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A new edition of NOTES ON HENRY VIII is now available!

The NOTES SERIES is aimed at TEACHERS of A LEVEL HISTORY.

Each set is mounted in a presentation file and there is a separate set for photocopying.

The Notes are user-friendly : formatted to make them easy to follow.

The length is on average 50 pages of A4 some are longer

This Series is currently being developed in RESPONSE to requests from teachers.

A list of the contents of each is available on request.

PLEASE let us know YOUR requirements!

MEDIEVAL (ALL £28)

1	Outline of English History to 1272 *	ISBN 978 1 85944 276 0
2	Outline of English History 1272-1485 *	ISBN 978 1 85944 281 4
3	Charlemagne *	ISBN 978 1 85944 110 7
4	King John and Magna Carta	ISBN 978 1 85944 125 1
5	The Norman Conquest and its Impact	ISBN 978 1 85944 109 1
6	The Angevin Empire 1154-1215	ISBN 978 1 85944 097 1
7	The Crusades	ISBN 978 1 85944 140 4
8	Henry V, Henry VI and the Hundred Years War	ISBN 978 1 85944 098 8
9	The Wars of the Roses	ISBN 978 1 85944 212 8

Early Modern England 16th -17th centuries

10	England in the Sixteenth Century	ISBN 978 1 85944 286 9
11	Tudor Revolts and Rebellions	ISBN 978 1 85944 251 7
12	Tudor Foreign Policy	ISBN 978 1 85944 118 3
13	Elizabeth I	ISBN 978 1 85944 016 2
14	Sixteenth Century Martyrs of the English Reformation	ISBN 978 1 85944 246 3
15	Anne Boleyn	ISBN 978 1 85944 116 9
16	Mary Tudor	ISBN 978 1 85944 161 9
17	The Seventeenth Century	ISBN 978 1 85944 286 2
18	James I	ISBN 978 1 85944 013-1
19	Oliver Cromwell & the English Civil War	ISBN 978 1 85944 227 2
20	Restoration of Charles II to William and Mary	ISBN 978 1 85944 014 8

Early Modern Europe

21	Henry IV of France	ISBN 978 1 85944 133 6
22	The Thirty Years War in Europe*	ISBN 978 1 85944 017 9
23	Philip II of Spain	ISBN 978 1 85944 121 3
24	Luther and the Reformation 1517-1555	ISBN 978 1 85944 064 3
25	The Catholic Reformation and the Counter-Reformation	ISBN 978 1 85944 065 0
26	The Revolt of the Netherlands	ISBN 978 1 85944 222 7

Great Britain and Europe: 19th -20th century

27	Robespierre &The French Revolution *	ISBN 978 1 85944 164 0
28	Napoleon *	ISBN 978 1 85944 151 0
29	European Diplomacy in the nineteenth century	ISBN 978 1 85944 145 9
30	Nineteenth Century France 1815-1871	ISBN 978 1 85944 144 2
31	Germany 1848-1890	ISBN 978 1 85944 066 7
32	Unification of Italy 1815-1870*	ISBN 978 1 85944 244 9
33	The Eastern Question 1800 -1856*	ISBN 978 1 85944 242 5
34	The Eastern Question 1856-1918*	ISBN 978 1 85955 243 2
35	Tsarist Russia 1861-1917 *	ISBN 978 1 85944 239 5
36	The Age of Lloyd George*	ISBN 978 1 85944 231 9

The United States of America

37	Plymouth Rock- The Constitution—18 41*	ISBN 978 1 85944 232 6
38	Slavery , Civil Rights and the American Civil War*	ISBN 978 1 85944 234 0
39	Reconstruction to the Spanish American War and World Stage*	ISBN 978 1 85944 238-8
40	Modern China*	ISBN 978 1 85944 229 6

Also – omitted from the previous mailing list

41	Notes on Henry VIII	ISBN 978 1 85944 100 8
42	Notes on Tudor Sources	ISBN 978 1 85944 241 8

New

43	Britain and Appeasement 1919-1940	ISBN 978 1 85944 031 5
44	Louis XIV 1661-1715	ISBN 978 1 85944 123 7
45	The Church in England 1529-1541	ISBN 978 1 85944 131 2

Forthcoming

46

Britain: 1815-1865

ISBN 978 1 85944 198 5

Some of these (marked *) are in progress as of April 2nd 2009. ALL will be available for September 1st 2009

NOTES FOR TEACHERS OF ENGLISH

Following the success of fast-developing Notes Series for Teachers of History, The Davenant Press is now launching Notes Series for Teachers of English Literature.

The Notes are put in a presentation file and have a second copy for photocopying. They are set out in a user-friendly format. Each costs £28

The first four titles are listed here with their number in the Series:-

46. Notes on Victorian Poetry                           ISBN 978 1 85944 262 3               £28

Historical Introduction. Poets include: – Matthew Arnold, Emily Bronte, Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barratt Browning, Emily Bronte, Arthur Clough, Edward Fitzgerald, Ford Maddox Ford, W S Gilbert, Gerard Manley Hopking A.E. Housman, Rudyard Kipling, Edward Lear, George Meredith, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Christina Rossetti, Tennyson

47. Notes on Victorian Novels                          ISBN 978 1 85944 265 4                £28

Historical Introduction: Writers include – R.D Blackmore, The Brontes, Wilkie Collins, Charles Dodgson, Arthur Conan Doyle, Charles Dickens, Benjamin Disraeli, George Eliot, Mrs Gaskell, Thomas Hardy, Bulwer Lytton, George Meredith, Charles Kingsley, Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Trollope Thackeray

48. Notes on Victorian Prose                            ISBN 978 1 85944 264 7               £28

Historical Introduction: Writers include – Matthew Arnold, Samuel Butler, Thomas Carlyle, Charles Darwin, A W Kinglake, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Harriet Martineau, William Morris, John Henry Newman, Walter Pater, John Ruskin, Oscar Wilde

49. Notes on Victorian Drama                          ISBN 978 1 85944 263 0               £28

Historical Introduction: Dramatists include: James Alberry, D. Boucicault, Edward Bulwer Lytton W S Gilbert, Douglas Jerrold Henry Jones, Sir A W Pinero, Tom Robertson, George Bernard Shaw, Tom Taylor, Oscar Wilde

Forthcoming: January 2010

50. Notes on the Gothic Novel                             ISBN 978 1 85944 157 2

51. Notes on Christopher Marlowe                      ISBN 978 1 85944 171 8

52. Notes on John Milton                                    ISBN 978 1 85944 182 4

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