A unique book on the perennially fascinating subject of Britain's royal families by this well established popular historian. New updated edition to coincide with the Queen's Golden Jubilee. EBook EPUB. Published: 18/04/2011. Extent: 400 p.
Running Press, 2002. — 464 p. In one portable volume, A Brief History of British Kings and Queens offers a royal biographical AZ, its pages lavish in details on all the rulers of the kingdoms within the British Isles, together with their wives or consorts, pretenders, usurpers, and regents, from Queen Boadicea of the early Britons to today’s Elizabeth II. This complete record...
Robinson Publishing, 1999. — 864 p. — ISBN: 1841190969 A record of Britain's kings and queens over 2000 years of history. It includes more than 1000 monarchs who have at some time ruled all or part of Britain. This includes the host of tribal and Saxon rulers prior to 1066 as well as famous monarchs such as Richard III, Elizabeth I and Charles II and all the rulers of Scotland...
Robinson Publishing, 1999. — 864 p. — ISBN: 1841190969 A record of Britain's kings and queens over 2000 years of history. It includes more than 1000 monarchs who have at some time ruled all or part of Britain. This includes the host of tribal and Saxon rulers prior to 1066 as well as famous monarchs such as Richard III, Elizabeth I and Charles II and all the rulers of Scotland...
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012. — 382 p. — ISBN10: 0520289471; ISBN13: 978-0520289475. The Afterlife of Empire is an award-winning investigation on how decolonization transformed British society in the 1950s and 1960s. Although usually charted through its diplomatic details, the collapse of the British empire was also a deeply personal process that altered...
Oxford University Press, 2001. — 517 p. Introduction: The crime problem The city magistrates and the process of prosecution Constables and other officers Policing the night streets Detection and prosecution: thief-takers 1690-1720 The Old Bailey in the late seventeenth century The revolution, crime and punishment in London, 1690-1713 Crime and the State, 1714-1750 William...
Liverpool University Press, 2000. — 485 p. Notes on Contributors. The Onset of Modernity, 1830–80. Constitutional Development and Public Policy, 1900–79. Tynwald Transformed, 1980–96. Economic History, 1830–1996. Labour History. Cultural History. The Manx Language. The Use of Englishes. Nineteenth-century Literature in English Relating. Isle of Man. Literature in English since...
London: Allen & Unwin, 1920. - 190 p. Belloc's mature thought on political systems in general and on the state of England in particular. The main function of government is "to protect the weak man against the strong, and therefore to prevent the accumulation of wealth in a few hands, the corruption of the Courts of Justice and of the sources of public opinion". He explains the...
Springer Netherlands, 1924. — 226 p. As volume after volume of the New English Dictionary appeared, I was struck with the large number of Low Dutch words which have in the course or time found either a temporary or a permanent place in the English vocabulary (from 1066 to 1702). With the exception of Morris of Skeat and of de Hoog, no philologist, as far as I knew, had ever...
Second edition. London, Longmans, Green and Co., 1984 Walter Besant was a novelist and historian, and his topographical and historical writings, ranging from prehistoric times to the nineteenth century, were probably best known through the detailed 10-volume Survey of London published after his death. This earlier single volume covers, in less depth, the whole period from...
London: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2006, - 191 p. Editor's Review - Reed Business Information (c) 2007 Although the subtitle indicates this book's eventual focus, Black (history, Exeter Univ. ; The British Seaborne Empire) begins this concise and comprehensive military history with an overview going back to the Roman invasion of Britain in 55 and 54 B.C.E. The book is...
Robinson, 2011. — 368 p. In 1851 Queen Victoria opened the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park, it was the high water mark of English achievement - the nation at the forefront of the Industrial Revolution, at the heart of a burgeoning Empire, with a queen who would reign for another 50 years. In the following 150 years, the fate of the nation has faced turmoil and transformation. But...
Toronto: the manuscript, 1950. — 334 p. Thesis subrcitted in conformity with the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the University of Toronto. This study has arisen from an Interest in a contemporary phenomenon — the extraordinary preoccupation of modern man with time and history. It Is a concern reflected everywhere in modern thought and art-In the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010 — 577 p. — ISBN 978–0–230–27559–1. Almost as soon as it was built, London suffered the first of many acts of violent protest, when Boudica and her followers set fire to the city in AD 60. Ever since, the capital's streets have been a forum for popular insurrection. Covering nearly 2,000 years of political protest, this is a riveting alternative history...
Macmillan Education, 1996. — 344 p. The British Problem, c. 1534-1707 John Morrill The Tudor Reformation and Revolution in Wales and Ireland: the Origins of the British Problem Brendan Bradshaw British Policies before the British State Hiram Morgan England's Defence and Ireland's Reform: The Dilemma of the Irish Viceroys, 1541-1641 Ciaran Brady The English Crown, the...
British History The Beginnings The Celts: Before and After The Anglo-Saxons and Vikings The Bayeux Tapestry and Norman Conquest of England After the Conquest After William
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 624 p. — ISBN: 978-0-198714-89-7. The two centuries after 1800 witnessed a series of sweeping changes in the way in which Britain was governed, the duties of the state, and its role in the wider world. Powerful processes - from the development of democracy, the changing nature of the social contract, war, and economic dislocation - have...
Black Swan, 2010. — 368 p. — ISBN: 978-0-552776-35-1. This celebration of the English countryside does not only focus on the rolling green landscapes and magnificent monuments that set England apart from the rest of the world. Many of the contributors bring their own special touch, presenting a refreshingly eclectic variety of personal icons, from pub signs to seaside piers,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. — 243 p. — ISBN: 978-1-349455-78-2, By 1940 going to the movies was the most popular form of public leisure in Britain's empire. This book explores the social and cultural impact of the movies in colonial societies in the early cinema age.
Facts on File, 2009. — 296 p. A Brief History of Great Britain narrates the history of Great Britain from the earliest times to the 21st century, covering the entire island - England, Wales, and Scotland - as well as associated archipelagos such as the Channel Islands, the Orkneys, and Ireland as they have influenced British history. The central story of this volume is the...
Ebury Press, 2019. — 400 p. — ISBN: 978-1-529103-65-7. With stories of murder, theft, fraud and treachery, The Underworld is a deep-dive into the history of professional and organised crime in Britain. From the racetrack gangs and the smash-and-grab merchants, through the Soho vice bosses and the Kray twins, to the Great Train Robbers, the Hatton Garden burglars and the new...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 384 p. — ISBN: 978-3-030261-09-3. The Battle of Britain has held an enchanted place in British popular history and memory throughout the modern era. Its transition from history to heritage since 1965 confirms that the 1940 narrative shaped by the State has been sustained by historians, the media, popular culture, and through non-governmental heritage...
Oxford University Press, 2009. — 416 p. A brand new dictionary giving a detailed history of the kings and queens of Britain, ranging from mythical and early pre-conquest rulers to the present House of Windsor. Covering English, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish monarchs, the entries are ordered in sections, by regions for pre-1066 monarchs (Romano-British rulers, Viking York), and...
Beaufort Books, 1984. — 315 p. Field Marshal Lord Carver was the Chief of the Defence Staff, the professional head of the British Armed Forces. He served in World War II and organized the administration of British forces deployed in response to the Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya and later advised the British Government on the response to the early stages of the Troubles in Northern...
Oxford: Collingwood and Co., 1810. — 578 p. The University of Oxford now consists of twenty Colleges and five Halls. Ofthe Colleges, each of which is a corporation of itself, Merton, University, and Balliol, were founded in the thirteenth century; Exeter, Oriel, Queen's, and New College, in the fourteenth; Lincoln, All Souls, and Magdalen, in the fifteenth; Brasen Nose, Corpus...
Oxford: Collingwood and Co., 1810. — 287 p. The University of Oxford now consists of twenty Colleges and five Halls. Ofthe Colleges, each of which is a corporation of itself, Merton, University, and Balliol, were founded in the thirteenth century; Exeter, Oriel, Queen's, and New College, in the fourteenth; Lincoln, All Souls, and Magdalen, in the fifteenth; Brasen Nose, Corpus...
London: Chatto and Windus publishing, 1917. — 207 p. It will be very reasonably asked why I should consent, though upon a sort of challenge, to write even a popular essay in English history, who make no pretence to particular scholarship and am merely a member of the public. The answer is that I know just enough to know one thing: that a history from the standpoint of a member...
New York, The Macmillan Company, 1916. — 257 p. The Geography of England. Prehistoric Britain. Roman Britain. Early Saxon England. Danish and Late Saxon England. The Period following the Norman Conquest. The Period of the Early Angevin Kings, 1154-1338. The Mediæval Village. The Vill as an Agricultural System. Classes of People on the Manor. The Manor Courts. The Manor as an...
Amberley Publishing, 2017. — 96 p. — ISBN: 978-1-445675-34-3. This illustrated history portrays one of England's most fascinating cities. It provides a nostalgic look at Kingston upon Hull's past and highlights the special character of some of its most important historic sites. The photographs are taken from the unique Historic England Archive, the nation's record of 12 million...
B&N, 1956 The book covers English history in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, from Henry VIII through Cromwell and ending with the Glorious Revolution of 1688. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries England underwent a startling series of transformations. The turbulent reigns of the Tudors and Stuarts witnessed the Protestant Reformation, the growth of powerful...
B&N, 1956 The book covers English history in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, from Henry VIII through Cromwell and ending with the Glorious Revolution of 1688. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries England underwent a startling series of transformations. The turbulent reigns of the Tudors and Stuarts witnessed the Protestant Reformation, the growth of powerful...
B&N, 1956 The book covers English history in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, from Henry VIII through Cromwell and ending with the Glorious Revolution of 1688. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries England underwent a startling series of transformations. The turbulent reigns of the Tudors and Stuarts witnessed the Protestant Reformation, the growth of powerful...
Cambridge University Press, 2001. — 859 p. The second volume of The Cambridge Urban History examines when, why, and how Britain became the first modern urban nation - the wonder of the Western world. The contributors offer a detailed analysis of the evolution of national and regional urban networks in England, Scotland and Wales and assess the growth of all the main types of...
Cambridge: at the University Press, 1972. — 392 p. The Streams of Paradise The medieval roots The English circuits 1558-1714 Preparation for the circuits Assizes and Gaol Delivery Preliminary proceedings The clerk of assize and his staff Criminal proceedings Nisi prius The Planets of the Kingdom Assizes and local government Assizes and politics
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 328 p. ISBN: 0521782694 An innovative account of English constitutional ideas from the mid-fifteenth century to the time of Charles I, showing how the emergence of grand claims for common law, the country's strange unwritten legal system, shaped England's cultural development. This is the first such study for a generation. Though...
Routledge, 2011. - 291 p. Contemporary public life in Britain would be unthinkable without the use of statistics and statistical reasoning. Numbers dominate political discussion, facilitating debate while also attracting criticism on the grounds of their veracity and utility. However, the historical role and place of statistics within Britain’s public sphere has yet to receive...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 568 p. The last Ice Age, which came to an end about 12,000 years ago, swept the bands of hunter gatherers from the face of the land that was to become Britain and Ireland, but as the ice sheets retreated and the climate improved so human groups spread slowly northwards, re-colonizing the land that had been laid waste. From that time onwards...
4th edition. — London : John Murray, Albemarle street, 1856. — LII, 316 p., ill. In my advertisement to the third edition of this work, I observed “that I had endeavoured to place myself in the position of a well-informed guide seeking to give a stranger in London every requisite information respecting lodgings, eating-houses, places of amusement, of one whose aim it had been...
4th edition. — London : John Murray, Albemarle street, 1856. — LII, 316 p., ill. In my advertisement to the third edition of this work, I observed “that I had endeavoured to place myself in the position of a well-informed guide seeking to give a stranger in London every requisite information respecting lodgings, eating-houses, places of amusement, of one whose aim it had been...
Cambridge University Press, 2001. — 970 p. The third volume in the Cambridge Urban History examines the process of urbanization and suburbanization in Britain from the early Victorian period to the twentieth century. Twenty-eight leading scholars provide a coherent, systematic, historical investigation of the rise of cities and towns in England, Scotland and Wales, examining...
London: Papermac, 2000. — 1075 p. Written by one of the most brilliant and provocative historians at work today, The Isles is a revolutionary narrative history that presents a new perspective on the development of Britain and Ireland, looking at them not as self-contained islands, but as an inextricable part of Europe. This richly layered history begins with the Celtic...
Oxford University Press, 2001. — 1296 p. Written by one of the most brilliant and provocative historians at work today, The Isles is a revolutionary narrative history that presents a new perspective on the development of Britain and Ireland, looking at them not as self-contained islands, but as an inextricable part of Europe. This richly layered history begins with the Celtic...
London: Century, 2008. — 179 p. Language: English. If you have ever wondered what it was like to be a servant in the late 1800s through early 1900s, this book will answer a lot fo questions for you. The author has actual excerpts from interviews with servants who worked during that time period, and the book also covers such matters as uniforms, pay, living conditions, and...
London: Century, 2008. — 179 p. Language: English. If you have ever wondered what it was like to be a servant in the late 1800s through early 1900s, this book will answer a lot fo questions for you. The author has actual excerpts from interviews with servants who worked during that time period, and the book also covers such matters as uniforms, pay, living conditions, and...
Publisher F. C. and J. Rivington [etc.], 1815. — 723 p. Baronets, as distinct from barons, are neither members of the peerage nor of the knightage (these titles are conferred by The Crown for life only). They constitute an entirely separate dignity of their own, the Baronetage. As holders of a hereditary dignity, their place in the table of general precedence is below the sons...
Publisher F. C. and J. Rivington [etc.], 1824. — 857 p. Baronets, as distinct from barons, are neither members of the peerage nor of the knightage (these titles are conferred by The Crown for life only). They constitute an entirely separate dignity of their own, the Baronetage. As holders of a hereditary dignity, their place in the table of general precedence is below the sons...
Publisher F. C. and J. Rivington [etc.], 1820. — 847 p. Debrett John (1750–1822), English publisher. He compiled The Peerage of England, Scotland, and Ireland (first issued in 1803), which is regarded as the authority on the British nobility; it is often known just as Debrett’s.
Publisher F. C. and J. Rivington [etc.], 1825. — 664 p. Debrett John (1750–1822), English publisher. He compiled The Peerage of England, Scotland, and Ireland (first issued in 1803), which is regarded as the authority on the British nobility; it is often known just as Debrett’s.
Ivy Press, 2017. — 160 p. — ISBN: 978-1-78240-542-9 If you are tired of London, are you really tired of life? 30-Second London agrees with Dr. Johnsons famous statement, taking the history of one of the most diverse cities on Earth and looking at the forces that shaped it, from the first traces of a Neanderthal settlement on the banks of the River Thames to todays vast and...
New Edition — DK Publishing, 2024. — 408 p. — (DK Definitive Visual Histories). — ISBN: 0593842316, 978-0593842317. Discover the pivotal political, military, and cultural events that have shaped British and Irish history - from the earliest Stone Age settlers to the passing of Queen Elizabeth II. This edition includes over 700 photographs, maps, and artworks with accessible...
Liverpool, Liverpool University Press, 2000. - 224 p. ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0853238758 ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780853238751 Product Description: The nine contributors to this book focus on three English civil wars: the civil war of King Stephen’s reign; the Wars of the Roses; and the civil war of the seventeenth century. The wars are viewed within a wider European context, and...
House of Lords Library, 2006. — 87 p. The mandate doctrine The Disestablishment of the Irish Church The Municipal Elections Bill 1872 The development of the doctrine The Representation of the People Bill 1884 The Government of Ireland Bill 1893 The Liberal Government 1892–95 The Liberal Governments from 1905 The Parliament Bills 1910–11 The Labour Government 1945–51 The...
Abingdon: Routledge, 2007. — 456 p. — ISBN: 0582040035. The history of the British Isles is the story of four peoples linked together by a process of state building that was as much about far-sighted planning and vision as coincidence, accident and failure. It is a history of revolts and reversal, familial bonds and enmity, the study of which does much to explain the underlying...
I.B.Tauris, 2010. — 391 p. Of the publishing of books about Oxford there is no end. Here comes yet another, a new one-volume history of the University of Oxford. What insights can it offer? GR Evans writes that the “official” multi-volume A History of the University of Oxford ends effectively in the late 1960s. And much has happened since then that needs to be placed in the...
University of Manchester: BRIN Discussion Series on Religious Statistics, 2009. - 95 p. Scope. Statistics Collected by the State. Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries. Recent Developments. Notes to Section 1. Statistics Collected by Faith Communities. Established Churches: Church of England. Established Churches: Wales and Scotland....
W. W. Norton & Company, 2006. — 848 p.: 154 ill. A sparkling anecdotal account with the pace of an epic, about the men and women who created turning points in history. Rebecca Fraser's dramatic portrayal of the scientists, statesmen, explorers, soldiers, traders, and artists who forged Britain's national institutions is the perfect introduction to British history. Just as much...
East Ardsley, Yorkshire: Microform Academic Publishers, 1984. - XX pgs. (Part 1 of 2) These are biographical outlines of cavalry, yeomanry, armour, artillery, infantry, marines and air force land troops of the regular and reserve forces. In this reference book the author, by his coverage of British militia and Territorials as well as the regular establishment, goes far beyond...
East Ardsley, Yorkshire: Microform Academic Publishers, 1984. - XX pgs. (Part 2 of 2) These are biographical outlines of cavalry, yeomanry, armour, artillery, infantry, marines and air force land troops of the regular and reserve forces. In this reference book the author, by his coverage of British militia and Territorials as well as the regular establishment, goes far beyond...
East Ardsley, Yorkshire: Microform Academic Publishers, 1984. - XX pgs. (Part 1 of 2) These are biographical outlines of cavalry, yeomanry, armour, artillery, infantry, marines and air force land troops of the regular and reserve forces. In this reference book the author, by his coverage of British militia and Territorials as well as the regular establishment, goes far beyond...
East Ardsley, Yorkshire: Microform Academic Publishers, 1984. - XX pgs. (Part 2 of 2) These are biographical outlines of cavalry, yeomanry, armour, artillery, infantry, marines and air force land troops of the regular and reserve forces. In this reference book the author, by his coverage of British militia and Territorials as well as the regular establishment, goes far beyond...
The Society for Medieval Archaeology, 1997. — 267 p. Introduction (David Gaimster & Paul Stamper). The Great Divide (Hugh Tait). The Tyranny of Constructs: some thoughts on periodisation and change (Paul Courtney). The Archaeology of Transition: a Continental view (Frans Verhaeghe). Sampling or Proving ‘reality’? Co-ordinates for the evaluation of historical archaeology...
London and New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 1999. - 528 p. Providing an integrated survey of how the geography of the United Kingdom has changed through the 1990s, this book offers an understanding of the social, economic, political and physical forces bringing about change. It captures the changing geography of the country at a time of particular interest, with the...
DK Publishing, 2011. - 402 p. col. ill., maps, ports. This is the definitive visual guide to 5,000 years of British history. "The History of Britain & Ireland" traces the key events that have shaped the British Isles. From the Elizabethan age of Shakespeare to the Iraq and Afghan wars of the 21st century, this beautifully illustrated book offers a definitive visual chronicle of...
Cambridge University Press, 2000. — 181 p. This book draws on the great wealth of associations of streetnames in Cambridge. It is not a dictionary but provides a series of entries on such topics as the Reformation, George IV and his wife, twentieth-century scientists, businessmen, Elizabethan times, medieval Cambridge, mayors, millers and builders. It includes hermits and coal...
Boydell Press, 2008. — 234 p. For over 200 years following its capture by Edward III in 1347 the town of Calais was in English hands; after 1453 it remained the last English possession on the continent, a commercial, cultural, diplomatic and military frontier until its recapture by the French in 1558. This is the first book-length study of the Calais garrison, the largest...
London: Michael O'Mara, 2012 Richard Guard's Lost London is a guide to London's forgotten landmarks and past-times. From bull rings to ice fairs and plague pits to molly houses, this is a truly intriguing journey through London's forgotten past — unearthing both the extraordinary stories that lie beneath familiar streets and the secrets hidden away in the city's darkest...
Routledge, 1995. — 256 p. What is Bastard Feudalism? Definitions and parameters Bastard feudal aristocracy Bastard feudal orthodoxy The first centuries of Bastard Feudalism The central centuries, c. 1300-1500 The last centuries of Bastard Feudalism Beyond McFarlane Varieties of Bastard Feudalism Household Tenants Officers and counsellors Extraordinary retainers Livery Servants...
Oxford University Press, 2003. — 304 p. The Medieval Period Domesday England Population change between 1086 and the Black Death The Black Death and its aftermath The population of England in the fifteenth century Appendix I Sources and methods for learning about the population of medieval England The Early Modern Period The Malthusian system English mortality and population...
Oxford University Press Inc., 2008. — 404 p. This book explores how ideas derived from the Roman domination of Britain were articulated in the definition of nationhood between the sixteenth and early twentieth century. Discoveries of objects and sites have contributed to this understanding of the pre-Roman and Roman past. Dominant perceptions of Roman Britain have drawn upon...
Oxford University Press, 2010. — 414 p. — (Oxford Historical Monographs). What can we learn from suicide, that most personal and often inscrutable of acts? This strikingly original work shows how, from treatment of suicides in historic Britain, unique insights can be gained into the development of both social and political relationships and cultural attitudes in a period of...
Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1983. — 537 p. — ISBN: 0-86597-019-X (series); 0-86597-091-1 (Volume I) The History of England (1754–61) is David Hume's great work on the history of England, which he wrote in installments while he was librarian to the Faculty of Advocates in Edinburgh.[1] It was published in six volumes in 1754, 1756, 1759, and 1761. The first publication of his...
Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1983. — 549 p. — ISBN: 0-86597-019-X (series); 0-86597-026-2 (Volume II) The History of England (1754–61) is David Hume's great work on the history of England, which he wrote in installments while he was librarian to the Faculty of Advocates in Edinburgh.[1] It was published in six volumes in 1754, 1756, 1759, and 1761. The first publication of his...
Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1983. — 492 p. — ISBN: 0-86597-019-X (series); 0-8597-028-9 (Volume III) The History of England (1754–61) is David Hume's great work on the history of England, which he wrote in installments while he was librarian to the Faculty of Advocates in Edinburgh.[1] It was published in six volumes in 1754, 1756, 1759, and 1761. The first publication of his...
Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1983. — 422 p. — ISBN: 0-86597-019-X (series); 0-8597-030-0 (Volume IV) The History of England (1754–61) is David Hume's great work on the history of England, which he wrote in installments while he was librarian to the Faculty of Advocates in Edinburgh.[1] It was published in six volumes in 1754, 1756, 1759, and 1761. The first publication of his...
Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1983. — 592 p. — ISBN: 0-86597-019-X (series); 0-8597-032-7 (Volume V) The History of England (1754–61) is David Hume's great work on the history of England, which he wrote in installments while he was librarian to the Faculty of Advocates in Edinburgh.[1] It was published in six volumes in 1754, 1756, 1759, and 1761. The first publication of his...
Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1983. — 730 p. — ISBN: 0-86597-019-X (series); 0-8597-034-3 (Volume VI) The History of England (1754–61) is David Hume's great work on the history of England, which he wrote in installments while he was librarian to the Faculty of Advocates in Edinburgh.[1] It was published in six volumes in 1754, 1756, 1759, and 1761. The first publication of his...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. — 265 p. — ISBN: 978-0-230618-23-5. This book brings together a selection of recent, cutting-edge research which, for the first time, challenges commonplace arguments about Mary and Elizabeth's relative successes or failures in order to rethink Tudor queenship.
Robinson, 2011. — 352 p. From the death of Richard III on Bosworth Field in 1485 to the execution of Charles I, after the Civil Wars of 1642-48, England was transformed by two Dynasties. Firstly the Tudors, who won the crown on the battlefield and changed both the nature of kingship but also the nation itself. England became a Protestant nation and began to establishment itself...
New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2009. — 448 p. — ISBN: 978-0-312-61545-1. Aristocracy means “rule by the best.” For nine hundred years, the British aristocracy considered itself ideally qualified to rule others, make laws, and guide the nation. Its virtues lay in its collective wisdom, its attachment to chivalric codes, and its sense of public duty. It evolved from a medieval...
The History of England. by a partial, prejudiced. & ignorant Historian. N.B. There will be very few Dates in this History. The Quince Tree Press, 2013.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. — 301 p. Maps The British Empire in 1815 British India, c.1757–1947 European possessions in Africa, 1914 Introduction: what was British imperialism? What was the nature of imperialism in the early nineteenth century? What was the nature of British rule in India, c.1770–1858? ‘New Imperialism’ and ‘Gentlemanly Capitalism’: did the flag follow trade?...
Institute of Historical Research, 2013. — 488 p. This book examines, for the first time, the history of the social, cultural, political and economic presence of the French in London, and explores the multiple ways in which this presence has contributed to the life of the city. The capital has often provided a place of refuge, from the Huguenots in the 17th century, through the...
Kershaw Baz. Cambridge History of British Theatre, Vol. 3, Since 1895 Cambridge University Press, 567 p. This volume explores the rich and complex histories of English, Scottish and Welsh theatres in the ‘long’ twentieth century since 1895. Twenty-three original essays by leading historians and critics investigate the major aspects of theatrical performance, ranging from the...
London: Putnam, 1971. - 463 p. A survey of the armament installed on British aircraft in the 30 year period up to the outbreak of the Second World War. The book details some 500 types of aircraft constructed by 48 companies and government factories. The photographs form a unique record.
Little, Brown and Company, 2006. — 321 p. History at its best — the great stories of England's modern age, distilled in Robert Lacey's inimitable style. From William and Mary to Watson and Crick, Robert Lacey's newest volume offers up the most delightful and intriguing English tales of the last few centuries. Royal families and renowned scientists, highwaymen and war heroes —...
Little, Brown and Company, 2005. — 288 p. The greatest historians are vivid storytellers, Robert Lacey reminds us, and in Great Tales from English History, he proves his place among them, illuminating in unforgettable detail the characters and events that shaped a nation. In this volume, Lacey limns the most important period in England's past, highlighting the spread of the...
Little, Brown and Company, 2004. - 272 p. With insight, humor and fascinating detail, Lacey brings brilliantly to life the stories that made England from Ethelred the Unready to Richard the Lionheart, the Venerable Bede to Piers the Ploughman.
Stroud, U.K.: The History Press, 2016. — 190 p. Most of us know that Queen Victoria ruled over a great Empire, that King John signed the Magna Carta, and that Harold was killed at the Battle of Hastings. But this book, for inquisitive visitors to the royal palaces and monarchy buffs everywhere, takes us to the heart of the matter, and tells us what we really want to know about...
Stroud, U.K.: The History Press, 2016. — 190 p. Most of us know that Queen Victoria ruled over a great Empire, that King John signed the Magna Carta, and that Harold was killed at the Battle of Hastings. But this book, for inquisitive visitors to the royal palaces and monarchy buffs everywhere, takes us to the heart of the matter, and tells us what we really want to know about...
2 edition. — John Wiley & Sons, 2006. — 404 p. — (For Dummies). A stirring trip through the essentials of British History. Britain's past brought right up to date. This book is a riotous, irreverent account of the people and events that have shaped Britain. It's a "who, what, when, where and why" that reads like a thriller and a comedy rolled into one. Inside you'll find...
John Wiley & Sons, 2004. — 432 p. — (For Dummies). A stirring trip through the essentials of British History. Britain's past brought right up to date. This book is a riotous, irreverent account of the people and events that have shaped Britain. It's a "who, what, when, where and why" that reads like a thriller and a comedy rolled into one. Inside you'll find rip-roaring stories...
Charles Scribners & Sons, 1965. — 298 p. English society before and after the coming of industrial age. A one-class society. The village community. Births, marriages and deaths. Did the paesants really starve? Personal discipline and social survival. Social change and revolution in the traditional world. The pattern of authority and our political heritage. After the...
Chicago: Liceum Books Inc., 2001. — 312 p. Prehistoric, Roman, and Anglo-Saxon Britain The land and Peoples of Early Britain The Anglo-Saxon Era, 410-1066 Medieval Britain The First Century of Feudalism, 1066-1189 The Age of the Barons, 1189-1327 The later Middle Ages, 1327-1485 Medieval British Society, 1066-1485 The Tudors and The Stuarts The Earlier Tudors, 1485-1547 The...
Chicago: Liceum Books Inc., 2001. — 312 p. Prehistoric, Roman, and Anglo-Saxon Britain The land and Peoples of Early Britain The Anglo-Saxon Era, 410-1066 Medieval Britain The First Century of Feudalism, 1066-1189 The Age of the Barons, 1189-1327 The later Middle Ages, 1327-1485 Medieval British Society, 1066-1485 The Tudors and The Stuarts The Earlier Tudors, 1485-1547 The...
Poznań: Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, 2015. — 428 p. — ISBN: 978-8-323231-10-3. The book presents crucial facts and events, selected from the countless defining moments in British history and culture: the appearance of prehistoric man in the British Isles; the influence of Celtic culture from a wider, not only insular perspective; the origins of Anglo-Saxon kingdoms; the historical...
Tauris, 2015. — 272 p. Bill Luckin has left an indelible mark on the history of medicine, stubbornly insisting for the past 40 years that urban studies and environmental history are key frames for studying public health, disease and medicine. What a pleasure it is then, to have in one volume the central body of his work. Death and Survival in Urban Britain is a collection of...
Philadelphia: porter & Coates, 2006. 1st Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859) was a British historian, essayist, and statesman, best remembered for his five-volume History of England. Baron Macaulay was a minor poet but a brilliant essayist. His History of England has been criticized for its protestant and Whig bias, but his vast wealth of material, his use of vivid...
Philadelphia: Porter & coates, 2006. 1st Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859) was a British historian, essayist, and statesman, best remembered for his five-volume History of England. Baron Macaulay was a minor poet but a brilliant essayist. His History of England has been criticized for its Protestant and Whig bias, but his vast wealth of material, his use of vivid...
Philadelphia: porter & Coates, 2006. 1st Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-59) was a British historian, essayist, and statesman, best remembered for his five-volume History of England. Baron Macaulay was a minor poet but a brilliant essayist. His History of England has been criticized for its protestant and Whig bias, but his vast wealth of material, his use of vivid...
Cambridge University Press, 1979 - 232 p. "The Origins of English Individualism" is about the nature of English society during the five centuries leading up to the Industrial Revolution, and the crucial differences between England and other European nations. Drawing upon detailed studies of English parishes and a growing number of other intensive local studies, as well as...
New York, NY: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, 2019. — 336 p., 15 black-and-white illustrations A quixotic journey through London’s past, Mudlark plumbs the banks of the Thames to reveal the stories hidden behind the archaeological remnants of an ancient city. Long heralded as a city treasure herself, expert “mudlarker” Lara Maiklem is...
Pan, 2009. — 672 p. A History of Modern Britain by Andrew Marr confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. It tells the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or a second Elizabethan Age, rival idealisms, came to be defeated by a culture of consumerism, celebrity and self-gratification. In each decade, political leaders think they know what they...
Brighton, U.K.: Book House, 2012. — (A Very Peculiar History Series). — 192 p., 1 map. From Roman invasion to tall tales of Merlin and King Arthur, and right up to the power of the mining industry, " Wales - A Very Peculiar History " takes a sideways look at some of the more peculiar aspects of the home of welsh rarebit, Maelgwn the Dragon, and...
London: Leo Cooper, 1994. — 260 p. The author explains how the tradition of loyalty to the regiment has served the British Army so well over the past 350 years and, in his vivid description of some of the major campaigns in which it has fought, shows what it was like at various times to have been an officer or a soldier in the British Army.
London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. — 288 p. Synopsis Defending Albion is the first published study of Britain's response to the threat of invasion from across the North Sea in the first two decades of the Twentieth Century. It examines the emergency schemes designed to confront an enemy landing and the problems associated with raising and maintaining the often derided...
Oxford University Press, 2010. — 816 p. — ISBN: 9780199579259 This superb volume tells the story of Britain and its people over two thousand years, from the coming of the Roman legions to the present day. Edited by esteemed historian Kenneth O. Morgan, this informative volume illuminates the political, social, economic, and cultural developments of the British Isles. Ten...
London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. - 200 p. Book Description The idea of Britain has been understood largely in terms of sectarian conflict and state formation, whereas emigration has most often been explored in terms of economic and social history. This book explores the relationship between two subjects normally studied in isolation, and includes emigration from Ireland as a...
Ostrava: 2008. — 75 p. A brief survey of chief events and developments in the course of British history From the earliest times to the end of the 15th century The mingling of the races The Iberians and the Celts Roman Britain The Anglo-Saxon period From the Norman Conquest to the Hundred Years War: the feudal state From the outbreak of the Hundred Years War to the end of the...
London: Routledge, 2002. 5 edition. - 240 p. Extensively revised and updated, the fifth edition of British Civilization includes new illustrations, devolution, more debate and cultural material and covers right up to 2001. John Oakland is Senior Lecturer in English at the Norwegian University of Science and Technolog
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 202 p. J. S. Omond's study of 1933 documents the historically problematic relationship between Parliament and the Army. Providing an overview of the 260 years which elapsed from the outbreak of the English Civil War in 1642 until the establishment of the Army Council in 1904, the book describes the phases through which the problem of...
Routledge, 1992. — 256 p. — ISBN: 0-203-99004-8. Over the last twenty-five years archaeology has revolutionised our knowledge of the early history of British towns. Based on his day-to-day involvement in urban archaeology, Patrick Ottaway reviews the important discoveries and research themes of this period, and considers how long-term urban research projects have revealed new...
Caernarfon: Palace Books, 1990. - 279 pgs. During the wars of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the Welsh language was no stranger to any part of the United Kingdom, being the day to day medium for conversation for no less than 13 Welsh regiments of militia. The Glamorgan Regiment, like the others, did its fair share of 'yomping' around Great Britain and in consequence,...
Calicut University, 2011. — 226 p. Historical antecedents. England under feudalsim. English socirty in transition. Age of Renaissance and Reformation. Impact of Royal Absolutism. Eighteenth century England.
Cambridge University Press, 2001. — 840 p. The first volume of The Cambridge Urban History surveys the history of British towns from their post-Roman origins in the seventh century down to the sixteenth century. It provides the first detailed overview of the course of medieval urban development, and draws on archaeological and architectural as well as historical sources. The...
Scarecrow Press, 2011. — 665 p. — ISBN: 978-0-8108-5779-7. The monarch is the United Kingdom's head of state, exercising powers that are circumscribed by common law, convention, and statute law. Nowadays, many of the sovereign's functions are ceremonial but in the past the balance between ceremony and decision-making was very different. The foundations of the modern monarchy...
The Scarecrow Press, 2008. — 588 p. — (Historical Dictionaries of Europe, No. 61). — ISBN: 978-0-8108-5091-0. The last quarter of a century, from 1979 to 2007, has been eventful for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The year 1979 brought major changes to the United Kingdom, in particular when the political climate altered radically with the coming to...
London: Reaktion Books, 2002. - 312 p. Book Description War has always been close to the centre of British culture, but never more so than in the period since 1850. "Warrior Nation" explores the way in which images of battle, both literary and visual, have been constructed in British fiction and popular culture since this time. The rise of war reporting has helped to shape a...
Penguin Books, Viking, 2012. — 285 p. From the bestselling author of The English comes Empire, Jeremy Paxman's history of the British Empire accompanied by a flagship 5-part BBC TV series, for readers of Simon Schama and Andrew Marr. The influence of the British Empire is everywhere, from the very existence of the United Kingdom to the ethnic composition of our cities. It...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 398 p. Review "This is a first-rate book by a first-rate scholar.It is intellectually sophisticated, clearly written, and its conclusions follow nicely from the evidence marshalled in each chapter.this is a book that all students of the period must read." Keith Neilson, The International History Review ".this is a rich, profound,...
West Sussex: John Wiley & Sons, 2007. — 464 p. — (For Dummies). A plain-English guide to Britons in battle, from the Roman invasion to the ongoing Iraqi war Charging through the Britain's military past, this accessible guide brings to life the battles and wars that shaped the history of Britain-and the world. The book profiles commanders, explains strategies and tactics, and...
Routledge, 2002. - 632 p. The Rise of Professional Society lays out a stimulating and controversial framework for the study of British society, challenging accepted paradigms based on class analysis. Perkins argues that the non-capitalist "professional class" represents a new principle of social organization based on trained expertise and meritocracy, a "forgotten middle class"...
Helicon Publishing, 2006. - 728 p. The Hutchinson Illustrated Encyclopedia of British History is a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the people, events, and ideas that have shaped Britain from prehistory to the present day. The editors have also sought to convey the truth that history is more than simply a compilation of facts from the past. The editors have included as...
Routledge, 2005. — xvi, 302 p. — ISBN: 0-203-74265-6; 0-415-11915-4; 0-415-12913-3. By drawing equally on the work of historians and archaeologists, Colin Platt puts forward a view of English medieval society in which there is much that is new and unexpected. Medieval England brings together a wide range of themes, from castle and palace to peasant hovel, from the great...
Fourth Edition. — Pearson, 2004. — 497 p. This leading general history of British imperialism, from its Victorian heyday to present times, has been thoroughly revised and updated. As well as presenting a lively narrative of events, Bernard Porter explores a number of broad analytical themes, challenging more conventional and popular interpretations. He sees imperialism as a...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 621 p. List of illustrations page The origins of parochial system Church and parish Rectors and vicars: from Gratian to the Reformation The parish, its bounds and its division The urban parish The functions of the parish The parish and its servants The economics of the parish The parish and the community The parish and the church courts: a...
Cambridge: University Press, 1999. - 364 p. Richard Price offers a radical new interpretation of modern British history. He argues that the period 1680-1880 was a distinct era in British history, a dynamic period of much change but which was ultimately contained within clearly defined boundaries. Professor Price thus identifies the nineteenth century as the end of this period...
Oxford University Press, 2006. — 304 p. — (Oxford Historical Monographs). Modernizing Nature contributes to the debate regarding the origins, institutionalization, and politics of the sciences and systems of knowledge underlying colonial frameworks of environmental management. It departs from the widely prevalent scholarly perspective that colonial science can be understood...
Pen and Sword History, 2017. — 192 p. This is the history of England's turbulent times, told through the stories of the country's nobility. The book begins with the Norman Conquest in 1066 and ends with the union of England and Scotland in 1707. The nobility fought wars against Scotland in the north and against France on the Continent. They conquered Ireland and Wales and then...
2nd Edition. — Greenwood, 2019. — 316 p. — ISBN: 1440862745. This addition to The Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations provides an updated, clear, and concise history of Great Britain that will be of value to undergraduates and to a general readership Presents a timeline of significant events with an at-a-glance overview of Great Britain's history Provides an appendix of...
Batoche Books, 2001. — 573 p. Rural England — Social Life. Rural England — Agriculture. Town Life. The Distribution of Wealth and Trade. Society — Wages — Profits. The King and His Extraordinary Revenues. The Famine and the Plague. Discontent — Combination — Insurrection. The Landlord’s Remedies. The Development of Taxation. Labour and Wages. The Clergy till the Reformation....
London. Eyre&Spotiswoode. 1965. - 223 c. This wonderful book, beautifully written, has been an inspiration to many with an interest in canals. The author, Tom Rolt, captured the imagination of the public when it was first published in 1944 and without this book and its influence, it may be that much more of our canal system, which was facing dereliction at that time, would have...
London. Eyre&Spotiswoode. 1965. - 223 c. The book was originally published in 1944. Travel by boat along the English canals (Midland waterways), which were the main transport systems of England before the invention of railways. The book was written in 1939 and is an elegy, not a reference book, on the history of English canals. This wonderful book, beautifully written, has been...
New York, Putnam, 1974. — 254 p. Windsor Castle is the oldest and largest inhabited castle in the world and has been the family home of British kings and queens for almost 1,000 years. It is an official residence of Her Majesty The Queen and is still very much a working royal palace today, home to around 150 people. The castle is used regularly for ceremonial and state...
London: Frances Lincoln, 2016. — 256 p. Mudlarking, the act of searching the Thames foreshore for items of value, has a long tradition in England's capital. In the late 18th and 19th centuries, mudlarks were small boys grubbing a living from scrap. Today’s mudlarks unearth relics of the past from the banks of the Thames which tell stories of Londoners throughout history. From...
Miramax, 2000 Simon Schama's magesterial new book encompasses over 1,500 years of Britain's history, from the first Roman invasions to the early seventeenth century, and the extraordinary reign of Queen Elizabeth I. Schama, the author of the highly acclaimed Citizens and The Embarrassment of Riches, is one of the most popular and celebrated historians of our day, and in this...
Miramax, 2000 Simon Schama's magesterial new book encompasses over 1,500 years of Britain's history, from the first Roman invasions to the early seventeenth century, and the extraordinary reign of Queen Elizabeth I. Schama, the author of the highly acclaimed Citizens and The Embarrassment of Riches, is one of the most popular and celebrated historians of our day, and in this...
Miramax, 2000 Simon Schama's magesterial new book encompasses over 1,500 years of Britain's history, from the first Roman invasions to the early seventeenth century, and the extraordinary reign of Queen Elizabeth I. Schama, the author of the highly acclaimed Citizens and The Embarrassment of Riches, is one of the most popular and celebrated historians of our day, and in this...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 632 p. — ISBN: 978-0190621872. Author of a number of celebrated works, including the bestselling The Story of the Jews and Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution, Simon Schama's latest book fuses history and art to create a tour de force of narrative sweep and illuminating insight. Using images from works-paintings, photographs,...
Second Edition. — Barnes & Noble, 1971. — 420 p. — ISBN10: 0064601234; ISBN13: 978-0064601238. This book presents a complete and distinctive account of the history of England from its earliest settlements to modern times, as well as an interpretation of the English heritage and achievement. It is intended for the student of History and for the reader reviewing specific periods...
London: White Lion Publishers, 1974. - 212 pgs. The proud story of the Territorial Army from its inception in 1908. It is the story of deeds of heroism in two World Wars; of enthusiasm battling with peacetime muddle and neglect; of an institution so peculiarly British that it bewildered and confounded its foreign critics - yet moved them to imitation. This is a new edition of...
London: Routledge, 2003. - 210 p. Private papers, diaries and government and Foreign Office records are used within this book to produce an analysis of the attitudes of the British political elite towards the Soviet Union, assessing the influence such attitudes had upon British foreign policy between May 1937 and August 1939.
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 557 p. What role did the parish play in people’s lives in England and Wales, between 1700 and the mid-twentieth century? By comparison with globalisation and its dislocating effects, this book stresses how important parochial belonging once was. Professor Snell discusses themes such as subjective ideas of belonging, cultures of local...
[edited and translated by Carl Stephenson and Frederick George Marcham]. – New York; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1937. – 906 p. Britain's unwritten constitution depends upon a long succession of writs, oaths, ordinances, charters, grants, cases and the like. The most important of those from 600 to 1937 are gathered into one volume. The Anglo-Saxon period – The Norman...
New York, "Cambridge University Press", 2004, -299 p. This book explores popular support for the Church of England during a critical period, from the Stuart Restoration to the mid-eighteenth century, when Churchmen perceived themselves to be under attack from all sides. In many provincial parishes, the clergy also found themselves in dispute with their congregations. These...
Routledge, 2002. - 320 p. ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0415207436 ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780415207430 Product Description: This collection draws together a fascinating selection of sources to illuminate this turbulent era of English history. From the bloody overthrow of Richard III in 1485, to the creation of a worldwide imperial state under Queen Anne, these sources illustrate England's difficult...
Pegasus Books, 2019. — 608 p. — ISBN: 1643130137. An authoritative and sweeping history of Britain from the Romans to the present day — in a newly revised edition for the next generation of readers. The Story of Britain is an accessible one-volume history that clearly depict Britain's origins — and explain how the past shaped the nation's current identity. He begins the story...
W. W. Norton & Company, 2006. — 336 p. One of the world's leading geneticists, Bryan Sykes has helped thousands find their ancestry in the British Isles. Saxons, Vikings, and Celts , which resulted from a systematic ten-year DNA survey of more than 10,000 volunteers, traces the true genetic makeup of the British Isles and its descendants, taking readers from the Pontnewydd cave...
W. W. Norton & Company, 2006. — 336 p. One of the world's leading geneticists, Bryan Sykes has helped thousands find their ancestry in the British Isles. Saxons, Vikings, and Celts , which resulted from a systematic ten-year DNA survey of more than 10,000 volunteers, traces the true genetic makeup of the British Isles and its descendants, taking readers from the Pontnewydd cave...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. — 195 p. — ISBN: 978-0-230303-88-9. A wide-ranging new survey of the role of the sea in Britain's global presence in the 19th century. Mostly at peace, but sometimes at war, Britain grew as a maritime empire in the Victorian era. This collection looks at British sea-power as a strategic, moral and cultural force.
London: Odham Press Limited. 1952. — 160 p. This complete pictorial record of the life of His Majesty the late King George VI will be treasured in homes throughout the world as a worthy memento of great Monarch who, by his simple humanity, deviotion to duty, and service to his peoples, earned the deep affection of millions. Within these pages, against the backround of fifty-six...
Cambridge University Press, 1996. - 362 p. Volume 2, People and their environment, explores the questions of social structure, social mobility and class relations. Family and household, the social implications of demographic change, jobs, working and housing conditions, and family relations were all crucial elements in the shaping of group consciousness and form the main themes...
Squadron/Signal Publications, 1987. - 52 p. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs and line drawings with centre section of color plates, providing outstanding photographic coverage over a wide range of British Commando forces in action. Images are drawn from many private collections and archives.
Basic Books, 2018. — 240 p. — ISBN: 978-0-465094-02-3. An upstairs/downstairs history of the British royal court, from the Middle Ages to the reign of Queen Elizabeth II. Monarchs: they're just like us. They entertain their friends and eat and worry about money. Henry VIII tripped over his dogs. George II threw his son out of the house. James I had to cut back on the alcohol...
London, 1700. – 366 p. The General History of England, both Ecclesiastical and Civil; From the Earliest Accounts of Time, To the Reign of His Present Majesty, King William III. Taken from the most Ancient Records, Manuscripts, and Printed Historians. With Memorials of the most Eminent Persons in Church and State. As also the Foundations of the most Noted Monasteries, and both...
London: A&C Black, 2006. 2nd Edition. - 290 p. From the invasion of Britain by the Danes through the battle of Hastings, Agincourt and Waterloo up to the present day, this fascinating dictionary includes entries on battles, campaigns and famous commanders, as well as ranks, regiments, uniforms and weapons. The reader will find an outline of the British army since its formation...
3rd edition. — Routledge, 2014. — 462 p. A pioneering study which has become an established classic in its field, Sex, Politics and Society provides a lucid and comprehensive analysis of the transformations of British sexual life from 1800 to the present. These changes are firmly located in the wider context of social change, from industrialization and the experience of Empire...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1967. — 304 p. This is an agreeable narrative, easy to read, of the history of the English nation through twenty centuries. It is intended for the reader who wants a comprehensive survey which brings out the important lines of development but does not clog the story with too many facts, dates, treaties and battles. Underlying the account...
London: Arms and Armour Press, 1997. - 97 p. This new edition of Badges of the British Army is a classic reference to the popular and diverse world of badge collecting. Since it first appeared 28 years ago it has become the favourite guide for the collector at every level, as well as a standard work in manY museums, auction houses and regimental archives. In a single,...
London: Future Publishing, 2019. — 144 p. — (Part of the All about History: Special Issue). Discover the complete history of the Normans, from the founding of their dynasty to their epic conquests and the effect they've had on the world to this day! Learn about their Viking roots and how they came to control northern France, discover their rich multicultural society and the...
Modern Library, 2004. — 137 p. — (Modern Library Chronicles). — ISBN: 978-0-679642-66-8. In its two thousand years of history, London has ruled a rainy island and a globe-spanning empire, it has endured plague and fire and bombing, it has nurtured and destroyed poets and kings, revolutionaries and financiers, geniuses and visionaries of every stripe. To distill the magic and...
Pen & Sword History, 2016. — 198 p. The true stories of eleven notorious women, across five centuries, who were feared, victimized, and condemned for witchcraft in the British Isles. Beginning with the late Middle Ages — from Ireland to Hampshire — hundreds of women were accused of spellcasting, wicked seduction, murder, and consorting with the devil. Most were fated for the...
Ossolineum, 2001. — 434 s. Omówione zagadnienia : Brytania starożytna, okres anglosaski, Anglia pod koniec średniowiecza, monarchia pierwszych Tudorów, Anglia w epoce rewolucji burżuazyjnej, Wielka Brytania w dobie rewolucji amerykańskiej i francuskiej oraz wojen napoleońskich, era średniowiktoriańska, od końca II wojny światowej do końca XX wieku. Skompresować dzieje Anglii w...
Ossolineum, 2001. — 434 s. Synteza dziejów Anglii od czasów najdawniejszych aż do roku 2000, uwzględniająca zagadnienia polityczne, społeczne, gospodarcze i kulturalne. Autor znaczną uwagę poświęcił przodującej i inspirującej roli Anglii w dziejach myśli politycznej i instytucji ustrojowych, nauki i techniki oraz jej wkładowi do cywilizacji powszechnej. Książka zawiera zwięzłe...
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