Routledge Studies in Modern British History
Class, Servitude, and the Criminal Justice System in Early Victorian London: The Russell Murder
1st Edition
By Allyson N. May
September 18, 2024
This volume draws on the recently discovered and extraordinarily rich scrapbook compiled by prosecuting solicitor Francis Hobler about the 1840 murder of Lord William Russell to consider public engagement with the issues raised from discovery of the murder itself through the ensuing legal processes...
Orchestrating Warfighting: A History of the British Army’s Corps and Divisions at War since 1914
1st Edition
Edited
By Tim Bean, Edward Flint, James Kitchen, Paul Latawski
September 10, 2024
Orchestrating Warfighting provides a detailed and wide-ranging examination of the employment of corps and divisions from the First World War through to the early twenty-first century. Division and corps formations have been at the forefront of the British Army’s prosecution of war since 1914. They ...
Britain and the International Civil Service: Empire, Internationalism, and Expertise in the Twentieth Century
1st Edition
By Amy Limoncelli
September 09, 2024
This study emphasizes the legacies of British internationalism in the international organizations of the twentieth century while examining British responses to the end of the British Empire. After the First and Second World Wars, the victorious powers established international organizations such ...
Sir Ronald Storrs: Personality and Policy in Mandate Palestine, 1917–1926
1st Edition
By Christopher Burnham
September 09, 2024
This volume utilises the personal papers of Sir Ronald Storrs, as well as other archival materials, to make a microhistorical investigation of his period as Governor of Jerusalem between 1917 and 1926. It builds upon Edward Said’s work on the Orientalist ‘determining imprint’ by arguing that Storrs...
Labour’s Ballistic Missile Defence Policy 1997-2010: A Strategic Relational Analysis
1st Edition
By James Simpkin
August 26, 2024
This book uses the ‘strategic-relational approach’ to explain how the Labour governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown integrated the United Kingdom into the US ballistic missile defence system in order to maintain national security and to uphold the ‘special relationship’ while at the same time ...
Legacies of an Imperial City: The Museum of London 1976-2007
1st Edition
By Samuel Aylett
August 26, 2024
This comprehensive history of the Museum of London traces the ways that the relationship between Britain and its imperial past has changed over the course of three decades, providing a holistic approach to galleries’ shifts from Victorian nostalgia to equitable representations. At its 1976 opening,...
Respectability, Bankruptcy and Bigamy in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Britain
1st Edition
By John Benson
May 27, 2024
Respectability, Bankruptcy and Bigamy in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Britain explores the vexed question of middle-class respectability in Victorian and Edwardian Britain. It focuses upon the life of London solicitor Hamilton Pawley (1860–1936), who was barred from working by the ...
The Beveridge Report: Blueprint for the Welfare State
1st Edition
By Derek Fraser
May 27, 2024
This book provides the definitive account of the making of the 1942 Beveridge Report and its influence on wartime and post-war social policy. The Beveridge Report: Blueprint for the Welfare State aims to offer a definitive analysis of the famous document, so influential in the founding of the ...
The Modern British Data State, 1945-2000
1st Edition
By Kevin Manton
May 27, 2024
This political history studies the phenomenal growth of the modern British state’s interest in collecting, collating and deploying population data. It dates this biopolitical data turn in British politics to the arrival of the Labour government in 1964. It analyses government’s increased desire to ...
The Football Pools and the British Working Class: A Political, Social and Cultural History
1st Edition
By Keith Laybourn
January 29, 2024
This book is the first national study of the football pools in Britain which examines the politics and culture of the gambling on the football pools. It charts the rise of the football pools, focusing upon its rapid growth from the 1920s and its prolonged decline in British culture from the 1990s, ...
The Rise and Decline of England's Watchmaking Industry, 1550–1930
1st Edition
By Alun C. Davies
January 29, 2024
This survey of the rise and decline of English watchmaking fills a gap in the historiography of British industry. Clerkenwell in London was supplied with 'rough movements' from Prescot, 200 miles away in Lancashire. Smaller watchmaking hubs later emerged in Coventry, Liverpool, and Birmingham. The ...
British Responses to Genocide: The British Foreign Office and Humanitarianism in the Ottoman Empire, 1918-1923
1st Edition
By Amy E. Grubb, Elisabeth Hope Murray
September 25, 2023
This book examines British responses to genocide and atrocity in the Ottoman Empire during the aftermath of World War I. The authors analyze British humanitarianism and humanitarian intervention through the advice and policies of the Foreign Office and British government in London and the actions ...