Recommended Book List for British Studies

The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary Simon Winchester The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making Simon Winchester of the Oxford English Dictionary The Book of William: How Shakespeare's First Folio Conquered the World Paul Collins The Museum: Behind the Scenes at the British Museum Rupert Smith The British Library Guide to Manuscript Illumination Christopher De Hamel Roman Britain: A New History Guy de la Bedoyere The Lindisfarne Gospels: Society, Spirituality, and the Scribe Michelle P. Brown The Book of William: How Shakespeare's First Folio Conquered the World Paul Collins The Illustrated Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the William J. H. Andrewes, Dava Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time Sobel The Map That Changed the World Simon Winchester The Secret Lives of Codebreakers: The Men and Women Who Cracked the Sinclair McKay Enigma Code at Bletchley Park England, the Autobiography: 2,000 Years of English History by Those Who John Lewis-Stempel Saw it Happen Great Tales from English History: The Truth About King Arthur, Lady Godiva, Robert Lacey Richard the Lionheart, and More Great Tales from English History (Book 2): Joan of Arc, the Princes in the Robert Lacey Tower, Bloody Mary, Oliver Cromwell, Sir Isaac Newton, and More By Permission of Heaven: The True Story of the Great Fire of London Adrian Tinniswood Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval London: (Timetraveller's Guide) Christine Kidney The Time-Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to Ian Mortimer the Fourteenth Century The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England Ian Mortimer England: The Autobiography: 2,000 Years of English History by Those Who John Lewis-Stempel Saw it Happen Literary Trails: British Writers in Their Landscapes Christina Hardyment The Seven Lives of John Murray The Story of a Publishing Dynasty 1768-2002 Humphrey Carpenter For all the Tea in China: How England Stole the World's Favorite Drink and Sarah Rose Changed History Jane Austen's England Roy Adkins Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone Martin Dugard

The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon David Grann The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Steven Johnson Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern W… Ghosts of Everest: The Search for Mallory & Irvine Jochen Hemmleb Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and Wade Davis

Recommended Movies and Videos Related to the Sites in the U.K. St. Paul's Cathedral Library - www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSwOnBKVPSQ British Library - www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1-0d_k7DEI&t=6s British Museum - www.youtube.com/watch?v=2b6jTRggT2Y&t=11s Victoria & Albert Museum (National Art Library) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUBH1MN_kEI (Blythe House) Miss Potter (2006 movie) - www.imdb.com/title/tt0482546/ Greenwich Royal Maritime Museum Caird Library & Archive - www.youtube.com/watch?v=20XGfQgYzMU Kings College Maughan Library & Special Collections - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwoVZ7406ZM (Bletchley Park) Imitation Game (2014) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2084970/ Royal Geographical Society contains many documents and archival objects... each one is a great adventure story....

• Percy Fawcett (Lost City of Z book and movie) - www.imdb.com/title/tt1212428/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 • (The Epic of Everest 1924 movie) www.imdb.com/title/tt0219671/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1a and National Geographic documentary about George Mallory https://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/movies/00000144- 0a36-d3cb-a96c-7b3f684d0000 • Dr. David Livingstone & Stanley - www.youtube.com/watch?v=noIZrttW7E0