Melisende's Library

Synopsis: From his offices at Basinghall Street in the City of London, Henry Slater presided over Britain's best-known private detectiv...

Synopsis: While the courts of medieval Europe ate up tales of knights in shining armor and damsels in distress, the reality for the elite w...

A fascinating journey through history and culture, examining how makeup affects self-empowerment, how people have used it to define (and def...

From The Guardian : Hippocrates, the founder of modern medicine, believed that women were controlled by their uteruses. The father of modern...

Synopsis: Fisherman, publican, father - his influence reaches throughout North East England. Meet Jerry Compton. a friendly man, a just ma...

  Synopsis Wow! what a story! 1920s New York was not familiar to me and as a result, this story has led me rather astray as I delve into the...

This edited collection examines different aspects of the experience and significance of childhood, youth and family relations in minority re...

" The Legitimacy of Bastards " is the first book to consider the individuals who had illegitimate children, the ways in which the...

From  Oxford University Press :  Some of the poorest regions of historic Britain had some of its most vibrant festivities. Between the s...

From  University of Cambridge :  Ottoman women shopped. They didn’t just shop; they also ran businesses, owned property and, on occasion...

From  Halstead Gazette :  An author has released a book about the beginnings of a village near Halstead, in celebration of its forthcomi...

From  University of Cambridge :  In her book Chastity in Early Stuart Literature and Culture , Dr Bonnie Lander Johnson (Faculty of Engl...

From  University of Cambridge :  Cambridge historian uncovers new evidence of 18th and 19th century London's 'Child Support Agenc...

From  Sydney Morning Herald :  Threads of Life should not be mistaken for a docile, meandering read about the joys of sewing. On the co...

From  Times of India : Many libraries and such institutions have kept some material from public viewing because their content were consid...

Review by Frank MacGabhann for the Irish Times If anyone believes that the IRA’s “Border campaign” of 1956 - 1962 was heroic, this is ...

The name of the book, The Scottish Clearances: A History of the Dispossessed, 1600-1900 , highlights Sir Tom Devine’s central premise that ...

From  Oxford University Press : In the twilight of the Renaissance, the grand duke of Tuscany--a scion of the fabled Medici family of ba...

From  The Guardian : A 17-year-old girl spends her days by her window, watching the house opposite in an affluent part of Buenos Aires. ...

From  The Washington Post : On the afternoon of April 9, 1948, an assassin drew a pistol on a downtown Bogota street and took the life of ...