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Gibraltar: The Greatest Siege in British History

Gibraltar: The Greatest Siege in British History

$15.00
Author: Roy Adkins Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 A rip-roaring account of the dramatic four-year siege of Britain's Mediterranean garrison by Spain and France--an overlooked key to the British...
Elizabeth & Margaret: The Intimate World of the Windsor Sisters

Elizabeth & Margaret: The Intimate World of the Windsor Sisters

$29.99$12.00
Author: Andrew Morton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 They were the closest of sisters and the best of friends. But when, in a quixotic twist of fate,...
Young Prince Philip, His Turbulent Early Life

Young Prince Philip, His Turbulent Early Life

$24.99$12.00
Author, Philip Eade Format, Paperback / softback Number of Pages, 384 'The narrative is as suspenseful as any thriller. Truly, an excellent read' Lynn Barber, Sunday Times Married for almost...
Devices and Desires Bess of Hardwick and the Building of Elizabethan England

Devices and Desires Bess of Hardwick and the Building of Elizabethan England

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Author: Kate Hubbard Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 The critically acclaimed author of Serving Victoria brilliantly illuminates the life of the little-known Bess of Hardwick--next to Queen Elizabeth I,...
Therapy Quest: An Interactive Journey Through Acceptance And Commitment Therapy

Therapy Quest: An Interactive Journey Through Acceptance And Commitment Therapy

$23.99$5.00
Author: Dr Janina Scarlet Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Did you ever want to be a hero? Have you ever dreamed of going on an epic quest...
The Road: A Story of Romans and Ways to the Past

The Road: A Story of Romans and Ways to the Past

$34.99$12.00
Author: Christopher Hadley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 'An absolute joy to read and an early contender for every list of History Books of the Year' Sunday...
Paper Bullets: Two Women Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis

Paper Bullets: Two Women Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis

$27.99$12.00
Author: Jeffrey H. Jackson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Paper Bullets is the first book to tell the history of an audacious anti-Nazi campaign undertaken by an unlikely pair:...
Elizabeth of York: The First Tudor Queen

Elizabeth of York: The First Tudor Queen

$22.99$19.54
Author: Alison Weir Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 Britain's foremost female historian reveals the true story of this key figure in the Wars of the Roses and...
Fighting Churchill, Appeasing Hitler: How a British Civil Servant Helped Cause  the Second World War

Fighting Churchill, Appeasing Hitler: How a British Civil Servant Helped Cause the Second World War

$44.99$20.00
Author: Adrian Phillips Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 No one doubts that appeasement failed, but Phillips shows that it caused active harm - even sabotaging Britain's preparations for war....
Queens of the Conquest: The extraordinary women who changed the course of English history 1066 - 1167

Queens of the Conquest: The extraordinary women who changed the course of English history 1066 - 1167

$24.99$21.24
Author: Alison Weir Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 Full of passion and betrayal, murder and war, the first volume of an epic new series from bestselling historian...
Appeasing Hitler: Chamberlain, Churchill and the Road to War

Appeasing Hitler: Chamberlain, Churchill and the Road to War

$22.99$19.54
Author: Tim Bouverie Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 This thrilling Sunday Times bestseller is the first major account of the disastrous years of British indecision and infighting...
Among the Bohemians: Experiments in Living 1900-1939

Among the Bohemians: Experiments in Living 1900-1939

$32.99$28.04
Author: Virginia Nicholson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 'Interesting, gorgeous, wonderful.... this book displays the best of bohemia itself - playful, dazzling, original' Julie Burchill, Spectator 'Racy,...
Victorious Century: The United Kingdom, 1800-1906

Victorious Century: The United Kingdom, 1800-1906

$20.00
Author: David Cannadine (University of London) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 624 A sweeping history of nineteenth-century Britain by one of the world's most respected historians. "An evocative account ....
The Crown in Crisis: Countdown to the Abdication

The Crown in Crisis: Countdown to the Abdication

$24.99$12.00
Author: Alexander Larman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 In December 1936, Britain faced a constitutional crisis that was the gravest threat to the institution of the monarchy since the...
The Case of the Married Woman: Caroline Norton: A 19th Century Heroine Who Wanted Justice for Women

The Case of the Married Woman: Caroline Norton: A 19th Century Heroine Who Wanted Justice for Women

$55.00$15.00
Author: Lady Antonia Fraser Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'Before biography was fashionable, Antonia Fraser made the past popular' Guardian 'As a pure storyteller, Antonia Fraser has few equals'...
An Economic History of the English Garden

An Economic History of the English Garden

$24.99$21.24
Author: Roderick Floud Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 The first and only in-depth economic history of England's gardens, from 1660 to today At least since the seventeenth...
Time Song: Journeys in Search of a Submerged Land

Time Song: Journeys in Search of a Submerged Land

$7.50
Author: Julia Blackburn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Julia Blackburn has always collected things that hold stories about the past, especially the very distant past: mammoth bones, little shells...
Elizabethans: A History of How Modern Britain Was Forged

Elizabethans: A History of How Modern Britain Was Forged

$24.99$12.00
Author: Andrew Marr Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 The Sunday Times bestseller Now a major BBC TV series presented by Andrew Marr David Attenborough. Marcus Rashford. Jan...
Seashaken Houses: A Lighthouse History from Eddystone to Fastnet

Seashaken Houses: A Lighthouse History from Eddystone to Fastnet

$22.99$19.54
Author: Tom Nancollas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The enthralling history of Britain's historic rock lighthouses, exploring the enduring appeal of these magnificent, isolated sentinels, now in...
The Brothers York: An English Tragedy

The Brothers York: An English Tragedy

$26.99$22.94
Author: Thomas Penn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 The gripping new history of a dynasty that seized the English throne - then tore itself apart It is...
1942: Britain at the Brink

1942: Britain at the Brink

$49.99$25.00
Author: Taylor Downing Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 'Taylor Downing vividly brings to life a terrible year' Max Hastings, Sunday Times 'Taylor Downing is a wonderful historian and a...
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine

The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine

$22.99$19.54
Author: Lindsey Fitzharris Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The spellbinding story of a visionary British surgeon who changed medicine forever In The Butchering Art, historian Lindsey Fitzharris...
Histories of the Unexpected: The Tudors

Histories of the Unexpected: The Tudors

$19.99$10.00
Author: Dr Sam Willis (Author) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 At Histories of the Unexpected, we believe that everything has a history - even the most unexpected of subjects...
God's Englishman: Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution

God's Englishman: Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution

$24.99$21.24
Author: Christopher Hill Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The classic life of Cromwell by one of Britain's great radical historians A nuanced biography of Oliver Cromwell, breaking...
The Scottish Clearances: A History of the Dispossessed, 1600-1900

The Scottish Clearances: A History of the Dispossessed, 1600-1900

$22.99$19.54
Author: T. M. Devine Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 The definitive history of the terrible process by which much of Scotland was 'cleared' of many inhabitants, written...
London: A Travel Guide Through Time

London: A Travel Guide Through Time

$24.99$21.24
Author: Dr Matthew Green Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Step back in time and discover the sights, sounds and smells of London through the ages in this...
The Birth of the RAF, 1918: The World's First Air Force

The Birth of the RAF, 1918: The World's First Air Force

$22.99$19.54
Author: Richard Overy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 A short, brilliant account of the birth of the RAF for the centenary of its founding The dizzying pace...
London's Triumph: Merchant Adventurers and the Tudor City

London's Triumph: Merchant Adventurers and the Tudor City

$24.99$21.24
Author: Stephen Alford Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The story of the individuals whose ambition and recklessness transformed London, England and the world. Life in Europe was...
Churchill: Walking with Destiny

Churchill: Walking with Destiny

$35.00$29.75
Author: Andrew Roberts Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1152 The blockbuster biography of the greatest Briton, by one of Britain's bestselling historians Winston Churchill towers over every other...
Clementine Churchill: A Life in Pictures

Clementine Churchill: A Life in Pictures

$55.00$20.00
Author: Sonia Purnell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Without Winston Churchill's inspiring leadership Britain could not have survived its darkest hour. Without his wife Clementine, however, he might never...
Do You Know Who's Dead?: A hilarious celebration of what makes us Irish

Do You Know Who's Dead?: A hilarious celebration of what makes us Irish

$26.99$12.00
Author: Paddy Duffy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Ireland: A country of 13-verse-long ballads, outspoken lunatics, strongly held trivial opinions and friendly exchanges about the day's names...
Dashing for the Post: The Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor

Dashing for the Post: The Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor

$22.99$10.00
Author: Patrick Leigh Fermor Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 A revelatory collection of letters written by the author of THE BROKEN ROAD. Handsome, spirited and erudite, Patrick...
The American Duchess

The American Duchess

$10.00
Author:Anna Pasternak Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Who was the real Wallis: an opportunistic American social climber, a master manipulator or the true love of Edward's life?...
On Every Tide: The Making and Remaking of the Irish World

On Every Tide: The Making and Remaking of the Irish World

$20.00
Author: Sean Connolly Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 A sweeping history of Irish emigration, arguing that the Irish exodus helped make the modern world When people think of Irish...
Our History of the 20th Century: As Told in Diaries, Journals and Letters

Our History of the 20th Century: As Told in Diaries, Journals and Letters

$49.95$20.00
Author: Travis Elborough Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 What better way to understand Britain during the twentieth century than through the eyes of those who experienced it at first...
A Revolution of Feeling: The Decade that Forged the Modern Mind

A Revolution of Feeling: The Decade that Forged the Modern Mind

$49.99$15.00
Author: Rachel Hewitt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 In the 1790s, Britain underwent what the politician Edmund Burke called 'the most important of all revolutions...a revolution in sentiments'. Inspired...
Royal Renegades: The Children of Charles I and the English Civil Wars

Royal Renegades: The Children of Charles I and the English Civil Wars

$44.99$20.00
Author: Linda Porter Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 The fact that the English Civil War led to the execution of King Charles I in January 1649 is well known,...
The Lost Imperialist: Lord Dufferin, Memory and Mythmaking in an Age of Celebrity

The Lost Imperialist: Lord Dufferin, Memory and Mythmaking in an Age of Celebrity

$71.99$15.00
Author: Andrew Gailey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 Winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography 2016 Frederick Hamiton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, enjoyed a glittering...
Queens of Georgian Britian

Queens of Georgian Britian

$59.99$15.00
Author: Catherine Curzon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 220 Once upon a time there were four kings called George who, thanks to a quirk of fate, ruled Great Britain for...
Lost Realms: Histories of Britain from the Romans to the Vikings

Lost Realms: Histories of Britain from the Romans to the Vikings

$65.00$30.00
Author: Thomas Williams Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 'A beautiful, beautiful book . . . archaeology is changing so much about the way we view the so-called Dark Ages...
Loot: Britain and the Benin Bronzes

Loot: Britain and the Benin Bronzes

$39.99$20.00
Author: Barnaby Phillips Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 "In 1897, Britain responded to the killing of a group of officials by razing an empire to the ground. The men...
Rebellion in the Middle Ages: Fight Against the Crown

Rebellion in the Middle Ages: Fight Against the Crown

$75.00$25.00
Author: Matthew Lewis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 248 Shakespeare's Henry IV lamented 'Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown'. It was true of that king's reign and of...
The Captain Class Frigates in the Second World War

The Captain Class Frigates in the Second World War

$44.99$20.00
Author: D. J. Collingwood Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 The Captain Class Frigates, seventy-eight sturdy, modern Destroyer Escorts, known affectionately by all who sailed in them as the DEs,...
Cromwell's Failed State and the Monarchy

Cromwell's Failed State and the Monarchy

$75.00$25.00
Author: Timothy Venning Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Regicide, military dictatorship, war and rumours of war, opposition from all sides and collapse of a 'failed state': such is the...
Trumpets from the Steep

Trumpets from the Steep

$22.99$19.54
Author: Diana Cooper Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The third volume of Diana Cooper's witty, gossipy and brilliant autobiography - the perfect evocation of glittering high society...
Aerial Atlas of Ancient Britain

Aerial Atlas of Ancient Britain

$60.00$48.00
Author: David R. Abram Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 A spectacular collection of aerial photographs of Britain's most extraordinary prehistoric sites. This breathtaking collection of aerial images reveals ancient...
Uncrowned Queen: The Life of Margaret Beaufort, Mother of the Tudors

Uncrowned Queen: The Life of Margaret Beaufort, Mother of the Tudors

$20.00
Author: Nicola Tallis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 An impeccably researched and beautifully written biography of Lady Margaret Beaufort, matriarch of the Tudor dynasty (Tracy Borman, author of The...
The Channel: The Remarkable Men and Women Who Made It the Most Fascinating Waterway in the World

The Channel: The Remarkable Men and Women Who Made It the Most Fascinating Waterway in the World

$45.00$17.50
Author: Charlie Connelly Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 A bulwark against invasion, a conduit for exchange and a challenge to be conquered, the English Channel has always been many...