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  • - Connected with the Regal Succession of Great Britain
    av Elizabeth Strickland & Agnes Strickland
    525 - 661,-

    Agnes Strickland (1796-1874) and her sister Elizabeth collaborated on many biographical projects, including this eight-volume series. Pioneering figures in women's history, they included discussion of domestic matters ignored by earlier male historians. Volume 1 (1850) is devoted to Margaret Tudor, Magdalene of France and Mary of Lorraine.

  • - Ancient and Modern
    av Charles Hindley
    443,-

    Originally published in 1881, this book uses evidence from pamphlets, books, engravings, music and drama to trace the history of London's street traders and their wares from the time of Chaucer to the Victorian period. It includes over 200 illustrations, and vividly portrays the sights and sounds of the city.

  • - Or, An History of the Labouring Classes in England, from the Conquest to the Present Period
    av Frederick Morton Eden
    824 - 905,-

    Published in 1797, this three-volume work looks at the history of poverty in England, the lifestyles of the poor and the various measures introduced to tackle the problem. It features a set of detailed reports on living conditions of the poor in the various English counties.

  • - From the Year after the Oxford Parliament (1259) to the Commencement of the Continental War (1793)
    av James E. Thorold Rogers
    525 - 797,-

    This detailed eight-piece compilation documents the fluctuating prices of agricultural produce in England between the thirteenth and eighteenth centuries. Volume 1 (from 1866) uses the data for the period 1259-1400 (supplied in Volume 2) to explore topics such as farming methods, taxation, and the financial consequences of the plague.

  • - Being a Survey of the Sports and Pastimes, Tea Gardens and Parks, Playhouses and Other Diversions of the People of London from the 17th to the Beginning of the 19th Century
    av William Biggs Boulton
    416 - 443,-

    Published in 1901, this two-volume set looks at how entertainment in London changed dramatically between the restoration of Charles II and the accession of Queen Victoria. From bear-baiting and prize-fights with swords, tastes turned to less bloodthirsty pastimes such as gambling, masked balls, and opera and theatre.

  • av Henry Hallam
    661 - 797,-

    Henry Hallam (1777-1859) was a journalist, historian of the English constitution and literary scholar. First published in 1827, this two-volume book documents the history of the laws and institutions of England from 1485 to 1760.

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    511,-

    This work, first published in 1905, contains editions and discussion of three mid-fifteenth-century manuscript copies of London chronicles giving detailed insight into the city in the reign of Henry V. It was compiled by the respected historian Charles Lethbridge Kingsford (1862-1926), who published extensively on the period.

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    416,-

    The Anglo-Jewish Exhibition of 1887 assembled works of art and artefacts illustrating the history of English Jewry, with later academic enterprises being undertaken as a direct result. This catalogue of the exhibits, published in 1888, also includes a number of full-page photographs.

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    470,-

    First published for the Yorkshire Archaeological Society in 1933 and reprinted in 1971, this is an extensive and well-illustrated catalogue of maps of the Yorkshire region, drawn between 1577 and 1900, with informative descriptions. It remains of value to local historians and geographers.

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