William Woodruff had the sort of childhood satirised in the famous Monty Python Yorkshireman sketch.

Renaissance Revivals examines patterns in the London revivals of two English Renaissance theatre genres over the past four centuries.

Winnie Bridges has lived all her sixty-odd years in Great Harwood, a small North-East Lancashire town long associated with cotton weaving.

This text looks at the people, ideas and events between the Great Exhibition of 1851 and the Second Reform Act of 1867.

In Chris Barker's sequel to Cultural Studies, the author addresses the strengths and weaknesses of the discipline and investigates its practical and academic boundaries. The author also clarifies its underlying themes of study.

The fascinating history of Burnley, illustrated through old and modern pictures.

This incisive book investigates memorials to slavery throughout the African diaspora, with an emphasis on Europe.

Introduction-survey of literature and historiography; technological change and its nature of dilution; statistical survey of women's work and its location; representation and record keeping; women and trade unions at war-time; health and ...