This book investigates the history of writing as a cultural practice in a variety of contexts and...

Martyn Lyons offers a fresh interpretation of European history in the half-century following the ...

The Napoleonic period cannot be interpreted as a single historical 'block'. Bonaparte had many di...

As war and mass emigration across oceans increased the distances between ordinary people in the l...

On 9 thermidor Year 2, Robespierre fell; on18 brumaire Year 8, a coup d'état brought Bonaparte to...

Martyn Lyons surveys the changing relationships enjoyed by men and women with the written word, f...

'I am sir [sure] you will act as human bean', wrote one distressed pensioner to Prime Minister Ro...

This book underlines the importance of writing for the subordinate classes, and the variety of us...

Martyn Lyons offers a fresh interpretation of European history in the half-century following the ...

Martyn Lyons surveys the changing relationships enjoyed by men and women with the written word, f...

As war and mass emigration across oceans increased the distances between ordinary people in the l...

This book investigates the history of writing as a cultural practice in a variety of contexts and...