Oxford University Press

Examines the distinction between substance and procedure questions in private        international law to analyse which is appropriate, providing detailed analysis of        the decisional law in which the substance-procedure distinction has been        employed....

Using previously unpublished material from the National Archives, this book provides a thoroughgoing account of the introduction and abolition of theatre censorship in England, from Sir Robert Walpole's Licensing Act of 1737 to the successful campaign to abolish theatre censorship in 1968. It concludes with an exploration of possible new forms of...

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Ageing populations mean that palliative and end of life care for older people must        assume greater priority. Indeed, there is an urgent need to improve the experiences        of older people at the end of life, given that they have been identified as the        'disadvantaged dying'. To date, models of care are underpinned by the ideals...

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This book is a fascinating in-depth study of the British novelist, poet, and illustrator Stevie Smith (1902-1971). It draws on extensive archival material to offer new insights into her work, challenges conventional readings of her as an eccentric, and offers new perspectives on British twentieth-century poetry and its reception....