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Detailed and comprehensive, the second volume of the Venns' directory, in six parts, includes all known alumni until 1900.
Index of pedigrees and alliances many a noble lord, paramount in his own country, would be astonished to find that his less distinguished neighbour was of a nobility as ancient as his own.
Historical review of arctic exploration with chapters discussing Barents, Hudson, the Spitzbergen route, the east coast of Greenland, Baffin Bay, etc. This edition has been enlarged with six new chapters relating to the Norwegian voyages off Novaya Zemlya, the British Arctic Expedition under Nares in 1875 and the public awards for arctic discoveries.
Important texts in the Church's history collected together in one volume. This first miscellany volume to be published by the Church of England Record Society contains eight edited texts covering aspects of the history of the Church from the Reformation to the early twentieth century. The longest contribution is a scholarly edition of W.J. Conybeare's famous and influential article on nineteenth-century "Church Parties"; other documents included are the protests against Archbishop Cranmer's metropolitical powers of visitation, the petitions to the Long Parliament in support of the Prayer Book, and Randall Davidson's memoir on the role of the archbishop of Canterbury in the early twentieth century. Stephen Taylor is Professor in the History ofEarly Modern England, University of Durham. Contributors: PAUL AYRIS, MELANIE BARBER, ARTHUR BURNS, JUDITH MALTBY, ANTHONY MILTON, ANDREW ROBINSON, STEPHEN TAYLOR, BRETT USHER, ALEXANDRA WALSHAM