Rosemary Day

History, Religion and Identity in Modern Britain; & Rethinking Social History

New books on British identity by Keith Robbins and Adrian Wilson.

Published March 31 1996

Luther, Man Between God And The Devil

by Heiko Oberman.

Published March 1 1991

lmagine that you are Erasmus... Rabelais...Queen Victoria...Karl Marx...

A Rosemary O'Day on imagining you're Erasmus and ways of seeing 1450-1600.

Published March 31 1990

Retrieved Riches - Charles Booth's Life and Labour of the People in London

Rosemary O'Day explains how a reinvestigation of the data collected by a pioneer social scientist is shedding new light on the lifestyles of Victorian London.

Published March 31 1989

Paperback History

Renaissance and Reformation in European society

Published March 1 1989

Pettyfoggers and Vipers of the Commonwealth

Published March 31 1987

The Professions in Early Modern England

Published May 31 1986

Philip T Hoffman, Church and Community in the Diocese of Lyon, 1590-1789

Published August 31 1985

The History of the University of Oxford, volume one, the early Oxford Schools

The History of the University of Oxford, Volume One: The Early Oxford Schools. Edited by J. I. Catto. 684pp. (Clarendon Press, Oxford, £55.00).

Published April 30 1985

Reading and Writing, literacy in France from Calvin to Jules Ferry

by Franqois Furet and Jacques Ozouf

Published August 31 1984

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Lords of the Northern Forest

The Hudson's Bay Company was one of the central forces moulding the development of the vast tracts of land that today are Canada - but as Barry Gough explains here, the circumstances of its launch in 1670 also reveal much about the commercial forces, personalities and rivalries of Restoration England.