Henry and Miriam were raised in East London, but their families had emigrated from Eastern Europe. This is a story of immigration and Anglicisation, of the significance of race and…

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the…

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Offers the first book-length study of the American portrait painter Ralph E. W. Earl, who worked as Andrew Jackson’s personal artist from 1817 until Earl’s death in 1838. In this…

Paying particular reference to the Earls of Lancaster, Gloucester, Lincoln, Cornwall, Warenne and Hereford, Nobility and Kingship in Medieval England offers a detailed analysis of the political, governmental, social and…

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Full Title: The Great Oyer of Poisoning: The Trial of The Earl of Somerset for The Poisoning of Sir Thomas Overbury, in The Tower of London, and Various Matters Connected…