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Series
Publisher
Rosen Central
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the history of guilds, discussing their importance to life in the Middle Ages, features brief descriptions of typical guilds, and includes instructions and recipes for crafts and foods such as those made by guilds.
Includes instructions for making jewelry, stone carving designs, a peasant's hat, shoes, armor, pottery, etc. from available materials.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
From the mysterious Druids and noble King Alfred to the notorious Henry VIII and the Glorious Revolution of 1688, Charles Dickens traced his country's history for the benefit of young Victorians. Written with the beloved storyteller's customary panache, this series of historical vignettes reads like a fast-paced novel, rich in anecdotes and colorful stories. Dickens' unsparing, witty, and opinionated perspectives on the great pageant of English history...
Author
Series
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A Grim Almanac of Staffordshire is a day-by-day catalogue of 366 ghastly tales from around the county. Full of dreadful deeds, strange disappearances and a multitude of murders, this almanac explores the darker side of the Staffordshire's past. Here are stories of tragedy, torment, and the truly unfortunate, with diverse tales of freak weather, bizarre deaths, and terrible accidents, including the young lad "jellified" after falling into factory machinery,...
Author
Series
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The Little Book of Lincolnshire is a compendium of fascinating information about this historic county, past and present. Contained within is a plethora of entertaining facts about Lincolnshire's famous and occasionally infamous men and women, its towns and countryside, history, natural history, literary, artistic and sporting achievements, loony laws, customs ancient and modern, transport, battles and ghostly inhabitants.
A reliable reference book...
Author
Series
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
How do you get rid of a bothersome giant? Have you got a secret like Effie? And what would you do with an invisibility seed?
Some of these stories from Glamorgan are strange and sad, some are a bit scary and some are a bit mad. Our ancestors first told them long ago, and people liked them so much they kept passing them on. These stories of magic and adventure belong to everyone. They are meant to be told. Read them, tell them and pass them on yourself!...
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
The landscape has had a huge impact on the history of Liverpool and Merseyside. The ice age glaciers carved out the Rivers Mersey and Dee; the Sefton coast provided a perfect place for the earliest humans to hunt and gather food; and the Pool and the Mersey, and England's position on the coast gave King John the perfect base from which to launch his Irish campaigns.
This book explores the landscapes from these earliest times, and charts the changing...
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
The late nineteenth century saw an unparalleled revolution in warship development as the Victorian navy found itself grappling with intense technical change to ensure its survival in the modern theatre. From the wooden battleships of the 1800s, naval architecture underwent great change to produce a very different form of capital ship, which would have a huge impact and change naval design forever. The pre-dreadnought was constructed of steel, wholly...
Author
Series
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A day-by-day guide to Peterborough's history, this book contains political, sporting, criminal, strange, amusing and eccentric events from different periods in the history of the cathedral city. Some events had a major impact on the history of the country as a whole, whilst others are just plain absurd! Featuring famous births, marriages, deaths, political demises and famous and less well known facts about the historic city, this book is a cornucopia...
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Did you know England is almost exactly 1,000 years old? Not only that, but can you believe English people have been around for even longer? It's true: even before England had been invented, English people lived in several smaller countries all over the island of Britain. The Saxon King Alfred the Great is famous for trying to bring these countries together--even though this caused many clashes with their greatest enemies, the Vikings. Eventually,...
Author
Series
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Did you know?
• Richard Burton claimed that he would rather have played rugby for Wales at Cardiff Arms Park than Hamlet at the Old Vic.
• Local rivalries between choirs in the 'land of song' used to be so fierce that fights would break out following singing competitions.
• Roald Dahl was an RAF fighter pilot during the Second World War, and a near-death crash landing inspired his first published work.
The Little Book of Welsh Culture is a...
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
This volume explores the history of Watford from earliest times to the present day, and the intriguing role the area has played in British history. It is a rich story, filled with such details as life in the household of Cardinal Wolsey at Moor Park, where Henry VIII stayed and Catherine of Aragon lived after the king (as some sources have it) met Anne Boleyn in that very house. As the Tudor era swept on, men from Hertfordshire went to face the threat...
Author
Series
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Examines the important events, dates, and civilizations that shaped the early Middle Ages including invasion by Germanic tribes, early Christian church, feudalism, Islam, the Byzantine period, and the Vikings.
Author
Series
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Influential and innovative, James Joyce (1882–1941) led the vanguard of twentieth-century fiction. Sooner or later, most undergraduates encounter him, and many scholars devote their entire careers to his exuberantly eloquent prose. Joyce's experimental use of language and stream-of-consciousness techniques continues to captivate modern readers and writers, and this anthology offers a first-rate introduction to the Irish author's fiction and poetry....
79) The Black Death
Author
Publisher
Oldcastle Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
The Black Death is the name most commonly given to the pandemic of bubonic plague that ravaged the medieval world in the late 1340s. From Central Asia, the plague swept through Europe, leaving millions of dead in its wake. Between a quarter and a third of Europe's population died, and in England the population fell from nearly six million to just over three million. Sean Martin looks at the origins of the disease and traces its terrible march through...
Author
Series
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The Little Book of Dublin is a compendium of fascinating and entertaining truths about the city, past and present.
Funny, fast-paced, and fact-packed, here you will find out about Dublin's trade and industry, saints and sinners, crime and punishment, sports and games, folklore and customs and, of course, its literary heritage. Here lie famous elements of Dublin's history cheek by jowl with little-known facts that could so easily pass unnoticed.
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