Routledge Studies in Modern British History
Networks of Influence and Power: Business, Culture and Identity in Liverpool's Merchant Community, c.1800 to 1914
1st Edition
Edited
By Robert Lee
July 31, 2025
During the nineteenth century, Liverpool became the heart of an international maritime network. As the 'second city' of Empire, its merchants and shipowners operated within a transnational commercial and financial system, while its trading connections stimulated the development of new markets and ...
The Falklands/Malvinas Conflict: Forty Years On
1st Edition
Edited
By Louise A. Clare
June 27, 2025
Taking place in 1982, a major event in both post-colonial history and the final phase of the Cold War, as well as a cultural touchstone for two different countries, the Falklands/Malvinas Conflict is one of the most important events of the last two decades of the twentieth century. This volume ...
Britons to America: Oral Narratives of English, Scottish and Welsh Emigrants to the Land of Plenty
1st Edition
By Mario Varricchio
April 28, 2025
This book breaks new ground in the study of British emigration to the United States from the 1860s to the 1930s through the analysis of interviews with English, Scottish and Welsh emigrants collected during the Great Depression era by the Federal Writers’ Project, and mainly from the ...
GPs, Politics and Medical Professional Protest in Britain, 1880–1948
1st Edition
By Chris Locke
April 13, 2025
This book charts the journey of British General Practitioners (GPs) towards professional self-realisation through the development of a political consciousness manifested in a series of bruising encounters with government. GPs are an essential part of the social fabric of modern Britain but as a ...
The Rise and Fall of English Radicalism, 1760 to 1800
1st Edition
By Mark Hulliung
March 24, 2025
This book explores the major political debates in England during the final decades of the eighteenth century, a period when responses to the American and French Revolutions were a major concern and the entire future of public life in England was in question. Offering an in-depth treatment of the ...
British Representations of the Armenian Genocide, 1915-23
1st Edition
By Peter Morgan
February 11, 2025
This book examines how British politicians, national and local newspapers, writers and commentators discussed the mass killing and deportation of Armenians during the period 1915-1923. Seeking to fill a historiographical gap in the field of modern genocide studies, this volume shows the extent to ...
Oil for Britain: The United Kingdom and the Remaking of the International Oil Industry, 1957-1988
1st Edition
By Jonathan Kuiken
December 18, 2024
The period from 1957 to 1988 was transformative for the international oil industry. The United Kingdon, home to two major oil companies, British Petroleum (BP) and Shell, as well as the possessor of large quantities of oil and gas in its territorial waters, was at the heart of this transition. ...
Politics, Propaganda and the Press: International Reactions to the Falklands/Malvinas Conflict
1st Edition
By Louise A. Clare
November 28, 2024
This book examines British and Argentine media output in the prelude to and during the 1982 Falklands/Malvinas Conflict and acknowledges the aftermath and legacies of the media response. Yards of ink have been spilt, reinforcing the view that the Argentine Junta’s action on 2nd April 1982 was a ‘...
Philanthropy and Voluntary Action in the First World War: Mobilizing Charity
1st Edition
By Peter Grant
October 14, 2024
This book challenges scholarship which presents charity and voluntary activity during World War I as marking a downturn from the high point of the late Victorian period. Charitable donations rose to an all-time peak, and the scope and nature of charitable work shifted decisively. Far more working ...
Public Health in the British Empire: Intermediaries, Subordinates, and the Practice of Public Health, 1850-1960
1st Edition
Edited
By Ryan Johnson, Amna Khalid
October 14, 2024
Over the last several decades, historians of public health in Britain’s colonies have been primarily concerned with the process of policy making in the upper echelons of the medical and sanitary administrations. Yet it was the lower level staff that formed the backbone of public health systems in ...
Statistics and the Public Sphere: Numbers and the People in Modern Britain, c. 1800-2000
1st Edition
Edited
By Tom Crook, Glen O'Hara
October 14, 2024
Contemporary public life in Britain would be unthinkable without the use of statistics and statistical reasoning. Numbers dominate political discussion, facilitating debate while also attracting criticism on the grounds of their veracity and utility. However, the historical role and place of ...
Labour in the Suburbs: Political Change in Croydon During the Twentieth Century
1st Edition
By Michael Tichelar
October 09, 2024
This book is the first comprehensive economic, social and political study of the London suburb of Croydon from 1900 up to the present day. One of the largest London boroughs, Croydon, has always been a mixed residential suburb (mainly private but with some municipal housing), which has strongly ...