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  1. Henry VII

    By Alexander Grant

    Series: Lancaster Pamphlets

    The importance of Henry VII is the subject of heated debate. Did his reign mark the start of a new era, or was its prevailing characteristic continunity with the past? The pamphlet:· emphasizes the lasting political stability established during the reign· demonstrates the difference between Henry's...

    Published October 30th 1985 by Routledge

  2. Political Parties in Britain 1783-1867

    By Eric J. Evans

    Series: Lancaster Pamphlets

    The theme of Professor Evan's book is the growth of a recognizable modern party system from the much looser and often family-based attachments of the eighteenth century. He examines the significance of the terms 'Whig' and 'Tory' in the later eighteenth century and the growth of a party aligment...

    Published October 30th 1985 by Routledge

  3. Restoration England

    Politics and Government 1660-1688

    By Robert M. Bliss

    Series: Lancaster Pamphlets

    Dr Bliss’s pamphlet discusses in detail the Restoration settlement as both an expedient solution to the problems facing Charles II and the political nation in 1660 and as a basis for a long term solution to the problems of relations between crown and parliament, public, finance and religion. These...

    Published June 19th 1985 by Routledge

  4. Women in English Society, 1500-1800

    Edited by Mary Prior

    Provides a systematic analysis of various aspects of women's lives between 1500 and 1800, concentrating on detailed research into specific groups of women where it has been possible to build up a picture in some detail....

    Published April 17th 1985 by Routledge

  5. Social Conditions in Britain 1918-1939

    By Stephen Constantine

    Series: Lancaster Pamphlets

    One popular image of the interwar years portrays the period as a time of depression, deprivation and decay. However, much recent work has tended to take, on balance, a more optimistic view of social conditions. In this pamphlet Dr Constantine examines the basis for such conclusions by reviewing the...

    Published November 2nd 1983 by Routledge

  6. England Without a King 1649-60

    By Austin Woolrych

    Series: Lancaster Pamphlets

    Professor Woolrych surveys the establishment and history if the Commonwealth and Protectorate, first explaining how the country lost its king, and how Oliver Cromwell became Lord Protector. Professor Woolrych challenges accepted views on the nature of the Protectorate, and finally offers some...

    Published March 16th 1983 by Routledge

  7. The Problem of the Poor in Tudor and Early Stuart England

    By Lucinda Beier

    Series: Lancaster Pamphlets

    This pamphlet examines recent research into the poor laws of Tudor and Stuart England. Dr Beier asks the question ‘who were the poor?’ and in answering it places the ‘problem of the poor’ in its historical context, examining it in relation to medieval provisions for dealing with poverty. He shows...

    Published March 16th 1983 by Routledge

  8. The Making of Modern English Society from 1850

    By Janet Roebuck

    In the second half of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century a variety of forces emerged which changed society in many profound and subtle ways. The Making of Modern English Society from 1850 uses the findings of recent historical and sociological research contemporary...

    Published November 17th 1982 by Routledge

  9. Medieval England

    A Social History and Archaeology from the Conquest to 1600 AD, 2nd Edition

    Edited by Paul E. Szarmach, Teresa M. Tavormina, Joel T. Rosenthal

    By drawing equally on the work of historians and archaeologists, Professor Colin Platt puts forward a view of English medieval society in which there is much that is new and unexpected....

    Published July 19th 1978 by Routledge

  10. British Policy and the Refugees, 1933-1941

    By Yvonne Kapp, Margaret Mynatt

    In the summer of 1940, with much of Europe under German domination, British authorities instigated a harsh programme of internment or deportation of those who had fled Nazi oppression. This volume, written the same year, is a critique of government policies of the day....

    Published September 29th 1977 by Routledge