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A 1066 Sourcebook: A Collection of Materials Relating to the Norman Conquest of England and its Impact Upon Scotland
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This CD contains three separate books detailing the invasion of England in 1066, the families which went to Britain with that invasion, and the families which settled further north in ...
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A History of Roman Britain
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From the invasions of Julius Caesar to the unexpected end of Roman rule in the early fifth century AD and the subsequent collapse of society in Britain, this is the ...
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A Victorian Guide to Healthy Living
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A rubdown with a wet towel is a good sleep inducer; Scotchmen possess vitality on account of oatmeal, pure air and hard exercise; The longer children are out in the open air the better for them. Frost makes them run about to keep warm; To miss a meal occasionally does more good than a feast ...
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Acta Regia
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This is an account of the Acts, Treaties, Letters and Instruments between English Monarchs and foreign powers, as well as details of many Public Acts relating to various domestic matters.
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Battle of Hastings-S
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Consuming Passions: Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain
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'Consuming Passions' reveals a nation that was far busier and more colourful than the image usually associated with Victorians ... newspapers, books, department stores, theatre are just a few things that this era brought ...
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Domesday Book and Beyond: Three Essays in the Early History of England
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Written by Frederic William Maitland, and published in 1907, Essay I deals with the Domesday Book. Essay II is about England before the Conquest and Essay III the Hide. This is a useful view of the compilation of the first great survey of England with in depth explanations of various terms used ...
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Domesday Book: A Complete Translation
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'Domesday Book' is one of the most famous documents in English history - and arguably in world history. Now available in one volume, here is the complete, authoritative ...
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Early Norman Castles of the British Isles
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The successful invasion of England in 1066 by Duke William of Normandy brought the full force of continental feudalism to England and firmly established the Norman castle and its architecture as the premier pattern for design for the island. It begins with a survey of English Norman castles which is followed by ...
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Elizabeth's London: Everyday Life in Elizabethan London
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Liza Picard's Elizabeth's Londoni completes a trilogy of books on London throughout history, starting with Restoration Londoni and followed by Dr Johnson's Londoni. From the outset, Picard admits that Elizabethan ...
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English Family 1450-1700
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English Women's Clothing in the Nineteenth Century
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The nineteenth century was a period of continuous change for women's clothing in England. The magnificent array of ladies' fashions that characterized the century are on display in this remarkably complete decade-by-decade overview. Over 1100 line drawings and photographs depict hundreds of outfits ranging from ...
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Feudal England
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By J.H. Round and published in 1909 ... Mr Round's historical studies on the 11th and 12th centuries provide an excellent in depth discussion of the Domesday Book its terms and measurements. Also included are various later surveys including the Worcestershire Survey, the Lindsey Survey, the Northamptonshire Survey ...
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Growing Up in Medieval London: The Experience of Childhood in History
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Bringing together a wealth of evidence drawn from court records, literary sources and books of advice, the author weaves a rich tapestry of the lives of the common children of ...
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Life in Georgian Britain
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As the new century dawned on 1 January 1700, few people in the British Isles could have felt optimistic about their prospect. Their state was barely held together ...
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Life in the Victorian Hospital
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Throughout the Victorian period, life-threatening diseases were no respecter of class, affecting rich and poor alike. However, the medical treatment for such diseases differed significantly, depending on the class of patient ...
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Life in Victorian Britain
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Britain in Queen Victoria's reign grew in power and prestige to become the richest nation on earth through its trade and Empire. Britain also ruled half of the world, ...
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Roman Britain
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At the time of the Roman invasions of 55 and 54 B.C. Britain was still in the late Iron Age, inhabited by Celtic tribes whose ancestors has emigrated ...
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Roman Chichester
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Chichester is fortunate: the mass of evidence accumulated from its excavations has added greatly to our knowledge of the town's origin, layout, defences and economy; and the lifestyle of its ...
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Social Life in Britain from the Conquest to the Reformation
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Compiled by G.G. Coulton, M.A., and published 1918. This book now on CD, gives a background to the social history of the Middle Ages. It includes sections on Birth and Nurture, Church and Churchmen, Rich and Poor, Sports and Pastimes, Women's Life, House, Dress and Meals, etc ...
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The Norman People and Their Existing Descendants in the British Dominions and the United States
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This classic work is a dictionary of families, listed alphabetically, who are of Norman descent. Each entry gives place of settlement, origin, and meaning of the name, progenitor (when possible), as well as sites originally and later settled by the family ...
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The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval England
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This richly illustrated book provides a comprehensive introduction to medieval England, and covers 1000 years of history from the departure of the Romans to the arrival of the Tudors. Written ...
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The Oxford Illustrated History of the Vikings
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Were the Vikings, as contemporary descriptions had it, a 'valiant, wrathful, foreign, purely pagan people' who swept in from the sea to plunder and slaughter? Or in the words of ...
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The Victorian Asylum
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Dreaded and reviled by many, Britain's 19th century asylums provide a unique window on how the Victorian's housed and treated the mentally ill. Despite initially good intentions, asylums became warehouses for society's outcasts, where cures were few ...
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The Victorian Criminal
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From the back alleys of England's cities, to dark wooded estates and countryside, crime was rife in Victorian Britain. Through old court records, newspaper accounts and prison books, this book gives a fascinating overview of the criminals ...
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The Victorian Home
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The 19th century saw huge changes in design and technology that meant that a middle-class home looked very different by the time Queen Victoria died in 1901 to how it had at her accession in 1837. This book looks at the social history of rooms in the Victorian home and at how, people made choices about how to decorate their homes ...
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The Victorian Hospital
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Nowadays most seriously ill people would want to go to hospital, where they have a reasonable chance of recovery. But the experience of a sick person in the 1830s was ...
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The Victorian Public School
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Trevor May examines the development of the Victorian and Edwardian public school, and the paradox of an institution that in the century that saw Britain established as 'the workshop of the world', turned out not industrialists, but gentlemen ...
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The Victorian Undertaker
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The author shows how undertakers catered for these complex and sober events, and the various funeral options they offered, as well as assessing the extent to which funerals reflected the social divisions within the nineteenth-century society. This book will interest social historians ...
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The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium
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In the year 1000 the world was one of mystery and magicians, monks, warriors and wandering merchants - people who feared an apocalypse and who had no idea ...
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Victorian and Edwardian Prisons
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Prisons ... although they have existed in Britain for over a thousand years, it was not until the nineteenth century that prisons became the cornerstone of the penal system. This ...
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Victorian Childhood
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The lives of children during the Victorian era differed dramatically between the rich and the poor. Using old photographs and illustrations, the author paints a picture of what it was like to grow up in Victorian Britain, and how changing attitudes towards children led to a very different upbringing ...
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Victorian Goods and Merchandise Clip-Art
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This book of vintage illustrations not only offers a wonderful window on the goods and merchanise of a bygone era, but is an absolute treasure trove of easily reproducible graphic art as well. Some 2,300 images culled from such rare 19th century periodicals as ...
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