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Recording the history of the pioneering British Home and Hospital for Incurables, founded in 1861, this title examines the social, political and medical climate over the years and charts the important changes over this time.
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A story of wartime intelligence, super-power relations and spies and their handlers - seen through the experience of Melita Norwood.
A history of Crystal Palace and the Norwoods
What would happen, I wondered, if I simply missed out the fifty per cent of the population whose voices have been credited with shaping this particular ‘cultural form’. If I coppiced the woodland, so to speak, and allowed the light to shine down to the forest floor and illuminate countless saplings now that a gap has opened in the canopy. . . There has, in recent years, been an explosion of writing about place, landscape and the natural world. But within this blossoming of interest, women’s voices have remained very much in the minority. For the very first time, this landmark anthology collects together the work of women, over the centuries and up to the present day, who have written a...
Mysticism in Early Modern England traces how mysticism featured in polemical and religious discourse in seventeenth-century England and explores how it came to be viewed as a source of sectarianism, radicalism, and, most significantly, religious enthusiasm.