This second edition takes account the many changes in the field since "Ancestral Trails" was first published in 1997. A comprehensive and up to date guide to tracing British ancestry, the book guides the researcher through the substantial British archives with a detailed view of the records and published sources available. Research in Scotland, Wales, Ireland, the Isle of Man and the Channel ...

Manufacturer: Genealogical Publishing Company
Written By: Mark D. Herber

Manufacturer: Genealogical Pub Co
Written By: Lewis C. Loyd

This fascinating new biography tells the story of one of the most influential figures of the twelfth century, Eleanor of Aquitaine, successively queen of France and of England. In tracing her life story Professor Owen reassesses her political importance during the reigns of her husband Henry II and her sons, Richard the Lionheart and John, and aims to separate the true historical Eleanor from the ...

Manufacturer: Wiley-Blackwell
Written By: D. D. R. Owen

Manufacturer: Phillimore & Co.
Written By: Norman Jacobs

This volume reveals the truth behind the colourful legends about Arthur and his Round Table, his battles, his court and his death. It aims to prove that Arthur was once a real Dark Age warlord with an extensive family and a band of fearsome warriors at his command.

Manufacturer: Rider & Co
Written By: Steve Blake, Scott Lloyd

This is the grim story of the British and Irish immigrants who came to America during the middle of the nineteenth century. Much the largest contingent was Irish, and it was above all the departure of the Irish to America, diseased, half-starved, bewildered, cheated and cheating, which made the emigrant way across the Atlantic as degrading as the convict route to the South Seas, and ...

Manufacturer: Genealogical Publishing Company
Written By: Terry Coleman

As one of the richest and most powerful land-owning families in later medieval England, the Staffords played their leading part in the politics of their time. This book traces the often complex relations between the three Stafford Dukes of Buckingham and the Crown. In doing so it casts light upon the attitude of successive English kings towards the nobility as a whole, and reassessed the political ...

Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
Written By: Carole Rawcliffe

Crown and Nobility traces the development of the relationship between kings and nobles in late medieval England. It shows how the differing abilities and personalities of the late medieval English kings powerfully affected their relationship with the nobility. The author examines the contrast between the dominant style of Edward I and both the weakness of Edward II and the chivalric reputation of ...

Manufacturer: Wiley-Blackwell
Written By: Anthony Tuck

In this first of a two-part sequence a respected vexillologist describes, explains and illustrates a wide variety of the standards and guidons carried during the 18th and 19th centuries by British Household, Regular, Yeomanry and Volunteer cavalry units. The successive regulations between 1747 and 1868 are supported by tables of 'ancient badges' and battle honours; by many examples of ...

Manufacturer: Osprey Publishing
Written By: Ian Sumner

This psychologically penetrating revisionist account of the life and rule of Rusia's 18th-century Tsar-reformer develops an important theme - that is, what happens when the drive for "progress" is linked to an autocratic, expansionist impulse rather than to a larger goal of human emancipation? And, what has been the price of power - both for Peter and for Russia?

Manufacturer: M.E. Sharpe
Written By: Evgenii V. Anisimov