From the Reformation to the Permissive Society


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This volume is a tribute to the value of one of the world's great private libraries. Thirteen historians have selected texts which together offer an illustration of the remarkable resources preserved by the Lambeth Palace Library for the period from the Reformation to the late twentieth century.




S. Paul's Cathedral Library


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Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review


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The "Gentleman's magazine" section is a digest of selections from the weekly press; the "(Trader's) monthly intelligencer" section consists of news (foreign and domestic), vital statistics, a register of the month's new publications, and a calendar of forthcoming trade fairs.







National Thanksgivings and Ideas of Britain, 1689-1816


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Examines sermons preached at national thanksgiving celebrations to show in detail what it meant to be properly British in the period.




The Eighteenth Century


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