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Chantilly, VA: The Teaching Company, 2003. Paperback & CDs. FINE. As new - gift quality! (24 lectures, 30 minutes each). Set contains 12 Audio CDs (2 clamshells: Parts I& II), with the Course Guidebook.

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1991. (Revised edition). Trade Paperback. VERY GOOD+. Tight, bright, clean except for light age soil to exterior page edges, square. Surface crease on top edge of front cover. Creases on bottom corner of back cover. "causes and consequences of the English Revolution, 1640 to 1660 when the triumph of Protestantism encouraged a questioning of authority in English political, economic, social, religious and intellectual life..." 1.3

Kirkwall, Orkney: Orkney Wireless Museum, 1998. (reprint). Trade Paperback. NEAR FINE. Tight, bright, clean and square. Light foxing to covers and sticker remnant on back cover. 44 page, staple-bound with 27 illustrations including group photos (football team and band), the newsletter listing the winners on sports day (in English and Italian), and the Chapel listing the artists who worked on it. Recollections of Italian prisoners of war held in Orkney during WWII building the "Churchill Barriers" for the protection of Scapa Flow after the torpedoing of the HMS Royal Oak. 0.9

Baltimore. MD: Pelican, 1962. (3rd edition). Paperback. VERY GOOD+. As new except for small chips out of back top corner and cover at bottom of spine. "England during the two and a half centuries after the Norman Conquest…the best existing sketch of English society in the earlier Middle Ages…" 316 indexed, annotated pages with "further reading" list and "A select list of essential dates".

NY: Cumberland Enterprises, c1992. (Signed). Trade Paperback. FINE. As new - gift quality! "A book that delights, informs and suggests startling parallels to today's world…King Charles II, whose far-seeing plan rebuilt a city; Samuel Pepys whose diary told the tale; Christopher Wren whose architectural genius brought London back to life...the epic mess..." 155 indexed pages including Bibliography.

London: Viking Society for Northern Research, University College, 1992. Paperback. NEAR FINE. As new except for faint shelfwear to covers. "covers 'Old--Lore Miscellany' only, which was issued in 10 volumes between 1907 and 1946" Contains Introduction and Conversion Table plus Indices for Author, Subject, Round-Up County by County, Portraits, and Obituaries. 26 pages. 0.6

Oxford, UK: Oxfordshire County Libraries, 1983. Oversize Paperback. VERY GOOD. Tight, bright, light soil to exterior, clean interior. Small spot on edge of back cover and a few page edges. 8-1/4x11-1/2". Reprint of material originally published in 1979 for the University of London Institute of Historical Research. Illustrated with a map and 9 black and white photos.

London, UK: Historical Times, 1979. Oversize Paperback. VERY GOOD-. Tight, bright and clean but has corner creases. 66 page, thoroughly illustrated, (8.25x11") special edition, periodical. 8 articles on the 400 year period when Britain was part of the Roman Empire: the transformation of a pagan to a Christian world; a road system laid out so effectively that many of its alignments are still in use today; the walled cities; coinage; architecture in stone and tile..." that would bring Britain out of the Dark ages.

Oxford University Press, 1978. Trade Paperback. FINE. Tight, bright, clean and square. Faintest shelfwear. "In 1646 King Charles I (England) asked his friend Edward Hyde, later Earl of Clarendon, to write a true history of the revolt...selections from the History..extracts from his autobiography…form a narrative account of the period from 1640-1667.." 492 indexed pages. 1.1

London, UK: Routledge, 1995. (reprint). Trade Paperback. FINE. As new - gift quality! "a balanced appraisal of changing values and ideas in Victorian society with some close attention to political affairs, diplomatic history and imperialism…" 484 indexed pages including a book list. 1.2