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Aunt Epp penned her life lessons, which form a fascinating glimpse of Victorian life, over sixty years. Sassy and opinionated, Aunt Epp was not afraid to voice her views and give her advice on topic……続きを見る

The London and Country Brewer, originally published in 1736 is an account of the London Method of Brewing Stout, Pale and Brown Ales. Printed anonymously "By a Person formerly concerned in a Common ……続きを見る

President Nixon's famous 1972 trip has gone down in history as the first great opening between the West and Communist China. However, eighteen years previously, former prime minister Clement Attlee ……続きを見る

'A tour de force of biography, history, politics, philosophy and experimental science' ECONOMIST The remarkable and inspiring story of how London was transformed after the Great Fire of 1666 into th……続きを見る

First published in 1932, this is the story of eighteenth century Bath, where Beau Nash ruled as uncrowned king for so many years, the fashionable members of English society found a splendid justific……続きを見る

First published in 1979, this book was the first, full-length study of working-class movements in London between 1800 and the beginnings of Chartism in the later 1830s. The leaders and rank and file……続きを見る

This book contains 50 clue-based questions that will send you on a scavenger hunt throughout the city. If you want to add a little bit of history into your travels, then you won’t want to miss this……続きを見る

Jacques Nicolas Augustin Thierry, was a French historian, perhaps best known for his work on the history of France during the medieval era. History of the Conquest of England by the Normans, Volume ……続きを見る

In Papists, Spaniards & Other Strangers, the author presents meticulously researched and documented accounts of the short and violent reign of the boy-King Edward VI and the struggles between the co……続きを見る

This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents CONTENTS INTRODUCTION THE CHARACTER OF THE BORDERS A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE BORDER WHAT THE BORDER NAMES TELL US Bamburgh and its Coa……続きを見る

This edition features • three complete volumes • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index CONTENTS INTRODUCTION VOLUME ONE Preface ー Jane Griffin ー John Trippuck, Richard C……続きを見る

This book examines the Conservative party's responses to the problems of fascism from 1935 - 1940. Crowson provides the historical context for the foreign policy of the period and examines the histo……続きを見る

This Halcyon Classics eBook contains four works by sixteenth century scientist and philosopher Sir Francis Bacon. Includes an active table of contents for easy navigation. The Essays of Francis Bac……続きを見る

According to Wikipedia: "Jacob Abbott (November 14, 1803 October 31, 1879) was an American writer of children's books. Abbott was born at Hallowell, Maine to Jacob and Betsey Abbott. He graduated fr……続きを見る

Roman Britain: A Sourcebook has established itself as the only comprehensive collection of source material on the subject. It incorporates literary, numismatic and epigraphic evidence for the histor……続きを見る

This is an important new history of decision-making and policy-making in the British Admiralty from Trafalgar to the aftermath of Jutland. C. I. Hamilton explores the role of technological change, t……続きを見る

Although the Blitz has come to symbolize the experience of civilians under attack, Germany first launched air raids on Britain at the end of 1914 and continued them during the First World War. With ……続きを見る

Pericles, Prince of Tyre is a Jacobean play written at least in part by William Shakespeare and included in modern editions of his collected works despite questions over its authorship, as it was no……続きを見る

East Wind offers the first complete, archive-based account of the relationship between China and the British Left, from the rise of modern Chinese nationalism to the death of Mao Tse tung. Beginning……続きを見る

In contrast to the other senses, smell has long been thought of as too elusive, too fleeting for traditional historical study. Holly Dugan disagrees, arguing that there are rich accounts documenting……続きを見る

From tabloid exposes of child prostitution to the grisly tales of Jack the Ripper, narratives of sexual danger pulsated through Victorian London. Expertly blending social history and cultural critic……続きを見る

Stonehenge is woven into the earliest Arthurian legends and has been analysed by everyone from archaeologists, to town planners, to the Druids who have made it their spiritual home. By refusing to a……続きを見る

Rules of Civility & Decent Behaviour In Company and Conversation is the name of a list best known as a school writing exercise of George Washington, who became the first president of the United Stat……続きを見る

Rights of Man (1787), by Thomas Paine, posits that popular political revolution is permissible when a government does not safeguard its people, their natural rights, and their national interests. It……続きを見る

The Gallipoli campaign has been written about by many authors. However, few have been as well placed to offer eyewitness testimony of the higher echelons of command as the famed War Correspondent El……続きを見る

 A Brief look at the campaign that pushed Harrison into his presidency.続きを見る

The birth of the modern world as told through the remarkable story of one eighteenth-century family They were abolitionists, speculators, slave owners, government officials, and occasional politicia……続きを見る

A revelatory account of Tony Blair’s tumultuous leadership, The Blair Years gathers extracts from the diaries of the man who knew him best: Alastair CampbellーBlair’s spokesman from 1994 to 2003, hi……続きを見る

Entertaining yet scholarly account of how an obscure English outlaw has become the star of Hollywood movies, television shows, novels and comics across the world. Robin Hood is one of the most insta……続きを見る

Which king's guards massacred a group of his supporters by mistake? Who had an oversized tongue and had to slobber when they ate food? Who was so large when they died that they had to be buried in a……続きを見る