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With Bewick on my knee, I was then happy...' Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte's heroine was not alone in her enjoyment of Thomas Bewick's British Birds - since its fi

In this superb biography, Uglow tells the story of the farmers son who influenced book illustration for a century to come. It is a story of violent change, radi

A new, improved and thoroughly updated edition of the bestselling photographic guide—the only one to cover every bird, in every plumage, ever recorded in Brit

An integration of ornithological and archaeological evidence on the history, composition and balance of the bird fauna of the British Isles. It provides essenti

During the nineteenth century, Britain maintained a complex network of garrisons to manage its global empire. While these bases helped the British project power