TEACHING RELIGION is the first book to trace the developments in religious education in England and Wales in the half century to 1994. It starts with ...

In 1857 Everard Digby published the first scientific treatise on swimming – and one of the first on any modern sport. Nicholas Orme rehabilitates ...

This volume of essays considers the practical and political purposes for which maps were used, the symbolic and ideological roles of maps in the history ...

This is the first full-length study in English of Camus's life-long fascination with the works of the Russian writer Feodor Dostoevsky. The purpose ...

This book takes a comprehensive approach to new ways of thinking about air and its ways of relating to the world, through society, place, objects, environments ...

Eighteenth-Century Brechtians is a collection of essays by a well-known author on comic and radical political theatre. It looks at stage satires by ...

Ourika is the story of an African girl growing up in France: based on a true story, it was a runaway bestseller following its first publication in Paris ...

The fifth volume in this acclaimed paperback series covers a wide range of topics, including Celtic Cornwall, Cornish politics, the Cornish economy ...

Since The Théâtre du Grand-Guignol closed its doors forty years ago, the genre has been overlooked by critics and theatre historians. This ...

Quintessentially English, Betjeman was an 'outsider' in England - and doubly so in Cornwall where he was a ‘foreigner’. And yet, as this ...