Routledge Studies in Modern British History
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 ...
British Representations of the Armenian Genocide, 1915-23
1st Edition
By Peter Morgan
July 20, 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 20, 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 ...
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...
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 22, 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 05, 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 ...
Class, Servitude, and the Criminal Justice System in Early Victorian London: The Russell Murder
1st Edition
By Allyson N. May
May 21, 2026
This volume draws on the recently discovered and extraordinarily rich scrapbook compiled by prosecuting solicitor Francis Hobler about the 1840 murder of Lord William Russell to consider public engagement with the issues raised from discovery of the murder itself through the ensuing legal processes...
The Persistence of Witchcraft in Victorian England
1st Edition
By Julia Phillips
April 20, 2026
This book presents an alternative argument to the established opinion that witchcraft began to decline in the eighteenth century and that by the early twentieth century at the latest, it had largely ceased to exist. The idea that witchcraft disappeared from society is partially based on a ...
Migration on the Ballot?: Smethwick and the 1964 General Election
1st Edition
By Marc Collinson
March 06, 2026
Migration on the Ballot? re-examines the 1964 election contest at Smethwick. It considers the impact of deindustrialisation, urban redevelopment, and migration on the town, alongside the candidates and parties who stood, and how commentators have shaped our understanding of the result. The 1964 ...
Remembering and Forgetting Britain’s COVID-19 Pandemic
1st Edition
By David Tollerton
February 13, 2026
Remembering and Forgetting Britain’s COVID-19 Pandemic presents the first critical assessment of British memorial sites created in response to impacts of the COVID-19 virus. Covering memorials established during the half-decade since the start of the first lockdown, this book considers the ...