Major Works

When originally published in 1901, this volume related for the first time the History of Egypt in the Middle Ages, from its conquest by the Saracens in 640 to its annexation by the Ottoman Turks in 1517 in a continuous narrative apart from the general history of the Muslim caliphate...

A History of the Working Men's College..

Originally published in 1926, this volume presents John Bridges’ life and character against the social and political background of the nineteenth century as well as examining his legacy for current generations...

Originally published in 1973, this book describes the medieval origins of the British education system, and the transformations successive historical events – such as the Reformation, the Civil War and the Industrial Revolution – have wrought on it...

Originally published in 1964, this volume gathers together extracts from many of Arberry’s best-known works and supplements them with a selection of previously unpublished translations...

Originally published in 1964, this volume gathers together extracts from many of Arberry’s best-known works and supplements them with a selection of previously unpublished translations...

This volume examines the social, cultural, religious and economic aspects of the period following Mohammed's death and includes chapters on: _x005F_x000D_ Government Service; Churches and Monasteries; Christian Arabs, Jews and Magians; Dress; Financial Persecution, Medicine and Literature and Taxati..

This volume examines the social, cultural, religious and economic aspects of the period following Mohammed's death and includes chapters on: _x000D_ Government Service; Churches and Monasteries; Christian Arabs, Jews and Magians; Dress; Financial Persecution, Medicine and Literature and Taxation...

Originally published 1971, this volume unravels the complicated history of the religious question in British education...

This second edition is easy to use and completely up to date. Written by experienced teachers, the course offers a step-by-step approach to written and spoken Portuguese. No prior knowledge of the language is required...

The authors make use of first-hand evidence of Dickens’ actual methods and conditions of work; much of this evidence is examined and co-ordinated here for the first time. The volume illustrates what modes of planning Dickens evolved as best suited to his genius and to the demands of serial publicati..

What did Dickens mean to Dostoevsky, and what did the Russian writer owe to England’s greatest entertainer? Many of Dickens’ readers, including George Gissing and Edmund Wilson, have recognized that his achievement needs to be compared with Dostoevsky’s, and they have suspected, or assumed an influe..