Routledge Studies in Modern British History
Milton Keynes in British Culture: Imagining England
1st Edition
By Lauren Pikó
September 30, 2020
The new town of Milton Keynes was designated in 1967 with a bold, flexible social vision to impose "no fixed conception of how people ought to live." Despite this progressive social vision, and its low density, flexible, green urban design, the town has been consistently represented in British ...
Winston Churchill: At War and Thinking of War before 1939
1st Edition
Edited
By B.J.C. McKercher, Antoine Capet
September 30, 2020
Although remembered and even lauded in the public mind as the British prime minister during the Second World War who played a major role in Allied victory over the Axis Powers and Japan, Winston Churchill had a life and political career before 1939 conditioned by fighting other wars and, in ...
Sport and the Home Front: Wartime Britain at Play, 1939-45
1st Edition
By Matthew Taylor
June 15, 2020
Sport and the Home Front contributes in significant and original ways to our understanding of the social and cultural history of the Second World War. It explores the complex and contested treatment of sport in government policy, media representations and the everyday lives of wartime citizens. ...
English Gentlemen and World Soccer: Corinthians, Amateurism and the Global Game
1st Edition
By Chris Bolsmann, Dilwyn Porter
February 25, 2020
The significance of the Corinthians Football Club, founded in 1882, has been widely acknowledged by historians of football and by sports historians generally. As a ’super club’ comprising the best amateur talent available they were an important formative influence on football in Britain from the ...
Deprivation, State Interventions and Urban Communities in Britain, 1968–79
1st Edition
By Peter Shapely
May 07, 2019
Focusing on a series of policy initiatives from the late 1960s through to the end of the 1970s, this book looks at how successive governments tried to address growing concerns about urban deprivation across Britain. It provides unique insights into policy and governance and into the socio-economic ...
Liberal Reform and Industrial Relations: J.H. Whitley (1866-1935), Halifax Radical and Speaker of the House of Commons
1st Edition
Edited
By John A. Hargreaves, Keith Laybourn, Richard Toye
May 07, 2019
J.H. Whitley came from an established business family in Halifax, where he engaged in youth work and municipal politics before becoming MP for Halifax from 1900 to 1928. He was a Liberal Radical who worked with Labour, gave his name to the industrial councils of the First World War, was Speaker of ...
Private Secretaries to the Prime Minister: Foreign Affairs from Churchill to Thatcher
1st Edition
Edited
By Andrew Holt, Warren Dockter
May 07, 2019
The importance of the Prime Minister in British foreign policy decision-making has long been noted by historians. However, while much attention has been given to high-level contacts between leaders and to the roles played by the premiers themselves, much less is known about the people advising and ...
Women, Mission and Church in Uganda: Ethnographic encounters in an age of imperialism, 1895-1960s
1st Edition
By Elizabeth Dimock
April 11, 2019
This volume recounts the experiences of female missionaries who worked in Uganda in and after 1895. It examines the personal stories of those women who were faced with a stubbornly masculine administration representative of a wider masculine administrative network in Westminster and other outposts ...
Charles Pelham Villiers: Aristocratic Victorian Radical
1st Edition
By Roger Swift
August 14, 2018
This book provides the first biographical study of Charles Pelham Villiers (1802-1898), whose long UK parliamentary career spanned numerous government administrations under twenty different prime ministers. An aristocrat from a privileged background, Villiers was elected to Parliament as a Radical...
Opening Schools and Closing Prisons: Caring for destitute and delinquent children in Scotland 1812–1872
1st Edition
By Andrew G. Ralston
June 28, 2018
The book covers the period from 1812, when the Tron Riot in Edinburgh dramatically drew attention to the ‘lamentable extent of juvenile depravity’, up to 1872, when the Education Act (Scotland) inaugurated a system of universal schooling. During the 1840s and 1850s in particular there was a move ...
The British Army Regular Mounted Infantry 1880–1913
1st Edition
By Andrew Winrow
June 28, 2018
The regular Mounted Infantry was one of the most important innovations of the late Victorian and Edwardian British Army. Rather than fight on horseback in the traditional manner of cavalry, they used horses primarily to move swiftly about the battlefield, where they would then dismount and fight on...
The Chartist General: Charles James Napier, The Conquest of Sind, and Imperial Liberalism
1st Edition
By Edward Beasley
June 28, 2018
General Charles James Napier was sent to confront the tens of thousands of Chartist protestors marching through the cities of the North of England in the late 1830s. A well-known leftist who agreed with the Chartist demands for democracy, Napier managed to keep the peace. In South Asia, the same ...