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The authoritative book on the Vuelta a Espana. The final three week tour of the cycling calendar often provides the most interesting, and excitingly competitive racing of the three major tours. First published in 2005, this third edition of Viva la Vuelta! brings the story of the race up to 2018.

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Excerpt from The Open Air: An Anthology of English Country LifeAnother form of isolation has been brought by mo tors into country districts. One's circle of friends is no longer the circle of a ten-mile radius. On the contrary, one's circle of friends has small geographical reference. One friend is forty miles in one direction, another twenty-five miles in another, half-a-dozen are in Lon don, one in Hampshire and so on. Thus people living in ...

Excerpt from The Open Air: An Anthology of English Country LifeAnother form of isolation has been brought by mo tors into country districts. One's circle of friends is no longer the circle of a ten-mile radius. On the contrary, one's circle of friends has small geographical reference. One friend is forty miles in one direction, another twenty-five miles in another, half-a-dozen are in Lon don, one in Hampshire and so on. Thus people living in ...

Essays throwing fresh light on what it was like to be a medieval soldier, drawing on archival research.

Collects the names of every soldier known to have served the English Crown from 1369 to the loss of Gascony in 1453, and seeks to investigate the different types of soldier, their regional and national origins, and movement between ranks.

Essays throwing fresh light on what it was like to be a medieval soldier, drawing on archival research.

Adrian Bell's travels through East Anglia and lowland Britain capture the character of the countryside before modern agriculture altered the landscape and changed forever the way we eat and live.

A 2007 study of the importance of the wool market in England during the Middle Ages.

Food rationing, blackouts, and the threat of invasion became part of everyday life in Britain during the Second World War. Yet despite the wartime austerity and growing mood of unease, the author and his wife went about their business in Suffolk, happil.

The wool market was extremely important to the English medieval economy and wool dominated the English export trade from the late thirteenth century to its decline in the late fifteenth century. Wool was at the forefront of the establishment of England as a European political and economic power and this volume is the first study of the medieval wool market in over 20 years. It investigates in detail the scale and scope of advance contracts for...

Little is known about the soldiers who fought in the Hundred Years War, though much about tactics and weapons. Adrian Bell's book redresses the balance: he explores the 'military community' through focusing on the records of the two royal expeditions led by Richard Fitzalan, earl of Arundel, in 1387 and 1388, where the extensive surviving evidence makes it possible to identify those who served on these expeditions, and to follow their careers....

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Describes and illustrates major plant structures that can be seen with the naked eye or a hand lens. This book focuses on how plants grow. It includes information on plant morphology, more than 1000 line drawings, and various photographs. It is intended for students of botany and horticulture, enthusiastic gardeners and amateur naturalists.

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