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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 Restless Republic: Britain without a Crown
Author: Anna Keay Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 THE SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 WINNER OF THE POL ROGER DUFF COOPER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR...
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'...
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 ....
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...
Between Two Hells: The Irish Civil War
Author: Diarmaid Ferriter Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Ferriter has richly earned his reputation as one of Ireland's leading historians' - Irish Independent 'Absorbing ... A fascinating exploration of...
Mr Horniman's Walrus: Legacies of a Remarkable Victorian Family
Author: Clare Paterson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Family patriarch John Horniman established the tea company that bore his name in 1826, which went on to become one of...
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...
After The Victorians
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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...
The Restless Republic: Britain without a Crown
Author: Anna Keay Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 THE SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 WINNER OF THE POL ROGER DUFF COOPER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR...
A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War
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The Crown in Crisis: Countdown to the Abdication
Author: Alexander Larman Format: Hardback 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...
James Cook: The story behind the man who mapped the world
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The Last 100 Years (give or take) and All That
Author: Al Murray Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 'I squealed laughing at this but now worry that my knowledge of history has been dangerously ruined' Matt Forde A fascinating...
The Unsettling of Europe: How Migration Reshaped a Continent
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Author: Peter Gatrell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 An acclaimed historian examines postwar migration's fundamental role in shaping modern Europe Migration is perhaps the most pressing issue of our...
The Elizabethans
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Author: A N Wilson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 "In Wilson's hands these familiar stories make for gripping reading."--The New York Times Book Review New York Times Book Review...
Five Days in London: May 1940
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The Border: The Legacy of a Century of Anglo-Irish Politics
Author: Diarmaid Ferriter Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 'Anyone who wishes to understand why Brexit is so intractable should read this book. I can think of several MPs who...
A Revolution of Feeling: The Decade that Forged the Modern Mind
Author: Rachel Hewitt Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 560 In the 1790s, Britain underwent what the politician Edmund Burke called 'the most important of all revolutions ... a revolution in...
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...
Outbreak: 1939
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Five Days in London, May 1940
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Lost London 1870-1945
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Plantagenet Encyclopedia: An Alphabetical Guide to 400 Years of English History
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The Banshees of Inisherin
Author: Martin McDonaghFormat: Paperback, 128mm x 198mm, 129g, 112 pagesPublished: Faber & Faber, United Kingdom, 2022The screenplay of the latest macabre and haunting comedy from the writer of In Bruges...
A Brief History of the Tudor Age
Author: Jasper Ridley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 From the arrival of Henry Tudor and his army, at Milford in 1485, to the death of the great Queen Elizabeth...
The Bee Sting
Author: Paul MurrayFormat: Paperback, 128mm x 198mm, 516g, 656 pagesPublished: Penguin Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2024Irresistibly funny, wise and thought-provoking, The Bee Sting is a tour de force about family,...
The Day We Went to War
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The Mess We're In: An immersive story of music, friendship and [...]
'Glorious . . . So brilliant on being young, skint, ambitious and hopeful in London. My heart ached with identification, I loved it' MARIAN KEYES'A heady mix of thrills and...
Night Swimmers: 'Beautifully written and wonderful' Daily Mail
Grace lives alone in Ballybrady, a little village on the sublimely beautiful east coast of Northern Ireland. She fills her days with swimming, fishing, quilting, and baiting the tourists who...
Night Swimmers: 'Beautifully written and wonderful' Daily Mail
Grace lives alone in Ballybrady, a little village on the sublimely beautiful east coast of Northern Ireland. She fills her days with swimming, fishing, quilting, and baiting the tourists who...
Rory Branagan (Detective) (Rory Branagan, Book 1)
Meet RORY BRANAGAN - he eats bad guys for breakfast. Well, not ACTUALLY. But he IS the best detective in town. First in a hilarious illustrated comedy-crime series for kids....
The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire: Churchill, Roosevelt, and the Birth of the Pax Americana
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DREADFUL JUDGEMENT THE
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Charles I and the People of England
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The High Girders: The gripping true story of a Victorian dream that ended in tragedy
Author: John Prebble Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 'A tale of irresponsibility and inexperience' THE TIMES 'Graphically written with a sense of dramatic construction' SCOTSMAN On December 28th 1879,...
The King's Revenge: Charles II and the Greatest Manhunt in British History
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Fenian Fire: The British Government Plot to Assassinate Queen Victoria
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Charles the Second: King of England, Scotland, and Ireland
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The Wall: Rome's Greatest Frontier
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A Brief History of Life in the Middle Ages
Author: Martyn Whittock Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Using wide-ranging evidence, Martyn Whittock shines a light on Britain in the Middle Ages, bringing it vividly to life in this...
The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens' London
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The Case of the Married Woman: Caroline Norton: A 19th Century Heroine Who Wanted Justice for Women
Author: Lady Antonia Fraser Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'Before biography was fashionable, Antonia Fraser made the past popular' Guardian 'As a pure storyteller, Antonia Fraser has few equals'...
Mr Horniman's Walrus: Legacies of a Remarkable Victorian Family
Author: Clare Paterson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Family patriarch John Horniman established the tea company that bore his name in 1826, which went on to become one of...
Wartime Women: A Mass Observation Anthology
Author: Dorothy Sheridan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The Mass-Observation organisation was set up in 1937 with the aim of recording everyday life in Britain. Dorothy Sheridan has plundered...
A History of Britain
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Face of Britain: How Our Genes Reveal the History of Britain
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