Routledge Studies in Modern British History
The Beveridge Report: Blueprint for the Welfare State
1st Edition
By Derek Fraser
May 27, 2024
This book provides the definitive account of the making of the 1942 Beveridge Report and its influence on wartime and post-war social policy. The Beveridge Report: Blueprint for the Welfare State aims to offer a definitive analysis of the famous document, so influential in the founding of the ...
The Modern British Data State, 1945-2000
1st Edition
By Kevin Manton
May 27, 2024
This political history studies the phenomenal growth of the modern British state’s interest in collecting, collating and deploying population data. It dates this biopolitical data turn in British politics to the arrival of the Labour government in 1964. It analyses government’s increased desire to ...
The Football Pools and the British Working Class: A Political, Social and Cultural History
1st Edition
By Keith Laybourn
January 29, 2024
This book is the first national study of the football pools in Britain which examines the politics and culture of the gambling on the football pools. It charts the rise of the football pools, focusing upon its rapid growth from the 1920s and its prolonged decline in British culture from the 1990s, ...
The Rise and Decline of England's Watchmaking Industry, 1550–1930
1st Edition
By Alun C. Davies
January 29, 2024
This survey of the rise and decline of English watchmaking fills a gap in the historiography of British industry. Clerkenwell in London was supplied with 'rough movements' from Prescot, 200 miles away in Lancashire. Smaller watchmaking hubs later emerged in Coventry, Liverpool, and Birmingham. The ...
British Responses to Genocide: The British Foreign Office and Humanitarianism in the Ottoman Empire, 1918-1923
1st Edition
By Amy E. Grubb, Elisabeth Hope Murray
September 25, 2023
This book examines British responses to genocide and atrocity in the Ottoman Empire during the aftermath of World War I. The authors analyze British humanitarianism and humanitarian intervention through the advice and policies of the Foreign Office and British government in London and the actions ...
The British Aircraft Industry and American-led Globalisation: 1943-1982
1st Edition
By Takeshi Sakade
September 25, 2023
Sakade challenges the narrative that the focus of British manufacturing went "from Empire to Europe" and argues rather that, following the Second World War, the key relationship was in fact trans-Atlantic. There is a commonly accepted belief that, during the twentieth century, British manufacturing...
Diplomatic Identity in Postwar Britain: The Deconstruction of the Foreign Office "Type", 1945–1997
1st Edition
By James Southern
January 09, 2023
This book seeks to understand the complex ways in which the Foreign Office adapted to the rise of identity politics in Britain as it administered British foreign policy during the Cold War and the end of the British Empire. After the Second World War, cultural changes in British society forced a ...
Provincial Police Reform in Early Victorian England: Cambridge, 1835–1856
1st Edition
By Roger Swift
January 09, 2023
The establishment of ‘new police’ forces in early Victorian England has long attracted historical enquiry and debate, albeit with a general focus on London and the urban-industrial communities of the Midlands and the North. This original study contributes to the debate by examining the nature and ...
The Development of British Naval Aviation, 1914–1918
1st Edition
By Alexander Howlett
January 09, 2023
The Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) revolutionized warfare at sea, on land, and in the air. This little-known naval aviation organization introduced and operationalized aircraft carrier strike, aerial anti-submarine warfare, strategic bombing, and the air defence of the British Isles more than 20 ...
Lord Dufferin, Ireland and the British Empire, c. 1820–1900: Rule by the Best?
1st Edition
By Annie Tindley
September 26, 2022
This book explores the life and career of Frederick Temple Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava (1826–1902). Dufferin was a landowner in Ulster, an urbane diplomat, literary sensation, courtier, politician, colonial governor, collector, son, husband and father. The book draws...
The Devil and the Victorians: Supernatural Evil in Nineteenth-Century English Culture
1st Edition
By Sarah Bartels
September 26, 2022
In recent decades, there has been a growing recognition of the significance of the supernatural in a Victorian context. Studies of nineteenth-century spiritualism, occultism, magic, and folklore have highlighted that Victorian England was ridden with spectres and learned magicians. Despite this ...
The Discourse of Repatriation in Britain, 1845-2016: A Political and Social History
1st Edition
By Daniel Renshaw
September 26, 2022
Examining responses to migration and settlement in Britain from the Irish Famine up to Brexit, The Discourse of Repatriation looks at how concepts of removal evolved in this period, and the varied protagonists who have articulated these ideas in different contexts. Analysing the relationship ...