TannerRitchie's Holiday and New Year Sale 2011!

 All downloads are $10 or less.
CD-ROMs 50% off.
Discounts on Short-Term Access to MEMSO!

It's that time of year again for TannerRitchie's biggest and most popular sale.

Nothing says Christmas
like a collection of monastic charters
(mead sold separately)

Forget Black Friday and Cyber Monday, at TannerRitchie we give you more than a day to take advantage of the huge savings on every book in our catalogue. Downloads are $10 CAD or less, and CD-ROMs are half price.

Alternatively, take advantage of our sale on Short-Term Subscriptions to MEMSO, and access our entire collection of books and manuscripts in our powerful online database.

Research has never been so easy with MEMSO's powerful search engine.  Conduct limitless searches and work with as many books and manuscripts as you want .... at the same time. You even get ebooks to keep*  So go on.  Try MEMSO for an hour, a couple of days, or longer.

Highlights of 2011

We've added hundreds of new titles and will be adding more during the sale - so be sure to visit tannerritchie.com regularly.

During 2011 we've added books to our most popular series, and also published fantastic collections of under-appreciated and underused sources.


Scottish and Genealogy

Scottish and genealogical titles are a perennial favourite at TannerRitchie. This year we added some important new series, such as Hew Scott's Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae (the biographies of the ministers of the Scottish Church since the Reformation in 1560 to 1900, in English), and built on existing ones, such as William Fraser's Scottish family histories which cover the medieval period to the 19th century, and include those of Colquhoun, Grant, Elphinstone and Wemyss amongst others.

A wide variety of interesting documents and family papers were also published by the Abbotsford and Bannatyne Clubs.  So if you are interested in these, or Mary Queen of Scots, James VI and the Jacobites, be sure to take a look in our History Club Section. Many of these titles are hidden gems, such as Catalogues of Jewels, Dresses, Furniture, Books and Paintings of Mary Queen of Scots (Bannatyne). As always with TannerRitchie, there was a great deal of new and illuminating content for anybody interested in the reign of Mary Queen of Scots or the Jacobites.

Letters and Correspondence

If you're looking for colourful correspondence, few collections are better than Calendar of the Manuscripts of the Marquis of Bath (Historical Manuscripts Commission).  They are a mainstay for our tweets on Twitter, most notably because they include a high proportion of gossipy and personal correspondence for the period 1515-1795, including noteable writers of England's literary Golden Age such as Swift and Pope. The Original Letters of Prominent Literary Men from the Camden Society, provides great reading for the same reason.

Letters and papers from royals (Elizabeth, James VI and I and Charles I) and prominent political men and families also featured prominently this year. 

Savile, Plumpton, Trevelyan, Melros, Egerton, Dudley, and Verney are but a few collections we've added.



Medieval Britain and the Church

The Toronto Maple Leafs workout, circa 1500.
Shortly after they won the Stanley Cup.

The twin subjects of medieval Britain and the pre- and post-Reformation church have always been specialisms of TannerRitchie Publishing. This year we continued to build on core series such as the Exchequer Rolls, Calendar of Close Rolls and Calendar of the Patent Rolls, and published new collections from the Pipe Rolls and Rotuli Hundredorum. For the church, both Abbotsford and Bannatyne provide collections of ecclesiastical records.

Early Modern Britain

As well as many of the titles already mentioned relating to early modern Britain, we've continued to publish new titles to many of our most popular collections. Make sure you take a new look at Calendar of State Papers, Venice, Calendar of State Papers, Domestic and the Acts of the Privy Council of England, if you haven't checked out our titles for a while. We're excited to announce that we are also beginning to publish the  Journals of the House of Commons and the Journals of the House of Lords, with titles to appear over the next few weeks.  Needless to say, these will be a valuable addition to MEMSO, and a natural compliment to our already extensive collection of governmental works such as the House of Lords (HMC), Statutes of the Realm, Foedera, and Register of the Privy Council of Scotland.

There's so much more to say, but we'll leave the rest for you to explore.

So in closing, from all of us here at TannerRitchie Publishing we would like to wish all our clients, supporters and followers a very Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and Happy New Year!

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