This book recognises the foundational contribution to Britain’s war effort between 1914 and 1918 made by the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS), a revolutionary naval aviation organisation that introduced the aircraft carrier, anti-submarine warfare, strategic bombing and air defence.

This original study of the "New Police" in Cambridge provides a more nuanced picture of policing in early-Victorian England than traditional Whig and early revisionist Marxist interpretations implied and will support undergraduate courses in Victorian local, social and criminal justice history.

This book seeks to understand the cultural renegotiation of the "Foreign Office Type," the traditional archetype in which British diplomats had been recruited before developments in the twentieth century forced the Foreign Office to reconsider its template for an ideal British diplomat.

This book is the first comprehensive economic, social and political study of the London suburb of Croydon from 1900 up to the present day.

While famous for its liberal policy towards oil and gas production, both before and after the discovery of North Sea oil and gas, the period from 1957-1988 actually saw the UK respond to shifts in power from the major oil companies to the oil-producing states, many of them in OPEC, by building up its competency regarding oil matters.