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Register of the archdeaconry of Nottingham, including records of prisoners in archdeacon's Nottingham gaol.

Late 14c ecclesiastical records from the diocese of Salisbury.

Introduction to and transcription of earliest surviving Exeter episcopal register, with modern translation.

Edition of the correspondence of the notable antiquarians William Stukeley and Maurice Johnson, presenting vivid details of life at the time.

Bishop Sutton's ordination-lists, in common with the rest of his register, were kept on rolls for the first ten years of his episcopate. None of these rolls has survived, and the records therefore begin with the Whitsun ordinations of the eleventh year of Sutton's episcopate (which ran from May 19, 1290, to May 18, 1291) and continue until his death on November 13, 1299.

Juan Ruiz's Libro de Buen Amor is one of the major literary accomplishments of the Iberian middle ages, and has generated an extensive secondary bibliography. Its uniqueness and diversity have thrilled and perplexed readers, and its influence continues to be reflected in modern letters.

This volume presents reprints of the prefaces to representative collections of metrical psalms. Psalm-singing, an essentially popular form of music, required some musical knowledge in the singers, and it was in these prefaces thatthe compilers gave basic information on the staves, clefs and note-values of contemporary notation. Dr Rainbow's introduction is a fascinating guide to the changing tastes and needs shown by the carefully selected reprints.

A new investigation of James I and VI's policy in the troubled Border region between England and Scotland.

A survey of the political career of George Canning, showing how he contributed to a radical change in British party politics.

The history of the Reform Acts viewed from a Scottish angle, bringing out its implications for relations with England.

A nuanced re-evaluation of the ways in which gender affected the use of physical space in early modern England.

Based on a range of primary material, this book follows the journeys of men and women implicated in the capital crimes of shoplifting, pickpocketing and distributing forged banknotes, through their trials and on to death, transportation, imprisonment or even to complete freedom.

The emergence of the northern French county of the Perche, and the rise of the Rotrou family from obscure origins to princely power, 11-13c.

Examination of major changes in political behaviour in 19c Cornwall, withwider implications for the country as a whole.

This case study of the power struggle between politicians and generals for control of the strategic management of the South African War illuminates Victorian and Edwardian civil-military relations.

A detailed study of kinship and social and educational ties in Gloucestershire between 1640 and 1672.

A survey of the development of British military aviation from 1903 to 1914, revealing the consequences of its annexation by the state as a branch of armaments as an underlying cause of aircraft inadequacies on the outbreak of war.