Are you intrigued by Brother Cadfael or Jane Austen’s heroines and want to learn more about Maud the Empress or the Prince Regent? Need a better grasp of the background to Shakespeare’s history plays or career? Let Royals of England fill in the missing links. Royals of England offers lively biographies of royal personages that accompany detailed accounts of geographic ...

Manufacturer: iUniverse, Inc.
Written By: Kathleen Spaltro

For decades, the British and Irish had 'got used to' a situation without parallel in Europe: a cold, ferocious, persistent campaign of bombing and terror of extraordinary duration and inventiveness. At the heart of that campaign lies one man: Gerry Adams. From the outbreak of the troubles to the present day, he has been an immensely influential figure. The most compelling question about the IRA ...

Manufacturer: Penguin Books
Written By: Ed Moloney

From Presidents Reagan and Clinton to entertainers Carroll O'Connor and Aidan Quinn, it's clear that Celtic heritage abounds in the United States. While the names Aileen, Glenna, and Morgan are generally well known, what about Siobbhan, Fiona, or Branwen? If your last name is O'Brian, MacQueen, or Ellis, you may well already know of your Irish, Scottish, or Welsh background. But if your ...

Manufacturer: Citadel
Written By: D. J. Conway

At the signing of the Magna Charta, twenty-five men, representing the barons, signed as sureties of the baronial performance, in effect pledging the barons to fulfill their obligations to the Crown in accordance with the terms of the Great Charter. Of these twenty-five sureties only seventeen have identified descendants. Each of the seventeen is represented in the celebrated Magna ...

Manufacturer: Genealogical Pub Co
Written By: Frederick Lewis Weis, William Ryland Beall

Rescuing the premodern family from the grim picture many historians have given us of life in early Europe, Ancestors offers a major reassessment of a crucial aspect of European history--and tells a story of age-old domesticity inextricably linked, and surprisingly similar, to our own. An elegant summa on family life in Europe past, this compact and powerful book extends and ...

Manufacturer: Harvard University Press
Written By: Steven Ozment

A portrait of London's famous and historic Lincoln's Inn, tracing the development of the Inn from its 14th-century origins to its position today as a distinctive and important part of the English legal system.

Manufacturer: Third Millennium Publishing Ltd.
Written By: Third Millennium Publishing Ltd.

British English A to Zed gives readers immediate access to an alphabetical listing of either the thousands of "Briticisms" cited in the general entries or the correlating "Americanisms" that appear throughout the book. This updated edition features more than 5,000 entries, including new words, both formal and slang, and words from sources as diverse as London businesses and Bridget Jones's ...

Manufacturer: Checkmark Books
Written By: Norman W. Schur, Eugene H. Ehrlich

This large, well-illustrated book is the culmination of fifteen years of historical and archaeological research into the history of Barra and its people from the time of the Vikings to the notorious clearances of 1850/51, as revealed by archaeology and hundreds of historical documents tucked away in archives in Scotland, England, Italy and Canada. The book describes the homes and workplaces of the ...

Manufacturer: Oxbow Books Limited
Written By: Keith Branigan

'"Passing the Time in Ballymenone" is an extraordinarily rich and rewarding book. It is about night and day, talk and work, man and nature, history and folklore, text and context, truth and order, art and culture, life and death, the ponderable and imponderable, but above all it is about the effort of one man to find for himself and us the life's breath of the people of Ballymenone...It is ...

Manufacturer: Indiana University Press
Written By: Henry H. Glassie

Scots who opted for pioneer life in Prince Edward Island are the subject of this book. Being the first of the "northern" colonies to be sold off in its entirety to proprietors in the late eighteenth century, P.E.I. acquired its Scots earliest, doing so even before the start of the American War of Independence in 1775. The colonization of Prince Edward Island by Scots takes us back to a period ...

Manufacturer: Natural Heritage Books
Written By: Lucille H. Campey