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A century before Britain became involved in this terrible business, whole villages and towns in European countries were being depopulated by slavers, who transported the men, women, and children to Africa, where they were sold. This is the forgotten slave trade, one which saw over a million Christians forced into captivity in the Muslim world. Starting in the ancient world, Simon Webb traces the history of slavery in Europe, showing that the numbers involved were vast and that the victims were often treated far more cruelly than black slaves in America and the Caribbean.

Chaucer’s Legend of Good Women re-tells the stories of some of the most fascinating women in history and mythology, including Cleopatra, Medea and Dido, Queen of Carthage. This edition includes Simon Webb’s highly accessible prose translation, and an introduction which examines how this neglected work has been rediscovered as a key text for understanding the medieval view of women.

'The Queen of the South was Makeda, the Queen of Ethiopia. She was very lovely to look at, and her intelligence and understanding were also beautiful: God had given her these gifts.' Revered as a holy book by Rastafarians and the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, the Kebra Nagast is a medieval African supplement to the Bible. At its heart is the story of how King Solomon seduced the Queen of Sheba and helped found the dynasty that ruled Ethiopia for nearly three thousand years. Simon Webb's modern English re-telling of the essential Kebra Nagast is vivid, highly accessible and faithful to the ...

The tale of the 'Famous Lambton Worm' is the best-known of the many monster stories of the North of England. Simon Webb's book re-tells the story, speculates on its origins, and compares John Lambton's Worm to other local dragons such as the Sockburn Worm and the Laidley Worm of Spindlestone Heugh. Illustrated: includes the complete text of the Lambton Worm song. For the paperback version, please search Amazon for ISBN 978-0-9569259-0-9.

A highly accessible biography of Elias Hicks, a nineteenth-century Quaker from Long Island who campaigned against slavery and was at the centre of some painful political developments among American Quakers. Revised and corrected edition.

A humble tailor and apple-grower from New Jersey, John Woolman became one of the leading voices against the transatlantic slave trade in the eighteenth century. Simon Webb's highly accessible new biography takes a fresh look at the life of this inspirational figure.

Though he features in the first of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books, Nicholas Flamel was a real person who lived in medieval Paris. Simon Webb's new book attempts to reconstruct his life, and also looks into the legends that have attached to his name over the centuries. Was he an alchemist, could he make gold from mercury, and are Nicholas and his wife Perenelle still alive after over six hundred years? Published by the Langley Press.

In 2013 the bones of as many as twenty-nine young men and boys were discovered under a disused courtyard in Durham City. A team of experts later determined that these were the remains of some of the hundreds of Scottish prisoners of war who died in Durham Cathedral over three hundred and sixty years ago. Simon Webb's highly accessible new book offers an up-to-date account of the Dunbar Martyrs - so called because they were taken prisoner after the Battle of Dunbar in 1650. The book also follows the later history of some of the survivors, who were dispatched from Durham to new lives in the ...

The father of Marxism spent roughly half his life in the English capital. Simon Webb’s new book takes a fresh look at where and how he lived, who he knew and the effect the Victorian city had on himself and his family.

The song ‘Joe Hill’, as sung by Joan Baez, Paul Robeson and many more, has become a rallying-call for left-wingers all over the world. Simon Webb’s new book takes a look at the man who inspired the song, an American union activist and ‘true-blue rebel’ who was killed by a firing-squad in Utah in 1915.

Historian, saint, scientist, monk and biblical scholar, the Venerable Bede was one of the most remarkable figures to come out of the Anglo-Saxon period in Britain. Simon Webb's book gives an introduction to the life of this extraordinary man: an eighth-century Northumbrian whose works are still read throughout the world. Illustrated. For the paperback version of this book, please search Amazon for ISBN 978-0-9564551-2-3

Throughout history people of short stature have distinguished themselves in a surprising variety of fields. Simon Webb’s new book focuses on the lives of four remarkable men with restricted growth: the painter Toulouse-Lautrec, the poet Alexander Pope, the anti-slavery pioneer Benjamin Lay and the fake Polish count, Joseph Boruwlaski. The book also touches on the lives of the courtier Jeffery Hudson, the jazz men Chick Webb and Michel Petrucciani, the actor Peter Dinklage, the music-hall performer Little Tich, the Ovitz family (known as the dwarfs of Auschwitz) and the disability ...

The Letter to the Governor of Barbados, written by ‘George Fox and others’ in 1671, continues to be a controversial document among Quakers. In this book, Simon Webb presents a complete version of the Letter, together with a detailed assessment of both the the Letter and Fox’s journey to Barbados. ‘The title makes the book sound like an Enid Blyton book, the latest of George’s adventures around the world. Such a series would be a fine idea if it is written in the same vivid way as this little book by Simon Webb’ Claire Marie White in The Friend For the print edition of this book,...

Courtier, scholar, politician and, finally, monk, Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator was a sixth-century Roman who tried to keep the ideal of civilization alive at a time when the empire he served was in its death-throes. Simon Webb’s book is the first new stand-alone biography of this fascinating figure to be published for over forty years.

Friedrich Engels spent more than twenty years in Salford and Manchester, learning the cotton trade and becoming a mill-owner in his own right. Meanwhile he was the co-author of The Communist Manifesto, and funded the life and work of fellow-German Karl Marx. Posing as a respectable Victorian bachelor, Engels also lived a second life with his working-class girlfriend, Mary Burns. Simon Webb’s book brings the story of Engels in ‘Cottonopolis’ up to date by examining new developments, and exploring the relevance of the paradoxical Prussian for the twenty-first century.

Simon Webb’s biography of Wulfstan (or Wulstan), shows, among other things, how this remarkable saint fought slavery, performed miracles and remained as bishop of Worcester despite the sweeping changes that followed the Norman Conquest.

Join Oco as he uses his wit and his magic to locate his mischievous older brother. Will he find Ogun before he causes mayhem and havoc wherever he goes? Find out in A Spirits Tale: The Journey Begins.

The Quakers were just one of the new religious groups that emerged during the turbulent seventeenth century in England. Patricia Brown and Simon Webb's new book looks at these groups from the female point of view, and compares the lives of early Quaker women with those of women from other sects. Illustrated. For the paperback version of this book, search Amazon for ISBN: 9780956925916.

For centuries fugitives could find shelter in the precincts of Durham Cathedral. Simon Webb’s new book tells the story of sanctuary at Durham, in the days when even killers might find protection in St Cuthbert’s church.

A happily married woman promises to sleep with another man, if he can perform a miracle, which he manages with the help of a magician. What can she do? What will her husband say? Will their marriage survive? The Franklin’s Tale is one of the most intriguing and entertaining of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. Simon Webb’s new verse translation is printed with an informative introduction and explanatory notes.