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Jan Morris
Jan Morris (1926-2020)

historian, journalist

  • University of Oxford, Christ Church Cathedral School

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Manhattan '45
Conundrum
Hong Kong
Heaven's Command
India
Destinations
Writer's world
The Venetian Empire
Jamming
The upstairs donkey, and other stolen stories
Fifty years of Europe
Farewell the Trumpets
Journeys
The world of Venice
Wales
Locations
Sydney
Last letters from Hav
Ireland
Fisher's Face
The preachers
Among the cities
Pleasures of a tangled life
Islam inflamed
Spain
Sultan in Oman
The presence of Spain
The Matter of Wales
Scotland
Lincoln, a foreigner's quest
Oxford
Trieste and the meaning of nowhere
Lincoln
Over Europe
The spectacle of empire
The matter of Wales
A writer's house in Wales
Architecture of the British Empire
The Oxford book of Oxford
Coronation Everest
Pleasures/tangled Life
The great port
South African winter
Destinations
Battleship Yamato
Stones of Empire
A Venetian bestiary
As I saw the U.S.A
Our first leader
A Machynlleth triad
Ireland Your Only Place
Among the Cities
Places
Hav
The Oxford Book of Oxford
O Canada
Contact!
The road to Huddersfield
Cities
Hav
Architecture of the British Empire
Building Hong Kong
Conundrum
The princeship of Wales
Favorite Places
The Oxford book of Oxford
Xianggang 1840-1997
Farewell the Trumpets (Pax Britannica)
City to city
Ciao, Carpaccio!
In Search of England
Fisher's face, or, Getting to know the admiral
City to city
Hong Kong
Farewell The Trumpets Part 1 Of 2
The Oxford book of Oxford
Over Europe
Stones of Empire
Hong Kong
South Wind Capuchin Classics
L'énigme
The World Bank
Wales from the Air
Pax Britannica Climax of an Empire (Pax Britannica)
Hong Kong Xianggang Epilogue To An Empire
Heaven's Command (Pax Britannica)
A Machynlleth Triad
From the four corners
Venetian Empire a Sea Voyage
Scenes from Havian life
Travels
Portmeirion
Images of Egypt R
Wales
Visa pour Venise
The Hashemite kings
LA Casa De Una Escritora En Gales (Latitudes)
Contact!
L' Enigme
Contact!
The market of Seleukia
Scotland the Place of Visions
Au Dessus De Europe
Intimate Leaves from a Designer's Notebook
Over Europe
Farewell The Trumpets Part 2 Of 2
Contact!
Over Europe Spectacular Photographs of T
Riding the skies
Riding the Skies
The outriders
Fred T. Jane
Fred T. Jane (1865-1916)

journalist, historian, illustrator, politician

  • Exeter School

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The final war
Jane's Fighting Ships
The Frankenstein Omnibus
Jane's All the Worlds Aircraft
Heresies of sea power
Jane's Fighting Ships
Your navy as a fighting machine
Blake of the "Rattlesnake": Or, The Man who Saved England : a Story of ..
The British battle fleet
Blake of the "Rattlesnake", or, The man who saved England
How to play the "Naval War Game"
Jane's Fighting Ships 1905/6 (A Reprint of the 1906/6 Edition of Fighting Ships)
The violet flame
Jane's fighting ships, 1966-67
BRITISH BATTLE-FLEET
The Imperial Japanese Navy (Conway's Naval History After 1850)
The Imperial Japanese Navy
Imperial Russian navy
Jane's fighting ships 1914
Warships at a Glance
Your navy as a fighting machine
Jane's historical aircraft, 1902-1916
The Imperial Russian Navy (Conway's Naval History After 1850)
Heresies of Sea Power
The world's warships 1915
Silhouettes of British fighting ships
JANE'S FIGHTING SHIPS 1906/7
The Imperial Japanese Navy
Jane's encyclopedia of aviation
Blake of the Rattlesnake
Jane's fighting ships, 1905/6
Janes All the Worlds Airships, 1909
All the World's Fighting Ships
Heresies of Sea Power
Jane's fighting ships, 1906/7
The torpedo in peace and war
Jane's All the World's Aircraft
Jane's fighting ships
Jane's all the world's fighting ships
Jane's major companies of Europe
Blake of the "Rattlesnake"
Jane's pocket aeronautical dictionary
Jane's all the world's aircraft
Fighting ships
Jane's fighting ships
All the World's Aircraft 1974-75 (Jane's Yearbooks)
All the world's fighting ships
Jane's surface skimmers
Jane's historical aircraft, 1902-1916
Jane's fighting aircraft of World War II
Carolyn Ives Gilman
Carolyn Ives Gilman (born 1954)

historian

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Year's Best SF 14
Dark Orbit
Halfway Human
The Ice Owl Hugo Nebula Nominated Novella
ArkfallNebula Nominated Novella
Exile's End
Arkfall - Nebula Nominee 2009
Lewis and Clark
Where two worlds meet
The Grand Portage story
The way to independence
The Long List Anthology Volume 5
Ison of the Isles
Clarkesworld Issue 137
Galaxy's Edge Magazine
The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 4
Clarkesworld Issue 115
Isles of the forsaken
The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 9
Isles of the Forsaken
Aliens of the Heart (Conversation Pieces) (Volume 19)
Aliens of the Heart (Conversation Pieces Book 19)
Ison of the Isles
Candle in a Bottle
Halfway Human
Meelis Friedenthal
Meelis Friedenthal (born 1973)

theologian, historian

  • University of Tartu, Miina Härma Gymnasium

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Kuldne aeg
The willow king
Mesilased
Early Modern Disputations and Dissertations in an Interdisciplinary and European Context
Inglite keel
Tallinna Linnaarhiivi
Kõik äratatakse ellu
François Bordes
François Bordes (1919-1981)

anthropologist, archaeologist, prehistorian, geologist

  • University of Paris

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Francis Godwin
Francis Godwin (1562-1633)

historian, Anglican priest

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The Man in the Moon
The Man in the Moon
The Man in the Moone
The Man in the Moon
The man in the moon
De praesulibus Angliae commentarius
A catalogue of the bishops of England
The man in the moone, or, A discourse of a voyage thither
To the parson, vicar or curate, of [blank] and to everie of them
The man in the moone and Nuncius inanimatus
A catalogue of the bishops of England, since the first planting of Christian religion in this island
Concio habita in domo Capitulari Ecclesiæ Cathed. S. Petri Exon. Aug. 18. 1599
The Man in the Moon
Francisci Godwini, primo Landavensis dein Herefordensis Episcopi, De praesulibus Angliae commentarius
Rerum Anglicarum Henrico VIII, Edwardo VI, et Maria, regnantibus annales
The Man in the Moon or a Discourse of a Voyage Thither by D. Gonsales (English Exp Ser.; No. 459)
A catalogve of the Bishops of England, since the first planting of Christian religion in this island, together with a briefe history of their liues and memorable actions, so neere as can be gathered out of antiquity. Wherevnto is prefixed a discourse concerning the first conuersion of our Britaine vnto Christian religion
Annals of England
The strange voyage and adventures of Domingo Gonsales
Annales of England
The character of Thomas Merkes, Bishop of Carlisle
Nuncius inanimatus
A catalogve of the bishops of England
A Catalogve of the Bishops of England, since the first planting of Christian religion in this island
Rervm anglicarvm Henrico VIII., Edvvardo VI., et Maria regnantibus, annales
The succession of the bishops of England since the first planting of Christian religion in this island
De praesvlibvs Angliae commentarius
Rervm Anglicarvm Henrico VIII
A Catalogve of the Bishops of England, since the first planting of Christian Religion in this Island, Together with a brief History of their liues and memorable actions, so neere as can be gathered out of antiquity. Wherevnto Is prefixed a discourse concerning the first conuersion of our Britaine vnto Chri- stian Religion
The man in the moone
L'homme dans la lune, ou, Le voyage chimerique fait au monde de la lune
Rerum Anglicarum Henrico VIII Edvvardo VI. et Maria regnantibus, annales
Annales of England
A Catalogve of the Bishops of England, since the first planting of Christian religion in this Island, together with a briefe History of their liues and memorable actions, so neere as can be gathered out of antiquity
A catalogue of the bishops of England, since the first planting of Christian religion in this island, together with a briefe history of their lives and memorable actions, so neere as can be gathered out of antiquity
The strange voyage and adventures of Domingo Gonsales, to the world in the moon ...
John Joseph Miller
John Joseph Miller (1954-2022)

role-playing game designer, historian

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Joan Llarch i Roig
Joan Llarch i Roig (1920-1987)

historian

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