A Branch of the Woodruff Stock

   

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Britain and the Papacy in the Age of Revolution, 1846-1851

From the time of the Reformation Anglo-Vatican relations have typically been seen as a long history of unending antagonism and mutual suspicion, but this has not always been the case. This book sheds light on one of the most curious episodes in early Victorian history when, around the time of the 1848 revolutions in Europe, a rapprochement almost developed between Britain and the papacy, and British politicians and writers referred to the new head of the Catholic Church, Pius IX, as 'the good pope'.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-861-93265-8

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Britain, Hanover and the Protestant Interest, 1688-1756

Religious ideas and power-politics were strongly connected in the early eighteenth century: William III, George I and George II all took their role as defenders of the protestant faith extremely seriously, and confessional thinking was of major significance to court whiggery. This book considers the importance of this connection.   hardback   ISBN 978-1-843-83241-6

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British Basket-Hilted Swords

The phrase basket-type hilts refers to a large group of hilts which provide a degree of protection to the hand and wrist. Basket-hilted swords have featured prominently among British military edged weapons over the past five centuries, from the Wars of the Roses in the mid fifteenth century to the period immediately after the second Boer War of the early twentieth century.   hardback   ISBN 978-1-843-83053-5

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British Supporters of the American Revolution, 1775-1783

America's Declaration of Independence, while endeavouring to justify a break with Great Britain, simultaneously proclaimed that the colonists had not been `wanting in attention to our British brethren', but that they had `been deaf to the voice of justice and consanguinity'.   hardback   ISBN 978-1-843-83011-5

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Burke's Extinct Baronetcies - 1841

2nd Edition 1841 - Coats of Arms (illustrated) and lineages of hundreds of families whose Baronetcies became extinct, often through the lack of a male heir.    

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Burke's History of the Landed Gentry

An immense four volume set of books with pedigrees of hundreds and hundreds of families, in some cases dating back to the early medieval period.    

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Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, of the Reign of Anne, Preserved in the Public Record Office

This volume brings the Domestic Calendar to the end of the secretaryship of Sir Charles Hedges, and the appointment of Lord Sutherland in his place. Drawn from several categories of State Papers, the records contain the usual mixture of high politics and local concerns, though they are far from insular: Marlborough's second great victory, at Ramillies, is reported and celebrated, for example, and communications are improved with the forces in northern Europe.   hardback   ISBN 978-1-843-83251-5

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Crockford's Clerical Directory 1874

A superb source of information for those with ancestors in the clergy. The contents are similar to the earlier Clergy Lists but are much more detailed.    

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Crockford's Clerical Directory 1885

A superb source of information for those with ancestors in the clergy. The contents are similar to the earlier Clergy Lists but are much more detailed.    

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Crockford's Clerical Directory 1908

Crockfords directories are a superb source of information for those with ancestors in the clergy. The contents are similar to the earlier Clergy Lists but are much more detailed, giving vital personal information about each individual, such as where they studied, when they matriculated and all of their previous posts.    

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Crockford's Clerical Directory 1932

Sadly this book has had much of the reference material removed. Fortunately the biographies of the clergy are intact and those are what is included on this CD.    

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Crockford's Clerical Directory 1932 - Biographies

Sadly this book has had much of the reference material removed. Fortunately the biographies of the clergy are intact and those are what is included on this CD.    

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Crockfords Clerical Directory 1868

A superb source of information for those with ancestors in the clergy. The contents are similar to the earlier Clergy Lists but are much more detailed.    

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Debrett's 1923 Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage

A huge book with more than 2000 pages of biographical details.    

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Edinburgh Almanack Universal Scots & Imperial Register 1831

A fabulous and very comprehensive Almanack. There is a great deal of information here, not just for Edinburgh but for the whole of Great Britain, Ireland and beyond.    

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Electoral Reform at Work

This book charts the political transformation of Britain that resulted from the 'Great' Reform Act of 1832. It argues that this extensively debated parliamentary reform, aided by the workings of the New Poor Law (1834) and Municipal Corporations Act (1835), moved the nation far closer to a 'modern' type of representative system than has previously been supposed.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-861-93261-0

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External Contacts and the Economy of Late-Roman and Post-Roman Britain

This book brings together new archaeological, historical and palaeoecological approaches to the transition from the Romano-British to medieval Celtic economy between the fourth and ninth centuries AD. The articles include a reassessment of the end of the Romano-British economy, suggesting that the conventional interpretation - a sudden collapse in production in the early fifth century - is incorrect; pollen analysis is a key approach in understanding the end of the agricultural economy,and here, for the first time, all relevant pollen sequences are catalogued and discussed. There is a new research into imported pottery and glass and inscribed stone monuments, and the contacts which brought imports into Britain and Ireland are reevaluated from new evidence which includes archaeological material from shipwrecks of AD 400-600.: K.R. DARK, PETRA DAY, JONATHAN M. WOODING, EWAN CAMPBELL, ANNE BOWMAN, CHRISTOPHER SPAREY-GREEN, JEREMY KNIGHT   hardback   ISBN 978-0-851-15655-2

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Great Landowners of Great Britain and Ireland

Details of the great landowners of Great Britain and Ireland extracted from two returns made by Government rate collectors. The 533 page publication is an essential resource, containing a vast amount of personal and financial detail on owners of land of 3,000 acres worth more that 3,000 a year.     ISBN 1-84630-108-4

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Harts 1908 Annual Army List

Details of serving, reserve and retired officers for every regiment in the British Army. An incredibly useful resource for genealogists and military historians.    

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Imagining Roman Britain

The authority of classical texts was challenged in the mid-Victorian era through the unearthing of a very different 'Rome' in the material remains under British soil. Developments in archaeology created a new picture of Roman Britain as wealthy and civilized - an image which sat more comfortably with the Victorians' own changing view of empire as they themselves became an imperial power. Changing intellectual ideas ensured that the Roman heritage could no longer be seen solely as the preserve of the classically educated upper class: excavating with a spade allowed a larger audience to participate and own the Roman past. This book explores the whole phenomena, using archaeological activity in four British provincial towns [Caerleon, Cirencester, Colchester and Chester] to offer an explanation of why it happened, and providing a set of authoritative and fresh insights into the way in which Victorianarchaeology emerged, developed and altered how the modern world understood the ancient. What it brings to the fore are the frequently contradictory and confused notions about the past, which challenge any simplistic understanding of the place of Roman Britain in the Victorian imagination. VIRGINIA HOSELITZ gained her PhD at the Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Bristol.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-861-93293-1

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Jews in Medieval Britain

Britain's medieval Jewish community arrived with the Normans in 1066 and was expelled from the country in 1290. This is the first time in forty years that its life has been comprehensively examined for a student and general readership. Beginning with an introduction setting the medieval British experience into its European context, the book continues with three chapters outlining the history of the Jews' presence and a discussion of where they settled.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-851-15931-7

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Kelly's 1890 Handbook to the Titled, Landed and Official Classes

An alphabetical listing of the titled, landed and official classes. Each name in the book has a brief summary of their genealogy and career. Fully searchable, so you might even pick up on ancestors and connections you weren't expecting.    

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Kelly's 1892 Handbook to the Titled, Landed and Official Classes

A huge volume with over 1200 pages containing the details of thousands of people from all over Britain, including genealogical, personal, military and career information. Listed alphabetically and fully searchable.    

Price:  £13.62

Kelly's 1904 Directory of Printers, Booksellers, Publishers, etc.

This excellent directory not only covers the subjects described in its title, but all associated trades and businesses.    

Price:  £20.00

Kelly's 1927 Handbook to the Titled, Landed and Official Classes

A huge volume with over 1800 pages containing the details of thousands of people from all over Britain, including genealogical, personal, military and career information.    

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Knights of Edward I

Published in five volumes by The Harleian Society this is an essential reference set for medieval historians and genealogists alike.    

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Law, Litigants and the Legal Profession

British Legal History Conference papers on medieval and modern legal history and the history of the common law overseas.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-901-05091-5

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Le Neve's Pedigrees of Knights

A superb 546 page volume, published by The Harleian Society in 1873, which describes Knights made during the reigns of King Charles II, James II, William III and Queen Mary, King William alone, and Queen Anne.    

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Lloyd George, Liberalism and the Land

In the late nineteenth century Britain was one of the most urbanised societies in the world, yet land reform remained an important element in its politics. This book explores this paradox through an examination of the Liberal Party's increasing interest in the English dimension of the land question.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-861-93252-8

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Order and Equipoise

Dr McCahill contends that the role of the House of Lords in the 18th and 19th centuries and that of the peers in their individual capacities has hitherto been underestimated.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-901-05044-1

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Potts' 1893 Mining Register & Directory

An invaluable book for those interested in the mining industry or with mining ancestors. The book covers the whole of Great Britain and Ireland and contains a directory of mine owners, mines and managers listed alphabetically in counties complete with geological maps of each county's coalfields. There are also tables of statistics and details of the 1887 coal mines regulation act    

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Sir Thomas Gray: Scalacronica (1272-1363)

In 1355, Sir Thomas Gray, a Northumbrian knight and constable of Norham castle, was ambushed and captured by the Scots. Imprisoned in Edinburgh castle, he whiled away the hours by writing a chronicle charting the history of Britain from the Creation. The bulk of the work, written in Anglo-Norman French, is based on existing sources.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-854-44064-1

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Surnames of the United Kingdom

A concise A-Z of Surnames in the United Kingdom. The book includes an essay on the origins of our surnames, which discusses such topics as the necessity for distinctive nicknames in Scotland, French surnames, Anglo Saxon and Scandinavian names, Flemish names in S. Wales and more. There is also an appendix of principal foreign names found in British directories.    

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The Amiens Truce: Britain and Bonaparte 1801 - 1803

In 1801 Britain and Bonaparte made an armistice, which became the Treaty of Amiens in March 1802. In the brief period of peace which followed, British attitudes underwent a major change, so that when war began again in May 1803 there was little or no dissent from the view that the war had to be fought to a finish and Bonaparte's power destroyed. This was partly the result of Bonaparte's underhand methods during negotiations; but it was also due to the conclusion reached by the many British visitors to France during the interval of peace that Bonaparte was extremely dangerous, anger at his stealthy political advances in Europe and America, and outrage at his detention and imprisonment of British civilians when war began again. The attitude of the British government headed by Henry Addington, and in particular the diplomatic methods of the Foreign Secretary Lord Hawkesbury (later the Prime Minister Lord Liverpool) were decisive in countering Bonaparte's methods; they receive their due in this first detailed examination of events, based on original materials.   hardback   ISBN 978-1-843-83041-2

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The Anglo-Saxon World

The Anglo-Saxon World introduces the Anglo-Saxons in their own words - their chronicles, laws and letters, charters and charms, and above all their magnificent poems. Most of the greatest surviving poems are printed here in their entirety: the reader will find the whole of Beowulf, The Battle of Maldon, and the haunting elegiac poems.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-851-15885-3

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The Bigland Pedigree Index

An index to the pedigrees in the genealogical manuscripts of Sir Ralph Bigland, Garter King of Arms. This book was kindly loaned to The Archive CD Books Project by The Harleian Society.    

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The British Navy and the State in the Eighteenth Century

The Royal Navy, prominent in building Britain's maritime empire in the eighteenth century, also had a significant impact on politics, public finance and the administrative and bureaucratic development of the British state throughout the century. The Navy was the most expensive branch of the state and its effective funding and maintenance was a problem that taxed the ingenuity of a succession of politicians, naval officers and bureaucrats. By the middle ofthe century the difficulties its growth created had become critical, and the challenge this presented was taken up by Admiralty Boards led by Anson, Egmont, Hawke and Sandwich. Resolving these problems introduced reform in the navy's administration and in public finance (often pre-figuring later bureaucratic development), but there was a political price to pay when the management of the Navy and its apparent unpreparedness for the War of American Independence made the Earl of Sandwich and the Navy a focus for political opposition to an unpopular government and a disappointing war.
CLIVE WILKINSON is a research officer with the Climatological Database of the World's Oceans 1750-1850, University of Sunderland.   hardback   ISBN 978-1-843-83042-9

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The Clergy List 1897

An invaluable resource, not only for family historians searching their clergy ancestors, but also for all of the general information relating to churches.    

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The Fifteenth Century VII

The theme of conflict is central to the essays gathered in this volume. Apart from the renewed armed struggle with France in the final stages of the Hundred Years War, subjects covered include the theoretical foundations of the Wars of the Roses, the impact of this conflict in the provinces, the frequently strained relationship between the English, the Irish and the Welsh, and the effects of intermittent warfare between England and Scotland. Other themes that emerge include the evolution of the English constitution, clerical practice at the centre and in the regions, and the competence (or otherwise) of Italian bankers when dealing with men at war.
Contributors: JIM BOLTON, LUCY BROWN, MICHAEL BROWN, CHRISTINE CARPENTER, ANNE CURRY, GILLIAN DRAPER, PETER FLEMING, ANTHONY GOODMAN, HANNES KLEINEKE, CATHERINE NALL AND JAMES ROSS   hardback   ISBN 978-1-840-00000-0

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The First World War as a Clash of Cultures

This volume of essays examines the perceived rift between the British and German intellectual and cultural traditions before 1914 and how the resultant war of words both reflects and helped determine historical, political, and, ultimately, military events.   hardback   ISBN 978-1-571-13340-3

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The Labour Party and the Planned Economy, 1931-1951

In the general election of 1931, the Labour Party campaigned on the slogan `Plan or Perish'. The party's pledge to create a planned socialist economy was a novelty, and marked the rejection of the gradualist, evolutionary socialism to which Labour had adhered under the leadership of Ramsay MacDonald. Although heavily defeated in that election, Labour stuck to its commitment. The Attlee government came to power in 1945 determined to plan comprehensively. Yet, the aspiration to create a fully planned economy was not met. This book explores the origins and evolution of the promise, in order to explain why it was not fulfilled.
RICHARD TOYE lectures in history at Homerton College, Cambridge.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-861-93262-7

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The Ladies Elegant Pocket Souvenir 1823 & The Polite Repository 1832

Two delightful little pocket books designed to be of assistance to the young gentlewoman. Contains information which explains the rates of wages, Hackney cab fares, as well as odd snippets of music, songs and poetry. Also there are lists of people in government departments, banking and insurance and many other walks of life, plus space for diary and note taking. A kind of pre-Victorian File-O- Fax and a wonderful example of what life was like for the young lady about town!    

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The Noted Breweries of Great Britain and Ireland, 1889-1891

Alfred Barnard's The Noted Breweries of Great Britain and Ireland is a magnificent insight into the brewing industry at the end of the nineteenth century. Over 110 breweries are covered over nearly 2,200 pages.     ISBN 1-84630-064-9

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The Parish Register 1910

Explains the mysteries of Parish Registers. A delightful book to read, a vital, must have for beginner and advanced family historians alike. Gives a brilliant idea of what to expect of Parish Registers, how they changed over time, what exactly they contain and much much more. Full of details that will enlighten your research and deepen your understanding of Parish Registers.    

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The Peerage of the British Empire

An extremely comprehensive book containing the names, details and genealogies of hundreds of Peers of the Realm.    

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The Penny Magazine 1832-1844 Set

The Penny Magazine was published weekly by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. A collection of hundreds of fascinating and informative illustrated articles with a very wide range of topics, both for Great Britain and various other parts of the world. They contain wonderful illustrations! (The 1841-1844 books are not shown in this book shelf photograph)    

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The Universal Directory of Great Britain - 1791

Five huge volumes comprising the earliest directory for Great Britain, and one which is probably the most important directory for genealogists and historians that Archive CD Books have released on CD. For towns and villages the descriptions of the places are excellent, with details of their facilities, etc, and includes those residents with trades (even those such as farmers, hay-binders, labourers, bakers, shop keepers, etc.) and their addresses. Although titled "Great Britain", this directory covers places in England and Wales. Volume 1 of the five is devoted to London, volumes 2 to 4 cover the places in the England and Wales in alphabetical order, and vol. 5 contains a number of the subsequent amendments and additions published in the next few years.    

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Whitaker's Almanack for 1879

A large amount of information respecting the government, finances, population, commerce and general statistics of the British Empire throughout the world with some notice of other countries. This includes the names of government personnel and army lists.    

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Woodruff Chronicles vol 1

   

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