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New Oxford History Of England
The ''New Oxford History of England'' is a book series on the history of the British Isles. It was commissioned in 1992 and produced eleven volumes by 2010, but as of September 2022, no more volumes. It is the successor to the '' Oxford History of England'' (1934–86). The volumes published are (as of September 2022) as follows: *''England under the Norman and Angevin Kings, 1075–1225'' — Robert Bartlett (2002), *''Plantagenet England, 1225–1360'' — Michael Prestwich (2005), *''Shaping the Nation: England, 1360–1461'' — G. L. Harriss (2005), *''The Later Tudors: England, 1547–1603'' — Penry Williams Penry Williams (5 September 1866 – 26 June 1945) was a Liberal Party politician in England. He was born in Middlesbrough, the son of Edward Williams, a Cleveland ironmaster. He was a brother of Aneurin Williams MP. He was elected at the ... (1995), *''A Land of Liberty? England, 1689–1727'' — Julian Hoppi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Book Series
A book series is a sequence of books having certain characteristics in common that are formally identified together as a group. Book series can be organized in different ways, such as written by the same author, or marketed as a group by their publisher. Publishers' reprint series Reprint series of public domain fiction (and sometimes nonfiction) books appeared as early as the 18th century, with the series ''The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill'' (founded by British publisher John Bell in 1777). In 1841 the German Tauchnitz publishing firm launched the ''Collection of British and American Authors'', a reprint series of inexpensive paperbound editions of both public domain and copyrighted fiction and nonfiction works. This book series was unique for paying living authors of the works published even though copyright protection did not exist between nations in the 19th century. Later British reprint series were to include the ''Routledge's Railway Library ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Isles
The British Isles are a group of islands in the North Atlantic Ocean off the north-western coast of continental Europe, consisting of the islands of Great Britain, Ireland, the Isle of Man, the Inner and Outer Hebrides, the Northern Isles, and over six thousand smaller islands."British Isles", ''Encyclopædia Britannica''. They have a total area of and a combined population of almost 72 million, and include two sovereign states, the Republic of Ireland (which covers roughly five-sixths of Ireland), and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The Channel Islands, off the north coast of France, are normally taken to be part of the British Isles, even though they do not form part of the archipelago. The oldest rocks are 2.7 billion years old and are found in Ireland, Wales and the northwest of Scotland. During the Silurian period, the north-western regions collided with the south-east, which had been part of a separate continental landmass. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oxford History Of England
The Oxford History of England (1934–1965) was a notable book series on the history of the United Kingdom. Published by Oxford University Press, it was originally intended to span from Roman Britain to the outbreak of the First World War in fourteen volumes written by eminent historians. Its series editor, Sir George Clark, contributed the first volume which appeared in 1934. The series as originally contemplated was completed in 1961. However, it was subsequently expanded and updated by further volumes and editions, taking the narrative as far as the end of the Second World War. Several volumes were subsequently "replaced" by revised editions of which the last was added in 1986. Some of the volumes are considered to be classic works for their respective periods and some have been reissued as stand-alone works. The reputation of the series as a whole, however, is mixed. John Bossy wrote in 1996 that it "does not much ring in the mind" except for volumes 1, 2 and 15 (by Collingwood ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Bartlett (historian)
Robert John Bartlett, CBE, FBA, FRSE (born 27 November 1950 in Streatham) is an English historian and medievalist. He is Bishop Wardlaw Professor of Mediaeval History Emeritus at the University of St Andrews. After attending Battersea Grammar School in London (1962 to 1969), he studied at Peterhouse, Cambridge, St John's College, Oxford and Princeton University as a Jane Eliza Procter Visiting Fellow. He obtained research fellowships at several institutions, including the University of Michigan and University of Göttingen, before working at the University of Edinburgh, the University of Chicago and the University of St Andrews, where he currently resides. He is particularly known for his work ''The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization and Cultural Change, 950-1350'', which won the Wolfson History Prize in 1993. He specializes in medieval colonialism, the cult of saints, and England between the 11th century and the 14th century. He gave the 2007 Ford Lectures at the Univer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Prestwich
Michael Charles Prestwich OBE (born 30 January 1943) is an English historian, specialising on the history of medieval England, in particular the reign of Edward I. He is retired, having been Professor of History at Durham University and Head of the Department of History until 2007. Early life Prestwich is the son of two Oxford historians, John Prestwich and Menna Prestwich. His father, "the redoubtable mediaevalist ... who knew so much and published so little", had worked at Bletchley Park during the war, working among other things on the breaking of U-boat codes. Michael was educated at the Dragon School in Oxford, and then went to a well-known public school Charterhouse, before winning a scholarship to Magdalen College, Oxford. After being awarded an MA and First in History, he completed his D.Phil. with a thesis entitled ''Edward I's wars and their financing 1294-1307'' at Christ Church, Oxford. Academic career After a year as a lecturer at Christ Church, Michael ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Penry Williams (historian)
Penry Herbert Williams (25 February 1925 – 30 April 2013) was a Welsh historian of Elizabethan Britain.Stephen Bates, âPenry Williams obituary€™, ''The Guardian'' (15 May 2013). Retrieved on 13 November 2020. Early life He was born in Calcutta to a father from Brecknockshire and he was educated at Marlborough College.George Bernard and Robert Evans, ‘Penry Williams (1925—2013)’, ''The English Historical Review'', Vol. 129, No. 537 (April 2014), pp. 267–268. During the Second World War Williams served in India and Java as a member of the Royal Artillery. He then read history at New College, Oxford, where J. E. Neale suggested he study Wales under the government of Elizabeth I.Bernard and Evans, p. 268. His doctoral thesis, ''The Council in the Marches of Wales under Elizabeth I'', was published in 1958.Bernard and Evans, p. 267. Academic career He taught history at the Victoria University of Manchester from 1951 until 1964 and at New College from 1964 until 1992. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Langford
Paul Langford FBA FRHistS (20 November 1945, Bridgend – 27 July 2015) was a British historian. From 2000 until late 2012 he was the rector of Lincoln College, Oxford, succeeded by professor Henry Woudhuysen. Educated at Monmouth School and Hertford College, Oxford, Langford was elected to a junior research fellowship in modern history at Lincoln College in 1969, becoming a tutorial fellow in 1970. He was a lecturer at the University of Oxford from 1971 to 1994, being elected a reader in modern history in 1994 and becoming a professor in 1996. Having served as a member of the Humanities Research Board from 1995, in 1998 he was appointed chairman and chief executive of the newly established Arts and Humanities Research Board, "dashing around the country, successfully selling the idea that research in the arts and humanities should be as fully and imaginatively funded as research in the social or natural sciences." He held this post until returning to Oxford to take up the rect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boyd Hilton
Andrew John Boyd Hilton, FBA (born 1944) is a British historian and a professor and fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. He specialises in modern British history, from the mid-18th century to the mid-19th century. Hilton was educated at William Hulme's Grammar School, Manchester, and New College, Oxford, where he obtained a first class honours degree in Modern History. From 1969 to 1974 he was a research lecturer at Christ Church, Oxford. He was elected a fellow of Trinity College in 1974.Trinity College Annual Record 2008 page 112 from Trinity Members Online at the In 2007, Hilton was promoted by Cambridge to an '' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Harrison (historian)
Sir Brian Howard Harrison (born 9 July 1937) is a British historian and academic. From 1996 to 2004, he was Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford. From 2000 to 2004, he was also the Editor of the ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''. Academic career Harrison was Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford from 1996 to 2004. He was additionally the editor of ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' from January 2000 to September 2004 (succeeded by Lawrence Goldman). Since 2004, he has been an emeritus fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Harrison has published extensively on British social and political history from the 1790s to the present. His first book was ''Drink and the Victorians. The Temperance Question England 1815–1872'' (1971, 2nd. ed. 1994), based on his doctoral thesis entitled The temperance question in England, 1829–1869'' His most recent publications are two volumes in the ''New Oxford History of England'' serie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Penguin History Of Britain
The ''Penguin History of Britain'' is a popular book series on British history, published by Penguin Books. It appeared in nine volumes between 1996 and 2018, with many of the individual works subsequently being republished in several editions. Its general editor is David Cannadine, who also contributed a volume himself. Collectively, the books in the series span the period 54 BC to 1990 and include: * ''An Imperial Possession: Britain in the Roman Empire, 54 BC-AD 409'' (2006) by David Mattingly * ''Britain After Rome: The Fall and Rise, 400 to 1070'' (2010) by Robin Fleming * ''The Struggle for Mastery: Britain, 1066-1284'' (2003) by David Carpenter * ''The Hollow Crown: A History of Britain in the Late Middle Ages'' (2005) by Miri Rubin * ''New Worlds, Lost Worlds: The Rule of the Tudors, 1485-1603'' (2000) by Susan Brigden * ''A Monarchy Transformed: Britain, 1603-1714'' (1996) by Mark Kishlansky * ''A Wealth of Nations? Britain, 1707-1815'' by Linda Colley (To be published) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Oxford History Of The British Empire
''The Oxford History of the British Empire'' is a five-volume history of the British Empire published by the Oxford University Press in 1998 and 1999. According to the publisher, the series "deals with the interaction of British and non-western societies from the Elizabethan era to the late twentieth century, aiming to provide a balanced treatment of the ruled as well as the rulers, and to take into account the significance of the Empire for the peoples of the British Isles". The editor-in-chief for the main series was Wm. Roger Louis. In addition to the principal five volumes, the ''Oxford History of the British Empire'' also includes a Spin-off (media), spin-off "Companion Series" which "pursue themes that could not be covered adequately in the main series". 16 volumes have been published in the series since 2004. Volumes The Main Series The ''Oxford History of the British Empire'' comprises five edited volumes, tracing the history of the British Empire in a chronological manne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
