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  • Fifty Key Figures in Twentieth Century British Politicsby Keith Laybourn

    Routledge 2002; US$ 33.95

    This accessible guidebook provides a complete overview of the lives and influence of fifty major figures in modern British political history. more...

  • Biographical Dictionary of British Prime Ministersby Robert Eccleshall; Graham Walker

    Routledge 1998; US$ 69.95

    Written by some of the leading authorities on British politics, this dictionary is a wide-ranging, comprehensive guide to the lives of Britain's prime ministers from Sir Robert Walpole to Tony Blair. more...

  • Monarchy and Matrimonyby Susan Doran

    Routledge 1995; US$ 120.00

    `An authoritative and accessible study of Elizabeth I's marriage negotiations.' Christopher Durston. Doran views the question of the Queen's celibacy within a wider political and religious context. more...

  • Strangers Settled Here Amongst Usby Laura Hunt Yungblut

    Routledge 1996; US$ 140.00

    This study sheds new light on the impact of the large number of immigrants from the Continent on Elizabethan England and the policy decisions that their presence prompted, providing important and relevant insights in the history of immigration. more...

  • The Age of Elizabeth in the Age of Johnsonby Jack Lynch

    Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 29.00

    Lynch explores eighteenth-century British conceptions of the Renaissance, and the historical, intellectual, and cultural uses to which the past was put during the period. Scholars, editors, historians, religious thinkers, linguists, and literary critics of the period all defined themselves in relation to 'the last age' or 'the age of Elizabeth'. more...

  • The Writer's Guide to Everyday Life in Renaissance Englandby Kathy Lynn Emerson

    Belgrave House 1996; US$ 10.00

    For the writer and anyone else interested in Renaissance England (1485-1649), this remarkable resource covers the day-to-day details: fashions, food, customs, family life, the Royal Court, law and punishment, holidays, city and rural living, seafaring and land occupations, alehouses, marriage, birth and death rituals--and a great deal more, written with authority in a wonderfully readable style. Included are bibliographies and internet addresses for further research. Written by Kathy Lynn Emerson, author of many historical mysteries set during the Renaissance more...

  • The Tudorsby John Guy

    Oxford University Press 2000; US$ 8.95

    This history of the Tudors offers a short introduction to this age in British history. It includes a compelling account of the political, religious and economic changes of the country under such leading monarchs as Henry VIII and Elizabeth I. more...

  • Changing Conceptions of National Biographyby Keith Thomas

    Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 14.00

    In his Leslie Stephen Lecture the great historian Keith Thomas surveys the many earlier attempts at collective biography, considers the relationship of the Oxford DNB to them, and offers a preliminary assessment of the Oxford DNB itself, a project with which he himself has been closely involved since its inception. more...

  • Country Undertakerby Jim Eames

    Allen & Unwin 2005; US$ 18.14

    With all the charm of James Herriot, Hamish Macbeth, Balllykissangel and Heartbeat, this is a glorious Australian bush yarn to make you laugh and to make you cry. more...

  • Compendium of British Office Holdersby Timothy Venning

    Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2005; US$ 240.00

    The Compendium of British Office Holders provides a comprehensive guide to holders of British Political, Administrative, Military and Ecclesiastical offices since the Roman conquest, giving names, dates and the length offices were held for governmental positions. It is the first such collection of this type of research data since Hayon's Dictionary of Dates was published back in 1894 and will provide the reader with quick and easy access to specific factual information for research. more...