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History and Classics
Publications 2019–20
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The School of Advanced Study (SAS), University of London, is the UK’s national centre for the promotion and support of research in the humanities. SAS and its member institutes offer unparalleled academic opportunities and facilities across a wide range of subject areas for the benefit of the national and international scholarly community. The School’s institutes have wide and varying publishing programmes, producing a range of monographs, reports, practitioner texts and edited collections. This catalogue lists a range of new and forthcoming titles in History and Classics from across the institutes, together with a selection of relevant journals published by the institutes, in some cases with external partners. There are also catalogues listing titles in Politics, Law and Human Rights, and Culture, Languages and Literature.
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We mark your memory: writings from the descendants of indenture Edited by David Dabydeen, Maria del Pilar Kaladeen and Tina K. Ramnarine
Gender: places, spaces and thresholds Edited by Victoria Blud, Diane Heath and Einat Klafter IHR Conference Series
Institute of Commonwealth Studies
Institute of Historical Research
978‑1‑912250‑07‑3 (pb), 212pp, £11.99
NEW! Available as a free PDF download
978‑1‑912250‑08‑0 (epub), £8
978-1-909646-84-1 (hb), 300pp, £40
April 2018
978-1-090646-86-5 (epub), £32
Indenture, whereby individuals entered, or were coerced, into an agreement to work in a colony, was open to abuse from recruitment to plantation. Hidden within this little known system of 19th and early 20th century labour migration are even more neglected stories of exploited and unfree labour under the British Empire. These include indentured histories from Madeira to the Caribbean, from West Africa to the Caribbean, and from China to the Caribbean, Mauritius and South Africa. To mark the centenary of indenture’s abolition in the British Empire (2017–20) this volume brings together, for the first time, new writing from across the Commonwealth and beyond. It is a unique and important attempt to explore, through the medium of poetry and prose, the indentured heritage of the 21st century.
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December 2018
From womb to tomb, how are we defined and confined by gender and by space? This collection addresses the concept of gender in the middle ages through the study of place and space, exploring how gender and space may be mutually constructive and how individuals and communities make and are made by the places and spaces they inhabit. Interrogating the thresholds between the sacred and the secular, the public and the private, enclosure and exposure, domestic and political, movement and stasis, the essays in this interdisciplinary collection draw on current research and contemporary theory to suggest new destinations for future study.
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IHR Conference Series
Empty Spaces Confronting emptiness in national, cultural and urban history
Thomas Frederick Tout (1855–1929) Refashioning history for the twentieth century Edited by Caroline A. Barron and Joel T. Rosenthal
Edited by Courtney J. Campbell, Allegra Giovine and Jennifer Keating
Empty spaces: confronting emptiness in national, cultural and urban history Edited by Courtney J. Campbell, Allegra Giovine and Jennifer Keating IHR Conference Series Institute of Historical Research NEW! Available as a free PDF download 978‑1‑909646‑49‑0 (hb), £40 978‑1‑909646‑50‑6 (epub), £32 November 2019
How is emptiness made and what historical purpose does it serve? What cultural, material and natural work goes into maintaining ‘nothingness’? Why have a variety of historical actors, from colonial powers to artists and urban dwellers, sought to construct, control and maintain (physically and discursively) empty space, and by which processes is emptiness discovered, visualised and reimagined? This volume draws together contributions from authors working on landscapes and rurality, along with national and imperial narratives, from Brazil to Russia and Ireland. It considers the visual, including the art of Edward Hopper and the work of the British Empire Marketing Board, while concluding with a section that examines constructions of emptiness in relation to capitalism, development and the (re)appropriation of urban space. In doing so, it foregrounds the importance of emptiness as a productive prism through which to interrogate a variety of imperial, national, cultural and urban history. 4
Thomas Frederick Tout (1855–1920): repositioning history for the twentieth century Edited by Caroline Barron and Joel Rosenthal IHR Conference Series Institute of Historical Research NEW! Available as a free PDF download 978-1-909646-99-5 (hb), 300pp, £40 978-1-912702-02-2 (epub), £32 August 2019
Thomas Frederick Tout was a remarkable medieval historian who forged the distinctive and distinguished history school at Manchester University in the early years of the 20th century. His own research made extensive use of the national archives (as opposed to the customary use of chronicle sources) and his major contributions were in the field of administrative history. He was, himself, a tireless administrator of many historical enterprises (including the Dictionary of National Biography) and his historical output was extraordinary. He spent the last four years of his life in London and is buried in Hampstead Parish churchyard. The time is ripe to reconsider his historical legacy.
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Magna Carta: history, context and influence Edited by Lawrence Goldman IHR Conference Short Series Institute of Historical Research NEW! Available as a free PDF download 978‑1‑0909646-87-2 (pb), 150pp, £15 978‑1‑0909646-89-6 (epub), £12 July 2018
This book examines the history and influence of Magna Carta in British and American history. In a series of essays written by notable British specialists, it considers the origins of the document in the political and religious contexts of the 13th century, the relevance of its principles to the 17th century disputes that led to the Civil War, the uses made of Magna Carta to justify the American Revolution, and its inspiration of the radicaldemocratic movement in Britain in the early 19th century. The introductory essay considers the celebration of Magna Carta’s 800th anniversary in 2015 in relation to ceremonials and remembrance in Britain in general. Given as papers to a joint conference of British and Chinese historians in Beijing in 2015, these essays provide a clear and insightful overview of the origins and impact of a medieval document that has shaped the history of the world.
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Dethroning historical reputations: universities, museums and the commemoration of benefactors Edited by Jill Pellew and Lawrence Goldman IHR Conference Short Series Institute of Historical Research NEW! Available as a free PDF download 978‑1‑909646‑82‑7 (pb), 150pp, £15 978-1-912702-01-5 (epub), £12 July 2018
Campaigns in universities across the world to reject, rename and remove historic benefactions have brought the present into collision with the past. In Britain the attempt to remove a statue of one of Oxford’s most famous benefactors, the imperialist Cecil Rhodes, spread and now also affects civic monuments and statues nationwide. In the United States, memorials to Confederates in the American Civil War and to other slaveholders have been the subject of intense dispute. Should we continue to honour historic figures whose actions are now deemed ethically unacceptable? How can we reconcile the views held by our ancestors with those we hold today? The essays in this inter-disciplinary collection are drawn from historians, sociologists and a museum director to examine current issues from different perspectives. Together they explore an emerging conflict between the past and present, history and ideology, and benefactors and their critics. 5
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THE FAMILY FIRM
Monarchy, mass media and the British public, 1932-53 by Edward Owens
The family firm: monarchy, People, texts and artefacts: mass media and the British cultural transmission in public, 1932-53 the Norman worlds by Edward Owens RHS New Historical Perspectives Series
Edited by David Bates, Edoardo D’Angelo and Elisabeth van Houts
Institute of Historical Research
IHR Conference Series
NEW! Available as a free PDF download
Institute of Historical Research
978-1-909646-94-0 (hb), 300pp, £50
NEW! Available as a free PDF download
978-1-909646-98-8 (pb), 300pp, £25
978‑1‑909646‑53‑7 (hb), 295pp, £40
978-1-909646-96-4 (epub), £32
978‑1‑909646‑54‑4 (epub), £32
November 2019
January 2018
The Family Firm presents the first major historical analysis of the transformation of the royal household’s public relations strategy in the period 1932-1953. Beginning with King George V’s first Christmas broadcast, Buckingham Palace worked with the Church of England and the media to initiate a new phase in the House of Windsor’s approach to publicity. This book also focuses on audience reception by exploring how British readers, listeners, and viewers made sense of royalty’s new media image. It argues that the monarchy’s deliberate elevation of a more informal and familycentred image strengthened the relationship between the public and the royals, and had a unifying effect on national life in the unstable years during and either side of the Second World War. Crucially, it argues that the royal household’s media strategy after 1936 helped to restore public confidence in a Crown that was severely shaken by the abdication of King Edward VIII. 6
This volume is based on two international conferences held in 2013 and 2014 at Ariano Irpino, and at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. It contains essays by leading scholars in the field. Like the conferences, the volume seeks to enhance interdisciplinary and international dialogue between those who work on the Normans and their conquests in northern and southern Europe in an original way. It has as its central theme issues related to cultural transfer, treated as being of a pan-European kind across the societies that the Normans conquered and as occurring within the distinct societies of the northern and southern conquests. These issues are also shown to be an aspect of the interaction between the Normans and the peoples they subjugated, among whom many then settled.
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Ravenna: its role in earlier medieval change and exchange
Medieval merchants and money: essays in honour of James L. Bolton
Edited by Judith Herrin and Jinty Nelson
Edited by Martin Allen and Matthew Davies
IHR Conference Series
IHR Conference Series
Institute of Historical Research
Institute of Historical Research
NEW! Available as a free PDF download
NEW! Available as a free PDF download
978‑1‑909646‑14‑8 (hb), 382pp, £40
978‑1‑909646‑16‑2 (hb), 384pp, £40
978-1-909646-33-9 (epub), £32
978‑1‑909646‑35‑3 (epub), £32
June 2016
In the long-debated transition from late antiquity to the early middle ages, the city of Ravenna presents a story rich and strange. From the fourth century onwards it suffered decline in economic terms. Yet its geographical position, its status as an imperial capital, and above all its role as a connecting point between East and West, ensured that it remained an intermittent attraction for early medieval kings and emperors throughout the period from the late fifth to the 11th century. Ravenna’s story is all the more interesting because it was complicated and unpredictable: discontinuous and continuous, sometimes obscure, sometimes including bursts of energetic activity. Throughout the early medieval centuries its flame sometimes flared, sometimes flickered, but never went out.
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June 2016
This volume contains selected essays in celebration of the scholarship of the medieval historian Professor James L. Bolton. The essays address a number of different questions in medieval economic and social history, in looking at the activities of merchants, their trade, legal interactions and identities. The importance of money and credit in the rural and urban economies is also highlighted. Other chapters look more widely at patterns of immigration to London, trade and royal policy, and the role that merchants played in the Hundred Years War.
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Radical collections: re-examining the roots of collections, practices and information professions
The concept of the book: the production, progression and dissemination of information
Edited by Jordan Landes and Richard Espley
Edited by Cynthia Johnson
Senate House Library
Institute of English Studies
NEW! Available as a free PDF download
978-0-9927257-4-7 (pb)
978-1-913002-00-8 (pb), 120pp, £15 978-1-913002-03-9 (epub), £8 978-1-913002-02-2 (Kindle), £8 December 2018
Do archivists ‘curate’ history? And to what extent are our librarians the gatekeepers of knowledge? Libraries and archives have a long and rich history of compiling ‘radical collections’- from Klanwatch Project in the States to the R. D. Laing Archive in Glasgow- but a re-examination of the information professions and all aspects of managing those collections is long overdue. This book brings together some key papers from a conference held at Senate House Library in 2017. It shines a light on pressing topical issues within library and information services (LIS)- to encompass selection, appraisal and accession, through to organisation and classification. Will libraries survive as victims of neoliberal marketization? Do we have a responsibility to collect and document ‘white hate’ in the era of Trump? And how can a predominantly white LIS workforce effectively collect and tell POC histories? 8
January 2019
What is the purpose and essence of a book? If we push the definition of a ‘book’ beyond the traditional form of the codex to encompass cuneiform tablets, papyri, as well as the printed and digital book, we discover that its functionality is as potent and diverse as human endeavour. Featuring contributors from a wide range of disciplines such as art history, medieval studies, ancient Near Eastern history, information management and the history of the book, this ambitious new release explores the biography of the concept of the book, and its function across millennia.
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Suffrage and citizenship in Ireland, 1912-18
Brazil: essays on history and politics
Senia Pašeta
Leslie Bethell
IHR Conference Short Series
Institute of Latin American Studies
Institute of Historical Research
NEW! Available as a free PDF download
NEW! Available as a free PDF download
978‑1‑908857‑54‑5 (pb), 240pp, £25
978-1-912702-31-2 (pb), 295pp, £12 January 2019
The women’s suffrage movement did not exist in a political vacuum. It interacted with, influenced and was influenced by other main political questions of the day, and with the main political question of the day - Ireland. Professor Senia Pašeta argues that our understanding of modern Irish and British politics would be enormously enriched if we recognized that the Irish and British suffrage movements were deeply connected; and that the women’s suffrage movement across the United Kingdom was shaped in fundamental ways by the Irish Question from the late nineteenth and into the twentieth-century.
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May 2018
Written by one of the greatest Brazilianists of his and subsequent generations, Emeritus Professor Leslie Bethell takes you on a whirlwind tour of the Latin American nation’s complex historical and political past and present. Featuring his classic essays- published together in one volume for the very first time- they go some way to explaining recent political phenomena in the country: the rise of Bolsonaro and the decline of left-wing parties. It contains seven chapters on major themes such as the Paraguayan War, populism and the failure of left-wing politics and the decline and fall of slavery. It also boasts a fascinating introductory autobiographical essay tracing his scholarly career from working-class schooldays through to the senior academic positions he has held on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Philosophy and medicine in the formative period of Islam Edited by Peter Adamson and Peter Pormann
Vernacular Aristotelianism in Italy from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century
Warburg Institute Colloquia 31
Edited by Luca Bianchi, Simon Gilson and Jill Kraye
Warburg Institute
Warburg Institute Colloquia 29
978‑1‑908590‑54-1 (pb)
Warburg Institute
January 2018
978‑1‑908590‑52‑7 (pb), 224pp, £35
Many of the leading philosophers in the Islamic world were doctors, yielding extensive links between philosophy and medicine. The 12 papers in this volume explore these links, focusing on the classical or formative period (up to the 11th century AD). One central theme is the Arabic reception of Greek figures who worked on medicine or medical topics, including Hippocrates, Aristotle and Galen. Several of the luminaries of philosophy in the early Islamic world are also studied, including Abū Bakr al-Rāzī, al-Fārābī, and Avicenna. Conversely, the volume also includes research on the use of philosophical ideas in medical authors, including Άlī ibn Ridwān. Attention is also given to the connections between medicine and Islamic theology (kalām). As a whole, the book provides both a survey of the kinds of work being done in this relatively unexplored area, and a springboard for further research.
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January 2017
This volume is based on an international colloquium held at the Warburg Institute in June 2013, entitled ‘Philosophy and Knowledge in the Renaissance: Interpreting Aristotle in the Vernacular’. It situates and explores vernacular Aristotelianism in a broad chronological context, with a geographical focus on Italy. The disciplines covered include political thought, ethics, poetics, rhetoric, logic, natural philosophy, cosmology, meteorology and metaphysics. Among the genres considered are translations, popularising commentaries, dialogues and works targeted at women. The wide-ranging and rich material presented is intended to stimulate scholars into developing this promising area of research still further.
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Palaeography, manuscript illumination and humanism in Renaissance Italy: studies in memory of A. C. de la Mare
The cosmography of paradise: the other world from ancient Mesopotamia to medieval Europe Edited by Alessandro Scafi
Edited by Robert Black, Jill Kraye and Laura Nuvoloni
Warburg Institute Colloquia 27
Warburg Institute Colloquia 28
978‑1‑908590‑50‑3 (pb), 295pp, £62
Warburg Institute 978‑1‑908590‑51‑0 (pb), 488pp, £60 May 2016
Albinia de la Mare (1932–2001), OBE, FBA, Professor of Palaeography at King’s College London, was one of the last century’s outstanding palaeographers and the world’s leading authority on Italian Renaissance manuscripts. In November 2011 a conference was held to honour her memory, and this volume offers revised versions of most of the papers read on that occasion, as well as three additional contributions. de la Mare had exceptionally wide interests, including key individuals involved in manuscript and literary production alongside other important themes in the history of palaeography. These included the emergence of humanist script; the relationship between script and illumination; the competing methods of palaeography and philology; the social, political, academic, geographical and cultural contexts of manuscript copying and production; and the role of palaeography in the transmission of classical texts. sas.ac.uk/publications
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This collection of essays considers the general theme of paradise from various comparative perspectives. It focuses on the way the relationship between ‘the other world’ and the structure of the whole cosmos has been viewed in different ages and traditions around the Mediterranean basin, spanning from the ancient Near East to medieval Europe. Scholars from different subject areas discuss the various ways of viewing the relationship between paradise and the general features of the universe from within their own field. The historical formation of the notion of paradise, defined as a perfect state beyond time and space, relied heavily upon a variety of temporally and culturally conditioned concepts of the physical cosmos as a finite and imperfect realm. It is precisely the emphasis on cosmography that allows the exploration of several traditions: Sumerian, ancient Iranian, Greek, Jewish, early Christian, Gnostic, Byzantine, Islamic, Scandinavian, and Latin Western.
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Greek large-scale bronze statuary: the late archaic and classical periods Edited by Kosmas Dafas BICS Supplement 138 Institute of Classical Studies 978‑1‑905670‑67‑3 (hb), 400pp, £100 July 2020
This book presents a new study of Greek large-scale bronze statuary of the late Archaic and Classical periods. It examines the discovery, origin, style, date, artistic attribution, identification and interpretation of the surviving bronzes, and focuses in particular on their technical features and casting techniques. It contains over 170 plates of photographs and drawings to illustrate its discussion. It also places the development of the casting techniques in connection with the stylistic evolution in Greek free-standing sculpture. During the Classical period, artists preferred bronze to marble when creating their contrapposto figures. Indisputably, bronze gave particular freedom to artists in creating three-dimensional figures. Through the examination of how technical matters affect style, this book presents fresh interpretations of these important monuments of Greek art and offers a new approach in the field of Greek free-standing bronze sculpture.
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The afterlife of Plutarch Edited by John North and Peter Mack BICS Supplement 137 Institute of Classical Studies 978‑1‑905670‑66-6 (pb), £60 January 2019
Plutarch’s writings have had a varied reception history from when he was writing in the second century BCE down to today. This volume starts from what may be a translation into the Syriac dialect of a lost Plutarch essay; continues with a tribute from a leading scholar of the later Byzantine period; and follows the centuries of sustained enthusiasm from the Renaissance to the 18th century. This period started once a translation into Latin had become available, and ended when scholars in the 19th century lowered Plutarch’s reputation as historian, biographer, philosopher, and stylist. By the end of the century, he came to symbolise in the eyes of Tolstoy precisely what history should not be. Both the causes of the decline and the later recovery of interest raise important new questions about how Plutarch should be assessed in the 21st century. This is one of the early volumes in the series of ‘Afterlives’ of the Classics, being produced jointly by the Institute of Classical Studies and the Warburg Institute.
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The afterlife of Virgil
The afterlife of Cicero
Edited by Peter Mack and John North
Edited by Gesine Manuwald
BICS Supplement 136
BICS Supplement 135
Institute of Classical Studies
Institute of Classical Studies
978‑1‑905670‑65-9 (pb), £60
978-1-905670-64-2 (pb), 230pp, £65
December 2017
Virgil has always been copied, studied, imitated and revered as perhaps the greatest poet of the Latin language. He has been centrally important to the transmission of the classical tradition, and has played a unique role in European education. In recognition of the richness of his reception the fourth conference in the joint Warburg Institute and Institute of Classical Studies series on the afterlife of the Classics was devoted to the afterlife of Virgil. This volume focuses on the reception of the Eclogues and the Aeneid in three main areas: Italian Renaissance poetry, scholarship and visual art; English responses to Virgil’s poetry; and emerging literatures in Eastern Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries. Contributors are Giulia Perucchi, M. Elisabeth Schwab, Clementina Marsico, David Quint, Marilena Caciorgna, Maté Vince, Hanna Paulouskaya, Tim Markey, Charles Martindale and Francesca Bortoletti.
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December 2016
Cicero was one of the most prolific and productive figures from ancient Rome, active as both a politician and a writer. As yet however, modern scholarship does not do justice to the sheer range of his later influence. This volume publishes papers from a conference which aimed to enlarge the basis for the study of Cicero’s reception, by examining in detail new aspects of its variety. The conference was held in May 2015, and was jointly organised by the Institute of Classical Studies, the Warburg Institute and the Department of Greek and Latin at University College London. The book presents 12 case studies on the reception of ‘Cicero the writer’ and ‘Cicero the man’, ranging from 13th-century Italy to 19th-century England, including colonial Latin America. Scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds discuss artistic and literary responses to Cicero as well as his exploitation in philosophical and political debates. Taken together, these studies illustrate how the special characteristics of the historical Cicero colour his reception: his afterlife is one of the most varied and wide-ranging of any classical author.
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ENHAM BEFORE THE SPA
the victoria history of gloucestershire
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rum pecideris ad am moenatus Catilius publica pervist viditiamque actussid ac vo, tabemus perteat uidemum pora num m ina coratim overidiis norum tebatus no. Serfica tquius, supior ata, vere horbit, ? Bonum de maio tebus remena, sen Cati pris coti, ocricerri, consultus.
CHELTENHAM BEFORE THE SPA Alex Craven and Beth Hartland
Beth Hartland and Alex Craven
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CHELTENHAM BEFORE THE SPA
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The Victoria History of Gloucestershire: Cheltenham before the Spa
The Victoria History of Middlesex: Knightsbridge and Hyde
Alex Craven and Beth Hartland
Pamela Taylor
VCH Shorts
VCH Shorts
Institute of Historical Research
Institute of Historical Research
978‑1‑908857‑51‑4 (pb), 116pp, £12
978‑1‑909646‑66-7 (pb), 100pp, £12
978‑1‑908857‑52‑1 (ebook), £8
978‑1‑909646‑67-4 (ebook), £8
July 2018
The familiar image of Cheltenham, a large and prosperous former spa town, world-famous on account of its Georgian and Regency architecture, its festivals and educational establishments, masks an earlier history. While numerous descriptions of the town have been published over the years, most say little about the many centuries of its existence before the 1740s, when it began to develop as a fashionable resort. This is the fullest account ever attempted to chronicle those centuries, from the late Saxon period until the 18th century. It draws on a range of documentary sources preserved in local and national archives, many of them never examined in detail before.
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June 2017
This book breaks new ground by uncovering an earlier, larger Knightsbridge and showing why its initial extent and history have been largely forgotten. Knightsbridge was the southern part of the Westminster abbey manor of Knightsbridge and Westbourne and, until 1900, covered the same area as the parish of St Margaret Westminster Detached. Pre-1900 Knightsbridge/Westminster included today’s Kensington Palace, Kensington Gardens, almost half of ‘South Kensington’, and Hyde Park west of the Serpentine (or river Westbourne). When Henry VIII acquired the manor to create Hyde Park, over half of Knightsbridge vanished without acknowledgement. Knightsbridge lost more land and recognition after William III bought a house and grounds which were transformed into Kensington Palace and Gardens. The book gives a wide-ranging account of this intriguing area and charts the hamlet’s development from the 13th through to the 21st century.
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The Victoria History of Middlesex: St Clement Danes c.1660-c.1900 Francis Boorman with Jonathan Comber and
The Victoria History of Hampshire: Basingstoke: a medieval town, c.1000-c.1600
Mark Latham
John Hare
VCH Shorts
VCH Shorts
Institute of Historical Research
Institute of Historical Research
978‑1‑909646‑79‑7 (pb), 124pp, £12
978‑1‑909646‑61-2 (pb), 100pp, £12
978‑1‑909646‑81‑0 (ebook), £8
978‑1‑909646‑62-9 (ebook), £8
October 2018
St Clement Danes is at the heart of the capital, sandwiched between ‘theatreland’ and legal London, and connecting the dual historic centres of Westminster and the City. This book reveals the vibrant cultural, economic, political and religious life of the parish from the Restoration to its abolition in 1900. Characterised by its contrasts, St Clement Danes was home to a mix of rich and poor residents, including lawyers, artisans, servants and prostitutes. The history of this fascinating area introduces a cast of characters ranging from the Twinings tea-trading family, to the rowdy theatre-going butchers of Clare Market and from the famous Samuel Johnson, to the infamous pornographers of Holywell Street. This book also unpicks the complicated structure of local government in the parish, and provides detailed accounts of the parish schools and charities.
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July 2017
Basingstoke is frequently seen as a very modern town, the product of the last decades of the 20th century. In reality it has a long, rich and prosperous history. From its beginnings c.1000 it became a significant market centre for the area around, and a place on the route to London from the west. By 1500 it was among the top 60 towns in England by wealth and taxpayers, and the centre of a major industrial area, whose manufactured cloths formed part of international patterns of trade. Much of the old town has been swept away by the shopping centre, but something of the medieval footprint remains in its street-plan beyond this, in a few surviving buildings and above all in its magnificent church. This book examines these features as well as the families, whether outsiders or locals, who made the most of the new thriving economic conditions, and whose dynamism helped create the town’s expansion.
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Books Women and the Law Susan Atkins and Brenda Hoggett
Women and the law Susan Atkins and Brenda Hoggett OBserving Law Institute of Advanced Legal Studies NEW! Available as a free PDF download 978‑1‑911507-10-9 (pb), 275pp, £25
Thou shalt forget: indigenous sovereignty, resistance and the production of cultural oblivion in Canada
978-1-911507-11-6 (ebook), £15
Pierrot Ross-Tremblay
September 2018
Human Rights Consortium
First published in 1984, Women and the Law is a pioneering study of the way in which the law has treated women – at work, in the family, in matters of sexuality and fertility, and in public life. The authors examine the origins of British law’s attitude to women, trace the development of the law and ways in which it reflects the influence of economic, social and political forces and the dominance of men. They illustrate that, despite formal measures, deep-rooted problems of encoded gender inequality remain. This edition provides a timely opportunity to revisit their groundbreaking analysis and reflect on how much has changed, and how much has stayed the same.
Institute of Commonwealth Studies 978-1-912250-09-7 (pb), 200pp, £25
January 2020 What is ‘cultural oblivion’ and ‘psychological colonialism’, and how have they affected the capacity of First Nation Peoples in Canada to actively resist systematic and territorial oppression by the state? Following a decade-long research project, this new book by Pierrot Ross-Tremblay examines the erasure of the author’s own community, the Essipiunnuat people, and their cultural history and heritage from Canadian public consciousness. Using extensive oral history, he conducts a genealogy of the intergenerational silence and subsequent forgetting of an uprising known as the Salmon War that occurred in the 1980s. The book queries how this impacted the group’s collective consent and emancipation.
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Journals
Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies Published by Wiley for the Institute of Classical Studies
Historical Research: the Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research
Edited by Greg Woolf
Published by Wiley for the Institute of Historical Research
ISSN 0076-0730 (print)
Edited by the Director of the IHR
ISSN 2041-5370 (online)
ISSN 1468-2281
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BICS publishes the latest research on classical studies by scholars from across the world. It has been in print since 1954, publishing in all areas of Classics broadly defined, including archaeology. The journal is now published twice per year, in both print and digital formats. Since 2016, it has been publishing themed issues. BICS 60-1 (June 2017) is a themed issue in honour of Fergus Millar, edited by Nicholas Purcell; BICS 60-2 (December 2017) published papers on Varro, edited by Valentina Arena and Fiachra Mac Góráin. BICS 61-1 (June 2018) will publish papers on sport and social identity in honour of Mark Golden. We make regular calls for expressions of interest in editing themed issues of BICS: these are advertised on the ICS website.
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(ISSN)1468-2281
Since 1923, Historical Research has been a leading mainstream British historical journal. Its articles cover a wide geographical and temporal span: from Britain to the Far East; from the early middle ages to the 21st century. It encourages the submission of articles from a broad variety of approaches, including social, political, urban, intellectual and cultural history. The journal is published four times a year, and new articles are also available for ‘early view’ up to a year before print publication.
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JOURNAL OF THE WARBURG AND COURTAULD INSTITUTES LXXX
THE WARBURG INSTITUTE University of London 2017
Reviews in History Published by the Institute of Historical Research
Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes
Edited by the Director of the IHR
Published by the Warburg Institute
ISSN 1749-8155
ISSN 0075-4390 (print)
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ISSN 2044-0014 (online)
The open access journal Reviews in History was launched in 1996, and publishes reviews and reappraisals of significant work in all fields of historical interest. Over 2,000 reviews have been published to date, reaching thousands of readers online and a free email alert. New reviews appear regularly.
Vol. LXXX (2017) ISBN 978-1-908590-06-0 www.ingentaconnect.com/content/warburg/jwci
The JWCI is intended as an interdisciplinary forum for scholars specialising in art history, the history of ideas and cultural history. Usually the subjects discussed either centre on or have some connection with Western, typically European cultures; therefore, too, the JWCI provides a home for research into the many interconnections between those cultures and others which have flourished beyond European borders - particularly, but by no means limited to, the cultures and learning of the Near East. Topics include the arts in their various forms, religion, philosophy, science, literature and magic, as well as intellectual, political and social life, from Antiquity to the dawn of the contemporary era. Founded in 1937, soon after the arrival of the Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg in London, the Journal of the Warburg Institute became the Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes two years later and has flourished as a collaborative enterprise since that time.
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Humanities Digital Library is an open access resource for peer-reviewed scholarly books in the humanities It combines new publications with access to works that previously existed only in print. Library titles are available as monographs, edited collections and longer- and shorter-form works – published as open access PDFs, with copies available to purchase in print and EPUB formats. The Humanities Digital Library is an initiative of the School of Advanced Study, University of London, led by the Institute of Historical Research (IHR) and the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS). Partners include the Royal Historical Society, whose ‘New Historical Perspectives’ series will appear on the platform.
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