Book of Donmon Teith

Argues that by meeting the vast administrative challenge of the British Empire - thorough maps and surveys, censuses and statistics - Victorian administrators d

This book facilitates a deeper understanding of the challenges of working with a range of specific source genres within imperial and colonial archives. Drawing

This is the second and final volume of the Wickwires' definitive biography of Cornwallis. It details Corwallis's work in India, his contributions in Britain as

Despite the importance of archives to the profession of history, there is very little written about actual encounters with them—about the effect that the rese

Writing has long been linked to power. For early modern people on both sides of the Atlantic, writing was also the province of notaries, men trained to cast oth