Product Description: The Tower of London is an icon of England’s history. William the Conqueror built the White Tower after his invasion and conquest in 1066 to dominate London, and it has become infamous as a place of torture, execution and murder...read more

Product Description: The bubonic plague epidemic which struck England in 1665-6 was responsible for the deaths of almost a third of London's population. Its sheer scale was overwhelming and it was well-recorded, featuring in the works of Pepys and Defoe and described in terrible detail in the contemporary Bills of Mortality...read more

The story of the battle of Turnham Green and how 'the sack of London' was prevented by Londoners. As Charles I's army marched on the capital in the autumn of 1642, Nehemiah Wallington, a wood-turner living near London Bridge, wrote in his journal, 'those cruel cavilers doe so plonder & pillage & commit Rapin & use such cruelty that the poore people are caused to fly from house and home to save their children'. Most Londoners shared his fears that city would be pillaged and burnt by the king's supporters, who had been vilified in the London press and from the pulpits. Londoners had willingly joined the Earl of Essex's army that summer but had failed to stop the advance of the king's army. The capture and sack of Brentford, so close to their city, confirmed their worst fears, for their own safety and that of their families. London would be next. At Turnham Green the Civil War that had pitched Englishman against Englishman came to London. On 13 November thousands of volunteers streamed out of the city to join the army and the most ferocious battle in London's long history began. The outcome would mark a turning point in the conflict that had split the nation.

Product Description: The destruction caused by the English Civil Wars was widespread and devastating. Towns, villages, churches, and country houses were destroyed, and by the end of the Second Civil War at least 150 towns and 50 villages had suffered some damage, 200 country houses were ruined, and more than 50,000 people had been made homeless...read more

THE GREAT PLAGUE is the ideal study of the most famous killer in British history. The Great Plague of 1665-66 is Britain's best known epidemic. Carried by fleas, it decimated the population of England in a little over a year. The disease had not been absent from England since the Black Death in 1348, but there had been ten virtually plague-free years from 1655. People thought that perhaps the scourge had gone forever. But in 1665 it returned with a vengeance. In London alone, 100,000 out of a total population of 500,000 died. The plague and its dreadful effects have stayed in the popular imagination ever since. Often remembered for its devastating impact on the capital, the plague struck other urban centres as heavily, carrying off half the population of Colchester and causing high mortality in cities such as Norwich and Cambridge. Not even country villages escaped.

The experience of Londoners during the Great Plagues of 1603, 1625 and 1665 in their own words.

Product Description: Book by Scully CBE MD PhD MDS MRCS BSc FDSRCS FDSRCPS FFDRCSI FDSRCSE FRCPath FMedSci FHEA FUCL DSc DChD DMed[HC] DrHC, Crispian

Product Description: A comprehensive atlas of lip disorders edited by an international team of clinicians with experience in dermatology, oral medicine, dentistry and medicine. Each condition of the lips is described in detail, together with a concise summary of the aetiology...read more

Product Description: This is an indispensable work for the film lover, student, teacher and professional. The moving picture has changed the way we learn, the way we think about the world, about ourselves, and most profoundly perhaps the way we think...read more

Product Description: This study focuses on the effect of the Civil Wars on ordinary communities, making use of contemporary documents that convey their experiences and reactions.

Product Description: Late-Quaternary Environments of the United States, Volume 1 was first published in 1983.In the late 1970s American and Russian scientists met twice in conferences on Quaternary paleoclimates sponsored by the U.S.-U.S.S.R. Bilateral Agreement of the Environment...read more