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Laura L Gathagan
The Queenship of Mathilda of Flanders, c. 1031-1083

The first full-scale scholarly treatment of Mathilda of Flanders (d. 1083), duchess of Normandy and post-Conquest queen of England.In Norman England, Mathilda's unique practice of queenship was robustly p…

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David Grummitt
The Calais Garrison

Definitive account of the English garrison at Calais - the largest contemporary force in Europe - in the wider context of European warfare in the middle ages.For over 200 years, following its capture by E…

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Ben Guy
Medieval Welsh Genealogy

First in-depth investigation of the genealogies of medieval Wales, bringing out their full significance.Genealogy was a central element of life in medieval Wales. It was the force that held society togeth…

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Jeremy Hayhoe
The Evolution of Farming in Burgundy, 1700-1840

Traces the development of farming in the Burgundian flatlands of eastern France, looking at agricultural productivity, techniques, and the agronomic thinking of ordinary farmers.How did French farmers fee…

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Susan Haynes
Charles Bridgeman (c.1685-1738)

An examination of the garden plans of eighteenth-century landscape architect Charles Bridgeman, shedding light on his artistic vision and contributions to English garden history.Charles Bridgeman was a po…

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Sam Jones
The Royal National Lifeboat Institution, 1824-1897

An overview of the early years of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI), highlighting the debates about how far the organisation should be self-supporting or state-funded.One of the key dilemmas …

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Stephen J. Joyce
The Legacy of Gildas

Provocative new investigation into the shadowy figure of Gildas, his influence and representation.Gildas is an essential witness to the Christian culture of the British Isles in the opaque period after th…

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Alston Kennerley
British Merchant Seafarer Training and Education

The first overview of merchant seafarer training and education in a single volume, outlining the development of training and education from the earliest time to the present.Because merchant seafarers prac…

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Sarah Kirby
Inventing Percy Grainger

Investigates the dialogue and tensions between Percy Grainger's public biography and his self-conscious autobiographical construction via his own writings and autobiographical museum.The Australian-Americ…

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Chassica Kirchhoff
The Thun-Hohenstein Album

The first extensive study of the depiction of the armour in the Thun-Hohenstein Album against the vibrant artistic and cultural contexts that created it.In late medieval and early modern Europe, armour wa…

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Despina Magkanari
Orientalism and the Making of Turkology in the Age of the Enlightenment

Reveals how early modern European engagement with Muslim and Chinese sources forged Turkology and offers a cohesive synthesis of how Enlightenment Orientalism was shaped by both cross-cultural circulation…

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Mark A. Mark A. Pottinger
Science and the Romantic Vision in Early Nineteenth-Century Opera

An interdisciplinary study of how early nineteenth-century science and opera articulated a transnational romantic vision of harmony between self and nature, and how this ideal gave way to mid-century real…

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P. J. Marshall
Slave Owner and Paternalist

An account of the life and ideas of Sir William Young, a leading opponent of the abolition of slavery, who used the rhetoric of paternalism to argue that slavery could be ameliorated to become a benign sy…

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Claire McCormick
European Migrants in Eighteenth Century Ireland

A study of an unexpected large-scale migration, of the many issues it gave rise to, and of its aftermath.Although Ireland is usually thought of as a place from which people emigrate, there was in the earl…

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Eric McElroy
Weird Music

Using John Ireland's fascination with Arthur Machen as case study, this book challenges our perception of the correspondence between music and literature in twentieth-century Britain. The composer John Ir…

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Jonathan McGovern
The Early Parliaments of Henry VIII, 1510-1523

An administrative study of Henry VIII's early parliaments (1510 to 1523), which systematically explains and analyses every aspect of parliament in the early sixteenth century.This book is an administrativ…

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A. B. McLeod
British Naval Prize Law in the Seven Years' War

Examines in detail the full legal process of prize law from capture of the prize to payment of the prize money.Naval historians are well aware that prize money was a huge incentive for British naval offic…

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Angela McShane
The Ballad Trade and its Politics in Seventeenth-Century Britain

Investigates the creative and commercial processes that enabled engagement between popular music and politics in seventeenth-century England.This book focuses on a pivotal moment in Britain's long history…

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W. G. Miller, Ann G. Smith
Maritime Misadventures in Early Modern Southeast Asia

An analysis of the misadventures which befell British, Danish and Portuguese merchant mariners in Southeast Asia between 1790 and 1820, a time when British trade and imperialism were expanding.This study …

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Ralph Moffat
Medieval Arms and Armour

Authoritative reference guide, using the documents in which arms and armour first appeared to explain and define them.Medieval arms and armour are intrinsically fascinating. From the smoke and noise of th…

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