Routledge Studies in Modern British History
The Working Men's College and the Tradition of Adult Education
1st Edition
Edited
By Tom Schuller, Richard Taylor
December 25, 2025
The Working Men’s College (WMC) is the UK’s oldest continuously running adult education institution, and a very distinctive example of the British adult education tradition. This volume brings the history of the WMC up to date, following the 1954 centenary history by JFC Harrison. Contributions ...
The Influence of Railways on Economic Change
1st Edition
By Richard Marks
December 23, 2025
This book approaches the history of railway building and its impact on economic change in a new way. Using a more granular approach than has been used in the past, based on detailed case studies, this book aims to establish the effect of railway building on local economies and individual sectors ...
The Mystique of Running the Public House in England: Quest for El Dorado, 1840-1939
1st Edition
By David W. Gutzke
November 27, 2025
This book is the first scholarly study to explore economic relations between brewers and publicans in the brewing industry over a century. Based on overlooked historical evidence, this volume examines over 400 interviews with candidates for public houses, unpublished evidence of royal ...
Rethinking Thatcher and Europe: An Alternative Reading
1st Edition
By Alessandra Zanetti
November 23, 2025
This book offers a compelling exploration of Margaret Thatcher's approach to European integration during the years of her premiership, providing a nuanced portrait of one of the most fascinating and influential political figures of recent decades. Drawing on extensive archival research and ...
From Corporatism to Workers’ Control: The Development and Demise of British Guild Socialism
1st Edition
By Jack Vowles
November 21, 2025
This book provides a history and analysis of how the British guild socialist movement was forged in the heat of labour unrest prior to World War I, the experience of the war and subsequent troubled years, including the impact of the Bolshevik Revolution. Guild socialism proposed a model of ...
Intellectual Conservatism: From Burke to Scruton
1st Edition
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By Ferenc Hörcher, Daniel Pitt
September 29, 2025
This book examines the history of intellectual conservatism from its late 18th century "founding father", Edmund Burke, to its last great representative, the late Sir Roger Scruton. Focusing on British intellectual conservatism and investigating this under-researched area of political thought ...
The British Conservative Party: Ideology and Citizenship
1st Edition
By Lenon Campos Maschette
September 29, 2025
Citizenship has been an ill-explored subject within Conservative Party studies. When this subject has been analysed, it is usually made by scholars of citizenship, more concerned with general overviews than understanding specific Conservative approaches to the concept. This book intends to fill ...
Entryism and the Revolutionary Socialist Left in Britain
1st Edition
By Nicolas Sigoillot
July 31, 2025
This book examines entryism in the context of the revolutionary socialist left in Britain, from the inception of the Communist Party of Great Britain in 1920 to the departure of Militant from the Labour Party in 1992. Entryism is a tactic of penetration of a political party by another, aimed at ...
Networks of Influence and Power: Business, Culture and Identity in Liverpool's Merchant Community, c.1800 to 1914
1st Edition
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By Robert Lee
July 31, 2025
During the nineteenth century, Liverpool became the heart of an international maritime network. As the 'second city' of Empire, its merchants and shipowners operated within a transnational commercial and financial system, while its trading connections stimulated the development of new markets and ...
The Falklands/Malvinas Conflict: Forty Years On
1st Edition
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By Louise A. Clare
June 27, 2025
Taking place in 1982, a major event in both post-colonial history and the final phase of the Cold War, as well as a cultural touchstone for two different countries, the Falklands/Malvinas Conflict is one of the most important events of the last two decades of the twentieth century. This volume ...
GPs, Politics and Medical Professional Protest in Britain, 1880–1948
1st Edition
By Chris Locke
April 13, 2025
This book charts the journey of British General Practitioners (GPs) towards professional self-realisation through the development of a political consciousness manifested in a series of bruising encounters with government. GPs are an essential part of the social fabric of modern Britain but as a ...
Oil for Britain: The United Kingdom and the Remaking of the International Oil Industry, 1957-1988
1st Edition
By Jonathan Kuiken
December 18, 2024
The period from 1957 to 1988 was transformative for the international oil industry. The United Kingdon, home to two major oil companies, British Petroleum (BP) and Shell, as well as the possessor of large quantities of oil and gas in its territorial waters, was at the heart of this transition. ...