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Reexamining Jack the Ripper’s crimes through Emma Smith, the overlooked first victim of Whitechapel. In the early hours of Tuesday, 3 April 1888, just after the Easter Bank Holiday, Emma Elizabeth S……続きを見る

From the mid-seventeenth to early eighteenth century, a wide network of English-speaking men, women, and children took up residence in the Ottoman Maghrebi regencies of Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli. ……続きを見る

The General Strike of 1926: the tragic story of how the world's best organized working class confronted the world's most powerful, and self-confident, government. In May, 1926, nearly three million ……続きを見る

First published in 1935, Industrial Organization in India examines the structure and efficiency of industrial organization in India. It explores the origins, evolution, and unique features of the ma……続きを見る

Hastings Wartime Memories and Photographs weaves the personal stories of 75 people who endured life in Hastings during the Home Front war years with more than 140 photographs, the majority of which ……続きを見る

"I find him to be a kindred spirit, a sympathetic but shrewd enquirer, a companionable stroller, and a lover of anecdotes gathered by the wayside." So Tim Robinson described folklorist, revolutionar……続きを見る

Problems of Poverty: An Inquiry into the Industrial Condition of the Poor by J. A. Hobson is a seminal work first published in 1891 that delves deeply into the social and economic challenges faced b……続きを見る

From the early percolation of Protestant thought in the sixteenth century through to the controversies and upheaval of the civil wars in the seventeenth century, the clergy were at the heart of reli……続きを見る

In all of the literature on Anglo-Saxon England, rarely has the question of social class been confronted head-on. The Anglo-Saxon Elite: Northumbrian Society in the Long Eighth Century draws upon re……続きを見る

New ebook edition (2025) The coastal town of Hastings, East Sussex, England, was often bombed during the Second World War. More than forty people's memories have been cleverly incorporated by the Na……続きを見る

Levina Teerlinck mérite l’attention pour de multiples raisons. Même si c’est un peu anecdotique par rapport à sa carrière, on lui doit sans doute l’invention vers 1569 de l’expression : God Save the……続きを見る

Levina Teerlinck mérite l’attention pour de multiples raisons. Même si c’est un peu anecdotique par rapport à sa carrière, on lui doit sans doute l’invention vers 1569 de l’expression : God Save the……続きを見る

For hundreds of years English people have claimed that fair play is at the core of their national identity. Jonathan Duke-Evans looks at the history of fair play in Britain from earliest times to th……続きを見る

A WATERSTONES, TELEGRAPH, ECONOMIST AND NEW YORKER BOOK OF THE YEAR A major new history of England's turbulent seventeenth century and how it marked the birth of a new world 'This is a wonderful boo……続きを見る

This is the first book covering those who abused and misused the legal system in medieval England and the initial attempts of the Anglo-American legal system to deal with these forms of legal corrup……続きを見る

This ebook is a compilation of short stories relating to the dark past of Cornwall which should attract all readers and children interested in history of smugglers , shipwreck and captures of prison……続きを見る

this book is a compilation of short stories i have written in the last 4 years after i spent 5 years working as a Tour Guide in a Victorian prison educating visitors and group of children and their ……続きを見る

100 delightful walks that reveal hidden treasures in our countryside – secret beaches, abandoned villages, mysterious caves, hidden waterfalls. Walks are 2-6 miles in length to maximise manageabili……続きを見る

Focused on the struggle to survive by the Jewish Poles stranded in the Polish countryside during the Holocaust, case studies collected in this volume are based on research carried out at Poland’s In……続きを見る

In The Currency of Empire**, Jonathan Barth explores the intersection of money and power in the early years of North American history, and he shows how the control of money informed English imperial……続きを見る

This book focuses on the fate of Polish Jews and Polish-Jewish relations during the Holocaust and its aftermath, in the ill-recognized era of Eastern-European pogroms after the WW2. It is based on t……続きを見る

This monograph deals with Polish foreign policy shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War. In tracing the diplomatic activity of foreign minister Józef Beck, it discusses six general probl……続きを見る

Nürnberg, Frankfurt und Regensburg erscheinen in Reisebeschreibungen römisch-katholischer Geistlicher als interkonfessionelle Stadträume. Die spezifisch konfessionellen Wahrnehmungen der Reisenden e……続きを見る

This book focuses on the fate of Polish Jews and Polish-Jewish relations during the Holocaust and its aftermath, in the ill-recognized era of Eastern-European pogroms after the WW2. It is based on t……続きを見る

‘I was in the Army over thirty years and Derry was the most resentful place I ever served, even the dogs hated us.’ When civil rights protests in the 1960s gave way to armed struggle, the Provisiona……続きを見る

This is the history of Kings of England, from William II (surnamed Rufus) to Henry II. "... At the time of the Conqueror's death, his eldest son Robert, upon some discontent with his father, being a……続きを見る

'Intensely readable... A stimulating and necessary redress' David Kynaston, Spectator Politicians say social mobility is real... this book proves otherwise. From servants' children who became clerks……続きを見る

Over four decades as a diplomat, Sir Frank Roberts dealt with headline issues, including policy towards Germany during the years of appeasement, the Second World War alliance with the Soviet Union, ……続きを見る

Originally published in 1938, the author traces the rise of the great European Universities from the Cathedral Schools of the tenth and eleventh centuries and their gradual development into republic……続きを見る

The practice of swearing oaths was at the centre of the English Reformation. On the one hand, oaths were the medium through which the Henrician regime implemented its ideology and secured loyalty am……続きを見る