Bücher der Reihe Camden Fifth Series

A collection of seventeenth-century documents on parliamentary and financial matters, providing access to primary source material for historians.

This volume presents the surviving correspondence of the French ambassador to the court of Elizabeth I from 1562-66, Paul de Foix. His letters and reports provide insight into the Queen's demeanour as a negotiator, on the question of her marriage and on the role of an ambassador in a period of extreme instability both in France and England.

The letters of the learned and indomitable Lady Anne Bacon (1528-1610), mother of the philosopher Francis Bacon, are made accessible for the first time in this edition. Her correspondence sheds light not only on the activities of early modern elite women, but also on a multitude of well-known Elizabethan figures.

Robert Woodford's diary, here published in full for the first time with an introduction, provides a unique source for the study of the mid-seventeenth century including insight into the puritan psyche and way of life, opposition to Charles I and the formation of Civil War allegiance.

This is the first collection to bring together over 550 documents relating to the foreign policy of the British Conservative governments between 1852 and 1878. Documents pertain to issues of the day, including the French Second Empire, the wars of Italian Unification, the Austro-Prussian war and the Eastern crisis of 1874-8.

The collected reports of Michel de Seure, French ambassador to England from 1560-2. The reports shed light on the difficulties of negotiating with Elizabeth I and French opinions on her policy, whilst appendices and prefatory material place de Seure's time in England in the context of his career as a whole.

This volume is an invaluable portrait of family, kinship, regional and national dynamics in the Tudor and early Stuart period. Based on letters and papers that Cassandra Willoughby found in the family library, her Account focuses on the women of the family, and offers insight into sixteenth-century family dynamics, gentry culture and court connections.

This volume publishes and contextualizes the papers of the Hotham family, parliament's governors of Hull during the civil wars. The dilemma of allegiance experienced by Sir John Hotham and his son, Lieutenant-General John Hotham, resulted in consequences of national significance. They were beheaded on Tower Hill in January 1645.

President de Gaulle famously called the Second Vatican Council 'the greatest event of the twentieth century'. A defining dimension of Vatican II was the presence of observers representing other traditions. The confidential correspondence between Bernard Pawley and the Archbishop of Canterbury is collected here for the first time.

This volume in the Royal Historical Society's Camden Fifth Series is a comprehensive edition of the only surviving northern medieval letter collection. Of particular value to social and legal historians, Joan Kirby's text contains a wealth of material unavailable to the editor of the previous edition of 1836.

Based on the diaries of Henry Herbert Molyneux, fourth Earl of Carnarvon, this book sheds new light on Conservative politics in the second half of the nineteenth century. Few political diaries of this scale and significance have survived and they reveal him to be a shrewd observer of events.

The book gives a detailed history of the establishment of the East London Mosque and related documents.

This volume of Henry Cromwell's correspondence contains full and annotated transcripts of most of the 536 items in the collection held by the British Library. These letters shed fresh light on Henry Cromwell's Irish administration, political developments in England and the relationship between the Lord Protector, his Council and parliament.

The edited journals kept by A. L. Kennedy of The Times, providing details of his meetings with Mussolini, Hitler and others. It explains the relationship between The Times, the British Government and the Foreign Office, and illuminates the support for 'appeasement' and the origins of the Second World War.

British Envoys to the Kaiserreich, 1871-1897 concentrates on Anglo-German history prior to German Weltpolitik. The first volume presents official diplomatic reports from the British embassy at Berlin (German Empire) and from the four minor diplomatic missions in Darmstadt, Dresden, Stuttgart, and Munich during the years 1871 to 1883. This title is also available as Open Access.

Based on the diaries of Henry Herbert Molyneux, fourth Earl of Carnarvon, this book sheds new light on Conservative politics in the second half of the nineteenth century. Few political diaries of this scale and significance have survived and they reveal him to be a shrewd observer of events.

This volume assembles hitherto unpublished English writings in French on France, and especially its nobility, during the 1580s, a key period for understanding the final crisis of the War of Religion. They contain information on the political dispositions of leading royal officials as well as French noblemen in the provinces.

Publishes primary sources on the religious, political and social history of sixteenth-century England. The sources include: Religious Ceremonial at the Tudor Court; Extracts from Royal Household Regulations; Notes on the Controversy between the Dukes of Somerset and Northumberland; Letters from Sir Robert Cecil to Sir Christopher Hatton, 1590-1591.

Coventry harboured an important community of Lollards in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. This volume presents all known evidence related to these heretics and, framed by a contextual introduction, offers new insights into the nature of religious dissent in England just prior to the English Reformation.

A first-hand account of British attempts to negotiate a settlement of the Irish question. These valuable sources reveal the British Government's response to Irish nationalism during 1884-1887, and suggest that Gladstone's adoption of home rule was more significantly influenced by warnings of revolution in Ireland than has been previously thought.

Francis Place was one of Britain's most important political activists and chronicler of working-class life during the Industrial Revolution. His previously unpublished diary, written between 1825 and 1836, provides a unique perspective on the political and social issues of the day.

The edited journals kept by A. L. Kennedy of The Times, providing details of his meetings with Mussolini, Hitler and others. It explains the relationship between The Times, the British Government and the Foreign Office, and illuminates the support for 'appeasement' and the origins of the Second World War.

Publishes primary sources on the religious, political and social history of sixteenth-century England. The sources include: Religious Ceremonial at the Tudor Court; Extracts from Royal Household Regulations; Notes on the Controversy between the Dukes of Somerset and Northumberland; Letters from Sir Robert Cecil to Sir Christopher Hatton, 1590-1591.

The accounts of Elizabeth Freke's late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Norfolk gentry world are the basis for a new critical edition of her autobiography. By preserving the two often different manuscript versions, the edition provides a new appreciation of a self-image distinct, if not unique, among early modern women's autobiography.

First published in 2000, this book is a modern and accessible edition of a manuscript journal kept by Thomas Juxon, a Puritan Londoner, who traded in sugar. The journal offers an eyewitness account from the latter stages of the civil war to the crisis of the summer of 1647.

The journal of John Wodehouse, first Earl of Kimberley (1862-1902) is replete with humorous anecdotes, information regarding policy development, and acute observations about politicians and political situations. It is perhaps the last significant account of high political policy development in the Liberal Party for the period 1865-1900.

This volume in the Royal Historical Society's Camden Fifth Series is a comprehensive edition of the only surviving northern medieval letter collection. Of particular value to social and legal historians, Joan Kirby's text contains a wealth of material unavailable to the editor of the previous edition of 1836.

This collection of the diary letters of Austen Chamberlain, 1916 to 1937, provides a valuable insight into the political life of one of the leading Conservative politicians of the inter-war period, and constitutes a detailed record of Conservative and national politics at this time.

This is the private diary of a senior Conservative Member of Parliament during the period of the Second World War.

This volume consists of diary extracts written by Collin Brooks, a Fleet Street journalist and editor. His readable, witty and fluent journals offer a unique insight into the operations of a press baron, as well as a perspective on the leading political issues of the 1930s.