May 25, 2022
Pokot Pastoralism: Environmental Change and Socio-Economic Transformation in North-West Kenya by Hauke-Peter Vehrs is the first book in Future Rural Africa, a new series from James Currey. Dr Vehrs shares… READ MORE
May 23, 2022
The Geographies of Enlightenment Edinburgh explores how the making of Edinburgh as an influential Enlightenment capital depended on a series of spatial processes that extended across urban, regional, national and… READ MORE
May 17, 2022
It has long been recognised that Worcester was a major centre of historiographical research and writing in the period covered by our book. Under the guidance of Bishop Wulfstan II… READ MORE
May 12, 2022
Popular memory of the Scottish Covenanters, to the extent they are remembered at all, tends to feature them as either intolerant, violent religious fanatics, or focuses on their persecution during… READ MORE
May 10, 2022
Zarina Burkadze’s new book, published by the University of Rochester in their Rochester Studies in East and Central Europe series, is a powerfully insightful study of the challenges faced by… READ MORE
May 6, 2022
Dr Williams’s Trust and Library, edited by Alan Argent, derives from the will of the nonconformist minister Daniel Williams (c.1643-1716), revealing rare examples of private philanthropy and dissenting enterprise. Early… READ MORE
May 4, 2022
A memoir with a ‘double heartbeat’, a three-volume edition providing translations of the Goldsmiths’ Company Register of Deeds, the memoirs of the pioneering Danish silent film star Asta Nielsen in… READ MORE
April 21, 2022
This popular series has already published five volumes with two more to come this summer. To mark five successful years, we are offering a special 40% anniversary discount on the… READ MORE
April 19, 2022
The first time I viewed the miniatures of the Ashburnham Pentateuch, it was quite by accident. I was visiting the Bibliothèque nationale during the very early stages of a research… READ MORE
April 14, 2022
With the recent publication of Red Road to Freedom, I became intrigued by secret parties, patriotic unity, and great power competition. I asked myself ‘where have other red roads led’?… READ MORE
Q&A with Seth Peabody: Exploring German Film History