ALLISON, J E

Sidelights on Tranmere

UK, Countyvise Ltd. 1976. (ISBN: 9780907768838). Paperback, Yellow White A5 red text. Paperback in good condition. Good.

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Book number: 29420

Catalogue: History of England

Keywords: 9780907768838

BULL, STEPHEN

"a General Plague of Madness": The CIVIL Wars in Lancashire, 1640-1660

UK, Carnegie Publishing Ltd. 2009. (ISBN: 9781859361917). Paperback, a5+ orange yellow garage. Paperback in good condition. Ref: ZKVQ Lord Derby, Lancashire's highest-ranked nobleman and its principal royalist, once offered the opinion that the English civil wars had been a 'general plague of madness'. Complex and bedevilling, the earl defied anyone to tell the complete story of 'so foolish, so wicked, so lasting a war'. Yet attempting to chronicle and to explain the events is both fascinating and hugely important. Nationally and at the county level the impact and significance of the wars can hardly be over-stated: the conflict involved our ancestors fighting one another, on and off, for a period of nine years; almost every part of Lancashire witnessed warfare of some kind at one time or another, and several towns in particular saw bloody sieges and at least one episode characterised as a massacre.Nationally the wars resulted in the execution of the king; in 1651 the Earl of Derby himself was executed in Bolton in large measure because he had taken a leading part in the so-called massacre in that town in 1644. In the early months of the civil wars many could barely distinguish what it was that divided people in 'this war without an enemy', as the royalist William Waller famously wrote; yet by the end of it parliament had abolished monarchy itself and created the only republic in over a millennium of England's history. Over the ensuing centuries this period has been described variously as a rebellion, as a series of civil wars, even as a revolution.Lancashire's role in these momentous events was quite distinctive, and relative to the size of its population particularly important. Lancashire lay right at the centre of the wars, for the conflict did not just encompass England but Ireland and Scotland too, and Lancashire's position on the coast facing Catholic, Royalist Ireland was seen as critical from the very first months. And being on the main route south from Scotland meant that the county witnessed a good deal of marching and marauding armies from the north. In this, the first full history of the Lancashire civil wars for almost a century, Stephen Bull makes extensive use of new discoveries to narrate and explain the exciting, terrible events which our ancestors witnessed in the cause either of king or parliament. From Furness to Liverpool, and from the Wyre estuary to Manchester and Warrington..civil war actions, battles, sieges and skirmishes took place in virtually every corner of Lancashire. Good.

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Book number: 29493

Catalogue: History of England

Keywords: 9781859361917

DERRIMAN, JAMES

Marooned: The Story of a Cornish Seaman

UK, Kenneth Mason Publications Ltd. 1990. (ISBN: 9780859373562). Paperback, off white a5 garage. Paperback in good condition. Good.

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Book number: 29388

Catalogue: History of England

Keywords: 9780859373562

FIRTH, CHARLES

A Commentary on Macaulay's History of England

UK, Frank Cass & Co Ltd. 1964. Hardcover, Brown a5 garage. Hardback with dust jacket in good condition, book has some pencil marks which can be rubbed out, jacket some scuffs to edges. This edition 1964 and is the second edition. Used: Acceptable.

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Book number: 29535

Catalogue: History of England

COLE, G D H AND POSTGATE R

The British Common People 1746-1946

a5 off white front room, Methuen & Co. 1961. Paperback. Paperback in average condition, clean inside but cover bumped. Used: Acceptable.

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Book number: 29100

Catalogue: History of England

JARVIS, DR. ADRIAN

Prince's Dock: A Magnificent Monument of Mural Art

white a5 garage J 2 copies black text, Merseyside Port Folios. 1991. (ISBN: 9780951612903). Paperback. Paperback in good condition. Good.

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Book number: 29473

Catalogue: History of England

Keywords: 9780951612903

JENKINS, R

Hanes Cymru Yn Y Bedwaredd Ganrif Ar Bymtheg, Cyfrol I.

Garage A5 dark brown hard to read, Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru. 1933. Hardcover. Hardback no dust jacket in good condition for age, pages edges dusty but otherwise clean. Used: Acceptable.

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Book number: 29968

Catalogue: History of England

JONES, TRANSLATOR) THOMAS (EDITOR

Brut Y Tywysogion, or Chronicle of Princes: Peniarth Ms 20 Version (History & Law)

UK, University of Wales Press. 1985. (ISBN: 9780708301036). Hardcover, beige a5+ garage. Hardback with dust jacket, although could be described in good condition is spoilt due to under-lining throughout with some notes to the margins. This goes on for two thirds of the book. The book can still be read but spoilt by the previous owners notes. Brut y Tywysogyon or The Chronicle of the Princes was described by Sir J. E. Lloyd as `the greatest monument of Welsh historiography in the Middle Ages'. It has long been recognised as a source of prime importance for the history of medieval Wales and as one which supplies details of interest about contemporary events in England and elsewhere. Of the original thirteenth-century Latin text no copy has survived, but three independent Welsh translations are extant. In this volume, Professor Thomas Jones (1910-72) gives an English translation of the Peniarth MS. 20 version, which is the most complete of the three and which was published in full for the first time in 1941. In his Introduction, Professor Jones surveys the work of earlier scholars. He discusses the contents, origin, and sources of the chronicle and describes the special characteristics of the Peniarth MS. 20 version. The detailed notes show the many discrepancies in the three Welsh versions as compared with one another and, used in conjunction with the text, they supply the combined substantial evidence of three Welsh versions and so of the lost Latin chronicles that underlie them. Ref ZKVQ. Used: Acceptable.

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Book number: 29530

Catalogue: History of the Plantaganets & Medieval England

Keywords: 9780708301036

WALTON, A.DESMOND

Around Old Scotswood Road

grey black small text to spine hard to read a5 and a bit upstairs, The History Press Ltd. 1997. (ISBN: 9780752407838). Paperback, 23.1 x 16.3 x 1 cm. Paperback in good condition, small bumping to cover. This book is part of the Images of England series, which uses old photographs and archived images to show the history of various local areas in England, through their streets, shops, pubs, and people. Used: Acceptable.

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Book number: 30078

Catalogue: History of England

Keywords: 9780752407838