The essays in this collection explore both organizational intentions and inhabitants' experiences in a diverse range of British residential institutions during

Institutions were intended to mould their inhabitants, and were organized in line with professional and economic constraints, public opinion, or the need to app

This volume synthesises the latest scholarship on First World War veterans in post-war Britain and Ireland, investigating the topic through its political, socia

The nineteenth century saw the expansion of Western influence across the globe. A consular presence in a new territory had numerous advantages for business and

In this book Samantha Williams examines illegitimacy, unmarried parenthood and the old and new poor laws in a period of rising illegitimacy and poor relief expe