Collection: Local History REFERENCE

Winchester College, founded in 1832, possesses a rich and well-documented slang. This dictionary, originally completed in the 1960s and now newly edited, offers an insight into the history and traditions of England's oldest public school.

This selection from the best of D.W.Harding's writing about his favourite author (some of it previously unpublished) will be an important landmark in Austen criticism. It will be a key document in the shaping of modern approaches to Jane Austen.

Margaret Kirkham shows that Jane Austen's views on the status of women, female education, marriage, the family and womens' representation in literature were remarkably similar to those of feminists of her own day.

A collective family biography which throws light upon public and private centres of power and influence. The story of the Shaw Lefevres family reveals that stratum of the ruling class which directly underpinned the highest levels of political leadership for almost 150 years of British history.