Humanities – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk Henley-on-Thames Mon, 13 Feb 2023 18:34:10 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-Bell-Background-Blue-32x32.png Humanities – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk 32 32 The Mesolithic in Britain https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/the-mesolithic-in-britain/ Tue, 30 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/the-mesolithic-in-britain/ The Mesolithic in Britain proposes a new division of the Mesolithic period into four parts, each with its distinct character.

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  • This new synthesis draws on advances in scientific dating to understand the Mesolithic inhabitation of Britain as a historical process.
  • The book describes the lives of the first pioneers in the early Mesolithic; the emergence of new modes of inhabitation in the Middle Mesolithic; the regionally diverse settlement of the late Mesolithic; and the radical changes of the final millennium of the period.
    • ]]>         Germania: A Personal History of Germans Ancient and Modern https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/germania-a-personal-history-of-germans-ancient-and-modern/ Thu, 20 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/germania-a-personal-history-of-germans-ancient-and-modern/ Sunday Times]]> The Sunday Times Bestseller

    ‘Entertaining and informative . . . Delightful’ Independent

    There are many reasons to be fascinated by Germany: forests, architecture and fairy tales, not to mention its history and inhabitants’ penchant for very peculiar food. Our distant and often maligned cousin, this is a place in which innumerable strange characters have held power, in which a chaotic jigsaw of borders have moved about seemingly at random, and which at the dark heart of the 20th century fell into the hands of truly terrible forces. And now Simon Winder is here to tell us everything else there is to know about this mesmerizing, tortured and endlessly fascinating country.

    Germania is also a personal guide to the Germany that Simon Winder loves. In this startlingly vibrant account, Winder describes Germany’s past afresh, starting with the shaggy world of the ancient forests, all the way up to the present day – and in doing so, he sees and begins to understand a country much like our own: Protestant, aggressive and committed to betterment. Joining Danubia and Lotharingia in Winder’s endlessly fascinating retelling of European history, Germania is a brilliant, vivid and enthusiastic insight to the hidden wonders of Germany

    ]]>         Wreck Of The Abergavenny https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/wreck-of-the-abergavenny/ Fri, 04 Jul 2003 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/wreck-of-the-abergavenny/ Independent]]> In February 1805 the Earl of Abergavenny set sail in convoy from Portsmouth for a voyage to India and China, captained by John Wordsworth, the younger brother of the poet William Wordsworth. On board were more than 400 passengers and crew. Only three days later, separated from the convoy by stormy weather, the ship struck the notorious Shamble shoal in Weymouth bay and sank, drowning 260 souls including her Captain.

    From the harrowing accounts of the survivors and the detailed official and press reports if the disaster, The Wreck of the Abergavenny brilliant recreates this tragic event and its impact on John’s brother William and his friends Coleridge, Charles and Mary Lamb, and many others. Dramatic, haunting and engaging The Wreck of the Abergavenny is an intimate and beautifully observed view of a family and the effects of tragedy. It is a masterpiece of narrative non-fiction.

    ‘Hayter gives us intellectual as well as emotional excitement. . .beautifully crafted and a pleasure to read’ Sunday Times

    ‘Hayter’s marvellous book is.a jewel of popular history writing’ Kathryn Hughes, Literary Review

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