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• Author(s): Louise J. Wilkinson • Publisher: Royal Historical Society • Publisher Imprint: Royal Historical Society • BISAC: Europe - MedievalThis book offers the first regional study of women in thirteenth-century England, making pioneering use...

• Author(s): Duncan Campbell • Publisher: Royal Historical Society • Publisher Imprint: Royal Historical Society • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877)At the end of the American Civil War, both North and South condemned Britain for...

• Author(s): Stephen Brogan • Publisher: Royal Historical Society • Publisher Imprint: Royal Historical Society • BISAC: Europe - RenaissanceFirst modern analysis of the custom of the "royal touch" in the Tudor and Stuart reigns. The royal touch ...

• Author(s): A. R. Warmington • Publisher: Royal Historical Society • Publisher Imprint: Royal Historical Society • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - GeneralDr Warmington's examination of the history of Gloucestershire during the period begins with...

• Author(s): Eamon Darcy • Publisher: Royal Historical Society • Publisher Imprint: Royal Historical Society • BISAC: Europe - IrelandAfter an evening spent drinking with Irish conspirators, an inebriated Owen Connelly confessed to the main colon...

• Author(s): Philip Woodfine • Publisher: Royal Historical Society • Publisher Imprint: Royal Historical Society • BISAC: Europe - SpainThis first full-length study of the 1739 war with Spain, the so-called War of Jenkins' Ear', looks at both th...

• Author(s): Sam Worby • Publisher: Royal Historical Society • Publisher Imprint: Royal Historical Society • BISAC: Europe - MedievalTwo main legal jurisdictions held sway in England over family relations during the high middle ages: canon law an...

• Author(s): Amanda Flather • Publisher: Royal Historical Society • Publisher Imprint: Royal Historical Society • BISAC: Modern - GeneralSpace was not simply a passive backdrop to a social system that had structural origins elsewhere; it was vita...

• Author(s): Karin Bowie • Publisher: Royal Historical Society • Publisher Imprint: Royal Historical Society • BISAC: Modern - 18th CenturyIn the early modern period, ordinary subjects began to find a role in national politics through the phenome...

• Author(s): Xabier Lamikiz • Publisher: Royal Historical Society • Publisher Imprint: Royal Historical Society • BISAC: Modern - 18th CenturyFruitfully combining approaches from economic history and the cultural history of commerce, this book ex...

• Author(s): Mark Curran • Publisher: Royal Historical Society • Publisher Imprint: Royal Historical Society • BISAC: Modern - GeneralThe Baron d'Holbach, a prominent figure in the French Enlightenment, is best known for his writings against reli...