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If you thought Boydell & Brewer only published academic books you’d be mistaken. We also have a small but beautifully crafted list of books for the informed general reader – titles that will entertain, broaden your horizons and perhaps show you things you thought you knew in a different light. Here are a few of our recent and classic publications, with the whole list – academic monographs and essay collections too – at www.boydellandbrewer.com

An ideal introduction to our list
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Late-Georgian Churches: Anglican architecture, patronage and churchgoing in England 1790-1840
Runes: a Handbook
'A Marvel to Behold': Gold and Silver at the Court of Henry VIII
Bestiary: Being an English Version of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, MS Bodley 764
Cheer Up!: British Musical Films, 1929-1945
A Companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Country Houses of Shropshire
Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature
English Local History: An Introduction
In My Own Time: An Autobiography
Law, Liberty and the Constitution: A Brief History of the Common Law
Magnificence: and Princely Splendour in the Middle Ages
Medieval Pets
Medievalism, Politics and Mass Media: Appropriating the Middle Ages in the Twenty-First Century
Murder on the Middle Passage: The Trial of Captain Kimber
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Spies, threats and counter-intelligence
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British Spies and Irish Rebels: British Intelligence and Ireland, 1916-1945
The Spy Who Came In From the Co-op: Melita Norwood and the Ending of Cold War Espionage
Britannia and the Bear: The Anglo-Russian Intelligence Wars, 1917-1929
The Secret War Between the Wars: MI5 in the 1920s and 1930s
The Lawn Road Flats: Spies, Writers and Artists
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Art History, Photography and Design classics
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Arthur Singer, The Wildlife Art of an American Master
The Bayeux Tapestry
Bernhard Heisig and the Fight for Modern Art in East Germany
Bestiary: Being an English Version of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, MS Bodley 764
The Boyce Papers: The Letters and Diaries of Joanna Boyce, Henry Wells and George Price Boyce: 2-volume set
The Green Man
The Art of Anglo-Saxon England
Education in Twelfth-Century Art and Architecture: Images of Learning in Europe, c.1100-1220
Rediscovering Lost Landscapes: Topographical Art in north-west Italy, 1800-1920
Motherhood and Meaning in Medieval Sculpture: Representations from France, c.1100-1500
English Alabaster Carvings and their Cultural Contexts
A Critical Companion to English Mappae Mundi of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
No Words Posters: One Image is Enough
The Path to Paradise: Judith Schaechter's Stained-Glass Art
Up Against the Wall: Art, Activism, and the AIDS Poster
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Naval and Maritime History
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Atlantic Piracy in the Early Nineteenth Century: The Shocking Story of the Pirates and the Survivors of the Morning Star
The British Navy in Eastern Waters: The Indian and Pacific Oceans
Dictionary of British Naval Battles
Fighting at Sea in the Eighteenth Century: The Art of Sailing Warfare
Hornblower's Historical Shipmates: The Young Gentlemen of Pellew's Indefatigable
The British Naval Staff in the First World War
A New History of Yachting
Roman Warships
The Navies of Rome
The British Navy in the Baltic
The British Navy in the Caribbean
The Emergence of Britain's Global Naval Supremacy: The War of 1739-1748
Hawke, Nelson and British Naval Leadership, 1747-1805
Norman Naval Operations in the Mediterranean
East Anglia and its North Sea World in the Middle Ages
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Local History
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A New Suffolk Garland
English Local History: An Introduction
The Country Houses of Shropshire
The Keelmen of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1638-1852
The Foldcourse and East Anglian Agriculture and Landscape, 1100-1900
A History of the County of York: East Riding: Volume X: Part 2: Town and Liberty
A History of the County of Stafford: XII: Tamworth and Drayton Bassett
A History of the County of Essex: XII: St Osyth to the Naze: North-East Essex Coastal Parishes. Part 1: St Osyth, Great and Litt
A Biographical Register of the Franciscans in the Custody of York, c.1229-1539
The Parish in Wartime: Bishop Gore's Visitations of Oxfordshire, 1914 and 1918
The Register of John Salmon, bishop of Norwich, 1299-1325
Two Weather Diaries from Northern England, 1779-1807: The Journals of John Chipchase and Elihu Robinson
Willington and the Mowbrays: After the Peasants' Revolt
The Wardle Family and its Circle: Textile Production in the Arts and Crafts Era
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Biography
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Alexander Paterson: Prison Reformer
Balfour's World: Aristocracy and Political Culture at the Fin de Siecle
Beethoven's Lives: The Biographical Tradition
Britten in Pictures
Christopher Okigbo 1930-67: Thirsting for Sunlight
Claude Debussy: A Critical Biography
Gerald Finzi: His Life and Music
In My Own Time: An Autobiography
The History of William Marshal
Lord Liverpool: A Political Life
Nikolay Myaskovsky: A Composer and His Times
Nyerere: The Early Years
The Silent Muse: The Memoirs of Asta Nielsen
They Called You Dambudzo: A Memoir
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Military History
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First World War Diary of Noel Drury, 6th Royal Dublin Fusiliers: Gallipoli, Salonika, The Middle East and the Western Front
Medieval Arms and Armour: a Sourcebook. Volume I: The Fourteenth Century
Deception in Medieval Warfare: Trickery and Cunning in the Central Middle Ages
The Battle for Palestine, 1917
The British Naval Staff in the First World War
Dictionary of British Naval Battles
Fighting at Sea in the Eighteenth Century: The Art of Sailing Warfare
Fighting for Britain: African Soldiers in the Second World War
Henry of Lancaster's Expedition to Aquitaine, 1345-1346: Military Service and Professionalism in the Hundred Years War
The Household Knights of Edward III: Warfare, Politics and Kingship in Fourteenth-Century England
The Military Papers of Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck, Volume 1: 1940-42
Nazi Policy on the Eastern Front, 1941: Total War, Genocide, and Radicalization
The Siege of Malta, 1565: Translated from the Spanish edition of 1568
Special Operations in the Age of Chivalry, 1100-1550
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Medieval Life
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The Art of Cookery in the Middle Ages
The Black Death 1346-1353: The Complete History
The Complete History of the Black Death
A Dictionary of Medieval Terms and Phrases
Magnificence: and Princely Splendour in the Middle Ages
Medieval and Early Modern Murder: Legal, Literary and Historical Contexts
The Medieval Clothier
The Medieval Cook
The Medieval Household: Daily Living c.1150-c.1450
Medieval Pets
Medieval Life: Archaeology and the Life Course
The Medieval Surgery
Medievalism, Politics and Mass Media: Appropriating the Middle Ages in the Twenty-First Century
Runes: a Handbook
The Sutton Hoo Story: Encounters with Early England
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Life in the Modern World
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The Secret War Between the Wars: MI5 in the 1920s and 1930s
Britannia and the Bear: The Anglo-Russian Intelligence Wars, 1917-1929
Crippen: A Crime Sensation in Memory and Modernity
Europe and the Decline of Social Democracy in Britain: From Attlee to Brexit
Fighting for Britain: African Soldiers in the Second World War
Financing Cotton: British Industrial Growth and Decline, 1780-2000
God and Uncle Sam: Religion and America's Armed Forces in World War II
The Lawn Road Flats: Spies, Writers and Artists
The Spy Who Came In From the Co-op: Melita Norwood and the Ending of Cold War Espionage
Law, Liberty and the Constitution: A Brief History of the Common Law
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