Dark and Middle Ages (500-1500)
Uppity Women of Medieval Times — Vicki Leon
The Time Traveller’s Guide to Medieval England — Ian Mortimer
Brother Cadfael’s Herb Garden — Rob Talbot & Robin Whiteman
Hildegard of Bingen’s Medicine — Dr. Wighard Strehlow & Gottfried Hertzka, M.D.
Hildegard’s Healing Plants from her medieval classic PHYSICA — translated by Bruce W. Hozeski
The Knight in History — Frances Gies
The Writer’s Guide to Everyday Life in the Middle Ages — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Medieval Women — Eileen Power
Castles and Castle Towns of Great Britain — David Mountfield
Castles – Their Construction and History — Sidney Toy
1066 The Year of the Conquest — David Howarth
The War of the Roses — John Gillingham
History of British Costume — James Robinson Planché
Medieval Costume in England and France (The 13th, 14th, and 15th Centuries) — Mary G Houston
Medieval Costume and Fashion — Herbert Norris
A History of Costume — Carl Köhler
Dress in the Middle Ages — Françoise Piponnier & Perrine Mane
(Yes, I know it seems and inordinate amount of books on costume, but as with fashion in any age, there are overlaps and disagreements. Numerous references allow for a concensus when the sources do not agree—and when it comes to how people dressed at any given point in history, that’s too often.)
Fast and Feast, Food in Medieval Society — Bridget Ann Henisch
Food and Feast in Medieval England — Peter Hammond
Plantagenet England 1225-1360 — Michael Prestwich
Elizabethan Era
The Virgin Queen, Elizabeth 1 Genius of the Golden Age –Christopher Hibbet
Georgian Era
The Writer’s Digest Guide to Everyday Life in the 1800s — Marc McCutcheon
Town and City Maps of the British Isles 1800-1855 — Ashley Baynton-Williams
Regency Era
The Regency Companion — Sharon Laudermilk
What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew — Daniel Pool
Victorian Era
Victorian Fashions & Costumes from Harper’s Bazar 1867-1898 — Stella Blum
General Interest
The Timechart History of the World (6000 years of World History Unfolded) — Barnes & Noble
The Writer’s Digest Character Naming Sourcebook — Sherrilyn Kenyon with Hal Blythe & Charlie Sweet
Names through the Ages — Teresa Norman
The International Book of Quotations — Compiled by Rhoda Thomas Tripp
The Elements of Style — William Strunk, Jr and E. B. White
dictionarly of problem words & expressions — Harry Shaw
Errors in English — Harry Shaw
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