Material Culture

Highly Commended, Society for Renaissance Studies Biennial Book Prize 2022 In sixteenth and seventeenth-century England, the female silhouette und...

The Routledge Companion to Cultural Property contains new contributions from scholars working at the cutting edge of cultural property studies, bri...

The human body lies at the centre of our relationship to fashion and textiles. Crafting Anatomies explores how the body has become a catalyst for a...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.These days the bicycle often appears as a...

If memory was simply about past events, public authorities would never put their ever-shrinking budgets at its service. Rather, memory is actuall...

The third edition of Crusader Archaeology updates previous editions to include coverage of important recent work in the field. It examines what lif...

The third edition of Crusader Archaeology updates previous editions to include coverage of important recent work in the field. It examines what lif...

Bibliophobia is a book about material books, how they are cared for, and how they are damaged, throughout the 5000-year history of writing from Sum...

Riot grrrls, punk feminists best known for their girl power activism and message, used punk ideologies and the literacy practice of zine-ing to cre...

Paul Gilroy seeks to awaken a new understanding of W. E. B. Du Bois’s intellectual and political legacy. At a time of economic crisis, environmenta...

'Loot held me spellbound from the first page...an expertly-plotted, deeply affecting novel ' Maggie O’FarrellYoung toy maker and dreamer Abbas is w...

During the early modern period, objects of maritime material culture were removed from their places of origin and traded, collected and displayed w...