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Lunatics, Imbeciles And Idiots
Lunatics, Imbeciles and Idiots : A History of Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Ireland
In the first half of the nineteenth-century treatment of the mentally ill in Britain and Ireland underwent radical change....
Magna Carta
Magna Carta: The Making And Legacy Of The Great Charter
On a summer's day in 1215 a beleaguered English monarch met a group of disgruntled barons in a meadow by the river Thames named Runnymede. Beset by foreign crisis ...
Magna Carta And All That
Magna Carta And All That
Magna Carta, the Great Charter, was granted at Runnymede on 15th June 1215 by King John, and has since become one of the most important and celebrated documents in English history. It challenged...
Magna Carta The Foundation Of Freedom
Magna Carta The Foundation Of Freedom
Eight hundred years ago King John of England was forced to seal a document of historic importance. As the first charter to grant individual liberties under the rule of law, protecti...
Mail Men
Mail Men : The Unauthorized Story of the Daily Mail - The Paper that Divided and Conquered Britain
Mail Men is the gripping, unofficial story of an institution that has become the self-proclaimed voice of middle England...
Making A Living in the Middle Ages
Making a Living in the Middle Ages
Dramatic social and economic change during the middle ages altered the lives of the people of Britain in far-reaching ways, from the structure of their families to the ways they made t...
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Making The Monster
Making The Monster : The Science Behind Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
The year 1818 saw the publication of one of the most influential science-fiction stories of all time. Frankenstein: Or, Modern Prometheus by Mary Shell...
Marching To The Faultline
Marching To The Faultline : The Miners' Strike and the Battle for Industrial Britain
This is a controversial new investigation in the 1984 Miners strike and how it changed Modern Britain. The Miners' strike was a dividi...
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Mariner
Mariner : A Voyage with Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'The story of Coleridge's life does undoubtedly echo that of his poem; this is a book that provides rewarding rereadings of both' - The Sunday TimesA new biography of Samu...
Martyrs of Henry VIII
Martyrs of Henry VIII : Repression, Defiance, Sacrifice
When Henry VIII passed through Canterbury in 1532, a young woman in her mid-twenties named Elizabeth Barton, widely revered as a visionary and prophetess, burst in...
Mary Queen of Scots' Downfall
Mary Queen of Scots' Downfall
In the early hours of 10 February 1567 a large explosion ripped through the Provosts lodgings at Kirk o' Field, Edinburgh, where Mary Queen of Scotland's consort, Henry Lord Darnley, was st...
Mary Rose
Mary Rose : Tudor Princess, Queen of France, the extraordinary life of Henry VIII's Sister
'A paradise - tall, slender, grey-eyed, possessing an extreme pallor.' The contemporary view of Henry VIII's younger sister, Pr...
Matilda : Queen of the Conqueror
Matilda : Wife of the Conqueror, First Queen of England
Alive with intrigue, rumour and betrayal, it illuminates for the first time the life of an exceptional, brave and complex queen pivotal to the history of England. ...
Medieval Graffiti
Medieval Graffiti : The Lost Voices of England's Churches
For centuries carved writings and artworks in churches lay largely unnoticed. So archaeologist Matthew Champion started a nationwide survey to gather the best ex...
Medieval Illuminations
Medieval Illuminations : Manuscript Art in England and France 700-1200
Illuminated manuscripts from England and France are among the greatest masterpieces of medieval European art. This beautiful new book showcases doze...
Medieval Intrigue : Decoding Royal Conspiracies
Medieval Intrigue : Decoding Royal Conspiracies
Ian Mortimer considers some of the key questions in Medieval history and rethinks the nature of historical evidence. In this important new work Ian Mortimer examines some ...
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Mercia
Mercia
Many people know about Wessex, the `Last Kingdom' of the Anglo-Saxons to fall to the Northmen, but another kingdom, Mercia, once enjoyed supremacy over not only Wessex, but all of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. At its...
Michael Faraday
Michael Faraday and the Electrical Century
The only scientist to ever appear on the British twenty pound note, Michael Faraday is one of the most recognisable names in the history of science. Faraday's forte was electri...
Money On't Table
Money On't Table - Grit, Work and Family Pride : True Stories from the Boys and Girls of the Manufacturing Heartlands of of Britain
Their parents worked as miners and lace workers, but by the mid-20th century new opport...
Mother Country
Mother Country : Real Stories of the Windrush Children
A leading new exploration of the Windrush generation featuring David Lammy, Lenny Henry, Corinne Bailey Rae, Sharmaine Lovegrove, Hannah Lowe, Jamz Supernova, Natas...
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