Publications
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Alcohol, psychiatry and society
(2022)
The medicalisation of alcohol use has become a prominent discourse that guides policy makers and impacts public perceptions of alcohol and drinking. This book maps the historical and cultural dimensions of the phenomenon. ...
Irish Literature Since 1990
(2011-06-01)
This volume explores the meaning of republicanism in contemporary Ireland. While this has often been identified simply with nationalism, the book examines the connections, comparisons and contrasts between Irish republicanism ...
The renewal of post-war Manchester
(2025)
This book is about an exciting time in the development of European cities – from the 1950s to the 1970s – when capital flowed, energy was cheap and abundant, citizens were more mobile than ever before, and a new optimism ...
Knowing COVID-19
(2024)
Knowing COVID-19 looks at how different kinds of knowledge and meaning have been created and communicated, and the repercussions this has had – and continues to have – for how COVID-19 is managed, experienced, understood ...
Refashioning the Renaissance
(2025)
This book investigates how fashion developed among ordinary Europeans in the early modern period and transformed the ‘look’ and experience of fashion – visually and materially – at popular levels of society. Combining ...
The senses in early modern England, 1558–1660
(2020)
This book attempts to interrogate the literary, artistic and cultural output of early modern England. Following Constance Classen's view that understandings of the senses, and sensory experience itself, are culturally and ...
The material body
(2024)
The Material Body exploits the possibilities of studying the material body in the past primarily through the sources and approaches of archaeology, history and material culture studies. Together, these seven chapters draw ...
Steelworkers in struggle
(2025)
This book uses oral history testimony from forty former steelworker trade unionists to examine the 1980 national steelworkers’ strike. The book argues that the strike was both the most significant event in the history of ...
The gothic novel in Ireland
(2018-02-12)
The Gothic Novel in Ireland, 1760-1830 reveals how the Irish contribution to the rise of the gothic novel is all too frequently overlooked. Irish writers were actively engaged in shaping the form now conventionally understood ...
Literatures of the Hundred Years War
(2024)
This volume demonstrates how the Hundred Years War (1337–1453) provides a necessary context for late medieval literature. Many of the major writers of the period, in a variety of different languages, lived either all or ...