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.

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.

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

Yet among the spate of book and articles published about the industry, there is a conspicuous lacuna. Gender, though rarely addressed specifically, permeates the industry's historiography nonetheless.

The Routledge International Handbook of Working-Class Studies is a timely volume that provides an overview of this interdisciplinary field that emerged in the 1990s in the context of deindustrialization, the rise of the service economy, and ...