This is a biography of Charlotte Bronte, whose novels Jane Eyre , Shirley , Villette and The Professor won her great fame. It provides an objective and compassionate account of her life, from her bleak but creative childhood in Yorkshire to her early death shortly after her marriage.

London has been changing and evolving. It has been renewing or replacing the streets and buildings at its heart and has been spreading inexorably outwards. This book illustrates this process by maps of London; and offers a panorama of London's history by focusing on its maps.

Contains eleven contributions by scholars working on periodicals and newspapers in the British Isles, outside London. This title demonstrates the cultural and political significance of newspapers and periodicals and their producers.

Presenting the history of the cartography of paradise, this book journeys from the beginning of Christianity. As the story unfolds, each episode is illustrated by contemporary maps, many illuminated by the author's cartographic drawings.

Lawrence of Arabia was many people in one: scholar, archaeologist, intelligence officer, guerrilla leader, diplomat, aspiring writer, and ordinary serviceman. Part fast-moving adventure story and part modern morality tale, this biography places emphasis on the years of the desert war.

Until the entire world was mapped, terra incognita was not a metaphor. It existed and was acknowledged to exist. This study examines how unknown lands were represented from late Antiquity to 1600 - on maps, and in a variety of written texts, including poetry, treatises, political tracts and travel narratives.

Widely popular in Europe throughout the Middle Ages, the phenomenon of courtly love is said to have had its origins with the troubadours of the 11th century. This text describes this phenomenon against a backdrop of the romantic interests and real life relationships of medieval society.

Presents a collection of essays that explore some of the most important printed collections which were brought together to form the British Museum Library in 1753, focusing on the individuals whose personal interests and taste they reflect.

Selected from the British Library Sound Archive , this work offers scenes and speeches from some of the most celebrated Shakespeare productions in the history of the Royal Shakespeare Company. These extracts cover a period of over four decades, from Laurence Olivier as Coriolanus in 1959 to Judi Dench in All's Well that Ends Well in 2002.

An identification guide from the British Library Sound Archive that presents a comprehensive collection of recordings that helps listners learn how to identify the sounds of British mammals. It includes the call of the species such as the Red Deer, Red Squirrel and Grey Seal that are celebrated features of the British landscape.

Presents an account of the limits, possibilities, and consequences of photography. This book examines technology in order to explain the dynamic incarnation of photographic practice as cure, poison, and prophecy, and is suitable for those with an interest in India, photography, or the history of the book. It includes illustrations and images.

Seeks to show the reader why Middle English is different from Old English and at the same time to explain how the change is gradual. This book illustrates important literary texts to demonstrate the chronological progression of the writing.

A comprehensive illustrated history of the development of graphic styles in the West, from the origins of the alphabet itself, through the invention of printing in the Renaissance, and the subsequent major styles (with emphasis on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries), to the impact of digital technology on design.