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Christopher Webster
Conisbrough Tales is a modern version of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, being a collection of stories about my home town, Conisbrough, in verse. I am sure that Geoffrey Chaucer's dog could…
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This book is the third in a series of story collections about the author's home town, Conisbrough. The stories range from ancient times to the mid-twentieth century, including the experiences…
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These stories of old Conisbrough begin with the legend of the Holy Well in pre-Roman times and go on to include England's founding father, Hengest fighting his last battle at…
These study notes were written for the OIB and OCR A-level examinations. They include a biography, questions on the poems, commentaries and sample examination questions. The full text of all…
Richard of Conisbrough was born in Conisbrough Castle only a few hundred yards from the author's family home in Castle Avenue, and of all the great noblemen who owned Conisbrough…
Hrothgar is best known from the Anglo-Saxon epic poem, Beowulf, where he appears in a background role as the king whose hall is attacked by the troll, Grendel. This book…
This lucid and comprehensive collection of essays by an international group of scholars constitutes a photo-historical survey of select photographers who embraced National Socialism during the Third Reich. These photographers…
Who are you men, armoured in mail, who come sailing upon the sliding sea-road to the land of Britannia? Long have I held the sea-watch in season as the king’s…
Attila explodes on the world, threatening to bring down the Roman Empire, and few can stand against him. Waldere is one, who, after escaping from Attila, and fighting single-handed, dispatches…
Dahn t' Pit tells the story of a Yorkshire miner and his sweetheart in the years before the First World War. In Book 1, Bag Muck, young Tom Brocklesby starts…
Aurelius' legion is ready to make the attempt to reconquer Britannia, but powerful forces are ranged against him; the tyrant Vortigern and his Pictish mercenaries, and the vast forces of…
Vortigern commits a terrible crime to become High King of Britannia - a crime which is he led to commit by his ambitious wife, Severa. This is a Macbethian tale…
A nithing - an outcast - is set upon by robbers and nearly killed, but he fights back, joins their band, and eventually finds a new bench-place with King Hoc…
An Aeneid for England! English Morn tells the story of two brothers, Hengest and Horsa, exiled from Angeln, who take service with the "Proud Tyrant", Vortigern, in Britannia. They act…
The poet, Thomas Wyatt, was made Constable of Conisbrough Castle in 1536 and soon after, found himself having to hold the castle against the army of the Pilgrimage of Grace…
A tomboyish girl, fond of stories of shieldmaidens and waelcyries, gets involved a viking raid led by her older brother. The raid goes wrong, and her stepmother tries to teach…
1146 - Edessa falls to the forces of Zengi. In response, Pope Eugene III preaches the Second Crusade. His call to arms is heard all over Europe, even in the…
"Who are you men, armoured in mail, who come sailing upon the sliding sea-road to the land of Britannia? Long have I held the sea-watch in season as the king's…
Aurelius Ambrosius is the rightful king of Britannia. He has built up an army like the Roman legions of old, but he knows it is not enough. If he is…
A young squire called Eubulo le Strange is sent to Conisbrough Castle to complete his military training in the service of John de Warenne. While he is there he gets…
It is 20 years since the Hengest and his followers were driven out of Britannia by Aurelius Ambrosius and Childric, his kinsman, wants revenge and the reconquest of what he…
Here is the complete English Dawn pentalogy under one cover. It tells the story of the conquest and settlement of Britain by the Anglo-Saxons in the 5th century, set against…
Britannia is overrun by migrants who speak a strange language and worship heathen gods, and Bishop Brice is given the job of trying to persuade the Romans to send a…
Dr Christopher Webster
How the Anglican church responded to population growth and the need for more accommodation, with the building of 1500 new churches, many of the finest quality.
With Essential Writings in Violence Risk Assessment and Management, mental health and legal practitioners have quick access to the most important peer-reviewed writings in the field. The 31 journal articles…
Impulsivity features in many psychiatric disorders, and is an element in the clinical risk assessment of violence. This book seeks to illuminate impulsive behaviour and the challenges of measuring it…
Paul Leicester Ford
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the "public…
Christopher Childers (Pittsburg State University)
It shows how Americans grappled with the issues of nationalism, sectionalism, and the meaning of union itself–issues that still resonate today.
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In Risk Rules - A Practical Guide to Structured Professional Judgement and Violence Prevention, experts from a range of fields provide a concise, accessible introduction to the principles of violence…
Wanda S Webster,Christopher Mack
This book explores ideas, attitudes, and behaviors that keep us trapped and in bondage to ourselves. It brings an understanding of individual patterns that keep us from being the best…
Christopher D. Webster
Clinical Risk Assessment and Management provides background and information to mental health professionals working in forensic settings on release decision making, with a particular focus on violent offenders.
Sebastian A Jones,Christopher Garner
Based in the world of Asunda created by Sebastian A. Jones.
An edited, interdisciplinary work resulting from a conference held at York University covering the causes of aggression in girls and intervention strategies for remediation. This book should be of interest…
Christopher M. Jones,Jane S. Webster
Today’s seminary and religious-education instructors are expected to design and redesign their courses more nimbly than in the past. This book introduces you to UbD: an approach to course design…
Nicholas Briggs
Three brand new adventures featuring Christopher Eccleston as the Ninth Doctor!
Roy Gill,David K Barnes
Three brand new adventures featuring Christopher Eccleston as the Ninth Doctor.
Justin Richards
The worlds of classic and new Doctor Who combine, as one of the favourite associates of the Eleventh and Twelfth Doctor - the Sontaran Strax - encounters Jago & Litefoot…
