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A comprehensive compilation of 140 English, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish paintings and pastels from the late 16th century through the third quarter of the 19th century.

This incisive examination of the origins of the modern economy during the Industrial Revolution also explains why this phenomenon came to fruition in Britain.

This wide-ranging book investigates the emergence of modern ideas about the natural world in Britain from 1680–1860 through an examination of the cultural values common to the sciences, art, literature, and natural theology.

This timely and groundbreaking study of the history and reception of Horace Walpole’s extraordinary collections coincides with a planned restoration of his home, Strawberry Hill. An international team of distinguished scholars explores the ways in which the house and its collections engaged with the creation of various and interconnected political, national, dy...

A concise survey of the Arts and Crafts movement in architecture, interior design, and decorative arts from its beginnings in Britain to its resonance and subsequent interpretation in Chicago by its well-known American practitioners.

In this brilliant new work, Amanda Vickery unlocks the homes of Georgian England to examine the lives of the people who lived there. Writing with her customary wit and verve, she introduces us to men and women from all walks of life: gentlewoman Anne Dormer in her stately Oxfordshire mansion, bachelor clerk and future novelist Anthony Trollope in his dreary London lo...

This delightful book examines a relatively unknown facet of Victorian art—whimsical and fantastical photocollages, which illuminate the fascinating history of Victorian sensibility that embraced juxtaposition and variety and suggests a connection to modern avant-garde photography and collage.

This masterly biography uncovers Dickens the man through the profession in which he excelled. Michael Slater explores the personal and emotional life, the high-profile public activities, the relentless travel, the charitable works, the amateur theatricals and the astonishing productivity. But his core focus is Dickens’ career as a writer and professional author...

The entire history of Scotland has been colored by myth, says one of Britain’s greatest historians in this lively and controversial book. Hugh Trevor-Roper looks at the role of myth in history and memory, and analyzes the impact of three important myths on Scottish history and identity.

This extraordinary work is the first biography in a generation of one of the world's most important scientists, Robert Boyle—a pioneer of the modern experimental method, the champion of a novel mechanical view of nature, and a penetrating thinker regarding philosophical and theological issues related to sc...

How was Great Britain made? And what does it mean to be British? This brilliant and seminal book examines how a more cohesive British nation was invented after 1707 and how this new national identity was nurtured through war, religion, trade, and empire. This edition contains an extensive new preface by the author. Lavishly illustrated and powerful, Britons re...

This is a richly illustrated account of the things British people choose to decorate their homes, and why they matter so much. The book traces today’s consumerism and materialism back to the Victorian era, when home decoration became a virtue and personal identity became entwined with the furniture, wallpaper, and other decorations in one’s home.

 

This accessible and vividly written book presents a new interpretation of India’s history, focusing particular attention on the impact of British imperialism on Independent India. Maria Misra begins with the rebellion against the British in 1857 and tracks the country’s advance to the present day. India’s extremes persist, the author arg...

In this bold new narrative history Steve Pincus argues that England’s Glorious Revolution was a fundamental turning point in the making of the modern world.

The discovery of native peoples in the Atlantic world came as a shock to Columbus and other European explorers. This fascinating book uses the vivid eyewitness accounts of diaries and letters to uncover what these first encounters were like and why the initial sense of wonder gave way to vicious exploitation.

James Livesey traces the origins of the modern conception of civil society to the provincial societies of Ireland and Scotland in the eighteenth century and shows how this conception remains central to the current political debate.

TRIPLEX is the first book to uncover the actual intelligence revealed to the Soviets by the “Cambridge Five” spy-ring and to show the extent of the damage done to the British and Allied interests in World War II by those revelations.

A controversial reassessment of Mary Tudor’s efforts to eradicate Protestantism and restore Catholicism in mid-sixteenth-century England, written by a leading authority on the history of Christianity.

With expert scholarship and a keen eye for detail, Bockstoce provides the first analysis of the historic competition among the Russians, British, and Americans for control of Alaska.

Andrew Lambert accesses to new materials to depict the shocking fate of Captain Sir John Franklin’s doomed arctic expedition and how, despite his failure, Franklin inspired future arctic heroes such as Robert Falcon Scott.

An exploration of the development of architecture as a profession and of the role played by architects’ newfound expertise in the mathematical arts and sciences.

Stepping away from conventional analyses of materials or style and into the previously unexplored world of the house owner, this book takes a fresh look at both the social, as well as the architectural, importance of  the 18th-century London town house.

This engaging book considers how insects and those who studied them shaped the course of intellectual and scientific inquiry in the Victorian era. Filled with stories of famous and eccentric entomologists, the book reveals the surprisingly important role bugs played in the making of modern Britain.

The most wide-ranging book in seventy years on Britain’s leading Enlightenment entrepreneur and industrialist, published on the 200th anniversary of his death.

Drawing on an incredible cache of thousands of letters and dozens of diaries only recently discovered, this book brings to light the untold story of Mrs. Tennant—close friend of Flaubert, mother-in-law of the explorer Stanley, and hostess of a glittering salon that was a hub of European social, literary, and intellectual life for nearly half a century.

This book is the first to collect the best columns and essays of Henry Fairlie, the colorful political and cultural commentator renowned for his brilliant style, original ideas, and fearless criticism of those in power on both sides of the Atlantic.

This incisive book analyzes China's economic past and the shaping of its financial institutions in the years leading up to the Sino-Japanese War in 1937. It is the first book to offer a comparative analysis of foreign banking in the prewar years, focusing particularly on leading British banks in Shanghai.

Untangling the myths and legends of many centuries, this definitive biography gives us the real Eleanor of Aquitaine—wife of two kings, mother of two kings, a tenacious and ambitious twelfth-century queen who carved a unique position for herself in a society hostile to the idea of a woman in power.

This book tells the strange story of maverick doctor Thomas Beddoes, whose medical researchers in Bristol, England discovered the mind-altering effects of inhaling nitrous oxide in the late 1700s. Beddoes’ glittering circle of colleagues and friends became intellectual pioneers in an era of vast ferment in medicine, poetry, chemistry, philosophy, and politics.<...

Crushed by the Romans in the first century A.D., the ancient Druids of Britain left almost no reliable evidence behind. This captivating book by a world expert examines what is known of the Druids, then explores how and why they have been repeatedly reinvented to play varying roles in English, Scottish, and Welsh history.

Sargent’s entrancing Venetian oils and watercolors are displayed and discussed in this gorgeous book.

Gigante shows how Christopher Smart, William Blake, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and John Keats engaged with scientific ideas about vital power and its generation and how they broke with poetic convention in imagining new forms of “life.”

While “spin” may seem a political tool of modern times, British monarchs were practicing the art of image management even in the sixteenth century. This book is the first to examine in detail how Tudor kings and queens, notably Henry VIII and Elizabeth I, sought to sustain and enhance authority by carefully crafting their public imag...

In Bannockburn, Robert the Bruce’s vastly outnumbered Scottish troops spectacularly defeated the English army led by Edward II. This groundbreaking book brings the battle to life with colorful detail and fresh insights, explaining what happened in the years leading to 1314, how the battle unfolded, and the impact of its legacy in both Scotland and England.

Inspired by the process of creating a library for his fifteenth-century home near the Loire, in France, Alberto Manguel, the acclaimed writer on books and reading, has taken up the subject of libraries. “Libraries,” he says, “have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as long as I can remember I’ve been seduced by their labyrinthi...

One of our most influential theater figures takes a provocative look at how Shakespeare’s plays were influenced by misogyny, racism, elitism, and other social and sexual prejudices of his age, and how he managed to transcend them and write universal works of art.

A gorgeously illustrated book that is the first to explore the impact of Darwin’s ideas about nature and human history on nineteenth-century artists from Frederic Church to Claude Monet

This wide-ranging collection of Victorian essays reflects a varied and vigorous intellectual life quite unlike the narrow-minded, inhibited, and moralistic era that stereotypes suggest. With an introduction and notes by a leading expert in Victorian thought, the volume presents writings by Mill, Dickens, Eliot, Wilde, and many others of this spirited age.

Drawing upon unpublished letters and drawings, this acclaimed biography recreates the life and work of Pugin, 19th-century British architect, propagandist, and Gothic designer.

What sort of person was the young naturalist who developed an evolutionary idea so logical, so dangerous, that it has dominated biological science for 150 years? This new investigation of Charles Darwin’s early years draws the first intimate portrait of this iconic figure and describes how he came to create his pathbreaking theory of natural selection.

This lively book recounts the long and colorful history of hunting in Britain, from William the Conqueror’s establishment of royal forests to the fierce debates provoked by the Hunting with Dogs Act of 2004. Hunting has always been a source of social conflict, the book shows, and understanding this history can provide useful insights into divisive issues today....

In this enthralling account of the entwined histories of Britain, Spain, and their empires in the Americas, distinguished historian J. H. Elliott offers us history on a grand scale. He interweaves the histories of the two great Atlantic civilizations, providing rich insights into both while revealing aspects of their dual history that influence the Americas to this day.

Is today's American "empire" like the British Empire of yore? What can be learned from comparing the two? In this groundbreaking book, Bernard Porter reveals the uncanny similarities between the imperial histories of Britain and the United States but contends that America's new "super-imperialism" in the post-2001 era is quite a different thing.

Vividly narrated with tales from every age in the life of England’s great river, The Thames is a delight to any reader with an interest in British history. From the prehistoric era of wooly mammoths to the riverside negotiation of the Magna Carta in the thirteenth century to WWII when Nazi bombers used the Thames as a visual guide, the river has witnessed national triumph and tragedy.

In 1900 London was the capital of an empire on which the sun never set. This book is the first to examine the powerful city and its relationship with the British empire at the turn of the century. The book explores how imperialist ideas were promoted and by whom, how the docklands became a nexus of imperialist attitudes, and how imperialist policies were successfully defended in the general electi...

Music lovers will find this book a treasury abounding with information, walking tours, illustrations, maps, biographies, and more relating to the multitude of musical landmarks in London. From Handel’s house to George Gershwin’s recording studios, from cathedrals to graveyards, this unprecedented guide features an incredible array of fascinating musical sites.

The Bank of England symbolizes the economic strength, influence, and potency of Britain. Founded in 1694, its world-famous buildings were built and rebuilt four times by different architects, most notably Sir John Soane. The Bank’s three-and-aquarter-acre complex has included elegant public banking halls and private offices, courtyards and gardens, warehouses and vaults, residential apartmen...

This book tells the scandalous story of the practice of dissection in nineteenth-century Britain and its penal colonies. The bodies of convicted murderers, Aborigines, and the unfortunate poor who died in the hospital routinely arrived in dissecting rooms where medical men conducted public autopsies in the interests not only of science but also entertainment.

This practical and knowledgeable guidebook is the first to deal comprehensively with the stone circles of Britain and Ireland and with the cromlechs and megalithic "horseshoes" of Brittany. Filled with fascinating information, useful maps, and arresting photographs, this invaluable resource describes over 400 sites and discusses the archaeology and architectural features of each ring.

Mary C. Beaudry mines archaeological findings from the middle ages through the industrial revolution to discover what needles, thimbles, bobbins, and other artifacts of sewing and needlework reveal about the cultures in which they were used. She shows that these items, though small, have much to tell us about the construction of gender, personal identity, and social class.

This book is a vibrant history of the more than 350 English translations of the Bible and what they meant to their translators, readers, and times. The fascinating story ranges from the translations of William Tyndale (who was martyred in 1536 for his work), to Coverdale’s translation, the Geneva Bibles, the King James Bible, and the many American translations in the twentieth century.

Published in the 500th year of his birth, this major biography traces the dramatic life of William Tyndale, the first person to translate the Bible into English from the original Greek and Hebrew, and discusses the profound religious, literary, intellectual, and social implications of his immense achievement. Tyndale's masterful translation, which gave the laity access to God, formed the basis of ...

This pioneering study of the material culture of Stuart and Hanoverian Ireland shows how possessions highlighted and widened divisions between rich and poor, women and men, Irish Catholics and Protestant settlers. Abounding with quirky people and vivid scenes, it is a striking reappraisal of Ireland under the Protestant Ascendancy.

What was life like for Irish Protestants between the mid-seventeenth and the late-eighteenth centuries? In an account filled with entertaining episodes and memorable characters, Toby Barnard scrutinizes social attitudes and structures in every segment of Protestant society during this period and also reassesses Ireland’s place in the British state and empire.

This extravagantly illustrated book digs deeply into London’s past, examining recent archaeological discoveries that shed new light on our understanding of the great city’s history. Archaeologists over the last quarter-century have uncovered exciting new information on the river walls constructed by the Romans, the Black Death, the houses of the rich and poor, and much more.

During its first decades as a nation, the United States encouraged the smuggling of European inventions and artisans to the New World. At the same time, the young Republic was developing policies to protect its own industrial innovations. Trade Secrets traces America’s contradictory approach to industrial espionage from colonial days through the age of Jackson.

This intriguing book provides an intellectual history of the British working classes from the pre-industrial era to the twentieth century. Drawing on workers’ memoirs, social surveys, library registers, and more, the author discovers which books people read, how they educated themselves, and what they knew. In the process he reveals much about working class politics, ideology, popular cultur...

This is the most comprehensive book available on all aspects of Irish life, culture, and history. With thousands of entries and more than 700 illustrations and maps, it encompasses the whole of Ireland—its islands and seas, its people both home and abroad—and provides fascinating facts about subjects from prehistory to the present.

With over 300 color illustrations, this book presents an absorbing look at the unique architectural heritage of London, one of the world’s greatest cities, across two thousand years of development.

In search of the Celtic past and what remains of its authentic culture today, award-winning author Marcus Tanner travels throughout the remote Celtic world. He describes the relentless pressure on Celtic communities to assimilate and warns that a distinct Celtic identity may not survive for another generation--a sobering loss that would impoverish us all.

This lively history of the rise of Methodism charts the development of the movement from its unpromising origins in England in the 1730s to its major international importance by the 1880s. The book explores Methodism’s phenomenal growth in the British Isles, America, and around the globe, and the complex reasons for its wide-ranging appeal.

This lively and lavishly illustrated book tells the extraordinary history of the bicycle, an invention that precipitated nothing short of a social revolution. Recounting a story replete with disputed patents, brilliant inventions, and missed opportunities, David Herlihy shows us why the bicycle captured the public’s imagination and the myriad ways it has reshaped our world.

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Ranging from the period of imperial expansion to the twentieth century, this authoritative book examines the role of the sea in the history of the British Empire. Jeremy Black considers how the ocean has affected British exploration, defense, trade, commerce, and the navy, as well as the attitudes and perceptions of the British themselves.

Recorded in the massive archives of the great Oxford English Dictionary are previously untold tales of complex word battles fought by the OED creators. This delightful book charts the arguments and controversies over words, definitions, pronunciation, and more as lexicographers struggled to provide the definitive inventory of the English language. 

In this lively account of the fractious history of the British Isles, Frank Welsh traces the development of the four nations—England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales—from Roman times to the present day. Along the way he challenges cherished illusions and poses insightful, if sometimes awkward, questions about English aggression, the specter of national fragmentation, and more.

This gorgeously illustrated volume is the first to demonstrate the magnificent variety of stables in the British Isles. The book discusses horse stables from the twelfth century to WWI and shows how this specialized building—whether designed for royalty, nobility, brewing companies, or the military—came to play a central role in British architectural history.

A controversial reassessment of Mary Tudor’s efforts to eradicate Protestantism and restore Catholicism in mid-sixteenth-century England, written by a leading authority on the history of Christianity.

Surviving copies of the Book of Hours, the most personal and widely used book of the later Middle Ages, offer precious clues to the lives of their owners and the times in which they lived. Religious historian Eamon Duffy examines these prayer books and the messages and jottings in their margins for insights into an era of great religious and social change.

This prize-winning account of the pre-Reformation church recreates lay people’s experience of religion in fifteenth-century England. Eamon Duffy shows that late medieval Catholicism was neither decadent nor decayed, but was a strong and vigorous tradition, and that the Reformation represented a violent rupture from a popular and theologically respectable religious system. For this edition, D...

This delightful book offers a rare glimpse of life in a remote sixteenth-century English village during the dramatic changes of the Reformation. Through vividly detailed parish records kept from 1520 to 1574 by the Sir Christopher Trychay, the garrulous priest of Morebath, we see how a tiny Catholic community rebelled, was punished, and reluctantly accepted Protestantism under the demands of the E...

In this sequel to the widely praised Medieval Children, Nicholas Orme considers medieval schools in England—how they developed, what they taught, how they were run, and who attended them. Remarkably, these early schools anticipated nearly all the ideas, practices, and institutions of schooling today, the author shows.

What was childhood like for medieval boys and girls in England? Nicholas Orme draws on a vast range of sources to create the most complete and vivid picture of childhood in the Middle Ages ever written. With illustrations throughout, this book describes every stage of a child’s growth to adulthood and includes fascinating information on the special culture of children, their toys and games, ...

This new collection of essays on Chaucer’s poetry is a single-volume guide to the best and most inventive work in Chaucerian studies today. Written with American undergraduate and graduate students in mind, the book considers the history and textual contexts of Chaucer’s work, current critical interpretation, and the poet’s place in literary history.

This uniquely wide-ranging book explores British medieval houses, from humble to grand, in greater detail than ever before. Anthony Quiney’s survey encompasses houses from the early fifth century to the early seventeenth, featuring over 300 illustrations that include medieval depictions, historic prints and photographs, and many explanatory drawings.

This authoritative book is the first comprehensive study of medieval domestic buildings in London before the Great Fire of 1666. Its highly informative text is accompanied by more than 300 illustrations and a selective gazetteer of 201 sites in the City of London and its environs.

Dramatic social and economic change during the middle ages altered the lives of the people of Britain in far-reaching ways, from the structure of their families to the ways they made their livings. In this engagingly written economic history, Christopher Dyer provides a vivid new account of British medieval life from the Viking invasions through the Norman conquest to the colonial expansion of the...

Falconry was perhaps the most popular form of hunting among the aristocracy in medieval Europe. This book—the first broad history of English royal falconry during the period—describes the actual practice and conditions of the sport and the role of falconers in the English royal household.

This book presents the most comprehensive portrait yet of Richard Hakluyt, a contemporary of Shakespeare and the indefatigable promoter of English colonies in the New World. Studded with nearly fifty illustrations, the book offers a fresh view of Hakluyt’s milieu, his place in the international debates of his time, and his role in establishing an English America.

In a remarkable feat of detective work, Hugh Trevor-Roper presents the first full biography of Sir Theodore de Mayerne, the versatile Huguenot doctor who served King James I as physician, European emissary, and high-level spy. The book shines fresh light on Mayerne’s life and wide-ranging interests—literary, scientific, political, artistic, and conspiratorial.

In this radical reinterpretation of the English Civil War, Mark Stoyle reveals an ethnic dimension to the struggle that contributed powerfully to the forging of English national identity. His book explores English xenophobia and fear of foreign invasion as the context for the creation of the New Model Army, opening up the Civil War to fresh historical and social insights.

 

This book provides the definitive account of the origins of coffee drinking and coffeehouse society in Britain in the seventeenth century. Britain’s virtuosi—gentlemanly patrons of the arts and sciences who were curious about things exotic and strange—spurred initial interest in coffee and invented the social template for coffeehouses, soon a central part of urban life.

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The British came to view the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 as victory over an alien and ambitious empire, yet they themselves had fueled the conflict. This book examines the process by which the Spaniard, a long-term ally and friend, became in English eyes the epitome of human depravity and how this helped shape an emerging sense of nationhood.

One of the greatest artists of sixteenth-century Europe, Hans Holbein the younger spent much of his career in England and painted everyone of note in Henry VIII’s realm. In this generously illustrated book, Susan Foister presents an original account of how the masterful Renaissance artist held up a mirror to the cultural life of Tudor England. 

This intriguing book is the first to draw a complete picture of the artistic and political connections between the great Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens and the Stuart court in seventeenth-century England.

The Protestant Reformation of the sixteenth century brought a radical shift from a sensual and ceremonial experience of religion to the dominance of the word through the Book and sermon. This groundbreaking book explores in detail what this meant for the lives and beliefs of ordinary people in Scotland, where the impact of Calvinist reform was profound and widespread.

A man of many contradictions, the pirate Sir John Hawkins (cousin of Sir Francis Drake) made fortunes for himself, Queen Elizabeth, and other investors, and was knighted in 1588 for his role in defeating the Spanish Armada. He also established the British slave trade and at other points in his life committed treason, murder, and adultery. This riveting biography of Hawkins narrates the events of a...

This engrossing book recreates a seventeenth-century English town in all its vitality and richness. David Underdown explains why Dorchester was transformed from a provincial backwater into the most fervently religious town in England, places this transformation in the context of national and international events, and describes the lives of the townspeople—both the high-minded reformers and t...

Delving into a nether world of treachery and intrigue in Elizabethan London, John Bossy solves a centuries-old mystery:  who was "Fagot," the spy working within the French embassy in London to subvert Catholic attempts to overthrow Queen Elizabeth and her government?  The ambassador?  His wife?  His daughter, his clerk, his priest?  Or the runaway friar, who was actually t...

This absorbing account of Catholic and anti-Catholic plots and machinations at the English, French, and exiled Scottish courts in the latter part of the sixteenth century is a sequel to John Bossy’s highly acclaimed Giordano Bruno and the Embassy Affair.

In this elegant redefinition of the economic history of early modern Britain, Keith Wrightson combines the research of economic historians with the insights of social and cultural history. He describes the basic institutions and relationships of economic life, traces the processes of change, and vividly demonstrates the effects of these changes on men, women, and children at all social levels.

Glyn Redworth here provides a definitive account of one of the most bizarre episodes in British history—the failed attempt in 1623 of the heir to the Stuart throne to win the Spanish Infanta as his bride. Redworth shows how efforts to secure a marriage between Europe’s leading Protestant and Catholic royal families led to diplomatic disaster, cultural misunderstanding, and religious co...

This outstanding book explores the degree to which ordinary women of the early modern period in England had control over their own bodies. It shows how the social and economic pressures of daily life—the cost of having a child, the difficulty of prosecuting rape, the social ambiguities of widowhood—shaped the way women viewed and experienced their bodies.

Although Andrew Marvell is best known as the author of exquisite lyrics and provocative political poems, in his own seventeenth century he was famous for his brilliant political polemics. This is the first modern edition of all Marvell’s prose pamphlets, complete with introductions and annotation explaining the historical context.

Focusing on the rich visual culture of the seventeenth century—from portraits and fashion plates to literary sources—this novel and beautiful book is an indispensable account of what people wore in Stuart England and how it related to the time’s cultural climate.

All but forgotten today, eight historic gardens that once flourished along the length of the Thames in early Tudor London are here historically recreated and analyzed in this richly illustrated book. One of the gardens belonged to Sir Thomas More, and the others to politically powerful friends and acquaintances of his. The stories of these long-lost gardens, brought together here for the first tim...

Focusing for the first time on Tudor and early Stuart country houses in their settings, Paula Henderson offers new perspectives on some of England’s most magical buildings. She examines gardens and natural landscapes as well as gatehouses, walls, garden structures, and banqueting houses to uncover how and why these estates were organized as they were.

This sweeping book charts the history of Calvinism across Europe, from the birth of the Reformed tradition in Switzerland in the sixteenth century to the unraveling of orthodoxy in the seventeenth. Philip Benedict addresses the causes of Calvinism’s remarkable expansion, the theological debates around Reformed doctrine, the inner workings of diverse national churches, the contributions of gr...

This prizewinning biography provides the definitive account of Thomas Cranmer, archbishop of Canterbury, architect of the Anglican Book of Common Prayer, King Henry VIII's guide through three divorces, and ultimately a martyr for his Protestant faith. English Reformation scholar Diarmaid MacCulloch draws on new manuscript sources in Britain and elsewhere to create this vivid new study—the fi...

Cheap, lurid pamphlets describing notorious murders were popular in England during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. In this extraordinary book Peter Lake examines these pamphlets and how they were appropriated and manipulated by various groups. Along the way he not only revises our understanding of religious, social, and cultural history but also redraws the intellectual map of early...

In this lively biography, Harry Kelsey shatters the legend of Sir Francis Drake. Drawing on much new evidence, he replaces the familiar image of a pious, brave, and just seaman with a more interesting picture of an amoral privateer at least as interested in lining his pockets with Spanish booty as in forwarding the political goals of his country.

Though less storied than the Jacobite rebellion of 1745, the uprising of 1715 was in fact a more serious threat to the still-young British Union. This dazzling book is the first full account of the events of 1715. It examines the causes of the unrest, why some became rebels and others stayed home, and the significance of the widely supported but doomed uprising.

The Enlightenment, considered an age of rationalism, is not normally associated with miracles. In this intriguing book, however, Jane Shaw presents accounts of miracles among ordinary worshippers and reactions to them in early modern England. She arrives at new conclusions about the role of ordinary people in the development of Enlightenment thought.

Toward the end of the eighteenth century, a radical change occurred in notions of self and personal identity, says the author of this pathbreaking book. Dror Wahrman explores the phenomenon and its causes and offers a fundamentally new interpretation of this turning point in Western history and its consequences.

This highly entertaining biography draws a full portrait of one of the most colorful figures in English political history, John Wilkes. Remembered as the father of the British free press, a champion of liberty, and a hero to American colonists, Wilkes’s political career was rancorous (involving duels, imprisonments, and a famous massacre) while his private life was notorious.

By investigating the murder of a local magistrate in the English town of Rye in 1743, this fascinating book sheds light on the political, economic, and cultural patterns not only of a small port town but also of England in the early modern period.

This absorbing book is the first ever to focus on the traffic in Indian slaves in the American South, a practice that for decades linked southern lives and created a whirlwind of violence and profit-making. Alan Gallay documents in vivid detail how the trade operated, the processes by which Europeans and Native Americans became participants, and the profound consequences for the South and its peop...

This groundbreaking book retells the dramatic story of Captain Cook’s three great voyages to the South Seas, focusing on how the explorers and the Polynesians they “discovered” changed one another. The preeminent authority on the history of the region examines the clash between the civilizations and offers an intriguing reinterpretation of Cook’s death.

Lured by the promise of fame and riches, explorers and speculators in the eighteenth century joined a frenzied rush to discover a Northwest Passage that would open a navigable route from Hudson Bay to the Pacific. This gripping book describes the doomed expeditions and the misguided participants whose futile quest cost them their fortunes and often their lives.

This engaging book recreates the lived experience of British travellers to Italy in the eighteenth century. Drawing on private diaries and personal letters, it provides an authentic picture of how these tourists experienced Italy’s landscapes, culture, art, food, music, Catholicism, and more.

William Stukeley, one of the first to recognize the historic importance of Stonehenge, meticulously recorded his fieldwork discoveries in a manuscript that until now has remained unpublished. Here transcribed and annotated, Stukeley’s writings and drawings offer a detailed view of all that was known of the stone circle nearly three hundred years ago.

The 121 letters in this volume were exchanged between James Boswell and twenty-six correspondents between 1760 and 1763. The letters, all but one written after Boswell’s first brief escapade in London, concern the period up to and including his second momentous visit there in 1763. During this period Boswell savors the delights of London’s high life and low, first meets Samuel Johnson,...

In 1762 James Boswell, then twenty-two years old, left Edinburgh for London. The famous Journal he kept during the next nine months is an intimate account of his encounters with the high-life and the low-life in London. Frank and confessional as a personal portrait of the young Boswell, the Journal is also revealing as a vivid portrayal of life in eighteenth-century London. This new ...

What was the life of an eighteenth-century British genteel woman like? This lively book, based on letters, diaries, and account books of over on hundred middle class women, transforms our understanding of the position of women in Georgian England.

The greatest statesman of his age, Ben Franklin was also a pioneering scientist, a bestselling author, the first American postmaster general, a printer, a bon vivant. He was also a man of vast contradictions. This brilliant biography by one of our greatest historians offers a compact and provocative new portrait of America’s most extraordinary patriot.

 

Legendary for his exploits in war and love, the perennially fascinating Admiral Horatio Nelson is captured in all his vigor on the pages of this new biography. The book presents a gripping account of Nelson’s climb to fame in the British navy, details of his personal and emotional life, and fresh insights into the complexities of the man who endures as England’s favorite hero. 

In this original exploration of English family portraiture in the 18th century, Kate Retford traces both innovation and tradition in the paintings of this period. She considers works ranging from small-scale conversation pieces to grandiose, full-length images and mines these portraits for important insights into the history of the family.

This book examines the intertwined developments of papermaking and the art of watercolor painting in the eighteenth-century.

This volume collects the most important statements on the English language by Samuel Johnson, one of its greatest expositors and speakers. The book includes scholarly, fully annotated editions of Johnson’s main writings on the history, structure, and cultural importance of the English language as well as his reflections on lexicography. These texts represent Johnson’s thinking as he un...

This volume is the first scholarly edition of Samuel Johnson’s translation of Jean Pierre de Crousaz’s Commentaire sur la traduction en vers de M. Abbé Du Resnel, de l’Essai de M. Pope sur l’homme, published in 1739. Included are notes comparing Johnson’s translation with the French original to show his method of translation and historical annotations.

In his lifetime considered the equal of contemporaries Coleridge and Wordsworth, Robert Southey has faded in prominence since his death. This lively new biography restores him to the map of English literature, revealing a more complex man than previously assumed and one whose writings and political views had greater impact than has been recognized.

This lively book challenges many stereotypes about Victorian middle-class women and families. Women were not always cast in passive, subservient roles, the authors show, but often were heads of their families and wielded considerable influence in public life. The experiences of British women of the time were both richer and more complex than has been understood before.

In this innovative look at nineteenth-century London, Lynda Nead offers a fresh account of modernity and metropolitan life. Taking a highly interdisciplinary approach, Nead charts the relationship between London’s formation into a modern city in the 1860s and the emergence of new ways to produce and consume visual culture. She explores topics ranging from the emergence of obscenity legislati...

This book examines London newspaper coverage of the gruesome Jack the Ripper murders of 1888 and opens a window on the social, political, and sexual anxieties of late Victorian Britain. Analyzing daily and weekly newspapers, some highbrow and some lowbrow, L. Perry Curtis considers the mass newspaper culture of the era. He compares the impact of the crimes on the East and West Ends of London and d...

This engaging book reconstructs the role that Napoleon Bonaparte played in the British political, cultural, and religious imagination in the early nineteenth century. Stuart Semmel explores how the example of Napoleon—denounced by some and used by others—influenced the British to think about their own history, identity, and destiny.

This engaging and generously illustrated book explores the Victorian fascination with the prehistoric and the ways that this resounded in British society, art, and literature of the period. It shows how men and women were energized, inspired, and unsettled by the realization that prehistoric evidence contradicted what they had read in the Bible. 

This book tells the fascinating and often searing story of two groups of Australian Aborigines shipped to the United States in the 1880s and displayed as “cannibals” in circuses and other showplaces in America and Europe. Describing their transformation into “professional savages,” early deaths, and posthumous repatriation, the book reveals the roots of the continuing injus...

Remembered primarily as captain of the Beagle, Robert FitzRoy emerges in this exceptional biography as much more than Charles Darwin’s shipmaster. A British naval commander, a governor of New Zealand, the inventor of weather forecasting—FitzRoy was all of these and more during a life of high adventure and accomplishment but also tragic disappointment.

The marriage of William Michael Rossetti (brother of Dante Gabriel and Christina Rossetti) and Lucy Madox Brown (daughter of Ford Madox Brown) united two of the most resonant Pre-Raphaelite family names. Their passionate and ultimately tragic relationship—described here for the first time—provides a fresh perspective on nineteenth-century marriage and Pre-Raphaelite history.

Queen Victoria’s long years as a widow and queen are familiar to all, but what type of girlhood and adolescence did she have? This book uncovers in fascinating detail the childhood that Victoria actually lived, drawing on her own letters, stories, drawings, educational materials, and journals. Part biography, part historical and cultural study, this richly illustrated book illuminates the pr...

Drawing on memoirs, diaries, and letters of the time, this lively book explores what it was like to be a soldier on a Napoleonic battlefield. It considers the role of the artillery, infantry, and cavalry; the plight of the wounded; the way victories were decided; the mechanics of musketry, artillery, and cavalry charges; and much more.

Despite superior air and artillery power, British soldiers died in catastrophic numbers at the Battle of Somme in 1916. What went wrong, and who was responsible? This book meticulously reconstructs the battle, assigns responsibility to military and political leaders, and changes forever the way we understand this encounter and the history of the Western Front.

The carnage on the Western Front at Passchendaele, where 275,000 Allied and 200,000 German soldiers fell, was neither inevitable nor inescapable, the authors of this gripping book insist. Robin Prior and Trevor Wilson here offer the most complete account of the campaign ever published, establishing what actually occurred, what options were available, and who was responsible for the devastation.

This breakthrough book provides a provocative reassessment of Stalin’s leadership during the most important years of his career. Geoffrey Roberts challenges standard perceptions of Stalin and shows that he was both a ruthless dictator and a remarkable politician who sought to avoid the Cold War and establish a long-term detente with the capitalist world.

Why did Stalin refuse to believe that Hitler would strike the Soviet Union when all the evidence—including intelligence from his own agencies—said otherwise? This extensively researched book illuminates many of the enigmas that have surrounded the Nazi invasion, offering keen insights into Stalin’s thinking and the reasons for his catastrophic blunder.

On Christmas Day 1941 the Japanese captured Hong Kong, and Britain lost control of its Chinese colony for almost four years, a turning point in the process by which the British were to be expelled from the colony and from East Asia. This book unravels for the first time the dramatic story of the Japanese occupation and reinterprets the subsequent evolution of Hong Kong.

This is a masterpiece of historical writing, a book that compels its readers to reflect anew on the shaping forces of history. Beginning with the siege of Berlin, 1945 provides rich insight into the conflicts, motives, and counter-motives that marked the end of WWII and that established the lasting patterns of deceit, uncertainty, and distrust that defined the Cold War.

This masterful volume on remembrance and war in the twentieth century traces the origins of the current fascination with memory back to the Great War. Historian Jay Winter discusses how images, languages, and practices that developed in the wake of WWI shaped the way later conflicts and victims are remembered both publicly and privately.

Eleanor Rathbone (1872–1946) lived a life of passionate political and social engagement, becoming one of the most important British women of the early twentieth century. This major new biography illuminates both the public and private sides of Rathbone’s life, offering a nuanced discussion of her extensive political activities and her contributions to feminist thinking.

This riveting book presents sensational new information on the notorious Cold War espionage case of the three British spies known as the Cambridge Ring. Clarifying fifty years of confusion and error in intelligence history, S. J. Hamrick offers groundbreaking evidence about when the British intelligence community identified the spies and seized their advantage to flummox all three.

This book is the first biography of Herbert Butterfield, an important historian and religious thinker whose ideas remain deeply influential. Focusing on the creative processes that lay behind Butterfield’s intellectual accomplishments, C. T. McIntire presents a man whose Christian spirituality animated his work and whose notion of dissent became an ethic. 

This profoundly moving book recounts the poignant, sometimes ribald histories of the rank-and-file British servicemen who were psychiatric casualties in World War I. Focusing on the experiences of these men during the war and at home—rather than those of their officers—it gives a new perspective on the impact of the Great War.

This compelling book is a deeply informed reflection on the nature of historical and scientific knowledge. Renowned historian John Lukacs asserts that now, even at the end of the modern age, our understanding of the universe is based on what we fallible human beings have imagined and defined in a historical continuum; it is religion that is the source of the highest form of knowledge.

This powerful book presents a clear-eyed view of Winston Churchill, the workings of his historical imagination, and his successes and failures as a statesman. Written by the best-selling author of Five Days in London, May 1940, the book sets forth the essence of one of the towering figures of twentieth-century history. 

The days from May 24 to May 28, 1940 altered the course of the history of this century, as the members of the British War Cabinet debated whether to negotiate with Hitler or to continue the war. The decisive importance of these five days is the focus of John Lukacs’s magisterial new book.

This is a day-by-day account of the eighty-day struggle in 1940 between Hitler—poised on the edge of absolute victory—and Churchill—threatened by imminent invasion and defeat.

This absorbing study of the first—and decisive—phase of World War II tells not only how events happened but why they happened as they did. Eminent historian John Lukacs presents an extraordinary narrative of these two years, followed by a detailed sequential analysis of the lives of the peoples and then of the political, military, and intellectual relations and events.

The first new assessment of King George III in many years, this biography harnesses rich unpublished sources in Britain, Germany, and the United States, as well as the king’s prolific correspondence, to reveal much about the monarch himself and how he influenced the conflict with the thirteen colonies and other critical events in modern world history.

In this vivid biography, here updated and reissued with a new preface, Frank Barlow reveals an unconventional, flamboyant William Rufus—a far more attractive and interesting monarch than previously believed. Weaving an intimate account of the life of the king into the wider history of Anglo-Norman government, Barlow shows how William confirmed royal power in England, restored the ducal right...

In this new account of Richard the Lionheart’s reign, its leading authority John Gillingham scrutinizes the king’s fluctuating reputation over the centuries and provides a convincing revised interpretation. Neither a feckless knight-errant nor a neglectful king, Richard I was in reality a masterful and businesslike ruler, the author argues.

This book—the first full-length biography of Richard II in more than fifty years—offers a radical reinterpretation of a complex king whose reign was characterized by a mixture of high principle and despotic legislation. Nigel Saul demonstrates that Richards' aim was to exalt and dignify the crown, but in a period of faction and feud his tactical errors and contradictory policies result...

Edward I—one of the outstanding monarchs of the English Middle Ages—pioneered legal and parliamentary change in England, conquered Wales, and came close to conquering Scotland. A major player in European diplomacy and war, he acted as peacemaker during the 1280s but became involved in a bitter war with Philip IV a decade later. This book is the definitive account of a remarkable king a...

This highly praised biography reassesses James II (1633-1701), a king who failed to understand his subjects and who was also misunderstood by them.  John Miller discusses the human failings, the gulf between the Catholic king and his Protestant subjects, and the sheer bad luck that led to James’s downfall, despite his many laudable attributes. The book also examines the political, diplo...

In this widely acclaimed biography, Bertram Wolffe challenges the traditional view of Henry VI that excuses his weaknesses on the grounds of saintly piousness and innocence. Drawing on widespread contemporary evidence, Wolffe describes the many failures of Henry’s reign—including the collapse of justice, the loss of French territories, and the final disintegration of his governmentR...

This new biography of Edward VI, the boy king who died at 16 after ruling England for only six years, reveals for the first time his significant personal impact on the history of his country. Jennifer Loach portrays Edward as healthy and vigorous (contrary to previous views), precocious, highly educated, and decisive, and she details the dramatic context in which his reign played out.

George I, the first of the Hanoverian dynasty to rule Britain, served as both elector of Hanover and British monarch from 1714 to his death in 1727. This groundbreaking biography—the only comprehensive account of George’s life and reign—reveals the king as an impressive ruler who welcomed the responsibilities of his dual role and set out to bring culture to what he considered the...

An engrossing biography of George IV, king of England from 1820 to 1830, reassesses the role of this colorful ruler as constitutional monarch. E. A. Smith provides a full and objective account of the monarch’s character, reputation, and achievement, revealing that despite his faults George made important contributions in politics and as a patron of the arts.

This long-awaited biography, written by one of the most distinguished medievalists of his generation, paints a new portrait of Henry I, son of William the Conqueror. Not the brutal, greedy, and repressive king that has been supposed, Henry was the ultimate pragmatist and a man of keen intelligence who desired peace, C. Warren Hollister shows. He vividly describes Henry’s life and reign in a ...

The reign of Queen Anne, the last Stuart monarch, was a period of significant progress for the country: Britain became a major military power on land, the union of England and Scotland created a united kingdom of Great Britain, and the economic and political basis for the Golden Age of the eighteenth century was established. However, the queen herself has received little credit for these achieveme...

Founder of the Tudor dynasty, Henry VII was a crucial figure in English history. In this acclaimed study of the king’s life and reign, the distinguished historian S. B. Chrimes explores the circumstances surrounding Henry’s acquisition of the throne, examines the personnel and machinery of government, and surveys the king’s social, political, and economic policies, law enforcemen...

With numerous portraits, images of costumes, theater models, manuscripts, and maps, this compelling book explores the connections between theatrical performance and Shakespeare's references in the visual arts.

Treacherous, power-hungry, untempered by moral restraint, and embittered by physical deformity, Richard, the younger brother of King Edward IV, is ablaze with ambition to take England’s throne. Richard III, Shakespeare’s long chronicle of Richard’s machinations to be king, is a tale of murder upon murder. He gains the throne, but only briefly...

In no other play has Shakespeare created two such equally titanic personages as Rome’s great soldier and statesman Mark Antony and the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra. The story of their irresistible attraction, their jealous quarrels and betrayals, and the effects on friends and subjects of their ruinous choices is a tale leading irretrievably to despair and defeat. ...

Twelfth Night is one of Shakespeare’s funniest plays and also one of his most romantic. A young noblewoman, Viola,  shipwrecked in a foreign land and separated from her twin brother, dresses as a man in order to enter the service of Orsino, duke of Illyria. Complications ensue—deceptions, infatuations, misdirected overtures, malevolent pranks—as everyone is drawn into...

King Lear, one of Shakespeare's darkest and most savage plays, tells the story of the foolish and Job-like Lear, who divides his kingdom, as he does his affections, according to vanity and whim. Lear’s failure as a father engulfs himself and his world in turmoil and tragedy.

With an informative introduction, a critical essay by Harold Bloom, and on-page annotations, this new edition of Henry IV, Part One assists twenty-first century readers to appreciate fully the tale of Young Prince Hal, cavorting in London with Falstaff and his band of rogues even as England is threatened by the Earl of Northumberland.

The first tragedy to be performed in the new Globe Theatre, Julius Caesar is set at a crucial historical moment--when Republican government is giving way to imperial. Removed in time and place from Shakespeare’s Elizabethan England, Rome makes a safe laboratory for the playwright to engage in his political musings.

Shakespeare’s valedictory play is one of his most poetical and magical, involving spirits, savages, banishment, a duke-turned-wizard, a shipwreck, and more. This volume, like all volumes in The Annotated Shakespeare series, features helpful information and comprehensive annotations to assist with vocabulary, pronunciation, alternate meanings, and more.

In this lively comedy of love and money in sixteenth-century Venice, Bassanio needs funds if he is to impress the wealthy heiress Portia. Soon hopelessly entangled with the Jewish moneylender Shylock, Bassanio and his merchant friend Antonio escape their predicament only through Portia’s clever intervention.

Perhaps no other Shakespearean drama so engulfs us in the ruinous journey of surrender to evil as does Macbeth. The on-page annotations of this edition provide readers with all the tools they need to comprehend the play fully and to examine its profound grip on the Western imagination.

One of the most powerful dramas ever written for the stage, Othello throbs with passion, jealousy, the desire for revenge, illusion, mistrust, and murder. This new and fully annotated edition invites modern readers to appreciate and understand every nuance of Shakespeare’s unforgettable play.

In this bawdy comedy, rapid-fire verbal battles between the shrewish Katarina and the canny Petruchio have delighted generations of audiences. Contemporary readers will especially enjoy this new edition of The Taming of the Shrew with comprehensive annotations that make the play completely accessible.

From the hilarious mischief of the elf Puck to the rough humor of the self-centered Bottom and his fellow players, from the palace of Theseus in Athens to the magic wood where fairies play, Shakespeare’s marvelous A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a play of enchantment and an insightful portrait of the predicaments of love.

This first fully annotated version of Hamlet makes the play totally accessible to today’s readers. In addition to generous on-page annotations, it provides an introduction by Burton Raffel that gives background on the origins and previous versions of the Hamlet story and a concluding essay by Harold Bloom that discusses the originality of Shakespeare’s achie...

Romeo and Juliet, one of the most beloved stage works of all time, is the latest addition to The Annotated Shakespeare series. Burton Raffel offers readers generous help with Elizabethan English and annotates throughout, providing the tools we need to comprehend the play and explore its many possible interpretations.

Never out of print since first published in 1790, Burke’s Reflections established him as the chief framer of modern European conservative political thought. This excellent new edition presents Burke’s enduring text along with a historical introduction by Frank M. Turner and four lively critical essays by leading scholars.

Since its publication almost 150 years ago, John Henry Cardinal Newman's The Idea of a University has had extraordinary influence on the shaping and goals of higher education. This important and accessible edition includes new essays by five leading scholars who explore the background and present day relevance of Cardinal Newman's themes, a biographical sketch of his life, questions for dis...

First published in 1865, Sesame and Lilies stands as a classic nineteenth-century statement on the natures and duties of men and women. This volume returns the book to print and reunites both halves of the work—Ruskin’s critique of Victorian manhood and his counsel to women and parents of girls. Accompanying essays place the book within historical debates on men, women, c...

This new edition of Matthew Arnold's influential text is accompanied by four specially commissioned essays that analyze Arnold's ideas from divergent political and literary perspectives and link them to contemporary concerns over the health of western culture in an increasingly multicultural society. The edition reprints for the first time in unaltered form the original 1869 text of Culture and...

John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty has provoked controversy since its first publication in 1859. This classic work is now available in a new edition that includes essays by distinguished scholars.

Among the most influential writings in the history of political thought, these works by John Locke remain vital to political debates today. This outstanding new volume also includes interpretive essays by prominent Locke scholars Ian Shapiro, John Dunn, and Ruth Grant. 

Translated into seventeen languages since its first publication in 1936, E. H. Gombrich’s bestselling history of the world is at last available in English. Gombrich tells the story of mankind from the Stone Age to the atomic bomb, focusing not on small detail but on the sweep of human experience, the extent of human achievement, and the depth of its frailty.

This gorgeous book surveys the decorative schemes of the country and town houses built in Britain during the eighteenth century and considers the effects created by design, furniture, textiles, silver, and artworks. 

In an increasingly mechanized age, Victorian artists questioned the meaning and value of labor. Is work a moral obligation or a religious duty? Should art celebrate rural labor or reveal the degradation of the industrial workplace? In this highly original book featuring extensive new research, Tim Barringer considers artists’ answers to these questions and what they reveal about Victorian cu...

This magnificent book—the first comprehensive history of St Paul’s Cathedral in thirty years—opens with a series of historical overviews of the cathedral, of the people associated with it, and of its religious, social, and political significance, from its foundation to the present. Additional essays investigate various topics related to the successive cathedrals on the site, and ...

This appealingly illustrated book is the first to focus attention on the architecture of England’s retail buildings. Encompassing retail settings from the Middle Ages to the present, the book traces how shop buildings developed in response to fashion, social and economic conditions, technological advances, and innovations in retail methods.

Hampton Court, a center of court life and politics in Britain for two and a half centuries, is one of the most famous and historically evocative buildings in England. This lavishly illustrated book brings to life the entire history of the palace, its numerous architectural innovations, magnificent formal gardens, royal residents, and important events that took place within its walls.

This attractive and deeply informed book traces the development—in word and picture—of the interiors of middle-class homes in Britain. A greatly expanded and revised version of Ayres’s earlier work The Book of the Home in Britain, the book is embellished with illustrations from early sources, line drawings by the author, and photographs of surviving interiors and their det...

This inviting book casts new light on the notorious Bloomsbury Group and how the social and cultural issues of their day influenced their interpretation and decoration of the home. Christopher Reed analyzes rooms designed by and for Bloomsbury artists and argues that the Bloomsbury interiors constitute important episodes in the history of modernity.

Chetham’s School and Library is the best preserved example of fifteenth-century collegiate architecture in England. First a college for priests and then a possession of the Earls of Derby, it was converted in the seventeenth century for use as a charity school and public library. This fully illustrated book is the first comprehensive account of the building and its turbulent history.

This fascinating book examines how the British state recruited artists to produce official art as part of propaganda during World War I and how their compelling work affected twentieth-century art and British modernism.

This classic of English architectural history has become an indispensable guide to the genesis and development of Georgian London. The current edition has been corrected in the light of new research, expanded to include a few significant buildings originally overlooked, and enhanced with new illustrations.

This generously illustrated book is the first in-depth biography of G. F. Watts, the most important portrait painter in nineteenth-century Britain and the father of British Symbolism.

This fascinating book examines largely forgotten small houses that survive from eighteenth-century London. It sheds new light on both the era’s urban architecture and the lives of the artisans and laborers who inhabited these modest homes.

This book—one of six Pevsner Architectural Guides devoted to the buildings of London—completes the eagerly-anticipated revisions to all the original guides and brings the account of the capital’s buildings entirely up to date. The volume provides a historical introduction to the uniquely diverse buildings of East London and a detailed gazetteer of individual buildings.

This is the first comprehensive architectural guide to Sheffield, a city of extraordinary contrasts. Set amid magnificent natural scenery, the city boasts numerous buildings connected to its industrial heritage as well as an array of handsome Victorian buildings, innovative building projects of the 1950s and 1960s, and such exciting newer buildings as the Winter Garden.

This comprehensive, full-color guidebook describes all the architecturally significant buildings in Liverpool as well as in suburban areas of interest and notable sites further away.

This authoritative guide to the southwest corner of Wales by three local experts encompasses a wide sweep of history, from prehistoric remains to medieval Norman castles, to the great cathedral of St. David’s, and to recent buildings. It also provides detailed accounts of Welsh towns and an introduction that sets the buildings in context.

This is a detailed, authoritative, and easy-to-use guide to the architectural wealth of England’s second city, the “workshop of the world.” Birmingham’s major buildings include its splendid English Baroque cathedral, pioneering Neo-Roman town hall, and still controversial Central Library of the 1970s. Streets of rich and varied Victorian and Edwardian architecture bear witn...

This complete guide to the buildings of South-East Lancashire features the proud municipal buildings and pioneering mills and transport structures at the heart of the city of Manchester. The book also encompasses surrounding areas, with a detailed gazetteer on each nearby city, town, and village and numerous maps, plans, and color photographs.

This comprehensive guide to the architecture of the center of the City of Bristol also describes key buildings in the inner suburbs and five surrounding areas outside the city.

This delightful book is the first comprehensive architectural guide to Bath, England’s finest Georgian city. It features superb, specially taken color illustrations throughout and numerous easy-to-use walking maps.

This sixth volume of the Buildings of Wales series covers two counties, Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion (formerly Cardiganshire) in the South-west of Wales. Like the same authors' Pembrokeshire, the volume covers an architecture still little known, but encompassing a sweep from prehistoric chambered tombs to the high technology of the world's largest single-span glasshouse. The two counties ...

The Scottish Borders, an exceptionally enticing architectural region, encompass coastlines, moors, and farmland. This fully illustrated guide takes the reader from ruined abbeys and small weavers’ cottages to nineteenth-century textile mills and exceptional country houses, from the home of Sir Walter Scott to Peter Womersley’s extraordinary Sunderland House.

For all who share an interest in the fabric of Dublin—architect or historian, tourist or armchair traveler—this is an essential book.  Uniquely comprehensive, the guide covers the buildings of central Dublin, from its two medieval castles to the Guinness brewery, and offers more than one hundred maps, plans, and new color photographs.

R. W. Brunskill, recognized as the leading authority on the history of vernacular building in Britain, here turns his attention to the Lake District. The book “easily earns a place on our bookshelves as the classic anatomy of a region and its buildings,” declares Building Conservation Journal.

Authoritative and extensively illustrated, the second edition of Timber Building in Britain inspired the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings’ to pronounce: “This is destined to become the standard textbook on timber building.”

Now in its third edition, this widely praised introduction to traditional British buildings features a completely new chapter that takes the story forward to the Vernacular Revival of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and shows its influence on houses of today.

This sequel to Traditional Buildings of Britain takes us inside houses and cottages to reveal how they evolved from basic accommodation to homes that provided comfort and privacy. The book discusses local traditional materials—earth, timber, stone, brick—and how they were used in the construction of these buildings.