Publications
This list provides information about books published by historians at Leicester. More information about publications can be found within individual staff pages.
2022
Peasants Making History: Living In an English Region 1200-1540
- By: Christopher Dyer (Oxford University Press)
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Complete Gentlemen: Educational Travel and Family Strategy, 1650-1750
- By: Richard Ansell (British Academy/Oxford University Press)
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2021
Dance on the Razor’s Edge: Crime and Punishment in the Nazi Ghettos
- By: Svenja Bethke (University of Toronto Press)
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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)
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Hidden Histories of the Dead: Disputed Bodies in Modern British Medical Research
- By: Elizabeth Hurren (Cambridge University Press)
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2020
The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, Volume I: The Post-Reformation Era, 1559-1689
- By: John Coffey (Oxford University Press)
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Building the Irish Courthouse and Prison: A Political History, 1750-1850
- By: Richard Butler (Cork University Press)
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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)
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New Approaches to Governance and Rule in Urban Europe since 1500
- Edited by: Simon Gunn and Tom Hulme (eds) (Routledge)
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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
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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)
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2019
Automobility and the City in Twentieth-Century Britain and Japan
- By: Simon Gunn and Sue Townsend (Bloomsbury)
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Cricket Country: An Indian Odyssey in the Age of Empire
- By: Prashant Kidambi (Oxford University Press)
- Shortlisted for the 2020 Wolfson History Prize
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Voices of the Voiceless: Religion, Communism, and the Keston Archive
- Edited by: Zoe Knox and Julie K. deGraffenried (Baylor University Press)
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2018
A Global History of Convicts and Penal Colonies
- Edited by: Clare Anderson (Bloomsbury)
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Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Art, Word, War
- Edited by: Claire Breay and Joanna Story (British Library)
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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)
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High Culture and Tall Chimneys: Art Institutions and Urban Society in Lancashire, 1780-1914
- By: James Moore (Manchester University Press)
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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)
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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)
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2016
A Notorious Woman: Anne Royall in Jacksonian America
- By: Elizabeth Clapp (University of Virginia Press)
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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)
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The Habitable City in China: Urban History in the Twentieth Century
- By: Toby Lincoln (Palgrave Macmillan)
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Spirits of Community: English Senses of Belonging and Loss, 1750-2000
- By: Keith Snell (Bloomsbury)
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Obligation, Entitlement and Dispute under the English Poor Laws
- By: Steven King (Cambridge Scholars Publishing)
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Food and Health in Early Modern Europe
- By: David Gentilcore (Bloomsbury)
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Dissecting the Criminal Corpse: Staging Post-Execution Punishment in Early Modern England
- By: Elizabeth T. Hurren (Palgrave Macmillan)
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2015
Tanz auf Messers Schneide: Kriminalität und Recht in den Ghettos Warschau Litzmannstadt
- By: Svenja Bethke (Hamburger Edition)
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Alcohol and Nationhood in Nineteenth-Century Mexico
- By: Deborah Toner (University of Nebraska Press)
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Biographies of Drink: A Case Study Approach to our Historical Relationship with Alcohol
- By: Deborah Toner (Cambridge Scholars Publishing)
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Authentic Recipes from Around the World
- By: Deborah Toner (HAT events, Ceredigion, Wales)
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Urbanizing China in War and Peace: The Case of Wuxi County
- By: Toby Lincoln (University of Hawaii Press)
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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)
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Portrait of a Party: The Conservative Party in Britain, 1918-1945
- By: Stuart Ball (Oxford University Press)
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2012
Crime and Punishment in African American History
- By: James Campbell Red Globe Press
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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)
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Subaltern Lives. Biographies of Colonialism in the Indian Ocean World, 1790-1920
- By: Clare Anderson (Cambridge University Press)
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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)
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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)
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Dying for Victorian Medicine: English Anatomy and Its Trade in the Dead Poor, c. 1834-1929
- By: Elizabeth T. Hurren (Palgrave)
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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)
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The World of John Secker, 1716-1795, Quaker Mariner
- Edited by: Andrew Hopper (Norfolk Record Society, 75, 2011)
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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)
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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)
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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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