‘England’s darling’

‘England’s darling’In the nineteenth century, Alfred the Great was a figure who rivalled King Arthur in the popular imagination. This book asks why Alfred was so important in Victorian Britain, examines the ways in which he was rewritten by authors and artists of the time, and investigates how Alfred is no longer a national icon.

embodying Frueh’s unique approach to art and life

This HOME film dossier revisits a key decade in European film history

Hockley’s is a big screen approach

we must carefully reconsider our attitude towards documentation

Professor Anthony Parr has a proven track record with the Three Jacobean Travel Plays (now in paperback at £14

Heavy metal feminism is a process in becoming

Naclerio sheds new light on the creation of one of the world'smost important financial institutions and how it came to have the national and international influence it exerts today

looking at both familiar and unfamiliar locations through the lens of filmmakers such as Roberto Rossellini

Britain today is falling apart

The book argues that early modern understandings of medical practice and authority were highly flexible and subject to change

This book is above all a study of motivations and thought processes of a group of medieval thinkers: it and will appeal to specialist and non-specialist ecclesiastical

this study explores topics as diverse as Inka stonework