The family is a major area of scholarly research and public debate. Many studies have explored the English family in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, focusing on husbands and wives, parents and children.The Ties that Bind explores in depth the other key...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2018-06-28

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Today, no one really thinks of Britain as a land of camps. Camps seem to happen 'elsewhere', from Greece, to Palestine, to the global South. Yet over the course of the twentieth century, dozens of British refugee camps housed hundreds of thousands of Belgians, Jews,...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2018-06-27

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Today, no one really thinks of Britain as a land of camps. Camps seem to happen 'elsewhere', from Greece, to Palestine, to the global South. Yet over the course of the twentieth century, dozens of British refugee camps housed hundreds of thousands of Belgians, Jews,...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2018-06-21

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This book provides a thorough examination of the relations between the men in the British, French and American armies on the Western Front of the First World War. The Allied victory in 1918 was built on the backs of British, French, and American soldiers who joined...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-06-16

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The second son of a modest gentry family, John Lilburne was accused of treason four times, and put on trial for his life under both Charles I and Oliver Cromwell. He fought bravely in the Civil War, seeing action at a number of key battles and rising to the rank of...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2018-06-10

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This book is the first major study of the blackout in the Second World War. Developing a comparative history of this system of civil defense in Britain and Germany, it begins by exploring how the blackout was planned for in both countries, and how the threat of aerial...

Editeur : Palgrave Pivot
Parution : 2018-06-06

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'Naval tradition? Naval tradition? Monstrous. Nothing but rum, sodomy, prayers and the lash.' This quotation, from Winston Churchill, is frequently dismissed as apocryphal or a jest, but, interestingly, all four of the areas of naval life singled out in it were ones...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2018-05-31

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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. The history of early modern medicine...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2018-05-31

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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. The history of early modern medicine...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2018-05-30

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This book takes an innovative approach to the study of the past in the past. It seeks to understand history, not as a discipline or profession, but as a cultural phenomenon. Spanning the early-modern and modern pasts, this book focuses on the posthumous reputation of...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2018-05-30

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This book takes an innovative approach to the study of the past in the past. It seeks to understand history, not as a discipline or profession, but as a cultural phenomenon. Spanning the early-modern and modern pasts, this book focuses on the posthumous reputation of...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2018-05-24

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This book describes how, after the Second World War, the Labour Party assumed leadership of the International Socialist Movement, thanks to the achievements of the Attlee Government. International Secretary Denis Healey guided the reconstruction of the Socialist...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-05-18

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This book provides a detailed study of the politics of the Progressive Alliance at the constituency level from its inception in 1903 to collapse during the First World War. It evaluates the character, development and difficulties of progressive co-operation and...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-05-14

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British leaders use spies and Special Forces to interfere in the affairs of others discreetly and deniably. Since 1945, MI6 has spread misinformation designed to divide and discredit targets from the Middle East to Eastern Europe and Northern Ireland. It has instigated...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2018-05-10

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British leaders use spies and Special Forces to interfere in the affairs of others discreetly and deniably. Since 1945, MI6 has spread misinformation designed to divide and discredit targets from the Middle East to Eastern Europe and Northern Ireland. It has instigated...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2018-05-09

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This book examines Britain’s complex relationship with the mine in the years 1900-1915. The development of mine warfare represented a unique mix of challenges and opportunities for Britain in the years before the First World War. The mine represented the antithesis of...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-05-03

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Ebenezer Sibly was a quack doctor, plagiarist, and masonic ritualist in late eighteenth-century London; his brother Manoah was a respectable accountant and a pastor who ministered to his congregation without pay for fifty years. The inventor of Dr. Sibly's Reanimating...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2018-04-25

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This book traces the history of ritual landscapes in the British Isles, and the transition from religious practice to recreation, by focusing on a highly understudied exemplar: the coin-tree. These are trees imbued with magical properties into which coins have been...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-04-23
Collection : Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic
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This book examines the pictorial representation of women in Great Britain both before and during the First World War. It focuses in particular on imagery related to suffrage movements, recruitment campaigns connected to the war, advertising, and Modernist art movements...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-04-11

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Accounting for Oneself is a major new study of the social order in early modern England, as viewed and articulated from the bottom up. Engaging with how people from across the social spectrum placed themselves within the social order, it pieces together the language of...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2018-04-05

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