A critical editon of Jean de Vignay's Les Merveilles de la Terre D'Outremer, a story not well known by most. First published in 1990 by University of Exeter Press, it is part of the Textes Litteraires series.

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9780859893480 | Published: 1991

This is the first critical edition of a Verne play; the book also contains many of his unpublished letters. His theatrical work (40 plays and synopses) was, until now, almost unknown, even though Michel Strogoff was among the greatest successes of the late-19th century theatre.

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9780859894630 | Published: 1995

This book is the first sustained and dispassionate study of the role of Freemasonry in everyday social and economic life: why men joined, what it did for them and their families, and how it affected the development of communities and local economies.

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9781905816163 | Published: 2020

This book explores an industry that was of profound importance both in terms of the local economy and the history of mining nationally, but is long forgotten: the late medieval royal silver mines at Bere Ferrers in the Tamar Valley.

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9780859898287 | Published: 2009

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9780859898270 | Published: 2009

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9780859899338 | Published: 2015

Mining in Cornwall and Devon is an economic history of mines, mineral ownership, and mine management in the South West of England. The work brings together material from a variety of hard-to-find sources on the thousands of mines that operated in Cornwall and Devon from the late 1790s to the present day.

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9780859898898 | Published: 2014

Grégoire Le Roy was at school with Maeterlinck and Van Leberghe, and grew up in the same atmosphere of intellectual ferment. His first published collection pre-dates Maeterlinck’s Serres chaudes. This is the first edition since their original publication of the three collections of poems by a significant member of the Belgian Symbolist school.

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9780859897297 | Published: 2005

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9780859899345 | Published: 2015

The play La Mort des Enfans d’Herode  was first performed in Paris in 1639.  This book is a critical edition, with introduction, notes and bibliography, and the original text of the play, all in French.    

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9780859892599 | Published: 1988

Multimedia Histories: From the Magic Lantern to the Internet is the first book to explore in detail the vital connections between today’s digital culture and an absorbing history of screen entertainments and technologies. Its range of coverage moves from the magic lantern, the stereoscope and early film to the DVD and the internet.

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9780859897730 | Published: 2007

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9780859897723 | Published: 2007

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9780859899352 | Published: 2015

Taken from Africa into slavery by the Portuguese, kidnapped by the British Navy and held captive aboard ship during the French wars of the 1790s before being abandoned in Falmouth, the story of Joseph Emidy deserves telling in its own right. Emidy became a prominent figure in the musical scene in Cornwall for his remaining years.

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9780859893596 | Published: 1991

An historical tragedy by an eighteenth century playwright.

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9780859893770 | Published: 1992