Product Description: In this intimate history of the extraordinary Black Plague pandemic that swept through the British Isles in 1665, Evelyn Lord focuses on the plague’s effects on smaller towns, where every death was a singular blow affecting the entire community...read more

The Knights Templar are under arrest, torture and trial, followed by penance for life. Chronicling the dissolution of the order after the trial in 1307, when many of its members were burned at the stake as heretics, this book investigates the consequences of the Templar's persecution and their mysterious legacy.

Product Description: The Hell-Fire Clubs scandalized eighteenth-century English society. Rumors of their orgies, recruitment of prostitutes, extensive libraries of erotica, extreme rituals, and initiation ceremonies circulated widely at the time, only to become more sensational as generations passed...read more

The Knights Templar are known for their activities in the Holy Land, but this book examines their place in British history. It aims to set them within their national and local context through an in-depth examination of their farming, royal and financial role. Each county where the Templars had a land and houses is treated separately, and the whole drawn together to look at the Order within medieval society.However, the main objective of the Templars in Britain was to send resources to the Holy Land, and the book does not loose sight of events there. The trial and fall of the Templars in Britain is examined and compared with the treatment they received elsewhere.The verdict of history on their guilt is discussed, and the treatment of the order in fact and fiction conclude the book.This is the first-ever history of the powerful Knights Templar as they operated in Britain.

Product Description: A history of Derby