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Governor Percy Kirke's Out-Letter Book, here transcribed verbatim and annotated, covers the terminal decline of English Tangier, ending just before the arrival of Lord Dartmouth's expedition charged with demolishing the town and evacuating all personnel. It contains 152 official letters mostly addressed to the Tangier Committee, the subcommittee of the Privy Council responsible for Tangerine affairs, and Sir Leoline Jenkins, secretary of state for the south. Although all matters of civilian and military administration, from the essential to the trivial, came within the governor's purview - there was little delegation - the weight of Kirke's correspondence traces the decay of both the town's military fabric and the soldiers' morale and effectiveness, and the impossibility of reaching a satisfactory modus vivendi with the leaders of the besieging Moroccan armed forces. The text is supported by a comprehensive biographical dictionary and histories of the rival armed forces.

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.

The seventh Marquess of Londonderry (1878-1949) held government posts in Dublin, Belfast and London. Controversial in his own lifetime, he oversaw the early years of both the Royal Air Force and Northern Ireland, and he was attacked as a 'warmonger' for his role at the World Disarmament Conference held at Geneva in the early 1930s. Londonderry's subsequent venture into amateur diplomacy cemented his reputation as an arch appeaser of Nazi Germany. He corresponded throughout with important national and international figures and others of significance, including Winston Churchill, Neville Chamberlain, Ramsay MacDonald, Stanley Baldwin, and Lord Halifax. In the late 1930s his regular correspondents also included Hermann Göring, Joachim von Ribbentrop, and Franz von Papen. This volume provides a vivid insight into the outlook and actions of an unapologetic aristocrat-politician, his colleagues in government, and the efforts of his German correspondents to inform and shape British opinion on the Nazi regime.

This book contains the diary of Frederic Harmer, aide to John Maynard Keynes, and the reports and evaluations from Washington of Robert Brand, encompassing the British debates on how to secure US and Canadian financial assistance, the American loan talks in 1945 and the pursuit of a Canadian loan in 1946.

This account of Sir Earle Page's eight-month mission to London provides insights into Anglo-Australian wartime relations during a crucial phase of the Second World War. The defence of Malaya/Singapore and the stunning collapse of British prestige at the hands of the Japanese serves as a backcloth to Page's mission and its significance.

This edition presents the official correspondence and reports of the British consular and diplomatic agents stationed in the Regency of Tripoli from 1795 to 1832, providing political intelligence on local and regional developments, and revealing both the personal ambitions of the consuls and the official interests of the British government.

John Hatsell (1733-1820) was Clerk of the House of Commons from 1768 to 1820. In his letters and Memorabilia entries, Hatsell brought to bear his intimate familiarity with high politics during the reign of George III. His wry humour is often on display as he reveals the lighter side of social and political life in Great Britain.

This volume presents the surviving correspondence of the French ambassador to the court of Elizabeth I from 1562-66, Paul de Foix. His letters and reports provide insight into the Queen's demeanour as a negotiator, on the question of her marriage and on the role of an ambassador in a period of extreme instability both in France and England.

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

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.

At the time of his death, William Francis Hare (1906-1997), fifth Earl of Listowel, was the longest serving member of the House of Lords and the Privy Council. His career, recorded through these memoirs, both witnessed and influenced some of the most remarkable events in twentieth-century British history.

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.

The text, published here for the first time, describes a journey in 1595 to Rome through the Low Countries, Germany, and Italy. As an eye-witness, the author Henry Piers offers fresh and individual insights on the Elizabethan Catholic diaspora in Rome and Spain during the turbulent decade of the 1590s.

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.

William Cecil, Lord Burghley's 128 letters to his son Sir Robert Cecil in Cambridge University Library Manuscript Ee.3.56 show the close direction and counsel he gave his son in seeking and obtaining the office of Principal Secretary, 1593-8. They give an intimate perspective of their relationship and Burghley's political and spiritual anxieties.

This volume contains previously unpublished fourteenth-century parliamentary common petitions, statements of grievance and requests for reform that provided the basis for much of the royal legislation of the period. These petitions express many of the concerns of the period, from the rights of the church to the consequences of revolt.

An annotated collection of the surviving letter and charters of the Marshals, the most powerful magnate dynasty in thirteenth-century England, Wales and Ireland. The Marshals were central to Angevin politics for over three decades, including in the court of Henry III and in the establishment of Magna Carta.

Cecil Harmsworth served as a Liberal MP from 1906 to 1922, under Herbert Asquith and Lloyd George. His diary forms a record of the politics of the period, detailing late-night Commons sittings and the rough and tumble of the campaign trail as well as giving skilful pen-portraits of the major figures of the day.

This volume comprises a collection of texts that evidence the role of Catholic clergy as agents of papal authority in Tudor England before and after the break with Rome. They address Wolsey's application of legatine powers during Henry VIII's reign and the penalties imposed upon Catholic clergy during the reign of Elizabeth I.

These three accounts on the Holy Roman Empire and Denmark were written by diplomats from England and Scotland during the second half of the sixteenth century. They demonstrate the complex interplay of politics and religion in international relations during this period of conflict.

Sir Ivor Jennings (1903-65) was one of the twentieth century's leading constitutional scholars. He was particularly influential internationally as an advisor on constitutional questions during the 1950s and 1960s. This collection sheds light on the process of constitution-making and on British ideas about democracy during the climactic era of decolonisation.

The letters of the learned and indomitable Lady Anne Bacon (1528-1610), mother of the philosopher Francis Bacon, are made accessible for the first time in this edition. Her correspondence sheds light not only on the activities of early modern elite women, but also on a multitude of well-known Elizabethan figures.

This is the first collection to bring together over 550 documents relating to the foreign policy of the British Conservative governments between 1852 and 1878. Documents pertain to issues of the day, including the French Second Empire, the wars of Italian Unification, the Austro-Prussian war and the Eastern crisis of 1874-8.

Robert Woodford's diary, here published in full for the first time with an introduction, provides a unique source for the study of the mid-seventeenth century including insight into the puritan psyche and way of life, opposition to Charles I and the formation of Civil War allegiance.

The collected reports of Michel de Seure, French ambassador to England from 1560-2. The reports shed light on the difficulties of negotiating with Elizabeth I and French opinions on her policy, whilst appendices and prefatory material place de Seure's time in England in the context of his career as a whole.

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.

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 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.

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 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.