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The diary of Bulstrode Whitelocke MP reveals sharp insights into public affairs during the Civil Wars and Interregnum. It stands alongside the diaries of Pepys, Evelyn, and Josselin as a major source for the study of seventeenth-century politics a...

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The Papers of Bulstrode Whitelocke, brought together from various sources, form an important archive - quite separate from his Diary - and much of it unpublished or even unknown to scholars. Ruth Spalding has selected about 1000 names from the Dia...

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This dictionary is an indispensable guide to the study of Latin in the Middle Ages. Though it records the usage of Classical and Late Latin current in this period (sixth to sixteenth centuries), it presents most fully the medieval developments of ...

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This account book of a small yeoman farmer in Lancashire, running from 1724 (just after his marriage) to his death in 1767, provides a record of expenditure on domestic, personal, and farming items. It is unique in offering a detailed view of hous...

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A scholarly edition of the travel journals of Jabez Maud Fisher, 1775-1779. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.

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This new examination of the region of Nebuchadrezzar II of Babylon (605-562 BC) includes revised interpretations of the Babylonian Chronicles for his reign, especially for the years of the campaigns against the West and the capture of Jerusalem. E...

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This famous essay is now republished, with a new Introduction by James Joll, at a time when its discussion of the power of nationalism in European politics seems particularly relevant. Concentrating on the revolutions in central and eastern Europe...

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This comprehensive study makes a unique source accessible to historians of the later medieval nobility. Household accounts contain invaluable evidence on daily life, diet, hospitality, etiquette, travel, the arts, politics, as well as on medieval ...

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This volume completes the publication of a unique source for historians of the later medieval nobility. Household accounts contain invaluable evidence on daily life as well as on medieval finance generally. In Part 2, Dr Woolgar has carefully sele...

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The broad spectrum of the Mari documents provides innumerable opportunities for comparative research into Early Israel, the Bible and Biblical Hebrew. The present volume utilizes these possibilities to obtain a new perspective on Early Israelite t...

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In order to make the contents of the British Academy's Proceedings more accessible to readers, the following changes have been made: The large annual volumes have been replaced by an irregular series of slimmer volumes, published about three times...

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Sifts through the myths to illustrate how the reality of the Victorian age differes from modern perceptions. Of particular relevance is Raphael Samuel's important examination of Mrs Thatcher's use of the concept, while other papers shed light on V...

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Questions of the typicality or 'exceptionalism' of the Irish experience are discussed, and the relevance of this experience for current theories of industrialism and 'modernization' is critically examined.

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Columbus's discovery of the New World resulted in biological and cultural exchanges unprecedented in the history of human populations. Eleven scholars, from both sides of the Atlantic and from the disciplines of history, archaeology, anthropology,...

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This critical edition publishes an important collection of charters, some of them from the seventh and eighth centuries, providing crucial evidence about the history of the Anglo-Saxon church in Kent and the development of the documentary process.

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This dictionary is an indispensable guide to the study of the Latin Middle Ages. This fascicule, the fifth of ten, presents hundreds of new formations from other languages - some of the borrowings here recorded in Latin centuries before their appe...

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This latest volume of thirty Anglo-Saxon charters covers the pre-Conquest archive of Shaftesbury Abbey in Dorset, founded by King Alfred. It is an extremely important collection as it provides almost the only evidence for the history of Shaftesbur...

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This lavishly illustrated selection of lectures delivered by distinguished historians to the British Academy demonstrates the enormous contribution of British scholarship to Renaissance studies in the last 50 years. The lectures cover the period c...

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The annual expenditure accounts recorded in this Register provide a marvellously complete picture of a Clunaic monastery during its last 60 years. Part 1 contains an introduction, glossary and the accounts for the years 1482-1517. The accounts up ...

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The annual expenditure accounts recorded in this Register provide a marvellously complete picture of a Cluniac monastery during its last 60 years. Part 2 publishes the accounts for the years 1518-1540 and also contains biographical and other appen...

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The volume is both an important study of late Victorian historiography and a significant reassessment of the early history of English law.

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This diary gives a vivid picture of life in a Yorkshire village between the Napoleonic Wars and the Victorian era. Robert Sharp, schoolmaster, observed the affairs of the village and the lives of his fellow-villagers with wry humour and affection....

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The letter-books of the Royal African Company of England form the most substantial and important source of material on English trade in West Africa in the late seventeenth century. The original texts, covering the period 1681-1699, are being publi...

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London was the largest city in the Anglo-Norman empire, and its bishops were therefore figures of the utmost importance. The 250 acta recorded in this volume testify to their role in the development of episcopal government and its documentation.

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From the Pharaohs to the United Arab Republic of the present day, Egypt's agriculture has been subject to very different forms of political power and organization. The papers in this volume draw on the abundant documentary and archaeological evide...

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The English poll taxes of 1377, 1379, and 1381 taxed householders, wives, dependants, and servants individually. The tax records therefore provide information about people who are rarely, if ever, mentioned in other documents. This massive resourc...

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The impact of information technology is reviewed by scholars who are leading pioneers in the application of that technology to research in their disciplines. From both a general appreciation of their fields, and from their own personal research, t...

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Volume 101 of the Proceedings of the British Academy contains 12 British Academy lectures and 12 obituaries of Fellows of the British Academy.

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Within the great diversity of their world, the assertion of origin was essential to the ancient Greeks in defining their sense of who they were and how they distinguished themselves from neighbours and strangers. Each person's name might carry bot...

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The correspondence from the most successful Irish-American trading firm of the colonial period forms a remarkable archive for economic historians of the eighteenth century. This is an edition of a letterbook that contains the first nine months of ...

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