How did ordinary men and women dressinearly modernEurope? This book provides new perspectives on clothing and fashion history by investigating the consumption, material significance and cultural meaning of fashionable clothing and accessories among the ‘popular’ classes. -- .
This book reexamines slave trading in the early Middle Ages from a comparative perspective, situating it at the core of economic and political development in northern and eastern Europe. -- .
Becoming couture explains how post-war Italian fashion reinvented itself through the persuasive strategies of intermediaries in Italy and the United States, beyond the myth of Giovanni Battista Giorgini and the Sala Bianca. -- .
A comprehensive and original overview of evidence about the patterns and impacts of volunteering. A rigorous, novel and realistic assessment of the contributions of voluntary action to British society, and of the scope for expanding them. -- .
A comprehensive and original overview of evidence about the patterns and impacts of volunteering. A rigorous, novel and realistic assessment of the contributions of voluntary action to British society, and of the scope for expanding them. -- .
This Revels Plays edition of Christopher Marlowe’s The Massacre at Paris opens up this powerful dramatisation of the French Wars of Religion to student and... Læs mere
This book explores continuities in the extra-marital relationships of the gentry and nobility in the north of England. A major... Læs mere
This book explores science fiction television in the 1970s and 80s, analysing the changes under neoliberalism and the rise of Thatcherism. -- .
This art book presents the award-winning portrait-based series 'Slaves of Fashion' by British artists The Singh Twins. -- .
The second volume in this highly collectable series covers the years 1969–70, offering album sleeves, interviews and more. -- .
A brilliant new account of John Singer Sargent and his relationship with the Wertheimers, an eminent Jewish family in Edwardian London. -- .
Marianne's book is part of the My Voice Project, a collection of firsthand accounts of Holocaust survivors and refugees from Nazi persecution who settled in the UK. Marianne... Læs mere