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Offers new insights into the early modern sickness experience, through a study of the medical history of Wales -- .

An authoritative analysis of the trajectory and outcome of reform of the UK parliament across the past century, addressing significant debates about the balance of executive-legislative relations in Britain, and which employs historical and institutional perspectives for the purposes of analysing and explaining political change at Westminster. -- .

Details the discovery of The epic of Gilgamesh, and explores the broader tensions concerning history and time that it highlighted in Victorian culture -- .

The first full-length treatment of the child in Spanish cinema -- .

Offers both a narrative and an analysis of the influence of British imperial involvements on history writing since 1750 -- .

Explores the history of the royal city during the civil war and interregnum -- .

Examines labouring-status women in late medieval Valencia as they negotiated the fundamentally defining experience of their lives: marriage -- .

The first book detailing the social and economic history of Ireland during the Second World War -- .

Relates the Undead in literature and other media to questions concerning genre, technology, consumption and social change -- .

Reviews the burial history of central North Yorkshire -- .

The first history of the Irish juvenile justice system -- .

The first comprehensive overview of the resurgence of interest in realist political theory, and a defence of liberal politics in realist terms -- .

This study applies the concept of postmemory, developed in Holocaust studies, to novels by contemporary British writers. The first monograph-length study of postmemory in British fiction, it focuses on a group of texts about the World Wars. -- .

Examines the problem of corruption in British urban society and politics between 1930 and 1995 -- .

Examines the links between beauty and politics in the Anglophone Caribbean -- .

Examines how the elite in early modern Ireland spoke about human societies and human bodies, and demonstrates that this elite discourse was grounded in a commitment to the languages and sciences of Renaissance Humanism -- .

This book is about reading and studying poetry. Using fully-worked examples and complete poems wherever possible, it shows all the key elements of poetry 'at work' in poems -- .

The first in-depth study of Britain's many work camp systems. -- .

The first comprehensive account of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) in Ireland -- .

The first comprehensive survey of women in the Weimar Republic, exploring the diversity and multiplicity of women's experiences in the economy, politics and society. -- .

The first detailed scholarly and authoritative analysis of Richard Attenborough's work as a filmmaker -- .

Includes the author's interviews with various crime writers conducted at Yellowbird Productions, Stockholm, Sweden, Mar. 30, 2011.

Analyses the experiences of Spanish Republican refugees in France -- .

Explores the impact of the highly controversial means test in south Wales and north-east England -- .

New edition, combines a discussion of successive historical approaches to the English Reformation with a critical review of recent debates in the area -- .

This book explores the contribution that five conservative, voluntary and popular women's organisations made to women's lives and to the campaign for women's rights throughout the period 1928-64. -- .

The first book-length academic study of the television programmes created, written by, and/or executive-produced, by Abbott -- .

Explores the experiences of middle-class men on the English home front during the First World War -- .

Assesses the impact of the Second Vatican Council on the ordinary believer, alongside contemporaneous shifts in British society -- .

Explores the significance of visual things that are 'under construction' in works by playwrights including Shakespeare, Robert Greene and John Lyly -- .