Brings together agenda-setting essays that illuminate the complex relationship between ideas and political activity in modern British history. Ideas matter in m

The two centuries after 1800 witnessed a series of sweeping changes in the way in which Britain was governed, the duties of the state, and its role in the wider

The relationship between landscape and identity is explored to reveal how Englishness encompasses the urban and rural, and the north and south.

Exploring the rich relationship between historical thought and religious debate in Victorian culture, God and Progress offers a unique and authoritative account

Restaging the Past is the first edited collection devoted to the study of historical pageants in Britain, ranging from their Edwardian origins to the present da