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This first ever critical edition of a pivotal Cornish-language text opens to the Tudor historian-and the general reader-a new window onto a crucial example of the reception of John Foxe, and gives fascinating insights into a possible alliance between Church Papism and recusancy in Tudor Cornwall.

The Boggart Sourcebook is a three-part volume. In part one, 'Boggart Ephemera', there is a selection of about 40, 000 words of nineteenth-century boggart writing (particularly material that is difficult to find in libraries). Part two presents a catalogue of 'Boggart Names' (place-names and personal names, totalling over 10, 000 words). Finally, part three contains the entire 'Boggart Census' - a compendium of ground-breaking grassroots resear...

For as long as there have been vaccines, there have been those who oppose them. As the world continues to grapple with the impact of COVID-19 and the challenges of managing an effective vaccination programme, this book shows that our experiences have more in common with those of previous generations than we may so far have understood. Vaccination Wars examines the history of vaccine objection in nineteenth-century Cornwall, looking not only...

Women with fish tails are among the oldest and most popular of mythological creatures. This book presents a comprehensive, interdisciplinary and beautifully illustrated study of mermaids and their influence on Western culture. The roots of mermaid mythology and its metamorphosis through the centuries are discussed, from 600 BCE to the present day.

Using a range of theoretical and empirical approaches to identity politics, collective memory and commemoration, this book traces the re-emergence of nationalism in the media, popular culture and politics, and the normalization of far-right nativist ideologies and attitudes in Austria between 1995 and 2015.

A much-feared supernatural being from the north of England, the boggart survives against the odds whether in place-names or the pages of Harry Potter. Using long-forgotten sources, this ground-breaking book reveals that almost everything we thought we knew about the Boggart is wrong.

This book's treatment of the extensive circulation of European silent features and stars in Australasia reveals the vibrant transnationalism of silent film before the rise of Hollywood, and frames the emergence of art house cinema in the 1920s.

This book is one of the first to study the role of women in public and professional life from a regional point of view. It breaks new ground in considerations of gender in the early twentieth century and the history of Devon in the modern period.

Cinema on the Front Line offers the first comprehensive history and analysis of how British soldiers engaged with and were engaged by the medium of cinema during World War I. Utilizing extensive archival records and soldier testimony, the book offers a unique perspective on the cultural value and importance of cinema to the army during wartime.

This book is one of the first to study the role of women in public and professional life from a regional point of view. It breaks new ground in considerations of gender in the early twentieth century and the history of Devon in the modern period.

This book sheds new light on the under-researched period of early British cinema through a history of the British and Colonial Kinematograph Company in the years 1908-1916, when it became one of Britain's leading film producers. The book provides an account of its films and personalities, and explores its production methods and business practices.

New understandings of the middle order and of the post-1688 English Parliament have shifted the focus from Westminster to the constituencies in the study of eighteenth-century politics. It was the towns, and especially the smaller parliamentary boroughs, that set much of the legislative agenda and which defined partisanship. This is also where religious tension was most intense and enduring.Yet there has never been a thoroughgoing comparative ...

A guide to one hundred of the finest early Cornish stone crosses, illustrated with colour photographs. These characteristic features of the Cornish landscape date from around AD 900 to 1300. This accessible, but academically rigorous, work includes an analysis of the decorative designs and techniques of the sculpture. With information on access.

This book brings together key works by pioneering film studies scholar Steve Neale. From the 1970s to the 2010s Neale's vital and unparalleled contribution to the subject has shaped many of the critical agendas that helped to confirm film studies' position as an innovative discipline within the humanities.Although known primarily for his work on genre, Neale has written on a far wider range of topics. In addition to selections from the influen...

The book is an edition with facing annotated translation of the 12th-century Medieval French popular romance Guillaume d'Angleterre. The claim to fame of this verse narrative is to have had its authorship attributed (falsely) to Chrétien de Troyes, the most famous of all 12th-century Medieval French narrative poets. It is a prototypical adventure romance and is entirely typical of a literary genre that has recently seen a renewal of interest a...

The work details the life and political career of John Baxter Langley, a once infamous but now largely forgotten Victorian reformer. Through a chronological narrative of his activities the work also provides an overview of many of the more significant political causes of the mid-to late nineteenth century.

The book engages with literature's multifarious ways of probing minds and bodies in a state of ill mental health. Chapters analyse literature depicting issues and diagnoses such as trauma, psychosis, bipolar disorder, eating disorders, self-harm, hoarding disorder, PTSD and Digital Sexual Assault from theoretical and methodological perspectives.

Mental health presents one of the defining public health challenges of our time. Proponents of different conceptions of what mental illness is wage war for the hearts and minds of patients, practitioners, policy-makers, and the public. Debate and fragmentation around the nature of the entities that feature in the mental health domain divide resources and reduce progress. The way mental health is publicly discussed in the media has tangible eff...

Winner of the Society for Theatre Research Book Prize - 2016New paperback, with contextualising timeline and biographies, published in association with the Society for Theatre ResearchThis volume covers the 1960s, a significant decade in social and political spheres in Britain, especially in the theatre.

New paperback, with contextualising timeline and biographies, published in association with the Society for Theatre ResearchThis volume covers the 1950s, focusing on plays we know, plays we have forgotten, and plays which were silenced for ever, demonstrating the extent to which censorship shaped the theatre voices of this decade.