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Ryan Lavelle
Collection of source material and crucial interpretations, offering a comprehensive guide to Anglo-Saxon warfare.
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This study, a revisiting of the author’s PhD thesis, looks at Royal landholding in the Wessex shires of Hampshire and Dorset in the later Anglo-Saxon period. It analyses the techniques…
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First full examination of why and how certain locations were chosen for opposition to power, and the meaning they conveyed.
Part of the Penguin Monarchs series- short, fresh, expert accounts of England’s rulers in a collectible format
Cnut, or Canute, was King of England for nearly 20 years, dying in…
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Twenty-nine studies, covering a wide range of themes, present the most up-to-date thinking on the history, archaeology and toponymy of Anglo-Saxon England, with particular attention to Wessex, in honour of…
An examination of the role of Winchester as the heart of royal power in early medieval England.
The defence of the 9th-century kingdom of Wessex under King Alfred the Great against the Great Viking Army is one of the major military achievements of early medieval history. This…
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Nalley Lavell Daniel
A mouse named Wesley lives with an old woman in a run down house and overhears that the old woman painted the paintings in her house. Something clicks in his…
This book focuses on zero hours and on-call work as an extreme form of casual and precarious employment. It includes country studies of the USA, Canada, Australia, the UK, New…
Drawing on a range of perspectives, this international collection goes beyond a sole focus on public sector work to uniquely cover the impact of austerity on work across the private…
