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The tragic story of the disastrous London fire is told here from both a human and architectural point of view, as the fire destroyed lives along with ... More

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The remarkable story of one English family during the tumultuous 17th century is revealed through their original letters and documents, which paint ... More

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Discusses aspects of daily life - domestic, economic, intellectual, material, political, recreational and religious - in Stuart England.

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This book examines the activities of William Blundell, a seventeenth-century Catholic gentleman, and using the approaches of the history of reading ... More

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In Britain throughout the period there was a persistent curiosity about the origins of the nation and its institutions, inspired initially by the ... More

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In this account, the author examines the background to 1666, events leading up to and during the fire, the proposals to rebuild the city and the ... More

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The Union of the Crowns of England and Scotland in 1603 dramatically changed the nature and level of interaction between the constituent parts of the ... More

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A five-volume comprehensive assessment of the British Empire in the light of recent scholarship and the progressive opening of historical records. ... More

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This is a collection of the most important and interesting recent articles on the impact of religious change in England in the sixteenth and early ... More

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The minutes of the Corporation provide fascinating detail of the local impact of hostilities on the social and economic life of the town.

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Regarded by contemporaries as "the chief dispute of our times," tithes were the subject of intense controversy in the 1650s. Ministers, reformers, ... More

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A story of rising poverty, enclosure, accusations of rape, and the brutal confrontation of the landed and the dispossessed'. What began as a dispute ... More

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An original and powerful examination of the concept of the Devil in early modern England.

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Bringing together her key studies of health, medicine and poverty in Tudor and Stuart England (a number published here for the first time, and the ... More

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London and the Restoration integrates the history of the kingdom with that of its premier locality in the era of Dryden and Locke, analysing the ... More

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This highly original study looks at rituals of sociability in new and creative ways. Based upon thousands of personal letters, it reconstructs the ... More

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The period 1642-1651, one of the most turbulent in the history of mainland Britian, saw the country torn by civil wars. Focusing on the English and ... More

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Monstrous births, rains of blood, apparitions of battles in the sky - people in early modern England found all of these events to carry important ... More

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On July 2, 1644, 18,000 Royalists led by Prince Rupert, the nephew of King Charles I, fought 27,000 Parliamentarians in an attempt to relieve the ... More

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In their own words, this book tells of the experience of Londoners during the Great Plagues of 1603, 1625, and 1665.

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This book gives an insight to what life was like in Scotland during the late 17th and early 18th centuries. What folk ate, drank, their music and ... More

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"Material London, ca. 1600" reconstructs one of the great world cities at a critical moment in Western history.

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