By Regina Lee Blaszczyk Ever since North Sea traders connected London merchants to Continental European markets, wool has been an emblem of British identity. Whether considering Scottish tartans, the... READ MORE
By Regina Lee Blaszczyk Ever since North Sea traders connected London merchants to Continental European markets, wool has been an emblem of British identity. Whether considering Scottish tartans, the... READ MORE
What book in this field has inspired you the most? In fact, it was a novel â Amitav Ghoshâs The Glass Palace, a dramatization about the exile to India of the last king of Burma by the British in... READ MORE
What book in this field has inspired you the most? Weâve been inspired by a whole range of scholarship in the field of early modern womenâs writing. Weâve both been lucky enough to be working at... READ MORE
What book in this field has inspired you the most? John McCrackenâs A History of Malawi and Megan Vaughanâs Curing their Ills. Did your research take you to any unexpected places? Yes. Fieldwork... READ MORE
The John Rylands Library and Manchester University Press are delighted to announce the new editors of the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library: Stephen Mossman, University of Manchester Cordelia Warr,... READ MORE
What book in this field has inspired you the most? Rahula, Bhikkhu Yogavacara, One Nightâs Shelter (from Home to Homelessness); The Autobiography of an American Buddhist Monk (free electronic... READ MORE
What book in this field has inspired you the most? Catholic communities in Protestant states Britain and the Netherlands c.1570â1720 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016). Edited by... READ MORE
We are delighted to announce that the 150th book in the Studies in Imperialism series will be published on 1st October 2017. Dana Rabinâs Britain and its internal others 1750-1800:... READ MORE
1. What book in this field has inspired you the most? Melissa Miles, The Burning Mirror: Photography in an Ambivalent Light (North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2008). This book is... READ MORE
You have described Austerity baby as an âoblique memoirâ. Can I ask why you have used this particular phrase? First, to acknowledge that itâs not a âtraditionalâ memoir â itâs not... READ MORE