Early Modern English Foodways: A Critical Sourcebook is the first anthology devoted to food-related writing in Renaissance England. Bringing together seventy passages from a two-hundred-year sweep of British history, the volume demonstrates...Loe edasi...
Over the past two decades, academic, sociological/historical writing on football has flourished, mainly on the back of the debate over the games early development. This book adds to that debate, providing more information on the early meetings of...Loe edasi...
How does the historian track down evidence? For even the most experienced researchers this can be a hard task, often accomplished as much by luck as judgement. Primary Sources in British Archives explains how to locate and gain access to so...Loe edasi...
How does the historian track down evidence? For even the most experienced researchers this can be a hard task, often accomplished as much by luck as judgement. Primary Sources in British Archives explains how to locate and gain access to so...Loe edasi...
This is the first biography to explore in detail the life of Dark Age historian, The Venerable Bede. Based on the most up-to-date research and historical and archaeological evidence, this book pieces together Bedes life and those of the monks and nu...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: William Collins, ISBN-13: 9780008699987)
A rollicking narrative history set during the extraordinary summer of 1726 when Jonathan Swift arrived in London from Dublin, with a draft of Gullivers Travels in his bag....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Jonathan Cape, ISBN-13: 9781787333161)
What do we leave behind when we move to a new place and what do we carry with us, physically and emotionally, wherever we land? Here are the voices of people who have come to Britain to make a new life: a Czech-Roma lawyer in Reading, an...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: The Bodley Head Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781847927583)
A ground-breaking history of modern Britain that puts the experiences of disabled people to the fore for the first time. A timely and enjoyable untold history PHILIPPA GREGORY A rare feat of a book: so many extraordinary sto...Loe edasi...
History Hit podcast presenter Dr Anthony Delaney reveals the real people that inspired Gentleman Jack and the gay romances in Bridgerton, long written out of the nations story and now lovingly restored. In this moving and revelatory boo...Loe edasi...
Shortlisted for The Wolfson History Prize.Discover the true story of St. Kilda.When the last 36 inhabitants of St Kilda, 40 miles west of the Scottish Hebrides, were evacuated in 1930, the archipelago at ‘the edge of the world’ lost its permanent pop...Loe edasi...
Fascinating and lyrical . . . A beautifully written celebration of a lifelong passion – Stephen Venables The relationship of people with hills and mountains has been complex, rich and varied – from awe and wonder to fear and loathing, from spiritual...Loe edasi...
Relive the battle for a nation.As 8,000 Scottish soldiers, most of them spearmen, faced 18,000 English infantrymen, archers and mounted knights in June 1314 near the Bannock Burn, many would have thought that the result a foregone conclusion. But two...Loe edasi...
First published in 1986, this book (now with a new preface by the author) talks about the theory of eugenics. The book offers a critique of Foucaults theory of the development of the sciences of human life, as well as relating the ideas of several s...Loe edasi...
First published in 1989, Coercion or Persuasion? exposes the deficiencies of Attlee governments propaganda in Britain. Dr Crofts shows how Labour government, in its effort to resolve the conflict between its belief in socialist planning and its relu...Loe edasi...
First published in 1951, Britain and the Middle East sets forth the relations which the people and the government of Britain had with the Middle East from the earliest records of such relations until 1950. The term Middle East used in this book incl...Loe edasi...
The Evolution of the English House (1933) discusses the popular and native art in domestic English architecture, tracing the changes over the years. The focus is on plain wattled huts and combinations of dwelling-house and cattle-stall, as well as t...Loe edasi...
Church and Manor (1913) examines the unit of English territorial organisation known as the manor. It considers the manor and the church to be key twin parts of this unit, and by analysing the church and manor, this book provides valuable insight int...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1950 and as a third edition in 1967, this volume traces the evolution of the English nation the amalgamation of differing races and the unification of warring tribal princedoms into one monarchy, the stimulus of foreign inva...Loe edasi...
The year 1688 is a turning point in English culture, and one from which can be dated numerous distinctively modern notions of truth, property and political order. The texts assembled in this collection, originally published in 1986, focus on this in...Loe edasi...
Nick Triplow’s soulful biography of enigmatic British crime fiction pioneer, Ted Lewis (author of Get Carter), is one of those rare works of literary investigation that relentlessly asserts its own status as art. Like Philip Hoare&rsq...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: St Martin's Press, ISBN-13: 9781250381255)
Windsor biographer Alexander Larman takes you behind the doors of Eaton Square, London’s most sought-after address.In the classic PBS series Upstairs, Downstairs, the aristocratic Bellamy family lived at the fictitious 165 Eaton Pla...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: August Books, ISBN-13: 9798217269419)
A relationship takes work, compromise and trust in one another. But in order to make it a special relationship, a little more diplomacy may be required…A relationship takes work, compromise and trust in one another. But in order to...Loe edasi...
Named a Best Book of the Year by Library Journal and Daily Mail (London) A groundbreaking and insightful exploration of King James I, enigmatic successor to Queen Elizabeth I, from the “meticulous researcher” (The W...Loe edasi...
This book examines the plays Thomas Middleton wrote for the King’s Men between 1620 and 1624, arguing that they constitute one of the most sustained and ambitious engagements with contemporary politics in early modern English drama. Situating thes...Loe edasi...
Do you realize that by the time you wake up in the morning, twenty thousand men may have been killed? —Winston Churchill to Clementine Churchill, 5 June 1944 From the worlds greatest collection of Winston Churchills...Loe edasi...
The Revolution in Time explores the idea that people in Western Europe changed the way they thought about the concept of time over the early modern period, by examining reactions to the 1688-1689 revolution in England. The study exam...Loe edasi...
