A Short State Of The Charity Schools Of St Giles In The Fields And St George Bloomsbury With An Account Of The Benefactions And Legacies And Also A List Of The Subscribers July 1809

Brings together the work of a wide range of scholars to explore the history of churches and education.

One of the most unusual contributions to the crusading era was the idea of the leper knight - a response to the scourge of leprosy and the shortage of fighting men which beset the Latin kingdom in the twelfth century. The Order of St Lazarus, which saw the idea become a reality, founded establishments across Western Europe to provide essential support for its hospitaller and military vocations. This book explores the important contribution of the English branch of the order, which by 1300 managed a considerable estate from its chief preceptory at Burton Lazars in Leicestershire. Time proved the English Lazarites to be both tough and tenacious, if not always preoccupied with the care of lepers. Following the fall of Acre in 1291 they endured a period of bitter internal conflict, only to emerge reformed and reinvigorated in the fifteenth century. Though these late medieval knights were very different from their twelfth-century predecessors, some ideologies lingered on, though subtly readapted to the requirements of a new age, until the order was finally suppressed by Henry VIII in 1544. The modern refoundation of the order, a charitable institution, dates from 1962. The book uses both documentary and archaeological evidence to provide the first ever account of this little-understood crusading order.DAVID MARCOMBE is Director of the Centre for Local History, University of Nottingham.

A reference work on furniture makers active in England between 1660 and 1840. It lists makers in alphabetical order, recording biographical details, commissions, and information about signed or documented pieces, together with full supporting references.

Reproduction of the original: English Book Collectors by William Younger Fletcher

Norfolk Annals is a two volume work collected from the Norfolk Chronicle by British historian Charles Mackie. It presents a chronological record of the most remarkable events in the nineteenth century. Split down the middle, volume one covers the period from 1801 to 1850 and volume two continues from 1851 and ends with the December of 1900, recording events and happenings of Norfolk county.

Reproduction of the original: Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London during the Eighteenth Century; Vol. I (of 2) by James Peller Malcolm