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

An examination of Coventry's process of urbanisation from its origins in the Anglo-Saxon past to the eve of the Black Death.

A review of the evidence for the popularity of the revival of the Commonwealth and the reasons for its ultimate failure.

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

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".

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.