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For more than 200 years, everyday life in Britain has been beset by a variety of dangers, from the mundane to the life-threatening. Chapters explore road safety and policing, environmental and technological dangers, and occupational health and safety.
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The second half of the eighteenth century brought important changes in attitudes towards shaping the body. But the introduction of a new type of steel - cast steel - around 1750, offered new material possibilities for shaping the body.
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Queen Marie Antoinette, wife of King Louis XVI of France and Queen Henrietta Maria, wife of King Charles I of England were two of the most notorious queens in European history.
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This book foregrounds the role of the Royal Navy in creating the British Atlantic in the eighteenth century.
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Abbé Sicard was a French revolutionary priest and an innovator of French and American sign language. This thoughtful, engaging work explores French and American sign language and deaf studies set against the backdrop of the French Revolution and Napoleon.
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This book analyses the different types of post-execution punishments and other aggravated execution practices,... Læs mere
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The Soldier Vote tells the story of how Americans in the armed forces gained the right to vote while away from home. Using newly obtained data... Læs mere
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This book examines a range of visual images of military recruitment to explore changing notions of glory, or of gloire, during the... Læs mere
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This book is about mapping the future of eighteenth-century women’s writing and feminist literary history, in an academic culture that is not shy of declaring their obsolescence.
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British salons, with guests such as Byron, Moore, and Thackeray, were veritable hothouses of political and cultural... Læs mere
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This book explores changes in emotional cultures of the early modern battlefield. In three steps it discusses the emotional practices in the army, the emotional experiences of the individual combatant and the emotions of the mediated battlefield in the visual arts.
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Contagionism is an old idea, but gained new life in Restoration Britain. The Germ of an Idea considers British contagionism in its religious, social, political and professional context from the Great Plague of London to the adoption of smallpox inoculation.