The 1950s and 1960s saw great change across the British Isles, but there were also huge variations in everyday life in the streets and countryside around the UK and Ireland at the time. In Forgotten……続きを見る
Manchester and the Age of the Factory (originally published in 1988 and now with a new preface by the authors) focuses on Manchester, the world’s first industrial city, and its transformation into ‘……続きを見る
著者:Simon Elliott
出版社: Pen and Sword
発売日: 2025年09月30日
A gripping account of Agricola’s bloody campaigns in Scotland, revealing how Rome pushed beyond its frontier.
Agricola was the great Flavian warrior governor of Britain tasked by the emperor Vespasi……続きを見る
著者:Mr Nick Jones
出版社: Bloomsbury Publishing
発売日: 2016年10月20日
Matchbox toys were ubiquitous items for children across the Western world. Originally labelled Christmas-cracker trash by retailers and shopkeepers, the small-scale 1-75 series soon began to see unp……続きを見る
Explores the personal stories, expeditions, and risks behind dives to the Titanic wreck.
The story of the Titanic has been told countless times, but very few books talk in detail about the numerous ……続きを見る
Scopri i segreti nascosti del Regno di Napoli attraverso le pagine di un capolavoro storico senza tempo!
Istoria civile del Regno di Napoli, v. 4 di Pietro Giannone è un viaggio affascinante nel cuo……続きを見る
Scopri il cuore pulsante del Regno di Napoli attraverso le parole di un maestro della storiografia!
In "Istoria civile del Regno di Napoli, v. 1", Pietro Giannone ti guida in un viaggio affascinante……続きを見る
The British Army started the development of flame throwers in 1938, but progress was slow and interest was side-lined after Dunkirk while the army reequipped. Investment in a flame-throwing tank onl……続きを見る
The Rhetorical Arts in Late Antique and Early Medieval Ireland represents the first study of the art of rhetoric in medieval Ireland, a culture often neglected by medieval rhetorical studies. In a s……続きを見る
著者:Peter Jones
出版社: Springer Nature Switzerland
発売日: 2023年08月30日
This book deploys a long-term account of political corruption in Britain to explain the phenomenon of corruption as it resides within the state and the contemporary problem of corruption denial amon……続きを見る
著者:Dan Jones
出版社: HarperCollins Publishers
発売日: 2012年05月10日
Eight generations of the greatest and worst kings and queens that this country has ever seen – from the White Ship to the Lionheart, bad King John to the Black Prince and John of Gaunt – this is the……続きを見る
In this incisive volume, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Dumas Malone distills the complex political career of Thomas Jefferson into a focused portrait of leadership, vision, and contradiction. Rat……続きを見る
A small free eBook by Swain Wodening and GardenStone.
The names Helia, Heile, Helið and Helith are recorded in several medieval and later publications as names for a pagan deity who was venerated in……続きを見る
Wales Says Yes provides the definitive account and analysis of the March 2011 Welsh referendum. Drawing on extensive historical research, the book explains the background to the referendum, why it w……続きを見る
著者:Rachael Jones
出版社: University of Wales Press
発売日: 2018年05月15日
This book explores the relationship between the justice system and local society at a time when the Industrial Revolution was changing the characteristics of mid Wales. Crime, Courts and Community i……続きを見る
The Elect Methodists is the first full-length academic study of Calvinistic Methodism, a movement that emerged in the eighteenth century as an alternative to the better known Wesleyan grouping. Whil……続きを見る
著者:John Graham Jones
出版社: University of Wales Press
発売日: 2014年11月15日
This is an engaging, best-selling volume reproduced with text panels that provide brief biographies of historical figures and descriptions of major historical sites in Wales. As the only concise his……続きを見る
The Welsh criminal justice system is unique. While the country has its own devolved government and parliament, there is no Welsh equivalent of the Scottish or Northern Irish justice systems. Rather,……続きを見る
This volume is broadly divided into two main sections. The first part comprises a detailed introduction to the background of "The Dialogue", written in 1594 by George Owen of Henllys, north Pembroke……続きを見る
Hon yw’r astudiaeth gyntaf mewn unrhyw iaith sy’n archwilio ymatebion crefyddol y Cymry yn yr Unol Daleithiau i gaethwasiaeth yn ystod y cyfnod 1838–68, sef oes aur y wasg gyfnodol Gymraeg yno. Gan ……続きを見る
著者:Cai Parry-Jones
出版社: University of Wales Press
発売日: 2017年06月01日
This study considers Welsh Jewry as a geographical whole and is the first to draw extensively on oral history sources, giving a voice back to the history of Welsh Jewry, which has long been a formal……続きを見る
著者:Gareth Jones
出版社: St. David's Press
発売日: 2021年06月24日
The Rhondda Valleys have always produced hard men. The descendants of those who flocked there in the nineteenth century to work in the expanding coalfield combined to form a special kind of society,……続きを見る
Welcome to Global Cities: How the World Really Lives – a series that takes you beyond postcards and clichés to explore how the world’s most iconic cities actually work, eat, argue, dream, and surviv……続きを見る
In Working Class Heroes, David Simonelli explores the influence of rock and roll on British society in the 1960s and '70s. At a time when social distinctions were becoming harder to measure, rock mu……続きを見る
Henry Fielding (1933) examines Fielding’s prodigious activity as dramatist, journalist, novelist and magistrate. Though Fielding lived mainly by his pen, the profession he had chosen for himself, an……続きを見る
著者:Markku Peltonen
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2015年11月10日
Rhetoric, Politics and Popularity in Pre-Revolutionary England provides an account of the political thought and culture of Elizabethan and early Stuart England. It examines the centrality of humanis……続きを見る
A chilling exploration into the mind of one of history's most infamous criminals, Letters from Hell: Unmasking Jack the Ripper delves deep into the unsolved mystery of the killer who terrorized Vict……続きを見る
The official inside story of the discovery of the bones of Richard III now a major motion picture starring Sally Hawkins and Steve Coogan
The mystery of who Richard III really was has fascinated his……続きを見る
In the second half of the nineteenth century, Victorian middle and upper classes felt increasingly threatened by the masses of "outcast London." Gareth Stedman Jones, working from a mass of statisti……続きを見る
The origins of many Scottish festivals, such as Beltane and Hallowe'en, lie deep in the pagan past, and although the significance of many festivals may now be long forgotten, they have continued to ……続きを見る