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English Birth Girdles

In medieval England, women in labor wrapped birth girdles around their abdomens to protect themselves and their unborn children. These parchment or paper rolls replicated the "girdle relics" of the Virgin…

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Lindy Brady
The Origin Legends of Early Medieval Britain and Ireland

"A key argument of this book is that it is impossible to separate the growth of any one of the insular origin narratives from that of the larger corpus of historical and pseudohistorical writing which con…

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Sarah Flew
Charitable Giving in Victorian Britain

This book examines the growth of charity in 19th century Britain through the lens of the philanthropic activities of Samuel Jones-Loyd, 1st Baron Overstone, over a 40-year period. Sarah Flew incorporates…

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Kathleen Wilson
Strolling Players of Empire

Why did Britons get up a play wherever they went? Kathleen Wilson reveals how the performance of English theater and a theatricalized way of viewing the world shaped the geopolitics and culture of empire …

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Nicolas Bell-Romero
The University of Cambridge in the Age of Atlantic Slavery

In this powerful history of the University of Cambridge, Nicolas Bell-Romero considers the nature and extent of Britain's connections to enslavement. His research moves beyond traditional approaches which…

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Jay R Roszman
Outrage in the Age of Reform

In the 1830s, as Britain navigated political reform to stave off instability and social unrest, Ireland became increasingly influential in determining British politics. This book is the first to chart the…

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John Watts
The Wars of the Roses

This concise and interpretative book digs under the surface events of the Wars of the Roses to explore the underlying dynamics of a typical civil war. Beginning with a demonstration of why the well-worn s…

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Laurence Spring
Soldiers' Clothing of the Early 17th Century

A comprehensive study examining soldiers' clothing during the Thirty Years War and British Civil Wars, challenging early seventeenth-century uniformity through detailed archival research and contemporary …

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Jonathan McGovern
The Little History of England

The expertly researched history of England, in one easy-to-read volume Did King Arthur really exist? Who was Bloody Mary? Why did Great Britain go to war with Napoleon? Formed out of a union of warring …

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Rebekah Higgitt, Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin, Noah Moxham
Metropolitan Science

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 years 1…

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John Marriott
Land, Law and Empire

In this innovative exploration of British rule in India, John Marriott tackles one of the most significant and unanswered questions surrounding the East India Company's success. How and when was an Englis…

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David Woodman
The First King of England

From one of today’s leading historians of the early medieval period, an enthralling chronicle of Æthelstan, England’s founder king whose achievements of 927 rival the Norman Conquest of 1066 in shaping Br…

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Laurence Brockliss, Harry Smith
Male Professionals in Nineteenth Century Britain

Built around a representative cohort of 750 'professional men' recorded in the 1851 census, this is the first statistically-based social, cultural, and familial history of a fast-growing and socially prom…

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Jeremy Black
A Brief History of the British Monarchy

The British monarchy is at a turning point. Concise and engaging, this book charts the very beginnings of British reign through to the longest serving monarch, Queen Elizabeth II - and looks forward to th…

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Nigel Aston
Enlightened Oxford

Enlightened Oxford takes a fresh look at the eighteenth-century University of Oxford and its relation to the state, society, and religion of the time, and how a long-established institution managed to nav…

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Brian Groom
Made in Manchester

A rich and vivid history of Britain's second city through the people who made it A Financial Times Book of the Year 2024

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John Wyver
Magic Rays of Light

Magic Rays of Light is an original and ambitious history of the largely unknown early years of television in Britain. A detailed cultural study of the first demonstrations, of the extensive experimental b…

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John Wyver
Magic Rays of Light

Magic Rays of Light is an original and ambitious history of the largely unknown early years of television in Britain. A detailed cultural study of the first demonstrations, of the extensive experimental b…

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Peter Hart
Chain of Fire

The dramatic story of the siege of Khartoum and Britain’s extraordinarily violent 1882 campaign in Egypt and Sudan. In the 1880s, British control over northeastern Africa was a political minefield that P…

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Caroline Elkins
Imperial Reckoning

A major work of history that for the first time reveals the violence and terror at the heart of Britain's civilizing mission in Kenya As part of the Allied forces, thousands of Kenyans fought alongside t…

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