Institute of Historical Research
Steventon, a chalkland village near Basingstoke, is best known because Jane Austen, the famous novelist and daughter of the local rector, spent the first 25 years of her life here. Unlike Chawton and Bath, no house or museum commemorates the author’s memory in Steventon but this new history explains how family life and observation of north Hampshire society shaped her early literary career. She wrote early versions of Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility and Northanger Abbey in Steventon from 1796 to 1798, drawing on local society for inspiration for characters, manners and sentiments.
But the village had a rich history before and after its famous novelist and there are many other reasons to enjoy this book. Steventon is a...
"Not only was Churchill the most illustrious and the most distinguished Chancellor that the University of Bristol has ever had, but he was also in his prime, from the 1940s onwards, probably the most famous and the most distinguished chancellor of any university anywhere in the world."
David Cannadine
- Lists over 3,000 people teaching history in United Kingdom and Irish universities and colleges of higher education
- Gives full degrees and honours for each teacher, with the teaching position held
- Describes each individual’s teaching area and research interests
- Supplies the address, telephone and fax number of all departments of history
- Includes email addresses for the majority of individuals
- Gives website addresses for all universities with history departments
Yate is a town in South Gloucestershire, north-east of Bristol. Its ancient parish extended across a largely flat vale, which until the 13th century lay within Horwood forest, and was then cleared, inclosed and farmed as rich pasture by the tenants of the influential owners of its three manors. A limestone ridge fringing the vale provided good building stone, and across the parish seams of coal and a rare mineral - celestine - have been exploited until recent times. Yate lay on an important early route between Bristol and Oxford, and its mineral wealth attracted early railway links, so that it was well placed for industrial development. Bristol-based industries moved there during the decades after 1900, including wartime...
Administering
the Empire, 1801-1968 is an
indispensable introduction to British colonial rule during the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries. It provides an essential guide to the records of the
British Colonial Office, and those of other departments responsible for
colonial administration, which are now held in The National Archives of the
United Kingdom.
As a user-friendly archival guide, Administering
the Empire explains the organisation of these records, the information
they provide, and how best to explore them using contemporary finding aids. The
book also outlines the expansion of the British empire from the early
nineteenth century, and discusses the structure of colonial governments. An appendix...
