Books in the Camden Fifth Series series

Before the sixteenth-century dissolution of religious houses Beauchief Abbey was important to the development of religious, social and economic activity in the English Midlands. This study, publishing the abbey's Cartulary for the first time, underlines recognition by historians of the importance of canons to the religious orders of England.

This volume consists of diary extracts written by Collin Brooks, a Fleet Street journalist and editor. His readable, witty and fluent journals offer a unique insight into the operations of a press baron, as well as a perspective on the leading political issues of the 1930s.

British Envoys to the Kaiserreich, 1871-1897 concentrates on Anglo-German history prior to German Weltpolitik. The second volume presents official diplomatic reports from the British embassy at Berlin (German Empire) and from the four minor diplomatic missions in Darmstadt, Dresden, Stuttgart, and Munich during the years 1884 to 1897.

This is the private diary of a senior Conservative Member of Parliament during the period of the Second World War.

This collection of the diary letters of Austen Chamberlain, 1916 to 1937, provides a valuable insight into the political life of one of the leading Conservative politicians of the inter-war period, and constitutes a detailed record of Conservative and national politics at this time.

This volume in the Royal Historical Society's Camden Fifth Series is a comprehensive edition of the only surviving northern medieval letter collection. Of particular value to social and legal historians, Joan Kirby's text contains a wealth of material unavailable to the editor of the previous edition of 1836.

The journal of John Wodehouse, first Earl of Kimberley (1862-1902) is replete with humorous anecdotes, information regarding policy development, and acute observations about politicians and political situations. It is perhaps the last significant account of high political policy development in the Liberal Party for the period 1865-1900.

First published in 2000, this book is a modern and accessible edition of a manuscript journal kept by Thomas Juxon, a Puritan Londoner, who traded in sugar. The journal offers an eyewitness account from the latter stages of the civil war to the crisis of the summer of 1647.

This volume publishes official reports written for the Foreign Office by British envoys to the German States in the nineteenth century. It covers the period from the Vienna Congress in 1815 to the dissolution of the German Confederation. All dispatches are transcribed and annotated for the first time.

Publishes primary sources on the religious, political and social history of sixteenth-century England. The sources include: Religious Ceremonial at the Tudor Court; Extracts from Royal Household Regulations; Notes on the Controversy between the Dukes of Somerset and Northumberland; Letters from Sir Robert Cecil to Sir Christopher Hatton, 1590-1591.

This book presents an edition of two treatises that examine the legal issues that arose during the Hundred Years War, namely the laws governing the succession to the French crown, English claims to territories within France, and the responsibility for the breeches of various treaties and truces.

The edited journals kept by A. L. Kennedy of The Times, providing details of his meetings with Mussolini, Hitler and others. It explains the relationship between The Times, the British Government and the Foreign Office, and illuminates the support for 'appeasement' and the origins of the Second World War.

Francis Place was one of Britain's most important political activists and chronicler of working-class life during the Industrial Revolution. His previously unpublished diary, written between 1825 and 1836, provides a unique perspective on the political and social issues of the day.

A first-hand account of British attempts to negotiate a settlement of the Irish question. These valuable sources reveal the British Government's response to Irish nationalism during 1884-1887, and suggest that Gladstone's adoption of home rule was more significantly influenced by warnings of revolution in Ireland than has been previously thought.

Coventry harboured an important community of Lollards in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. This volume presents all known evidence related to these heretics and, framed by a contextual introduction, offers new insights into the nature of religious dissent in England just prior to the English Reformation.

Publishes primary sources on the religious, political and social history of sixteenth-century England. The sources include: Religious Ceremonial at the Tudor Court; Extracts from Royal Household Regulations; Notes on the Controversy between the Dukes of Somerset and Northumberland; Letters from Sir Robert Cecil to Sir Christopher Hatton, 1590-1591.

A collection of seventeenth-century documents on parliamentary and financial matters, providing access to primary source material for historians.

Based on the diaries of Henry Herbert Molyneux, fourth Earl of Carnarvon, this book sheds new light on Conservative politics in the second half of the nineteenth century. Few political diaries of this scale and significance have survived and they reveal him to be a shrewd observer of events.

British Envoys to the Kaiserreich, 1871-1897 concentrates on Anglo-German history prior to German Weltpolitik. The first volume presents official diplomatic reports from the British embassy at Berlin (German Empire) and from the four minor diplomatic missions in Darmstadt, Dresden, Stuttgart, and Munich during the years 1871 to 1883. This title is also available as Open Access.

The edited journals kept by A. L. Kennedy of The Times, providing details of his meetings with Mussolini, Hitler and others. It explains the relationship between The Times, the British Government and the Foreign Office, and illuminates the support for 'appeasement' and the origins of the Second World War.