Frances Lincoln, 2022. — 255 p. Think of the colors of London and what do you imagine? The reds of open-top buses and terracotta bricks? The grey smog of Victorian industry, Portland stone, and pigeons in Trafalgar square? Or the gradations of yellows, violets, and blues that shimmer on the Thames at sunset—reflecting the incandescent light of a city that never truly goes dark....
London: Chatto & Windus, 2000. — xxiv, 822 p. — ISBN: 1-85619-716-6. Much of Peter Ackroyd's work has been concerned with the life and past of London but here, as a culmination, is his definitive account of the city. For him London is a living organism, with its own laws of growth and change, so his London is a 'biography' not a history. It differs from other histories, too, in...
Sapere Books, 2021. — 358 p. Throughout its long history, Britain has been subjected to foreign invasion, bloody rebellions and tumultuous civil wars leading to thousands of deaths across its length and breadth. From Hastings, Lewes and Bannockburn to Bosworth, Marston Moor and Culloden, widely-respected military historians John Adair and the late Peter Young, uncover the...
Zed Books, 2019. — 256 p. For over 1500 years before the "Empire Windrush" docked on British shores, people of African descent have played a significant and far-ranging role in the country’s history, from the African soldiers on Hadrian’s Wall to the Black British intellectuals who made London a hub of radical, Pan-African ideas. But while there has been a growing interest in this...
Penguin Books, 2014. — 344 p. A cultural snapshot of everyday life in the world of Jane Austen. Jane Austen, arguably the greatest novelist of the English language, wrote brilliantly about the gentry and aristocracy of two centuries ago in her accounts of young women looking for love. Jane Austen’s England explores the customs and culture of the real England of her everyday...
Manchester University Press, 2020. — 328 p. This book explores the role of animals – horses, cattle, sheep, pigs and dogs – in shaping Georgian London. Moving away from the philosophical, fictional and humanitarian sources used by previous animal studies, it focuses on evidence of tangible, dung-bespattered interactions between real people and animals, drawn from legal, parish,...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 571 p. — ISBN 978-019-0909772 Muslims constitute Britain's second largest religious grouping, and writing about their experiences has found a new audience in recent years-though not always through a positive lens. But a proper historical treatment of their arrival, settlement and establishment had been conspicuously absent until Humayun Ansari's...
St. Martin's Press, 2011. — 384 p. For more than a thousand years, England's capital has been associated with desire, avarice, and the sins of the flesh. Richard of Devises, a monk writing in 1180, warned that "every quarter abounds in great obscenities." As early as the second century AD, London was notorious for its raucous festivities and disorderly houses, and throughout...
Издание представляет собой лингвострановедческий алфавитный указатель истории Великобритании. Включает три иллюстрированных приложения. Longcross Press Ltd, 2001. - 1391 pp.
The History Press, 2013. — 473 p. Were the 'Princes in the Tower' illegitimate? Did Henry VIII really have six wives? How virginal was the 'Virgin Queen'? Was James, Duke of Monmouth the heir to the throne, or just one of Charles II's bastards? Did George IV marry a German princess or a Catholic widow? Was Queen Victoria 'Mrs Brown'? These questions are explored in the context...
Running Press, 2002. — 464 p.
In one portable volume, A Brief History of British Kings and Queens offers a royal biographical AZ, its pages lavish in details on all the rulers of the kingdoms within the British Isles, together with their wives or consorts, pretenders, usurpers, and regents, from Queen Boadicea of the early Britons to today’s Elizabeth II. This complete record...
Robinson Publishing, 1999. — 864 pages. — ISBN: 1841190969 A record of Britain's kings and queens over 2000 years of history. It includes more than 1000 monarchs who have at some time ruled all or part of Britain. This includes the host of tribal and Saxon rulers prior to 1066 as well as famous monarchs such as Richard III, Elizabeth I and Charles II and all the rulers of...
Robinson Publishing, 1999. — 864 pages. — ISBN: 1841190969 A record of Britain's kings and queens over 2000 years of history. It includes more than 1000 monarchs who have at some time ruled all or part of Britain. This includes the host of tribal and Saxon rulers prior to 1066 as well as famous monarchs such as Richard III, Elizabeth I and Charles II and all the rulers of...
University of Michigan Press, 1961. — 492 p. In England's past the modern world was born. Thomas a Becket cut down in Canterbury by servants of his king, Richard III betrayed by Lord Stanley and killed by Henry Tudor at the Battle of Bosworth Field, Charles I tried by his own people & executed for his crimes--these are the vital beginnings. Under the guidance of her...
Macmillan Education, 1982. — 220 p. The Impact of Civilization: Life in Celtic and Roman Britain. The Anglo-Saxons and the Vikings. Early Medieval England. The Late Middle Ages. The Coming of Commerce. Setback and Recovery. The Industrialization of England. The Victorian Age. The Golden Age of the Middle Classes. The Last War and After. Conclusions.
Oxford University Press, 2003. — 412 p. Asis book traces the growth of customs and excise, and their integral role in shaping the framework of industrial England; including state power, technical advance, and the evolution of a consumer society. Central to this structure was the development of two economies - one legal and one illicit. If there was a unique English pathway of...
Verso, 2020. — 451 p. — ISBN-13: 978-1-78873-797-5 This book offers an impression of London at this moment, as a city facing the paradoxes of a post-crash decade, defined by an increasing meanness in terms of social support, alongside the simultaneous rise of the super-rich and their capture of the city. This disconnection of fates has been arbitrated by its less wealthy...
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012. — 382 p. — ISBN10: 0520289471; ISBN13: 978-0520289475. The Afterlife of Empire is an award-winning investigation on how decolonization transformed British society in the 1950s and 1960s. Although usually charted through its diplomatic details, the collapse of the British empire was also a deeply personal process that altered...
University of London Press, 2015. — 446 p. — ISBN 978-1-909646-12-4. Administering the Empire, 1801-1968 is an indispensable introduction to British colonial rule during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It provides an essential guide to the records of the British Colonial Office, and those of other departments responsible for colonial administration, which are now held...
2nd Edition. — Routledge, 2023. — 429 p. — ISBN: 978-1-032-25717-4. Now in its second edition, Britain since 1688 is an accessible and comprehensive introduction to British History from 1688 to the present day that assumes no prior knowledge of the subject. Chronological in structure yet thematic in approach, the book guides the reader through major events in British history...
Routledge, 2014. — 390 p. Authored by a team of North American university professors who specialize in the subject, Britain since 1688: A Nation in the World has been specifically written for students in the United States, or from other countries where pre-existing knowledge of the history of Britain cannot be taken for granted. Beginning with the Glorious Revolution of 1688,...
London 1907. — 343 p. The Saints of Wales and Cornwall and such Irish Saints as have Dedications in Britain. In four volumes. Vol I: S.Aaron - S.Byrnach
London 1908. — 477 p. The Saints of Wales and Cornwall and such Irish Saints as have Dedications in Britain. In four volumes. Vol II: S.Cadell - S.Ewryd
London 1911. — 509 p. The Saints of Wales and Cornwall and such Irish Saints as have Dedications in Britain. In four volumes. Vol III: S.Faustus - S.Mynno
London 1913. — 480 p. The Saints of Wales and Cornwall and such Irish Saints as have Dedications in Britain. In four volumes. Vol IV: S.Nectan - S.Ystyffan
Pen and Sword History, 2022. — 288 p. Throughout history brave Englishmen and women have never been afraid to rise up against their unjust rulers and demand their rights. Barely a century has gone by without England being witness to a major uprising against the government of the day, often resulting in a fundamental change to the constitution. This book is a collection of...
Pen and Sword History, 2022. — 288 p. Throughout history brave Englishmen and women have never been afraid to rise up against their unjust rulers and demand their rights. Barely a century has gone by without England being witness to a major uprising against the government of the day, often resulting in a fundamental change to the constitution. This book is a collection of...
Routledge, 2006. — 1352 p. This three-volume collection focuses on writings by and about cross-dressing women from the early nineteenth century up until the beginning of World War II. In so doing, it provides a new perspective on one of the most decisive periods in the history of feminism. The anthology brings together for the first time key texts from the sexological and the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 295 p. Early narratives of the size and structure of British families and their place in wider European systems of family formation and re-formation were fundamentally shaped by Peter Laslett and the wider Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure. At the broadest level, it was argued that extended families were never a...
Oxford University Press, 2001. — 517 p. Introduction: The crime problem The city magistrates and the process of prosecution Constables and other officers Policing the night streets Detection and prosecution: thief-takers 1690-1720 The Old Bailey in the late seventeenth century The revolution, crime and punishment in London, 1690-1713 Crime and the State, 1714-1750 William...
The History Press, 2008. — 288 p. Since 1066 when William the Conqueror took the throne, English and Scottish kings have sired at least 150 children out of wedlock. Many were acknowledged at court and founded dynasties of their own; several of today's dukedoms are descended from them. Others were only acknowledged grudgingly or not at all. In the 20th century this trend for...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2006. — 224 p. The Great War had a profound impact on Britain. Not only did families risk their sons in active combat; every member of society was required to make a contribution to the war effort. National initiatives like rationing affected all, and civilians were now regarded as a legitimate military target. Reminders of this turbulent time survive...
Second Edition. — Routledge, 2014. — 403 p. In this, the second edition of A Social History of England, Francois Bédarida has added a new final chapter on the last fifteen years. The book now traces the evolution of English society from the height of the British Empire to the dawn of the single European market. Making full use of the Annales school of French historiography,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. — 272 p. Historian Charles Beem uses Gender Studies and political and constitutional History to examine the problems faced by female rulers throughout British history, from the twelfth century Empress Matilda's imaginative efforts to become England's first regnant queen, to Queen Victoria's remarkable exercise of political power during the Bedchamber...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. — 272 p. This study covers the history of the underage male kings of England, examining their historical relationship to one another and assessing their collective impact on the political and constitutional development of England. Charles Beem has assembled an impressive lineup of historians well-acquainted with their subjects to illuminate the history...
Liverpool University Press, 2000. — 485 p. List of Illustrations. Acknowledgements. Notes on Contributors. Abbreviations. The Onset of Modernity, 1830–80. Constitutional Development and Public Policy, 1900–79. Tynwald Transformed, 1980–96. Economic History, 1830–1996. Labour History. Cultural History. The Manx Language. The Use of Englishes. Nineteenth-century Literature in...
London: Allen & Unwin, 1920. - 190 p.
Belloc's mature thought on political systems in general and on the state of England in particular.
The main function of government is "to protect the weak man against the strong, and therefore to prevent the accumulation of wealth in a few hands, the corruption of the Courts of Justice and of the sources of public opinion".
He...
Springer Netherlands, 1924. — 226 p. As volume after volume of the New English Dictionary appeared, I was struck with the large number of Low Dutch words which have in the course or time found either a temporary or a permanent place in the English vocabulary (from 1066 to 1702). With the exception of Morris of Skeat and of de Hoog, no philologist, as far as I knew, had ever given...
Second edition. London, Longmans, Green and Co., 1984
Walter Besant was a novelist and historian, and his topographical and historical writings, ranging from prehistoric times to the nineteenth century, were probably best known through the detailed 10-volume Survey of London published after his death.
This earlier single volume covers, in less depth, the whole period from...
London: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2006, - 191 р.
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Although the subtitle indicates this book's eventual focus, Black (history, Exeter Univ. ; The British Seaborne Empire) begins this concise and comprehensive military history with an overview going back to the Roman invasion of Britain in 55 and 54 B.C.E. The book is...
2nd Edition, Revised and Expanded. — London, New Delhi, New York: Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2015. — XIV, 194 p. This revised and expanded 2nd edition (2015) is an excellent guide to the history of Britain from the earliest times to the present day. Although Jeremy Black is a Conservative historian he has written a reasonably balanced and coherent account...
Robinson, 2011. — 368 p. In 1851 Queen Victoria opened the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park, it was the high water mark of English achievement - the nation at the forefront of the Industrial Revolution, at the heart of a burgeoning Empire, with a queen who would reign for another 50 years. In the following 150 years, the fate of the nation has faced turmoil and transformation. But...
Macmillan Education, 2017. — 367 p. The richness and variety of the history of the British Isles could well deserve (or rather demand) several books to be explained. Jeremy Black, however, in A History of the British Isles has managed to elaborate a single-volume history that widely covers all the relevant aspects of the history of the island group, from Pre-Roman Britain to...
Tempus, 2008. — 320 p. Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.' Cecil Rhodes's characteristically nineteenth-century confidence rings rather hollow as England enters the twenty-first century in somewhat reduced circumstances. Jeremy Black steers his way through the labyrinthine complexities of historical narrative with...
Hurst, 2018. — 196 p. Englishness is an idea, a consciousness and a proto-nationalism. There is no English state within the United Kingdom, no English passport, Parliament or currency, nor any immediate prospect of any. That does not mean that England lacks an identity, although English nationalism, or at least a distinctive nationalism, has been partly forced upon the English...
Yale University Press. 2004. — 448 p. "Britain's seaborne tradition is used to throw light on the British themselves, the people with whom they came into contact and the British perception of empire. The oceans and their shores, rather than the mysterious interiors of continents, certainly dominated the English perception of the transoceanic world in the sixteenth, seventeenth...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. — 200 p. In this succinct one-volume account of the rise and fall of the English press, Jeremy Black traces the medium's history from the emergence of the country's newspaper industry to the Internet age. The English Press focuses on the major developments in the world of print journalism and sets the history of the press in wider currents of English...
W.W. Norton and Company, 1974. — 312 p. By the time of Caesar's first expedition to Britain in 55 B.C., migratory movements had established close ties of kinship and common interest between the peoples who lived in Gaul and some of the inhabitants of Britain. Because the source material is so meager for much of early British history, Mr. Blair is careful to explain just how...
Boydell Press, 2021. — 588 p. Kent, with its long coastline and its important geopolitical position close to London and continental Europe, and on major trading routes between Britain and the wider world, has had a very significant maritime history. This book covers a wide range of topics relating to that history from the earliest times to the present day. It sets Kent's varied...
Toronto: the manuscript, 1950. — 334 p.
Thesis subrcitted in conformity with the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy
in the University of Toronto.
This study has arisen from an Interest in a contemporary phenomenon—the extraordinary preoccupation of modern man with time and history. It Is a concern reflected everywhere in modern thought and art-In the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010 — 577 p. — ISBN: 978–0–230–27559–1. Almost as soon as it was built, London suffered the first of many acts of violent protest, when Boudica and her followers set fire to the city in AD 60. Ever since, the capital's streets have been a forum for popular insurrection. Covering nearly 2,000 years of political protest, this is a riveting alternative history...
Edinburgh University Press, 2014. — 377 p. Essays by leading scholars on kingship and lordship in late medieval and early modern Scotland and Britain Late medieval and early modern Scottish history has seen much recent work on 'kingship' and 'lordship'. But the 15th century and the 16th century are usually studied separately. This book brings them together in a fitting...
Atlantic Monthly Press, 2022. — 576 p. The author of The Private Lives of the Tudors illuminates the almost thousand-year history of the British monarchy. Since William the Conqueror, duke of Normandy, crossed the English Channel in 1066 to defeat King Harold II and unite England's various kingdoms, forty-one kings and queens have sat on Britain's throne. "Shining examples of...
Routledge, 2024. — 340 p. This book explores the development and application of the law of treason in England across more than a thousand years, placing this legal history within a broader historical context. Describing many high-profile prosecutions and trials, the book focuses on the statutes, ordinances and customs that have at various times governed, limited and shaped this...
Routledge, 2024. — 340 p. This book explores the development and application of the law of treason in England across more than a thousand years, placing this legal history within a broader historical context. Describing many high-profile prosecutions and trials, the book focuses on the statutes, ordinances and customs that have at various times governed, limited and shaped this...
Macmillan Education, 1996. — 344 p. The British Problem, c. 1534-1707 John Morrill The Tudor Reformation and Revolution in Wales and Ireland: the Origins of the British Problem Brendan Bradshaw British Policies before the British State Hiram Morgan England's Defence and Ireland's Reform: The Dilemma of the Irish Viceroys, 1541-1641 Ciaran Brady The English Crown, the Principality...
Routledge, 1990. — 464 p. — (Regional History of England). A volume dealing with the regional and local history of South East England, this covers the landscape and society of the modern counties of Surrey, Kent, East and West Sussex and Greater London, south of the Thames from late Anglo-Saxon times to the present. The authors have tried to show the diversity that can be found...
Apollos, 2021. — 745 p. The history of Britain and Ireland is incomprehensible without an understanding of the Christian faith that has shaped it. Introduced when the nations of these islands were still in their infancy, Christianity has provided the framework for their development from the beginning. Gerald Bray's comprehensive overview demonstrates the remarkable creativity...
Boydell and Brewer, 2014. — 362 p. Presents the latest research on the causes and consequences of British population change from the medieval period to the eve of the Industrial Revolution, in both town and countryside. Population, Welfare and Economic Change presents the latest research on the causes and consequences of British population change from the medieval period to the...
British History
The Beginnings
The Celts: Before and After
The Anglo-Saxons and Vikings
The Bayeux Tapestry and Norman Conquest of England
After the Conquest
After William
Routledge, 2010. — 704 p. Britain Since 1707 is the first single-volume book to cover the complex and multi-layered history of Great Britain from its inception until 2007. Bringing together political, economic, social and cultural history, the book offers a reliable and balanced account of the nation over a 300 year period. It looks at major developments such as the...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 624 p. — ISBN: 978-0-198714-89-7. The two centuries after 1800 witnessed a series of sweeping changes in the way in which Britain was governed, the duties of the state, and its role in the wider world. Powerful processes - from the development of democracy, the changing nature of the social contract, war, and economic dislocation - have...
Amberley Publishing, 2008. — 160 p. In April 1199 Richard the Lionheart lay dying in his mother's arms, victim of a well-aimed crossbow bolt and of an incompetent surgeon. Magnaminously, Richard pardoned the skilful archer, but ordered the slaughter of the rest of his enemies in the town he was besieging. A few days later as Richard's dead body was being cut up for burial in...
Routledge, 2018. — 182 p. Medicine in Modern Britain, 1780–1950 provides an introduction to the development of medicine – scientific and heterodox, domestic and professional – in Britain from the end of the early modern period and through modern times. Divided thematically, each chapter within this book addresses a different aspect of medicine, covering diseases, ideas,...
Black Swan, 2010. — 368 p. — ISBN: 978-0-552776-35-1. This celebration of the English countryside does not only focus on the rolling green landscapes and magnificent monuments that set England apart from the rest of the world. Many of the contributors bring their own special touch, presenting a refreshingly eclectic variety of personal icons, from pub signs to seaside piers,...
Routledge, 2020. — 301 p. Britain in the Wider World traces the remarkable transformation of Britain between 1603 and 1800 as it developed into a world power. At the accession of James VI and I to the throne of England in 1603, the kingdoms of England/Wales, Scotland and Ireland were united only by having a monarch in common. They had little presence in the world and were...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. — 243 p. — ISBN: 978-1-349455-78-2, By 1940 going to the movies was the most popular form of public leisure in Britain's empire. This book explores the social and cultural impact of the movies in colonial societies in the early cinema age.
Facts on File, 2009. — 296 p. A Brief History of Great Britain narrates the history of Great Britain from the earliest times to the 21st century, covering the entire island - England, Wales, and Scotland - as well as associated archipelagos such as the Channel Islands, the Orkneys, and Ireland as they have influenced British history. The central story of this volume is the...
I.B. Tauris, 2006. — 308 p. The first study of how migrants view their own history and how migrant history is viewed by British society, this book addresses themes of vital importance to contemporary history, and covers every aspect of the migrant experience. Who are the migrants that have flocked to Britain since the nineteenth century? How do they understand their...
Profile Books, 2023. — 336 p. Essex. A county both famous and infamous: the stuff of tabloid headlines and reality television, consumer culture and right-wing politicians. England's dark id. But beyond the sensationalist headlines lies a strange and secret place with a rich history: of smugglers and private islands, artists and radicals, myths and legends. It's where the...
Ebury Press, 2019. — 400 p. — ISBN: 978-1-529103-65-7. With stories of murder, theft, fraud and treachery, The Underworld is a deep-dive into the history of professional and organised crime in Britain. From the racetrack gangs and the smash-and-grab merchants, through the Soho vice bosses and the Kray twins, to the Great Train Robbers, the Hatton Garden burglars and the new...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 384 p. — ISBN: 978-3-030261-09-3. The Battle of Britain has held an enchanted place in British popular history and memory throughout the modern era. Its transition from history to heritage since 1965 confirms that the 1940 narrative shaped by the State has been sustained by historians, the media, popular culture, and through non-governmental heritage...
2nd Edition — Oxford University Press, 2015. — 1045 p. First published in 1997, under the editorship of the late John Cannon and in consultation with over 100 distinguished contributors, this Companion describes and analyses the people and events that have shaped and defined life in Britain over more than 2,000 years of political, social, and cultural change. It provides a...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 1045 p. Here, in a single convenient volume, is the essential reference book for anyone with an interest in British history. First published in 1997, under the editorship of the late John Cannon and in consultation with over 100 distinguished contributors, this Companion has now been updated by Robert Crowcroft to include the very latest...
Oxford University Press, 2009. — 416 p.
A brand new dictionary giving a detailed history of the kings and queens of Britain, ranging from mythical and early pre-conquest rulers to the present House of Windsor. Covering English, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish monarchs, the entries are ordered in sections, by regions for pre-1066 monarchs (Romano-British rulers, Viking York), and...
Boydell Press, 2019. — 306 p. Women and the Land examines the pre-history of gendered property relations in England, focusing on the four-hundred-year period between roughly 1500 and 1900. More specifically, the book is about how gender shaped opportunities for and experiences of owning property, particularly for women. The focus is especially on land, residential buildings and...
G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2023. — 858 р. — ISBN 978-05-934-19496 A bomb planted by the Irish Republican Army exploded at 2:54 a.m. on October 12, 1984. It was the last day of the Conservative Party Conference at the Grand Hotel in the coastal town of Brighton, England. Rooms were obliterated, dozens of people wounded, five killed. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was in her suite...
Stacey Publishing, 2011. — 146 p. This first volume opens with the arrival of Britain's earliest inhabitants at the end of the last ice age, and tells of the waves of immigrants and invaders that followed: Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans. This massively popular series, first released in 1937, tells the story of our islands in a straightforward, chronological narrative. Carter...
Beaufort Books, 1984. — 315 p. Field Marshal Lord Carver was the Chief of the Defence Staff, the professional head of the British Armed Forces. He served in World War II and organized the administration of British forces deployed in response to the Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya and later advised the British Government on the response to the early stages of the Troubles in Northern...
Prion, 2012. — 256 p. Sometimes history is made on battlefields, sometimes in bedrooms. The ribald, raunchy, and sometimes sordid affairs detailed in this humorous but meticulously researched exposé of royal sex scandals give a whole new meaning to Shakespeare's famous line, “Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.” Nigel Cawthorne chronicles an unbroken line of sexual...
Oxford: Collingwood and Co., 1810. — 578 p. The University of Oxford now consists of twenty Colleges and five Halls. Ofthe Colleges, each of which is a corporation of itself, Merton, University, and Balliol, were founded in the thirteenth century; Exeter, Oriel, Queen's, and New College, in the fourteenth; Lincoln, All Souls, and Magdalen, in the fifteenth; Brasen Nose, Corpus...
Oxford: Collingwood and Co., 1810. — 287 p. The University of Oxford now consists of twenty Colleges and five Halls. Ofthe Colleges, each of which is a corporation of itself, Merton, University, and Balliol, were founded in the thirteenth century; Exeter, Oriel, Queen's, and New College, in the fourteenth; Lincoln, All Souls, and Magdalen, in the fifteenth; Brasen Nose, Corpus...
Create Space Independent Publishing, 2018. — 224 p. It almost goes without saying that Westminster Abbey is one of the foremost sites in Europe when it comes to being steeped in history. Dating back to the reign of William the Conqueror and the Norman conquest, Westminster Abbey has traditionally been the site of royal coronations, royal weddings, and royal burials, and anyone...
Macmillan Education, 2008. — 301 p. John Charmley has written an entertaining but fair account of one of the principal forces in modern British political history, illuminated throughout by a concentration upon the men, and the woman, who charted the party through a century of warfare and welfare. The second edition of this successful text is thoroughly updated to take into...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. — 301 p. — ISBN-13 978–0–333–92974–2. John Charmley has written an entertaining but fair account of one of the principal forces in modern British political history, illuminated throughout by a concentration upon the men, and the woman, who charted the party through a century of warfare and welfare. The second edition of this successful text is...
London: Chatto and Windus publishing, 1917. — 207 p. Audio material on this book /file/3733469/ It will be very reasonably asked why I should consent, though upon a sort of challenge, to write even a popular essay in English history, who make no pretence to particular scholarship and am merely a member of the public. The answer is that I know just enough to know one thing: that...
New York, The Macmillan Company, 1916. — 257 p. The Geography of England. Prehistoric Britain. Roman Britain. Early Saxon England. Danish and Late Saxon England. The Period following the Norman Conquest. The Period of the Early Angevin Kings, 1154-1338. The Mediæval Village. The Vill as an Agricultural System. Classes of People on the Manor. The Manor Courts. The Manor as an...
Amberley Publishing, 2017. — 96 p. — ISBN: 978-1-445675-34-3. This illustrated history portrays one of England's most fascinating cities. It provides a nostalgic look at Kingston upon Hull's past and highlights the special character of some of its most important historic sites. The photographs are taken from the unique Historic England Archive, the nation's record of 12 million...
Amberley Publishing, 2015. — 96 p. This book combines a fascinating selection of 180 modern and archive images that trace some of the many ways in which Haxby, Wigginton, Strensall, Huntington and New Earswick have changed and developed over the last century. This book tells the fascinating stories of five villages situated to the north of the city of York. This revised edition...
B&N, 1956 The book covers English history in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, from Henry VIII through Cromwell and ending with the Glorious Revolution of 1688. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries England underwent a startling series of transformations. The turbulent reigns of the Tudors and Stuarts witnessed the Protestant Reformation, the growth of powerful...
B&N, 1956 The book covers English history in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, from Henry VIII through Cromwell and ending with the Glorious Revolution of 1688. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries England underwent a startling series of transformations. The turbulent reigns of the Tudors and Stuarts witnessed the Protestant Reformation, the growth of powerful...
B&N, 1956 The book covers English history in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, from Henry VIII through Cromwell and ending with the Glorious Revolution of 1688. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries England underwent a startling series of transformations. The turbulent reigns of the Tudors and Stuarts witnessed the Protestant Reformation, the growth of powerful...
Cambridge University Press, 2001. — 859 p. The second volume of The Cambridge Urban History examines when, why, and how Britain became the first modern urban nation - the wonder of the Western world. The contributors offer a detailed analysis of the evolution of national and regional urban networks in England, Scotland and Wales and assess the growth of all the main types of...
A historical book. — Not Avail, 2006. — 192 p. — ISBN: 978-0-00-716653-4. This new edition of a longstanding favourite brings the story of London right up to date. The Times History of London is a visual and narrative feast for anyone—visitor and Londoner alike—with an interest in this great and complex city. An outstanding illustrated survey of one of the world's greatest...
Counterpoint, 2012. — 395 p. The official line is clear: the UK does not 'participate in, solicit, encourage or condone' torture. And yet, the evidence is irrefutable: when faced with potential threats to our national security, the gloves always come off. Drawing on previously unseen official documents, and the accounts of witnesses, victims and experts, prize-winning...
Counterpoint, 2012. — 395 p. The official line is clear: the UK does not 'participate in, solicit, encourage or condone' torture. And yet, the evidence is irrefutable: when faced with potential threats to our national security, the gloves always come off. Drawing on previously unseen official documents, and the accounts of witnesses, victims and experts, prize-winning...
Counterpoint, 2012. — 395 p. The official line is clear: the UK does not 'participate in, solicit, encourage or condone' torture. And yet, the evidence is irrefutable: when faced with potential threats to our national security, the gloves always come off. Drawing on previously unseen official documents, and the accounts of witnesses, victims and experts, prize-winning...
Counterpoint, 2012. — 395 p. The official line is clear: the UK does not 'participate in, solicit, encourage or condone' torture. And yet, the evidence is irrefutable: when faced with potential threats to our national security, the gloves always come off. Drawing on previously unseen official documents, and the accounts of witnesses, victims and experts, prize-winning...
Counterpoint, 2012. — 395 p. The official line is clear: the UK does not 'participate in, solicit, encourage or condone' torture. And yet, the evidence is irrefutable: when faced with potential threats to our national security, the gloves always come off. Drawing on previously unseen official documents, and the accounts of witnesses, victims and experts, prize-winning...
Cambridge: at the University Press, 1972. — 392 p. The Streams of Paradise The medieval roots The English circuits 1558-1714 Preparation for the circuits Assizes and Gaol Delivery Preliminary proceedings The clerk of assize and his staff Criminal proceedings Nisi prius The Planets of the Kingdom Assizes and local government Assizes and politics
Routledge, 2014. — 520 p. This compact and accessible reference work provides all the essential facts and figures about major aspects of modern British history from the death of Queen Anne to the end of the 1990s. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History has been extended to include a fully-revised bibliography (reflecting the wealth of newly published material in recent...
Tallandier, 2015. — 608 p. L'Angleterre n'est pas une île. Elle occupe la partie méridionale d'un archipel, dont elle a, lentement, méthodiquement, effectué l'exploration et la conquête, au terme d'une histoire pluriséculaire. C'est chez leurs voisins les plus proches - les Gallois, les Ecossais, les Irlandais - que les Anglais ont fait l'apprentissage des mondes lointains....
Oxford: printed for the Oxford historical society at the Clarendon Press, 1892. — 452 p. It seems expedient to say a word or two in preface on the scope and limitations of this volume. To begin with, it is a selection, and a selection strictly of Reminiscences of Oxford Men, — the writer of each extract being an alumnus of Oxford who, looking back, has described, judged and...
Oxford: printed for the Oxford historical society at the Clarendon Press, 1892. — 452 p. It seems expedient to say a word or two in preface on the scope and limitations of this volume. To begin with, it is a selection, and a selection strictly of Reminiscences of Oxford Men, — the writer of each extract being an alumnus of Oxford who, looking back, has described, judged and...
Picador, 2022. — 304 р. — ISBN 978-1529017786, 1529017807, 1529017785. EA Sunday Times Paperback of the Year 'I can’t tell you how refreshing it is in these polarised times to read a book on politics that doesn’t have an axe to grind... an essential read.' - The Sunday Times Jason Cowley, editor-in-chief of the New Statesman, examines contemporary England through a handful of...
Macmillan International Higher Education, 2010. — 232 p. This account examines some of the areas of women's political activity in Britain from the Glorious Revolution to the election of the first female Prime Minister in 1979. It shows how women had worked in a variety of arenas and organizations before the suffrage campaign and explores the directions their political activity...
Oxford University Press, 2010. — 350 p. Dangerous Talk examines the "lewd, ungracious, detestable, opprobrious, and rebellious-sounding" speech of ordinary men and women who spoke scornfully of kings and queens. Eavesdropping on lost conversations, it reveals the expressions that got people into trouble, and follows the fate of some of the offenders. Introducing stories and...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 432 p. Gypsies, Egyptians, Romanies, and -more recently-Travellers. Who are this marginal and mysterious people who first arrived in England in early Tudor times? Are tales of their distant origins on the Indian subcontinent true, or just another of the many myths and stories that have accreted around them over time? In fact, can they even be...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 328 p.
ISBN 0521782694
An innovative account of English constitutional ideas from the mid-fifteenth century to the time of Charles I, showing how the emergence of grand claims for common law, the country's strange unwritten legal system, shaped England's cultural development. This is the first such study for a generation. Though...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007. — 290 p. This book is composed of a selection of papers presented at a conference in Cambridge in December 2005. Cultural history is a relatively new sub-discipline. Over the past few decades, it has become increasingly apparent that a new generation of historians has emerged. These scholars have become concerned with research, sources and...
Routledge, 2011. - 291 p.
Contemporary public life in Britain would be unthinkable without the use of statistics and statistical reasoning. Numbers dominate political discussion, facilitating debate while also attracting criticism on the grounds of their veracity and utility. However, the historical role and place of statistics within Britain’s public sphere has yet to receive...
Equinox Publishing, 2022. — 540 p. For centuries, the priest John Ball was one of the most infamous or famous figures in the history of English rebels, best known for his saying 'When Adam delved and Eve Span, Who was then the gentleman'. But over the past hundred years his memory has faded dramatically. Along with Wat Tyler, Ball was one of the leaders of the Peasants' Revolt...
Routledge, 2001. — 347 p. This Longman Companion provides a wide-ranging compendium of essential facts and figures on the Conservative Party - from its origins in the 1830s to the dawn of the 21st Century. Central to the book are the detailed chronologies on the Conservative Party's years in government and opposition. In addition, it contains fascinating information on the...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 568 p. The last Ice Age, which came to an end about 12,000 years ago, swept the bands of hunter gatherers from the face of the land that was to become Britain and Ireland, but as the ice sheets retreated and the climate improved so human groups spread slowly northwards, re-colonizing the land that had been laid waste. From that time onwards...
4th edition. — London : John Murray, Albemarle street, 1856. — LII, 316 p., ill. In my advertisement to the third edition of this work, I observed “that I had endeavoured to place myself in the position of a well-informed guide seeking to give a stranger in London every requisite information respecting lodgings, eating-houses, places of amusement, of one whose aim it had been...
4th edition. — London : John Murray, Albemarle street, 1856. — LII, 316 p., ill. In my advertisement to the third edition of this work, I observed “that I had endeavoured to place myself in the position of a well-informed guide seeking to give a stranger in London every requisite information respecting lodgings, eating-houses, places of amusement, of one whose aim it had been...
Allen and Unwin, 2022. — 400 p. — ISBN-13 9781838954758. — ISBN-10 1838954759. Who became Britain's first Prime Minister on 3 April 1721? When was Karl Marx born? Where and when was the first battle of the Wars of the Roses? When did Big Ben first bong? When did the first British woman cast her vote? (Clue: It wasn't 1918.). Find the answers to these questions and many more in...
Hodder and Stoughton, 2020. — 530 p. It has almost been 300 years since Sir Robert Walpole arguably became the first holder of the office of Prime Minister in 1721 - an office which today is under scrutiny like never before. The Prime Ministers, edited by leading political commentator Iain Dale, brings to life all 55 of Britain's 'First Among Equals' with an essay for each...
Pen and Sword Books, 2021. — 220 p. The 1857 Divorce Act paved the way for a new career for women: that of the private detective. To divorce, you needed proof of adultery-and men soon realized that women were adept at infiltrating households and befriending wives, learning secrets and finding evidence. Over the course of the next century, women became increasingly confident in...
Routledge, 2007. — 232 p. This interdisciplinary collection explores the relationships between women and built space in England between the 1870s and the 1940s. Historians working in cultural, literary, architectural, urban, design, labour, and social history approach the topic through case studies of often neglected organisations, individuals, practices and initiatives....
Cambridge University Press, 2001. — 970 p. The third volume in the Cambridge Urban History examines the process of urbanization and suburbanization in Britain from the early Victorian period to the twentieth century. Twenty-eight leading scholars provide a coherent, systematic, historical investigation of the rise of cities and towns in England, Scotland and Wales, examining...
Alex David Books, 2017. — 320 p. Who was the first king of England? And the youngest monarch on accession? Which kings had illegitimate children? How many royal residences are there? How do you tell a Grenadier Guard from a Coldstream Guard? The British Monarchy Miscellany is a royal reference with a twist that sets out to answer all these curious questions, and many more...
New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. — 432 р. — ISBN: 0198856601. England's Islands in a Sea of Troubles examines the jurisdictional disputes and cultural complexities in England's relationship with its island fringe from Tudor times to the eighteenth century, and traces island privileges and anomalies to the present. It tells a dramatic story of sieges and battles, pirates...
The History Press, 2020. — 224 p. Embark upon a journey through Norfolk's eventful history, from the earliest times to the present day. From the discovery of fossil footprints dating back nearly one million years, to Boudica's revolt, the Roman occupation, the creation of the Norfolk Broads during the Middles Ages and the growth of the textile industry and agricultural...
London: Papermac, 2000. — 1075 p. Written by one of the most brilliant and provocative historians at work today, The Isles is a revolutionary narrative history that presents a new perspective on the development of Britain and Ireland, looking at them not as self-contained islands, but as an inextricable part of Europe. This richly layered history begins with the Celtic Supremacy...
Oxford University Press, 2001. — 1296 p. Written by one of the most brilliant and provocative historians at work today, The Isles is a revolutionary narrative history that presents a new perspective on the development of Britain and Ireland, looking at them not as self-contained islands, but as an inextricable part of Europe. This richly layered history begins with the Celtic...
Pen and Sword Books, 2020. — 272 p. Famed as the ultimate penalty for traitors, heretics and royalty alike, being sent to the Tower is known to have been experienced by no less than 8,000 unfortunate souls. Many of those who were imprisoned in the Tower never returned to civilization and those who did, often did so without their head! It is hardly surprising that the Tower has...
Pen and Sword History, 2020. — 272 p. Famed as the ultimate penalty for traitors, heretics and royalty alike, being sent to the Tower is known to have been experienced by no less than 8,000 unfortunate souls. Many of those who were imprisoned in the Tower never returned to civilization and those who did, often did so without their head! It is hardly surprising that the Tower...
London: Century, 2008. — 179 p. На английском языке. If you have ever wondered what it was like to be a servant in the late 1800s through early 1900s, this book will answer a lot fo questions for you. The author has actual excerpts from interviews with servants who worked during that time period, and the book also covers such matters as uniforms, pay, living conditions, and...
London: Century, 2008. — 179 p. На английском языке. If you have ever wondered what it was like to be a servant in the late 1800s through early 1900s, this book will answer a lot fo questions for you. The author has actual excerpts from interviews with servants who worked during that time period, and the book also covers such matters as uniforms, pay, living conditions, and...
The History Press, 2017. — 192 p. Bath is one of the most visited cities in the world, and countless books have told the history of its beautiful buildings and parks. Yet the chances are that that this fact-packed compendium will enhance your knowledge further. Find out all manner of things, from which planet was discovered in a back garden to which pub was visited by Charles...
Bantam Books, 2024. — 256 p. Ah, Britain. So special. The greatest nation on earth, some say. And we did it all on our own. Didn’t we? Well, as it happens Britannia got its name from the Romans, and for the past two centuries we have been ruled by Germans. But then, as Horrible Histories author Terry Deary argues, nations and their leaders are defined by the enemies they make....
Pen and Sword Books, 2019. — 192 p. Popular history writer Terry Deary takes us on a light-hearted and often humorous romp through the centuries with Mr. & Mrs. Peasant, recounting foul and dastardly deeds committed by the underclasses, as well as the punishments meted out by those on the "right side" of the law. Discover tales of arsonists and axe-wielders, grave robbers and...
Publisher F. C. and J. Rivington [etc.], 1815. — 723 p. Baronets, as distinct from barons, are neither members of the peerage nor of the knightage (these titles are conferred by The Crown for life only). They constitute an entirely separate dignity of their own, the Baronetage. As holders of a hereditary dignity, their place in the table of general precedence is below the sons...
Publisher F. C. and J. Rivington [etc.], 1824. — 857 p. Baronets, as distinct from barons, are neither members of the peerage nor of the knightage (these titles are conferred by The Crown for life only). They constitute an entirely separate dignity of their own, the Baronetage. As holders of a hereditary dignity, their place in the table of general precedence is below the sons...
Publisher F. C. and J. Rivington [etc.], 1820. — 847 p.
Debrett John (1750–1822), English publisher. He compiled The Peerage of England, Scotland, and Ireland (first issued in 1803), which is regarded as the authority on the British nobility; it is often known just as Debrett’s.
Publisher F. C. and J. Rivington [etc.], 1825. — 664 p.
Debrett John (1750–1822), English publisher. He compiled The Peerage of England, Scotland, and Ireland (first issued in 1803), which is regarded as the authority on the British nobility; it is often known just as Debrett’s.
Ivy Press, 2017. — 160 p. — ISBN: 978-1-78240-542-9 If you are tired of London, are you really tired of life? 30-Second London agrees with Dr. Johnsons famous statement, taking the history of one of the most diverse cities on Earth and looking at the forces that shaped it, from the first traces of a Neanderthal settlement on the banks of the River Thames to todays vast and...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. — 392 p. — ISBN 0 333 918398. During the course of the twentieth century, nineteen men and one woman--from the Third Marquis of Salisbury to Tony Blair--have occupied the post of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. In a series of biographical essays, Dick Leonard, a leading political journalist and former MP, recounts the circumstances that took them...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. — 363 p. — ISBN 978-0-230-20985-5. Following his earlier survey of 20th Century British Prime Ministers (A Century of Premiers : Salisbury to Blair), Dick Leonard turns his attention to their 19th Century predecessors, including such major figures as the Younger Pitt, the Duke of Wellington, Earl Grey, Palmerston, Disraeli and Gladstone. In a series of...
New Edition — DK Publishing, 2024. — 408 p. — ISBN 0593842316, 978-0593842317. — DK Definitive Visual Histories Discover the pivotal political, military, and cultural events that have shaped British and Irish history - from the earliest Stone Age settlers to the passing of Queen Elizabeth II. This edition includes over 700 photographs, maps, and artworks with accessible text....
New Edition — DK Publishing, 2024. — 408 p. — ISBN 0593842316, 978-0593842317. — DK Definitive Visual Histories Discover the pivotal political, military, and cultural events that have shaped British and Irish history - from the earliest Stone Age settlers to the passing of Queen Elizabeth II. This edition includes over 700 photographs, maps, and artworks with accessible text....
New Edition — DK Publishing, 2024. — 408 p. — ISBN 0593842316, 978-0593842317. — DK Definitive Visual Histories Discover the pivotal political, military, and cultural events that have shaped British and Irish history - from the earliest Stone Age settlers to the passing of Queen Elizabeth II. This edition includes over 700 photographs, maps, and artworks with accessible text....
New Edition — DK Publishing, 2024. — 408 p. — (DK Definitive Visual Histories). — ISBN 0593842316, 978-0593842317. Discover the pivotal political, military, and cultural events that have shaped British and Irish history - from the earliest Stone Age settlers to the passing of Queen Elizabeth II. This edition includes over 700 photographs, maps, and artworks with accessible...
The History Press, 2018. — 192 p. If we scratch beneath the surface of the Suffolk we know today, there are numerous surprising, touching and alarming tales which bring to life the rich history of this county. The Little History of Suffolk reveals the devastating effect of the dissolution of the monasteries, the decline of the once-booming cloth trade, drastic erosion of the...
Pen and Sword, 2019. — 248 p. Exploring the Lives of Women, 1558-1837' is an engaging and lively collection of original, thought-provoking essays. Its route from Lady Jane Grey’s nine-day reign to Queen Victoria’s accession provides ample opportunities to examine complex interactions between gender, rank, and power. Yet the book’s scope extends far beyond queens: its female...
Liverpool, Liverpool University Press, 2000. - 224 p. ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0853238758 ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780853238751 Product Description: The nine contributors to this book focus on three English civil wars: the civil war of King Stephen’s reign; the Wars of the Roses; and the civil war of the seventeenth century. The wars are viewed within a wider European context, and...
House of Lords Library, 2006. — 87 p. The mandate doctrine The Disestablishment of the Irish Church The Municipal Elections Bill 1872 The development of the doctrine The Representation of the People Bill 1884 The Government of Ireland Bill 1893 The Liberal Government 1892–95 The Liberal Governments from 1905 The Parliament Bills 1910–11 The Labour Government 1945–51 The...
The History Press, 2014. — 208 p. Weird, spooky, gruesome, humorous, and strange but true stories come alive in The A-Z of Curious Nottinghamshire. 'Curious' is perhaps not the first word you would use to label Nottinghamshire. But 'curiouser and curiouser' it becomes when you dig below the surface. Here the reader will meet highwaymen and hangmen, saints and martyrs, flying...
Routledge, 2007. — 456 p. The history of the British Isles is the story of four peoples linked together by a process of state building that was as much about far-sighted planning and vision as coincidence, accident and failure. It is a history of revolts and reversal, familial bonds and enmity, the study of which does much to explain the underlying tension between the nations...
Abingdon: Routledge, 2007. — 456 p. — ISBN: 0582040035. На английском языке. The history of the British Isles is the story of four peoples linked together by a process of state building that was as much about far-sighted planning and vision as coincidence, accident and failure. It is a history of revolts and reversal, familial bonds and enmity, the study of which does much to...
Routledge, 2014. — 162 p. Covers the momentous reforms in the British electoral system during the period from the Great Reform Act of 1832 to 1918 when women were given the vote. The study charts the series of Reform Acts right through the period, involving rather more attention to those important changes in the 1880s which are often underplayed.
I.B.Tauris, 2010. — 391 p. Of the publishing of books about Oxford there is no end. Here comes yet another, a new one-volume history of the University of Oxford. What insights can it offer? GR Evans writes that the “official” multi-volume A History of the University of Oxford ends effectively in the late 1960s. And much has happened since then that needs to be placed in the...
London : Murray, 1828. — 251 p. Активность России на Балканах и перспектива распада Османской империи обострили в британском обществе споры о том, какую позицию следует занять Британии в этой ситуации. Часть общественности была убеждена в необходимости немедленного вмешательства в балканские события и противодействия России, которая якобы угрожала сложившемуся балансу сил в...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022. — 361 p. This book is about alcoholic drink, political parties, and pressure groups. From the 1870s into the 1920s, excessive drinking by urban workers frightened the major political parties. They all wanted to reduce the number of public houses. It was not easy to find a way that would satisfy temperance reformers, many of them...
London: Frances Lincoln, 2024. — 112 p. London has many rivers, but they are often hidden under centuries of development. Rivers like the Walbrook, the Fleet or the Westbourne have left their mark on the city, and still form an important part of our subterranean world. David Fathers traces the course of twelve hidden rivers in a series of detailed guided walks, illustrating the...
University of Manchester: BRIN Discussion Series on Religious Statistics, 2009. - 95p. Scope. Statistics Collected by the State. Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries. Recent Developments. Notes to Section 1. Statistics Collected by Faith Communities. Established Churches: Church of England. Established Churches: Wales and Scotland. Free...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015. — 164 p. A History of Riots is the result of a conference held by the London Socialist Historians Group in early 2012, designed to look again at the historical aspects of riots in the wake of the August 2011 riots in the UK. Many historians had thought that riots were a method of protest and revolt which had given way to more organised forms...
W. W. Norton & Company, 2006. — 848 p.: 154 ill.
A sparkling anecdotal account with the pace of an epic, about the men and women who created turning points in history. Rebecca Fraser's dramatic portrayal of the scientists, statesmen, explorers, soldiers, traders, and artists who forged Britain's national institutions is the perfect introduction to British history.
Just as...
East Ardsley, Yorkshire: Microform Academic Publishers, 1984. - XX pgs. (Part 1 of 2) These are biographical outlines of cavalry, yeomanry, armour, artillery, infantry, marines and air force land troops of the regular and reserve forces. In this reference book the author, by his coverage of British militia and Territorials as well as the regular establishment, goes far beyond...
East Ardsley, Yorkshire: Microform Academic Publishers, 1984. - XX pgs. (Part 2 of 2) These are biographical outlines of cavalry, yeomanry, armour, artillery, infantry, marines and air force land troops of the regular and reserve forces. In this reference book the author, by his coverage of British militia and Territorials as well as the regular establishment, goes far beyond...
East Ardsley, Yorkshire: Microform Academic Publishers, 1984. - XX pgs. (Part 1 of 2) These are biographical outlines of cavalry, yeomanry, armour, artillery, infantry, marines and air force land troops of the regular and reserve forces. In this reference book the author, by his coverage of British militia and Territorials as well as the regular establishment, goes far beyond...
East Ardsley, Yorkshire: Microform Academic Publishers, 1984. - XX pgs. (Part 2 of 2) These are biographical outlines of cavalry, yeomanry, armour, artillery, infantry, marines and air force land troops of the regular and reserve forces. In this reference book the author, by his coverage of British militia and Territorials as well as the regular establishment, goes far beyond...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 320 p. Masculinity is an expanding area of gender history. Man's Estate is the first book to focus on a particular social group, the English landed gentry, and to cover a time span of several hundred years. The authors move beyond the study of printed conduct literature, which dominated earlier accounts, by examining the values expressed in...
Pen & Sword History, 2020. — 208 p. Britain and the Ocean Road uses new firsthand research and unconventional interpretations to take a fresh look at British maritime history in the age of sail. The human stories of eight shipwrecks serve as waypoints on the voyage, as the book explores how and why Britain became a global sea power. Each chapter has people at its heart –...
David and Charles, 2006. — 192 p. This is the ultimate book for days out with the family, visiting Britain and Ireland's greatest architectural and historical treasures. Many of the castles featured offer a wealth of things to see and do, from their beautiful settings and manicured gardens, to museum collections and re-enactment events. Not only does the book give you essential...
Royal Historical Society, 1986. — 656 p. — ISBN-13 978-0861931064. The Handbook of British Chronology is acknowledged as the authoritative and indispensable record of all holders of major offices in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland from the fifth century to the late twentieth century. The third edition (which first appeared in 1986) is now available from Cambridge...
The Society for Medieval Archaeology, 1997. — 267 p. Foreword. Introduction (David Gaimster & Paul Stamper). The Great Divide (Hugh Tait). The Tyranny of Constructs: some thoughts on periodisation and change (Paul Courtney). The Archaeology of Transition: a Continental view (Frans Verhaeghe). Sampling or Proving ‘reality’? Co-ordinates for the evaluation of historical archaeology...
Amberley Publishing, 2013. — 256 p. Did King Cnut really believe that he could turn back the tide? Was Robert Bruce inspired by the perseverance of a spider? Was Queen Victoria never amused? In the 2,000 years of recorded British history, numerous stories have emerged and been passed down through the generations. Some reinforce or add colour to a historically correct perception...
London and New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 1999. - 528 p.
Providing an integrated survey of how the geography of the United Kingdom has changed
through the 1990s, this book offers an understanding of the social, economic, political and
physical forces bringing about change. It captures the changing geography of the country at
a time of particular interest, with...
The History Press, 2016. — 208 p. The lifestyles of the people of Devon have traditionally been as diverse as its spectacular scenery. Little wonder, then, that the county's curious stories are so numerous and so varied. A train trapped in a giant snow drift in Devon's worst blizzard; ancient Phoenician myths from Hartland; the Devon origins of British banking; Lapford's...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 334 p. Much more than just a conventional history of franchise reform, this book explores the process whereby British politics was democratized and tries to account for its relative success. Britain is set within the context of successive waves of democratisation which have been in progress internationally since 1800. The author examines the role of...
I.B.Tauris, 2014. — 256 p. 'Sir, God hath taken away your eldest son by a cannon shot. It brake his leg. We were necessitated to have it cut off, whereof he died.' In one of the most famous and moving letters of the Civil War, Oliver Cromwell told his brother-in-law that on 2 July 1644 Parliament had won an emphatic victory over a Royalist army commanded by King Charles I's...
Didactic Press, 2014. — 232 p. It has been the business of my life to teach history: and the informal division of labour which comes to pass in a University has led me to pay special attention to the military side of it. This aspect of history involves much comparison of statements and weighing of evidence, and is therefore calculated to be very useful to those for whom the...
Oxbow Books, 2021. — 224 p. London Bridge lined with houses from end to end was one of the most extraordinary structures ever seen in London. It was home to over 500 people, perched above the rushing waters of the Thames, and was one of the city’s main shopping streets. It is among the most familiar images of London in the past, but little has previously been known about the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. — 308 p. This edited collection brings together varying angles and approaches to tackle the multi-dimensional issue of anti-Catholicism since the Protestant Reformation in Britain and Ireland. It is of course difficult to infer from such geographically and historically diverse studies one single contention, but what the book as a whole suggests is that...
Routledge, 2011. — 214 p. The evolving story of the British Isles forms the central theme of this fascinating and compelling atlas, which covers England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales - and the expansion and gradual disintegration of Britain's overseas empire. This new edition includes: Politics- from the Saxon kingdoms and the collapse of England's French Empire to the Tudors...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 334 p. Archaeological evidence shows there was contact between Muslims and the British Isles from the 8th century. Beginning with these historical roots, Sophie Gilliat-Ray traces the major points of encounter between Muslims and the British in subsequent centuries, and explores Muslim migration to Britain in recent times. Drawing upon...
Pen and Sword Military, 2019. — 304 p. John Grainger examines the long and erratic process by which the British Isles was gradually (and as it turns out, temporarily) unified over the course of eighteen centuries, and the subsequent beginnings of the process of disintegration, manifested in an independent Ireland and increasing devolution to, and nationalism in, Scotland and...
DK, 2019. — 400 p. Combining over 700 photographs, maps, and artworks with accessible text, the History of Britain and Ireland is an invaluable resource for families, students, and anyone seeking to learn more about the fascinating story of the England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland. Spanning six distinct periods of British and Irish history, this ebook is the best way to find...
DK Publishing, 2011. - 402 pages., col. ill., maps, ports. This is the definitive visual guide to 5,000 years of British history. "The History of Britain & Ireland" traces the key events that have shaped the British Isles. From the Elizabethan age of Shakespeare to the Iraq and Afghan wars of the 21st century, this beautifully illustrated book offers a definitive visual...
Cambridge University Press, 2000. — 181 p.
This book draws on the great wealth of associations of streetnames in Cambridge. It is not a dictionary but provides a series of entries on such topics as the Reformation, George IV and his wife, twentieth-century scientists, businessmen, Elizabethan times, medieval Cambridge, mayors, millers and builders. It includes hermits and coal...
Boydell Press, 2007. — 259 p. In November 2004 the people of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, the historic counties of Durham and Northumberland, along with Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland in North Yorkshire, decisively rejected a regional assembly. The referendum came as the culmination of a long campaign for regional devolution, which asked a number of searching questions. What sort...
Pen and Sword Military, 2012. — 222 p. From its south-eastern tip Sussex is little more than sixty miles from continental Europe and the county's coastline, some seventy-six miles long, occupies a large part of Britain's southern frontier. Before the days of Macadam and the Turnpike, water travel could prove more certain than land transportation and the seas that define the...
Manchester University Press, 2020. — 280 p. In the age of Malthus and the workhouse when the threat of famine and absolute biological want had supposedly been lifted from the peoples of England, hunger remained a potent political force – and a problem. And yet, hunger has been marginalised as an object of study by scholars of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century...
Boydell Press, 2008. — 234 p. For over 200 years following its capture by Edward III in 1347 the town of Calais was in English hands; after 1453 it remained the last English possession on the continent, a commercial, cultural, diplomatic and military frontier until its recapture by the French in 1558. This is the first book-length study of the Calais garrison, the largest...
London: Michael O'Mara, 2012
Richard Guard's Lost London is a guide to London's forgotten landmarks and past-times. From bull rings to ice fairs and plague pits to molly houses, this is a truly intriguing journey through London's forgotten past—unearthing both the extraordinary stories that lie beneath familiar streets and the secrets hidden away in the city's darkest corners....
The History Press, 2014. — 287 p. Boston occupies a unique place in English social history. Founded by a Norman baron shortly after the Conquest of 1066, it rapidly grew to become the most successful and busiest English port outside London. The story of the town's birth and growth are vividly brought to life in this book. The great wealth brought to Boston by the wool trade in...
Foreword by John McDonnell. — London: Pluto Press, 2018. — 272 p. — ISBN-10: 07453374734; ISBN-13: 978-0745337470. For more than a hundred years, the British Labour Party has been the home of working-class organization and struggle. But has it ever truly been on the side of workers? Where do its interests really lie, and can it be relied on to provide a check on right-wing...
Routledge, 2007. — 255 p. Originally published in 1954, this is the first full-length account of the history of the Working Men’s College in St.Pancras, London. One hundred and fifty years on from its foundation in 1854, it is the oldest adult educational institute in the country. Self-governing and self-financing, it is a rich part of London’s social history. The college...
Reaktion Books, 2023. — 320 p. Romany Gypsies have been variously portrayed as exotic strangers or as crude, violent delinquents; this book is the first real history of the Romany people, from the inside. Jeremy Harte vividly portrays the hardships of the travelling life, the skills of woodland crafts, the colourful artistic traditions, the mysteries of a lost language and the...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2003. — 802 p. The only previous war to match the world wars of the twentieth century in scale and impact was the French War of 1793-1815. This book is the first book to compare these conflicts, which together shaped the history of the modern world. A.D. Harvey relates the causes, conduct and outcome of these wars to the fundamental nature of the societies...
Pegasus Books, 2012. — 464 p. In this social history of Buckingham Palace, Edna Healey mines the royal archives to take the reader into its moonlit gardens, up the grand staircase, and inside its tapestried walls. Dr. Johnson again holds forth in the library, Queen Victoria encores Mendelssohn in the music room, and in the royal chambers Fanny Burney wrestles once more with...
Westend Verlag, 2015. — 200 S. Die dunkle Seite der englischen Königsfamilie Wussten Sie eigentlich, dass Queen Elizabeth II. die größte Landbesitzerin der Welt ist? Sie besitzt mehr als das zehnfache an Land als der kürzlich verstorbene König Abdullah von Saudi-Arabien. Die Geschichte der Windsors (vormals Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha) ist ebenso bizarr wie erschreckend:...
Westend Verlag, 2015. — 200 S. Die dunkle Seite der englischen Königsfamilie Wussten Sie eigentlich, dass Queen Elizabeth II. die größte Landbesitzerin der Welt ist? Sie besitzt mehr als das zehnfache an Land als der kürzlich verstorbene König Abdullah von Saudi-Arabien. Die Geschichte der Windsors (vormals Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha) ist ebenso bizarr wie erschreckend:...
Pluto Press, 2007. — 271 p. For as long as the world has had rulers, there have been plots to assassinate those at the top. Violent death is usually associated with dictatorships and tinpot regimes. Few people know that Britain also has a history of political assassination. This book brings to life the forgotten story of assassination-successful and unsuccessful-over the last...
Pluto Press, 2006. — 315 p. Riot! covers, with a reporter's eye, almost 200 years of civil disturbance on mainland Britain, and gives a voice to some of the remarkable men and women involved. Ian Hernon shows that resistance played a part, not always beneficially, in the creation of proper parliamentary democracy, the welfare state, the trade union movement, the rights of...
Granta Books, 2010. — 436 p. — ISBN: 1847080987. "Map of a Nation" tells the story of the creation of the Ordnance Survey map - the first complete, accurate, affordable map of the British Isles. The OS is a much beloved British institution, and "Map of a Nation" is, amazingly, the first popular history to tell the story of the map and the men who dreamt and delivered it from...
Routledge, 1987. — 292 p. This is a book for those thousands of family historians who have already made some progress in tracing their family tree and have become interested in the places where their ancestors lived, worked and raised children. It emphasises the diversity and extraordinary complexity of the rural and urban communities in provincial England even before the great...
Routledge, 1995. — 256 p. What is Bastard Feudalism? Definitions and parameters Bastard feudal aristocracy Bastard feudal orthodoxy The first centuries of Bastard Feudalism The central centuries, c. 1300-1500 The last centuries of Bastard Feudalism Beyond McFarlane Varieties of Bastard Feudalism Household Tenants Officers and counsellors Extraordinary retainers Livery Servants...
The History Press, 2011. — 182 р. Coronations are very public occasions, typically seen as meticulously planned formal ceremonies where everything runs smoothly. But behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey lie extraordinary but true stories of mayhem, confusion and merriment. In this book we travel through over a thousand years of England's history to reveal the real character...
The History Press, 2011. — 224 p. Who invented the 'House of Windsor' as a royal name? Who founded Westminster Abbey? Which king had twenty-one illegitimate children? David Hilliam answers all of these questions and more. Here is a continuous history of the English monarchy, showing how the nine dynasties rose and fell. The book describes the most memorable features of the life...
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006. — 784 p. — (The New Oxford History of England). This was a transformative period in English history. In 1783 the country was at one of the lowest points in its fortunes, having just lost its American colonies in warfare. By 1846 it was once more a great imperial nation, as well as the world's strongest power and dominant economy, having benefited...
Oxford University Press, 2003. — 304 p. The Medieval Period Domesday England Population change between 1086 and the Black Death The Black Death and its aftermath The population of England in the fifteenth century Appendix I Sources and methods for learning about the population of medieval England The Early Modern Period The Malthusian system English mortality and population...
Oxford University Press Inc., 2008. — 404 p. This book explores how ideas derived from the Roman domination of Britain were articulated in the definition of nationhood between the sixteenth and early twentieth century. Discoveries of objects and sites have contributed to this understanding of the pre-Roman and Roman past. Dominant perceptions of Roman Britain have drawn upon...
D.C. Heath, 1995. — 380 p. Roman Britain and the Anglo-Saxon Settlements. Conversion and Unification. Late-Saxon England. The Impact of the Norman Conquest. Norman England: William II, Henry I, and Stephen. Henry II and Sons. Civilization and Its Discontents in High-Medieval England. Henry III: Monarchy Community; and Parliament. The Reign of Edward I. The Bloom Fades: England...
Routledge, 2016. — 339 p. Surveys antisemitism in Britain from the campaign against Disraeli in 1876 until World War II. The pre-World War I period was marked by anti-Jewish sentiments following the great influx of immigrants into Britain. The fear of "Jewish domination" was expressed in British antisemitic writings. World War I brought about a rise in antisemitism; riots broke...
Routledge, 2015. — 207 p. This book, first published in 1978, examines the debate over immigration into Britain and raises the important point that the existence in the country of immigrant and minority groups is nothing new. Britain has, in fact, attracted newcomers throughout most of its history and it is to remedy the deficiency of research and knowledge about these early...
Penguin, 2009. — 488 p. The English have a rich and glorious history of making trouble for themselves. One hundred and forty years before the French Revolution, the English executed their king and instituted a radical revolutionary government. In 1215, more than 570 years before the United States ratified its Bill of Rights, England's barons forced King John to accept the Magna...
Imagine Publishing, 2015. — 180 с. — ISBN: 978-1910439906. Discover incredible facts about every king and queen of Britain from 1066 to the present day, and uncover the truth behind royal scandals, conflicts and triumphs. From the bloody battles of Hastings, Bosworth and Agincourt, to the treacherous political courts of the Tudors and Stuarts, trace the turbulent history of...
Routledge, 1984. — 318 p. This book may fairly be described as indispensable to anyone researching local history. Dr Hoskins puts his learning at the service of fellow workers; not only does he tell them what is to be found and how to go about finding it, he also encourages and directs them to the most profitable kind of inquiry. His book should have a most wholesome influence....
Waterside Press, 2012. — 284 p. Shows the historical importance of challenges to the state and powerful groups. Demonstrates how rights we take for granted have been acquired and set into law over time thanks to the actions of committed men and women.A key historical text. A certain level of dissent, protest and open debate is a central part of UK history and democratic...
Oxford University Press, 2010. — 414 p. — (Oxford Historical Monographs).
What can we learn from suicide, that most personal and often inscrutable of acts? This strikingly original work shows how, from treatment of suicides in historic Britain, unique insights can be gained into the development of both social and political relationships and cultural attitudes in a period of...
The History Press, 2011. — 208 p. A delightful history of how Christmas has been celebrated in Britain over the past 2,000 years. From the legend of Arthur pulling the sword from the stone one Christmas day, to when the Puritan Parliament tried to "ban" Christmas, through to Charles Dickens’s vivid recollections of his boyhood celebrations, and his delight in the present of a...
Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1983. — 537 p. — ISBN: 0-86597-019-X (series); 0-86597-091-1 (Volume I) The History of England (1754–61) is David Hume's great work on the history of England, which he wrote in installments while he was librarian to the Faculty of Advocates in Edinburgh.[1] It was published in six volumes in 1754, 1756, 1759, and 1761. The first publication of his...
Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1983. — 549 p. — ISBN: 0-86597-019-X (series); 0-86597-026-2 (Volume II) The History of England (1754–61) is David Hume's great work on the history of England, which he wrote in installments while he was librarian to the Faculty of Advocates in Edinburgh.[1] It was published in six volumes in 1754, 1756, 1759, and 1761. The first publication of his...
Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1983. — 492 p. — ISBN: 0-86597-019-X (series); 0-8597-028-9 (Volume III) The History of England (1754–61) is David Hume's great work on the history of England, which he wrote in installments while he was librarian to the Faculty of Advocates in Edinburgh.[1] It was published in six volumes in 1754, 1756, 1759, and 1761. The first publication of his...
Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1983. — 422 p. — ISBN: 0-86597-019-X (series); 0-8597-030-0 (Volume IV) The History of England (1754–61) is David Hume's great work on the history of England, which he wrote in installments while he was librarian to the Faculty of Advocates in Edinburgh.[1] It was published in six volumes in 1754, 1756, 1759, and 1761. The first publication of his...
Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1983. — 592 p. — ISBN: 0-86597-019-X (series); 0-8597-032-7 (Volume V) The History of England (1754–61) is David Hume's great work on the history of England, which he wrote in installments while he was librarian to the Faculty of Advocates in Edinburgh.[1] It was published in six volumes in 1754, 1756, 1759, and 1761. The first publication of his...
Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1983. — 730 p. — ISBN: 0-86597-019-X (series); 0-8597-034-3 (Volume VI) The History of England (1754–61) is David Hume's great work on the history of England, which he wrote in installments while he was librarian to the Faculty of Advocates in Edinburgh.[1] It was published in six volumes in 1754, 1756, 1759, and 1761. The first publication of his...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. — 265 p. — ISBN: 978-0-230618-23-5. This book brings together a selection of recent, cutting-edge research which, for the first time, challenges commonplace arguments about Mary and Elizabeth's relative successes or failures in order to rethink Tudor queenship.
Robinson, 2011. — 352 p. From the death of Richard III on Bosworth Field in 1485 to the execution of Charles I, after the Civil Wars of 1642-48, England was transformed by two Dynasties. Firstly the Tudors, who won the crown on the battlefield and changed both the nature of kingship but also the nation itself. England became a Protestant nation and began to establishment itself as...
C. Hurst & Co Publishers, 2019. — 320 p. A stirring account of the Northumbrians and their astonishing contribution to British and global history. Why is the North East the most distinctive region of England? Where do the stereotypes about North Easterners come from, and why are they so often misunderstood? In this wide-ranging new history of the people of North-East England, Dan...
C. Hurst & Co Publishers, 2019. — 320 p. A stirring account of the Northumbrians and their astonishing contribution to British and global history. Why is the North East the most distinctive region of England? Where do the stereotypes about North Easterners come from, and why are they so often misunderstood? In this wide-ranging new history of the people of North-East England, Dan...
Routledge, 2022. — 187 p. First published in 1949, A History of Christianity in England is a kaleidoscopic view of the religious situation in England for readers and students who wish to eventually take it up as a serious study. The author asserts that the influence of the Church and the State in the development of the English national life and character has also led to the...
New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2009. — 448 p. — ISBN: 978-0-312-61545-1. Aristocracy means “rule by the best.” For nine hundred years, the British aristocracy considered itself ideally qualified to rule others, make laws, and guide the nation. Its virtues lay in its collective wisdom, its attachment to chivalric codes, and its sense of public duty. It evolved from a medieval...
New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997. — 890 p. "The present day demography, economy and political life of North America and much of Asia, the Middle East, Africa and the Pacific owes much to former British rule and influence. English is the most widely spoken global language, and the governance, everyday lives and habits of mind of hundreds of millions of men and women have been...
The History of England.
by a partial, prejudiced.
& ignorant Historian.
N.B. There will be very few Dates in this History.
The Quince Tree Press, 2013.
Harper Press, 2008. — 432 p. In this book, Lisa Jardine assembles new research in political and social history, together with the histories of art, music, gardening and science, to show how Dutch tolerance, resourcefulness and commercial acumen had effectively conquered Britain long before William of Orange and his English wife arrived to rule in London. This is the remarkable...
Viking, 2019. — 432 p. From the prehistoric occupants of the Thames Valley to the preoccupied commuters of today, Simon Jenkins brings together the key events, individuals and trends in London's history to create a matchless portrait of the capital. He masterfully explains the battles that determined how London was conceived and built - and especially the perennial conflict...
Penguin Books, 2019. — 432 p. — ISBN 9780241985366. From the prehistoric occupants of the Thames Valley to the preoccupied commuters of today, Simon Jenkins brings together the key events, individuals and trends in London's history to create a matchless portrait of the capital. He masterfully explains the battles that determined how London was conceived and built - and...
Routledge, 2016. — 230 p. This book is an introduction to the history of alcoholic drink in England from the end of the Middle Ages to the present day. Treating the subject thematically, it covers who drank, what they drank, how much, who produced and sold drink, the places where it was enjoyed and the meanings which drinking had for people. It also looks at the varied...
Penguin, 2006. — 480 p. Engine of Industrial Revolution, global empire, England's history is one of the most fascinating and influential the world has ever known. England: The Autobiography tells that history first-hand, through the words of those who saw it and those who made it. All the great events of the last 2,000 years are here: the Norman Conquest, Magna Carta, Henry...
Pen and Sword History, 2017. — 168 p. Progress can be unstoppable at times, and not even death can prevent the desire for knowledge. A dark trade has long existed to provide fuel for the fires of research, a trade which is viewed by many as the most despicable occupation of all. The resurrection men of Yorkshire came from all walks of life, and employed a myriad of macabre...
Pen and Sword History, 2019. — 168 p. Windsor's role in the women's suffrage story is a fascinating one and yet has received very little attention. At drawing room meetings, debates and rallies suffragists fought not just for the right to put a cross on a ballot paper but so that they could help put an end to some of the shocking injustices women faced, some of which were...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. — 301 p. Maps The British Empire in 1815 British India, c.1757–1947 European possessions in Africa, 1914 Introduction: what was British imperialism? What was the nature of imperialism in the early nineteenth century? What was the nature of British rule in India, c.1770–1858? ‘New Imperialism’ and ‘Gentlemanly Capitalism’: did the flag follow trade?...
Frontline Books, 2016. — 512 p. When it comes to being bombed, London is unique. Although it cannot claim to be the most bombed capital city in terms of the weight of explosive detonated it has endured the most varied and unrelenting attack since the discovery of explosives. From the first Irish Republican bomb in 1867, London and its population have been under almost constant...
Amberley Publishing, 2019. — 252 p. The history of London up to the time of the Great Fire of 1666 is a story of settlement, struggle, conquest, oppression, rebellion, war, plague and purifying fire. It is a story of Romans, Saxons, Vikings, Normans, Plantagenets, Tudors and Stuarts. Of a city that grew from ancient origins to become 'the flower of all cities', until the...
Routledge, 2018. — 272 p. This collection of essays examines aspects of labour and industrial relations history in the textiles sector of Northern England during the mature phase of industrialisation before World War One and the period of retrenchment during the interwar economic recession. There are chapters on wool, worsted, silk, cotton spinning and weaving, and cotton...
London: Frank Cass, 1992. — 316 p. — ISBN: 0-7146-3371-2 On the eve of the First World War, about half the Jews in Britain were refugees from Tsarist Russia. When revolution broke out in the ‘Old Country’ in 1917, thousands of immigrants were caught up in the excitement. The Russian Revolution secured the emancipation of Russian Jewry - the largest Jewish community in the world...
London: Frank Cass, 1992. — 316 p. — ISBN: 0-7146-3371-2 On the eve of the First World War, about half the Jews in Britain were refugees from Tsarist Russia. When revolution broke out in the ‘Old Country’ in 1917, thousands of immigrants were caught up in the excitement. The Russian Revolution secured the emancipation of Russian Jewry - the largest Jewish community in the world...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 288 p. This interdisciplinary volume of essays examines the real and imagined role of Classical and Celtic influence in the history of British identity formation, from late antiquity to the present day. In so doing, it makes the case for increased collaboration between the fields of Classical reception and Celtic studies, and opens up new...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 288 p. This interdisciplinary volume of essays examines the real and imagined role of Classical and Celtic influence in the history of British identity formation, from late antiquity to the present day. In so doing, it makes the case for increased collaboration between the fields of Classical reception and Celtic studies, and opens up new...
Matador, 2018. — 208 p. This book is strongly recommended only for beginners and children! Jack J. Kanski presents concise, illustrated histories covering a range of historical periods and providing readers with key information about events and people that have shaped the history of the world. In History of England, Kanski offers readers key information on the background,...
2nd Revised edition — Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 380 p. Hugh Kearney's classic account of the history of the British Isles from pre-Roman times to the present is distinguished by its treatment of English history as part of a wider 'history of four nations'. Not only focusing on England, it attempts to deal with the histories of Wales, Ireland and Scotland in their own...
Institute of Historical Research, 2013. — 488 p. This book examines, for the first time, the history of the social, cultural, political and economic presence of the French in London, and explores the multiple ways in which this presence has contributed to the life of the city. The capital has often provided a place of refuge, from the Huguenots in the 17th century, through the...
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2023. — 505 р. Written in the aftermath of the Black Lives Matter and Rhodes Must Fall demonstrations, The History of Britain and Ireland examines the history of Britain and Ireland at a time when it asks difficult questions of its past and looks to the future. Campbell places Black history at the forefront of his analysis and offers a voice to...
Cambridge University Press. — 567 р. This volume explores the rich and complex histories of English, Scottish and Welsh theatres in the ‘long’ twentieth century since 1895. Twenty-three original essays by leading historians and critics investigate the major aspects of theatrical performance, ranging from the great actor-managers to humble seaside entertainers, from...
London: Putnam, 1971. - 463 p.
A survey of the armament installed on British aircraft in the 30 year period up to the outbreak of the Second World War. The book details some 500 types of aircraft constructed by 48 companies and government factories. The photographs form a unique record.
Manchester University Press, Manchester and New York, 2003. — 296 p. — ISBN 0 7190 6159 8. This fascinating study investigates the experience of English poverty between 1700 and 1850 and in the ways in which the poor made ends meet. The phrase 'economy of makeshifts' has often been used to summarise the patchy, desperate and sometimes failing strategies of the poor for material...
Routledge, 1990. — 256 p. — ISBN-13 978-0044456926. Written for both professional and amateur historians, this book provides a narrative account of the dynastic history of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in the pre-Viking period - and their mercurial political and military rulers. From the late sixth century, when Aethelberht, king of Kent, betan receiving missionaries from rome,...
2nd Edition. — Routledge, 2022. — 306 p. Britain and Ireland recounts the history of the two states – the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland (Éire) – and four nations – the Irish, the Welsh, the Scottish and the English – from prehistory to the present. Chapters are organised chronologically starting in 4000 BCE, coming through the...
2nd Edition. — Routledge, 2022. — 306 p. Britain and Ireland recounts the history of the two states – the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland (Éire) – and four nations – the Irish, the Welsh, the Scottish and the English – from prehistory to the present. Chapters are organised chronologically starting in 4000 BCE, coming through the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. — 152 p. Britain is at a cross-roads; from the economy, to the education system, to social mobility, Britain must learn the rules of the 21st century, or face a slide into mediocrity. Brittania Unchained travels around the world, exploring the nations that are triumphing in this new age, seeking lessons Britain must implement to carve out a bright future.
Little, Brown and Company, 2006. — 321 p.
History at its best — the great stories of England's modern age, distilled in Robert Lacey's inimitable style. From William and Mary to Watson and Crick, Robert Lacey's newest volume offers up the most delightful and intriguing English tales of the last few centuries. Royal families and renowned scientists, highwaymen and war heroes —...
Little, Brown and Company, 2005. — 288 p. The greatest historians are vivid storytellers, Robert Lacey reminds us, and in Great Tales from English History, he proves his place among them, illuminating in unforgettable detail the characters and events that shaped a nation. In this volume, Lacey limns the most important period in England's past, highlighting the spread of the...
Little, Brown and Company, 2004. - 272 p. With insight, humor and fascinating detail, Lacey brings brilliantly to life the stories that made England from Ethelred the Unready to Richard the Lionheart, the Venerable Bede to Piers the Ploughman.
Stroud, UK: The History Press, 2016. — 190 p. Most of us know that Queen Victoria ruled over a great Empire, that King John signed the Magna Carta, and that Harold was killed at the Battle of Hastings. But this book, for inquisitive visitors to the royal palaces and monarchy buffs everywhere, takes us to the heart of the matter, and tells us what we really want to know about...
Stroud, UK: The History Press, 2016. — 190 p. Most of us know that Queen Victoria ruled over a great Empire, that King John signed the Magna Carta, and that Harold was killed at the Battle of Hastings. But this book, for inquisitive visitors to the royal palaces and monarchy buffs everywhere, takes us to the heart of the matter, and tells us what we really want to know about...
2 edition. — John Wiley & Sons, 2006. — 404 p. — (For Dummies).
A stirring trip through the essentials of British History.
Britain's past brought right up to date.
This book is a riotous, irreverent account of the people and events that have shaped Britain. It's a "who, what, when, where and why" that reads like a thriller and a comedy rolled into one. Inside you'll find...
John Wiley & Sons, 2004. — 432 p. — (For Dummies).
A stirring trip through the essentials of British History.
Britain's past brought right up to date.
This book is a riotous, irreverent account of the people and events that have shaped Britain. It's a "who, what, when, where and why" that reads like a thriller and a comedy rolled into one. Inside you'll find rip-roaring...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 240 p. This case study of two rural parishes in County Durham, England, provides an alternate view on the economic development involved in the transition from medieval to modern, partly explaining England's rise to global economic dominance in the seventeenth century. Coal mining did not come to these parishes until the nineteenth century; these...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 240 p. This case study of two rural parishes in County Durham, England, provides an alternate view on the economic development involved in the transition from medieval to modern, partly explaining England's rise to global economic dominance in the seventeenth century. Coal mining did not come to these parishes until the nineteenth century; these...
Charles Scribners & Sons, 1965. — 298 p. English society before and after the coming of industrial age. A one-class society. The village community. Births, marriages and deaths. Did the paesants really starve? Personal discipline and social survival. Social change and revolution in the traditional world. The pattern of authority and our political heritage. After the...
Pen and Sword History, 2019. — 112 p. Great women are hidden behind great men, or so they say, and no man is greater than the king. For centuries, royal aunts, cousins, sisters and mothers have watched history unfold from the shadows, their battlefields the bedchamber or the birthing room, their often short lives remembered only through the lens of others. But for those who...
Pen and Sword History, 2019. — 128 p. Great women are hidden behind great men, or so they say, and no man is greater than the king. For centuries, royal aunts, cousins, sisters and mothers have watched history unfold from the shadows, their battlefields the bedchamber or the birthing room, their often short lives remembered only through the lens of others. But for those who...
Routledge, 2021. — 354 p. Originally published in 1992, this book provides students with a well-illustrated, clearly written text which offers a coherent overview of Britain's development from a pre-modern to a modern economy and society. The key processes that have shaped the geography of modern Britain are rooted in the significant demographic, economic, technological and...
The History Press, 2012. — 281 p. Out of 193 countries currently recognised by the UN, we've invaded 158. That's an amazing 82%! Azerbaijan won this year's Eurovision. Don't know where it is? You should, because we invaded it for its oil almost a hundred years ago. Every Summer, hordes of British tourists now invade Corfu and the other Ionian islands. Find out how we first...
Chicago: Liceum Books Inc., 2001. — 312 p. Доступен также цветной вариант данной книги. Prehistoric, Roman, and Anglo-Saxon Britain The land and Peoples of Early Britain The Anglo-Saxon Era, 410-1066 Medieval Britain The First Century of Feudalism, 1066-1189 The Age of the Barons, 1189-1327 The later Middle Ages, 1327-1485 Medieval British Society, 1066-1485 The Tudors and The...
Chicago: Liceum Books Inc., 2001. — 312 p. Доступен также чёрно-белый вариант данной книги. Prehistoric, Roman, and Anglo-Saxon Britain The land and Peoples of Early Britain The Anglo-Saxon Era, 410-1066 Medieval Britain The First Century of Feudalism, 1066-1189 The Age of the Barons, 1189-1327 The later Middle Ages, 1327-1485 Medieval British Society, 1066-1485 The Tudors and...
Routledge, 2020. — 466 p. Dick Leonard’s British Prime Ministers from Walpole to Salisbury: The 18th and 19th Centuries surveys the lives and careers of all the 32 Prime Ministers from Sir Robert Walpole (1721–42) to Archibald Philip Primrose, fifth Earl of Rosebery (1894–95), in 32 succinct, informative and entertaining chapters. Bringing to life the political achievements and...
W. W. Norton & Company, 2013. — 400 p. From the immense staff running a lavish Edwardian estate and the lonely maid-of-all-work cooking in a cramped middle-class house to the poor child doing chores in a slightly less poor household, servants were essential to the British way of life. They were hired not only for their skills but also to demonstrate the social standing of their...
Pen & Sword History, 2019. — 128 p. This is a story about Yorkshire and its people, from the earliest period up to recent times. Foremost it is a story about invasion. Archaeological finds have shown that Yorkshire was occupied at a time when early hunters from continental Europe were not supposed to have ventured so far north. Growing populations on the European mainland made...
Pen and Sword History, 2019. — 144 p. This is a story about Yorkshire and its people, from the earliest period up to recent times. Foremost it is a story about invasion. Archaeological finds have shown that Yorkshire was occupied at a time when early hunters from continental Europe were not supposed to have ventured so far north. Growing populations on the European mainland...
Amber Books, 2012. — 421 p. Despite its reputation as the longest established in Europe, the history of the English monarchy is punctuated by scandal, murders, betrayals, plots, and treason. Since William the Conqueror seized the crown in 1066, England has seen three civil wars; six monarchs have been murdered or executed; the throne of England has been usurped four times, and...
Poznań: Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, 2015. — 428 p. — ISBN: 978-8-323231-10-3. The book presents crucial facts and events, selected from the countless defining moments in British history and culture: the appearance of prehistoric man in the British Isles; the influence of Celtic culture from a wider, not only insular perspective; the origins of Anglo-Saxon kingdoms; the historical...
The History Press, 2023. — 248 p. From the crowning of Charles III, thirty-nine coronations have been held in Westminster Abbey since the Norman Conquest. Only two monarchs – Edward V and Edward VIII – were uncrowned, and a further twenty or so Scottish monarchs were crowned elsewhere, usually at either Scone Abbey or Holyrood Abbey. In The Throne, Ian Lloyd turns his...
Unbound, 2021. — 754 p. — ISBN 978-1-78352-915-5 The British people have always been eccentric, occasionally ingenious and, sure, sometimes unhinged from mad monarchs to mass-murdering lepers. Here, Arran Lomas shows us how they harnessed those traits to forge the British nation, and indeed the world, we know today. Follow history s greatest adventurers from the swashbuckling...
The History Press, 2021. — 240 p. The world’s most famous hats have their origins in Britain. In fact, many of them were designed by James Lock & Co, the world’s oldest hatters, whose history can be traced back to 1676. Their shop at 6 St. James’s Street, London, their headquarters since 1765, has played host to an extraordinary clientele over the years, including Lord Nelson,...
Pimlico, 2001. — 544 p. In a brilliantly imaginative blend of military, social, and diplomatic history, Norman Longmate retells Britain's island story from the perspective of its defenders in a narrative stretching from the Celtic tribes who fought against Caesar to the great seaborne defence against Philip of Spain's Armada. Solidly researched fact is seasoned with lively,...
Pimlico, 2001. — 592 p. The British Isles, it is often believed, have not been invaded for nearly a thousand years. In fact, as Norman Longmate reveals in this highly entertaining book (the successor to his acclaimed Defending the Island), foreign soldiers have landed on British soil on many occasions.In this definitive study of a long-neglected subject Norman Longmate make...
I.B. Tauris, 2018. — 400 p. Effervescent Adventures with Britannia is the latest addition to Roger Louis's stimulating and acclaimed series, Adventures with Britannia. It draws upon a distinguished array of writers and scholars - historians, political scientists, journalists, novelists, biographers and English literature specialists - to guide the reader through a fascinating...
Macmillan Education, 2017. — 708 p. This edition provides in-dept analysis of modern British history from 1815 to present time (2015). The new edition of this best-selling text includes a new section on the final years of the Labour government after Blair's resignation and a new chapter on the subsequent Coalition and Conservative governments. It is the ideal companion for...
Tauris, 2015. — 272 p. Bill Luckin has left an indelible mark on the history of medicine, stubbornly insisting for the past 40 years that urban studies and environmental history are key frames for studying public health, disease and medicine. What a pleasure it is then, to have in one volume the central body of his work. Death and Survival in Urban Britain is a collection of eight...
Philadelphia: porter & Coates, 2006. 1st Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859) was a British historian, essayist, and statesman, best remembered for his five-volume History of England. Baron Macaulay was a minor poet but a brilliant essayist. His History of England has been criticized for its protestant and Whig bias, but his vast wealth of material, his use of vivid...
Philadelphia: Porter & coates, 2006. 1st Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859) was a British historian, essayist, and statesman, best remembered for his five-volume History of England. Baron Macaulay was a minor poet but a brilliant essayist. His History of England has been criticized for its Protestant and Whig bias, but his vast wealth of material, his use of vivid...
Philadelphia: porter & Coates, 2006. 1st Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-59) was a British historian, essayist, and statesman, best remembered for his five-volume History of England. Baron Macaulay was a minor poet but a brilliant essayist. His History of England has been criticized for its protestant and Whig bias, but his vast wealth of material, his use of vivid...
John Donald Publishers, 2006. — 256 p. Beginning half a century before the plantation of Ulster, Missions to the Gaels throws fascinating historical perspectives on the origins of the sectarian divisions in northern Ireland. The research is unique in dealing with both Protestants and Catholics, rather than treating only one denomination in isolation. The book explores the...
Harvest House, 1982. — 156 p. Myths of origin enable people to locate themselves in time and space. They offer an explanation of the unknown and hallow traditions by linking them to heroic events and personages of the distant past. In addition, they form the ground for belief systems or ideologies which, providing a moral validation for attitudes and activities, bind men...
Cambridge University Press, 1979 - 232 p.
"The Origins of English Individualism" is about the nature of English society during the five centuries leading up to the Industrial Revolution, and the crucial differences between England and other European nations. Drawing upon detailed studies of English parishes and a growing number of other intensive local studies, as well as...
Routledge, 2005. — 224 p. This book is intended for undergraduate courses on modern British history, women's history, courses on family, sexuality and childhood. Women's studies, history of education, history of sociology.
New York, NY: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, 2019. — 336 p., 15 black-and-white illustrations. — ISBN: 978-1-63149-496-3. A quixotic journey through London’s past, Mudlark plumbs the banks of the Thames to reveal the stories hidden behind the archaeological remnants of an ancient city. Long heralded as a city treasure herself, expert...
Pen and Sword Books, 2005. — 164 p. This companion to the history of Ipswich will prove and indispensable guide for residents and visitors alike to the past and present of a town that in the 2000 celebrated the 800th anniversary of its first charter. Essential information on people who have played key roles in the story, on the streets and lanes, and on events that have...
Casemate Publishers, 2004. — 192 p. Over the centuries Yorkshire, the largest and most varied country in England, has helped to shape the history of the nation. From the barrier of the Pennines in the west to the bastion of Falmborough in the east, the region has seen war, insurrection, invention, industrial expansion, political and social development and pioneering...
Pan, 2009. — 672 p. A History of Modern Britain by Andrew Marr confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. It tells the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or a second Elizabethan Age, rival idealisms, came to be defeated by a culture of consumerism, celebrity and self-gratification. In each decade, political leaders think they know what they are...
Yale University Press, 2011. — 444 p. From Jewish clothing merchants to Bangladeshi curry houses, ancient docks to the 2012 Olympics, the area east of the City has always played a crucial role in London's history. The East End, as it has been known, was the home to Shakespeare's first theater and to the early stirrings of a mass labor movement; it has also traditionally been...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. — 320 p. This book takes a novel approach to the topic, combining biographical approaches and local history, a synthesis of sociological and historical literature, with new research to address a variety of themes and provide a comprehensive, rounded history demonstrating the entanglement of educational experience and the influence of different modes of...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. — 255 p. Regional newspapers around the globe are fighting to survive in the face of challenges to their economic model, due to the constant influx of new technology. At the same time, while studies of the national press have created a continuous narrative on the newspaper, the history of the regional press has been subject to relatively little...
Brighton, UK: Book House, 2012. — (A Very Peculiar History Series). — 192 p., 1 map. From Roman invasion to tall tales of Merlin and King Arthur, and right up to the power of the mining industry, " Wales - A Very Peculiar History " takes a sideways look at some of the more peculiar aspects of the home of welsh rarebit, Maelgwn the Dragon, and...
Routledge, 2019. — 205 p. Citizenship and Gender in Britain, 1688–1928 explores the history of citizenship in Britain during a period when admission to the political community was commonly thought about in terms of gender. Between the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and the Equal Franchise Act of 1928 the key question in British politics was what sorts of men – and subsequently...
Routledge, 1990. — 237 p. Aiming to avoid technical terminology, Richard McKinley provides an introduction to the history of hereditary surnames in Britain from their first appearance to the present day. Devoting a chapter to each of the main categories of name, he enables readers to set the facts they discover about their own ancestry, family history and surnames into the...
Random House, 2012. — 610 p. Britain has not been successfully invaded since 1066; nor, in nearly 1,000 years, has it known a true revolution—one that brings radical, systemic and enduring change. The contrast with her European neighbors—with France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Greece and Russia—is dramatic. All have been convulsed by external warfare, revolution and civil war—all...
London: Leo Cooper, 1994. — 260 p. The author explains how the tradition of loyalty to the regiment has served the British Army so well over the past 350 years and, in his vivid description of some of the major campaigns in which it has fought, shows what it was like at various times to have been an officer or a soldier in the British Army.
Museyon, 2020. — 268 p. One day in the 1860s, so the story goes, an ambitious up-and-coming female sculptor was making love to an older, married man in an art studio. It was complicated because the man was not only one of the most famous sculptors in the country, but the young woman’s teacher and mentor. Things got worse when they were rudely interrupted by the woman’s mother,...
Cambridge University Press, 2023. — 310 p. Between 1780 and 1918, over one million petitions from across the four nations were sent to the House of Commons. A Nation of Petitioners is the first study of this nineteenth-century heyday of petitioning in the United Kingdom. It explores how ordinary men and women engaged with politics in an era of democratisation, but not...
London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. — 288 p. Synopsis Defending Albion is the first published study of Britain's response to the threat of invasion from across the North Sea in the first two decades of the Twentieth Century. It examines the emergency schemes designed to confront an enemy landing and the problems associated with raising and maintaining the often derided...
Canongate Books, 2024. — 266 p. The border between Scotland and England is rich in history. It has been the site of battles, treaties, castles and crossroads. It is also a place where both countries display their nationalism: Saltires flying in the north, the Cross of St George to the south. But it can also be a lens through which to look at the changing history and identities...
Canongate Books, 2024. — 266 p. The border between Scotland and England is rich in history. It has been the site of battles, treaties, castles and crossroads. It is also a place where both countries display their nationalism: Saltires flying in the north, the Cross of St George to the south. But it can also be a lens through which to look at the changing history and identities...
Birlinn, 2012. — 304 p. The Highland Line is the most profound internal boundary in Britain. First recognised by Agricola in the first century AD (parts of its most northerly portion mark the furthest north the Romans got) it divides the country both geologically and culturally, signalling the border between Highland and Lowland, Celtic and English-speaking, crofting and...
McFarland & Company, 2011. — 287 p. Their names bespeak a rich and varied past, belying their paucity of notice by historians. From the Norse Hjaltland comes the modern Shetland: islands nominally Scottish, steeped in Nordic culture, closer to the Arctic Circle than to London. Important Neolithic sites at Skara Brae and Maes Howe in the Orkneys wallow in anonymity next to...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 896 p. — ISBN-13 978-0198841111. A new edition of this best-selling history of Britain, from Roman times, now updated to cover the first decade of the 21st century. The Oxford History of Britain tells the story of Britain and its people over two thousand years, from the coming of the Roman legions to the present day. Encompassing political,...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 896 p. — ISBN-13 978-0198841111. A new edition of this best-selling history of Britain, from Roman times, now updated to cover the first decade of the 21st century. The Oxford History of Britain tells the story of Britain and its people over two thousand years, from the coming of the Roman legions to the present day. Encompassing political,...
Oxford University Press, 2010. — 816 pages. — ISBN: 9780199579259
This superb volume tells the story of Britain and its people over two thousand years, from the coming of the Roman legions to the present day. Edited by esteemed historian Kenneth O. Morgan, this informative volume illuminates the political, social, economic, and cultural developments of the British Isles. Ten...
Profile Books, 2022. — 575 p. Geography is Destiny tells the history of Britain and its changing relationships with Europe and the wider world, from its physical separation at the end of the Ice Age to the first flickers of a United Kingdom, struggles for the Atlantic, and rise of the Pacific Rim. Applying the latest archaeological evidence, Ian Morris explores how geography,...
Lawrence and Wishart, 1976. — 581 p. Early maps show a world in which Britain is a remote outpost, a shapeless cluster of islands thrust out into the encircling ocean. But in some of these maps a significant tilt brings their South-western coast close to the North of Spain, reminding us that earlier still, centuries before the making of any maps that have survived, Britain lay...
Pen and Sword History, 2020. — 295 p. The origin of the names of many English towns, hamlets and villages date as far back as Saxon times, when kings like Alfred the Great established fortified borough towns to defend against the Danes. A number of settlements were established and named by French Normans following the Conquest. Many are even older and are derived from Roman...
Pen and Sword Books, 2019. — 192 p. A reference guide to hundreds of surnames that reveal the story of the United Kingdom across generations and centuries. To some extent, we are all products of our family history, the many generations before us. So it is with nations. The history of Great Britain has been largely defined by powerful and influential families, many of whose...
London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. - 200 p. Book Description The idea of Britain has been understood largely in terms of sectarian conflict and state formation, whereas emigration has most often been explored in terms of economic and social history. This book explores the relationship between two subjects normally studied in isolation, and includes emigration from Ireland as a...
Ostrava: 2008. — 75 p. A brief survey of chief events and developments in the course of British history From the earliest times to the end of the 15th century The mingling of the races The Iberians and the Celts Roman Britain The Anglo-Saxon period From the Norman Conquest to the Hundred Years War: the feudal state From the outbreak of the Hundred Years War to the end of the...
Intr. by Sir Charles Lucas. — London; Toronto: J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd., 1917. — 156 p. — (The Imperial Studies Series) General Introduction. Sir Charles Lucas The Continuity of Imperial History The Administration of the Empire Sea Power and the Defence of the Empire Imperial Trade The Dependent Empire and the Native Races Steps Towards Imperial Unity
Intr. by Sir Charles Lucas. — London; Toronto: J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd., 1917. — 156 p. — (The Imperial Studies Series) General Introduction. Sir Charles Lucas The Continuity of Imperial History The Administration of the Empire Sea Power and the Defence of the Empire Imperial Trade The Dependent Empire and the Native Races Steps Towards Imperial Unity
Pen & Sword Social, 2014. — 224 p. A fresh perspective on the seamy side of history. Maria Nicolaou has done considerable research into the largely unexplored area of divorce and marital separation from the Tudor period to the early Victorian era. Divorced, Beheaded, Sold is full of scandalous, little-known stories of wife sale, marital discord and audacious escapades of errant...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. — 330 p. This book examines the lives and tenures of the consorts of the Hanoverian, Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and Windsor monarchs from 1727 to the present. Some of the consorts examined in this volume - such as Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, consort to George VI - are well known while others, including Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, consort to William...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. — 330 p. This book examines the lives and tenures of the consorts of the Hanoverian, Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and Windsor monarchs from 1727 to the present. Some of the consorts examined in this volume - such as Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, consort to George VI - are well known while others, including Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, consort to William...
London: Routledge, 2002. 5 edition. - 240 p.
Extensively revised and updated, the fifth edition of British Civilization includes new illustrations, devolution, more debate and cultural material and covers right up to 2001.
John Oakland is Senior Lecturer in English at the Norwegian University of Science and Technolog
8th edition. — Routledge, 2016. — 372 p. — ISBN 9780415746885 9780415746892 9781315665290. Provides a comprehensive introduction to a range of aspects of Britain, including its country and people, politics and government, education, the economy, the media, arts and religion. This work discusses the developments and topics of specific interest in British society such as GM foods...
Pen and Sword, 2009. — 224 p. Generations of Londoners from Roman times to the present day have confronted natural and man-made threats to their city. Disasters, rebellions, riots, acts of terror and war have marked the long history of the capital - and have shaped the character of its people. In this evocative account Jonathan Oates recalls in vivid detail the perils Londoners...
Pen and Sword, 2018. — 192 p. The East End is one of the most famous parts of London and it has had its own distinctive identity since the district was first settled in medieval times. It is best known for extremes of poverty and deprivation, for strong political and social movements, and for the extraordinary mix of immigrants who have shaped its history. Jonathan Oates’s...
Frances Lincoln, 2020. — 240 p. An Ice Age cannibal’s skull cup, a hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold, a seventeenth century witch bottle... anthropologist Mary-Ann Ochota unearths more than 70 of Britain's most intriguing ancient places and artefacts and explores the mysteries behind them. Britain is full of ancient wonders: not grand like the Egyptian pyramids, but small, strange...
Frances Lincoln, 2020. — 240 p. An Ice Age cannibal’s skull cup, a hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold, a seventeenth century witch bottle... anthropologist Mary-Ann Ochota unearths more than 70 of Britain's most intriguing ancient places and artefacts and explores the mysteries behind them. Britain is full of ancient wonders: not grand like the Egyptian pyramids, but small, strange...
Routledge, 2018. — 716 p. — (Routledge Revivals). In England, as in France and Germany, the main characteristics of the last fifty years, from the point of view of the student of history, has been that new material has been accumulating much faster than it can be assimilated or absorbed. When the first edition of this volume was sent to the press in 1910, I had the privilege of...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 202 p. J. S. Omond's study of 1933 documents the historically problematic relationship between Parliament and the Army. Providing an overview of the 260 years which elapsed from the outbreak of the English Civil War in 1642 until the establishment of the Army Council in 1904, the book describes the phases through which the problem of political...
Routledge, 1992. — 256 pp. — ISBN: 0-203-99004-8. Over the last twenty-five years archaeology has revolutionised our knowledge of the early history of British towns. Based on his day-to-day involvement in urban archaeology, Patrick Ottaway reviews the important discoveries and research themes of this period, and considers how long-term urban research projects have revealed new...
Caernarfon: Palace Books, 1990. - 279 pgs. During the wars of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the Welsh language was no stranger to any part of the United Kingdom, being the day to day medium for conversation for no less than 13 Welsh regiments of militia. The Glamorgan Regiment, like the others, did its fair share of 'yomping' around Great Britain and in consequence, it...
Calicut University, 2011. — 226 p. Historical antecedents. England under feudalsim. English socirty in transition. Age of Renaissance and Reformation. Impact of Royal Absolutism. Eighteenth century England.
Cambridge University Press, 2001. — 840 p. The first volume of The Cambridge Urban History surveys the history of British towns from their post-Roman origins in the seventh century down to the sixteenth century. It provides the first detailed overview of the course of medieval urban development, and draws on archaeological and architectural as well as historical sources. The...
Manchester University Press, 1994. — 224 p. First documentary history of immigration and ethnicity from 1815 into postwar imperial Britain. Looks at all aspects of immigration into postwar Britain. Uses a wide range of official and unofficial sources.
Yale University Press, 2020. — 487 p. The first history of London to show how immigrants have built, shaped and made a great success of the capital city London is now a global financial and multicultural hub in which over three hundred languages are spoken. But the history of London has always been a history of immigration. Panikos Panayi explores the rich and vibrant story of...
Scarecrow Press, 2011. — 665 pp. — ISBN: 978-0-8108-5779-7. The monarch is the United Kingdom's head of state, exercising powers that are circumscribed by common law, convention, and statute law. Nowadays, many of the sovereign's functions are ceremonial but in the past the balance between ceremony and decision-making was very different. The foundations of the modern monarchy...
The Scarecrow Press, 2008. — 588 pp. — (Historical Dictionaries of Europe, No. 61). — ISBN: 978-0-8108-5091-0. The last quarter of a century, from 1979 to 2007, has been eventful for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The year 1979 brought major changes to the United Kingdom, in particular when the political climate altered radically with the coming to...
Scarecrow Press, 2011. — 665 p. The monarch is the United Kingdom's head of state, exercising powers that are circumscribed by common law, convention, and statute law. Nowadays, many of the sovereign's functions are ceremonial but in the past the balance between ceremony and decision-making was very different. The foundations of the modern monarchy were laid more than a...
London: Reaktion Books, 2002. - 312 p. Book Description War has always been close to the centre of British culture, but never more so than in the period since 1850. "Warrior Nation" explores the way in which images of battle, both literary and visual, have been constructed in British fiction and popular culture since this time. The rise of war reporting has helped to shape a...
Michael Joseph, 2022. — 320 p. With the uncertainty of Brexit looming, Britain as we know it is on the brink of defining change. With current borders being disputed and, with them, identities challenged, this book provides brilliant insight into how the country's borders have always been, and always will be, in a state of change. From the Celtic period when "Britain" was just a...
Robson Books, 2004. — 458 p. A best of liars and con men, a jailed peer-cum-celebrated author, John Major's spicy affair, John Prescott's punch-up, Robin Cook's pressing dilemma, the PM's prolonged fall from grace and incidents involving secret home loans, walks on the wild side, offensive emails and some ridiculously expensive wallpaper have joined the prostitutes, gropers,...
Gdańsk: Wydawnictwo Marabut, 1995. — 472 s. Historia Anglików to spojrzenie wstecz na dwa tysiące lat angielskiej historii, które umożliwiło autorowi przeprowadzenie nowej, radykalnej interpretacji dziejów Wyspiarzy. Emocjonalne podejście do opisywanych wydarzeń, celne, choć często kontrowersyjne sądy wszystkie zalety pisarstwa Johnsona sprawiły, że książka ta wzbudziła ogromne...
Penguin Books, Viking, 2012. — 285 p. From the bestselling author of The English comes Empire, Jeremy Paxman's history of the British Empire accompanied by a flagship 5-part BBC TV series, for readers of Simon Schama and Andrew Marr. The influence of the British Empire is everywhere, from the very existence of the United Kingdom to the ethnic composition of our cities. It...
2nd Ed. — London: Routledge, 1996. — 656 p. — ISBN: 0-415-13812-4 Introduction: Britain in 1867 The Gladstonian Liberal Party 1868-95 The Conservative Party 1868-1905: the regaining of power Ireland 1868-1922: province or nation? Britain and the world 1867-1905: the onset of decline The Liberal Party after Gladstone: recovery, triumph and death 1895-1935 The rise of Labour...
2nd Ed. — London: Routledge, 1996. — 656 p. — ISBN: 0-415-13812-4 Introduction: Britain in 1867 The Gladstonian Liberal Party 1868-95 The Conservative Party 1868-1905: the regaining of power Ireland 1868-1922: province or nation? Britain and the world 1867-1905: the onset of decline The Liberal Party after Gladstone: recovery, triumph and death 1895-1935 The rise of Labour...
Routledge, 2008. — 695 p. This third edition of British Political History, 1867–2001 is an accessible summary of major political developments in British history over the last 140 years. Analyzing the changing nature of British society and Britain's role on the world stage, Malcolm Pearce and Geoffrey Stewart also outline the growth of democracy and the growth in the power of...
Wiley Blackwell, 2021. — 719 p. — ISBN13: 978-0631201557. An authoritative and extensive resource for British and Irish history. Quickly access basic information on the history of the British Isles from this reliable resource. A Dictionary of British and Irish History provides concise information covering all periods of prehistory and history for every part of the British...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 398 p. Review "This is a first-rate book by a first-rate scholar.It is intellectually sophisticated, clearly written, and its conclusions follow nicely from the evidence marshalled in each chapter.this is a book that all students of the period must read." Keith Neilson, The International History Review ".this is a rich, profound,...
West Sussex: John Wiley & Sons, 2007. — 464 p. — (For Dummies). A plain-English guide to Britons in battle, from the Roman invasion to the ongoing Iraqi war Charging through the Britain's military past, this accessible guide brings to life the battles and wars that shaped the history of Britain-and the world. The book profiles commanders, explains strategies and tactics, and...
Routledge, 2002. - 632 p. The Rise of Professional Society lays out a stimulating and controversial framework for the study of British society, challenging accepted paradigms based on class analysis. Perkins argues that the non-capitalist "professional class" represents a new principle of social organization based on trained expertise and meritocracy, a "forgotten middle class"...
Phillimore & Co Ltd, 2017. — 224 p. A richly illustrated history exploring life in Kent. This book tells the amazing story of Kent from earliest times to the modern day. Some of the pivotal moments in the Garden of England’s history are recalled, including invasions from Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Vikings and Normans. It has seen the Black Death, the Peasants’ Revolt, the Swing...
Routledge, 2014. — 432 p. This series, fully illustrated with maps and half-tones, is written for general readers as well as the student. In illuminating the anonymous lives of our predecessors it will, when complete, substantially enrich our understanding of the many histories which together make up the history of England. This authoritative volume surveys the modern history...
Routledge, 2006. — 82 p. This pamphlet examines the principal developments of party organization, electoral growth and policy-making in the period. It gives particular attention to the constituent elements that made up the party and the nature of its support and explores the party's predominant attitudes, ideology and policies from 1900 to 1931.
The History Press, 2013. — 192 p. Spooky, gruesome, weird but true things about one of the world's greatest cities come alive in The A-Z of Curious London. Discover London's tiniest house, a 4,000-year old mouse made from Nile clay, and have a giggle at things people leave on London's transport (including false teeth, a human skull and a park bench - yes, really.) Why did a...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015. — 180 p. The book retraces the history of the Church of England from the Henrician schism (1533–1534) to the present day, and focuses on the complex relations between the Church and the State which, in the case of an established Church, are of paramount importance. Theological questions, and in particular the conflicting influences of...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 415 p. This book provides a thorough review of early English land taxes of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. It is a polemical work which is critical of the institutional English state narratives including Brewer’s ‘Sinews of Power’ and North and Weingast’s ‘credible commitment’ and some established works in the field particularly Ward’s...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. — 228 p. The first book-length study of the periodical print culture that emerged from this important phase of the history of the British empire. Makes significant intersections into debates about periodical form and the role of digitization within Victorian Studies. Includes prints from Victorian periodicals to enhance the argument. A...
Amberley Publishing, 2015. — 131 p. With over 14 million visitors each year, you may think it’s odd to describe Cumbria as undiscovered, but the reality is the majority of those 14 million visitors return time and again to the same, well-trodden spots. This book turns the spotlight away from the tourist honey-pots, and on to the hidden gems that are so often missed. Historic...
Routledge, 2005. — xvi, 302 p. — ISBN: 0-203-74265-6; 0-415-11915-4; 0-415-12913-3. By drawing equally on the work of historians and archaeologists, Colin Platt puts forward a view of English medieval society in which there is much that is new and unexpected. Medieval England brings together a wide range of themes, from castle and palace to peasant hovel, from the great...
Routledge, 2006. — 368 p. The Routledge Dictionary of Modern British History is an essential guide to the last two centuries of British history, which have witnessed democratization, international decline, devolution, the rise of the welfare state, and New Labour challenging the Conservatives as the natural party of government. This book includes: * every Prime Minister from...
London and New York, Taylor & Francis Group, 2006. — 335 p. The Routledge Dictionary of Modern British History is an essential guide to the last two centuries, which have witnessed democratization, international decline, devolution, the rise of the welfare state, and New Labour challenging the Conservatives as the natural party of government. Includes: • every Prime Minister...
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2014. — 484 p. — ISBN-10: 0691615837; ISBN-13: 978-0691615837. In this collection of essays, a group of distinguished American and British historians explores the relations between the American Revolution and its predecessors, the Puritan Revolution of 1641 and the Glorious Revolution of 1688. Foreword. John F. Andrews Introduction....
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 424 p. — ISBN-10 052131643X; ISBN-13 978-0521316439. Professor Pocock's subject is how the seventeenth century looked at its own past. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, one of the most important modes of studying the past was the study of the law - the historical outlook which arose in each nation was in part the...
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 358 p. — ISBN-10: 052161645X; ISBN-13: 978-0521616454. The Discovery of Islands consists of a series of linked essays in British history, written by one of the world's leading historians of political thought and published over the past three decades. Its purpose is to present British history as that of several nations...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 460 p. In the sixteenth century, Erasmus of Rotterdam led a humanist campaign to deter European princes from vainglorious warfare by giving them liberal educations. His prescriptions for the study of classical authors and scripture transformed the upbringing of Tudor and Stuart royal children. Rather than emphasising the sword, the educations...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 460 p. In the sixteenth century, Erasmus of Rotterdam led a humanist campaign to deter European princes from vainglorious warfare by giving them liberal educations. His prescriptions for the study of classical authors and scripture transformed the upbringing of Tudor and Stuart royal children. Rather than emphasising the sword, the educations...
Fourth Edition. — Pearson, 2004. — 497 p.
This leading general history of British imperialism, from its Victorian heyday to present times, has been thoroughly revised and updated. As well as presenting a lively narrative of events, Bernard Porter explores a number of broad analytical themes, challenging more conventional and popular interpretations. He sees imperialism as a...
Amberley Publishing, 2016. — 96 p. From its foundation by the Romans in the middle of the first century and its revival under Alfred the Great in the late ninth century, London grew and flourished. It prospered as a trading city, as well as the centre of government and the foremost economic and cultural force within Britain, and developed a global influence as the capital of a...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 621 p. List of illustrations page List of abbreviations The origins of parochial system Church and parish Rectors and vicars: from Gratian to the Reformation The parish, its bounds and its division The urban parish The functions of the parish The parish and its servants The economics of the parish The parish and the community The parish and...
Cambridge: University Press, 1999. - 364 p.
Richard Price offers a radical new interpretation of modern British history. He argues that the period 1680-1880 was a distinct era in British history, a dynamic period of much change but which was ultimately contained within clearly defined boundaries. Professor Price thus identifies the nineteenth century as the end of this period...
Encounter Books, 2011. — 267 p. Treason of the Heart is an account of British people who took up foreign causes. Not mercenaries, then, but ideologues. Almost all were what today we would call radicals or activists, who thought they knew better than whichever bunch of backward or oppressed people it was that they had come to save. Usually they were applying to others what they...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. — 544 p. As a vigorous interpretation of political and social developments in Britain since the late-Victorian era, State and Society is one of the most respected and widely-read introductions to modern British history. Martin Pugh explores as his central theme the relationship between the British state and its citizens with characteristic skill and...
Icon Books, 2016. — 288 p. Peter Pugh presents his selection of - not the best, fastest, most successful or richest - but the 50 most influential British men and women of the modern world - for good or ill. Pugh discusses and ranks the influence of scientists and inventors such as Francis Crick, John Logie Baird and Alan Turing; lawmakers and leaders like prime ministers...
Routledge, 2021. — 262 p. This edited volume examines how individuals and communities defined and negotiated the boundaries between inclusion and exclusion in England between 1550 and 1800. It aims to uncover how men, women, and children from a wide range of social and religious backgrounds experienced and enacted exclusion in their everyday lives. Negotiating Exclusion takes a...
William Collins, 2022. — 560 p. In this delicious history of Britain’s food traditions, Diane Purkiss invites readers on a unique journey through the centuries, exploring the development of recipes and rituals for mealtimes such as breakfast, lunch, and dinner, to show how food has been both a reflection of and inspiration for social continuity and change. Purkiss uses the...
Routledge, 1995. — 308 p. Women's History: Britain 1850-1945 introduces the main themes and debates of feminist history during this period of change, and brings together the findings of new research. It examines the suffrage movement, race and empire, industrialisation, the impact of war and womens literature. Specialists in their own fields have each written a chapter on a key...
The History Press, 2012. — 96 p. — (Bloody History). Plymouth has one of the darkest and most dreadful histories on record. Beginning with the discovery of the bones of cave men and rushing through French attacks, outbreaks of leprosy and the plague, Civil War sieges and deadly Spanish ships, disasters, demolitions and the enormous death tolls of the Plymouth Blitz, it will...
Biteback Publishing, 2020. — 209 p. For more than 200 years the younger members of the British royal family – including future monarchs – have lived at Kensington Palace, alongside royal aunts and uncles, distant cousins and assorted aristocratic eccentrics. Kensington Palace has been the scene of countless bizarre events – here, for example, the young Queen Victoria was held a...
Oxford University Press, 2006. — 304 p. — (Oxford Historical Monographs).
Modernizing Nature contributes to the debate regarding the origins, institutionalization, and politics of the sciences and systems of knowledge underlying colonial frameworks of environmental management. It departs from the widely prevalent scholarly perspective that colonial science can be understood...
Pen and Sword History, 2017. — 192 p. This is the history of England's turbulent times, told through the stories of the country's nobility. The book begins with the Norman Conquest in 1066 and ends with the union of England and Scotland in 1707. The nobility fought wars against Scotland in the north and against France on the Continent. They conquered Ireland and Wales and then...
Routledge, 2022. — 239 p. Examining responses to migration and settlement in Britain from the Irish Famine up to Brexit, The Discourse of Repatriation looks at how concepts of removal evolved in this period, and the varied protagonists who have articulated these ideas in different contexts. Analysing the relationship between discourse and action, Renshaw explores how ideas and...
Basic Books, 2020. — 304 p. This history of Britain set in a global context for our times offers a new perspective on how the rise and fall of an empire shaped modern European politics. When the British voted to leave the European Union in 2016, the country's future was thrown into doubt. So, too, was its past. The story of British history is no longer a triumphalist narrative...
Ashgate Publishing, 2000. — 232 p. Practised since the Middle Ages, it is only over the course of the last century that English local history attained professional status. This text explores the rich historiography of the subject by presenting essays which show how it has been defined, approached and practised at different stages of its development from the 16th century to the...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 336 p. — (Medieval History and Archaeology). The varied character of Britain's countryside provides communities with a strong sense of local identity. One of the most significant features of the landscape in Southern Britain is the way that its character differs from region to region, with compact villages in the Midlands contrasting with the...
Routledge, 2016. — 392 p. This is a timely exploration of national identity in Great Britain over nine hundred years of history. Our attitudes to the nation state are changing - national assemblies in Scotland and Wales and growing pressures for regional assemblies. In his vigorous new survey, Professor Robbins provides the background to these changing attitudes. He considers...
Routledge, 2014. — 488 p. Covers both the expansion and the decline of the British Empire and the reasons behind this sudden eclipse in power. The Second Edition updates the text to the threshold of the present. To the original span (1870-1975) -- which encompassed both the climax and the dissolution of the British Empire -- Keith Robbins has added an entirely new fifth section...
Routledge, 2013. — 288 p. This two-volume narrative of English history draws on the most up-to-date primary and secondary research, encouraging students to interpret the full range of England's social, economic, cultural, and political past. A History of England, Volume 1 (Prehistory to 1714) , focuses on the most important developments in the history of England through the...
Routledge, 2013. — 288 p. This two-volume narrative of English history draws on the most up-to-date primary and secondary research, encouraging students to interpret the full range of England's social, economic, cultural, and political past. A History of England, Volume 1 (Prehistory to 1714), focuses on the most important developments in the history of England through the...
2nd Edition. — Greenwood, 2019. — 316 р. — ISBN: 1440862745. This addition to The Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations provides an updated, clear, and concise history of Great Britain that will be of value to undergraduates and to a general readership Presents a timeline of significant events with an at-a-glance overview of Great Britain's history Provides an appendix of...
Batoche Books, 2001. — 573 p. Rural England — Social Life. Rural England — Agriculture. Town Life. The Distribution of Wealth and Trade. Society — Wages — Profits. The King and His Extraordinary Revenues. The Famine and the Plague. Discontent — Combination — Insurrection. The Landlord’s Remedies. The Development of Taxation. Labour and Wages. The Clergy till the Reformation....
London. Eyre&Spotiswoode. 1965. - 223 c. Отсканированный PDF. Первоначально книга опубликована в 1944 году. Путешествие на лодке по английским каналам (Midland waterways), которые до изобретения железных дорог были основными транспортными системами Англии. Книга была написана в 1939 году и представляет собой эллегию, не справочное пособие по истории английских каналов. This...
London. Eyre&Spotiswoode. 1965. - 223 c.
Первоначально книга опубликована в 1944 году.
Путешествие на лодке по английским каналам (Midland waterways), которые до изобретения железных дорог были основными транспортными системами Англии. Книга была написана в 1939 году и представляет собой эллегию, не справочное пособие по истории английских каналов.
This wonderful book,...
Third Edition. — Yale University Press, 2021. — 559 p. This is a landmark intellectual history of Britain’s working classes from the pre-industrial era to the twentieth century. Drawing on workers’ memoirs, social surveys, library registers, and more, Jonathan Rose uncovers which books people read, how they educated themselves, and what they knew. A new preface addresses the...
New York, Putnam, 1974. — 254 p.
Windsor Castle is the oldest and largest inhabited castle in the world and has been the family home of British kings and queens for almost 1,000 years. It is an official residence of Her Majesty The Queen and is still very much a working royal palace today, home to around 150 people. The castle is used regularly for ceremonial and state...
New American Library, 2008. — 446 p. A funny, raucous, and delightfully dirty history of 1,000 years of bedroom-hopping secrets and scandals of Britain's royals. Insatiable kings, lecherous queens, kissing cousins, and wanton consorts?history has never been so much fun. Royal unions have always been the stuff of scintillating gossip, from the passionate Plantagenets to Henry...
London: Frances Lincoln, 2016. — 256 p. Mudlarking, the act of searching the Thames foreshore for items of value, has a long tradition in England's capital. In the late 18th and 19th centuries, mudlarks were small boys grubbing a living from scrap. Today’s mudlarks unearth relics of the past from the banks of the Thames which tell stories of Londoners throughout history. From...
Miramax, 2000 Simon Schama's magesterial new book encompasses over 1,500 years of Britain's history, from the first Roman invasions to the early seventeenth century, and the extraordinary reign of Queen Elizabeth I. Schama, the author of the highly acclaimed Citizens and The Embarrassment of Riches, is one of the most popular and celebrated historians of our day, and in this...
Miramax, 2000 Simon Schama's magesterial new book encompasses over 1,500 years of Britain's history, from the first Roman invasions to the early seventeenth century, and the extraordinary reign of Queen Elizabeth I. Schama, the author of the highly acclaimed Citizens and The Embarrassment of Riches, is one of the most popular and celebrated historians of our day, and in this...
Miramax, 2000 Simon Schama's magesterial new book encompasses over 1,500 years of Britain's history, from the first Roman invasions to the early seventeenth century, and the extraordinary reign of Queen Elizabeth I. Schama, the author of the highly acclaimed Citizens and The Embarrassment of Riches, is one of the most popular and celebrated historians of our day, and in this...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 632 р. — ISBN: 978-0190621872. Author of a number of celebrated works, including the bestselling The Story of the Jews and Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution, Simon Schama's latest book fuses history and art to create a tour de force of narrative sweep and illuminating insight. Using images from works-paintings, photographs,...
Second Edition. — Barnes & Noble, 1971. — 420 p. — ISBN10: 0064601234; ISBN13: 978-0064601238. This book presents a complete and distinctive account of the history of England from its earliest settlements to modern times, as well as an interpretation of the English heritage and achievement. It is intended for the student of History and for the reader reviewing specific periods...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. — 290 p. Through an analysis of the marriage patterns of thousands of aristocratic women as well as an examination of diaries, letters, and memoirs, this book demonstrates that the sense of rank identity as manifested in these women's marriages remained remarkably stable for centuries, until it was finally shattered by the First World War.
Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 247 p. How did a rural and agrarian English society transform itself into a mercantile and maritime state? What role was played by war and the need for military security? How did geographical ideas inform the construction of English - and then British - political identities? Focusing upon the deployment of geographical imagery and arguments for...
C. Hurst & Co Publishers, 2013. — 288 p. In 1797 Jeremy Bentham prepared a map of poverty in Britain, which he called 'Pauperland.' More than two hundred years later, poverty and social deprivation remain widespread. Yet despite the investigations into poverty by Mayhew, Booth, and in the 20th century, Townsend, it remains largely unknown to, or often hidden from, those who are...
Routledge, 2020. — 336 p. The Origins of the Consumer Revolution in England" explores the rise of consumerism from the end of the medieval period through to the beginning of the nineteenth century. The book takes a detailed look at when the 'consumer revolution' began, tracing its evolution from the years following the Black Death through to the nineteenth century. In doing so,...
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2005. — 990 p. — (The New Oxford History of England). This absorbing narrative history brings into sharp and lively focus a period of immense energy, creativity, and turmoil. The book opens in 1886, as the Empire is poised to celebrate Victoria's golden jubilee, and ends in 1918 at the close of the 'war to end all wars', with England knowing that an era...
Fontana, 1996. — 320 p. How Tory Governments Fall is a landmark study of the forces that shape – and ultimately destroy – political power. It assesses the factors that are common to the decline and fall of each Conservative administration in British history since the beginnings of the modern, party-based system. Each government is examined by the leading specialist of the...
London: White Lion Publishers, 1974. - 212 pgs. The proud story of the Territorial Army from its inception in 1908. It is the story of deeds of heroism in two World Wars; of enthusiasm battling with peacetime muddle and neglect; of an institution so peculiarly British that it bewildered and confounded its foreign critics - yet moved them to imitation. This is a new edition of the...
Arcturus Editions, 2021. — 256 p. For more than 1,000 years the British monarchy has dramatically shaped national and international history. Kings and queens have conquered territory, imposed religious change and extracted taxation, each with their own motivations and ambitions. In this beautifully illustrated book, Cath Senker delves into the extraordinary history of the...
Arcturus Editions, 2021. — 256 p. For more than 1,000 years the British monarchy has dramatically shaped national and international history. Kings and queens have conquered territory, imposed religious change and extracted taxation, each with their own motivations and ambitions. In this beautifully illustrated book, Cath Senker delves into the extraordinary history of the...
Elliott and Thompson, 2015. — 273 p. Renishaw Hall in Derbyshire has been the seat of the Sitwell family since 1625. Its remarkable story is only matched by that of the family who have dwelled there, and with whose fortunes it has risen and fallen, only to rise again. Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell were some of the brightest stars of 1920s literary society. They counted...
London: Routledge, 2003. - 210 p.
Private papers, diaries and government and Foreign Office records are used within this book to produce an analysis of the attitudes of the British political elite towards the Soviet Union, assessing the influence such attitudes had upon British foreign policy between May 1937 and August 1939.
Routledge, 2014. — 345 p. A lively social history of the roles of men and women - from workplace to household, from parish church to alehouse, from market square to marriage bed. Robert Shoemaker investigates such varied topics as crime, leisure, the theatre, religious observance, notions of morality and even changing patterns of sexual activity itself.
Penguin Books, 2016. — 302 p. Britain has always had a tangled, complex, paradoxical role in Europe's history. It has invaded and been invaded, changed sides, stood aloof, acted with both brazen cynicism and the cloudiest idealism. Every century troops from the British isles have marched across the mainland in pursuit of a great complex of different goals, foremost among them...
Pen and Sword History, 2021. — 228 p. Francis Lovell is without a doubt the most famous - if not the only famous - Lovell of Titchmarsh. In 1483 he was he was made a viscount by Edward IV, the first Lovell to be raised into the titled nobility. He is most famous for being the chamberlain and close friend of Richard III, the 'dog' of William Collingbourne's famous doggerel....
Pen and Sword History, 2021. — 228 p. Francis Lovell is without a doubt the most famous - if not the only famous - Lovell of Titchmarsh. In 1483 he was he was made a viscount by Edward IV, the first Lovell to be raised into the titled nobility. He is most famous for being the chamberlain and close friend of Richard III, the 'dog' of William Collingbourne's famous doggerel....
Pen and Sword History, 2021. — 228 p. Francis Lovell is without a doubt the most famous - if not the only famous - Lovell of Titchmarsh. In 1483 he was he was made a viscount by Edward IV, the first Lovell to be raised into the titled nobility. He is most famous for being the chamberlain and close friend of Richard III, the 'dog' of William Collingbourne's famous doggerel....
Routledge, 2018. — 181 p. What was a "garden" in medieval and early modern British culture and how was it imagined? How did it change as Europe opened up to the wider world from the 16th century onwards? In a series of fresh approaches to these questions, the contributors offer chapters that identify and discuss newly-discovered pre-modern garden spaces in archaeology and...
Chicago Review Press, 2007. — 288 p. Here at last is a history of England that is designed to entertain as well as inform and that will delight the armchair traveler, the tourist or just about anyone interested in history. No people have engendered quite so much acclaim or earned so much censure as the English: extolled as the Athenians of modern times, yet hammered for their...
D.C. Heath, 1976. — 345 p. Medieval Twilight: 1399 to 1485. The Curse of Disputed Succession. Economic Collapse and Social Dislocation. The Lion and the Unicom. Reconstructing Society, Tudor Style: 1485 to 1547. Economic Resurgence and Social Change. Old Bottles, New Wines: The Reign of Henry VII. This Realm of England Is an Empire. The Floodgates of Reformation. Uneasy...
Routledge, 2001. — 200 p. For the English people, the image of the monarchy is deeply bound up with the idea of nationhood. This book surveys aspects of England's royal heritage dialogue from the late middle ages to the 19th century, by looking at the representation of the monarchy in a variety of public monuments, both surviving and lost. Geographically, this study is confined...
The History Press, 2014. — 192 p. This book contains hundreds of "strange but true" facts and anecdotes about English history. Arranged into a miniature history of England, and with bizarre and hilarious true tales for every era, it will interest, surprise, and delight readers everywhere.
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 557 p. What role did the parish play in people’s lives in England and Wales, between 1700 and the mid-twentieth century? By comparison with globalisation and its dislocating effects, this book stresses how important parochial belonging once was. Professor Snell discusses themes such as subjective ideas of belonging, cultures of local xenophobia,...
Foreword by Dan Snow. — Welbeck Publishing, 2022. — 320 p. Historians and broadcasters Peter Snow and Ann MacMillan tell the real stories of the most powerful men and women in British history. Kings & Queens explores the lives, loves, triumphs and disasters of a monarchy that is the envy of the world. Snow and MacMillan offer a unique insight into those born to rule, whether...
[edited and translated by Carl Stephenson and Frederick George Marcham]. – New York; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1937. – 906 p. Britain's unwritten constitution depends upon a long succession of writs, oaths, ordinances, charters, grants, cases and the like. The most important of those from 600 to 1937 are gathered into one volume. The Anglo-Saxon period – The Norman...
New York, "Cambridge University Press", 2004, -299p.
This book explores popular support for the Church of England during a critical period, from the Stuart Restoration to the mid-eighteenth century, when Churchmen perceived themselves to be under attack from all sides.
In many provincial parishes, the clergy also found themselves in dispute with their congregations. These...
Cambridge University Press, 2023. — 401 p. How did Britain's most prominent armaments firms, Armstrongs and Vickers, build their businesses and sell armaments in Britain and overseas from 1855 to 1955? Joanna Spear presents a comparative analysis of these firms and considers the relationships they built with the British Government and foreign states. She reveals how the firms...
Cambridge University Press, 1993. — 209 p. This book provides a concise, illustrated history of Great Britain over the past three centuries, from its formation as a sovereign state between the Union of England and Scotland in 1707 to its partial loss of sovereignty in the accession to the European Community, confirmed in the referendum result of 1975. Professor Speck emphasises...
Harper Press, 2010. — 524 p. From one of our finest historians comes an outstanding exploration of the British monarchy from the retreat of the Romans up until the modern day. This compendium volume of two earlier books is fully revised and updated. The monarchy is one of Britain’s longest surviving institutions – as well as one of its most tumultuous and revered. In this...
Harper Collins Publishers, 2009. — 256 p. David Starkey's 'Monarchy' charts the rise of the British monarchy from the War of the Roses, the English Civil War and the Georgians, right up until the present day monarchs of the 20th Century. David Starkey's magisterial new book Monarchy charts the rise of the British crown from the insurgency of the War of the Roses, through the...
Routledge, 2002. - 320 p. ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0415207436 ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780415207430 Product Description: This collection draws together a fascinating selection of sources to illuminate this turbulent era of English history. From the bloody overthrow of Richard III in 1485, to the creation of a worldwide imperial state under Queen Anne, these sources illustrate England's difficult...
Routledge, 2021. — 261 p. Britain and its Neighbours explores instances and periods of cultural contact and exchanges between communities in Britain with those in other parts of Europe between c.500 and 1700. Collectively, the twelve case studies highlight certain aspects of cultural contact and exchange and present neglected factors, previously overlooked evidence, and new...
Routledge, 2022. — 392 p. First published in 1957, The English Woman in History displays the place women have held and the influence they have exerted within the changing pattern of English society. Ever since the days of Queen Elizabeth I the position of women in English society has been a matter of general debate. In the seventeenth century many men produced books in praise...
Routledge, 2022. — 392 p. First published in 1957, The English Woman in History displays the place women have held and the influence they have exerted within the changing pattern of English society. Ever since the days of Queen Elizabeth I the position of women in English society has been a matter of general debate. In the seventeenth century many men produced books in praise...
Pen and Sword History, 2017. — 248 p. The River Thames has been integral to the prosperity of London since Roman times. Explorers sailed away on voyages of discovery to distant lands. Colonies were established and a great empire grew. Funding their ships and cargoes helped make the City of London into the world's leading financial center. In the 19th century a vast network of...
Pegasus Books, 2019. — 608 р. — ISBN: 1643130137. An authoritative and sweeping history of Britain from the Romans to the present day—in a newly revised edition for the next generation of readers. The Story of Britain is an accessible one-volume history that clearly depict Britain's origins—and explain how the past shaped the nation's current identity. He begins the story of...
The History Press, 2014. — 228 p. From Jack the Ripper to long-forgotten cases, a true crime for ever day of the year. May 19, 1536: Anne Boleyn, charged with high treason, is beheaded at the Tower of London August 31, 1888: Mary Ann Nichols, the first victim of Jack the Ripper, is found murdered in Buck's Row December 18, 1914: George Joseph Smith murders his wife in a...
W. W. Norton & Company, 2006. — 336 p. One of the world's leading geneticists, Bryan Sykes has helped thousands find their ancestry in the British Isles. Saxons, Vikings, and Celts , which resulted from a systematic ten-year DNA survey of more than 10,000 volunteers, traces the true genetic makeup of the British Isles and its descendants, taking readers from the Pontnewydd cave in...
W. W. Norton & Company, 2006. — 336 p. One of the world's leading geneticists, Bryan Sykes has helped thousands find their ancestry in the British Isles. Saxons, Vikings, and Celts , which resulted from a systematic ten-year DNA survey of more than 10,000 volunteers, traces the true genetic makeup of the British Isles and its descendants, taking readers from the Pontnewydd cave in...
Pen and Sword History, 2018. — 144 p. South Devon is steeped in history from prehistoric settlements, standing stones and Roman occupation, to the sites of Civil War battles and the various departure points of troops leaving for D-Day during the Second World War.Woolly rhinoceroses and woolly mammoths, as well as prehistoric deer and lion once roamed the area now known as...
Routledge, 2022. — 360 p. From Margaret of Anjou to Katherine Parr, All the Queen’s Jewels examines the jewellery collections of the ten queen consorts of England between 1445–1548 and investigates the collections of jewels a queen had access to, as well as the varying contexts in which queens used and wore jewels. The jewellery worn by queens reflected both their gender and...
Routledge, 2022. — 360 p. From Margaret of Anjou to Katherine Parr, All the Queen’s Jewels examines the jewellery collections of the ten queen consorts of England between 1445–1548 and investigates the collections of jewels a queen had access to, as well as the varying contexts in which queens used and wore jewels. The jewellery worn by queens reflected both their gender and...
The History Press, 2017. — 224 p. The English are often confused about who they are. They say 'British' when they mean 'English', and 'English' when they should say 'British.' But when England, more than the rest of the UK, voted to leave the EU, polls showed national identity was a big concern. So it's time the English sorted out in their minds what it means to be English. A...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. — 195 p. — ISBN: 978-0-230303-88-9. A wide-ranging new survey of the role of the sea in Britain's global presence in the 19th century. Mostly at peace, but sometimes at war, Britain grew as a maritime empire in the Victorian era. This collection looks at British sea-power as a strategic, moral and cultural force.
Greenwood, 2004. — 224 p. This unique resource describes and evaluates ten of the most important events in British history between the Norman Conquest of 1066 and the Glorious Revolution of 1689 and its aftermath. A full chapter is devoted to each event, and each chapter includes an introduction presenting factual information in a clear, chronological order. Longer,...
London: Odham Press Limited. 1952. — 160 p.
This complete pictorial record of the life of His Majesty the late King George VI will be treasured in homes throughout the world as a worthy memento of great Monarch who, by his simple humanity, deviotion to duty, and service to his peoples, earned the deep affection of millions. Within these pages, against the backround of fifty-six...
London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. — 320 p. Walpole to Shelburne Addington to Melbourne Peel to Rosebery Salisbury to Asquith LLoyd George to Chamberlain Attlee to Douglas-Home Heath to Callaghan Thatcher to Blair Comparative Perspectives Description Having lost an election, been thrown out by their party, or retired on grounds of ill-health, what do former British prime...
Cambridge University Press, 1996. - 362 p.
Volume 2, People and their environment, explores the questions of social structure, social mobility and class relations. Family and household, the social implications of demographic change, jobs, working and housing conditions, and family relations were all crucial elements in the shaping of group consciousness and form the main themes...
Squadron/Signal Publications, 1987. - 52 p.
Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs and line drawings with centre section of color plates, providing outstanding photographic coverage over a wide range of British Commando forces in action. Images are drawn from many private collections and archives.
Pen and Sword Books, 2011. — 208 p. Is there really a pub called The Toad Rock Retreat? Which one town has the pubs with both the longest and the shortest names? How many Lions, Crowns and Horses are there? How many pubs are called The Speculation, The Triple Plea, The Welcome Stranger? Why would you give your pub a name like The Geese Have Gone Over The Water? The author, in...
Basic Books, 2018. — 240 p. — ISBN: 978-0-465094-02-3. An upstairs/downstairs history of the British royal court, from the Middle Ages to the reign of Queen Elizabeth II. Monarchs: they're just like us. They entertain their friends and eat and worry about money. Henry VIII tripped over his dogs. George II threw his son out of the house. James I had to cut back on the alcohol...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. — 336 p. Founded by Edward III in 1348, the Most Noble Order of the Garter is the highest chivalric honor among the gifts of the Queen of England and an institution that looks proudly back to its medieval origins. But what does the annual Garter procession of modern princes and politicians decked out in velvets and silks have to do with...
Mensch Publishing, 2023. — 237 p. A mile long thoroughfare from the Circus to Hyde Park Corner, Piccadilly is a microcosm of 400 years of British history. With an incredible roster of past residents, ranging from bizarre aristocrats and larger than life politicians to celebrated writers and artists, Piccadilly is rich in tales of the weird and wonderful. The backdrop is an...
London, 1700. – 366 p. The General History of England, both Ecclesiastical and Civil; From the Earliest Accounts of Time, To the Reign of His Present Majesty, King William III. Taken from the most Ancient Records, Manuscripts, and Printed Historians. With Memorials of the most Eminent Persons in Church and State. As also the Foundations of the most Noted Monasteries, and both...
London: A&C Black, 2006. 2nd Edition. - 290 p.
From the invasion of Britain by the Danes through the battle of Hastings, Agincourt and Waterloo up to the present day, this fascinating dictionary includes entries on battles, campaigns and famous commanders, as well as ranks, regiments, uniforms and weapons. The reader will find an outline of the British army since its formation...
The History Press, 2013. — 192 p. Did you know Cornwall has the longest coastline of any English county. A quarry at Carclaze was used as the location for filming Dr. Who in the 1970s. D.H. Lawrence and his German wife were forced to leave the county in the First World War under the Defence of the Realm Act. A compendium of fascinating information about Cornwall past and...
The History Press, 2013. — 192 p. A compendium of fascinating information about Devon past and present, this book contains a plethora of entertaining facts about the county's famous and occasionally infamous men and women, its towns and countryside, history, natural history, literary, artistic and sporting achievements, agriculture, transport, industry, and royal visits. A...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2021. — 400 p. Portrait of an English Migration recounts the history of those who left North Yorkshire for North America between the eighteenth century and the early twentieth century. Focusing on individual stories of migrants and their families, this book provides many personal glimpses of the migration experience of those who left England's...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. — 721 p. The Compendium of British Office Holders provides a comprehensive guide to holders of British Political, Administrative, Military and Ecclesiastical offices since the Roman conquest, giving names, dates and the length offices were held for governmental positions. It is the first such collection of this type of research data since Haydn's...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 588 p. This wide-ranging introduction to the history of modern Britain extends from the eighteenth century to the present day. James Vernon's distinctive history is weaved around an account of the rise, fall and reinvention of liberal ideas of how markets, governments and empires should work. The history takes seriously the different...
Pluto Press, 2002. — xii, 488 p. — ISBN 0 7453 1378 7. This is a comprehensive history of Asians from the Indian subcontinent in Britain. Spanning four centuries, it tells the history of the Indian community in Britain from the servants, ayahs and sailors of the seventeenth century, to the students, princes, soldiers, professionals and entrepreneurs of the 19th and 20th...
St. Martin's Griffin, 2013. — 575 p. Maureen Waller has written a fascinating narrative history---a brilliant combination of drama and biographical insight on the British monarchy---of the six women who have ruled England in their own names. In the last millennium there have been only six English female sovereigns: Mary I and Elizabeth I, Mary II and Anne, Victoria and...
Pen and Sword History, 2019. — 160 p. There is an ancient and quite baseless myth that the use of torture has never been legal in Britain. This old wives' tale arose because torture had been neither endorsed nor forbidden by either statute or common law. In other words; the law has, until the late twentieth century, never had anything to say on the subject. In fact, torture,...
Pen and Sword History, 2018. — 184 p. All nations and peoples have a body of legendary tales and semi-historical episodes which explain who they are and help to define their place in the world. The British are no exception and in this book Simon Webb explores some of the most well-known episodes from British history; stories which tell the British about themselves and the...
3rd edition. — Routledge, 2014. — 462 p. A pioneering study which has become an established classic in its field, Sex, Politics and Society provides a lucid and comprehensive analysis of the transformations of British sexual life from 1800 to the present. These changes are firmly located in the wider context of social change, from industrialization and the experience of Empire...
London: Collins & Brown, 1990. — 162 p. — ISBN10: 1-85585-075-3. Sailors always called the Thames "London River'. For them it was a highway to one of the world's great cities and ports. Dockland ended at London Bridge, and the river above it was another world. The great di\ide between the tidal Thames and the freshwater river above Teddington is still sharply defined today,...
Pan Macmillan, 2010. — 1120 p. The London Encyclopaedia is the most comprehensive book on London ever published. In its first new edition in over ten years, completely revised and updated, it comprises some 6,000 entries, organised alphabetically, cross-referenced and supported by two large indexes – one for the 10,000 people mentioned in the text and one general – and is...
Random House, 2011. — 400 p. 'George III is alleged to have married secretly, on 17th April, 1759, a Quakeress called Hannah Lightfoot, daughter of a Wapping shoemaker, who is said to have borne him three children. Documents relating to the alleged marriage, bearing the Prince's signature, were impounded and examined in 1866 by the Attorney General. Learned opinion at the time...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1967. — 304 р.
This is an agreeable narrative, easy to read, of the history of the English nation through twenty centuries. It is intended for the reader who wants a comprehensive survey which brings out the important lines of development but does not clog the story with too many facts, dates, treaties and battles. Underlying the account...
London: Arms and Armour Press, 1997. - 97 p. This new edition of Badges of the British Army is a classic reference to the popular and diverse world of badge collecting. Since it first appeared 28 years ago it has become the favourite guide for the collector at every level, as well as a standard work in manY museums, auction houses and regimental archives. In a single,...
London: Future Publishing, 2019. — 144 p. — (Part of the All about History: Special Issue). Discover the complete history of the Normans, from the founding of their dynasty to their epic conquests and the effect they've had on the world to this day! Learn about their Viking roots and how they came to control northern France, discover their rich multicultural society and the true...
Pen and Sword History, 2022. — 364 p. The peoples of the British Isles gave to the world the foundations on which modern manufacturing economies are built. This is quite an assertion, but history shows that, in the late eighteenth century, a remarkable combination of factors and circumstances combined to give birth to Britain as the first manufacturing nation. Further factors...
Pen and Sword History, 2022. — 364 p. The peoples of the British Isles gave to the world the foundations on which modern manufacturing economies are built. This is quite an assertion, but history shows that, in the late eighteenth century, a remarkable combination of factors and circumstances combined to give birth to Britain as the first manufacturing nation. Further factors...
ABC-CLIO, 2022. — 267 p. London is one of the largest cultural and financial centers in the world. How did it become the capital city of the United Kingdom, and what is life like in this global city today? Narrative chapters cover a wide range of topics in this volume, examining such themes as location, people, history, politics, economy, environment and sustainability, local...
Modern Library, 2004. — 137 p. — (Modern Library Chronicles). — ISBN: 978-0-679642-66-8. In its two thousand years of history, London has ruled a rainy island and a globe-spanning empire, it has endured plague and fire and bombing, it has nurtured and destroyed poets and kings, revolutionaries and financiers, geniuses and visionaries of every stripe. To distill the magic and...
Quadrille Publishing, 2021. — 224 p. Bestselling author Christopher Winn takes a closer look at our Roads, Avenues, Groves, Gardens, Hills and Lanes. There are around 800,000 streets in the UK and the name of each one tells a tale. We take them for granted but the choice of name can reveal facts about Britain's history, geography, topography and nature, even its politics and...
Pen & Sword History, 2016. — 198 p. The true stories of eleven notorious women, across five centuries, who were feared, victimized, and condemned for witchcraft in the British Isles. Beginning with the late Middle Ages—from Ireland to Hampshire—hundreds of women were accused of spellcasting, wicked seduction, murder, and consorting with the devil. Most were fated for the gallows...
Penguin, 2010. — 458 p. The village of Kibworth in Leicestershire lies at the very centre of England. It has a church, some pubs, the Grand Union Canal, a First World War Memorial - and many centuries of recorded history. Bought in the thirteenth century by William de Merton, who founded Merton College, Oxford, it also lodges 750 years of village history. Michael Wood tells the...
Penguin, 2010. — 458 p. The village of Kibworth in Leicestershire lies at the very centre of England. It has a church, some pubs, the Grand Union Canal, a First World War Memorial - and many centuries of recorded history. Bought in the thirteenth century by William de Merton, who founded Merton College, Oxford, it also lodges 750 years of village history. Michael Wood tells the...
W.H. Allen, 2022. — 400 p. Longing to go back to the 'good old days' is nothing new. For hundreds of years, the British have mourned the loss of older national identities and called for a revival 'simple', 'better' ways of life - from Margaret Thatcher's call for a return to 'Victorian values' in the 1980s, to William Blake's protest against the 'dark satanic mills' of the...
London: Arthur hall, Virtue & Co., 1852. — 565 p. Ethnological Views. British Antiquities. Britain at the beginning of the Second Centur. A Journey through Roman Britain. A Roman Town in Britain. The Country. Manufactures of the Romans in Britain. Ethnological Character of the Roman Population of Britain. Religious Worship of the Romans in Britain. Modes of Sepulture in Roman...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 433 p. The rise of social history has had a transforming influence on the history of early modern England. It has broadened the historical agenda to include many previously little-studied, or wholly neglected, dimensions of the English past. It has also provided a fuller context for understanding more established themes in the...
Ossolineum, 2001. — 434 s. Omówione zagadnienia : Brytania starożytna, okres anglosaski, Anglia pod koniec średniowiecza, monarchia pierwszych Tudorów, Anglia w epoce rewolucji burżuazyjnej, Wielka Brytania w dobie rewolucji amerykańskiej i francuskiej oraz wojen napoleońskich, era średniowiktoriańska, od końca II wojny światowej do końca XX wieku. Skompresować dzieje Anglii w...
Ossolineum, 2001. — 434 s. PDF лучшего качества. Synteza dziejów Anglii od czasów najdawniejszych aż do roku 2000, uwzględniająca zagadnienia polityczne, społeczne, gospodarcze i kulturalne. Autor znaczną uwagę poświęcił przodującej i inspirującej roli Anglii w dziejach myśli politycznej i instytucji ustrojowych, nauki i techniki oraz jej wkładowi do cywilizacji powszechnej....
Коллективная монография. — М.: ИВИ РАН, 2019. — 390 с. В число авторов монографии вошли ведущие отечественные специалисты, посвящена она 25-летнию создания Ассоциации британских исследований Института всеобщей истории РАН. Монография содержит разделы по истории Британии от Средних веков до середины XX века. Значительное внимание авторы уделили анализу развития изучения истории...
СПб.: Алетейя, 2017. — 360 с. — (Pax Britannica). — ISBN: 978-5-906910-30-1. Коллективная монография, посвященная юбилею известного ученого-англоведа, специалиста по ранней истории политических партий, культуре Просвещения, гендерным исследованиям, российско-британским отношениям XVI-XVIII вв., компаративистике, имагологии Т.Л.Лабутиной объединила усилия ее друзей, коллег и...
Учебное пособие. — М.: КДУ, 2007. — 204 с. — ISBN 978-5-98227-145-7.
В учебном пособии изложены основные тенденции развития политических институтов Британии. Рассматривается эволюция парламентской системы и ее реформирование в XIX и начале XX вв., зарождение парламентских группировок и их трансформация в политические партии, появление кабинетной системы управления и становление...
Учебное пособие. — М.: КДУ, 2007. — 204 с. — ISBN: 978-5-98227-145-7. В учебном пособии изложены основные тенденции развития политических институтов Британии. Рассматривается эволюция парламентской системы и ее реформирование в XIX и начале XX вв., зарождение парламентских группировок и их трансформация в политические партии, появление кабинетной системы управления и...
М.: ИВИ РАН, 2009. - 398 c.
На основе разнообразных по характеру документов в монографии анализируется динамика развития властных институтов Британии. Параллельно автор исследует глубокие перемены в социальной сфере, зарождение и развитие различных общественных организаций, многочисленных общественных движений, выдвигавших требования проведения преобразований. Длительный период...
М.: КоЛибри, 2020. — 624 с. — (История Англии). — ISBN: 978-5-389-18476-3. История Англии — это непрерывное движение и череда постоянных изменений. Но всю историю Англии начиная с первобытности пронизывает преемственность, так что главное в ней — не изменения, а постоянство. До сих пор в Англии чувствуется неразрывная связь с прошлым, с традициями и обычаями. До сих пор эта...
М.: КоЛибри, 2020. — 624 с. — (История Англии). — ISBN: 978-5-389-18476-3. История Англии — это непрерывное движение и череда постоянных изменений. Но всю историю Англии начиная с первобытности пронизывает преемственность, так что главное в ней — не изменения, а постоянство. До сих пор в Англии чувствуется неразрывная связь с прошлым, с традициями и обычаями. До сих пор эта...
М.: КоЛибри, 2020. — 656 с. — (История Англии). — ISBN: 978-5-389-18479-4. История Англии — это непрерывное движение и череда постоянных изменений. Но всю историю Англии начиная с первобытности пронизывает преемственность, так что главное в ней — не изменения, а постоянство. До сих пор в Англии чувствуется неразрывная связь с прошлым, с традициями и обычаями. До сих пор эта...
М.: КоЛибри, 2020. — 656 с. — (История Англии). — ISBN: 978-5-389-18479-4. История Англии — это непрерывное движение и череда постоянных изменений. Но всю историю Англии начиная с первобытности пронизывает преемственность, так что главное в ней — не изменения, а постоянство. До сих пор в Англии чувствуется неразрывная связь с прошлым, с традициями и обычаями. До сих пор эта...
М.: КоЛибри, 2020. — 624 с. — (История Англии). — ISBN: 978-5-389-18476-3. История Англии — это непрерывное движение и череда постоянных изменений. Но всю историю Англии начиная с первобытности пронизывает преемственность, так что главное в ней — не изменения, а постоянство. До сих пор в Англии чувствуется неразрывная связь с прошлым, с традициями и обычаями. До сих пор эта...
М.: КоЛибри, 2020. — 624 с. — (История Англии). — ISBN 978-5-389-18476-3. История Англии — это непрерывное движение и череда постоянных изменений. Но всю историю Англии начиная с первобытности пронизывает преемственность, так что главное в ней — не изменения, а постоянство. До сих пор в Англии чувствуется неразрывная связь с прошлым, с традициями и обычаями. До сих пор эта...
М.: КоЛибри, 2020. — 656 с. — (История Англии). — ISBN: 978-5-389-18479-4. История Англии — это непрерывное движение и череда постоянных изменений. Но всю историю Англии начиная с первобытности пронизывает преемственность, так что главное в ней — не изменения, а постоянство. До сих пор в Англии чувствуется неразрывная связь с прошлым, с традициями и обычаями. До сих пор эта...
М.: КоЛибри, 2020. — 656 с. — (История Англии). — ISBN 978-5-389-18479-4. История Англии — это непрерывное движение и череда постоянных изменений. Но всю историю Англии начиная с первобытности пронизывает преемственность, так что главное в ней — не изменения, а постоянство. До сих пор в Англии чувствуется неразрывная связь с прошлым, с традициями и обычаями. До сих пор эта...
Пер. с англ. О. В. Строгановой. — М.: КоЛибри, Азбука-Аттикус, 2021. — 656 с.; ил. — ISBN 978-5-389-14823-9 История Англии — это непрерывное движение и череда постоянных изменений. Но всю историю Англии начиная с первобытности пронизывает преемственность, так что главное в ней — не изменения, а постоянство. До сих пор в Англии чувствуется неразрывная связь с прошлым, с...
СПб.: Азбука-Аттикус , 2021. — 620 с. — ISBN 978-5-389-14824-6. История Англии – это непрерывное движение и череда постоянных изменений. Но всю историю Англии начиная с первобытности пронизывает преемственность, так что главное в ней – не изменения, а постоянство. До сих пор в Англии чувствуется неразрывная связь с прошлым, с традициями и обычаями. До сих пор эта страна...
СПб.: Азбука-Аттикус, 2021. — ISBN 978-5-389-20979-4. История Англии – это непрерывное движение и череда постоянных изменений. Но всю историю Англии начиная с первобытности пронизывает преемственность, так что главное в ней – не изменения, а постоянство. До сих пор в Англии чувствуется неразрывная связь с прошлым, с традициями и обычаями. До сих пор эта страна сопротивляется...
СПб.: Азбука-Аттикус, 2021. — ISBN 978-5-389-20979-4. История Англии – это непрерывное движение и череда постоянных изменений. Но всю историю Англии начиная с первобытности пронизывает преемственность, так что главное в ней – не изменения, а постоянство. До сих пор в Англии чувствуется неразрывная связь с прошлым, с традициями и обычаями. До сих пор эта страна сопротивляется...
Санкт-Петербург: Издание Л. Ф. Пантелеева, 1888. — 338 с. Литература: источники и пособия Нормандское завоевание Англии и его значение Административная централизация при Генрихе II Взаимные отношения политических сил: церковь, королевская власть и бароны Высшие государственные должности Королевский совет и бароны Королевский совет и общины (1272-1399) Характер законодательства...
Варшава: Типография К. Ковалевского, 1890. — 144 с. История английского тайного совета от смерти Генриха VIII до половины XVII века Идея тайного совета. Важнейшее отличие тайного совета от государственного совета Франции старого порядка. Деление на периоды и их характеристика Источники и их деление Состав совета и его организация Компетенция тайного совета и его участие в деле...
Учебник. - Ростов-на-Дону: ЮФУ, 2018. - 228 с. Настоящее издание является первой частью учебника по истории Англии с древности до 2018 г. В настоящем учебнике речь идёт об истории Великобритании в период с древнейших времён до конца XVI в., в рамках которого рассматриваются проблемы экономического, политического, социального и культурного развития Англии. Рассматриваются такие...
London: A. Pitkin. Made and printed by William Clowes and Sons Ltd, London, 1952. - 28 pages.
История самого главного аббатства Англии в фотографиях и рисунках. Очень подробное собрание фактического материала страноведческого характера. На английском языке.
СПб.: Алетейя, 2022. — 262 с.: ил. — (Pax Britannica). — ISBN 978-5-00165-404-9. В монографии рассматривается проблема школьного образования в ходе реформ Консервативной, Либеральной и Лейбористской партий с 1870 г. по 1997 г. Охарактеризованы и систематизированы разные типы государственных школ, частных заведений и церковных школ разных конфессий. Повышенное внимание уделено...
СПб.: Алетейя, 2022. — 262 с.: ил. — (Pax Britannica). — ISBN 978-5-00165-404-9. В монографии рассматривается проблема школьного образования в ходе реформ Консервативной, Либеральной и Лейбористской партий с 1870 г. по 1997 г. Охарактеризованы и систематизированы разные типы государственных школ, частных заведений и церковных школ разных конфессий. Повышенное внимание уделено...
СПб.: Евразия, 2008. - 546 с. - (Историческая библиотека) ISBN: 978-5-8071-0297-3 Книга Джереми Блэка, известного ученого, профессора Экзетерского университета, освещает историю Британских островов с древнейших времен до наших дней. Британские острова - это не только Англия, но еще и Шотландия, Ирландия и Уэльс. Автор полагает, что картина английской истории вне контекста...
СПб.: Евразия, 2008. - 546 с. - (Историческая библиотека) ISBN: 978-5-8071-0297-3 Книга Джереми Блэка, известного ученого, профессора Экзетерского университета, освещает историю Британских островов с древнейших времен до наших дней. Британские острова - это не только Англия, но еще и Шотландия, Ирландия и Уэльс. Автор полагает, что картина английской истории вне контекста...
СПб.: Евразия, 2008. — 546 с. — (Историческая библиотека). — ISBN: 978-5-8071-0297-3. Книга Джереми Блэка, известного ученого, профессора Экзетерского университета, освещает историю Британских островов с древнейших времен до наших дней. Британские острова - это не только Англия, но еще и Шотландия, Ирландия и Уэльс. Автор полагает, что картина английской истории вне контекста...
Санкт-Петербург : Евразия, 2008. — 540 с. — ISBN: 978-5-8071-0297-3. Книга Джереми Блэка, известного ученого, профессора Экзетерского университета, освещает историю Британских островов с древнейших времен до наших дней. Британские острова — это не только Англия, но еще и Шотландия, Ирландия и Уэльс. Автор полагает, что картина английской истории вне контекста внутренних...
Издание Ф. Павленкова, 1906. — 672 с. Бокль Генри Томас (Buckle Henry Thomas) (1821—62), англ. социолог, автор знаменитой в свое время книги «История цивилизации в Англии» («History of civilization in England», L., 1857—61). Ранняя смерть помешала Б. довести до конца задуманное им громадное исследование: его книга обрывается на 18 в. Исторический материал служит для Б. только...
Издание Ф. Павленкова, 1906. — 672 с. Бокль Генри Томас (Buckle Henry Thomas) (1821—62), англ. социолог, автор знаменитой в свое время книги «История цивилизации в Англии» («History of civilization in England», L., 1857—61). Ранняя смерть помешала Б. довести до конца задуманное им громадное исследование: его книга обрывается на 18 в. Исторический материал служит для Б. только...
Издание Ф. Павленкова, 1895. — Генри Томас Бокль (1821 - 1862) - выдающийся английский мыслитель. Предлагаемое произведение являет собой памятник политической и социологической мысли XIX в., ставший бестселлером на многие годы. Книга содержит интереснейшие и оригинальные размышления над проблемами истории и развития цивилизаций, которые приобрели новую актуальность в наше...
Издание Ф. Павленкова, 1895. Генри Томас Бокль (1821 - 1862) - выдающийся английский мыслитель. Предлагаемое произведение являет собой памятник политической и социологической мысли XIX в., ставший бестселлером на многие годы. Книга содержит интереснейшие и оригинальные размышления над проблемами истории и развития цивилизаций, которые приобрели новую актуальность в наше время....
В двух томах. — М.: Мысль, 2000. — 461, [1] с. — ISBN: 5-244-00770-Х. Генри Томас Бокль (1821 —1862) — выдающийся английский мыслитель. Предлагаемое произведение являет собой памятник политической и социологической мысли XIX в., ставший бестселлером на многие годы. Книга содержит интереснейшие и оригинальные размышления над проблемами истории и развития цивилизаций, которые...
В двух томах. — М.: Мысль, 2000. — 461, [1] с. — ISBN: 5-244-00770-Х. Генри Томас Бокль (1821 —1862) — выдающийся английский мыслитель. Предлагаемое произведение являет собой памятник политической и социологической мысли XIX в., ставший бестселлером на многие годы. Книга содержит интереснейшие и оригинальные размышления над проблемами истории и развития цивилизаций, которые...
В двух томах. — М.: Мысль, 2002. — 509, [1 ] с. — ISBN: 5-244-01006-9. Генри Томас Бокль (1821 —1862) — выдающийся английский мыслитель. Предлагаемое произведение представляет собой памятник политической и социологической мысли XIX в., ставший бестселлером на многие годы. Книга содержит интереснейшие и оригинальные размышления над проблемами истории и развития цивилизации,...
В двух томах. — М.: Мысль, 2002. — 509, [1 ] с. — ISBN: 5-244-01006-9. Генри Томас Бокль (1821 —1862) — выдающийся английский мыслитель. Предлагаемое произведение представляет собой памятник политической и социологической мысли XIX в., ставший бестселлером на многие годы. Книга содержит интереснейшие и оригинальные размышления над проблемами истории и развития цивилизации,...
Монография. — СПб.: Изд‑во С.‑Петерб. ун-та, 2020. — 766 с. — илл. История Англии тесно связана с судьбой всего мира. Так уж получилось, что происходившее в островном государстве касалось жизни людей на разных континентах. Рассказывая о главных событиях в британской истории, о монархах, прославившихся далеко за пределами своей страны, о полководцах и деятелях культуры, автор...
Монография. — СПб.: Изд‑во С.‑Петерб. ун-та, 2020. — 672 с. — ISBN: 978-5-288-05983-4. История Англии тесно связана с судьбой всего мира. Так уж получилось, что происходившее в островном государстве касалось жизни людей на разных континентах. Рассказывая о главных событиях в британской истории, о монархах, прославившихся далеко за пределами своей страны, о полководцах и...
Монография. — СПб.: Изд‑во С.‑Петерб. ун-та, 2020. — 766 с. — ISBN: 978-5-288-05983-4. История Англии тесно связана с судьбой всего мира. Так уж получилось, что происходившее в островном государстве касалось жизни людей на разных континентах. Рассказывая о главных событиях в британской истории, о монархах, прославившихся далеко за пределами своей страны, о полководцах и...
Монография. — СПб.: Изд‑во С.‑Петерб. ун-та, 2020. — 766 с. — ISBN: 978-5-288-05983-4. История Англии тесно связана с судьбой всего мира. Так уж получилось, что происходившее в островном государстве касалось жизни людей на разных континентах. Рассказывая о главных событиях в британской истории, о монархах, прославившихся далеко за пределами своей страны, о полководцах и...
Монография. — СПб.: Изд‑во С.‑Петерб. ун-та, 2020. — 766 с. — ISBN: 978-5-288-05983-4. История Англии тесно связана с судьбой всего мира. Так уж получилось, что происходившее в островном государстве касалось жизни людей на разных континентах. Рассказывая о главных событиях в британской истории, о монархах, прославившихся далеко за пределами своей страны, о полководцах и...
Монография. — СПб.: Изд‑во С.‑Петерб. ун-та, 2020. — 672 с. — ISBN 978-5-288-05983-4. История Англии тесно связана с судьбой всего мира. Так уж получилось, что происходившее в островном государстве касалось жизни людей на разных континентах. Рассказывая о главных событиях в британской истории, о монархах, прославившихся далеко за пределами своей страны, о полководцах и деятелях...
М.: Московский рабочий, 1929. — 148 с.
В книге дан очерк истории движения английских луддитов - "разрушителей машин" - одной из первых форм массового организованного движения трудящихся эпохи промышленного капитализма.
М.: Московский рабочий, 1929. — 148 с. В книге дан очерк истории движения английских луддитов - "разрушителей машин" - одной из первых форм массового организованного движения трудящихся эпохи промышленного капитализма.
Перевод с английского Владимира Ильина. — СПб. : Книжный магазин О.Н. Поповой, 1901.— С. 369-780. — (Экономическая библиотека). Владимир Ильин - псевдоним В.И. Ленина, выступившего в качестве переводчика тома. Функции тред-юнионов. (Продолжение). СТР. Доступ в промысел. Право на промысел. Следствия тред-юнионизма. Предпосылки тред-юнионизма. Teopия тред-юнионизма. Суждения...
Перевод с английского Владимира Ильина. — СПб. : Книжный магазин О.Н. Поповой, 1901. — С. 369-780. — (Экономическая библиотека). Владимир Ильин - псевдоним В.И. Ленина, выступившего в качестве переводчика тома. Функции тред-юнионов. (Продолжение). СТР. Доступ в промысел. Право на промысел. Следствия тред-юнионизма. Предпосылки тред-юнионизма. Teopия тред-юнионизма. Суждения...
Пер. с англ.: Елисавета Волкова. — Бостон / СПб.: Academic Studies Press / Библиороссика, 2024. — 198 с., илл. — (Современная европеистика).— ISBN 979-8-887196-11-4, 978-5-907767-57-7. В книге «Далекие чужие» Джеймс Вернон утверждает, что мир стал современным не благодаря революции, индустриализации или Просвещению. Вместо этого он показывает, как в Великобритании к середине...
Пер. с англ.: Елисавета Волкова. — Бостон / СПб.: Academic Studies Press / Библиороссика, 2024. — 198 с., илл. — (Современная европеистика).— ISBN 979-8-887196-11-4, 978-5-907767-57-7. В книге «Далекие чужие» Джеймс Вернон утверждает, что мир стал современным не благодаря революции, индустриализации или Просвещению. Вместо этого он показывает, как в Великобритании к середине...
Пер. с англ.: Елисавета Волкова. — Бостон / СПб.: Academic Studies Press / Библиороссика, 2024. — 198 с., илл. — (Современная европеистика).— ISBN 979-8-887196-11-4, 978-5-907767-57-7. В книге «Далекие чужие» Джеймс Вернон утверждает, что мир стал современным не благодаря революции, индустриализации или Просвещению. Вместо этого он показывает, как в Великобритании к середине...
М.: Соцэкгиз, 1937. — 438 с. Настоящая книга «История Англии в эпоху империализма» французского буржуазного историка Э. Галеви является переводом VIII и IX томов («Эпилог») его девятитомной работы (»История английского народа в XIX веке»). Первый том «Эпилога», соответствующий первому тому настоящего издания, появился в 1926 г. и охватывает период 1895—1905 гг. Автор дает в этой...
М.: Университет Дмитрия Пожарского, 2015. — 600 с. — (Исторические источники). — ISBN: 978-5-91244-046-5. «История англов» Генриха, архидиакона Хантингдона — один из самых ярких и интересных памятников английского средневекового историописа-ния. Генрих работал над этим масштабным трудом на протяжении примерно двух десятилетий — с середины 30-х по середину 50-х годов XII в. В...
М.: Университет Дмитрия Пожарского, 2015. — 600 с. — (Исторические источники). — ISBN: 978-5-91244-046-5. "История Англов" Генриха, архидиакона Хантингдона - один из самых ярких и интересных памятников английского средневекового историописания. Генрих работал над этим масштабным трудом на протяжении примерно двух десятилетий - с середины 30-х по середину 50-х годов XII в. В...
М.: Типолитография В.С. Траугот, 1896. — 347 с. Из предисловия к книге: Автора «Английских реформаторов» следует отнести к разряду тех западноевропейских публицистов, для которых не прошли бесследно слишком яркие и красноречивые явления, вызванные промышленным развитием последних десятилетий. Эти писатели освободились от воззрений и приемов «иcследования» так называемых...
М.: Типолитография В.С. Траугот, 1896. — 347 с. Из предисловия к книге: Автора «Английских реформаторов» следует отнести к разряду тех западноевропейских публицистов, для которых не прошли бесследно слишком яркие и красноречивые явления, вызванные промышленным развитием последних десятилетий. Эти писатели освободились от воззрений и приемов «иcследования» так называемых...
Москва: Издание К. Т. Солдатенкова, 1885. — 858 с. Перевод с немецкого под редакцией С. А. Венгерова. Работа немецкого юриста, историка и политического деятеля Генриха Рудольфа Германа Фридриха фон Гнейста (1816-1895) посвящена истории конституционного устройства, органов власти и государственного управления в Англии/Великобритании от англосаксов до XIX века. Опубликована в...
Пер. с англ., дополнения и комментарии Ф. Силонова.
Париж, Европейская библиотека Будри, 1849 г.
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Минск: Минская фабрика цветной печати, 2007. — 720 с.
Для массового русскоязычного читателя и специалистов данное переиздание в 2 томах открывает доступ к книге, имевшей в Европе 19-20 ст. небывалый и шумный успех. Особая познавательная ценность и увлекательность произведения известного английского историка Джона Ричарда Грина (1837-1883) сохранились до наших дней. Его простой...
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Минск: Минская фабрика цветной печати, 2007. — 720 с. — (Народы Земли. История. Религия. Культура). — ISBN: 978-985-454-358-1. Для массового русскоязычного читателя и специалистов данное переиздание открывает доступ к книге, имевшей в Европе 19—20 ст. небывалый и шумный успех. Особая познавательная ценность и увлекательность произведения известного английского историка Джона...
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Москва: Типо-Литография В. Рихтера, 1891. — 450 с. Перевод с английского П. Николаева. В 1874-м английский историк Джон Ричард Грин (1837-1883) опубликовал свою знаменитую «Краткую историю английского народа», основные тезисы которой он в более подробном виде изложил в четырёхтомной «Истории английского народа», опубликованной в 1878-1880 годах. В 1891-1892 годах в Москве издан...
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Москва: Типо-Литография В. Ф. Рихтера, 1892. — 365 с. Перевод с английского П. Николаева. В 1874-м английский историк Джон Ричард Грин (1837-1883) опубликовал свою знаменитую «Краткую историю английского народа», основные тезисы которой он в более подробном виде изложил в четырёхтомной «Истории английского народа», опубликованной в 1878-1880 годах. В 1891-1892 годах в Москве...
Москва: Типо-Литография В. Ф. Рихтера, 1892. — 426 с. Перевод с английского П. Николаева. В 1874-м английский историк Джон Ричард Грин (1837-1883) опубликовал свою знаменитую «Краткую историю английского народа», основные тезисы которой он в более подробном виде изложил в четырёхтомной «Истории английского народа», опубликованной в 1878-1880 годах. В 1891-1892 годах в Москве...
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М.: Наука, 2002. - 409 с.
Инициатором создания серии "Россия и Британия" и ответственным редактором первых двух выпусков был видный российский историк академик В.Г. Трухановский, скончавшийся в 2000 г. Выпуск третий посвящён его памяти. Читателю предоставляется возможность познакомиться с Владимиром Григорьевичем, прочитав его последнее подробное интервью, воспоминания его...
М.: Эксмо; СПб.: Мидгард, 2007. — 224 с.: ил. — (Биографии чудес света). — ISBN: 978-5-699-23320-5. В этом месте ощущается дыхание истории, здесь живы традиции великой империи, здесь воплощен национальный дух Великобритании. Вестминстерское аббатство — сердце Лондона, всей страны и всей нации. Это выдающийся памятник архитектуры и сооружение историческое — в самом широком...
Пер. с англ. Т. Бердиковой, М. Тюнькиной. — М.: Наука, 2021. — 579 с., илл. — ISBN 978-5-02-040814-2. «История Англии для юных» Чарльза Диккенса – занимательное повествование о прошлом Великобритании, искрящееся юмором, полное иронии и знания человеческой природы. Написанная Диккенсом для собственных детей в 1853 году, эта книга нисколько не потеряла своей актуальности и,...
Сборник очерков и статей. — Издание журнала «Русское богатство». — СПб.: Типография Н.Н. Клобукова, 1905. — 502 с. Сборник очерков и статей Исаака Владимировича (Вульфовича) Шкловского (1864—1935) — публициста, этнографа и беллетриста родом из Украины (детство, юность). В свое время считался самым авторитетным специалистом по Великобритании. В предложенном сборнике описаны...
М.: Вече, 2009. — 339 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9533-3737-3. Замки. Стены этих величественных строений помнят блистательные турниры и шумные балы, тайные заговоры и торжественные коронации, семейные предания и любовные драмы. Замки, выстоявшие в схватке со временем; замки, опаленные битвами и обагренные кровью; наконец, замки, воплотившие мечту о красоте и свободе, - все это...
М.: Вече, 2009. — 339 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9533-3737-3. Замки. Стены этих величественных строений помнят блистательные турниры и шумные балы, тайные заговоры и торжественные коронации, семейные предания и любовные драмы. Замки, выстоявшие в схватке со временем; замки, опаленные битвами и обагренные кровью; наконец, замки, воплотившие мечту о красоте и свободе, - все это...
Ирландия - остров, затерянный на краю земли, избежавший римской оккупации и неурядиц Великого Переселения, ставший своеобразным заповедником христианской учености и духовности. Мало где говорится о том великом вкладе, который кельты внесли в становление христианской церкви в Средние Века. Между тем, вклад был, и был он велик.
Учебное пособие. — Владимир : Владимирский государственный университет имени Александра Григорьевича и Николая Григорьевича Столетовых, 2024. — 284 с. — ISBN 978-5-9984-2164-8. Cостоит из трех разделов. В первом разделе представлены особенности развития меценатской деятельности в Великобритании, во втором проанализированы проблемы женского образования и процесс его становления,...
М.: ACT: Астрель, 2008. — 294 с. — ISBN 978-5-17-047178-2, 978-5-271-18680-6.
Книга рассказывает об истории Англии с древних времен и до наших дней. Настоящее издание представляет собой перевод оригинальной книги Robin Eagles. The Rough Guide Chronicle. England. Книга будет полезна всем интересующимся историей, а также школьникам и студентам.
Пер. с англ. Г. В. Горевцова. – М. : ACT: Астрель, 2008. – X, 294 с.: ил.
Книга рассказывает об истории Англии с древних времен и до наших дней. Настоящее издание представляет собой перевод оригинальной книги Robin Eagles. The Rough Guide Chronicle. England, опубликованной издательством Rough Guides Ltd. 80 Strand. London. Будет полезна всем интересующимся историей, а также...
СПб: Типография В.С. Балашева и К° и бр. Пантелеевых, 1893. — 430 с. Работа дореволюционного российского экономиста Иллариона Игнатьевича Кауфмана (1847-1916) «Государственный долг Англии с 1688 по 1890 г.: опыт историко-статистической монографии кредитных операций, производившихся в Англии в связи с экстраординарными финансами» посвящена истории государственного долга Англии /...
СПб: Типография А. Е. Ландау, 1877. — 378 с. Работа дореволюционного российского экономиста Иллариона Игнатьевича Кауфмана (1847-1916) посвящена британской финансовой истории с 1797 по 1824 годы, от приостановления размена бумажных фунтов стерлингов на золото в 1797-м до восстановления этого размена Банком Англии в 1821-м.
М.: Высшая школа, 1979. — 384 с. В пособии излагается история Англии, география и культура с древнейших времен до наших дней. Содержит рассматриваемые вопросы: Централизация английского государства и образование феодальной монархии. Революционная ситуация. Гражданская война 1642—1646 гг. Эпоха Реставрации и переворот 1688 г. Оформление английской парламентской системы....
М.: Высшая школа, 1979. — 384 с.
В пособии излагается история Англии, география и культура с древнейших времен до наших дней. Содержит рассматриваемые вопросы: Централизация английского государства и образование феодальной монархии. Революционная ситуация. Гражданская война 1642—1646 гг. Эпоха Реставрации и переворот 1688 г. Оформление английской парламентской системы....
Учебное пособие. - 2-е издание, перераб. — М.: Высшая школа, 1979. — 384 с., ил. Во втором, переработанном издании пособия излагается география Англии, её история и культура с древнейших времён до наших дней. Значительное внимание уделяется вопросам рабочего движения, истории социалистических идей и организаций; прослеживается зарождение и развитие социалистической культуры в...
Без выходных данных. — 412 с. История групп Coil, Current 93 и Nurse With Wound, а также рассказ о культурной атмосфере андеграундной Британии 1970-2000-х. ГГ — музыканты, художники, писатели, оккультисты, кинорежиссеры и кошки. Дэвид Кинан Визит в Царство Кошек, или Кэтленд Назад, и быстрее Случайная встреча Равноденствие псов Zos Kia и далее Любовь всерьез У Англии черное...
Пер. И. Давыдов. — Москва: Индивидуум, 2021. — 312 с. — ISBN 978-5-6045426-9-9. Их называли разрушителями цивилизации и обвиняли во всех смертных грехах. Они и правда знали толк в грехе и в искуплении. Эта книга – о людях, которые перевернули представления общества о творчестве, мистицизме и экстремальном образе жизни, – о британских экспериментаторах, ставивших опыты на себе и...
Учебное пособие. — Таганрог: Южный федеральный университет, 2016. — 230 с. — ISBN 978-5-9275-2111-1. Учебное пособие посвящено анализу эволюции парламента и институтов политического участия в английской политической системе первой трети XVIII в. В истории английских политических институтов первая треть XVIII в. отмечена постепенным переходом к парламентской монархии и...
Учебник. — Ростов-на-Дону, Таганрог: ЮФУ, 2020. — 114 с. Данное издание является частью учебника по истории Великобритании и охватывает период с начала XX в. до современности. В учебнике рассматриваются основные направления внутренней, внешней и колониальной политики Великобритании в рассматриваемый период. Издание адресовано студентам исторических факультетам, всем...
Тамбов: Тамбов, 2023. — 413 с. Питер Косс - британский учёный-медиевист родился в 1946 году. Его специализация - история английского языка и средневековое дворянство. Учителем и научным руководителем у него был известный британский историк-марксист Родни Хилтон. Долгое время Питер Косс являлся членом Совета Королевского Исторического Общества. С 1973 по 1995 годы работал...
Орёл : ОГУ имени И.С. Тургенева, 2011. — 283 с. В данном пособии предлагаются наиболее важные и интересные материалы по теме «Взгляд на историю Великобритании», представленные текстами и реалиями. В раздел Glossary вынесены термины, незнакомые или трудные для чтения слова с транскрипцией и переводом. Предназначено студентам языковых вузов для самостоятельной подготовки к...
Екатеринбург: Изд‑во Уральского университета, 2014. — 168 с. — ISBN: 978-5-8397-0954-6. Курс лекций посвящен истории основных идейно-политических течений Великобритании в XVII – начале XXI в. Основное внимание уделено эволюции философско-политических концепций и истории крупнейших политических партий.
Горьковский государственный университет им. Н. И. Лобачевского, 1974. — 144 + 85 с. Выпуск 1 Содержание Статьи и исследования И.Н. Осиновский (Москва). "История Ричарда III" Томаса Мора (часть I) М.В. Муха (Ленинград). Первая монетная реформа Генриха VIII Тюдора В.В. Штокмар (Ленинград). К истории английского пуританского движения в конце XVI века Э.П. Телегина (Горький)....
Перевод с немецкого Н.С. Португалова. — М.: Издательство иностранной литературы, 1958. — 381 с. Книга представляет собой перевод одного из томов нового, переработанного и дополненного издания исследования известного немецкого экономиста Ю. Кучинского, посвященного положению рабочего класса в капиталистических странах. Автор приводит большой статистический материал, который...
Перевод с немецкого Н.С. Португалова. — М.: Издательство иностранной литературы, 1958. — 381 с. Книга представляет собой перевод одного из томов нового, переработанного и дополненного издания исследования известного немецкого экономиста Ю. Кучинского, посвященного положению рабочего класса в капиталистических странах. Автор приводит большой статистический материал, который...
СПб.: Алетейя, 2024. — 586 с. — (Pax Britannica). — ISBN 978-5-00165-836-8. Термины «жёсткая» и «мягкая сила», появившиеся в научной литературе на рубеже XX–XXI веков, использовались для характеристики курса внешней политики современных западных держав в отношении тех стран, которые они стремились подчинить своему влиянию. Применение «жёсткой силы» (оккупация, военная...
М.: Госучпедгиз Министерства просвещения РСФСР, 1959. — 358 с. Издание является учебным пособием и представляет собой сборник очерков по истории Англии Средних веков и Нового времени (до 1918 года). Англия в Средние века Англия в дофеодальный и раннефеодальный период Нормандское завоевание Англии Великая хартия вольностей и начало парламента Социально-экономическое развитие...
М.: Госучпедгиз министерства просвещения РСФСР, 1959. — 358 с. Издание является учебным пособием и представляет собой сборник очерков по истории Англии Средних веков и Нового времени (до 1918 года). Англия в Средние века Англия в дофеодальный и раннефеодальный период Нормандское завоевание Англии Великая хартия вольностей и начало парламента Социально-экономическое развитие...
Полтава: «Друкарська майстерня», 2010. – 96 с. Лук'яненко О. В. Освячена школа чи освічена паства? (світоглядні засади навчання у Великобританії XIX століття) Читачеві пропонується короткий аналіз формування світоглядних засад викладання у школах Британської імперії XIX століття. На основі багатої джерельної бази подана історична схема формування світогляду підлеглих...
Опубликовано в издании: Маколей Т. Б. Полное собрание сочинений. Т. 6. — СПб.; М.: Тип. П. А. Кулиша, из-во М. О. Вольфа, 1866. — 440 с. По старой орфографии. "История Англии" - главный исторический труд Томаса Бабингтона Маколея. В нем он придал истории строго однозначный характер неуклонного мирного восхождения по пути прогресса. Такие события, как революция середины 17 в....
Опубликовано в издании: Маколей Т. Б. Полное собрание сочинений. Т. 6. — СПб.; М.: Тип. П. А. Кулиша, из-во М. О. Вольфа, 1866. — 440 с. По старой орфографии. "История Англии" - главный исторический труд Томаса Бабингтона Маколея. В нем он придал истории строго однозначный характер неуклонного мирного восхождения по пути прогресса. Такие события, как революция середины 17 в....
Опубликовано в издании: Маколей Т. Б. Полное собрание сочинений. Т. 6. — СПб.; М.: Тип. П. А. Кулиша, из-во М. О. Вольфа, 1866. — 440 с. По старой орфографии. "История Англии" - главный исторический труд Томаса Бабингтона Маколея. В нем он придал истории строго однозначный характер неуклонного мирного восхождения по пути прогресса. Такие события, как революция середины 17 в....
Маколей Т. Б. Полное собрание сочинений. Т. 06-13. — Спб. -М.: тип. П. А. Кулиша, из-во М. О. Вольфа, 1863-1868. "История Англии" - главный исторический труд Томаса Бабингтона Маколея. В нем он придал истории строго однозначный характер неуклонного мирного восхождения по пути прогресса. Такие события, как революция середины 17 в. (см. Английская буржуазная революция 17 в. ) с...
Опубликовано в издании: Маколей Т. Б. Полное собрание сочинений. Т. 7. — СПб.: Изд-во М. О. Вольфа, 1868. — 373 с. По старой орфографии. "История Англии" - главный исторический труд Томаса Бабингтона Маколея. В нем он придал истории строго однозначный характер неуклонного мирного восхождения по пути прогресса. Такие события, как революция середины 17 в. (см. Английская...
Опубликовано в издании: Маколей Т. Б. Полное собрание сочинений. Т. 7. — СПб.: Изд-во М. О. Вольфа, 1868. — 373 с. По старой орфографии. "История Англии" - главный исторический труд Томаса Бабингтона Маколея. В нем он придал истории строго однозначный характер неуклонного мирного восхождения по пути прогресса. Такие события, как революция середины 17 в. (см. Английская...
Опубликовано в издании: Маколей Т. Б. Полное собрание сочинений. Т. 7. — СПб.: Изд-во М. О. Вольфа, 1868. — 373 с. По старой орфографии. "История Англии" - главный исторический труд Томаса Бабингтона Маколея. В нем он придал истории строго однозначный характер неуклонного мирного восхождения по пути прогресса. Такие события, как революция середины 17 в. (см. Английская...
Санкт-Петербург: Издание книгопродавца-типографа М.О. Вольфа, 1865. — 489 с. Переводчик: Думшин. Фридрих Великий. Закон о народонаселении Садлера. Утилитаризм. Джон Бониан. Вильям Питт. Оливер Гольдсмит. Самюэль Джонсон. Бертран Барер.
Санкт-Петербург: Издание книгопродавца-типографа М.О. Вольфа, 1866. — 343 с. Переводчик: Думшин. Избранные речи. Статьи политического содержания. Стихотворения.
М.: АСТ, 2018. — 420 c. Вся история туманного Альбиона в одной книге – от строительства Стоунхенджа до свадьбы принца Чарльза. Кто такая Баудикка и за что ее любят британцы? Кто был настоящей любовью герцога Бэкингема? Какие тайны скрывает королевская семья после смерти принцессы Дианы? Новая серия «История на пальцах» позволит читателю узнать и легко запомнить все самые...
Москва: Республика, 1997. — 390 с. В центре данного исторического повествования, охватывающего период с начала XVI века до наших дней, — персонажи британского королевского двора, их личная жизнь с многочисленными интимными подробностями, быт, государственная деятельность, придворные нравы. В судьбах героев много драматичного. Погибли на плахе за неверность две жены Генриха...
СПб.: Л.Ф. Пантелеев, 1898. — II + 370 с. Развитию социализма в Англии благоприятствовали две экономические причины: крупная индустрия и крупная собственность. Крупная индустрия, писал Дизраэли, разделяющая людей на два класса, на «две нации», на наемных рабочих и хозяев, породила почти во всех европейских странах рабочие партии, требующие практического применения...
Коллективная монография / А.И. Минаев, И.М. Эрлихсон, Л.П. Репина, С.В. Демидов, Ю.И. Лосев, И.К. Лапшина, О.В. Захарова. — Рязань: Концепция, 2017. — 160 с. — ISBN: 978-5-4464-0131-4. В монографии рассматриваются проблемы политической истории Великобритании, трансформации идеологических систем и культурно-интеллектуальных традиций, механизмов формирования социальных...
М.: Весь Мир, 2008. — 391 с.
ISBN: 978-5-7777-0326-2
В книге рассматривается история Великобритании от начала римской колонизации до 2000 года.
Содержание:
Римская Британия (около 55 до н. э. – около 440 н. э. ).
Англосаксонский период (около 440-1066).
Раннее Средневековье (1066-1290).
Позднее Средневековье (1290-1485).
Эпоха Тюдоров (1485-1603).
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М.: Весь Мир, 2008. — 680 с. ISBN: 978-5-7777-0326-2 От автора: "Оксфордская история Великобритании, написанная коллективом британских авторов во главе с выдающимся историком Кеннетом Морганом, относится к числу блестящих образцов современной историографии. В одном, хотя и объемном томе, заключена вся история страны и народов ее населяющих: англичан, валлийцев, шотландцев, - от...
София: Кама, 2005. — 611 с. Британия през римската епоха 55 г. пр. н. е. - 440 година. Англосаксонският период - около 440 - 1066 година. Ранното Средновековие 1066 - 1290 година. Късното Средновековие 1290 - 1485 година. Епохата на Тюдорите 1485 - 1603 година. Стюартите 1603 - 1688 година. Осемнадесетият век 1688 - 1789 година. Революцията и върховенството на закона 1789 -...
М.: Весь Мир, 2008. — 680 с. ISBN: 978-5-7777-0326-2 Оксфордская "История Великобритании", подготовленная группой авторов во главе с вы-дающимся историком Кеннетом Морганом, относится к числу лучших примеров современной британской историографии. Масса интересных, порой малоизвестных фактов позволит россий-ским читателям лучше представить себе сложные перипетии этнического,...
София: Славчо Атанасов, Библиотека "Златни зърна", 1945. — 631 с. Антикварна книга за английската история от известния френския писател, преводач Николай Дончев.
Москва: АСТ, 2018. — 420 c. — (История на пальцах). Вся история туманного Альбиона в одной книге – от строительства Стоунхенджа до свадьбы принца Чарльза. Кто такая Баудикка и за что ее любят британцы? Кто был настоящей любовью герцога Бэкингема? Какие тайны скрывает королевская семья после смерти принцессы Дианы? Новая серия «История на пальцах» позволит читателю узнать и легко...
Пер. с англ. Н. Чернявской, ред. и вступ. статья А. Самойло. – Москва: Издательство иностранной литературы, 1950. — 464 с. Книга А. Л. Мортона «История Англии» принадлежит перу английского прогрессивного историка XX в. 1-е издание книги появилось в мае 1938 г., потом книга выходила без изменений в 1945 и 1946 гг. (2-е издание). В 1948 г. вышло 3-е, переработанное издание, в...
Москва: Издательство иностранной литературы, 1950. — 464 с.
Книга А. Л. Мортона «История Англии» принадлежит перу английского прогрессивного историка XX в. 1-е издание книги появилось в мае 1938 г., потом книга выходила без изменений в 1945 и 1946 гг. (2-е издание). В 1948 г. вышло 3-е, переработанное издание, в которое автор внёс ряд дополнений и изменений. Книга А. Л. Мортона...
Пер. с англ. Н. Чернявской, ред. и вступ. статья А. Самойло. — Москва: Издательство иностранной литературы, 1950. — 464 с. Книга А. Л. Мортона «История Англии» принадлежит перу английского прогрессивного историка XX в. 1-е издание книги появилось в мае 1938 г., потом книга выходила без изменений в 1945 и 1946 гг. (2-е издание). В 1948 г. вышло 3-е, переработанное издание, в...
Перевод с английского Н. И. Чернявской. — М.: Издательство иностранной литературы, 1959. — 420 с. В книге, написанной английскими историками-марксистами, освещается история борьбы английского пролетариата за свои права - от первых выступлений луддитов в конце 18 века, от первых ростков профессиональных союзов - до создания Советов действия и образования Коммунистической партии...
М.: Издательство иностранной литературы, 1959. - 421 с.
В книге, написанной английскими историками-марксистами, освещается история борьбы английского пролетариата за свои права - от первых выступлений луддитов в конце 18 века, от первых ростков профессиональных союзов - до создания Советов действия и образования Коммунистической партии Англии после Первой мировой войны.
М.: Центрполиграф, 2024. — 500 с. — (Всемирная история). — ISBN 978-5-9524-5691-4. Англия – первая в мире промышленно развитая держава, Родина блестящих изобретателей, первооткрывателей и банкиров, давшая миру образцовое законодательство и основы конституции. Британский прогрессивный историк Артур Л. Мортон рассматривает пути развития Туманного Альбиона со времен кельтов и...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2024. — 500 с. — (Всемирная история). — ISBN 978-5-9524-5691-4. Англия – первая в мире промышленно развитая держава, Родина блестящих изобретателей, первооткрывателей и банкиров, давшая миру образцовое законодательство и основы конституции. Британский прогрессивный историк Артур Л. Мортон рассматривает пути развития Туманного Альбиона со времен кельтов и...
Перевод О. И. Лапикова. — М.: Центрполиграф, 2024. — 500 с. — (Всемирная история (Центрполиграф). Англия – первая в мире промышленно развитая держава, Родина блестящих изобретателей, первооткрывателей и банкиров, давшая миру образцовое законодательство и основы конституции. Британский прогрессивный историк Артур Л. Мортон рассматривает пути развития Туманного Альбиона со времен...
М.: КоЛибри, 2020. — 608 с. — (Города и люди). — ISBN 978-5-389-08731-6. Андре Моруа, классик французской литературы XX века, автор знаменитых романизированных биографий Дюма, Бальзака, Виктора Гюго, Шелли и Байрона, считается подлинным мастером психологической прозы. Однако значительную часть наследия писателя составляют исторические сочинения. В «Истории Англии», написанной в...
СПб.: Центр гуманитарных инициатив, 2017. — 416 с. — (Mediaevalia). — ISBN 978-5-98712-727-8. Исходя из нового понимания социальной истории, включающего в себя весь спектр жизни общества - от экономических отношений до различных форм повседневности, в книге представлена картина внутренней общественно-политической, материальной и интеллектуальной динамики Англии за несколько...
М.: СПб.: Центр гуманитарных инициатив, 2017. — 416 с. — (Mediaevalia). — ISBN: 978-5-98712-727-8. Исходя из нового понимания социальной истории, включающего в себя весь спектр жизни общества - от экономических отношений до различных форм повседневности, в книге представлена картина внутренней общественно-политической, материальной и интеллектуальной динамики Англии за...
М.: СПб.: Центр гуманитарных инициатив, 2017. — 416 с. — (Mediaevalia). — ISBN: 978-5-98712-727-8. Исходя из нового понимания социальной истории, включающего в себя весь спектр жизни общества - от экономических отношений до различных форм повседневности, в книге представлена картина внутренней общественно-политической, материальной и интеллектуальной динамики Англии за...
СПб.: Центр гуманитарных инициатив, 2017. — 416 с. — (Mediaevalia). — ISBN: 978-5-98712-727-8. Исходя из нового понимания социальной истории, включающего в себя весь спектр жизни общества - от экономических отношений до различных форм повседневности, в книге представлена картина внутренней общественно-политической, материальной и интеллектуальной динамики Англии за несколько...
Учебно-методическое пособие. — Москва: МПГУ, 2021. — 148 с. В предлагаемом учебно-методическом пособии доктора исторических наук, профессора А.А. Орлова содержится основной лекционный материал по истории Англии XI – начала XXI в., тематика семинарских занятий, а также методические указания по организации самостоятельной работы студентов для освоения учебной дисциплины «История...
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СПб.: Алетейя, 2018. — 246 с. — (Pax Britannica). — ISBN 978-5-907115-28-6. В монографии рассматривается роль британских церквей в общественно-политической жизни Соединенного Королевства во второй половине XIX - первой четверти XXI веков. Ввиду многогранности темы первостепенное внимание уделено государственной Церкви Англии. Читатель познакомится с «золотым веком» церквей,...
Учебно-методическое пособие. — СПб.: Алетейя, 2021. — 150 с. — (Pax Britannica). — ISBN 978-5-00165-237-3. Учебно-методическое пособие предназначено для помощи обучающимся в освоении учебного курса "Британский мир в Средние века" - получение знаний о ключевых проблемах развития Британии как особого этнокультурного региона Европы в период V-XVI веков.
София: СУ Климент Охридски, 1983. — 184 с. Разпределение на земите в Манора Хорнзи в 1605-1639 година по актовете за даване на земя в аренда Разпределение на земите в Манора Хорнзи в 1605-1639 година по актовете за допускане във владения Слуги и наемни работници, споменати в разходната книга на Тоук от 1616 до 1660 г. Акт за монополните, 1624 г. Петиция на правото, 7 юни 1628...
М.: Наука, 1982. — 176 с. — (Страны и народы). В книге рассказывается об исторических корнях ольстерской трагедии начиная с XVII в., со времен Английской буржуазной революции. «Ольстерский вопрос» рассматривается в неразрывной связи с кризисом Британской империи. Автор показывает, что под религиозной оболочкой движения скрываются серьезные социально-экономические и...
М.: Наука, 1982. — 164 с. — (Страны и народы). В книге рассказывается об исторических корнях ольстерской трагедии начиная с XVII в., со времен Английской буржуазной революции. «Ольстерский вопрос» рассматривается в неразрывной связи с кризисом Британской империи. Автор показывает, что под религиозной оболочкой движения скрываются серьезные социально-экономические и...
М.: Наука, 1982. — 176 с. — (Страны и народы). В книге рассказывается об исторических корнях ольстерской трагедии начиная с XVII в., со времен Английской буржуазной революции. «Ольстерский вопрос» рассматривается в неразрывной связи с кризисом Британской империи. Автор показывает, что под религиозной оболочкой движения скрываются серьезные социально-экономические и...
Учебное пособие. — Владимир : Владимирский государственный университет имени Александра Григорьевича и Николая Григорьевича Столетовых, 2024. — 112 с. — ISBN 978-5-9984-1963-8. Включает лекции на русском языке и материалы для практических занятий на английском языке по истории и культуре Британии в период древности и Средневековья. Предназначено для студентов 1-го курса...
М.: Прогресс, 1987. — 280 с. В книге рассказывается о длинном ряде восстаний, бунтов, бурных политических кампаниях в Англии, начиная от времен средневековья и кончая 1910-ми годами. Панорама событий, описываемых автором, богата и многообразна. Основываясь на множестве документальных источников, автор убедительно показывает, что у английского народа существует многовековая...
М.: Прогресс, 1987. — 281 с. В книге рассказывается о длинном ряде восстаний, бунтов, бурных политических кампаниях в Англии, начиная от времен средневековья и кончая 1910-ми годами. Панорама событий, описываемых автором, богата и многообразна. Основываясь на множестве документальных источников, автор убедительно показывает, что у английского народа существует многовековая...
М.: Военное изд. министерства обороны СССР, 1963. — 724 с. Книга написана простым, популярным языком. Авторы книги Денис Ричардс и Хилари Сондерс в годы второй мировой войны работали в специальном отделе штаба английских ВВС, изучая и систематизируя материалы о боевой деятельности английской авиации. Книга состоит из трех частей, в каждой из них авторы пытались дать описание...
М.: Азбука-Аттикус, 2021. — 456 с. Как жили и работали, что ели, чем лечились, на чем ездили, что носили и как развлекались обычные англичане много лет назад? Авторитетный британский историк отправляется в путешествие по драматической эпохе, представленной периодом от коронации Генриха VII до смерти Елизаветы I. Опираясь как на солидные документальные источники, так и на...
М.; СПб.: Центр гуманитарных инициатив, 2017. — 552 с. — (Mediaevalia). — ISBN: 978-5-98712-722-3. Монография представляет собой первый в мировой историографии труд, исследующий механизмы, делавшие возможным сосуществование религиозного меньшинства - английских католиков - с протестантским большинством в Англии второй половины XVI - начала XVII в. Католическое сообщество...
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М.:АСТ, 2019. - 256C. ISBN: 978-5-17-119906-7 Кристофер Скайф - смотритель воронов в лондонском Тауэре. Эта редкая и воистину уникальная профессия ставит Криса в любопытное положение: никто не видит Англию так, как он. В своей доброй и захватывающей книге Крис рассказывает о тонкостях своей работы, о тауэрских мифах и, конечно, об Англии, какой еe можно увидеть глазами воронов....
М.:АСТ, 2019. - 256C. ISBN: 978-5-17-119906-7 Кристофер Скайф - смотритель воронов в лондонском Тауэре. Эта редкая и воистину уникальная профессия ставит Криса в любопытное положение: никто не видит Англию так, как он. В своей доброй и захватывающей книге Крис рассказывает о тонкостях своей работы, о тауэрских мифах и, конечно, об Англии, какой еe можно увидеть глазами воронов....
Рогатин: Друкарня ПП Білінський 2018. — 222 с. В збірнику розглядаються проблеми пов´язані з дослідженнями історії Великобританії. Проаналізовані період з найдавніших часів та до сьогоднішнього дня. Особливу увагу присвячено дослідженню становлення громадянського суспільства і розвитку культури, військової справи. Описано події громадського і культурного життя Англії та...
М.: Алгоритм, 2014. — 320 с. — (Недобрая старая Англия). — ISBN: 978-5-4438-0941-0. Марьяна Скуратовская - историк и исследователь, автор многочисленных книг по истории моды, популярный блоггер. В ее новой книге "Сокровища Британской монархии" читатель узнает о роли в жизни английского двора сокровищ и регалий: скипетров, мечей, перстней коронационных одеяний; как церемониал...
Москва: Издательство ИМО, 1958. — 455 с. Предлагаемые вниманию читателя "Очерки по истории Англии 1640 – 1815 гг." представляют собой попытку дать более или менее последовательное изложение важнейших событий английской истории этого периода и их оценку с позиций марксизма-ленинизма. Оглавление Предисловие Экономические и политические предпосылки английской буржуазной революции...
Смоленск: Русич, 2001. — 624 с. Книга крупного английского историка Дж. М. Тревельяна (1876 — 1962) содержит обширный фактический материал по истории Англии XIV — XIX веков. Автор показывает взаимоотношения различных слоев общества, большое внимание уделяет описанию разнообразных сторон быта и культуры. Достоинством книги являются живой красочный язык, обилие используемых...
Смоленск: Русич, 2001. — 624 с.
Книга крупного английского историка Дж. М. Тревельяна (1876 — 1962) содержит обширный фактический материал по истории Англии XIV — XIX веков. Автор показывает взаимоотношения различных слоев общества, большое внимание уделяет описанию разнообразных сторон быта и культуры. Достоинством книги являются живой красочный язык, обилие используемых...
Пер. с англ. А. А. Крушинской и К. Н. Татариновой. — Смоленск: Русич, 2005. — 624 с.: ил. — (Популярная историческая библиотека). — ISBN 5-8138-0286-X.
Книга крупного английского историка Дж. М. Тревельяна (1876-1962) содержит обширный фактический материал по истории Англии XIV-XIX веков. Автор показывает взаимоотношения различных слоев общества, большое внимание уделяет...
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М.: Изд-во иностранной литературы, 1959. — 608 с.
В книге собран богатый фактический материал социально-экономического, бытового и культурно-идеологического характера. На его основе дается широкая картина истории Англии XIV-XIX веков.
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М.: Армада-пресс, 2001. — 654 с. Книга рассказывает об истории лондонского Тауэра – самого древнего из европейских замков и тюрем, отметившего в 1978 году свое 900-летие. Читатель узнает о судьбах знаменитых узников, громких судебных процессах, кровавых драмах, разыгравшихся в его стенах. Книга написана хорошим литературным языком и рассчитана на массового читателя. содержание:...
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Ефим Черняк — исследователь тайной дипломатии, известный широкому читателю по книге «Пять столетий тайной войны» и многим другим. Герои книги «Тайны Англии — Ричард III, Генрих VII, Генрих VIII, Мария Стюарт, Карл I. Карл II, В. Шекспир, Д. Дефо, герцог Мальборо и другие. Мы погружаемся в мир политических интриг от войны Алой и Белой розы до XVIII...
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