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Tales from the Hanging Court by Tim Hitchcock
RRP: £64.99Booksplease Price: £62.56Tales from the Hanging Court draws on published accounts of Old Bailey trials from 1674-1834, a rich seam of social, political and legal history. Through these compelling true stories of theft,... -
English Masculinities, 1660-1800 by Tim Hitchcock 9780582319226
Booksplease Price: £57.60This collection of specially commissioned essays provides the first social history of masculinity in the 'long eighteenth century'. Drawing on diaries, court records and prescriptive literature, it... -
English Sexualities, 1700-1800 by Tim Hitchcock 9780333618356
Booksplease Price: £36.44This fascinating and wide-ranging analysis of gender and sexualities brings together the disparate literatures on demography, love and marriage, the body, homosexuality, lesbianism, and the... -
Chelsea Settlement and Bastardy Examinations 1733 - 1766 by Tim Hitchcock 9780900952333
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £58.55Records of settlement and bastardy examinations held in the parish of Chelsea in the mid-eighteenth century. The examinations give new insight into the nature of family relationships among the... -
Chronicling Poverty: The Voices and Strategies of the English Poor, 1640-1840 by Tim Hitchcock 9780333678916
Booksplease Price: £92.16Over the last twenty years more and more historians of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries have turned their eyes away from the records of central administration, towards local archives,... -
London Lives: Poverty, Crime and the Making of a Modern City, 1690-1800 by Tim Hitchcock
Booksplease Price: £35.77London Lives is a fascinating new study which exposes, for the first time, the lesser-known experiences of eighteenth-century thieves, paupers, prostitutes and highwaymen. It charts the experiences... -
London Lives: Poverty, Crime and the Making of a Modern City, 1690-1800 by Tim Hitchcock 9781107025271
Booksplease Price: £95.79London Lives is a fascinating new study which exposes, for the first time, the lesser-known experiences of eighteenth-century thieves, paupers, prostitutes and highwaymen. It charts the experiences... -
Down and Out in Eighteenth-century London by Timothy Hitchcock 9781852852818
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £66.35London in the eighteenth century was the greatest city in the world. It was a magnet that drew men and women from the rest of Britain, and from further afield, in huge numbers. If for a few the... -
Down and Out in Eighteenth-century London by Timothy Hitchcock 9781852855529
Booksplease Price: £34.11London in the eighteenth century was the greatest city in the world, and a magnet that drew men and women from the rest of England in huge numbers. If for a few the streets were paved with gold, for... -
London's Criminal Underworlds, c. 1720 - c. 1930: A Social and Cultural History by Heather Shore 9781349338450
RRP: £74.50Booksplease Price: £31.52This book offers an original and exciting analysis of the concept of the criminal underworld. Print culture, policing and law enforcement, criminal networks, space and territory are explored here... -
The Virtual Representation of the Past by Mark Greengrass 9781138259959
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £52.44This unique book critically evaluates the virtual representation of the past through digital media. A distinguished team of leading experts in the field approach digital research in history and... -
Accommodating Poverty: The Housing and Living Arrangements of the English Poor, c. 1600-1850 by Joanne McEwan 9780230542426
Booksplease Price: £46.28This book offers a detailed examination of the living arrangements and material circumstances of the poor betweeen 1650 and 1850. Chapters investigate poor households in urban, rural and metropolitan... -
Love, Friendship and Faith in Europe, 1300-1800 by Laura Gowing 9781349542765
Booksplease Price: £92.05This ground-breaking volume explores the terrain of friendship against the historical backdrop of early modern Europe. In these thought-provoking essays the terms of friendship are explored - from... -
Forbidden Friendships: Homosexuality and Male Culture in Renaissance Florence by Michael Rocke 9780195122923
Booksplease Price: £51.15In 1432, the Office of the Night was created specifically to police sodomy in Florence. Seventy years of denunciations, accusations, interrogations, and sentencings left an extraordinarily detailed... -
What is Digital History? by Salmi 9781509537013
Booksplease Price: £53.15Digital history is an emerging field that draws on digital technology and computational methods. A global enterprise that invites scholars worldwide to join forces, it presents exciting and novel... -
Love, Friendship and Faith in Europe, 1300-1800 by Miri Rubin 9781403991478
Booksplease Price: £92.16This ground-breaking volume explores the terrain of friendship against the historical backdrop of early modern Europe. In these thought-provoking essays the terms of friendship are explored - from... -
What is Digital History? Hannu Salmi 9781509537020
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.34Digital history is an emerging field that draws on digital technology and computational methods. A global enterprise that invites scholars worldwide to join forces, it presents exciting and novel... -
Technology and the Historian: Transformations in the Digital Age by Adam Crymble 9780252043710
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.14Charting the evolution of practicing digital history Historians have seen their field transformed by the digital age. Research agendas, teaching and learning, scholarly communication, the nature... -
Tokens of Love, Loss and Disrespect 1700-1850 by Sarah Lloyd 9781911300946
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £39.67Coins from the 18th and early 19th centuries are physically and visually intriguing. In addition to their monetary uses, they were repurposed to communicate private and public messages - from ad hoc... -
Inferior Politics: Social Problems and Social Policies in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Joanna Innes
Booksplease Price: £30.84Inferior Politics explores how social policy was created in Britain in a period when central government was not active in making it. Parliament proved capable of generating national legislation... -
Technology and the Historian: Transformations in the Digital Age by Adam Crymble 9780252085697
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24Charting the evolution of practicing digital history Historians have seen their field transformed by the digital age. Research agendas, teaching and learning, scholarly communication, the nature of... -
Mighty Lewd Books: The Development of Pornography in Eighteenth-Century England by Julie Peakman 9781403915009
Booksplease Price: £90.56Mighty Lewd Books describes the emergence of a new home-grown English pornography. Through the examination of over 500 pieces of British erotica, this book looks at sex as seen in erotic culture,... -
Mighty Lewd Books: The Development of Pornography in Eighteenth-Century England by Julie Peakman 9781349512041
Booksplease Price: £46.28Mighty Lewd Books describes the emergence of a new home-grown English pornography. Through the examination of over 500 pieces of British erotica, this book looks at sex as seen in erotic culture,... -
Rotten Bodies: Class and Contagion in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Kevin Siena
Booksplease Price: £33.08A revealing look at how the memory of the plague held the poor responsible for epidemic disease in eighteenth-century Britain "This work will be required reading in fields of research that do not... -
Sex Before Sexuality: A Premodern History by Barry Reay 9780745625225
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.05Sexuality in modern western culture is central to identity but the tendency to define by sexuality does not apply to the premodern past. Before the 'invention' of sexuality, erotic acts and desires... -
Sex Before Sexuality: A Premodern History by Barry Reay 9780745625232
Booksplease Price: £18.18Sexuality in modern western culture is central to identity but the tendency to define by sexuality does not apply to the premodern past. Before the 'invention' of sexuality, erotic acts and desires... -
Victims and Criminal Justice: A History by Pamela Cox 9780192846488
Booksplease Price: £104.74Victims and Criminal Justice is the first study of its kind to examine both the origins and impacts of key legal, procedural, and institutional changes introduced in England and Wales to encourage... -
The History of Pain by Roselyne Rey 9780674399686
RRP: £36.95Booksplease Price: £31.33Feared by most, sought out by others, pain may manifest itself as a benevolent messenger warning of imminent danger or a repellent nemesis that undermines and incapacitates us. Throughout the ages... -
Pathfinder Monster Core 2 by Joshua Birdsong 9781640787681
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £19.35Despite how far heroes travel or how many times they save the day, there are always new monsters lurking just around the corner. Pathfinder Monster Core 2 is a 278-page sourcebook bursting with... -
Street Food: Hawkers and the History of London by Charlie Taverner 9780192846945
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £27.04This is the story of the women, men, boys, and girls who hawked oysters, cherries, cabbages, and pies on London's streets, feeding the capital throughout its transformation from medieval city to... -
Pathfinder Monster Core 2 (P2) 9781640787469
RRP: £62.99Booksplease Price: £42.11Despite how far heroes travel or how many times they save the day, there are always new monsters lurking just around the corner. Pathfinder Monster Core 2 is a 278-page sourcebook bursting with... -
The Dreaded Pox: Sex and Disease in Early Modern London by Olivia Weisser 9781009651875
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.76In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, venereal disease, or the 'pox,' was a dreaded diagnosis throughout Europe. Its ghastly marks, along with their inexorable link to sex, were so...