'The exotic and impressive grave goods from burials of the Wessex Culture in Early Bronze Age Britain are well known and have inspired influential social and economic hypotheses, invoking the former existence of chiefs, warriors and merchants and high-ranking pastoralists. Alter…
This is the diary of Betty Armitage, a theatrical dresser and seamstress who retired to Norfolk just before WWII. It looks at the events of the war - the Battle of Britain, the Blitz and the American forces invasion from a country perspective.
Reveals how, from even before the Reformation, the Tudors sought to sustain and enhance their authority by representing themselves to their people through the media of building, print, art, material culture and speech.
"The Hell-Fire Clubs are legendary. Geoffrey Ashe has assembled the most complete and accurate account of the Clubs and of their antecedents and descendants. At the centre is his account of the principal brotherhood known by the Hell-Fire name, Sir Francis Dashwood's notorious M…
"The Hell-Fire Clubs are legendary. Geoffrey Ashe has assembled the most complete and accurate account of the Clubs and of their antecedents and descendants. At the centre is his account of the principal brotherhood known by the Hell-Fire name, Sir Francis Dashwood's notorious M…
A scholarly history of food poisoning, telling of its discovery of food poisoning as a public health problem in the 1880s, of the discovery of pathways of infection and of the Salmonella family, and of the realisation that these organisms are deeply embedded in human and animal …
