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  • An Elizabethan Adventurer

    The Remarkable Life of Sir Anthony Sherley

    Anthony Sherley (1565-1633) was one of three brothers from a Sussex gentry family, whose adventures abroad fascinated their contemporaries. Their doings were celebrated and exaggerated in printed pamphlets and a play on the London stage, but are scarcely known today. Anthony was a soldier fighting in France and the Netherlands, and then an unsuccessful privateer, before his patron, the earl of ... Read more

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  • Assessment in Practice

    Explorations in Identity, Culture, Policy and Inclusion

    Series series Current Debates in Educational Psychology
    Assessment in Practice explores timely and important questions in relation to assessment. By examining the relationship between identity, culture, policy and inclusion, the book investigates the conflicted and fractured battleground of assessment, and challenges current and practiced understandings of assessment practice.The authors encourage the reader to reconceptualise assessment as a ... Read more

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  • The Reluctant Ambassador

    The Life and Times of Sir Thomas Chaloner, Tudor Diplomat

    Sir Thomas Chaloner achieved much during his short life. As someone at the heart of four Tudor courts, his experience is fascinating. Serving in the household of Thomas Cromwell after university, he later was entrusted with delicate diplomatic missions in France, Scotland, Flanders and finally Spain, where he was resident ambassador at the court of Philip II. His career was helped by his close ... Read more

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  • Wikipedia

    A New Community of Practice?

    During its brief existence Wikipedia has proved astonishingly successful with 2.8 million articles in English alone available freely to all with access to the internet. The online encyclopedia can be seen as the 21st century’s version of earlier historical attempts to gather the world’s knowledge into one place - this unique book offers a description of some of these earlier attempts. O’Sullivan ... Read more

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  • White Mughals

    Love and Betrayal in 18th-century India (Text Only)

    From the author of the Samuel Johnson prize-shortlisted ‘Return of a King’, the romantic and ultimately tragic tale of a passionate love affair that transcended all the cultural, religious and political boundaries of its time.James Achilles Kirkpatrick was the British Resident at the court of Hyderabad when he met Khair un-Nissa – ‘Most Excellent among Women’ – the great-niece of the Prime ... Read more

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  • Cleopatra

    Last Queen of Egypt

    The Romans regarded her as "fatale monstrum" -- a fatal omen. Pascal said the shape of her nose changed the history of the world. Shakespeare portrayed her as an icon of tragic love. But who was Cleopatra, really?We almost feel that we know Cleopatra, but our distorted image of a self-destructive beauty does no justice to Cleopatra's true genius. In Cleopatra, Egyptologist Joyce Tyldesley offers ... Read more

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    The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42

    From William Dalrymple—award-winning historian, journalist and travel writer—a masterly retelling of what was perhaps the West’s greatest imperial disaster in the East, and an important parable of neocolonial ambition, folly and hubris that has striking relevance to our own time.With access to newly discovered primary sources from archives in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Russia and India—including a ... Read more

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  • Cleopatra the Great

    The Woman Behind the Legend

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    The White European Slaves of Islam

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