«A Marvellous and Strange Event» Racconti di nascite mostruose nell'Inghil…

In early modern England, the birth of a human being with congenital physical deformities was an event which aroused horror and fascination, disgust and morbid curiosity. In a time when modern science was taking its first steps, this kind of prodigy sometimes appeared as a sort of divine punishment for a moral fault, sometimes as a bizarre pastime, or political weapon, or a pre-medical investiga…

“Colonised by Wankers”: Postcolonialism and Contemporary Scottish Fiction

"Has Scotland suffered from colonial oppression by England for the last 300 years? While historiography may give an answer in the negative, this study reveals that the contemporary Scottish novel is haunted by strong feelings, marked by perceptions of abjection and inferiorisation in response to constructing the English as dominating. Drawing from an unprecedented corpus of contemporary Scottis…

London clubs, their history & treasures

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2 v. 23 cm

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English wild flowers : to be found by the wayside, fields, hedgerows, rivers,…

I HAVE tried to make this little volume worthy of being thought the indispensable companion of those who care to make the acquaintance of the flowers which blossom by the wayside, make gay our fields, haunt the brooks and streams, and stud alike with beauty the moorland and the mountain.

The romance of London volume 2

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v. 1. Historic sketches. Remarkable duels. Notorious highwaymen. Rogueries, crimes, and punishments.

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York's photographs of the Tower of London

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Handy guide-book to Chester and its vicinity; with brief notices of its civil…

ALTHOUGH there is no historic record of the fact, yet there is every reason to believe that long before the Roman invasion the site of Chester was occupied as a stronghold by the original inhabitants. The site of Chester in early times was one well suited for the growth of a great and strong city. Its strength as well as its fitness for commerce, mainly lay in the river itself, which washed the…

England and Portugal in Africa

THE attention of Europe has increasingly of late years been turned in the direction of Africa, and there has been an endeavour on the part of Powers, hitherto careless of colonial possessions, to secure some part of the rich continent of Africa for themselves. Thus Germany and Italy have acquired large territories in that part of the world, while England, France and Spain, especially the two fo…

The City in the city :architecture and change in London's financial district

"This book charts the development of London's financial district, the City of London, in the decades following the Second World War, investigating the relationship between economic and built change"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

The Napoleon of Notting Hill

"In an alternate-history version of England, monarchs are selected at random instead of inheriting the title. When Auberon Quin, a man who aspires to live life like a medieval adventurer, becomes king, he mandates that each of London's neighborhoods become an independent state, complete with unique local costumes. Everyone goes along with the conceit until young Adam Wayne, a born military tact…