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This England – Spring 2015
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This England – Spring 2015

This England is the quarterly magazine for all who love our green and pleasant land, with each 84-page issue packed with interesting articles, beautiful photographs, uplifting pieces of poetry and informative readers’ letters celebrating all that is best about England and the English way of life.

Our historic towns and picturesque villages, our lovely countryside, our colourful customs, curiosities and traditions, our history and our heritage…all are explored and enjoyed through spring, summer, autumn and winter.

 

 
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Encyclopedia of Tudor England [3 volumes]
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Encyclopedia of Tudor England [3 volumes]Written for high school students, college undergraduates, and public library patrons—indeed, for anyone interested in this important and colorful period—the three-volume Encyclopedia of Tudor England illuminates the era's most important people, events, ideas, movements, institutions, and publications. Concise, yet in-depth entries offer comprehensive coverage and an engaging mix of accessibility and authority.
 
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The Study of Language in 17th-Century England
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The Study of Language in 17th-Century EnglandThis volume brings together a number of papers by Vivian Salmon, previously published in various journals and collections that are unfamiliar, and perhaps even inaccessible, to historians of the study of language. The central theme of the volume is the study of language in England in the 17th century. Papers in the first section treat aspects of the history of language teaching. The second section consists of three articles on the history of grammatical theory. The papers in the third and final section deal with the search for the ‘universal language’.
 
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Words of the World: A Global History of the Oxford English Dictionary
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Words of the World: A Global History of the Oxford English Dictionary

Most people think of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) as a distinctly British product. Begun in England 150 years ago, it took more than 60 years to complete and, when it was finally finished in 1928, the British prime minister heralded it as a 'national treasure.' It maintained this image throughout the twentieth century, and in 2006 the English public voted it an 'Icon of England', alongside Marmite, Buckingham Palace, and the bowler hat. But this book shows that the dictionary is not as 'British' as we all thought.
 
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A Culture of Fact: England, 1550-1720
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A Culture of Fact: England, 1550-1720

Barbara J. Shapiro traces the surprising genesis of the "fact," a modern concept that, she convincingly demonstrates, originated not in natural science but in legal discourse. She follows the concept's evolution and diffusion across a variety of disciplines in early modern England, examining how the emerging "culture of fact" shaped the epistemological assumptions of each intellectual enterprise.
 
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