The English Landscape Garden is a beautifully photographed celebration of the best of the 18th century English landscape garden - a quintessentially British art form that influenced the rest of…

Vickie is a powerful woman whose tragedies have only served to forge her spirit into an avenging angel to some and a Valkyrie to others.

Explores the continuing relevance of important political themes in five of Shakespeare’s English History plays.

This book provides practical strategies that have been proven effective in teaching English to pupils of all abilities, making it accessible and exciting. The author outlines important key principles that…

An exploration of the author’s parents’ lives, his mother’s inexplicable suicide in her late fifties and his own bouts of depression. It conjures up the pebble-dashed home of his childhood…

Culture Writing argues that the period of decolonization witnessed dynamic exchanges between writers and anthropologists on both sides of the Atlantic. Watson analyzes writers who engaged professionally with anthropology–Barbara Pym…

This collection of essays provides, for the first time, a social history of masculinity in the ‘long 18th century’. It draws on a wide variety of sources, including diaries, court…

Considers the views that Britons, colonists, and North American Indians took of each other during a period in which these people were in a closer and more fateful relationship than…