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Gibraltar: The Greatest Siege in British History
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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
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
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
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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,...
Fighting Churchill, Appeasing Hitler: How a British Civil Servant Helped Cause the Second World War
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....
The Road: A Story of Romans and Ways to the Past
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
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:...
The British in India: Three Centuries of Ambition and Experience
Author: David Gilmour Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 A panoramic social history chronicling the lives of hundreds of British people of all classes in the most important...
Appeasing Hitler: Chamberlain, Churchill and the Road to War
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...
Elizabeth of York: The First Tudor Queen
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...
Queens of the Conquest: The extraordinary women who changed the course of English history 1066 - 1167
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...
Time Song: Journeys in Search of a Submerged Land
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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...
Victorious Century: The United Kingdom, 1800-1906
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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 Case of the Married Woman: Caroline Norton: A 19th Century Heroine Who Wanted Justice for Women
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'...
The Crown in Crisis: Countdown to the Abdication
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...
An Economic History of the English Garden
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...
Elizabethans: A History of How Modern Britain Was Forged
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...
The Lost Tudor Princess: A Life of Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox
Author: Alison Weir Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 The captivating life of Margaret Douglas - a life of scandal, political intrigue and royal romance that spanned five...
Seashaken Houses: A Lighthouse History from Eddystone to Fastnet
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 Scottish Clearances: A History of the Dispossessed, 1600-1900
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...
Queens of the Crusades: Eleanor of Aquitaine and her Successors
Author: Alison Weir Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 The next volume in Alison Weir's magisterial history of the queens of Medieval England - including the life of...
1942: Britain at the Brink
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
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
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...
Queens of Georgian Britian
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...
God's Englishman: Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution
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...
Clementine Churchill: A Life in Pictures
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...
On Every Tide: The Making and Remaking of the Irish World
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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...
London: A Travel Guide Through Time
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
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
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...
Dashing for the Post: The Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor
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
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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?...
Do You Know Who's Dead?: A hilarious celebration of what makes us Irish
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...
Cromwell's Failed State and the Monarchy
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...
The Lost Imperialist: Lord Dufferin, Memory and Mythmaking in an Age of Celebrity
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...
Our History of the 20th Century: As Told in Diaries, Journals and Letters
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
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
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,...
Lost Realms: Histories of Britain from the Romans to the Vikings
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
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...
The Captain Class Frigates in the Second World War
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,...
Rebellion in the Middle Ages: Fight Against the Crown
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...
Richard III and the Princes in the Tower
Author: Alison Weir Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Alison Weir investigates one of the most enduring murder mysteries in English history - the death of the lost...
Rendezvous at the Russian Tea Rooms: The Spyhunter, the Fashion Designer & the Man From Moscow
Author: Paul Willetts Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 RENDEZVOUS AT THE RUSSIAN TEA ROOMS provides the first comprehensive account of what was once hailed by a leading...
Trumpets from the Steep
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
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...
The Channel: The Remarkable Men and Women Who Made It the Most Fascinating Waterway in the World
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...