Some of the most incisive writers on the subject rethink the relationship between Britain, England and English literary culture. It is premised on the importanc

1819 was the annus mirabilis for many British Romantic writers, and the annus terribilis for demonstrators protesting the state of parliamentary representation.

Describes the early conversion to Christianity of the pagan peoples of an area stretching from Stratford-upon-Avon to Offa's Dyke.

This volume examines private libraries and book ownership in seventeenth-century England, with particular focus on how libraries developed over this period and

A history of the UK’s regional inequalities, and why they matter Differences between England’s North and South continue to shape national politics, from att