New releases from University of Hertfordshire Press
Books to explore
A Compelling Case for Universities
Author: Quintin McKellar
Format: Paperback
With clearsighted chapters on research and innovation and thoughtful excursions into funding and governance, together with some proposals for change, this is a trenchant review of today’s university landscape which nonetheless concludes that the current model of higher education is both highly effective and sufficiently adaptive.
Broadland
Author: Tom Williamson , Alison Yardy
Format: Paperback
This authoritative account will be essential reading for all with an interest in the history and ecology of Broadland. But it will also appeal to those who simply want to know more about the forces that have shaped the character of an iconic British landscape.
Lady Anne Bacon
Author: Deborah Spring
Format: Paperback
Deborah Spring's deeply researched and compellingly readable book reveals Anne Bacon's extraordinary part in shaping the public story of Tudor history.
Moseley 1850–1900
Author: Janet Berry
Format: Paperback
By the first decades of the twentieth century Moseley had become part of the metropolis of Birmingham. This engaging account of the process from village to fully integrated suburb will be of particular interest to urban historians.
St Albans: A history
Author: Mark Freeman
Format: Paperback
Mark Freeman’s classic history of St Albans, first published in 2008, has been substantially rewritten by the author and brought fully up to date, making it an invaluable guide to more than two thousand years of St Albans’s history.