Voyage pittoresque des isles de Sicile, de Malte et de Lipari

This chapter provides a detailed examination of Abdullah Quilliam’s role as the first – and only – "Shaykh-ul-Islam of the British Isles." The title of Shaykh-ul-Islam was conferre...

Abstract This volume explores the transformation of the British Isles in the sixteenth century. England was an effectively governed monarchy, but its authority was n...

An absorbing celebration of the ecology, biology and cultural history of the rich hedgerow heritage in the British Isles. Much of the UK is intensively farmed, and in suc...