Publications

This list provides information about books published by historians at Leicester. More information about publications can be found within individual staff pages.

2024

The Routledge Companion to British Womens' Suffrage 

• By: Krista Cowman (ed.) (London: Routledge)
• Learn more about The Routledge Companion to British Womens' Suffrage

2023

Radegund: The Trials and Triumphs of a Merovingian Queen

• By: Erin Dailey (Oxford University Press)
• Learn more about Radegund: The Trials and Triumphs of a Merovingian Queen

Charlemagne and Rome: Alcuin and the Epitaph of Pope Hadrian I

• By: Joanna Story (Oxford University Press)
• Learn more about Charlemagne and Rome: Alcuin and the Epitaph of Pope Hadrian I

The Invention of the English Landscape, c. 1700-1939

• By: Peter Borsay with Roey Sweet (London: Bloomsbury, 2023)
• Learn more about The Invention of the English Landscape, c. 1700-1939

2022

Peasants Making History: Living In an English Region 1200-1540

• By: Christopher Dyer (Oxford University Press)
• Learn more about Peasants Making History

Complete Gentlemen: Educational Travel and Family Strategy, 1650-1750

• By: Richard Ansell (British Academy/Oxford University Press)
• Learn more about Complete Gentlemen 

2021

Dance on the Razor’s Edge: Crime and Punishment in the Nazi Ghettos

• By: Svenja Bethke (University of Toronto Press)
• Learn more about Dance on the Razor’s Edge

Manuscripts in the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Cultures and Connections

• Edited by Claire Breay and Joanna Story (Four Courts Press)
• Learn more about Manuscripts in the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms and read about it on the British Library Medieval Manuscript Blog

An Urban History of China

• By: Toby Lincoln (Cambridge University Press)
• Learn more about An Urban History of China

Hidden Histories of the Dead: Disputed Bodies in Modern British Medical Research

• By: Elizabeth Hurren (Cambridge University Press)
• Learn more about Hidden Histories of the Dead

Convicts: A Global History

• By Clare Anderson (Cambridge University Press)
• Learn more about Convicts: A Global History

Alcohol in the Age of Industry, Empire, and War

• By Deborah Toner (ed.)
• Learn more about Alcohol in the Age of Industry, Empire and War

2020

The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, Volume I: The Post-Reformation Era, 1559-1689

• By: John Coffey (Oxford University Press)
• Learn more about The Oxford history of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, Volume I

Building the Irish Courthouse and Prison: A Political History, 1750-1850 

• By: Richard Butler (Cork University Press)
• Learn more about Building the Irish Courthouse and Prison: A Political History, 1750-1850

Reliquiae Baxterianae: Or, Mr Richard Baxter’s Narrative of the Most Memorable Passages of his Life and Times, 5 vols 

• Co-edited by: John Coffey (Oxford University Press) 
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Malawian Migration to Zimbabwe, 1900-1965: Tracing Machona

• By: Zoe Groves (Palgrave Macmillan)
• Learn more about Malawian Migration to Zimbabwe, 1900-1965: Tracing Machona

New Approaches to Governance and Rule in Urban Europe since 1500 

• Edited by: Simon Gunn and Tom Hulme (eds) (Routledge)
• Learn more about New Approaches to Governance and Rule in Urban Europe since 1500

Deviant Maternity: Illegitimacy in Wales, c. 1680-1800 

• By: Angela Muir (Routledge)
• Awarded the 2021 Francis Jones prize for Welsh History
• Awarded 'Highly Recommended' by Women's History Network Book Prize, 2021 
• Learn more about Deviant Maternity: Illegitimacy in Wales, c. 1680-1800

Migrants in Medieval England, c.500-c.1500

• Edited by: W M Ormond, J Story and E M Tyler (Oxford University Press - Proceedings of the British Academy)
• Learn more about Migrants in Medieval England, c. 500-c.1500

2019

Automobility and the City in Twentieth-Century Britain and Japan

• By: Simon Gunn and Sue Townsend (Bloomsbury)
• Learn more about Automobility and the City in Twentieth-Century Britain and Japan

Cricket Country: An Indian Odyssey in the Age of Empire 

• By: Prashant Kidambi (Oxford University Press)
• Shortlisted for the 2020 Wolfson History Prize
• Learn more about Cricket Country: An Indian Odyssey in the Age of Empire

Voices of the Voiceless: Religion, Communism, and the Keston Archive

• Edited by: Zoe Knox and Julie K. deGraffenried (Baylor University Press)
• Learn more about Voices of the Voiceless: Religion, Communism, and the Keston Archive

2018

A Global History of Convicts and Penal Colonies 

• Edited by: Clare Anderson (Bloomsbury)
• Learn more about A Global History of Convicts and Penal Colonies

Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Art, Word, War

• Edited by: Claire Breay and Joanna Story (British Library)
• Learn more about Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Art, Word, War

Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Secular World: From the 1870s to the Present

• By: Zoe Knox (Palgrave Macmillan)
• Finalist and 'Special Mention of Excellence' in the Senior category of the 2019 Alberigo Award (European Academy of Religion)
• Learn more about Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Secular World: From the 1870s to the Present

High Culture and Tall Chimneys: Art Institutions and Urban Society in Lancashire, 1780-1914

• By: James Moore (Manchester University Press)
• Learn more about High Culture and Tall Chimneys: Art Institutions and Urban Society in Lancashire, 1780-1914

Integrated Census Microdata (I-CEM); 1851-1911: Version 2

• By: Kevin Schürer
• Learn more about Integrated Census Microdata (I-CEM); 1851-1911

Writing the Lives of the English Poor

• By: Steven King (McGill-Queen's University Press)
• Learn more about Writing the Lives of the English Poor

2017

US Presidential Elections and Foreign Policy: Candidates, Campaigns and Global Politics from FDR to Bill Clinton

• By: Andrew Johnstone and Andrew Priest (University Press of Kentucky)
• Learn more about US Presidential Elections and Foreign Policy: Candidates, Campaigns and Global Politics from FDR to Bill Clinton

2016

A Notorious Woman: Anne Royall in Jacksonian America 

• By: Elizabeth Clapp (University of Virginia Press)
• Learn more about A Notorious Woman: Anne Royall in Jacksonian America 

New Histories of the Andaman Islands: Landscape, Place and Identity in the Bay of Bengal, 1790-2012

• By: Clare Anderson, Madhumita Mazumdar and Vishvajit Pandya (Cambridge University Press)
• Learn more about New Histories of the Andaman Islands: Landscape, Place and Identity in the Bay of Bengal, 1790-2012 

The Habitable City in China: Urban History in the Twentieth Century

• By: Toby Lincoln (Palgrave Macmillan)
• Learn more about The Habitable City in China: Urban History in the Twentieth Century 

Spirits of Community: English Senses of Belonging and Loss, 1750-2000

• By: Keith Snell (Bloomsbury)
• Learn more about Spirits of Community: English Senses of Belonging and Loss, 1750-2000 

Obligation, Entitlement and Dispute under the English Poor Laws

• By: Steven King (Cambridge Scholars Publishing)
• Learn more about Obligation, Entitlement and Dispute under the English Poor Laws

Food and Health in Early Modern Europe

• By: David Gentilcore (Bloomsbury)
• Learn more about Food and Health in Early Modern Europe 

Dissecting the Criminal Corpse: Staging Post-Execution Punishment in Early Modern England

• By: Elizabeth T. Hurren (Palgrave Macmillan)
• Learn more about Dissecting the Criminal Corpse: Staging Post-Execution Punishment in Early Modern England

2015

Tanz auf Messers Schneide: Kriminalität und Recht in den Ghettos Warschau Litzmannstadt

• By: Svenja Bethke (Hamburger Edition)
• Learn more about Tanz auf Messers Schneide: Kriminalität und Recht in den Ghettos Warschau Litzmannstadt

Alcohol and Nationhood in Nineteenth-Century Mexico

• By: Deborah Toner (University of Nebraska Press)
• Learn more about Alcohol and Nationhood in Nineteenth-Century Mexico

Biographies of Drink: A Case Study Approach to our Historical Relationship with Alcohol

• By: Deborah Toner (Cambridge Scholars Publishing)
• Learn more about Biographies of Drink: A Case Study Approach to our Historical Relationship with Alcohol

Authentic Recipes from Around the World

• By: Deborah Toner (HAT events, Ceredigion, Wales)
• Learn more about Authentic Recipes from Around the World

Urbanizing China in War and Peace: The Case of Wuxi County

• By: Toby Lincoln (University of Hawaii Press)
• Learn more about Urbanizing China in War and Peace: The Case of Wuxi County

2014

Against Immediate Evil: American Internationalists and the Four Freedoms on the Eve of World War II

• By: Andrew Johnstone (Cornell University Press)
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2013

Exodus and Liberation: Deliverance Politics from John Calvin to Martin Luther King Jr. 

• By: John Coffey (Oxford University Press)
• Learn more about Exodus and Liberation: Deliverance Politics from John Calvin to Martin Luther King Jr. 

Portrait of a Party: The Conservative Party in Britain, 1918-1945

• By: Stuart Ball (Oxford University Press)
• Learn more about Portrait of a Party: The Conservative Party in Britain, 1918-1945

2012

Crime and Punishment in African American History

• By: James Campbell Red Globe Press
• Learn more about Crime and Punishment in African American History 

Turncoats and Renegadoes: Changing Sides in the English Civil Wars

• By: Andrew Hopper (Oxford University Press)
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The County Community in Seventeenth-Century England and Wales

• Edited by: Jacqueline Eales and Andrew Hopper Studies in Regional and Local History, 5 (University of Hertfordshire Press)
• Learn more about The County Community in Seventeenth-Century England and Wales 

Subaltern Lives. Biographies of Colonialism in the Indian Ocean World, 1790-1920

• By: Clare Anderson (Cambridge University Press)
• Learn more about Subaltern Lives. Biographies of Colonialism in the Indian Ocean World, 1790-1920 

Cities and the Grand Tour. The British in Italy 1690-1820

• By: Rosemary Sweet (Cambridge University Press)
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Dartmoor's Alluring Uplands: Transhumance and pastoral management in the Middle Ages

• By: Harold Fox (edited by Chris Dyer and Matthew Tompkins) (University of Exeter Press)
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Italy and the Potato: A History, 1550-2000

• By: David Gentilcore (Continuum)
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Bede and the End of Time

• By: Peter Darby (Ashgate Publishing)
• Learn more about Bede and the End of Time 

The Indian Uprising of 1857-8: Prisons, Prisoners and Rebellion

• By: Clare Anderson (Anthem Press India)
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The Making of the Middle Class: Toward a Transnational History

• Contributions by: Simon Gunn and Prashant Kidambi, 464pp. (Duke University Press)
• Learn more about The Making of the Middle Class: Toward a Transnational History

Dying for Victorian Medicine: English Anatomy and Its Trade in the Dead Poor, c. 1834-1929

• By: Elizabeth T. Hurren (Palgrave)
• Learn more about Dying for Victorian Medicine: English Anatomy and Its Trade in the Dead Poor, c. 1834-1929 

Poverty and Sickness in Modern Europe: Narratives of the Sick Poor, 1780-1938

• By: Elizabeth T. Hurren (Continuum) 
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2011

The Papers of the Hothams: Governors of Hull during the Civil War

• Edited by: Andrew Hopper (Cambridge University Press part of Camden Society, 5th series, 39, 2011)
• Learn more about The Papers of the Hothams: Governors of Hull during the Civil War

The World of John Secker, 1716-1795, Quaker Mariner

• Edited by: Andrew Hopper (Norfolk Record Society, 75, 2011)
• Learn more about The World of John Secker, 1716-1795, Quaker Mariner

Research Methods in History

• Edited by: Simon Gunn and Lucy Faire (Edinburgh University Press)
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Dole Queues and Demons: British Election Posters from the Conservative Party Archive

• By: Stuart Ball (Bodleian Library Press)
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New Directions in Local History since Hoskins

• Edited by: Andrew Hopper, Christopher Dyer, Evelyn Lord and Nigel Tringham (Hatfield: University of Hertfordshire Press)
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The Peculiarities of Liberal Modernity in Imperial Britain

• Edited by: Simon Gunn and James Vernon (University of California Press, May 2011)
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Women, Dissent and Anti-Slavery in Britain and America, 1790-1865

• Edited by: Elizabeth J. Clapp and Julie Roy Jeffrey (Oxford University Press, April 2011)
• Learn more about Women, Dissent and Anti-Slavery in Britain and America, 1790-1865 

2010

Sport and the Military: The British Armed Forces 1880-1960

• By: Tony Mason and Eliza Riedi (Cambridge University Press, 2010)
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Pomodoro! A history of the tomato in Italy

• By: David Gentilcore (Columbia University Press, 2010)
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The US Public and American Foreign Policy

• Edited by: Andrew Johnstone and Helen Laville (Routledge, 2010)
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Women, Welfare and Local Politics, 1880-1920

• By: Steven King (Sussex Academic Press, paperback 2010)
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Deserted Villages Revisited

• Edited by: Chris Dyer and Richard Jones (University of Hertfordshire Press, 2010)
• Learn more about Deserted Villages Revisited 

2009

Imprisoned by History. Aspects of Historicized Life

• By: Martin Davies (New York: Routledge, 2009)
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Art and Religion in Eighteenth-century Europe

• By: Nigel Aston (Reaktion Books, 2009)
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Seeing Things Their Way. Intellectual History and the Return of Religion

• Edited by: Alister Chapman, John Coffey and Brad S. Gregory (Notre Dame Press, 2009)
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William Dugdale, Historian, 1605- 1686: His Life, His Writings and His County

• Edited by: Christopher Dyer and Catherine Richardson (The Boydell Press, February 2009)
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Dilemmas of Internationalism. The American Association for the United Nations and US Foreign Policy, 1941-1948

• By: Andrew Johnstone (Ashgate, January 2009)
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2008

Ordinary People as Mass Murderers: Perpetrators in Comparative Perspectives (The Holocaust and its Contexts Series)

• Edited by: Olaf Jensen and Claus-Christian W. Szejnmann (Palgrave Macmillan, November 2008)
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Fighting for the Cross: Crusading to the Holy Land

• By: Norman Housley (Yale University Press, September 2008)
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Falling from Grace: Reversal of Fortune and the English Nobility 1075-1455

• By: James Bothwell (Manchester University Press, July 2008)
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East Meets West: Banking, Commerce and Investment in the Ottoman Empire 

• Edited by: Philip L. Cottrell (Ashgate, June 2008)
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