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On this page you will find all the new titles and new editions due this Autumn with a short description about the book. For more details, use the link underneath each title which you take you to the main subject listing Titles can be pre-ordered through our usual ordering system; they will be dispatched to you as soon as they are published. Autumn titles as featured in alphabetical order are:
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‘Just tuck yourself into the back of an old church and drink in its age and atmosphere, think about who built it and why, and who has been there since.’ Sowrites Mark Child in his latest book, in which he traces the development of church architecture from Saxon times to 1900. ISBN 978 0 7478 0659 2; Handbook 298 |
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Dr Nicholas Summerton has assembled and critically examines the archaeological, epigraphic and literary evidence for health care in Roman Britain, set in the context of the Roman Empire. The book covers individual medical care, public health and the relationship between religion and medicine. ISBN 978 0 7478 0664 6; Archaeology 87 |
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The Ancient Egyptians enjoyed a wide range of sports and games – young men chased lions and ostriches across the desert, while dignified married couples relaxed over a game of ‘senet’. All activities are discussed in this new edition to the Shire Egyptology series. ISBN 978 0 7478 0661 5; Egyptology 29 |
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This book discusses how Victorian Britain made sport ‘sporting’ – respectable, rule-bound and a nationwide obsession. Sport became intrinsic to the weekend and the bank holiday, to the armed services and the popular press, to education and to empire. Sportsmanship came to represent the best of what it meant to be British. ISBN 978 0 7478 0666 0; Album 460 |
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