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Personal correspondence of sir john bellenden of auchnoull and his circle, 1560-1582
This collection of forty-nine letters, edited in full here for the first time, are addressed to Sir John Bellenden of Auchnoull (1520?-1576) or members of his circle and offer a precious window onto the turbulent and often obscure history of Orkney and Shetland in the sixteenth century as the Nor...
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Dictionary of british arms: medieval ordinary volume iii
The third in a series of four volumes designed to aid historians, archaeologists, genealogists, heraldists and antiquaries in the identification of medieval British coats of arms. Listed in this volume are entries from Chief to Fess.This book is the third in a series of volumes designed to enable...
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Constable correspondence volume 3 correspondence with c.r. leslie
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Barbour’s bruce
Barbour's Bruce (c. 1375) is the oldest substantial piece of literature in Older Scots. It narrates in four-stress couplets the feats of Robert Bruce and his supporters, most notably James Douglas and Thomas Randolph. Their heroic activities, including battles against odds and clever out-manoeuvr...
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David hume of godscroft's the history of the house of douglas
David Hume of Godscroft’s history of the House of DouglasDavid Reid’s excellent introduction and notes reveal Hume’s work as a politicised piece of Presbyterian historiography that achieves striking variations on materials inherited from Buchanan, Calderwood, and others.
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A frenchman's year in suffolk
When François de la Rochefoucauld and his brother Alexandre visited Suffolk in 1784, the events which were to lead to the French Revolution in 1789 were already in train. François' father, the duc de Liancourt, Grand Master of theWardrobe at Louis XVI's court, was well placed to appreciate the da...
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The buik of king alexander the conquerour by sir gilbert hay
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Shorter scottish medieval romances
First modern edition of four romances from the medieval Scottish tradition.The four romances in this collection have been unjustly neglected. Indeed, Florimond, King Orphius and Sir Colling were entirely unknown to modern audiences - despite some late-medieval references to the first two -until f...
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Selected sermons of zachary boyd
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The prose works of sir gilbert hay
Third volume of a three-volume edition of the Hay Manuscript, the sole known text of the Scots translations of three French prose treatises, made by Sir Gilbert Hay in the mid-fifteenth centuryJonathan A Glenn presents us with these meticulously edited versions 'in the hope that an accurate text ...
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The great sea floods of 1953
John Trist, "Mr. Agriculture" to Suffolk's farming community, was a crucial figure after the East Coast Sea Flood, orchestrating agricultural land recovery. His dedication earned him an OBE. Presented here for the first time, transcriptions of Trist's own story, diary, and notes for an official r...
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The muses threnodie
This edition of a seventeenth-century Scottish poem gives modern audiences insight into the ways previous generations perceived and engaged with local nature and architecture.Henry Adamson's "The Muses Threnodie" (1638) offers insights into the lives, amusements and anxieties of of the residents ...
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Constable correspondence volume 5 various friends
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The cartulary and charters of the priory of saints peter and paul, ipswich
Edition of documents from an important medieval East Anglian ecclesiastical institution.The charters and other documents recorded in the thirteenth-century Cartulary of the Augustinian priory of Sts Peter and Paul, Ipswich, donated to the public library of Lexington, Kentucky, in 1806, and purcha...
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James watson's choice collection of comic and serious scots poems
James Watson’s Choice Collection is the first known printed collection of Older Scots verse and as such a milestone in Scottish literary historyThis eclectic mixture of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century pieces along with some earlier works, has examples from many key genres in Scottish literary ...
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Florentius volusenus: christian humanist
Study and translation of the religious and philosophical work by this Scottish-born, France-based Renaissance humanist and educator.The Commentatio quaedam theologica of Florentius Volusenus (c.1504-c.1557) is a religious and philosophical work of the Renaissance, cast in the form of rhetorical a...
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The general account book of john clerk of penicuik, 1663-1674
Edition of a wealthy merchant's accounts sheds fascinating insights into life at the time.The household account book of John Clerk of Penicuik, a Montrose-born merchant who honed his skills in Paris and brought home to Scotland a small fortune which he used to purchase the barony of Penicuik in 1...
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Manorial account rolls and rentals of walsham le willows 1327 to 1559
This fourth volume, featuring a good series of manorial accounts and rentals, complements the court roll material by painting a more textured picture of life in late-medieval Walsham.The Suffolk Records Society has already published three volumes on Walsham Le Willows: 17, the Field Book of 1577 ...
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The turn of the screw
These 33 paintings by acclaimed artist Jane Mackay are a visual reaction to Britten's opera, accompanied by an introduction and commentary by musicologist Andrew Plant.Of their adaptation of Henry James' allusive short story, librettist Myfanwy Piper wrote that she and Britten intended to 'recrea...
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Records of the convention of royal burghs, 1555; 1631-1648
Material from conventions of Scottish parliamentary towns sheds fresh light on their activities and actions, from giving judgements in disputes to raising money for building projects.The convention of the royal burghs of Scotland was a national representative assembly of parliamentary towns that ...
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The phanaticks
First modern edition of a highly provocative Scottish drama.Written at the very end of the seventeenth century, The Phanaticks (previously known as The Assembly) satirises in dramatic form contemporary political and religious affairs, presenting some well-known figures in thethinnest of disguises...
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The song repertoire of amelia and jane harris
This is the first published edition of the full Harris sisters’ ballad collection, an important source for the Scottish song traditionThe sources of the songs and ballads collected by the two women can be traced to locations including Fearn, Tibbermore, Blairgowrie, Dron and Brechin, and the coll...
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The maitland quarto
New edition of one of the most important collections of sixteenth-century Scots poetry.The Maitland Quarto Manuscript was compiled in c.1586 in the circle of the Maitland Family of Lethington, East Lothian. It is a highly significant and rich collection of Older Scots poetry. It contains the most...
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Wills of the archdeaconry of sudbury, 1630-1635
Wills of nearly 900 people, rich in detail, both personal and specific,as in old place names and geographical references.Wills of nearly 900 people, rich in detail, both personal and specific, as in old place names and geographical references.
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The buke of the chess
Scots translation of the Latin "Book of Chess", a series of essays on moral themes, by Jacobus de Cessolis.The long Introduction provides a technical analysis, academic study and general account of the manuscript; this is followed by a printing of the text, an illustration of a page, textual and ...
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The shorter poems of gavin douglas
Revised edition of Gavin Douglas’ shorter poemsGavin Douglas was a prominent Scottish churchman who eventually rose to become Bishop of Dunkeld, and is well known for Eneados, his brilliant Middle Scots translation of the Aeneid. First published in 1967, this edition has been revised and updated ...
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Stutter's casebook
A transcription of the notes made by a young doctor during his time working at a provincial general hospital.For most of his career W.G. Stutter [1815-77] was a respected general medical practitioner in the village of Wickhambrook, a small Suffolk backwater. As a younger man, however, he spent so...
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The autobiography of arthur woodburn (1890-1978)
Modern edition of the autobiography of a significant figure in the Scottish Labour Party in the mid-twentieth century.Arthur Woodburn's autobiography provides an exceptionally rich insight into the development of labour politics in Scotland in the first half of the twentieth century, into the exp...
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Miscellany of the scottish history society, volume xiv
Hitherto unpublished documents from early modern Scotland offer fascinating insights into contemporary life.Miscellanies published by the Scottish History Society bring together critical editions of important and previously unpublished manuscripts of relevance to Scottish history. As well as prov...
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Eneados: gavin douglas's translation of virgil's aeneid
Second volume of a major new edition of Douglas's Eneados, containing a substantially revised and corrected text of Books I-VII plus appendix of textual variants.Although Virgil's Aeneid was one of the most widely admired works of the European Middle Ages, the first complete translation to appear...
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Miscellany of the scottish history society, volume xv
Collections of three important early modern documents from Scotland, providing crucial information on life at the time.The Miscellany of the Scottish History Society brings together critical editions of important and previously unpublished manuscripts of relevance to Scottish History. As well as...
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Great tooley of ipswich
The life and work of a provincial merchant, his organisation of his business affairs, and his role in civic life.When Henry Tooley drew up his will shortly before his death in 1551 he ensured the survival of two monuments to his career as a merchant in Ipswich: the almshouses which still stand in...
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The taill of rauf coilyear
First edition of a lively medieval romance.The author of the fifteenth-century Older Scots romance of Rauf Coilyear may be unknown, but the popularity of this comic king-in-disguise tale is undisputed; it is cited by William Dunbar and Gavin Douglas at the turn of the century, and again in the mi...
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Scottish witchcraft narratives and tracts
This book is a scholarly edition of primary sources for witch-hunting and demonic possession in Scotland. It contains narratives of remarkable witchcraft prosecutions, and tracts expounding witchcraft theory. The narratives provide the intense emotional drama, eye-catching colour and nightmarish ...
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An ipswich man’s war
Diaries of a First World War soldier.The First World War diaries of the Ipswich man, George Punchard, are published here for the first time. They not only give a detailed account of his experiences in France, Belgium and on home service, but also reveal the inner thoughts of an extraordinary work...
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Wartime in west suffolk
Detailed and engaging diary entries throw new light on what it was really like to live in wartime Suffolk.Winifred Challis (1896-1990) spent most of her life in West Suffolk. Born in Newmarket, during the Second World War she was working in Bury St Edmunds for the Public Assistance Committee and ...
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The crown pleas of the suffolk eyre of 1240
Edition of the records of a medieval Suffolk eyre reveal rich details of life at the time.The eyre was an organised judicial visitation to the counties of England by the king's justices to hear all types of plea, civil and crown, as well as to investigate any matters for the king that pertain to ...
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Miscellany xvii
The seventeenth volume in the Scottish History Society's Miscellany series, showcasing editions of unpublished short texts.Volume XVII of the Scottish History Society's Miscellany includes editions of nine unpublished short texts dating from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries. These ...
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Scottish witchcraft trials
This book presents a selection of original texts of Scottish witchcraft trial records, with historical commentary. These are the essential sources for understanding the intensity of witch-hunting in Scotland.Witchcraft was a statutory offence in Scotland between 1563 and 1736, and the authorities...
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Registrum annalium 1567-1603
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A biographical register of st. john's college, oxford, 1555-1660
Full biographical accounts of the members of St John's College Oxford give much new evidence for academic life of the period.This volume comprises a register of all who were academically of St John's College, Oxford, from its foundation in 1555 until 1660, as well as of a number of men otherwise...
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The cartulary of the monastry of st fridewide at oxford vol ii
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The white book (liber albus) of southwell
First complete edition of an invaluable and extensive collection of medieval documents.with contributions from Neil Bettridge, Jean Cameron, Paul Cavill and Teresa Webber. The White Book of Southwell derives its name from its white vellum cover. Compiled between c.1350 and 1460, with a few later...
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The warden's punishment book of all souls college, oxford, 1601-1850
Edition, with full notes and apparatus, of a text which sheds much light on university affairs at the time.The Warden's Punishment Book is a record of punishments imposed on the Fellows of All Souls College, Oxford, for minor infringements of the statutes and of College discipline, from its incep...
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Remarks and collections of thomas hearne vol iii
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Formularies which bear on the history of oxford, c.1204-1420. vol i
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The oseney cartulary. vol ii
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English medieval government and administration
Different from most festschriften, this wide-ranging volume in honour of one of our foremost historians of English medieval political life brings together a rich collection of newly edited documents accompanied by commentaries which both set them in context and highlight their importance for hist...
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Memorial inscriptions in st john's college, oxford
A collection of memorial inscriptions in the College Chapel in St John’s College OxfordThe introduction to the book provides invaluable insights into the lives of the men buried in the college and their affairs.
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The great roll of the pipe for the tenth year of the reign of king henry iii michaelmas 1226
The pipe roll for Michaelmas 1226 is particularly informative as it preserves the accounts for no fewer than twenty-nine English shrievalties, allowing us to analyse the collection of royal revenues in fascinating detail. This volume is the first edition of the Latin pipe roll for 10 Henry III (M...
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Register of congregations, 1505-17, vol ii
Analysis of the organisation of Oxford University in the early 16th century followed by part of the text of the University register of congregationsThe register includes invaluable details about daily life at the university, including sanctions, wages, books and libraries. Religious life is also ...
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Account rolls of university college, oxford, vol ii (1472-1597)
An absorbing collection of documents that bring to life the early history of Oxford’s University CollegeThe volume also includes full notes and an introduction as well as Latin texts with facing translations into English.
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The eastman theatre
The Eastman Theatre: Fulfilling George Eastman's Dream provides a stunning celebration of the history and renovation of the Eastman Theatre in Rochester, New York. The book is richly illustrated with period imagery as wellas breathtaking photographs by award-winning photographer Andy Olenick. Par...
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Epistolae academicae oxon, 1508-97
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The domestic accounts of merton college, oxford, 1482-94
Domestic accounts of the first fully self-governing college of the University of OxfordVolume in the new series of the Oxford Historical Society examining the accounts of Merton College.
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Two cartularies of abingdon abbey, vol ii
Cartularies from the Benedictine monastery of Abington Abbey that shed light on medieval lifeThe two cartularies are Bodleian Lyell (209 leaves compiled according to the editor’s revised dating, not before c. 1350) and Chatsworth (167 leaves, of the late fourteenth or early fifteenth century) pri...
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Bibliography of printed works relating to oxfordshire (excluding the university and city of oxford)
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Collectanea, 3rd series
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Oxford city apprentices, 1513-1602
Edition of records of Oxford apprentices provides valuable evidence for historians.Oxford greatly expanded and flourished under the Tudors, as the reviving University provided a growing body of consumers and trade for shopkeepers and craftsmen. They needed apprentices - and in huge numbers, as th...
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Books and learning in twelfth-century england
A fascinating look at England's place in the wider European community in the twelfth century, based on close study of the texts, scripts and decoration of manuscripts.This book is concerned with England's engagement with continental Europe, especially France and Normandy, from 1066 until around 1...
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A cartulary of the hospital of st john the baptist vol. ii
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The oseney cartulary. vol iii
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A cartulary of the hospital of st john baptist vol.i
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Oxford council acts (1701-1752)
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Making music
The story of singer Norman Platt's life in music and the rise and fall of the renowned Kent Opera Company.Norman Platt was seized by music at the age of five as a boy in industrial Lancashire, played professionally at the age of nine and made music in one form or another until his death in 2004. ...
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Collectanea, 4th series
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A bibliography of printed works relating to oxfordshire (excluding the university and city of oxford); supplementary volume (to second series, no 11, 1949-50)
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Minutes of the oxford paving commissioners 1771–1801
Oxford Town and Gown came together in 1771 as Paving Commissioners, the city's principal local government body. Within thirty years this remarkable collaboration did much to transform Oxford from a medieval to a modern city.Eighteenth century Oxford was a place of great contrast with the architec...
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Registrum cancellarii 1498-1506
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Register of the university of oxford, vol i
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The household roll of eleanor de montfort, countess of leicester and pembroke, 1265
Edition with English translation of a document shedding huge light on one of the most important figures of her time.The household roll of Eleanor, countess of Leicester and Pembroke, offers a fascinating insight into one of the most important domestic establishments in England during the Second B...
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Great britain, germany and the soviet union
Germany and the Soviet Union concluded the treaty of Rapallo together within five years of their defeat in the First World War. The resulting fear of Soviet-German co-operation cast a long shadow over British foreign policy; thisbook traces its influence.The treaty of Rapallo, concluded in 1922 b...
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Building accounts of all souls college, oxford, 1438-1443
Edition, with full explanatory material, of the documents concerning the building of All Souls, Oxford: a vital source for our knowledge of the period.The accounts covering the construction of All Souls, Oxford, in the five years from its foundation in 1438 are among the most important documentar...
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Oxford council acts (1583-1626)
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Munimenta civitatis oxonie
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The life and times of anthony wood antiquary of oxford 1632-1695 described by himself vol. iv
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Gender, crime and judicial discretion, 1780-1830
Crimes in England in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were both committed and judged differently, depending on whether the culprit was male or female. Based on a wide range of primary material, this book follows the journeys of men and women implicated in the capital crimes of shoplifting,...
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The great war, memory and ritual
This detailed case study of a part of London shows how both the survivors and the bereaved sought to come to terms with the losses and implications of the Great War.The modern idea that the Great War was regarded as a futile waste of life by British society in the disillusioned 1920s and 1930s is...
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Oxford council acts (1752-1801)
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Jacobitism and anti-jacobitism in the british atlantic world, 1688-1727
An investigation of the concept of Jacobitism and its effects in the long eighteenth century.The first half of Britain's long eighteenth century was a period fraught with conflicts ranging from civil wars (1688-1691) to a series of Jacobite plots, intrigues, and rebellions. It was also a formati...
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Epistolae academicae oxon part 1
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Religion, time and memorial culture in late medieval ripon
An examination of changes in religious practice over the course of the long fourteenth century.Ripon Minster was St Wilfrid's church, and its vast parish at the edge of the Yorkshire dales was his domain, his memory living on among the people of his parish centuries after his death. Wilfrid was a...
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The culture of dissent in restoration england
The voices of non-conformity are brought to the fore in this new exploration of late seventeenth-century politics, religion and literature.2022 Richard L. Greaves Prize Honourable MentionWhilst scholars have recently offered a much deeper and more persuasive account of the centrality of religious...
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Conquest and land in ireland
A reassessment of one of the most devastating episodes in Irish history.WINNER of the NUI Publications Prize in Irish History 2013. Mid-seventeenth century Ireland experienced a revolution in landholding. Coming in the aftermath of the devastating Cromwellian conquest, this seismic shift in the s...
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Medical charities, medical politics
An examination of Ireland's advanced mid nineteenth-century health policy, focusing on the Medical Charities Act of 1851 and the Irish Poor Law Commission.Should be read by...every specialist in public administration in Ireland and England during the nineteenth century. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW ...
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The political life of josiah c. wedgwood
New study of the Radical politician Josiah Wedgwood, setting him in context and illuminating many of the political issues of the time.In his day, "Josh" Wedgwood was one of Britain's best-known and most outspoken Radical politicians. He served in three wars, and, in a Parliamentary career lasting...
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Account rolls of university college, oxford, vol i (1381-1471)
An absorbing collection of documents that bring to life the early history of Oxford’s University College. The volume also includes full notes and an introduction as well as Latin texts with facing translations into English.
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Aphrodisiacs, fertility and medicine in early modern england
An investigation into aphrodisiacs challenges pre-conceived ideas about sexuality during this period.It was common knowledge in early modern England that sexual desire was malleable, and could be increased or decreased by a range of foods - including artichokes, oysters and parsnips. This book ar...
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Registrum annalium 1521-67
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Religion and urban change
A study of the impact of urbanisation on organised religion in Croydon in the Victorian and Edwardian era.Drawing upon detailed local sources, Dr Morris's study of the town and suburbs of Croydon concentrates on the impact of urbanisation upon the development of Victorian and Edwardian organised ...
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Catalogue des manuscrits francais de la bibliotheque parker (parker library) corpus christi college, cambridge
Catalogue of the famous collection of French manuscripts at the Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.The celebrated Parker Library at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, contains over sixty manuscripts of importance for medieval French studies, including chronicles and genealogies, ro...
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A cartulary of the hospital of st john the baptist. vol iii
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After the shock city
A comparative and trans-national study of urban culture in Britain and the United States from the late nineteenth to the twentieth centuryUsing the industrial cities of Manchester and Chicago as case studies, this book traces the idea of "citizenship" across different areas of local life in the f...
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Nature and artifice
Thomas Hodgskin (1787-1869), radical thinker, is the subject of this study, and he is presented here as a forerunner of New Right ideology rather than as `early English socialist'.Thomas Hodgskin was one of the most significant thinkers of nineteenth-century radicalism. An active writer for over ...
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Remarks and collections of thomas hearne vol. viii
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Protesting about pauperism
A fresh look at the complex question of outdoor poor relief in the nineteenth century.The consequences of extreme poverty were a grim reality for all too many people in Victorian England. The various poor laws implemented to try to deal with it contained a number of controversial measures, one of...
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