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The Politically Incorrect Guide to the British Empire
Regnery Publishing 2011; US$ 19.95A brawling, rambunctious history celebrating the Empire?and the intrepid empire-builders?that gave the United States, Canada, India, and Australia not just a common language, but common ideals of freedom and justice The British Empire ?the biggest empire in history?once ruled a quarter of the globe. It was built by an incredible array of swashbuckling... more...
Summarie of the Chronicles of England, Diligently Collected, Abridged and Continued unto This Present Yeare of Christ, 1604, by John Stow
The Edwin Mellen Press 2008; US$ 169.95This book is an annotated edition of John Stows Summarie of the Chronicles of England (1604). Stow (1524/51605) was a citizen historian who offers a concise, narrative history of England from the earliest time to the reign of James I, who succeeded Elizabeth in 1603. This abridged chronicle offered readers of lower social and economic status... more...
Anglo-Norman Studies 30
Boydell & Brewer 2008; US$ 90.00The latest collection of articles on Anglo-Norman topics, with a particular focus on Wales. more...
Britain Begins
OUP Oxford 2012; US$ 33.99The 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 Britain and Ireland... more...
Curia Regis Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office XX [34-35 Henry III] [1250]
Boydell & Brewer 2006; US$ 260.00Transcripts of 13c plea rolls, vital legal, social and economic detail of the time, presented with full index for ease of reference. more...
Henry I and the Anglo-Norman World
Boydell & Brewer 2007; US$ 90.00Aspects of the reign of King Henry re-examined, from royal biography to administrative history. more...
A Brief History of Life in the Middle Ages
Constable & Robinson 2013; US$ 13.11Using wide-ranging evidence, Martyn Whittock shines a light on Britain in the Middle Ages, bringing it vividly to life. Thus we glimpse 11th century rural society through a conversation between a ploughman and his master.The life of Dick Whittington illuminates the rise of the urban elite. The stories of Roger 'the Raker' who drowned in his own sewage,... more...
Boudicca
Bloomsbury Publishing 2012; US$ 23.99Boudicca (Boadicea), Leader of the Iceni, is synonymous with rebellion and feminine strength, yet what we know of her is often far removed from the time in which she lived and the early authors who first wrote about her. In this new study, Marguerite Johnson returns to the original sources and interrogates them in order to unearth what the ancients... more...
Life and Letters from the Roman Frontier
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 33.95Greetings, I ask that you send the things which I need for the use of my boys . . . which you well know I cannot properly get hold of here . . . --A Roman solider on the frontier of England around AD 100 Over three hundred letters and documents were recently discovered at the fort of Vindolanda, in Northern England, written on wooden tablets which... more...
Worlds of Arthur
OUP Oxford 2013; US$ 24.99King Arthur is probably the most famous and certainly the most legendary medieval king. From the early ninth century through the middle ages, to the Arthurian romances of Victorian times, the tales of this legendary figure have blossomed and multiplied. And in more recent times, there has been a continuous stream of books claiming to have discovered... more...









