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Reading original documents is the only way to achieve a sound basis in historical studies and to acquire a true perspective on cultural evolution. Much modern research has been …

The Little Book of Surrey is a funny, fast-paced, fact-packed compendium of the sort of frivolous, fantastic or simply strange information which no-one will want to be without. The …

It provides both an exploration of the relationship between intelligence and strategy at the conceptual level, and also a historical account, and strategic analysis of, the …

Henry of Bracton (or Bratton) (c. 1210–1268) was a jurist who worked as a Justice of Assize in the south-west of England, and was the author of the first systematic discussion of …

Mass na's Retreat, Fuentes de O oro, Albuera, TarragonaVolume IV covers the period during which Portugal was finally secured from the danger of French conquest. French successes in …

Masculinity, Class and Same-Sex Desire in Industrial England, 1895-1957 explores the experiences of men who desired other men outside of the capital. In doing so, it offers a …

You really think I'd be here with you in the mud, the cold and the wet if I had proper magic?East Anglia, 1645. A hot and stifling summer. The air is thick with paranoia and …

It is not only the UK education system which has recently undergone a process of change, although it has certainly been one of the most dramatically affected. Free market …

Britain is a nation of gardeners; the suburban garden, with its roses and privet hedges, is widely admired and copied across the world. But it is little understood how millions …

This is volume 1, covering the time from the Roman Occupation to Feudal Scotland. In many volumes of several thousand combined pages the series "e;The History of …