Routledge Studies in Modern British History
History for the Working Classes: Politics, Education and the Uses of the Industrial Past in Britain, 1884-1985
1st Edition
By Alexander Hutton
January 15, 2027
This book examines how working-class people studied, wrote, and engaged with social and economic history from the late nineteenth century through to the 1980s. This widespread and profound engagement with history was foundational to working-class conceptions of politics and society, and that the ...
Britain's Contested Pasts: Divided Memories and Public Heritage
1st Edition
Edited
By Christian O Connell, Alice Kinghorn
November 25, 2026
Britain’s Contested Pasts is an interdisciplinary collection that critically examines contemporary approaches to contested histories and seeks to act as a form of reparatory history on how historical injustices are remembered, commemorated, and challenged. It brings together academic, institutional...
The British Government and Social Security Fraud and Abuse: 1964 to 2004
1st Edition
By Kevin Manton
November 10, 2026
Studying the change in the government’s perception of, and responses to, fraud and abuse of the social security system, this book analyses how fraud appeared as a big political issue and the attitude that preceded this, dating this change to the 1970s. Based on research in government papers, the ...
Mushrooms and Eighteenth-Century Britain: A Scientific History
1st Edition
By Di Lu
October 23, 2026
This book explores British scientific engagement with fungi during the eighteenth century. Bridging the history of science, technology, medicine, and material culture, it sheds light on how the Age of Reason sought to unveil and conquer the fungal world. As the first scholarly monograph to explore ...
Polish Refugee Doctors in Britain: War, Migration and the Globalisation of Medicine
1st Edition
By Michał Adam Palacz
September 07, 2026
Combining global history methods with insights from migration studies, this book discusses refugee integration and challenges the view of medical migration as a “brain drain” of foreign-trained professionals that benefits only the receiving society. This volume looks at the reception of Polish ...
Orchestrating Warfighting: A History of the British Army’s Corps and Divisions at War since 1914
1st Edition
Edited
By Tim Bean, Edward Flint, James E. Kitchen, Paul Latawski
July 20, 2026
Orchestrating Warfighting provides a detailed and wide-ranging examination of the employment of corps and divisions from the First World War through to the early twenty-first century. Division and corps formations have been at the forefront of the British Army’s prosecution of war since 1914. They ...
Sir Ronald Storrs: Personality and Policy in Mandate Palestine, 1917–1926
1st Edition
By Christopher Burnham
July 20, 2026
This volume utilises the personal papers of Sir Ronald Storrs, as well as other archival materials, to make a microhistorical investigation of his period as Governor of Jerusalem between 1917 and 1926. It builds upon Edward Said’s work on the Orientalist ‘determining imprint’ by arguing that Storrs...
British Representations of the Armenian Genocide, 1915-23
1st Edition
By Peter Morgan
July 19, 2026
This book examines how British politicians, national and local newspapers, writers and commentators discussed the mass killing and deportation of Armenians during the period 1915-1923. Seeking to fill a historiographical gap in the field of modern genocide studies, this volume shows the extent to ...
Britons to America: Oral Narratives of English, Scottish and Welsh Emigrants to the Land of Plenty
1st Edition
By Mario Varricchio
July 19, 2026
This book breaks new ground in the study of British emigration to the United States from the 1860s to the 1930s through the analysis of interviews with English, Scottish and Welsh emigrants collected during the Great Depression era by the Federal Writers’ Project, and mainly from the ...
Britain and the International Civil Service: Empire, Internationalism, and Expertise in the Twentieth Century
1st Edition
By Amy Limoncelli
June 22, 2026
This study emphasizes the legacies of British internationalism in the international organizations of the twentieth century while examining British responses to the end of the British Empire. After the First and Second World Wars, the victorious powers established international organizations such ...
The Rise and Fall of English Radicalism, 1760 to 1800
1st Edition
By Mark Hulliung
June 21, 2026
This book explores the major political debates in England during the final decades of the eighteenth century, a period when responses to the American and French Revolutions were a major concern and the entire future of public life in England was in question. Offering an in-depth treatment of the ...
The Early Years of the Football Association: Cunning, Moribund, Resurgent
1st Edition
By Graham Curry
June 04, 2026
Over the past two decades, academic, sociological/historical writing on football has flourished, mainly on the back of the debate over the game's early development led by Eric Dunning, Graham Curry, Tony Collins, and Adrian Harvey. This book adds to that debate, providing more information on the ...