Written by a renowned expert on canals and founder of the Inland Waterways Association, this title guides the reader from the Grand Union Canal to Lichfield and Coventry Canal.

Narrow boat

History

ROLT, L.T.C.

Europe

EYRE METHUEN

Henry II was an enigma to contemporaries, and has excited widely divergent judgments ever since. Dramatic incidents of his reign, such as his quarrel with Archbishop Becket and his troubled relations with his wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine, and his sons, have attracted the attention of historical novelists, playwrights, and filmmakers, but with no unanimity of interpretation. That he was a great king there can be no doubt. Yet his motives and intentions are not easy to divine, and it is Professor Warren's contention that concentration on the great crises of the reign can lead to distortion. This book is therefore a comprehensive reappraisal of the reign based, with rare understanding, on contemporary sources; it provides a coherent and persuasive revaluation of the man and the king, and is, in itself an eloquent and impressive achievement.

Henry II

Warren, Wilfrid Lewis

The Young Lloyd George

Drawing upon letters and documented speeches, this biography of Lloyd George traces his life from his birth in 1863 to the end of the Boer War in 1902. The volume provides insights into George's relationships with his family, with his guardian Richard Lloyd and with Parliamentary colleagues.

The young Lloyd George

Grigg, John

The lands of St Peter;: The Papal State in the Middle Ages and the early Renaissance

PETER PARTNER

Religion & Spirituality

Throughout his eighty-eight years, Georges Clemenceau, the renowned "Tiger of France" who led his country in the last year of the First World War and represented her at the Versailles peace negotiations of 1919, was never far from the center of the political stage. At the age of twenty-one he was already a student revolutionary; from 1865 to 1869 he lived in the United States, serving as French correspondent on the Civil War and Reconstruction. He was closely involved in the outbreak of the Paris Commune in 1870, and throughout the next fifty years he was constantly a central figure in the major crises of the Third Republic--Boulangism, The Panama Scandal, and the Dreyfus Affair.\nBut politics was not Clemenceau's only interest. He was a many-sided man, whose interests ranged from horsemanship, hunting and dueling to medicine, science, and the arts. This first full-length biography of Clemenceau in English describes his career as a journalist and editor, as well as politician, and sheds new light on the history of the period. Watson's Georges Clemenceau offers complete references and is based on extensive research into previously unused, unpublished material, as well as on Clemenceau's voluminous writings and and on the Parliamentary Record.

Georges Clemenceau; a political biography

Watson, D. R.

The world and China, 1922-1972 (The China library)

Gittings, John

De Gaulle

Crozier, Brian

Fred Trueman: Portrait of a Fast Bowler

John Arlott

The General Strike

Renshaw, Patrick

The Sacheverell Affair, one of the causes célèbres of English history, began at the height of the Whig supremacy of Queen Anne's reign. At St Paul's Cathedral on Guy Fawkes's Day, 1709, Dr Henry Sacheverell, a high Tory parson and Oxford don, preached a seditious sermon on the text, 'In peril among False Brethren'. The sermon sold a hundred thousand copies, and 'the Doctor' was impeached and brought t trial in Westminster Hall before the House of Lords in March 1710.\nThe dramatic atmosphere of the trial—charged with religious emotion, political fanaticism and public hysteria—and its unexpected outcome, had far-reaching consequences for the political parties, the Church and Dissent, for the people at large, and even for Europe. As a political trial it made possible Robert Harley's coup d'état of 1710, which brought down the Whigs, together with the Duke of Marlborough and Lord Godolphin, and set up the last truly Tory ministry Britain was to see for a hundred years.\nBut the trial not only illuminates a great political crisis. It is the centrepiece of the bizarre story of Sacheverell himself, and also of the history of the Church of England in its gravely troubled years between the 1688 Revolution and the heyday of Walpole (who had been one of Sacheverell's prosecutors). The clergy's feverish search for political solutions to their problems, of which the Sacheverell Affair was the culmination, ended amid frustrated hopes and the spiritual inertia associated with the Age of Reason.\nGeoffrey Holmes, who, as the author of British Politics in the Age of Anne, is one of the leading historians of the period, has drawn on important new evidence for this study. A notable feature is his vindication of the Whigs from the charge that the impeachment of Sacheverell was reckless act of folly. His whole account is unfolded with authority and panache; it includes a vivid description of the riots in London during the trial, and of the extraordinary seven-week 'Progress' in the summer of 1710 of the High Church's unlikely champion, Dr Sacheverell himself.

The Trial of Doctor Sacheverell

Geoffrey S. Holmes

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