Celtic Moment

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This is a compact introduction to the study of meaning in the English language and how language is used, providing a solid foundation for further semantic studies…. More >>

An Introduction to English Semantics and Pragmatics

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An introduction to Early Modern English, this book helps students of English and linguistics to place the language of the period 1500-1700 in its historical context as a language with a common core but also as one which varies across time, regionally and socially, and according to register. The volume focuses on the structure of what contemporaries called the General Dialect – its spelling, vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation – and on its dialectal origins. The bo… More >>

An Introduction to Early Modern English

I read that over 1,000 had failed in Ireland and Diageo was now thinking of shutting the Guiness brewery in Dublin. I see a fair number of bars now derelict in Scotland but the evidence is still anecdotal.

Recently I’ve been getting more and more into my Irish heritage, but realized to really be into it I need to know more about Ireland in general, from it’s history to it’s geography and culture. So what’s a good book to start with?

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Sweeping across two millennia and every literary genre, acclaimed scholar and biographer Jonathan Bate provides a dazzling introduction to English Literature. The focus is wide, shifting from the birth of the novel and the brilliance of English comedy to the deep Englishness of landscape poetry and the ethnic diversity of Britain’s Nobel literature laureates. It goes on to provide a more in-depth analysis, with close readings from an extraordinary scene in King Lear… More >>

English Literature: A Very Short Introduction

introduction of the part 1 of A history of Scotland: The last of the Free

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Great book featuring castles of England and Wales. 12 black and white plates of photographs of castles exteriors. 15 floorplans and plans of castles. Includes Glossary.

Green cloth hardcover with illustrated dust jacket. 60 pages. Measures 5 by 7 1/2 inches. Interesting book, nicely illustrated…. More >>

Castles. An Introduction to the Castles of England and Wales

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This book was digitized and reprinted from the collections of the University of California Libraries. Together, the more than one hundred UC Libraries comprise the largest university research library in the world, with over thirty-five million volumes in their holdings. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found online in the HathiTrust Digital Library.HP’s patented BookPrep technology was used to clean artifacts resulting from use and digitization… More >>

The complete poetical works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, with introduction and notes by Edward Dowden

Introduction by His Royal Highness, Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester. A modern trial by jury at the Old Bailey of one of the most famous events in English history. Conducted on the afternoon and evening of 21st February, 1984 it was held almost 500 years after the death of the last of the Plantagenet Kings, King Richard III, on Bosworth Field, the last of the English monarchs to die in battle. The charge is that King Richard III did, in or about the month of august, 1483, in the Tower of London, murder Prince Edward, Prince of Wales, and Prince Richard, Duke of York. King Richard III stands indicted at the bar of history. In this unique work the members of the jury have been invited to deliver their verdict on a matter whch has been the subject of fierce controversy and dispute for over 500 years: whether or not King Richard III was responsible for the alleged murder of the two young princes. He himself was killed on the battlefield of Bosworth in 1485 and so is beyond the power and jurisdiction of this or any other human court. The task of the jury is, therefore, to pass historical judgement upon him. Their verdict will stimulate rather than terminate the controversy that has surrounded the deaths of the princes. Presiding over the case is Lord Elwyn-Jones, the former Lord Chancellor, and he is ably supported by tow of Britain’s leading criminal Queen’s Counsels. A fascinating trial which presents evidence which offers the viewer the opportunity to join the jury in …

Portchester Castle: An introduction to the history of Portchester Castle, England