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Power and Party in an English City
Power and Party in an English City provides an account of how decisions are taken by the state at the level of locality. More specifically, it is an account of the private …
Boundless Grandeur
Donald Allchin was an ordained priest in the Church of England, a historian, ecumenist, and contemplative theologian. The essays, poems, and memoires in this book represent what …
Huntingdon: A Pictorial History
The ancient county town of Huntingdon developed where the Roman Ermine Street crossed the Great Ouse. From the days of the marching legions until recently when it was largely …
Kings, Queens, Bones and Bastards
Who invented the 'House of Windsor' as a royal name? Who founded Westminster Abbey? Which king had twenty-one illegitimate children? David Halliam answers all these questions and …
Treasure by Post
Mark Treasure has no idea that accompanying his actress wife on location to a picturesque West Country town could possibly lead to murder . . .The merchant banker is asked by …
The Heads of Religious Houses
This final volume of the Heads of Religious Houses: England and Wales series takes the lists of monastic superiors from 1377 to the dissolution of the monastic houses ending in …
Beautiful Game?
Football is at the heart of British culture yet never has it been in greater turmoil. Once, football stood for passion, community, honour, even beauty. The game is in danger of …
Ely: The Hidden History
Ely is an incredible city steeped in myth and legend and dominated by the Norman Cathedral, a masterpiece of medieval architecture. There have been many books written about the …
Racism and Anti-Racism in Probation
Racism and Anti-Racism in Probation analyses the complex processes by which black people are treated differentially by the probation service. Drawing on detailed ethnographic …
Roads, Tracks and Turnpikes
Rulership and Rebellion in the Anglo-Norman World, c.1066-c.1216
The importance of the themes of rulership and rebellion in the history of the Anglo-Norman world between 1066 and the early thirteenth century is incontrovertible. The power, …
When Did Big Ben First Bong?
Millions live there, millions more visit each year – but how many really know London?Find out:How New York’s famous Central Park came to be modelled on a seventeenth-century London …