-02-9 (epub), £5 978-1-915249-03-6 (Kindle), £5 978-1-915249-01-2 (PDF) July 2022

Pieter Geyl (1887—1966) remains one of the most internationally renowned historians of the twentieth century, but also one of the most controversial. Having come to the UK as a journalist, he started his academic career at the University of London following the First World War. A prolific writer and activist, Geyl was an early example of a ‘public intellectual’ and remains one of the most influential thinkers on history of all time. The present volume aims to re-examine Geyl’s time in Britain, his relationship to both the Netherlands and Britain, and shed new light on his multifaceted work as a historian, journalist, translator and political activist, his contemporary networks, as well as on his lasting legacy for British views of German, Dutch and Belgian history.

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Becoming an Historian: An Informal Guide Penelope J. Corfield and Tim Hitchcock IHR Shorts Institute of Historical Research Available Open Access 978-1-914477-15-7 (pb), 220pp, £15 978-1-914477-17-1 (epub), £5 978-1-914477-18-8 (Kindle), £5 978-1-914477-16-4 (PDF) May 18 2022

Writing history is an art and a craft. This handbook is designed to support research students and independent scholars in showing how the historical profession works, and how they can participate in this vibrant community of scholars. This friendly guide will help you design big research projects, the difference between quantitative and qualitative research methodologies and how to follow your project through to a positive conclusion. It is also frank about the pains and pleasures of sticking with a long-term project. And it finally explains how to present original research to wider audiences, including the appropriate use of social media, the art of public lecturing, and strategies for publication. Written by esteemed historians, Penelope J. Corfield and Tim Hitchcock, Becoming a Historian seeks to explode the myths and systems that can make the world of research seem intimidating and instead offers step-bystep advice designed to make it easier to join this vibrant community of scholarship. 7

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Before Grenfell: Fire, Safety and Resilience in Modern Britain Shane Ewen IHR Shorts Institute of Historical Research Available Open Access 978-1-914477-25-6 (pb), 100pp, £15 978-1-914477-28-7 (epub), £5 978-1-914477-27-0 (Kindle), £5 978-1-914477-26-3 (PDF) October 2022

Before Grenfell is a poignant and timely analysis of risk, fire and safety in post-war Britain. Tracing the evolution of state housing policy in relation to multi-storey housing from the mid-1950s, the book adds to a burgeoning history of the British experience of fire and safety in high-rise buildings, and investigates a latent housing crisis in late-capitalist Britain against a backdrop of increasingly deregulated urban building development. Drawing from public enquiries, newspaper accounts and oral histories, it details other avoidable disasters; notably, the Ronan Point tower block explosion, 1968; the Summerland leisure centre fire, 1972; and the Bradford City Football Club fire, 1985. The book closes with a powerful chapter on fire safety campaigners, including survivor groups, seeking justice for the victims of fire disasters.

Talking History: Seminar Culture at the Institute of Historical Research, 19212021 Edited by David Manning IHR Shorts Institute of Historical Research Available Open Access 978-1-915249-04-3 (pb), 250pp, £25 978-1-915249-07-4 (epub), £5 978-1-915249-06-7 (Kindle), £5 978-1-915249-05-0 (PDF) November 2022

Talking History offers an fascinating overview of the history of seminars and seminarians at the Institute over the twentieth and early twenty-first century. A significant contribution to the nature of academia today, this new book offers reflection and further expression to an ongoing evolution in both historical research and the role of historical research in academia and society.

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Achieving Access to Justice in a Business and Human Rights Context Virginie Rouas Observing Law Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Available Open Access 978-1-911507-18-5 (pb), 360pp, £35 978-1-911507-27-7 (epub), £5 978-1-911507-19-2 (PDF) January 2022

Multinational enterprises (MNEs) can contribute to economic prosperity and social development in the countries where they operate. At the same time, their activities may directly or indirectly cause harm to humans and to the environment. MNEs are rarely held accountable for their involvement in human rights abuses and environmental damage. In recent years, activists have challenged corporate impunity by introducing innovative claims seeking to hold parent companies directly liable for the harm caused by their group’s activities. Using national litigation experiences as a starting point and focusing on European civil-law countries, the book evaluates the extent to which litigation against MNEs has been effective in achieving access to justice and corporate accountability.

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The Signature: The Judicial Development of the Concept from the Thirteenth Century to the Age of the Facsimile Transmission Stephen Mason Observing Law Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Available Open Access 978-1-911507-31-4 (pb), 148pp, £25 978-1-911507-32-1 (PDF) August 2022

This fascinating book considers the history of the signature from the thirteenth century to the age of the facsimile transmission. It begins with a discussion of the purpose of a signature, what is meant by a signature, and the functions a signature serves. The author then provides a brief overview of the methods used to demonstrate proof of intent and authentication, such as objects as a means of authentication, the seal, witnesses and scribes, the sign of the cross, and the chirograph.

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Law, Humanities and the Covid Crisis Edited by Carl F. Stychin Observing Law Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Available Open Access 978-1-911507-30-7 (pb), 300pp, £25 978-1-911507-28-4 (epub), £5 978-1-911507-29-1 (PDF) September 2022

Whilst there has been an abundance of scientific works to have come from the COVID-19 crisis, there has been relatively little to date from its sister subject, the humanities. Now, a striking new title seeks to address the immediacy of COVID-19 by focusing on the implications of the virus in a wider interdisciplinary context– through the lens of the law, history, ethics, technology, economics and gender studies. Researchers from around the world offer their critical reflections on COVID-19; on the past, present and future of a period of socio-cultural upheaval and tremendous suffering that has laid bare fundamental imbalances in our society. From Europe, to South America, Asia and beyond, Law, Humanities and the Covid Crisis sets out a framework for understanding the COVID-19 virus beyond its epidemiological constraints, asking us to query the very definition of what it means to be human. Featuring essays on violence against women, mask compliance, conspiracy theories, and national security laws, the book is a significant contribution to understanding our new ‘postCOVID’ landscape, and the future yet to come. 10

The Social and Political life of Latin American Infrastructure: Meanings, Values, and Competing Visions of the Future edited by Jonathan Alderman and Geoff Goodwin Institute of Latin American Studies Available Open Access 978-1-908857-95-8 (pb), 250pp, £25 978-1-908857-97-2 (epub), £5 978-1-908857-96-5 (Kindle), £5 978-1-908857-98-9 (PDF) August 2022

From roads, railways, statues, and bridges, infrastructure provides a unique lens through which to view our own national histories and societies. Serving as an important conduit between individuals and the state, infrastructure can help mediate citizenship, reshape social relations between people both within and across communities, and has the capacity to underpin—or indeed, undermine—nation-building. Based on recent, original research, the essays in this collection cover a range of pressing infrastructural considerations, including sustainability, water conflict, extractive mining, and public housing in Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Colombia, Ecuador, and Mexico to better understand how infrastructure has reshaped Latin America over the past century. sas.ac.uk/publications

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Arthur Schnitzler in Great Britain: An Examination of Power and Translationp in the Enlightenment

Critical Encounters: Bataille, Blanchot, and the Literary Real Zoe Angelis

Nicole Robertson

imlr books

Institute of Modern Languages Research

978-0-85457-282-3 (pb), 200pp, £20

978-0-85457-281-6 (pb), 225pp, £20 March 2022

The “amoral voice” of fin-de-siècle Vienna, Arthur Schnitzler (1862–1931) was one of the major figures of European modernist literature. Throughout his lifetime and posthumously, he enjoyed substantial domestic and international success, yet the arrival of his dramatic works in Great Britain was plagued by false starts, short runs and inconsistencies. Only with Tom Stoppard’s adaptations of Das weite Land and Liebelei, as Undiscovered Country (1979) and Dalliance (1986) respectively, were Schnitzler’s plays finally produced at the National Theatre. This examination of Schnitzler’s reception in Great Britain presents exhaustive and detailed scholarship on a fascinating, if far from smooth, journey: fundamental questions about the nature of authorship, text and translation are brought to bear on a body of often overlooked material ripe for attention.

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July 2022

Few terms have been more prone and resistant to definition than the ‘literary’ and the ‘real’. Bringing them together, under the contrivance of the ‘literary real’, sheds new light on the understanding of the terms ‘real’, ‘being’, ‘existence’, ‘the literary’, ‘literature’, ‘writing’ and alters our thinking on them. By means of Bataille’s exposure to the violent disorder of life, and Blanchot’s passionate meditation on literature and language, A Critical Encounter addresses two questions that are constantly entwined: firstly, what kind of ‘real’ is involved and disclosed in writing – and how does this differ from reality in its more traditional sense and from conventional representations of reality? Secondly, what is writing’s own mode of ‘being’, in what way is it particular and what are the implications of this particularity? This volume investigates the real effect that the existence of literature has on our lives: how it challenges and reconfigures the way we perceive ourselves, our place in the world and our relations with others.

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The Victoria History of Leicestershire: Lutterworth Pamela J. Fisher VCH Shorts

The Victoria History of Hampshire: Dummer and Kempshott Jennie Butler and Sue Lane

Institute of Historical Research

VCH Shorts

978-1-912702-82-4 (pb), 164pp, £14

Institute of Historical Research

978-1-912702-83-1 (epub), £5

978-1-915249-08-1 (pb), 116pp, £14

June 2022

978-1-915249-09-8 (epub), £5

This publication, the fourth VCH Short from Leicestershire, tells the history of Lutterworth, a small market town in the south-west of the county. John Wyclif was the town’s rector from 1374 until his death in 1384, and the ongoing impact of his controversial writings so concerned the Church that his bones were disinterred and desecrated in 1428 on the instructions of the Pope. Lutterworth was also the birthplace of the jet engine, which was developed by Sir Frank Whittle between 1937 and 1942 in a disused foundry building in the town. Lutterworth’s people and their roles in shaping the economy, schools, churches, institutions and community life all feature strongly, as does the importance of the market in developing trade between the east and west midlands in the Middle Ages and the later effect of transport changes, including stagecoaches, railways and the modern motorway network on people, their jobs, housing and daily life.

August 2022

Dummer, a small village south of Basingstoke, has a rich and well documented history. Serving as an example of a typical chalkland settlement with a sheep and corn economy, this book is of interest to more than a local audience. The history of Kempshott centres around Kempshott House, a grand mansion built in 1733, and on the lives of the people who lived there. Foremost amongst these was the Prince of Wales (future George IV) who leased the house as a hunting lodge, brought for his ‘wife’ Maria Fitzherbert to live locally and transforming the social and sporting life for the gentry of north Hampshire. The diaries of the chief landowner, Stephen Terry (d. 1867) give a vivid picture of Dummer life in the 19th century including the coming of the railways and visitors to the parish. The stories of Jane Austen and Queen Victoria are amongst those enlivening its pages, as well the emancipation of enslaved workers.

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the victoria history of middlesex

PENTON MEWSEY

ST GEORGE HANOVER SQUARE Francis Boorman

John Isherwood

astle Donington in northe lies on the south bank of miles north-west of Leicester east of Derby. A nucleated on the present site more than castle was built in the 1150s, es of a town soon developed, t, fair and hospital. Secondary up alongside the Trent, by the Cavendish Bridge, the site of ieval ferry. Donington Park, n the early 13th century as a ame a separate estate of the on in the late 16th century. een shaped by strong religious d the growth and then decline stries in the 18th and 19th transport links, including port in the south of the parish, w employment opportunities. in the early 21st century is ople travel in daily to work, re visit the motor-racing on Park and other leisure ar, yet few know of the parish’s

t in the Leicestershire VCH examines the changing ape, landownership, working ure and religious worship in over the last thousand years, ettlements at King’s Mills and It will be of interest to local family and local historians.

The Victoria History of Middlesex: St George Hanover Square Francis Calvert Boorman VCH Shorts Institute of Historical Research 978-1-912702-84-8 (pb), 116pp, £14 978-1-912702-85-5 (epub), £5 November 2022

The parish of St George Hanover Square encompasses the wealthy neighbourhoods of Mayfair, Belgravia and Pimlico - of which large areas were owned by the Grosvenor Estate and developed by master builder Thomas Cubitt - as well as part of Hyde Park. This VCH Short relates the history of the parish, from its inception in 1725, to its abolition with the establishment of the London County Council in 1900. The area was transformed through rapid urbanisation from largely undeveloped fields on the western fringe of London to becoming one of the most affluents parts of the metropolis, with developments centred on a series of grand squares, including Hanover, Grosvenor and Belgrave Squares.

The Metopes of the Temple of Apollo Epikourios at Bassai: New Discoveries, Thoughts and Interpretations by Peter Higgs BICS Supplement 144 Institute of Classical Studies 978-1-914477-41-6 (pb), 368pp, £100 March 2022

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.

In detailed thematic treatments, the book explores the local government of the vestry, as well as institutions such as the schools, charities and St George’s Hospital, now based in South London. The wider political culture and the economy of the parish are described, from the aristocrats and servants of Mayfair, to the industries on the bank of the Thames, including manufactories and a distillery. sas.ac.uk/publications

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The Agōn in Classical Literature: Studies in Honour of Chris Carey edited by Michael Edwards, Athanasios Efstathiou, Ioanna Karamanou, and Eleni Volonaki

A Corpus of Greek Graffiti from Dalmatia edited by Slobodan Cace, Alan Johnston, Branko Kirigin, and Lucijana Šešelj BICS Supplement 145

BICS Supplement 143

Institute of Classical Studies

978-1-905670-98-7 (hb), 370pp, £80

978-1-905670-99-4 (pb), 216pp, £80

May 2022

The multifaceted agōn – a ‘contest of words’ – is a force formulating classical literary tradition. This book reflects on facets of the agōn and its representations in classical literature across a variety of genres and ideological contexts, from Homer to lyric poetry, drama, law, rhetoric and historiography, and the pivotal role of competition in ancient Greek thought. It sketches out key lines of inquiry pertaining to the study of the agōn as a literary, structural and dialectic form, as a means of authority and power, and as a competitive element in poetic diction and performance. Stimulating fresh discussions under a broad spectrum of theoretical and methodological approaches, this collection of essays explores the wide range of agonal dynamics, and their generic and cultural value.

The volume is a corpus of some six hundred and fifty Greek graffiti and inscribed artifacts from sites along the eastern coast of the upper Adriatic. Included in this volume is material from some sixteen sites overall, ranging in date from the late sixth to the first century BC. The bulk come from the two sanctuaries of Diomedes, on the central Adriatic islet of Palagruža and the windswept Cape Ploča. As texts, the materials covered in the volume offer insights into dialect usage and letter forms, and comparisons are made with material from related sites elsewhere.

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