Routledge Studies in Modern British History
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...
Transport and Its Place in History: Making the Connections
1st Edition
Edited
By David Turner
February 01, 2022
Transport and mobility history is one of the most exciting areas of historical research at the present. As its scope expands, it entices scholars working in fields as diverse as historical geography, management studies, sociology, industrial archaeology, cultural and literary studies, ethnography, ...
British Politics, Society and Empire, 1852-1945: Essays in Honour of Trevor O. Lloyd
1st Edition
Edited
By David W. Gutzke
December 13, 2021
This book draws together essays on modern British history, empire, liberalism and conservatism in honour of Trevor O. Lloyd, Emeritus Professor of Modern British history at the University of Toronto for some thirty years beginning in the 1960s. With Lloyd best known for his two histories of the ...
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 ...
White-Collar Crime in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Britain
1st Edition
By John Benson
August 02, 2021
This book throws new light on white-collar crime, criminals and criminality in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Britain. It does so by considering the life of one man, Jesse Varley (1869–1929), who embezzled more than £80,000 from Wolverhampton Corporation, and for a decade and more ...
Chartism, Commemoration and the Cult of the Radical Hero
1st Edition
By Matthew Roberts
March 31, 2021
Chartism, the British mass movement for democratic and social rights in the 1830s and 1840s, was profoundly shaped by the radical tradition from which it emerged. Yet, little attention has been paid to how Chartists saw themselves in relation to this diverse radical tradition or to the ways in ...
James Mill's Utilitarian Logic and Politics
1st Edition
By Antis Loizides
March 31, 2021
James Mill’s (1773–1836) role in the development of utilitarian thought in the nineteenth century has been overshadowed both by John Stuart Mill (1806–1873) and by Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832). Of the three, the elder Mill is considered to be the least original and with the least important, if any, ...
Neoliberal Thought and Thatcherism: ‘A Transition From Here to There?’
1st Edition
By Robert Ledger
March 31, 2021
The premiership of Margaret Thatcher has been portrayed as uniquely ideological in its pursuit of a more market-based economy. A body of literature has been built on how a sharp turn to the right by the Conservative Party during the 1980s - inspired by the likes of Milton Friedman and Friedrich ...
Milton Keynes in British Culture: Imagining England
1st Edition
By Lauren Pikó
September 30, 2020
The new town of Milton Keynes was designated in 1967 with a bold, flexible social vision to impose "no fixed conception of how people ought to live." Despite this progressive social vision, and its low density, flexible, green urban design, the town has been consistently represented in British ...
Winston Churchill: At War and Thinking of War before 1939
1st Edition
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By B.J.C. McKercher, Antoine Capet
September 30, 2020
Although remembered and even lauded in the public mind as the British prime minister during the Second World War who played a major role in Allied victory over the Axis Powers and Japan, Winston Churchill had a life and political career before 1939 conditioned by fighting other wars and, in ...
Sport and the Home Front: Wartime Britain at Play, 1939-45
1st Edition
By Matthew Taylor
June 10, 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. ...