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The Hall of The Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers has for many centuries been a focal point for the trades of the guild. Publishers, booksellers, printers, bookbinders, papermakers, stationers, packagers - all have gathered there, for education, ceremonial and charity, social and commemorative functions. In this pictorial history, published to celebrate the Company's 600th anniversary, Vernon Sullivan, a past Master, descri...

A vital aid to tracing your ancestors.

Taken from over a million negatives, this selection represents Mike Patrick's favorite photographs, taken during a career that has lasted from more than 3 decades. Featuring the stars of world speedway of the last 30 years, as well as a wealth of thrilling action shots and some rather unusual pictures, these beautiful images will thrill any speedway fan.

This succinct and readable biography of this famous and well-respected American civil rights leader is aimed at the interested general reader as well as students of social and political history.

Lady de Lancey's narrative

Ancestry-tracing is fun, it brings history to life and it gives a greater sense of personal identity. Our ancestors become real people, they may have been ordinary, blue-blooded or famous, but whatever they were the search itself is rewarding. Tracing a family history and gradually constructing one's own unique pedigree is an absorbing hobby, a never-ending detective investigation. This book tells the beginner exactly how to set about it: how ...

The battle of Bosworth marked an epoch in the lives of two great houses--the house of York fell to the ground when Richard III died on the field of battle, and the house of Tudor rose from the massacre to reign for the next hundred years. Michael Jones rewrites this landmark event in English history with startling evidence to suggest that the site of the battle recognized for over 500 years is wrong. He not only shifts the location of the batt...

No aspect of life went untouched by this virulent disease. Beyond the physical devastation caused, Karen Jillings also describes the social impact of the plague - cynicism towards the Church and the abandonment of serfdom, all integral to the development of Scotland.

Fashion and sex have always enjoyed a very close relationship. This history of corsetry and body sculpture shows how this phenomenon is closely bound up with sexual self-expression. It shows how the use of the corset rejected the role of the passive, maternal woman, in Victorian times it was seen by many as a scandalous threat to the social order.

Thanks to ever more sophisticated technologym archaeologists can identify much that is beneath the soil without having to excavate. From banging the surface of the ground with a pick in the late 19th century, through Atkinson's revolutionary use of the "Megger-Earth Tester, " to modern-day radar survey, the value of geophysical techniques is lucidly explained with many real-life case studies.

History of General Motors

Between August and December 1348, 14, 000 people died in Dublin from the plague, a rate of 100 a day. This horrendous disease was carried to its victims by rats, and once infected, those victims could die within 3 days. This is the only book to investigate the disease and its effects specifically in Dublin. Maria Kelly examines the fear, panic, and superstition surrounding the outbreak that many believed was a punishment from God for their sins.

When the Roman army withdrew to defend the imperial heartlands, the remaining Romano-British elite succumbed to a combination of warlord power, barbarian attack and popular revolt.

From shortly before AD 800 until the Norman Conquest, England was subject to raids from seafaring peoples from Scandinavia--the Vikings. However, they were not only raiders but also traders and settlers. Using the latest archaeological evidence, the author reassesses the Viking contribution to Late Anglo-Saxon England and examines the creation of the new mixed Anglo-Scandinavian identity.

Edward Heron-Allen was a polymath-one of the most remarkable of his era-many would simply say he was a genius. By profession a London solicitor, he was also a very distinguished zoologist (F.R.S.), historian, Persian scholar and translator, author of the classic book on violin making still in print and studied worldwide, cheirosopher and writer of early science-fiction novels. This extraordinary man had a large house in Selsey-where he reporte...

The book describes the most memorable features of the life and times of each king or queen - from Egbert, crowned in 802 and considered the first king of England, to Queen Elizabeth II - as well as recording the extraordinary lives of their queens, consorts, mistresses and bastard children.

A lighthearted guide to the deeds and misdeeds of all the great names in world history.