Boydell Brewer: 336 books
Following the Black Prince on the Road to Poitiers, 1355-1356
A Handbook and Guide for Tourists
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
In this guide, available in digital format for handheld devices only, Peter Hoskins takes the tourist along the routes of the Black Prince's expedition to France in 1355 and 1356. He draws on his on-the-ground experience of walking more than 1,300 miles across France, retracing the routes of the armies...
by Andrew Palmer
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
This book features interviews with leading and upcoming British composers who use the same raw materials but produce classical music that takes very different forms. Uniquely, Andrew Palmer approaches the sometimes baffling world of contemporary music from the point of view of the inquisitive, music-loving...
The First Century of Welfare
Poverty and Poor Relief in Lancashire, 1620-1730
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014
The English 'Old Poor Law' was the first national system of tax-funded social welfare in the world. It provided a safety net for hundreds of thousands of paupers at a time of very limited national wealth and productivity. The First Century of Welfare, which focusses on the poor, but developing, county...
Beyond the Notes
Journeys with Chamber Music
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2007
We knew from her recordings that Susan Tomes is a superb chamber player; now we know that she's a superb writer too. Michael Church, INDEPENDENT She is as sensitive an observer and as subtle a writer as she is one of our finest chamber musicians...This is a book that should be read by practising musicians...
by Barry Emslie
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2010
Richard Wagner and the Centrality of Love is a bold book which argues that Wagner's music dramas cannot be understood if treated separately from his essays, his life, the intellectual and artistic climate of his day, and the broader history of Germany. Wagner attempts a range of reconciliations that...
Britannia and the Bear
The Anglo-Russian Intelligence Wars, 1917-1929
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Decades before the Berlin Wall went up, a Cold War had already begun raging. But for Bolshevik Russia, Great Britain - not America - was the enemy. Now, for the first time, Victor Madeira tells a story that has been hidden away for nearly a century. Drawing on over sixty Russian, British and French...
by John D. Grainger
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2006
Three battles for the control of the key fortress-city of Gaza took place in 1917 between the `British' force (with units from across the Empire, most notably the ANZACs) and the Turks. The Allies were repulsed twice but on their third attempt, under the newly-appointed General Allenby, a veteran...
Hornblower's Historical Shipmates
The Young Gentlemen of Pellew's Indefatigable
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
This book sets out the lives of seventeen 'young gentlemen' who were midshipmen under the famous Captain Sir Edward Pellew. Together, aboard the frigate HMS Indefatigable, they fought a celebrated action in 1797 against the French ship of the line Les Droits de l'Homme. C. S. Forester, the historical...
The Age of Machinery
Engineering the Industrial Revolution, 1770-1850
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018
The engineers who built the first generations of modern textile machines, between 1770 and 1850, pushed at the boundaries of possibility. This book investigates these pioneering machine-makers, almost all working within textile communities in northern England, and the industry they created. It probes...
The Supernatural Voice
A History of High Male Singing
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014
`The use of high male voices in the past has long been one of the most seriously misunderstood areas of musical scholarship and practice. In opening up this rich subject (to readers of all sorts) with refreshingly clear perspectives and plenty of new material, Simon Ravens' well-researched book goes...
The Crafty Art of Opera
For those who make it, love it or hate it
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
Opera is nowadays performed worldwide. But as an art form it is little understood by performers and audiences alike. The Crafty Art of Opera wants to change that. Here, Michael Hampe brings glimpses of the director's work to a wider audience, uncovering the many techniques and rules that should inform...
by Marc D. Moskovitz
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2010
From Zemlinsky's early success as a composer and widely recognized achievements as a conductor to his eventual descent into obscurity, this new biography places Zemlinsky (1871-1942) against the backdrops of Vienna, Prague and Berlin and illuminates his relationships with figures like Johannes Brahms,...
by Kathleen Walker-Meikle
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Animals in the middle ages have often been discussed - but usually only as a source of food, as beasts of burden, or as aids for hunters. This book takes a completely different angle, showing that they were also beloved domestic companions to their human owners, whether they were dogs, cats, monkeys,...
The Legend of Spring-Heeled Jack
Victorian Urban Folklore and Popular Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
WINNER of the 2013 Katharine Briggs Award NEW LOWER PRICE This book uses the nineteenth-century legend of Spring-Heeled Jack to analyse and challenge current notions of Victorian popular cultures. Starting as oral rumours, this supposedly supernatural entity moved from rural folklore to metropolitan...