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A beautiful gift filled with celebrations and customs. A fascinating journey through Britain's folklore, season by season. Engaging text written by a folklore expert. Includes spells and charms from Britain's...

Now flying Tornados in Germany, No.14 Squadron was one of the first deployed to the Middle East, and at one time operated with Lawrence of Arabia's guerilla forces. It has...

A lifetime's scholarship enabled John Morris to recreate a past hitherto hidden in myth and mystery. In this reissued edition, he describes the Arthurian age as "the starting point of...

100 delightful walks that reveal hidden treasures in our countryside - secret beaches, abandoned villages, mysterious caves, hidden waterfalls. Walks are 2-6 miles in length to maximise manageability. Every walk...

The book titled The History of the Royal Air Force, 1939-89 by the author Chris Chant. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This guide to the valuation of antique furniture explains what to look for when assessing the value of individual pieces. This edition features colour photographs which illustrate the financial importance...

The Battle of Britain presents in photographs the many aspects of the momentous campaign, from tactics, personalities, and aircraft to its effect on the lives of civilians. Lavishly illustrated, it...

In the summer of 1944 Nazi Germany launched its terrifying Vergeltungswaffen (reprisal weapon) attack against the population of south-east England. Under direct attack the Allies responded. The Supreme Allied Commander...

The book titled Search, Find and Kill!: Coastal Command's U-boat Successes in World by the author Norman Franks. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

The book titled British Prints: Dictionary and Price Guide by the author Ian Mackenzie. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Authoritatively written and featuring rare photography and memorabilia, this beautiful slipcased hardcover is the only illustrated gift book to examine Queen's most iconic album, A Night at the Opera. In...

First published in 1995 and now available in paperback, the first part of a three-volume pictorial history of the RAF, which contains many rare and previously unpublished photographs from collections...

The book titled The Imperial War Museum Book of the First World War by the author Malcolm Brown. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

From 1939 to 1945, the fighting troops' own daily newspaper Union Jack, and others such as Parade and Crusader, told the story of the war in words and pictures to...

Follow the development, decline and later revival of Britain's iconic railways with bestselling railway author Julian Holland. Discover the fascinating history of our remarkable railway heritage through expert commentary, stunning...

IN 1937, Charles Madge and Tom Harrisson created the social survey organisation Mass Observation to capture the thoughts, feelings and minutiae of individuals across the British Isles. At its height...

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR THE BESTSELLING INSIDER STORY OF WESTMINSTER'S BLOODIEST POWER BATTLES ' Myths are debunked, prime ministers exposed and secrets revealed...

'Iain Dale introduces Margaret Thatcher to a new generation and intelligently explodes some of the myths about her' Simon Heffer Margaret Thatcher was a woman of tremendous paradoxes: a conviction...

When Winston Spencer Churchill was born in 1874, no one could have predicted the path that lay ahead. But, as it turned out, from Winston's undistinguished academic career to his...

In summer 2018, The Queen's Diamond Jubilee Galleries will open in the church's medieval triforium, an internal gallery which runs 70 feet above the floor of the Abbey. Entrance to...

'A master of world cinema.' Cililan Murphy Since the original publication of Loach on Loach in 1998, Ken Loach has completed fourteen full-length feature films. This substantial body of work...

The author argues against the orthodox interpretation of the changing nature of the relief and administration of poverty from the 17th century to the reform of poor law administration in...

The book titled Their Trade is Treachery by the author Chapman Pincher. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Oxford Literary Guide to British Isles by the author Dorothy Eagle. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

'Queen Victoria had a very complicated and psychologically fascinating personality and only a very talented biographer could get to the key of her character. Fortunately in Matthew Dennison's pithy, well-researched,...

A vital history from the award-winning Financial Times journalist Philip Stephens on the dramatic century since the Anglo-Irish Treaty and partition. These Divided Isles tells the story from both sides...

A vital history from the award-winning Financial Times journalist Philip Stephens on the dramatic century since the Anglo-Irish Treaty and partition. These Divided Isles tells the story from both sides...

When asked about the greatest difficulty of being Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan famously replied 'events, dear boy, events'. Kevin Jefferys authoritative and entertaining book recreates and then assesses the key...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * This "excellent, all-embracing" ( The New York Times ) biography of Queen Elizabeth II is a magisterial study of the woman known only from a...

A secular regime is toppled by Western intervention, but an Islamic backlash turns the liberators into occupiers. Caught between interventionists at home and fundamentalists abroad, a prime minister flounders as...

Literature in the Modern World offers a unique combination of English, European, feminist and `new writing', or `Commonwealth', perspectives on literary studies from the 1920s to the 1980s. It is...

The lives of the outstanding scholars celebrated in the volume often reveal unexpected personal and professional backgrounds. Taken together they build up a picture of the development of Britain's intellectual...

Drawing on access to Paxton's personal letters, Kate Colquhouns's biography is the story of a man who typifies the Victorian ideal of self-improvement and a portrait of one of that...

Against a background of intrigue and manipulation on both sides, the author charts the experiences and impact of those who helped to define the relationship between Britain and Iran from...

This entertaining and aesthetically appealing survey of Stanley Spencer's career spans its entire spectrum and places his remarkable oeuvre in the broader context of twentieth-century European art. This edition is...

Why was literature so often defended and defined in early modern England in terms of its ability to provide the Horatian ideal of both profit and pleasure? Robert Matz analyzes...

Between 1550 and 1850, the great age of mercantilism, the English people remade themselves from a disparate group of individuals and localities divided by feudal loyalties, dialects and even languages,...

The book titled Technique Anglaise: Current Trends in British Art by the author Andrew Renton. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The thrilling family saga of five unforgettable women who remade Europe. From the great courts, glittering palaces, and war-ravaged battlefields of the seventeenth century comes the story of four spirited...

This is a shrunk-down version of the compelling 100 Years of Aviation. It includes photographs hand-picked from the archives of the Press Association. From the first powered, heavier-than-air flight by...

Among the 70,000 refugees from Nazi Germany who had entered Britain by 1939 were many intellectuals of the Weimar era. This book tells the story of five emigre writers, three...

During Queen Victoria's long reign there were constant, often subtle, changes to men's clothing in the large, diverse and growing population. This practical book guides you through the male fashions...

The third volume of Diana Cooper's witty, gossipy and brilliant autobiography - the perfect evocation of glittering high society in the aftermath of the Second World War This last volume...

Gentle, modest and handsome, a fine poet, proficient in nine languages, eccentric Englishman Frank Thompson made an unlikely soldier. The elder of two sons of a formidable family of writers...

This book aims to demonstrate that the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait on 2nd August 1990 was the logical conclusion to 20 years of diplomatic duplicity, greed and corruption, particularly on...

Continuously in print since 1945 and several times updated, The Handbook of Dates is now available from Cambridge University Press. This book is the recognised essential tool for establishing historical...

A re-reading of The Prelude in the light of post-structuralist and feminist theory, Romanticism, Writing, and Sexual Difference is the first major study of The Prelude by an author distinguished...