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Magna Carta Origins and Legacy

Vincent Nicholas

ISBN: PB: 9781851243631, Bodleian Library Publishing, August 2015
160 pp., 25x21 cm, 40 colour illus.

Magna Carta is arguably the most famous document in world history. 2015 marks its 800th anniversary. Yet, until relatively recently, it was unknown how many versions of the document survive, the means by which they were distributed, or the relationsh...

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Markets and Marketplaces in Medieval Italy c. 1100 to c. 1440

Romano Dennis

ISBN: HB: 9780300169072, Yale University Press, April 2015
280 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm, 30 colour illus., 70 black&white illus.

Cathedrals and civic palaces stand to this day as symbols of the dynamism and creativity of the city-states that flourished in Italy during the Middle Ages. "Markets and Marketplaces in Medieval Italy" argues that the bustling yet impermanent sites o...

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Men from the Ministry How Britain Saved Its Heritage

Thurley Simon

ISBN: PB: 9780300205244, ISBN: HB: 9780300195729, Yale University Press, September 2014
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm, 50 black&white illus.

Between 1900 and 1950 the British state amassed a huge collection of over 800 historic buildings, monuments and historic sites and opened them to the public. Nothing like it had ever been seen before. Of course, collections of paintings, sculptures,...

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Monty's Men The British Army and the Liberation of Europe

Buckley John

ISBN: PB: 9780300205343, Yale University Press, August 2014
368 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

John Buckley offers a radical reappraisal of Great Britain's fighting forces during World War Two, challenging the common belief that the British Army was no match for the forces of Hitler's Germany. Following Britain's military commanders and troops...

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Making England Western Occidentalism, Race, and Imperial Culture

Makdisi Saree

ISBN: PB: 9780226923147, ISBN: HB: 9780226923130, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones

The central argument of Edward Said's "Orientalism" is that the relationship between Britain and its colonies was primarily oppositional, based on contrasts between conquest abroad and domestic order at home. Saree Makdisi directly challenges that pr...

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Memorandum for the President of the Royal Audiencia and Chancery Court of the City and Kingdom of Granada

Nunez Muley Francisco

ISBN: PB: 9780226103037, ISBN: HB: 9780226547268, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
128 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 2 halftones, 2 maps

Conquered in 1492 and colonized by invading Castilians, the city and kingdom of Granada faced radical changes imposed by its occupiers throughout the first half of the sixteenth century – including the forced conversion of its native Muslim populatio...

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Mary I England's Catholic Queen

Edwards John

ISBN: PB: 9780300194166, ISBN: HB: 9780300118100, Yale University Press, April 2013
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

The life story of Mary I – daughter of Henry VIII and his Spanish wife, Catherine of Aragon – is often distilled to a few dramatic episodes: her victory over the attempted coup by Lady Jane Grey, the imprisonment of her half-sister Elizabeth, the bur...

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Midnight Train to Siberia A Polish Family's Courage in Surviving the Wartime Hell Created by Stalin

Radomska Teresa, Goral Alicja

ISBN: PB: 9781909544765, Bookport, Memoirs Publishing, March 2013
182 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

One freezing February night in 1940, fifteen-year-old Alicja Radomski, her parents and younger sister and brother were dragged from their home and forced to board a cattle train to be transported over a thousand miles to the wastes of Siberia. They w...

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Mayhem Post-war Crime and Violence in Britain, 1748-53

Rogers Nicholas

ISBN: HB: 9780300169621, Yale University Press, January 2013
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 15 black&white illus.

After the end of the War of Austrian Succession in 1748, thousands of unemployed and sometimes unemployable soldiers and seamen found themselves on the streets of London ready to roister the town and steal when necessary. In this fascinating book Nic...

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Macaulay and Son Architects of Imperial Britain

Hall Catherine

ISBN: HB: 9780300160239, Yale University Press, September 2012
420 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Thomas Babington Macaulay's "History of England" was a phenomenal Victorian best-seller defining a nation's sense of self, its triumphant rise to a powerfully homogenous nation built on a global empire and its claim to be the modern nation, marking t...

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