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English Housewifry Exemplified in above Four Hundred and Fifty Receipts Giving Directions for most Parts of Cookery is a comprehensive 18th-century cookbook authored by Elizabeth Moxon, first publis……続きを見る

In September 1666, London was engulfed in flames. Over four terrifying days, the Great Fire consumed thirteen thousand homes, dozens of churches, and the iconic St. Paul's Cathedral, leaving tens of……続きを見る

This book examines the legal, political and theological functions of the British coronation. Coronations as understood in the traditional western European sense, are, in those countries which remain……続きを見る

An extraordinary historical journey through England. From Alice Loxton, author of the acclaimed bestseller Eighteen A Waterstones Best History Book of 2025 ‘Joyous. The perfect walk through history‘……続きを見る

J. Charles Cox's captivating exploration of medieval England's sanctuary system offers an intimate glimpse into a long-forgotten chapter of legal and ecclesiastical history. During the Middle Ages, ……続きを見る

First published in 1976, Interwar Britain presents a highly readable and up-to-date account of a crucial period in modern British history. The major economic and social issues, ranging from economic……続きを見る

“A fierce, scholarly tour-de-force. . . . Hunting the Falcon brilliantly shows how time, circumstance and politics combined to accelerate Anne’s triumph and tragedy." ーTina Brown, New York Times Bo……続きを見る

Originally published in 1908, "The Book of Witches" is a popular history and overview of witchcraft by Oliver Madox Hueffer (1876 - 1931), a prolific writer and journalist who was renowned for his s……続きを見る

An “impassioned and inspiring account of the extraordinary men and women still doing traditional artisanal work” (The Sunday Times) in the face of massive technological industrializationーby renowne……続きを見る

**THE BESTSELLING MODERN CLASSIC. OVER HALF A MILLION COPIES SOLD. 'Brilliant and hilarious' GRAYSON PERRY 'A delightful read' SUNDAY TIMES 'Laugh out loud' MARTIN PARR 'Absolutely brilliant' JENNIF……続きを見る

The Leveller movement of the 1640s campaigned for religious toleration and a radical remaking of politics in post-civil war England. This book, the first full-length study of the Levellers for fifty……続きを見る

**SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR** **SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARDS NON-FICTION AWARD 2025** Britain was once a craft land. For generations what we made with our hands shaped our……続きを見る

Exploring distinctive practices in the artisanal, mercantile, and governmental sites of London, Metropolitan Science offers a new perspective on the development of a scientific culture between the y……続きを見る

London 1533: Anne geht auf die dreißig zu und hat es ganz nach oben geschafft: Sie ist die Königin von England, gekrönt in der Westminster Abbey. Ihre Geschichte ist der Stoff für opulente Hollywood……続きを見る

Seeking to honor and extend the critical legacy of Howard Weinbrot, this volume re-examines, rebuilds, and upgrades the most prominent pillars of long eighteenth-century scholarship. The collection ……続きを見る

A lively new history of London told through twenty-five buildings, from iconic Georgian townhouses to the Shard A walk along any London street takes you past a wealth of seemingly ordinary buildings……続きを見る

In "The Great Lord Burghley: A Study in Elizabethan Statecraft," Martin A. S. Hume delivers a comprehensive examination of the political acumen and administrative innovations of William Cecil, Lord ……続きを見る

Thomas Garnett was a man of science and physician whose career took him from rural obscurity in 18th-century Westmorland to metropolitan prominence as the first professor of natural philosophy and c……続きを見る

The instant Sunday Times bestseller Blackwells Non-fiction Book of the Year Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year 'The star of her generation' – Dan Snow, host of History Hit 'Utterly, utterl……続きを見る

Mediterranean Heritage, first published in 1978,offers a wide-ranging and perceptive discussion of the often concealed links between English culture and the common heritage of Western Europe: the Gr……続きを見る

Hitler's Irish Slaves tells the shocking story of 32 merchant seamen from Ireland who were held in conditions of great hardship in an SS slave labour camp from 1943 to 1945. Mercilessly punished for……続きを見る

A TLS, TIMES, PROSPECTAND WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR A groundbreaking examination of how the marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn sent shockwaves across a continent and changed England forever. ……続きを見る

If ever there was a regional UK city with the credentials to host the 2022 Commonwealth Games, Birmingham was always it. One in ten people in the city were born in an overseas Commonwealth country, ……続きを見る

AFTER making due allowance for a natural prejudice in favour of the county of one’s birth and early associations, it may, I think, be reasonably maintained that the comparatively small shire of Derb……続きを見る

Whilst there has been much recent scholarly work on retailing during the early modern period, less is known about how people at the time perceived retailing, both as onlookers, artists and commentat……続きを見る

Established in 1853, after the end of penal transportation to Australia, the convict prison system and the sentence of penal servitude offered the most severe form of punishment – short of death – i……続きを見る

This study offers a radical reassessment of a crucial period of political and cultural history. By looking at some 400 songs, many of which are made available to hear, and at their writers, singers,……続きを見る

This collection provides the first in-depth, interdisciplinary and over-arching review of higher education in Ireland, situating higher education within the socio-cultural, political and historical ……続きを見る

Christian theology and religious belief were crucially important to Anglo-Saxon society, and are manifest in the surviving textual, visual and material evidence. This is the first full-length study ……続きを見る

The First World War is usually believed to have had a catastrophic effect on British art, killing artists and movements, and creating a mood of belligerent philistinism around the nation. In this bo……続きを見る