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the late eighteenth century and have built up a global
reputation for publishing high-quality books written by
distinctive authors.
Originally founded as the Religious Tract Society, we rst
specialised in the areas of religion and children’s literature,
producing such perennial favourites as e Boy’s Own
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including Sir David Attenborough, Sir Patrick Moore, and
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Winter Frontlist 2024
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Learning to Look
by Robert Cumming 4
R.C. Hutchinson
by Barry Webb 5
Science and Sensibility
by David Howe 6
Wagner’s eatre
by Patrick Carnegy 7
Before Tom Brown
by Robert Kirkpatrick 8
Ritual and Drama
by Francis Edwards 9
George Cruikshank’s Life, Times and
Art Volume I
by Robert L. Patten 10
George Cruikshank’s Life, Times and
Art Volume II
by Robert L. Patten 11
A Grundtvig Anthology
Edited by Niels Lyhne Jensen 12
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Pianos
by Eric Smith 13
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Tools of Control or Seeds of Liberation?
by Ian Whyte 14
Deserted Medieval Villages
by Maurice Beresford
and John G. Hurst 15
e History of Morris Dancing,
1458-1750
by John Forrest 16
Great Grandmama’s Weekly
by Wendy Forrester 17
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e Cambridge Liturgical Psalter
by Doctor Andrew Macintosh,
David Frost, and John A. Emerton 18
e Saints’ Everlasting Rest
by Richard Baxter 19
omas Merton and the
Individual Witness
by David E. Oberson 20
Reckless Christianity
by Holly Pivec 21
Backlist Spotlight 22-23
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Learning to Look
Slow Looking, Book One
Robert Cumming
Slow Looking can lead to unexpected and huge
rewards. In Book One - Learning to Look Robert
Cumming shares his own slow discovery of the
pleasures of looking and aesthetic experience, and
in so doing encourages you to explore art through
your own eyes. He takes you to Madrid to explore
Velázquez’s Las Meninas, travels with you to Cortona
in Tuscany to look at a Fra Angelico altarpiece, takes
you to St Petersburg to immerse yourself in Canaletto’s
Venice, and examines with you the minute details of a
Jackson Pollock in New York. You will have your eyes
truly opened by this artistic odyssey with Robert as
your fellow traveller.
With illustrations by the artist Gino Ballantyne,
Slow Looking - Book One is the start of an eye-opening
adventure. In Book Two - Continuing to Look Robert
and Gino continue the journey by casting fresh eyes
on the Mona Lisa and paintings by Brueghel, Matisse,
Turner, Constable, Poussin and Manet. Book ree -
Seeing is Believing concludes with Rembrandt, Picasso,
Rubens, Degas, Sir Luke Fildes and Brid get Riley.
September 2024 – Hardback
September 2024 – Paperback
254 × 178mm | 173pp
89 Illustrations
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Robert Cumming rst worked as a lecturer at the Tate Gallery. He then set up e Christie’s
Fine Arts Course which developed into Christie’s Education. In 2005, Robert was appointed
Professor of Art History at Boston University, Massachusetts. He has published many books
that have been translated into over 24 languages, sold over one million copies, and been
awarded prestigious literary prizes. e Slow Looking series is the culmination of Robert’s
work and life within the art world.
Slow Looking: Exploring Paintings
Presenting a new series...
Talented Scottish artist, Gino Ballantyne’s, art focusses on looking and seeing, beauty,
personal recollection, the partnership between hand, eye and memory, and asking “why?”
Robert Cumming is a wonderfully intelligent,
civilised and illuminating guide to the
adventure of looking at paintings.
Philip Hook, author of Breakfast at Sotheby’s
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Arts and Literature
R.C. Hutchinson
e Man and His Writing
Barry Webb
In R.C. Hutchinson, Barry Webb reclaims the legacy of
a highly-acclaimed, yet oen forgotten writer. Despite
having been awarded the Sunday Times Gold medal
for ction, the W.H.Smith award for the best novelist
of the year, being short-listed for the Booker Prize, and
several of his 17 novels becoming best-sellers in the UK
and America, Hutchinson has not withstood the test
of time compared to his contemporaries. Combining
Hutchinson’s own reections with insightful critical
analysis, Webb traces Hutchinson’s thoughtful,
observational life alongside his extraordinary literary
output. He draws out how Hutchinson’s rmly held
Christian beliefs allowed him to eschew didacticism
for nuanced reections on the nature of human
suering.
Part biography, part critical study, R.C. Hutchinson
sheds light on this inuential and gied writer,
contextualising his work and highlighting his genius.
He was described by Sebastian Faulks as a ‘mid-century
master of the genre’, and Cecil Day Lewis CBE as ‘one
of the very few living novelists who will be read y –
even a hundred years hence’; Webb joins these writers
by oering readers the opportunity to rediscover this
exceptional writer.
Barry Webb is a former Fellow and Tutor in English at St. Peter’s College, Oxford, and has
now realised his long-held ambition of writing a book on R.C. Hutchinson. He is also the
ocial biographer of the poet and scholar, Edmund Blunden. He now lives in retirement
in Oxford. He enjoys reading poetry, listening to Schubert, solving crosswords and
watching cricket.
October 2024 - Hardback
April 2025 - Paperback
229 × 152 mm | 186 pages
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Hutchinson’s work ‘asks to be
compared to Balzac or Tolstoy,
and is not embarrassed
by the comparison’
Sebastian Faulks
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January 2025
229 × 152 mm | ≈200 pages
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Science and Sensibility
From the Heavens Above to the
Earth Below
David Howe
In an outer arm of the spiralling Milky Way galaxy
can be seen an insignicant speck. is is our home,
planet Earth. Its skies, clouds, lands and seas, and
indeed life itself have long drawn the interest of
scientists and artists alike. Our cultural and scientic
history is evidence enough that curiosity and wonder
are the twin drivers of both scientic and artistic
imaginations. In Science and Sensibility, David Howe
unveils the stories of the scientists who helped to make
sense of the stars, clouds, life, rocks, and the elements,
and weaves their tales with the thoughts and feelings
of artists who found meaning as they experienced
nature’s beauty, grandeur and mystery.
Scientic greats such as James Hutton, Charles
Darwin, Dmitri Mendeleev, Gregor Mendel and
Annie Jump Cannon all the way up to today’s leading
scientists are complemented by the literary insights of
people such as William Wordsworth, Jorge Luis Borges
and Iris Murdoch. Readers are encouraged to embrace
what the sciences and the arts can reveal together.
In doing so, the earth below and the heavens above
become brighter and richer. e wonder and curiosity
embodied in Science and Sensibility could perhaps take
us a step closer to holding ‘Innity in the palm of your
hand / and Eternity in an hour’.
David Howe is Emeritus Professor at the University of East Anglia. He has published other
non-ction titles, most recently Extraction to Extinction: Rethinking Our Relationship with
Earth’s Natural Resources (2021), alongside Rocks and Rain, Reason and Romance (2019),
and Wandering in Norfolk: Time Lines and Crossing Places (2016) which was short-listed for
the East Anglian Book Awards.
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In Wagner’s eatre, Patrick Carnegy presents the
turbulent story of Wagner and his interpreters over the
course of the twentieth century. Carnegy gives vivid
accounts of Gustav Mahler’s radical reinvention of the
Wagnerian stage, and of the post-war rehabilitation of
Wagner and his work aer Hitler’s appropriation. He
also oers sharply written reappraisals of those great
Wagnerian conductors Klemperer, Toscanini, Karajan
and Solti.
Carnegy provides revealing accounts of the inside-
workings of the Royal Opera House and of English
National Opera at troubled points in their recent
history. In a fascinating conversation with Sir Michael
Tippett, the composer talks with unique authority
about the problems facing would-be musical dramatists
today. Wagner’s eatre is an essential insight into how
interpretations of Wagner have developed, and how we
can respond to them.
March 2024 – Hardback
September 2024 – Paperback
254 × 178 mm | 186 Pages
87 Illustrations
HB | 9780718897437
£50.00 / $75.00 / 75.00
PB | 9780718897406
£20.00 / $30.00 / 30.00
PDF | 9780718897413
£46.50 / $60.00 / 69.75
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£34.49 / $59.99 / 52.35
Since 1967 and his rst visit to Bayreuth for e Times, Patrick Carnegy’s principal
research interest has been the stage history of Wagner’s works. He was the rst person
to be appointed Dramaturg (literary and production adviser) at the Royal Opera House
and was Stratford-upon-Avon theatre critic for e Spectator, 1998 - 2013. Dr Carnegy’s
books include Faust as Musician (1973), a study of omas Mann’s Doktor Faustus (1973),
and the critically acclaimed Wagner and the Art of the eatre (2006), which won a Royal
Philharmonic Society Music Award, and, in the USA, a George Freedley Memorial Award
for its ‘outstanding contribution to the history of the theatre’.
Wagner’s eatre
In Search of a Legacy
Patrick Carnegy
“Who better than Patrick Carnegy to
investigate this mysterious and elusive world?
He delves into German Shakespeare, the rst
Ring of 1876, Mahler and Roller’s ‘right to
come up with answers undreamt of by the
composer’, through to more recent times –
four great conductors, Opera in London, and
Michael Tippett. All endlessly fascinating.”
Sir John Tomlinson,
Wagnerian bass-baritone
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Arts and Literature
February 2024 - Hardback
September 2024 - Paperback
234 × 156 mm | 246 pages
HB | 9780718897376
£65.00 / $98.00 / 97.50
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£25.00 / $38.00 / 37.50
PDF | 9780718897383
£61.50 / $78.00 / 92.25
ePub | 9780718897390
£46.15 / $77.99 / 69.25
Before Tom Brown
e Origins of the School Story
Robert J. Kirkpatrick
e use of school life as a closed narrative environment
is well documented, and modern examples such as
Malory Towers and Harry Potter show the genre’s
continued appeal. While there have been several
histories of the school story, especially in children’s
literature, almost all of them take as their starting
point Tom Brown’s Schooldays. Although occasionally
acknowledged in passing, there has never been a
complete study of earlier school stories, or of other
ctional portrayals of school life before the middle of
the eighteenth century.
In Before Tom Brown, Robert Kirkpatrick traces the
roots of the school story back to 2500BC, when school
life was a feature of Sumerian, Egyptian and Graeco-
Roman texts written as teaching aids for children.
From Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales to Shakesperean
comedies, he explores for the rst time the use of
school dialogues in the classroom, in print and on
stage, and presents new evidence that the rst school
novel appeared in 1607. Finally, he examines the role
of the school story in the broader development of
the novel as the genre became established through
the eighteenth century. Readers will be rewarded
with a whole new perspective on the history of
children’s literature.
“Robert Kirkpatrick’s Before Tom Brown is an erudite and informative history of
the school story in English children’s literature ... It will be an invaluable source for
researchers and those generally interested in the eld. An essential read.”
Professor Jean Webb, Director of the International Forum for Research in
Children’s Literature, University of Worcester
Robert J. Kirkpatrick is the author of several books on children’s literature, including
e Encyclopaedia of Boys’ School Stories (2000), From the Penny Dreadful to the Ha’penny
Dreadfuller: A Bibliographic History of the Boys’ Periodical in Britain 1752-1950 (2013) and
e Men Who Drew for Boys (and Girls): 101 Forgotten Illustrators of Children’s Books 1844-
1970 (2019). He is a long-standing member of the Children’s Books History Society (and
the Society’s Secretary since 2010), and has twice won the Society’s Harvey Darton Award.
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Ritual and Drama
e Mediaeval eatre
Francis Edwards
In Ritual and Drama, Francis Edwards reveals
that ritual forms the basis of all popular theatrical
entertainment, the root from which dramatic art
has grown. Covering the period from the tenth to
the eenth centuries, Edwards focusses on the
audience impact rather than the artistic qualities of the
mediaeval plays, devoting much of his attention to the
emotional eect of religious and dramatic ritual on the
spectator. Illuminating the impact of Christian rituals,
liturgy, and stories, Edwards draws illustrative parallels
between mediaeval and modern states of mind.
Ritual and Drama describes the growth of the
dramatic idea, the styles of presentation of the mystery
cycles, and the evolution of the morality play, presenting
in straightforward terms a theme fundamental to our
understanding of mediaeval dramatic art.
Francis Edwards was best known for his experimental work in the eld of mediaeval theatre
and drama, and for founding the Surrey Community Players in 1947, which produced a
series of Towneley Plays in 1952.
September 2024
216 × 138 mm | 138 pages
| 19 Illustrations
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£20.00 / $30.00 / 30.00
PDF | 9780718897864
£16.50 / $24.00 / 24.75
ePub | 9780718897871
£12.40 / $23.99 / 18.60
“It is a fascinating story that he has to tell and
he unfolds it carefully, lovingly, illuminatingly.
It is just the kind of book I like – a book that
makes you feel the writer has done all the
work, which leaves you free to enjoy the fruits
of his labour.”
Rosamund J. Steen, in
Information for Drama
“he concentrates admirably on the audience impact on the medieval plays
and how they grew from the liturgy.”
Desmond Pratt, in e Yorkshire Post
Arts and Literature
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Arts and Literature
November 2024
229 × 152 mm | 612 pages
| 82 Illustrations
HB | 9780718828721
£57.00 / $86.00 / 85.50
George Cruikshank’s Life,
Times and Art
Volume I: 1792-1835
Robert L. Patten
George Cruikshank’s (1792-1878) etchings and wood-
engravings graced the pages of such classics as Grimms’
Fairy Tales and Dickens’ Oliver Twist, campaigned in
the propaganda war against Napoleon, and satirised
his times, becoming representative of the age. His
life crossed paths with Britain’s primary political,
social, and cultural leaders, yet he experienced a long
struggle for recognition of his imaginative, versatile
and incisive images.
In the rst documentary biography of Cruikshank,
Robert Platten reviews thousands of unpublished
letters and printed images to construct a thorough
and reliable account of the artist’s extraordinary
career. Placing Cruickshank’s achievements in the
contexts of the traditions of guration practiced by
his contemporaries and the social productions of
nineteenth-century Britain, Patten’s book is a valuable
contribution to the interactions between high and
low art, texts and pictures, politics and imagination.
is rst volume focusses on the artist’s regency
caricatures and early book illustrations and oers the
specialist and general reader an in-depth study of this
remarkable artist.
Robert L. Patten is the Lynette S. Autrey Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Rice
University, and writes primarily about Victorian literature, graphic arts, and print culture,
including multiple books about Charles Dickens.
“ey illustrate the close connection between archaeology,
architectural history, historical geography and economic history
which runs throughout the book and is the hall-mark of the
Deserted Medieval Village Group.”
R. H. C. Davis in e English Historical Review, Vol. 88,
No. 349, October, 1973
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George Cruikshank’s Life,
Times and Art
Volume II: 1835-1878
Robert L. Patten
George Cruikshank’s (1792-1878) etchings and wood-
engravings graced the pages of such classics as Grimms’
Fairy Tales and Dickens’ Oliver Twist, campaigned in
the propaganda war against Napoleon, and satirised
his times, becoming representative of the age. His
life crossed paths with Britain’s primary political,
social, and cultural leaders, yet he experienced a long
struggle for recognition of his imaginative, versatile
and incisive images.
In the concluding volume of this comprehensive
biography, Patten examines Cruikshank’s collab-
orations with renowned writers such as Harrison
Ainsworth, Charles Dickens, and William Makepeace
ackeray. Focussing on his illustrated periodicals,
including the long-standing Comic Almanack, as
well as his advocacy of Temperance, Patten sketches
the context of Cruikshank’s art through his subjects,
motifs, mediums, treatments, publishers and
audiences. Engaging with the contradictory and crisis-
lled latter years of Cruikshank’s life, Patten reveals the
great artist’s refashioning in the Victorian Era.
Robert L. Patten is the Lynette S. Autrey Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Rice
University, and writes primarily about Victorian literature, graphic arts, and print culture,
including multiple books about Charles Dickens.
January 2025
229 × 152 mm | ≈600 pages
| 82 Illustrations
HB | 9780718828745
£57.00 / $86.00 / 85.50
Arts and Literature
“Master of both the medium and the message, Patten delves
into the technical, the business, the historical, the aesthetic,
and the comic aspects of Cruikshank’s work from the early
1800s to the First Reform Bill. His grasp of the etcher’s
technique seems as rm as his knowledge of Cruikshank’s
myriad business deals with publishers, printers, and writer.”
L. Perry Curtis Jr., in Victorian Studies, Vol. 38,
No. 2, Winter, 1995,
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A notable gure in the cultural and social history of
Denmark, Nikolaj Frederik Severin Grundtvig’s (1783-
1872) works are still salient for us now. Highlighting
his vivacious ideas and personality, A Grundtvig
Anthology includes extracts from Grundtvig’s
historical, educational, theological, devotional, and
poetical works. Each chapter is prefaced by insightful
explanatory introductions by leading authorities on
Grundtvig’s monumental body of work, along with a
comprehensive general introduction and illuminating
annotations.
Grundtvig viewed the myths of the North as an
expression of the moral values and understanding of
life, and his hymn and song writing reveal the same joy
of life, openness and freedom as the Norse perspective.
By oering selections from across his major works, this
anthology succeeds in capturing his spirit in English
translation, and continuing his written legacy.
November 2024 – Paperback
229 x 152 mm| 186 Pages
1 Illustration
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£20.00 / $30.00 / 30.00
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£12.40 / $23.99 / 18.60
A Grundtvig Anthology
Selections from the writings of N.F.S
Grundtvig (1783-1872)
Edited by Niels Lyhne Jensen
Nikolaj Frederik Severin Grundtvig (1783-1872) was a theologian, priest, poet, writer and
teacher who le an indelible mark on the life and culture of Denmark. A contemporary
of Hans Christian Andersen and Søren Kierkegaard, and cited as one of the greatest poets
in the Danish language, he le a great legacy which is still felt in public life and cultural
activities in Denmark.
Niehls Lyhne Jensen (1921-2001), lecturer and amanuensis, joined the Nordisk Institute at
Aarhus University in 1969, having taught Scandinavian literature at Newcastle University.
He wrote numerous articles and books on literary and historical subjects.
Edward Broadbridge moved to Denmark in 1967, learning its language and culture. He
specialises in translating Grundtvig’s works into English.
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A comprehensive guide to repairing, adjusting, and
maintaining a piano, Pianos: Care and Restoration
is suitable for pianists, amateurs, and would-be
crasmen. Eric Smith discusses the tools and materials
required for restoration, and provides instructions
for the repair and adjustment of the resonant parts,
actions, and keyboard most oen encountered. e
book explains both upright and grand pianos in detail
and includes explanations of toning piano hammers
and purchasing and restoring older pianos.
Illustrated with line drawings and photographs
and including a glossary of terms, Pianos: Care and
Restoration is an accessible guide which will enable
anyone to improve the performance of their piano.
September 2024
229 × 152 mm |198 pages
| 23 Illustrations
PB | 9780718897833
£22.50 / $34.00 / 33.75
PDF | 9780718897857
£19.00 / $27.00 / 28.50
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£14.25 / $26.99 / 21.40
Eric Smith was a freelance writer whose interests included horology and pianos. Other
books by Smith published by e Lutterworth Press include Clocks and Clock Repairing
(2005), and Clocks: A Guide for Owners, (1993).
Pianos
Care and Restoration
Eric Smith
“Smith, who writes clearly if with
understandable caution, charts a bold course
through this unknwon territory. Every step is
spelt out, every tool accurately described.”
John Cox, in Southern Evening Echo
“Unlike many compilers of such works he writes with
economy and style, and demonstrates musical sensitivity
when discussing such matters as touch and tone production.”
Musical Times
HistoryHandbook and Guide
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January 2025
229 × 152 mm | ≈200 pages
PB | 9780718897963
£22.50 / $34 / 33.75
PDF | 9780718897987
£19.00 / $27.00 / 28.50
ePub | 9780718897970
£14.25 / $26.99 / 21.40
Tools of Control or
Seeds of Liberation?
Reformed Evangelism and Slavery in the
Ante-Bellum American South
Iain Whyte
Examining the history of slavery in the American
South, it is impossible to separate the interpretations
of Christianity from the arguments and counter-
arguments surrounding liberation. In Tools of Control
or Seeds of Liberation, Iain Whyte considers how
this intertwining of ideologies impacted enslaved
people and their relationship to religion. Tracing the
legacy of the reformed tradition from its enthusiasm
for ‘instruction for all’, to the weakening of views on
injustice by slave-holding Christians, Whyte explores
in detail the dilemmas, compromises, and self-
interest of many Reformed Christians. He considers
the essential incompatibility of faith in Jesus with the
support of slavery, and how the movement for abolition
in the mid-eighteenth century focussed Christians on
this question.
In the second half of his book, Whyte concentrates
on the voices of enslaved people, recording rst-hand
experiences of religion and its connection to slavery,
exploring how remarkable women such as Harriet
Tubman and Sojourner Truth liberated themselves,
and returning to Scotland with Frederick Douglass
to consider the Scottish protestant reaction. Whyte’s
detailed study considers the intertwining of religion
and slavery from every angle, and ultimately explores
how Christianity could provide the seeds of liberation.
Iain Whyte is the Former President of the Scottish Church History Society and Honorary
Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Edinburgh for his work in the history of slavery and
abolition. He is the author of three books and many articles on slavery and abolition
including the James Clarke & Co title: Send Back the Money! (2012).
HistoryHistory
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HistoryHistory
Deserted Medieval Villages
Edited by Maurice Beresford
and John G. Hurst
November 2024 - Hardback
May 2025 - Paperback
229 × 152 mm | 390 pages
78 Illustrations
HB | 9780718898120
£90.00 / $135.00 / 135.00
PB | 9780718897918
£35.00 / $53.00 / 52.50
PDF | 9780718897895
£31.50 / $42.00 / 47.25
ePub | 9780718897901
£23.65 / $41.99 / 35.50
Deserted Medieval Villages combines archaeological
and historical expertise to produce a comprehensive
and detailed analysis of the studies of deserted
medieval villages. Including an extensive historical
and archaeological review of the surge in mid-20th
century research, J.G. Hurst’s archaeological gazetteer
of 290 sites, and analysis of Scottish, Welsh, and Irish
sites, this book is an in-depth reference work.
Updating Beresford’s classic e Lost Medieval
Villages of England, this book refreshes his historical
research, considers the economic circumstances of
desertion, and includes detailed maps, photographs
and tables.
Professor M. W. Beresford (1920-2005) had an abiding interest in the evidence of maps for
reconstructing the appearance of the English countryside in the past, which led to several
reference publications. He was a Professor of Economic History in the University of Leeds,
and the rst Chairman of the School of Economic Studies.
J.G. Hurst (1927-2003) was the Inspector of Ancient Monuments for the Ministry of Public
Building and Works, a founding member of the Society for Medieval Archaeology and
President of the Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology.
“is handsome volume may be welcomed
asthe rst major publication of the Deserted
Me-dieval Village Research Group of which
thetwo principal authors were founder
membersin 1952.”
Colin Platt in e American Historical
Review, Vol. 78, No. 2, 1973
“is is a valuable and
important book.”
P.D.A. Harvey in History, Vol. 58,
No. 194, 1973
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e History of Morris
Dancing, 1458-1750
John Forrest
Morris dancing, one of the more peculiar of the English
folk customs, has been greatly misunderstood. In e
History of Morris Dancing, 1458-1750 John Forrest
analyses a wealth of evidence to show that Morris
dancing does not, as is oen assumed, have pagan or
ancient origins. He examines early documentation to
draw Morris traditions into the wide area of communal
custom and public celebrations, showing the passage
of dance ideas between groups previously considered
folklorically distinct.
Careful, detailed and encyclopaedic, e History of
Morris Dancing, 1458-1750, is an essential reference
work for specialists in English drama and social
historians of the period, as well as oering fascinating
insight for those who enjoy Morris dancing.
John Forrest is a Professor of Anthropology at State University of New York at Purchase,
and has co-authored previous research on Morris Dancing with Michael Heaney.
October 2024 - Hardback
May 2025 - Paperback
229 × 152 mm | 462 pages
| 7 Illustrations
HB | 9780718898137
£80.00 / $120.00 / 120.00
PB | 9780718897925
£30.00 / $45.00 / 45.00
PDF | 9780718897949
£26.50 / $36.00 / 39.75
ePub | 9780718897932
£19.90 / $35.99 / 28.85
“is is an enormously innovative and
exciting approach, which has the potential to
be very fruitful in inspiring future work - a
function which is perhaps not well understood
by the general public, but which scholars
understand to be one of the most important,
yet most rarely achieved, functions of any
piece of scholarship.”
Stephen D. Corrsin in Folklore
John Forrest has written a pioneer study nely
documented with good notes, apprendices,
bibliography and index. So replete this stands
as no mean publishing achievement and one
altogether worthy of commendation.
John Kent, Bristol, in e Expository Times
History
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HistoryHistory
e Girl’s Own Paper was rst published in January
1880, and by the end of the nineteenth century, it
was welcoming a quarter of a million readers to its
weekly pages of advice on the concerns of the age;
from playing hockey and keeping hens to curtseying
at court and balancing the budget. Its Melodramatic
serials and romances delighted readers from a future
Queen of England, through the daughters of country
houses and rectories, to housemaids in industrial
cities, and from six-year-olds to grandmothers!
A remarkable selection of extracts from e Girl’s
Own Paper 1880-1901, Great Grandmama’s Weekly
illuminates the Victorian Era through these lively
extracts and reveals how the concerns and experiences
of the readers of e Girl’s Own Paper continue to
resonate today, exploring self-improvement, better
pay, diet and cosmetics, cookery, cras, and music.
Wendy Forrester has curated a fascinating window
on the era, allowing readers to see through the eyes of
their great great grandmothers.
Great Grandmama’s Weekly
A Celebration of the Girl’s Own Paper
Wendy Forrester
February 2025
248 x 195mm | ≈200 pages
| 149 Illustrations
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e Girl’s Own Paper was published by the Religious Tract Society (which later became the
Lutterworth Press), from 1880 to 1956. Oering a combination of stories and educational
and improving articles, it was highly inuential for generations of young British women and
girls, and provided an outlet for many female writers.
As an aid to researchers, collectors and others interested in the literature of the period,
the Lutterworth Press now hosts e Girl’s Own Paper Index, a fully searchable index to the
articles and authors from 1880–1941 (Volumes 1–62).
More at www.lutterworth.com/gop/
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Andrew Macintosh is a Fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge. He was Dean of Chapel from
1979 until retirement in 2002. An ordained priest of the Church of England, he lectured on
Hebrew language and texts, and was secretary of the translation panel which produced e
Cambridge Liturgical Psalter.
John Emerton (1928-2015) was Emeritus Professor of Hebrew at the University of
Cambridge and Fellow of St John’s College. His scholarship focussed on Hebrew and the Old
Testament, on which he lectured and wrote extensively. He was chairman of the translation
panel.
David L. Frost was Professor of English at the University of Newcastle, Australia, and is
a former Fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge. He served for a time as a member of the
Church of England Liturgical Commission.
Contributors: Sebastian P. Brock, M.A. | e Rev. William Horbury, M.A., Ph.D |e Rev.
John F. McHugh, L.S.S., Ph.L, S.T.D. | e Rev. A. G. Macleod, M.A. | e Rev. Ernest W.
Nicholson, M.A, B.D. Ph.D | John G. Snaith, M.A., B.D.
e Cambridge Liturgical Psalter represents the best
modern understanding of what is in places a very
dicult Hebrew text. e revised edition of the book
includes a new introduction by Andrew Macintosh that
explains the process of translation, and the translated
Psalms are reproduced in their original clarity and
lyricism. Created by an expert panel of eight Hebrew
scholars, in collaboration with the literary scholar Dr
David Frost, this translation remains a faithful yet
readable rendering of the original Hebrew.
Remaining licensed for use in the Church of
England and authorised for churches world wide, this
translation has been used in six national prayer books,
as well as appearing in the Alternative Service Book
1980. e Cambridge Liturgical Psalter represents the
best modern understanding of a dicult Hebrew text,
suitable for public and private worship.
September 2024 – Paperback
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e Cambridge
Liturgical Psalter
Doctor Andrew Macintosh, David
Frost, and John A. Emerton
Religion
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It is in the reading of the book itself that
e Saints’ Everlasting Rest must secure its
own commendation. Yet we can do well to
recall the observations of two of Baxter’s
contemporaries. Dr William Bates armed:
‘His book of the Saints’ Everlasting Rest. . . has
the signature of his holy and vigorous mind’,
and Dr Edmund Calamy declared: ‘is is a
book for which multitudes will have cause to
Bless God for ever.’
From the Introductory essay
August 2024
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e Saints’ Everlasting Rest
Richard Baxter
is edition of e Saints’ Everlasting Rest brings the
classic Christian devotional, written by Richard Baxter
during a life-threatening illness, to the modern reader.
His meditations on eternity, heaven, and honouring
God have been an inspiration to Christians for
centuries, bringing comfort and perspective to those
following Christ. Combining Baxter’s unique voice
and timeless practical counsel, this book oers readers
an insight into the spirit and language of this prolic
biblical teacher.
Benjamin Fawcett’s abridgement was designed to be
accessible to the modern reader, and preserves Baxter’s
work so that his voice is illuminated, not impaired.
As Christians have been throughout the centuries,
readers will be comforted, challenged and inspired by
this classic work.
Richard Baxter (1615-1691) was a Puritan theologian, church leader, hymn-writer, and poet.
He ministered at Kidderminster, and was a prolic author and inuential controversialist,
called “the chief of English Protestant Schoolmen”.
Religion
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Religion
September 2024
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omas Merton and the
Individual Witness
Kingdom Making in a Post-Christian,
Post-Truth World
David E. Oberson
omas Merton proclaimed, over sixty years ago, that
we were living in a post-Christian world. Since then,
in an increasingly secular society where the inuence
of the institutional church is under doubt, omas
Merton’s reections are more salient than ever. David
Oberon’s discussion and analysis brings this mystic,
monk and spiritual leader’s view of the opportunities
presented to Christians by cultural changes to the
forefront, focussing on how the individual’s witness
can take precedence.
Oberon situates the reader in the current cultural
context, and handles Merton’s work with care and
clarity. He illuminates omas Merton’s unique view of
his own society, which credibly speaks to our present,
aiding Christians in navigating a post-Christian, post-
truth world.
David E. Orberson teaches theology at Bellarmine University, Louisville, and studied at
Saint Meinrad School of eology. He has authored multiple works on omas Merton.
“At a time of increasing political and religious polarisation, David Orberson
rightly points us to the witness of omas Merton, a contemplative monk and
writer whose voice is needed today. Orberson shows how Merton’s focus on
dialogue rooted in genuine encounter provides a convicting message of hope
that can steer us through our own tumultuous times.”
Gregory K. Hillis, author of Man of Dialogue:
omas Merton’s Catholic Vision
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March 2025
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Reckless Christianity
e Destructive New Teachings and
Practices of Bill Johnson, Bethel Church,
and the Global Movement of Apostles
and Prophets
Holly Pivec and R. Douglas Geivett
Bethel Church, California, is one of the most popular
and polarising churches in America. With its own
Christian music label, reports of miraculous healings,
and the manifestation of a glittering Glory cloud, the
congregation of Bethel Church is ever-growing. Bethel
Church situates itself in the global movement of the
New Apostolic Reformation, believing that present-day
apostles and prophets must govern the church. Some
praise the church for the clear manifestation of God’s
activity; others see the integration of controversial and
hazardous practices into the church.
In Reckless Christianity, Holly Pivec and R. Douglas
Geivett provide meticulous research and an incisive
critique of the Bethel movement. Citing its charismatic
senior leader, Bill Johnson, as promoting a “reckless”
Christianity, Pivec and Geivett return to Scripture, the
authoritative Word of God, to provide guidance on the
boundaries of practice and where these boundaries
are crossed. In its pursuit of experimentation, Reckless
Christianity argues that the leaders of Bethel are
pulling its followers into a dangerously speculative and
experience-driven Faith.
Holly Pivec is an independent researcher who writes on New Apostolic Reformation,
apologetics, and theology.
R. Douglas Geivett is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Biola University, California.
He specialises in the philosophy of religion, philosophical theology, epistemology and the
history of modern philosophy.
Reckless Christianity exposes the dangerous and heretical teachings and practices of
the Global Movement of Apostles and Prophets. I was struck by the parallels with
the so-called Toronto Blessing, or ‘Laughing Gospel,’ that was all the rage thirty years
ago. It seems every generation has to cook up something new that allegedly takes us
back to the miracles and prophecies of the rst-generation church. Pivec and Geivett
rightly warn their readers to steer clear of this new heresy.
Craig A. Evans, author of From Jesus to the Church
Religion
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Backlist Spotlight
e Angel Roofs of
East Anglia
Unseen Masterpieces of the Middle Ages
Michael Rimmer
It has been estimated that over 90 per cent of England’s
gurative medieval art was obliterated in the image
destruction of the Reformation. Medieval angel
roofs, timber structures with spectacular and ornate
carvings of angels, with a peculiar preponderance in
East Anglia, were simply too dicult for Reformation
iconoclasts to reach. Angel roof carvings comprise
the largest surviving body of major English medieval
wood sculpture. ough they are both masterpieces
of sculpture and engineering, angel roofs have been
almost completely neglected by academics and art
historians, because they are inaccessible, xed and
challenging to photograph.
e Angel Roofs of East Anglia is the rst detailed
historical and photographic study of the region’s
many medieval angel roofs. It shows the artistry and
architecture of these inaccessible and little-studied
medieval artworks in more detail and clarity than ever
before, and explains how they were made, by whom,
and why.
Michael Rimmer redresses the scholarly neglect and
brings the beauty, crasmanship and history of these
astonishing medieval creations to the reader. e book
also oers a fascinating new answer to the question
of why angel roofs are so overwhelmingly an East
Anglian phenomenon, but relatively rare elsewhere in
the country.
Shortlisted for the East Anglian Book Awards 2016.
Michael Rimmer studied Classics at Oxford University before becoming an investment
manager and photographer. In 2010 he set out to create the rst comprehensive photographic
record of every angel roof in East Anglia. He lives in Norfolk and lectures regularly on
angel roofs.
March 2024
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Stories in Glass
A Guide to Medieval Stained Glass in
Norfolk
David King and Paul Harley
March 2024
254 × 178 mm | 162pp
| 224 Colour Illustrations
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Norfolk’s churches are home to some of the highest-
quality and best-preserved medieval stained glass in
Britain. Panels produced in the county’s extensive and
long-lasting workshops, centred in the historically
important city of Norwich, can be found in some 270
buildings, including churches, museums and country
houses. Moreover, recent research has revealed for the
rst time the original location of many of the panels
now dispersed around the county.
In Stories in Glass, Paul Harley and David King
reveal these treasures to a new audience. Harley’s
exquisite photographs are set alongside historical
and artistic explanations that illuminate the social,
economic and religious background to the windows
we see today. With 200 colour images, and maps
showing the locations of the windows discussed, this
beautifully illustrated guide will appeal to the explorer
and collector alike.
David King was born into a family of glaziers and took up his own interest in stained glass in
1970. He writes regularly on painted window glass, and is the author of The Medieval Stained
Glass of St Peter Mancro (2006), and forthcoming CVMA Summary Catalogue for Norfolk.
He has previously been a senior research fellow at the University of East Anglia.
Paul Harley is a photographer with over 35 years’ experience. Past exhibition subjects have
ranged from human rights abuses in South and Central America to medieval churches. His
rst book, From Bears to Bishops: Norfolk’s Medieval Church Carvings, was published in
2018, and shortlisted for the East Anglian Book Awards.
Stories in Glass: A Guide to Medieval Stained
Glass in Norfolk is a comprehensive survey
of Norfolk’s unmatched medieval glass,
highlighting 60 of the best places to nd it and
illustrated with 200 colour photographs.
Rowan Mantell, in Great British Life
Magazine
Cambridge
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