Product Description: Hampton Court Palace, to the south-west of London, is one of the most famous and magnificent buildings in Britain. The original palace was begun by Cardinal Wolsey, but it soon attracted the attention of his Tudor king and became the centre of royal and political life for the next 200 years...read more

Product Description: The National Trust cares for the finest collection of historic buildings, gardens, parks, landscape and coastline in the world. Its famous and well-respected series of guidebooks provides the essential companion to your visit and a lasting souvenir of the experience...read more

Product Description: Book by Souden, David

Product Description: Following ancient footsteps, today's pilgrims travel, not as tourists, but as spiritual seekers with a sense that their destination has sacred meaning far beyond its literal surroundings. Pilgrimage traces twenty great, age-old journeys to sites all over the world...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

The story behind Stonehenge, using the latest archaeological methods and discoveries. From the construction of the site to the rituals of the prehistoric inhabitants, the book sets Stonehenge both within the immediate landscape and the broader cultural context of the ancient European civilisations. Colour illustrated with maps, charts and photos.

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Product Description: From the construction of the site itself to the rituals of the prehistoric peoples who lived there, Stonehenge Revealed details the three consecutive stages of the monument and a history that stretches for over 2,000 years. Using the latest archaeological methods, this authoritative text, endorsed by English Heritage experts, places Stonehenge within its immediate landscape and within a broad cultural setting, reaching back to the ancient civilizations of Europe and beyond...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Contents: Introduction, Peter Clark and David Souden; Vagrants and vagrancy in England, 1598-1664, Paul A. Slack; Patterns of migration and movement of labour to three pre-industrial East Anglian towns, John Patten; Neighbourhood migration in early modern London, Jeremy Boulton; 'Rogues, whores and vagabonds'?; Indentured servant emigration to North America and the case of mid seventeenth-century Bristol, David Souden; Moving on in the New World: migration and out-migration in the seventeenth-century Chesapeake, J...read more

Product Description: A collection of eight volumes of books which contain all the known published writings and variant readings of Thomas Malthus. Malthus is most famous as the inventor of a simple equation between population and food supply and his work is seen as the foundation for population studies...read more