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First modern analysis of the custom of the "royal touch" in the Tudor and Stuart reigns.

London Zoo examined in its nineteenth-century context, looking at its effect on cultural and social life

The pattern of rural life in early medieval Spain is here vividly brought to life through careful examination of contemporary documents.

A study of the differing views of the conscript based on evidence along the eastern border of France. The popular idea of the swaggering military folk-hero, a potent image for the peasant-conscript, contrasts with the elitist view of conscription as "the nation in arms".

An investigation of the concept of Jacobitism and its effects in the long eighteenth century.

A study of how the role of party agents grew and became professionalised in local political parties.

An examination of how the Roman past was perceived, and used, by Victorian Britain.

A detailed investigation of the place of women in thirteenth-century society, using individual case studies to reappraise orthodox opinion.

A reassessment of the relationship between the UK and the USSR at a troubled time.

A study of the development of the hospital as a economic, medical and voluntary institution in the second half of the nineteenth century.

A complete reappraisal of the scale and significance of female criminality in a period of major legislative changes.