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  • Historical Projects for Kids
    E.T. Fox / E.TFox
    The best way to learn things is to do them, and it’s also the most satisfying and fun way. This book contains ideas and instructions for 23 projects ranging from all periods of history, from prehistory to the Victorians, all designed with children and young people in mind (but adult helpers should find them fun and interesting too). ...
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    28,46 €

  • For Maytenance of Archers
    E.T. Fox / E.TFox
    For more than three centuries the longbow was the dominant weapon in English military thinking, and England’s archers were a force to be reckoned with on battlefields across Europe. From the famous battles of Crecy and Agincourt to forgotten skirmishes in Norfolk no serious fight was complete without the hum of the bow string. The study of the history of English archery could n...
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    23,15 €

  • Scattergoods and Swaggering Rascals
    E.T. Fox / E.TFox
    A documentary history of English pirates in the Elizabethan and Jacobean period, detailing the lives of notorious pirates such as John Ward, Clinton Atkinson, and Henry Mainwaring. Edited and footnoted transcriptions of original sixteenth- and seventeenth-century accounts. ...
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    23,17 €

  • Jolly Rogers, the True History of Pirate Flags
    E.T. Fox / E.TFox
    The ’jolly roger’ is probably the most iconic flag in the world. Nobody can see the skull and cross-bones without thinking ’pirates’. This carefully-researched book explores the history of the famous pirate flag, its many variants, and includes descriptions and illustrations of every ’jolly roger’ recorded during the ’golden age’ of piracy in the eighteenth century. ...
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    15,10 €

  • Military Archery in the Seventeenth Century
    E.T. Fox / E.TFox
    Three primary-source tracts relating to military archery in seventeenth century England. William Neade’s Double-Armed Man, Gervase Markham’s Art of Archerie, and an anonymous pamphlet promoting explosive fire-arrows. Edited together into one volume with an introduction exploring the use of the bow by English armies in the Anglo-French war (part of the Thirty Years’ War) and the...
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    17,98 €

  • Merry Jests and Japes
    E.T. Fox / E.TFox
    Two seventeenth-century joke books: John Taylor’s Wit and Mirth (1628), and Roberts Chamberlain’s A Book of Bulls, transcribed and edited together into one volume. ...
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    17,76 €

  • Pirates in Their Own Words
    E.T. Fox / E.TFox
    Pirates in Their Own Words is a collection of original documents relating to the ’golden age’ of piracy. Letters, testimonies, witness accounts and other primary source documents written by the pirates themselves, their victims, and the men who hunted them down. ...
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    44,95 €