Books in the Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series series

An examination of the links between radicalism in Victorian England, and the Risorgimento movement in Italy.

The voices of non-conformity are brought to the fore in this new exploration of late seventeenth-century politics, religion and literature.Whilst scholars have recently offered a much deeper and more persuasive account of the centrality of religious issues in shaping the political and cultural worlds of Restoration England, much of this has been broad-brush and the voices of individual established Church figures have been much more clearly heard than those of dissenters. This book offers a fresh and challenging new approach to the voices that the confessional state had no prospect of silencing. It provides case studies of a range of very different but highly articulate dissenters, focusing on their modes of political activism and on the varieties of dissenting response possible, and demonstrating the vitality and integrity of witnesses to a spectrum of post-revolutionary Protestantism. It also seeks, through an exploration of textual culture and poetic texts in particular, to illuminate both the ways in which nonconformists sought to engage with central authorities in Church and State, and the development of nonconformist identities in relation to each other. GEORGE SOUTHCOMBE is Director of the Sarah Lawrence Programme, Wadham College, Oxford.

First modern analysis of the custom of the "royal touch" in the Tudor and Stuart reigns.

London Zoo examined in its nineteenth-century context, looking at its effect on cultural and social life

The pattern of rural life in early medieval Spain is here vividly brought to life through careful examination of contemporary documents.

Studies the manifestations of Edward the Black Prince in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

An investigation of the concept of Jacobitism and its effects in the long eighteenth century.

A study of how the role of party agents grew and became professionalised in local political parties.

An examination of how the Roman past was perceived, and used, by Victorian Britain.

A detailed investigation of the place of women in thirteenth-century society, using individual case studies to reappraise orthodox opinion.

A reassessment of the relationship between the UK and the USSR at a troubled time.

A study of the development of the hospital as a economic, medical and voluntary institution in the second half of the nineteenth century.

A complete reappraisal of the scale and significance of female criminality in a period of major legislative changes.

A fresh look at the complex question of outdoor poor relief in the nineteenth century.

An investigation into aphrodisiacs challenges pre-conceived ideas about sexuality during this period.

A study of the differing views of the conscript based on evidence along the eastern border of France. The popular idea of the swaggering military folk-hero, a potent image for the peasant-conscript, contrasts with the elitist view of conscription as "the nation in arms".

Examination of welfare during the last years of the Poor Law, bringing out the impact of poverty on particular sections of society - the lone mother and the elderly.

A new investigation into the 1641 Irish rebellion, contrasting its myth with the reality.

An examination of the mid-seventeenth century maritime battles between Ireland, England, and Scotland, showing them to have had a dramatic impact on the overall conflict.

A fresh interpretation of London's early Victorian political culture, devoting particular attention to the relationship which existed between Whigs and vestry-based radicals.

This detailed case study of a part of London shows how both the survivors and the bereaved sought to come to terms with the losses and implications of the Great War.

A survey of the changes in medical care for those approaching death in the early modern period.

An account of how, in certain parts of sixteenth-century England, challenges to conventional piety anticipated the Reformation.

An examination of how trade and commerce were viewed from the "outside", in a period of vast change.

An in-depth study of the radical Cordeliers Club and its influence on political and constitutional thought of the time.

The first systematic analysis of the early nineteenth-century allotment movement.

The Reform Act of 1832 is shown to have politicised the electorate at all levels, laying the constitutional foundations for the representative democracy of the Victorians.

Examines the relationship between the British left and national identity in socialism's formative years.