Routledge Studies in Modern British History
Credit and Power: The Paradox at the Heart of the British National Debt
1st Edition
By Simon Sherratt
August 01, 2022
This book reveals the surprising role that credit, money created ex nihilo by financiers, played in raising the British government’s war loans between 1793 and 1815. Using often overlooked contemporary objections to the National Debt a startling paradox is revealed as it is shown how the government...
Science, Utility and British Naval Technology, 1793–1815: Samuel Bentham and the Royal Dockyards
1st Edition
By Roger Morriss
August 01, 2022
During the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, the technology employed by the British navy changed not just the material resources of the British navy but the culture and performance of the royal dockyards. This book examines the role of the Inspector General of Naval Works, an Admiralty ...
Weather, Migration and the Scottish Diaspora: Leaving the Cold Country
1st Edition
By Graeme Morton
August 01, 2022
Why did large numbers of Scots leave a temperate climate to live permanently in parts of the world where greater temperature extreme was the norm? The long nineteenth century was a period consistently cooler than now, and Scotland remains the coldest of the British nations. Nineteenth-century ...
The Casino and Society in Britain
1st Edition
By Seamus Murphy
May 30, 2022
This book is a study of the British casino industry and how it has been shaped by criminality, prohibition, regulation and liberalization since the beginning of the First World War. The reader will gain a detailed knowledge of the history, culture, identity and participants within the British ...
The British Jesus, 1850-1970
1st Edition
By Meredith Veldman
April 06, 2022
The British Jesus focuses on the Jesus of the religious culture dominant in Britain from the 1850s through the 1950s, the popular Christian culture shared by not only church, kirk, and chapel goers, but also the growing numbers of Britons who rarely or only episodically entered a house of worship. ...
The Independent Labour Party, 1914-1939: The Political and Cultural History of a Socialist Party
1st Edition
By Keith Laybourn
February 01, 2022
Historians of political history are fascinated by the rise and fall of political parties and, for twentieth-century Britain, most obviously the rise of the Labour Party and the decline of the Liberal Party. What is often overlooked in this political development is the work of the Independent Labour...
Britain and the Puzzle of European Union
1st Edition
By Andrew Duff
September 28, 2021
This book is a study of the complex relationship between Britain and Europe from the Second World War to the present day. Drawing on first-hand experience of British and European politics, the author highlights not only the dramatically shifting power play between London and Brussels but also the ...
Sport and the Home Front: Wartime Britain at Play, 1939-45
1st Edition
By Matthew Taylor
June 15, 2020
Sport and the Home Front contributes in significant and original ways to our understanding of the social and cultural history of the Second World War. It explores the complex and contested treatment of sport in government policy, media representations and the everyday lives of wartime citizens. ...
English Gentlemen and World Soccer: Corinthians, Amateurism and the Global Game
1st Edition
By Chris Bolsmann, Dilwyn Porter
February 25, 2020
The significance of the Corinthians Football Club, founded in 1882, has been widely acknowledged by historians of football and by sports historians generally. As a ’super club’ comprising the best amateur talent available they were an important formative influence on football in Britain from the ...
Charles Pelham Villiers: Aristocratic Victorian Radical
1st Edition
By Roger Swift
August 14, 2018
This book provides the first biographical study of Charles Pelham Villiers (1802-1898), whose long UK parliamentary career spanned numerous government administrations under twenty different prime ministers. An aristocrat from a privileged background, Villiers was elected to Parliament as a Radical...
Opening Schools and Closing Prisons: Caring for destitute and delinquent children in Scotland 1812–1872
1st Edition
By Andrew G. Ralston
June 28, 2018
The book covers the period from 1812, when the Tron Riot in Edinburgh dramatically drew attention to the ‘lamentable extent of juvenile depravity’, up to 1872, when the Education Act (Scotland) inaugurated a system of universal schooling. During the 1840s and 1850s in particular there was a move ...
The British Army Regular Mounted Infantry 1880–1913
1st Edition
By Andrew Winrow
June 28, 2018
The regular Mounted Infantry was one of the most important innovations of the late Victorian and Edwardian British Army. Rather than fight on horseback in the traditional manner of cavalry, they used horses primarily to move swiftly about the battlefield, where they would then dismount and fight on...