Routledge Studies in Modern British History
The Early Years of the Football Association: Cunning, Moribund, Resurgent
1st Edition
By Graham Curry
June 05, 2026
Over the past two decades, academic, sociological/historical writing on football has flourished, mainly on the back of the debate over the game's early development led by Eric Dunning, Graham Curry, Tony Collins, and Adrian Harvey. This book adds to that debate, providing more information on the ...
The Persistence of Witchcraft in Victorian England
1st Edition
By Julia Phillips
April 21, 2026
This book presents an alternative argument to the established opinion that witchcraft began to decline in the eighteenth century and that by the early twentieth century at the latest, it had largely ceased to exist. The idea that witchcraft disappeared from society is partially based on a ...
Migration on the Ballot?: Smethwick and the 1964 General Election
1st Edition
By Marc Collinson
March 06, 2026
Migration on the Ballot? re-examines the 1964 election contest at Smethwick. It considers the impact of deindustrialisation, urban redevelopment, and migration on the town, alongside the candidates and parties who stood, and how commentators have shaped our understanding of the result. The 1964 ...
Remembering and Forgetting Britain’s COVID-19 Pandemic
1st Edition
By David Tollerton
February 13, 2026
Remembering and Forgetting Britain’s COVID-19 Pandemic presents the first critical assessment of British memorial sites created in response to impacts of the COVID-19 virus. Covering memorials established during the half-decade since the start of the first lockdown, this book considers the ...
The Working Men's College and the Tradition of Adult Education
1st Edition
Edited
By Tom Schuller, Richard Taylor
December 25, 2025
The Working Men’s College (WMC) is the UK’s oldest continuously running adult education institution, and a very distinctive example of the British adult education tradition. This volume brings the history of the WMC up to date, following the 1954 centenary history by JFC Harrison. Contributions ...
The Influence of Railways on Economic Change
1st Edition
By Richard Marks
December 23, 2025
This book approaches the history of railway building and its impact on economic change in a new way. Using a more granular approach than has been used in the past, based on detailed case studies, this book aims to establish the effect of railway building on local economies and individual sectors ...
The Mystique of Running the Public House in England: Quest for El Dorado, 1840-1939
1st Edition
By David W. Gutzke
November 27, 2025
This book is the first scholarly study to explore economic relations between brewers and publicans in the brewing industry over a century. Based on overlooked historical evidence, this volume examines over 400 interviews with candidates for public houses, unpublished evidence of royal ...
Rethinking Thatcher and Europe: An Alternative Reading
1st Edition
By Alessandra Zanetti
November 23, 2025
This book offers a compelling exploration of Margaret Thatcher's approach to European integration during the years of her premiership, providing a nuanced portrait of one of the most fascinating and influential political figures of recent decades. Drawing on extensive archival research and ...
From Corporatism to Workers’ Control: The Development and Demise of British Guild Socialism
1st Edition
By Jack Vowles
November 21, 2025
This book provides a history and analysis of how the British guild socialist movement was forged in the heat of labour unrest prior to World War I, the experience of the war and subsequent troubled years, including the impact of the Bolshevik Revolution. Guild socialism proposed a model of ...
Intellectual Conservatism: From Burke to Scruton
1st Edition
Edited
By Ferenc Hörcher, Daniel Pitt
September 29, 2025
This book examines the history of intellectual conservatism from its late 18th century "founding father", Edmund Burke, to its last great representative, the late Sir Roger Scruton. Focusing on British intellectual conservatism and investigating this under-researched area of political thought ...
The British Conservative Party: Ideology and Citizenship
1st Edition
By Lenon Campos Maschette
September 29, 2025
Citizenship has been an ill-explored subject within Conservative Party studies. When this subject has been analysed, it is usually made by scholars of citizenship, more concerned with general overviews than understanding specific Conservative approaches to the concept. This book intends to fill ...
Entryism and the Revolutionary Socialist Left in Britain
1st Edition
By Nicolas Sigoillot
July 31, 2025
This book examines entryism in the context of the revolutionary socialist left in Britain, from the inception of the Communist Party of Great Britain in 1920 to the departure of Militant from the Labour Party in 1992. Entryism is a tactic of penetration of a political party by another, aimed at ...