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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 ....
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...
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...
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...
Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland
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Author: Neal Ascherson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 326 The rediscovery of Scotland's past and a wake-up call about its future, from a leading scholar-journalist Scotland has a new Parliament...
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...
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...
Henry VIII: The Decline and Fall of a Tyrant
Author: Robert Hutchinson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 'Hutchinson brilliantly conveys the atmosphere of terror...a gripping narrative' DAILY MAIL 'A brilliantly readable account of Henry's last years' SUNDAY TIMES...
The Mistresses of Cliveden: Three Centuries of Scandal, Power, and Intrigue in an English Stately Home
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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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On a Pedestal: A Trip around Britain's Statues
Author: Roger Lytollis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 This is a book for people who are interested in statues . . . and for people who aren't. It explores...
1603: A Turning Point in British History
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The Tudors: The Complete Story of England's Most Notorious Dynasty
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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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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...
The Phoenix: St. Paul's Cathedral And The Men Who Made Modern London
Author: Leo Hollis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'A tour de force of biography, history, politics, philosophy and experimental science' ECONOMIST The remarkable and inspiring story of how London...
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...
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...
A Brief History of the British Monarchy: From the Iron Age to King Charles III
Author: Jeremy Black Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 The British monarchy is at a turning point. Concise and engaging, this book charts the very beginnings of British reign through...
The Day We Went to War
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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....
Big Chief Elizabeth: How England's Adventurers Gambled and Won the New World
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DREADFUL JUDGEMENT THE
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Ten Days to D-Day: Countdown to the Liberation of Europe
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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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To Marry an English Lord
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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...
Looking Inward: Devotional Reading and the Private Self in Late Medieval England
Author: Jennifer BryanFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 229mm, 280 pagesPublished: University of Pennsylvania Press, United States, 2008"You must see yourself." The exhortation was increasingly familiar to English men and women in...
Earth
Author: John BoyneFormat: Hardback, 142mm x 223mm, 294g, 176 pagesPublished: Transworld Publishers Ltd, United Kingdom, 2024From internationally bestselling author John Boyne, an inescapably gritty story about one young man whose...
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...