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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 His previously unpublished diary, written between 1825 and 1836, provides a unique perspective on the political and social issues of the day.

This volume presents the diary of George Lloyd (1642-1718). Published here for the first time, the diary offers a detailed account of the everyday life of a man living and working in early modern England and will be an invaluable resource for scholars of English social and cultural history.

This volume is an invaluable portrait of family, kinship, regional and national dynamics in the Tudor and early Stuart period. Based on letters and papers that Cassandra Willoughby found in the family library, her Account focuses on the women of the family, and offers insight into sixteenth-century family dynamics, gentry culture and court connections.

This volume reproduces twenty litigation suits from the Court of Requests during the final century of its operation. These extraordinary cases provide rich details about the complexity of separated couples' rights, the development of alimony (for both men and women) and the variety of human failings that could devastate marriages.

This volume publishes and contextualizes the papers of the Hotham family, parliament's governors of Hull during the civil wars. The dilemma of allegiance experienced by Sir John Hotham and his son, Lieutenant-General John Hotham, resulted in consequences of national significance. They were beheaded on Tower Hill in January 1645.

President de Gaulle famously called the Second Vatican Council 'the greatest event of the twentieth century'. A defining dimension of Vatican II was the presence of observers representing other traditions. The confidential correspondence between Bernard Pawley and the Archbishop of Canterbury is collected here for the first 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.

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.

The book gives a detailed history of the establishment of the East London Mosque and related documents.

This volume of Henry Cromwell's correspondence contains full and annotated transcripts of most of the 536 items in the collection held by the British Library. These letters shed fresh light on Henry Cromwell's Irish administration, political developments in England and the relationship between the Lord Protector, his Council and parliament.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The accounts of Elizabeth Freke's late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Norfolk gentry world are the basis for a new critical edition of her autobiography. By preserving the two often different manuscript versions, the edition provides a new appreciation of a self-image distinct, if not unique, among early modern women's autobiography.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 edition presents official reports sent by British diplomats stationed in Germany to the Foreign Office in London. It vividly illustrates the importance of the 1848 Revolution and its aftermath as an epoch-making event in German and European history and reveals the attitude and perceptions of British observers.

This volume assembles hitherto unpublished English writings in French on France, and especially its nobility, during the 1580s, a key period for understanding the final crisis of the War of Religion. They contain information on the political dispositions of leading royal officials as well as French noblemen in the provinces.