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"The Social Topography of a Rural Community is the first study of any of the two dozen seventeenth-century English communities which have occupational data recorded in a census and analyses that listing in conjunction with a contemporaneous estate map to offer a pioneering experiment in the spatial history of social and economic relations. The approach taken here is influenced by the 'spatial turn' in its emphasis on the endowment of specific spaces with 'a sense of place' as they were inhabited and experienced; and on the flow of people, goods, and information through space"-- Provided by publisher.

How do we define patriotism in a diverse society? What divides us and what brings us together? Why do we feel uncomfortable celebrating our country's history? Really, really thought-provoking, nuanced and I suggest that anyone who an interest in the future of this country should read it. Nihal Arthanayake How to be a Patriot offers a new way of understanding our collective identity in a country wrought by division and brimming with markers of identity - faith, race, gender, age, sexuality. Sunder Katwala himself grew up with some questions to work through. As a half-Indian, Irish Catholic child of the NHS, the chequered history of post-imperial Britain seemed very personal to him, but he realised that with that background he could hardly be anything but British, and proud of it too. His timely and clear-eyed analysis seeks to navigate the many crises of this increasingly disunited kingdom: extremism and integration after 7/7; fear of immigration and the deep divides of Brexit; the resurgence of online racism; and the debate over our cultural heritage. Equipped with a nuanced understanding of the subject and a wealth of supporting data, he sets out to foster a more open and tolerant society: one that welcomes alternative ideas and cultures rather than shutting them out. Ultimately, How to be a Patriot is a rousing story of lives lived together and shared values. Far from being divisive, it concludes, an inclusive and confident patriotism is a reminder that our differences need not define us.

• V. 1. Crisis, renewal, and the ministers' dilemma
• v. 2. Settlement, churches, and the role of London
• v. 3. The Huguenots and the defeat of Louis XIVʹs France.

The Huguenots in Later Stuart Britain is planned as one work to be published in three interlinking volumes (titles/publication dates detailed below). It examines the history of the French communities in Britain from the Civil War, which plunged them into turmoil, to the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713, after which there was no realistic possibility that the Huguenots would be readmitted to France. There is a particular focus on the decades of the 1680s and 1690s, at once the most complex, the most crucial, and the most challenging alike for the refugees themselves and for subsequent historians. The work opens with the Calvinist French-speaking communities in England caught up in the Civil War. They could not avoid it, with many of their members largely assimilated into English society by the 1640s. Generally they favoured the Parliamentarian side, but any victory was pyrrhic because the Interregnum supported the rights of Independent congregations which undermined their whole Calvinist structure. Weakened by in-fighting, in the 1660s the old-established French churches then had to reassert their right to exist in the face of a sometimes hostile restored monarchy and episcopacy, a newly licenced French church emphasizing its Anglicanism and its loyalty to the crown, and the challenges of the Plague and the Fire of London which burnt the largest French church in England to the ground. They were still staggering to find their feet when the first trickle and then the full flood of new Huguenot immigration overwhelmed them. As for the newly arriving Huguenot ministers, not prepared for the England to which they came, they found they had to resolve what was often an intense personal dilemma: should they stand fast for the worship they had led in France, or accept Anglican ways? - and if they did accept Anglicanism, to what extent? It is demonstrated that many ministers took the Anglican route, although Volume II will show that the French communities as a whole, old and new alike, voted with their feet not to do so. A substantial appendix provides a biographical account of over 600 ministers in the orbit of the French churches across this period. Volume II: Settlement, Churches, and the Role of London - 978-1-84519-619-6 (2017); Volume III: The Huguenots and the Defeat of Louis XIV's France - 978-1-84519-620-2 (2020). -- !c From publisher's description.

• Cover
• Frontispiece
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction
• (Neo)classic and Romantic
• The Radical Break
• Imitation and Expression, the Mirror and the Lamp
• "Revolution"
• Preromanticism
• Modernism: Structuralism and Poststructuralism
• "Rules" and the Genre System
• The Novel Tradition
• 1. The Sciences as a Model for the Arts: A Synchronic Inquiry
• Ancients and Moderns, Arts and Sciences
• Experience and Experiment
• Controlling for Time, Place, and Persons: The TwoUnities
• Controlling for Time, Place, and Persons: The Dramatic Aesthetic

• The New Principle of Pleasure
• The Judgment of Aesthetic Value
• The Aesthetic Imagination and the Origins of the Social Sciences
• Controlling for Time, Place, and Persons: The Narrative Claim to Historicity
• Novelistic Plots as Experimental Hypotheses
• Controlling for Time, Place, and Persons: The Novel Aesthetic, or Realism
• 2. From Ancient Mimesis to Modern Realism: A Diachronic Inquiry
• Aristotelian Mimesis
• Verisimilitude: Italian Theory
• Verisimilitude: French Theory
• Probability: English Theory
• Realism
• The Rise of Fictionality?

• 3. The Historicity of Literary Conventions: Family Romance
• The History of a Convention?
• Literary Convention as Social Convention
• Family Romance as Ideology
• True Nobility in the Service of Patrilineal Nobility
• True Nobility as Female
• True Nobility as Puritan
• Novelistic Parody of Patrilineal Nobility
• Discovery Within
• Conclusion
• 4. The Historicity of Literary Genres: Pastoral Poetry
• What Is Pastoral?
• Pastoral and Periodization
• Capitalism Began in the Countryside
• From Forms to Fetters?
• Pastoral Poetry: Changing Places
• Retreat
• Locational Pastoral

• Taking the Measure of the City
• Renaissance Pastoral Parodied
• Explicit Critique of the Pastoral Tradition
• Object as Subject: Laboring Pastoral
• Women's Pastoral
• Pastoral Internalized: Micro-pastoral
• Pastoral Externalized: Macro-pastoral
• The North-South Axis
• The East-West Axis
• 5. Political Poetry: Comparative Historicizing, 1650-1700, 1930-1980
• The Modern Problemof Political Poetry
• Politics as Form
• Tradition: The Tacit Distinction of Politics and Poetry
• State Poetry: The Enlightenment Emergence of "Political Poetry"

• A Model: Religious Poetry and "Religious Poetry"
• 6. Paradise Lost as Parody: Period, Genre, and Conjectural Interpretation
• Parody
• Mock Epic
• Christian Typology
• Christian Accommodation
• Domestication
• Heroic Poetry
• Secret History
• Obviating Accommodation, Forgoing Domestication, Precluding Allegory
• The Novel
• Acknowledgments
• Notes
• Source Notes
• Index
• About the Author

The most comprehensive, updated history of St. Bartholomew the Great, the oldest parish church in London, as it celebrates its nine-hundred-year anniversary. At the heart of the Smithfield area, with its pubs, restaurants, and market, is a church built when Henry I was King of England. Overlooking the fields where kings confronted rebellions, knights jousted, and heretics were burnt, St. Bartholomew’s Priory and Hospital played a central role in the history of medieval London. The tale of St. Bartholomew’s is one of survival and renewal. Not only has the priory hosted many of London’s most famous (such as a young Benjamin Franklin), but it has also miraculously survived the tumults of the Reformation, the Civil War, the Great Fire of 1666, and the bomb raids of World Wars I and II. Richly illustrated, 900 Years of St Bartholomew’s surveys the art, architecture, and deep historical significance of this enduring landmark.

"A well-established series of sourcebooks catering to the needs of students at schools and universities who are studying ancient history in English translation. Each volume focuses on a particular period or topic and provides a generous and judicious selection of primary texts in new translations, with annotation and supporting materials"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction: the meaning of monarchy
• The making of the monarch, 1926-1952
• The new Elizabethans, 1952-1976
• The middle years, 1977-1996
• New millennium, old monarchy, 1977-2011
• The final decade 2012-2022.

"This book is a photographic portrait of Queen Elizabeth II, from her first official photograph as a baby in 1926 to her Platinum Jubilee in 2022. Each of the book's chapters begins with a text by bestselling historian and biographer Philip Ziegler, covering the key royal and historical events of the period, with some contextual photographs, followed by a sequence of plates in chronological order. With over 200 images of the Queen by internationally distinguished photographers such as Cecil Beaton, Lord Snowdon and Rankin, the Queen is captured in a variety of poses, from formal photographs as a working monarch, to intimate portraits relaxing with her family at Balmoral and Windsor. All the images have been officially approved by the Palace, making this the only illustrated book that anyone will ever need on Queen Elizabeth II"--Publisher's description.

• The Wellesleys of County Meath
• Richard takes charge
• The India adventure begins
• Tiger hunt
• Arthur : from Mysore to the Maratha War
• Henry steps forward
• End of the first act : the Maratha War
• Entr'acte I
• Toil and trouble
• The Wellesleys in Spain : the first phase
• The Wellesleys at war
• Reversal of fortunes
• Waterloo
• Entr'acte II
• Encore for the Wellesleys
• Irreconcilable differences
• View from across the aisle
• The final years.

• Poverty archaeology
• The sick
• The elderly
• The young
• The mad
• The workers.

"The Poor Laws in the United Kingdom left a built and material legacy of over two centuries of legislative provision for the poor and infirm. Workhouses represent the first centralized, state-organized system for welfare, though they maintain a notorious historical reputation. Workhouses were intended to be specialized institutions, with dedicated subdivisions for the management of different categories of inmate. Examining the workhouse provision from an archaeological perspective, the authors demonstrate the heterogeneity of the Poor Law system from a built heritage perspective. This volume forms a social archaeology of the lived experience of poverty and health in the nineteenth century"-- Provided by publisher.