A brief travelogue / history of the Oxford canal; a vital link in the inland waterways network linking Oxford and London to the midlands for trade. This is the third volume in a series of guides each written "with one eye on the history".

A brief travelogue / history of the Coventry canal as it cuts across the Midlands of England. This is the sixth of a series of such guides.

A brief travelogue / history of the Shropshire Union canal; more often referred to as simply "the Shroppie". This is the fourth of a series of guides, each written with "one eye on the history".

These extraordinary collections of photographs and narrative captions have wide appeal for anyone interested in Maine's past.

Part of the seminal Cambridge History of Music series, this volume departs from standard histories of early modern Western music in two important ways. First, it considers music as something primarily experienced by people in their daily lives, whether as musicians or listeners, and as something that happened in particular locations, and different intellectual and ideological contexts, rather than as a story of genres, individual counties, and composers and their works. Second, by constraining discussion within the limits of a 100-year timespan, the music culture of the sixteenth century is freed from its conventional (and tenuous) absorption within the abstraction of 'the Renaissance', and is understood in terms of recent developments in the broader narrative of this turbulent period of European history. Both an original take on a well-known period in early music and a key work of reference for scholars, this volume makes an important contribution to the history of music.

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