SAS Publications 2018-19 - History and Classics

History and Classics

Publications 2018–19

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The School’s institutes have wide and varying publishing programmes, producing a range of monographs, reports, practitioner texts and edited collections. This catalogue lists a range of new and forthcoming titles in History and Classics from across the institutes, together with a selection of relevant journals published by the institutes, in some cases with external partners. There are also catalogues listing titles in Politics, Law and Human Rights, and Culture, Languages and Literature.

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THOU SHALT FORGET Indigenous sovereignty, resistance and the production of cultural oblivion in Canada PIERROT ROSS-TREMBLAY

Thou shalt forget: indigenous sovereignty, resistance and the production of cultural oblivion in Canada Pierrot Ross-Tremblay Human Rights Consortium Institute of Commonwealth Studies 978-1-912250-09-7 (pb), 200pp, £25 September 2018

What is ‘cultural oblivion’ and ‘psychological colonialism’, and how have they affected the capacity of First Nation Peoples in Canada to actively resist systematic and territorial oppression by the state?

Following a decade-long research project, this new book by Pierrot Ross-Tremblay examines the erasure of the author’s own community, the Essipiunnuat people, and their cultural history and heritage from Canadian public consciousness. Using extensive oral history, he conducts a genealogy of the intergenerational silence and subsequent forgetting of an uprising known as the Salmon War that occurred in the 1980s.

The book queries how this impacted the group’s collective consent and emancipation, but illustrates how the ‘cultural oblivion’ of vulnerable minority communities is a critical human rights issue.

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People, texts and artefacts: cultural transmission in the Norman worlds Edited by David Bates, Edoardo D’Angelo and Elisabeth van Houts IHR Conference Series Institute of Historical Research 978‑1‑909646‑53‑7 (hb), 295pp, £40 978‑1‑909646‑54‑4 (ebook), £32 978‑1‑909646‑56‑8 (PDF) January 2018

This volume is based on two international conferences held in 2013 and 2014 at Ariano Irpino, and at Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

It contains essays by leading scholars in the field. Like the conferences, the volume seeks to enhance interdisciplinary and international dialogue between those who work on the Normans and their conquests in northern and southern Europe in an original way. It has as its central theme issues related to cultural transfer, treated as being of a pan-European kind across the societies that the Normans conquered and as occurring within the distinct societies of the northern and southern conquests. These issues are also shown to be an aspect of the interaction between the Normans and the peoples they subjugated, among whom many then settled.

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Gender: places, spaces and thresholds Edited by Victoria Blud, Diane Heath, Enat Klafter IHR Conference Series Institute of Historical Research 978-1-909646-84-1 (hb), 300pp, £40 978-1-090646-86-5 (ebook), £32 978-1-909646-85-8 (PDF) November 2018

From womb to tomb, how are we defined and confined by gender and by space?

This collection addresses the concept of gender in the middle ages through the study of place and space, exploring how gender and space may be mutually constructive and how individuals and communities make and are made by the places and spaces they inhabit.

Interrogating the thresholds between the sacred and the secular, the public and the private, enclosure and exposure, domestic and political, movement and stasis, the essays in this interdisciplinary collection draw on current research and contemporary theory to suggest new destinations for future study.

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Thomas Frederick Tout (1855–1920): repositioning history for the twentieth century Edited by Caroline Barron and Joel Rosenthal IHR Conference Series Institute of Historical Research 978-1-909646-99-5 (hb), 300pp, £40 978-1-912702-02-2 (ebook), £32 978-1-912702-03-9 (PDF) December 2018

Thomas Frederick Tout was a remarkable medieval historian who forged the distinctive and distinguished history school at Manchester University in the early years of the 20th century.

His own research made extensive use of the national archives (as opposed to the customary use of chronicle sources) and his major contributions were in the field of administrative history. He was, himself, a tireless administrator of many historical enterprises (including the Dictionary of National Biography) and his historical output was extraordinary. He spent the last four years of his life in London and is buried in Hampstead Parish churchyard. The time is ripe to reconsider his historical legacy.

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Magna Carta: history, context and influence Edited by Lawrence Goldman IHR Conference Short Series Institute of Historical Research 978‑1‑0909646-87-2 (hb), 150pp, £30 978‑1‑0909646-89-6 (ebook), £24 978‑1‑0909646-88-9 (PDF) July 2018

This book examines the history and influence of Magna Carta in British and American history. In a series of essays written by notable British specialists, it considers the origins of the document in the political and religious contexts of the 13th century, the relevance of its principles to the 17th century disputes that led to the Civil War, the uses made of Magna Carta to justify the American Revolution, and its inspiration of the radicaldemocratic movement in Britain in the early 19th century. The introductory essay considers the celebration of Magna Carta’s 800th anniversary in 2015 in relation to ceremonials and remembrance in Britain in general. Given as papers to a joint conference of British and Chinese historians in Beijing in 2015, these essays provide a clear and insightful overview of the origins and impact of a medieval document that has shaped the history of the world.

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Dethroning historical reputations: universities, museums and the commemoration of benefactors Edited by Jill Pellew and Lawrence Goldman IHR Conference Short Series Institute of Historical Research 978‑1‑909646‑82‑7 (hb), 150pp, £30 978-1-912702-01-5 (ebook), £24 978‑1‑909646‑83‑4 (PDF) July 2018

Campaigns in universities across the world to reject, rename and remove historic benefactions have brought the present into collision with the past. In Britain the attempt to remove a statue of one of Oxford’s most famous benefactors, the imperialist Cecil Rhodes, spread and now also affects civic monuments and statues nationwide. In the United States, memorials to Confederates in the American Civil War and to other slaveholders have been the subject of intense dispute. Should we continue to honour historic figures whose actions are now deemed ethically unacceptable? How can we reconcile the views held by our ancestors with those we now hold today?

The essays in this inter-disciplinary collection are drawn from historians, sociologists and a museum director to examine current issues from different perspectives. Together they explore an emerging conflict between the past and present, history and ideology, and benefactors and their critics.

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Britain’s transport experts and the First World War

by Christopher Phillips RHS New Historical Perspectives Series Institute of Historical Research

The family firm: monarchy, mass media and the British public, 1932-53

by Edward Owens RHS New Historical Perspectives Series

978-1-909646-90-2 (hb), 300pp, £40

Institute of Historical Research

978-1-909646-97-1 (pb), 300pp, £25

978-1-909646-94-0 (hb), 300pp, £40

978-1-909646-91-9 (ebook)

978-1-909646-98-8 (pb), 300pp, £25

978-1 909646-92-6 (PDF)

978-1-909646-96-4 (ebook)

December 2018

978-1-909646-95-7 (PDF)

The evolving professional relationship between Britain’s transport experts and the military, both in peacetime and during the war, demonstrates the complex and innovative ways in which the army conceptualised industrial warfare and the role played by technical expertise in such a conflict. Britain’s Transport Experts and the First World War demonstrates the pioneering management techniques of a force engaged in coalition warfare on foreign soil, and sheds new light on the multiple and diverse contributions of Britain’s transport experts between 1914 and 1918.

‘New Historical Perspectives’ is a new book series for early career scholars, commissioned and edited by the Royal Historical Society, and published by the Institute of Historical Research and the University of London. Books in the series are published in print, ebook and Open Access formats.

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December 2018

The Family Firm presents the first major analysis of the public projection and reception of the royal family’s media image in mid-20th century Britain.

From the 1930s onwards, courtiers, clerics, and news editors worked to produce a more informal, family-centred media image of the British monarchy which was designed to appeal to popular tastes. This publicity strategy helped to foster popular affection for the royal family.

New media technologies were also crucial in shaping the way this image was received by audiences, and in generating national unity around the monarchy at a time when political and social change threatened the institution’s very existence.

‘New Historical Perspectives’ is a new book series for early career scholars, commissioned and edited by the Royal Historical Society, and published by the Institute of Historical Research and the University of London. Books in the series are published in print, ebook and Open Access formats. sas.ac.uk/publications

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Ravenna: its role in earlier Medieval merchants and money: essays in honour of medieval change and exchange James L. Bolton Edited by Martin Allen and Matthew Davies

Edited by Judith Herrin and Jinty Nelson

IHR Conference Series

IHR Conference Series

Institute of Historical Research

Institute of Historical Research

978‑1‑909646‑16‑2 (hb), 384pp, £40

978‑1‑909646‑14‑8 (hb), 382pp, £40

978‑1‑909646‑35‑3 (ebook), £32

978-1-909646-33-9 (ebook), £32

June 2016

This volume contains selected essays in celebration of the scholarship of the medieval historian Professor James L. Bolton. The essays address a number of different questions in medieval economic and social history, in looking at the activities of merchants, their trade, legal interactions and identities. The importance of money and credit in the rural and urban economies is also highlighted.

Other chapters look more widely at patterns of immigration to London, trade and royal policy, and the role that merchants played in the Hundred Years War.

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June 2016

In the long-debated transition from late antiquity to the early middle ages, the city of Ravenna presents a story rich and strange.

From the fourth century onwards it suffered decline in economic terms. Yet its geographical position, its status as an imperial capital, and above all its role as a connecting point between East and West, ensured that it remained an intermittent attraction for early medieval kings and emperors throughout the period from the late fifth to the 11th century.

Ravenna’s story is all the more interesting because it was complicated and unpredictable: discontinuous and continuous, sometimes obscure, sometimes including bursts of energetic activity. Throughout the early medieval centuries its flame sometimes flared, sometimes flickered, but never went out.

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We mark your memory: writings from the descendants of indenture

The personal impact of Nazi persecution: experiences and life stories

Edited by David Dabydeen, Maria del Pilar

Mary Fulbrook

Kaladeen and Tina K. Ramnarine

Bithell Memorial Lectures

School of Advanced Study

Institute of Modern Languages Research

978‑1‑912250‑07‑3 (pb), 212pp, £11.99

978‑0‑85457‑264‑9 (pb), 40pp, £5

978‑1‑912250‑08‑0 (ebook), £8 April 2018

Indenture, whereby individuals entered, or were coerced, into an agreement to work in a colony was open to abuse from recruitment to plantation. Hidden within this little known system of 19th and early 20th century labour migration are even more neglected stories of exploited and unfree labour under the British Empire. These include indentured histories from Madeira to the Caribbean, from West Africa to the Caribbean, and from China to the Caribbean, Mauritius and South Africa.

To mark the centenary of indenture’s abolition in the British Empire (2017–20) this volume brings together, for the first time, new writing from across the Commonwealth and beyond. It is a unique and important attempt to explore, through the medium of poetry and prose, the indentured heritage of the 21st century.

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November 2018

The experience of surviving Nazi persecution had an impact on the whole of the rest of people’s lives and on the transformation of their identity. The character of this impact varied not only according to their age, status and experiences at the time of persecution, but also according to later circumstances in which they sought to make new lives. The effect on the second and subsequent generations similarly varied not only with parental experiences but also with the different contexts in which children grew up. In this lecture Mary Fulbrook outlines some key issues and aspects of how particular post-war contexts affected the ways in which people gave significance and expression to their memories of the past.

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Brazil: essays on history and politics Leslie Bethell Institute of Latin American Studies 978‑1‑908857‑54‑5 (pb), 240pp, £25 978-1-908857-58-3 (ebook), £20 May 2018

This volume consists of seven essays by leading professor of Brazilian studies, Leslie Bethell, on major themes in modern Brazilian history and politics: Brazil and Latin America; Britain and Brazil (1808-1914); The Paraguayan War (1864-70); The decline and fall of slavery (18501888); The long road to democracy; Populism; The failure of the Left. The essays are new, but they draw on book chapters, journal articles and public lectures delivered in the ten years since his retirement as founding director of the University of Oxford Centre for Brazilian Studies in 2007.

In a fascinating autobiographical introduction, ‘Why Brazil?’ Professor Bethell describes how, from the most unlikely of backgrounds, he became a historian of Brazil and how he came to devote much of his long academic career to the promotion and development of Brazilian studies around the world.

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Rethinking the past in Cuba: a tribute to Alistair Hennessy Edited by Antoni Kapcia Institute of Latin American Studies 978‑1‑908857‑41‑5 (pb), 250pp, £25 978‑1‑908857‑42‑2 (ebook), £20 April 2018

This collection of essays and research articles has been designed, by its breadth of expertise and discipline, to pay suitable homage to the seminal influence and contribution made by the late Alistair Hennessy towards the development of Cuban studies. For that reason, it includes a judicious mixture of the old and the new, including several of the leading and internationally well-established experts on Cuban history, politics and culture, but also some up-and-coming researchers in the field. That mixture and the combination of topics (some addressing the past directly, others assessing the present within a historical context) reflect Hennessy’s own crossdisciplinary and open-minded approach to the study of the history of Cuba.

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Philosophy and medicine in the formative period of Islam Edited by Peter Adamson and Peter Pormann

Vernacular Aristotelianism in Italy from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century

Warburg Institute Colloquia 31

Edited by Luca Bianchi, Simon Gilson and Jill Kraye

Warburg Institute

Warburg Institute Colloquia 29

978‑1‑908590‑54-1 (pb)

Warburg Institute

January 2018

978‑1‑908590‑52‑7 (pb), 224pp, £35

Many of the leading philosophers in the Islamic world were doctors, yielding extensive links between philosophy and medicine. The 12 papers in this volume explore these links, focusing on the classical or formative period (up to the 11th century AD). One central theme is the Arabic reception of Greek figures who worked on medicine or medical topics, including Hippocrates, Aristotle and Galen.

Several of the luminaries of philosophy in the early Islamic world are also studied, including Abū Bakr al-Rāzī, al-Fārābī, and Avicenna.

Conversely, the volume also includes research on the use of philosophical ideas in medical authors, including Άlī ibn Ridwān. Attention is also given to the connections between medicine and Islamic theology (kalām). As a whole, the book provides both a survey of the kinds of work being done in this relatively unexplored area, and a springboard for further research.

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January 2017

This volume is based on an international colloquium held at the Warburg Institute in June 2013, entitled ‘Philosophy and Knowledge in the Renaissance: Interpreting Aristotle in the Vernacular’. It situates and explores vernacular Aristotelianism in a broad chronological context, with a geographical focus on Italy.

The disciplines covered include political thought, ethics, poetics, rhetoric, logic, natural philosophy, cosmology, meteorology and metaphysics. Among the genres considered are translations, popularising commentaries, dialogues and works targeted at women. The wide-ranging and rich material presented is intended to stimulate scholars into developing this promising area of research still further.

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Palaeography, manuscript illumination and humanism in Renaissance Italy: studies in memory of A. C. de la Mare

The cosmography of paradise: the other world from ancient Mesopotamia to medieval Europe Edited by Alessandro Scafi

Edited by Robert Black, Jill Kraye and Laura Nuvoloni

Warburg Institute Colloquia 27

Warburg Institute Colloquia 28

978‑1‑908590‑50‑3 (pb), 295pp, £62

Warburg Institute 978‑1‑908590‑51‑0 (pb), 488pp, £60 May 2016

Albinia de la Mare (1932–2001), OBE, FBA, Professor of Palaeography at King’s College London, was one of the last century’s outstanding palaeographers and the world’s leading authority on Italian Renaissance manuscripts. In November 2011 a conference was held to honour her memory, and this volume offers revised versions of most of the papers read on that occasion, as well as three additional contributions. Tilly de la Mare had exceptionally wide interests, including key individuals involved in manuscript and literary production alongside other important themes in the history of palaeography. These included the emergence of humanist script; the relationship between script and illumination; the competing methods of palaeography and philology; the social, political, academic, geographical and cultural contexts of manuscript copying and production; and the role of palaeography in the transmission of classical texts. sas.ac.uk/publications

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This collection of essays considers the general theme of paradise from various comparative perspectives. It focuses on the way the relationship between ‘the other world’ and the structure of the whole cosmos has been viewed in different ages and traditions around the Mediterranean basin, spanning from the ancient Near East to medieval Europe.

Scholars from different subject areas discuss the various ways of viewing the relationship between paradise and the general features of the universe from within their own field.

The historical formation of the notion of paradise, defined as a perfect state beyond time and space, relied heavily upon a variety of temporally and culturally conditioned concepts of the physical cosmos as a finite and imperfect realm. It is precisely the emphasis on cosmography that allows the exploration of several traditions: Sumerian, ancient Iranian, Greek, Jewish, early Christian, Gnostic, Byzantine, Islamic, Scandinavian, and Latin Western.

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Greek large-scale bronze statuary: the late archaic and classical periods Edited by Kosmas Dafas BICS Supplement 138 Institute of Classical Studies 978‑1‑905670‑67‑3 (hb), 400pp, price tbc October 2018

This book presents a new study of Greek large-scale bronze statuary of the late Archaic and Classical periods. It examines the discovery, origin, style, date, artistic attribution, identification, and interpretation of the surviving bronzes, and focuses in particular on their technical features and casting techniques.

It contains over 170 plates of photographs and drawings to illustrate its discussion.

It also places the development of the casting techniques in connection with the stylistic evolution in Greek free-standing sculpture.

During the Classical period, artists preferred bronze to marble when creating their contrapposto figures. Indisputably, bronze gave particular freedom to artists in creating three-dimensional figures. Through the examination of how technical matters affect style, this book presents fresh interpretations of these important monuments of Greek art and offers a new approach in the field of Greek free-standing bronze sculpture.

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The afterlife of Plutarch Edited by John North and Peter Mack BICS Supplement 137 Institute of Classical Studies 978‑1‑905670‑66-6 (pb), £60 July 2018

Plutarch’s writings have had a varied reception history from when he was writing in the second century BCE down to today. This volume starts from what may be a translation into the Syriac dialect of a lost Plutarch essay; continues with a tribute from a leading scholar of the later Byzantine period; and follows the centuries of sustained enthusiasm from the Renaissance to the 18th century. This period started once a translation into Latin had become available, and ended when scholars in the 19th century lowered Plutarch’s reputation as historian, biographer, philosopher, and stylist. By the end of the century, he came to symbolise in the eyes of Tolstoy precisely what history should not be. Both the causes of the decline and the later recovery of interest raise important new questions about how Plutarch should be assessed in the 21st century. This is one of the early volumes in the series of ‘Afterlives’ of the Classics, being produced jointly by the Institute of Classical Studies and the Warburg.

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The afterlife of Virgil

The afterlife of Cicero

Edited by Peter Mack and John North

Edited by Gesine Manuwald

BICS Supplement 136

BICS Supplement 135

Institute of Classical Studies

Institute of Classical Studies

978‑1‑905670‑65-9 (pb), £60

978-1-905670-64-2 (pb), 230pp, £65

December 2017

Virgil has always been copied, studied, imitated, and revered as perhaps the greatest poet of the Latin language. He has been centrally important to the transmission of the classical tradition, and has played a unique role in European education. In recognition of the richness of his reception the fourth conference in the joint Warburg Institute and Institute of Classical Studies series on the afterlife of the Classics was devoted to the afterlife of Virgil.

This volume focuses on the reception of the Eclogues and the Aeneid in three main areas: Italian Renaissance poetry, scholarship and visual art; English responses to Virgil’s poetry; and emerging literatures in Eastern Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries. Contributors are Giulia Perucchi, M. Elisabeth Schwab, Clementina Marsico, David Quint, Marilena Caciorgna, Maté Vince, Hanna Paulouskaya, Tim Markey, Charles Martindale, and Francesca Bortoletti.

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December 2016

Cicero was one of the most prolific and productive figures from ancient Rome, active as both a politician and a writer. As yet however modern scholarship does not do justice to the sheer range of his later influence. This volume publishes papers from a conference which aimed to enlarge the basis for the study of Cicero’s reception, by examining in detail new aspects of its variety. The conference was held in May 2015, and was jointly organised by the Institute of Classical Studies, the Warburg Institute and the Department of Greek and Latin at University College London.

The book presents 12 case studies on the reception of ‘Cicero the writer’ and ‘Cicero the man’, ranging from 13th-century Italy to 19th-century England, including colonial Latin America. Scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds discuss artistic and literary responses to Cicero as well as his exploitation in philosophical and political debates. Taken together, these studies illustrate how the special characteristics of the historical Cicero colour his reception: his afterlife is one of the most varied and wide-ranging of any classical author.

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BUCKMINSTER AND SEWSTERN Pamela J. Fisher

Pamela J. Fisher

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THE VICTORIA HISTORY OF LEICESTERSHIRE

BUCKMINSTER AND SEWSTERN

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ages was quarried for ironstone ry, then reinstated for farmland, that are several feet below the and property curtilages. This similarities and differences villages over more than a recorded history.

The Victoria History of The Victoria History of Leicestershire: Buckminster Hampshire: Basingstoke: and Sewstern a medieval town, Pamela J. Fisher c.1000-c.1600 VCH Shorts

John Hare

Institute of Historical Research

VCH Shorts

978‑1‑909646‑69‑8 (pb), 100pp, £12

Institute of Historical Research

978‑1‑909646‑70‑4 (ebook), £8

978‑1‑909646‑61-2 (pb), 100pp, £12

October 2017

978‑1‑909646‑62-9 (ebook), £8

Buckminster and Sewstern, in north-east Leicestershire, are two small villages within a single parish, and although both were established before 1086, they have each developed their own peculiarities and characters.

This book explores the similarities and differences between the two villages over more than a thousand years of recorded history.

July 2017

Basingstoke is frequently seen as a very modern town, the product of the last decades of the 20th century. In reality it has a long, rich and prosperous history. From its beginnings c.1000 it became a significant market centre for the area around, and a place on the route to London from the west. By 1500 it was among the top 60 towns in England by wealth and taxpayers, and the centre of a major industrial area, whose manufactured cloths formed part of international patterns of trade.

Much of the old town has been swept away by the shopping centre, but something of the medieval footprint remains in its street beyond this, in a few surviving buildings and above all in its magnificent church. This book examines these features as well as the families, whether outsiders or locals, who made the most of the new thriving economic conditions, and whose dynamism helped create the town’s expansion.

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CHELTENHAM BEFORE THE SPA

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CHELTENHAM BEFORE THE SPA Alex Craven and Beth Hartland

Beth Hartland and Alex Craven

The Victoria County History series of paperback parish and urban histories aims to bring local research to publication as swiftly as possible, and to inspire readers to get involved with VCH ventures in their own localities. Each history makes a new contribution to the Victoria County History, which was founded in 1899 and is recognised as the greatest publishing project in local history.

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The Royal Albert Hall. Much of ‘South Kensington’ is actually in Knightsbridge/Westminster.

the victoria history of gloucestershire

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CHELTENHAM BEFORE THE SPA

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The Victoria History of Middlesex: Knightsbridge and Hyde

The Victoria History of Gloucestershire: Cheltenham before the Spa

Pamela Taylor

Alex Craven and Beth Hartland

VCH Shorts

VCH Shorts

Institute of Historical Research

Institute of Historical Research

978‑1‑909646‑66-7 (pb), 100pp, £12

978‑1‑908857‑51‑4 (pb), 116pp, £12

978‑1‑909646‑67-4 (ebook), £8

978‑1‑908857‑52‑1 (ebook), £8

June 2017

This book breaks new ground by uncovering an earlier, larger Knightsbridge and showing why its initial extent and history have been largely forgotten. Knightsbridge was the southern part of the Westminster abbey manor of Knightsbridge and Westbourne and, until 1900, covered the same area as the parish of St Margaret Westminster Detached. Pre-1900 Knightsbridge/Westminster included today’s Kensington Palace, Kensington Gardens, almost half of ‘South Kensington’, and Hyde Park west of the Serpentine (or river Westbourne).

When Henry VIII acquired the manor to create Hyde Park, over half of Knightsbridge vanished without acknowledgement. Knightsbridge lost more land and recognition after William III bought a house and grounds which were transformed into Kensington Palace and Gardens. The book gives a wide-ranging account of this intriguing area and charts the hamlet’s development from the 13th through to the 21st centuries.

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February 2019

The familiar image of Cheltenham, a large and prosperous former spa town, world-famous on account of its Georgian and Regency architecture, its festivals and educational establishments, masks an earlier history. While numerous descriptions of the town have been published over the years, most say little about the many centuries of its existence before the 1740s, when it began to develop as a fashionable resort.

This is the fullest account ever attempted to chronicle those centuries, from the late Saxon period until the 18th century. It draws on a range of documentary sources preserved in local and national archives, many of them never examined in detail before.

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The Victoria History of Middlesex: St Clement Danes c.1660-c.1900

The Victoria History of Hampshire: Steventon Jean Morrin

Francis Boorman with Jonathan Comber and

VCH Shorts

Mark Latham

Institute of Historical Research

VCH Shorts

978‑1‑909646‑21‑6 (pb), 106pp, £12

Institute of Historical Research

978‑1‑909646‑22‑3 (ebook), £8

978‑1‑909646‑79‑7 (pb), 124pp, £12 978‑1‑909646‑81‑0 (ebook), £8 May 2018

St Clement Danes, now the central RAF church in the Strand, is at the heart of the capital, sandwiched between ‘theatreland’ and legal London, and connecting the dual historic centres of Westminster and the City. This book reveals the vibrant cultural, economic, political and religious life of the parish from the Restoration to its abolition in 1900.

Characterised by its contrasts, St Clement Danes was home to a mix of rich and poor residents, including lawyers, artisans, servants and prostitutes. The history of this fascinating area introduces a cast of characters ranging from the Twinings tea-trading family, to the rowdy theatre-going butchers of Clare Market and from the famous Samuel Johnson, to the infamous pornographers of Holywell Street.

This book also unpicks the complicated structure of local government in the parish, and provides detailed accounts of the parish schools and charities.

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May 2016

Steventon, a chalkland village near Basingstoke, is best known for being the birth place of famous novelist, Jane Austen, the famous novelist, the daughter of the local rector. Unlike Chawton and Bath, no house or museum commemorates the author’s memory in Steventon but this new history explains how family life and observation of north Hampshire society shaped her early literary career. She wrote early versions of Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility and Northanger Abbey in Steventon from 1796 to 1798, drawing on local society for inspiration for characters, manners and sentiments.

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Journals

Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies Published by Wiley for the Institute of Classical Studies

Historical Research: the Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research

Edited by Greg Woolf

Published by Wiley for the Institute of Historical Research

ISSN 0076-0730 (print)

Edited by the Director of the IHR

ISSN 2041-5370 (online)

ISSN 1468-2281

www.icls.sas.ac.uk/publications/our-journal-bics

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BICS publishes the latest research on classical studies by scholars from across the world. It has been in print since 1954, publishing in all areas of Classics broadly defined, including archaeology.

The journal is now published twice per year, in both print and digital formats. Since 2016, it has been publishing themed issues. BICS 60-1 (June 2017) is a themed issue in honour of Fergus Millar, edited by Nicholas Purcell; BICS 60-2 (December 2017) published papers on Varro, edited by Valentina Arena and Fiachra Mac Góráin. BICS 61-1 (June 2018) will publish papers on sport and social identity in honour of Mark Golden. We make regular calls for expressions of interest in editing themed issues of BICS: these are advertised on the ICS website.

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(ISSN)1468-2281

Since 1923, Historical Research has been a leading mainstream British historical journal.

Its articles cover a wide geographical and temporal span: from Britain to the Far East; from the early middle ages to the 20th century.

It encourages the submission of articles from a broad variety of approaches, including social, political, urban, intellectual and cultural history.

The journal is published four times a year, and new articles are also available for ‘early view’ up to a year before print publication.

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JOURNAL OF THE WARBURG AND COURTAULD INSTITUTES LXXX

THE WARBURG INSTITUTE University of London 2017

Reviews in History Published by the Institute of Historical Research

Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes

Edited by the Director of the IHR

Published by the Warburg Institute

ISSN 1749-8155

ISSN 0075-4390 (print)

www.history.ac.uk/reviews

ISSN 2044-0014 (online)

The open access journal Reviews in History was launched in 1996, and publishes reviews and reappraisals of significant work in all fields of historical interest. Over 2,000 reviews have been published to date, reaching thousands of readers via the internet and a free email alert.

New reviews appear regularly.

Vol. LXXX (2017) ISBN 978-1-908590-06-0 www.ingentaconnect.com/content/warburg/jwci

The JWCI is intended as an interdisciplinary forum for scholars specialising in art history, the history of ideas and cultural history. Usually the subjects discussed either centre on or have some connection with Western, typically European cultures; therefore, too, the JWCI provides a home for research into the many interconnections between those cultures and others which have flourished beyond European borders - particularly, but by no means limited to, the cultures and learning of the Near East.

Topics include the arts in their various forms, religion, philosophy, science, literature and magic, as well as intellectual, political and social life, from Antiquity to the dawn of the contemporary era.

Founded in 1937, soon after the arrival of the Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg in London, the Journal of the Warburg Institute became the Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes two years later and has flourished as a collaborative enterprise since that time.

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