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  • The Cornish Language in the Nineteenth Century

    by Kensa Broadhurst ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book offers a radical re-examination of the history of the Cornish language, challenging the long-held belief that it became extinct with the death of Dolly Pentreath in 1777. Instead, it reveals compelling evidence that Cornish continued to be used throughout the 19th century, by the working class, by academics, and by those seeking to preserve the language.Exploring the research of ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

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  • The Favourite

    Ralegh and His Queen

    by Mathew Lyons ...
    In The Favourite, Mathew Lyons strips away the myth - and the self-mythologising - to find Sir Walter Ralegh in the one role in which his contemporaries knew him best: the courtier who could win the attention - and the heart - of Elizabeth I, while also being the 'most hated man in England'.Using first-hand accounts, Lyons uncovers the maze of ambition, desire and amorality in which Ralegh lived ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Richard III's 'Beloved Cousyn'

    John Howard and the House of York

    by John Ashdown-Hill ...
    In 1455 John Howard was an untitled and relatively obscure Suffolk gentleman. Thirty years later, at the time of his death at the Battle of Bosworth Field, he was Earl Marshal, Duke of Norfolk, Lord Admiral and a very rich man (and his direct descendant is Duke of Norfolk today). How had Howard attained these elevations? Through his service to the House of York, and in particular to King Richard ... Read more

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  • What's in a Surname?

    A Journey from Abercrombie to Zwicker

    by David McKie ...
    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERSurnames are much more than convenient identity tags; they are windows into our families’ pasts. Some suggest ancestral trades (Butcher, Smith, Roper) or physical appearance (Long, Brown, Thynne). Some provide clues to where we come from (McDonald, Evans, Patel). And some – Rymer, Brocklebank, Stolbof – offer a hint of something just a little more exotic or esoteric.All ... Read more

    $17.89 USD

  • The Welsh Language

    A History

    by Janet Davies ...
    The existence of the Welsh-language can come as a surprise to those who assume that English is the foundation language of Britain. However, J. R. R. Tolkien described Welsh as the 'senior language of the men of Britain'. Visitors from outside Wales may be intrigued by the existence of Welsh and will want to find out how a language which has, for at least fifteen hundred years, been the closest ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Crowded with Genius

    Edinburgh, 1745-1789

    by James Buchan ...

    $9.99 USD

  • The Yorkshire Dales

    Local and Family History

    by George Redmonds ...
    The landscape and people are the two most distinctive qualities of the Yorkshire Dales, and this book employs new sources and methods to help the reader see both in a different light. In earlier centuries, religious and social factors influenced the first names that were given to children. Distinctive surnames were inherited, and their expansion or decline can throw light on local communities, on ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cornwall: A History

    Revised and updated edition

    by Prof. Philip Payton ...
    A new edition of Philip Payton’s modern classic Cornwall: A History, published now by University of Exeter Press, telling the story of Cornwall from earliest times to the present day.Drawing upon a wide range of original and secondary sources, it begins with Cornwall’s geology and prehistory, moving through Celtic times to the creation of the kingdom of Kernow and its relationship with ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • The Strange History of Samuel Pepys's Diary

    by Kate Loveman ...
    During the 1660s, Samuel Pepys kept a secret diary full of intimate details and political scandal. Had the contents been revealed, they could have destroyed his marriage, ended his career, and seen him arrested. This engaging book explores the creation of the most famous journal in the English language, how it came to be published in 1825, and the many remarkable roles it has played in British ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • The Middle English Book

    Scribes and Readers, 1350-1500

    by Prof Michael Johnston ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture
    The monograph series Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture showcases the plurilingual and multicultural quality of medieval literature and actively seeks to promote research that not only focuses on the array of subjects medievalists now pursue--in literature, theology, and philosophy, in social, political, jurisprudential, and intellectual history, the history of art, and the history ... Read more

    $85.49 USD

  • The County Community in Seventeenth Century England and Wales

    Edited by Jacqueline Eales, Andrew Hopper ...
    Series Book 5 - Explorations in Local and Regional History
    Honoring the memory of Professor Alan Everitt—who advanced the fruitful notion of the "county community" during the 17th century—this volume proposes some modifications to Everitt's influential hypotheses in the light of the best recent scholarship. With an important reevaluation of political engagement in civil war Kent and an assessment of numerous midland and southern counties as well as Wales, ... Read more

    $22.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A History of British Surnames

    by Richard Mckinley ...
    Series series Approaches to Local History
    Aiming to avoid technical terminology, Richard McKinley provides an introduction to the history of hereditary surnames in Britain from their first appearance to the present day. Devoting a chapter to each of the main categories of name, he enables readers to set the facts they discover about their own ancestry, family history and surnames into the context of general surname development. The author ... Read more

    $66.99 USD