This classic 1898 biography of Richard III remains a significant attempt to create a balanced view of a controversial subject.

A detailed study of royal financial documents to reveal new understanding of the workings of the medieval English church.

A history of the Mohawk alliance with British colonists between 1704 and 1807, first published in 1938.

This 1937 book gives a vivid picture of the realities of British trade in Asia around 1800.

This 1916 work compiles all the biographical information provided in the archives for over 700 members of medieval Westminster Abbey.

Chadwick's philological study of Anglo-Saxon legal sources provided a new impetus to the study of early English social history.

Major's 1913 work used documentary, archaeological, place-name and landscape evidence to reinterpret the history of Anglo-Saxon Wessex.

William Heywood (1857 1919) experiencd a variety of jobs, including working as a lawyer, a cowboy and a newspaper editor, before retiring to Siena in Italy in 1894 and becoming a specialist in medieval Italian history. His unorthodox background is shown in his holistic interpretation of the growth of Pisa in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, in contrast to the treatment of historical material by contemporary historians. Heywood examines the politics, society and religion of Pisa to chart the growth of the city from a small port at the end of the Roman period to a powerful city-state by the...

John Locke (1632 1704) is widely regarded as one of the most influential of the Enlightenment philosophers. This volume, edited by J. W. Adamson and published as a second edition in 1922, contains two of John Locke's essays concerning education; Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693) and Of the Conduct of the Understanding (1706). Some Thoughts Concerning Education expands on Locke's pioneering theory of mind by explaining how to educate a child using three complementary methods: the development of a healthy body; the formation of a virtuous mind; and the pursuit of an academic curriculum...

First published in 1945, this is still an important explanation of the role of the Church in medieval English society.