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Espionage in the Divided Stuart Dynasty: 1685-1715
King James II was the Catholic king of a Protestant nation, but he had inherited a secure crown and was able to put down the rebellion by his nephew the...
Daily Telegraph Dictionary of Tommies' Songs and Slang, 1914-18,
During the First World War the British soldiers were renowned for their chirpy songs and plucky sayings. Indeed nothing would lift the spirits of the often exhausted and demoralized troops...
Murder During the Hundred Year War: The Curious Case of Sir [...]
In 1375, Sir William Cantilupe was found murdered in a field outside of a village in Lincolnshire. As the case progressed, fifteen members of his household were indicted for murder,...
Cromwell's Convicts: The Death March from Dunbar 1650
On 3 September 1650 Oliver Cromwell won a decisive victory over the Scottish Covenanters at the Battle of Dunbar - a victory that is often regarded as his finest hour...
1815: Regency Britain in the Year of Waterloo
1815 was the year of Waterloo, the British victory that ended Napoleon's European ambitions and ushered in a century of peace for Britain. But what sort of country were Wellington's...
British and Irish Birds: A Pocket Guide
A carefully designed and lavishly illustrated photographic guideThis innovative and carefully designed photographic guide provides a concise introduction to the identification of the 246 birds most likely to be seen...
Class 50
Class 50: A Pictorial Journey is an album of photographs, mainly taken by David Cable, a well-regarded author of a number of picture albums, covering trains both in the UK...
The Book of Holy Medicines: Volume 419
Henry of Grosmont, first Duke of Lancaster, cousin and friend of Edward III, was a soldier, statesman, and diplomat. His Book of Holy Medicines of 1354, an astonishing composition by...
Battle of Plassey 1757
Britain was rapidly emerging as the most powerful European nation, a position France long believed to be her own. Yet with France still commanding the largest continental army, Britain saw...
A History of the Royal Navy: World War I
World War I is one of the iconic conflicts of the modern era. For many years the war at sea has been largely overlooked; yet, at the outbreak of that...
The Trip
A sizzling beach read thriller with an ending readers are calling 'jaw-dropping'...'A stone cold tale of secrets, lies and betrayal unfolds on the holiday from hell - 2024's suitcase essential.'...
The Other Half of Augusta Hope
Shortlisted for the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award'A therapeutic dose of high-strength emotion' GUARDIAN*JOANNA GLEN'S LATEST NOVEL MAYBE, PERHAPS, POSSIBLY IS OUT NOW* Augusta Hope has never felt like...
The Diary of a Secret Royal
The most scandalous Royal book of the year In a rapidly changing world the Royal Family own swathes of the country, most of the seabed and more money than anyone...
Paranoia: A Journey Into Extreme Mistrust and Anxiety
'A TRULY IMPORTANT BOOK' JOHN HUMPHRYS'FASCINATING... SHOCKING' SPECTATORWhat is paranoia? What makes us mistrustful? How can this be overcome? Daniel Freeman, Professor of Psychology at Oxford, has spent thirty years...
The 19th Century Criminal Underworld
Take a walk on the dark side of the street in this unique exploration of the fears and desires at the heart of the British Empire, from the Regency dandy's...
The East Coast Main Line 1939-1959
The book takes an in-depth look at the East Coast Main Line-King's Cross to Edinburgh-between 1939 and 1959. This is carried out in a series of chapters. In the first...
Stopping Hitler
After the unprecedented death and devastation of the First World War, few people imagined that such a conflict could ever happen again. Though the belief that it was the 'war...
Voices in Flight: RAF Night Operations
"The Navy can lose us the war, but only the Air Force can win it. Therefore our supreme effort must be to gain overwhelming mastery in the air. The Fighters...
Belfast Transport
`Belfast Transport' is the story of public transport in Belfast from the horse buses of the 1860s to the Metro buses which were introduced in 2005. It is a fascinating...
Martial Law and English Laws, c.1500-c.1700
John M. Collins presents the first comprehensive history of martial law in the early modern period. He argues that rather than being a state of exception from law, martial law...
Feasting, Fowling and Feathers: A History of the Exploitation of Wild Birds
A highly readable review of some 700 years of avian exploitation. The way wild birds have been exploited over the centuries forms the focus of this remarkable new book by...
Inside the Regiment: The Officers and Men of the 30th Regiment During the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
In this companion volume to her pioneering study Redcoats Against Napoleon, Carole Divall tells the fascinating inside story of a typical infantry regiment during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. Rather...
Cake: A Slice of British Life
'A delightful odyssey through the history, nostalgia, fascination and British love of cake. Quirky, charming, and fun.' PRUE LEITH The British take cakes seriously. We hold strong opinions about how...
Outbreak: 1939
11-15 am, 3 September 1939. The nation gathers around their radios to hear Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain make the announcement they have feared for months- Britain is at war with...
The First Serious Optimist: A. C. Pigou and the Birth of Welfare Economics
A groundbreaking intellectual biography of one of the twentieth century's most influential economists The First Serious Optimist is an intellectual biography of the British economist A. C. Pigou (1877-1959), a...
Twenty British Films: A Guided Tour
Anyone who has loved British films will want to read this book. In choosing twenty films, many of them of classics of their kind - think of Brief Encounter, The...
The Declining Significance of Homophobia: How Teenage Boys are Redefining Masculinity and Heterosexuality
Research has traditionally shown high schools to be hostile environments for LGBT youth. Boys have used homophobia to prove their masculinity and distance themselves from homosexuality. Despite these findings over...
A History of Cadbury
When John Cadbury came to Birmingham in 1824, he sold tea, coffee and drinking chocolate in a small shop on Bull Street. Drinking chocolate was considered a healthy alternative to...
In Search of Our Ancient Ancestors
What a fine long pedigree you have given the human race. Charles Darwin to Charles Lyell, 1863. How is the Royal Family descended from fish? How distantly are we related...
Order and Conflict: Anthony Ascham and English Political Thought (1648-50)
This book provides a careful and systematic analysis of Anthony Ascham's career and writings for the first time in English. During the crucial period between the Second Civil War and...
New Slaveries in Contemporary British Literature and Visual Arts: The Ghost and the Camp
The book is a study of the literature and visual arts concerned with the many and diverse forms of slaveries produced by globalisation in Britain since the early 1990s.Starting from...
Railway - British Track Since 1804
Never before has a comprehensive history been written of the track used by railways of all gauges, tramways, and cliff railways, in Great Britain. And yet it was the development...
Keir Starmer: The Biography
THE BESTSELLING BIOGRAPHY OF THE NEW BRITISH PRIME MINISTER'Required reading for anyone who has an interest in who governs Britain' ALASTAIR CAMPBELL'This will be the most important political book of...
Why Is This Lying Bastard Lying to Me?: Searching for the Truth on Political TV
Soon to be a major Channel 4 drama, Brian and MargaretA deliciously irreverent and humorous insider's account of 25 years working at the very top of British political television'What Rob...
The Butterfly Isles: A Summer In Search Of Our Emperors And Admirals
Author: Patrick Barkham (Y)Format: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 296g, 304 pagesPublished: Granta Books, United Kingdom, 2018Butterflies animate our summers but the fifty-nine species found in the British Isles can be...
Black and British: A short, essential history
Author: David OlusogaFormat: Paperback, 130mm x 196mm, 162g, 176 pagesPublished: Pan Macmillan, United Kingdom, 2020Winner of the Book of the Year, Children's Illustrated and Non-Fiction at The British Book Awards,...
All Aboard!: Remembering Britain's Railways
Author: Julian HollandFormat: Paperback, 148mm x 210mm, 540g, 256 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2023From best-selling railway expert, Julian Holland, explore Britain's historical railways in All Aboard.The history of Britain's...
Spirit of Place: Artists, Writers and the British Landscape
Author: Susan OwensFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 580g, 352 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2021When we look at the landscape, what do we see? Do we experience the...
All In: How we build a country that works
Author: Lisa NandyFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 150g, 224 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2023'A persuasive manifesto for a better Britain.' Observer Book of the DayBritain needs a fresh start....
Later ... With Jools Holland: 30 Years of Music, Magic and Mayhem
Author: Mark CooperFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 400g, 448 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2023'You never knew what you were going to be confronted with when you went on Later...'...
British Battles of the Crimean Wars 1854-1856: Despatches from the Front
Author: John GrehanFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 208 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2014The Crimean War was the most destructive armed conflict of the Victorian era. It...
Men Who Gave Us Wings: Britain and the Aeroplane 1796-1914
Author: Peter ReeseFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 272 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2014Why did the British, then the leading nation in science and technology, fall far...
Churchill, Kitchener and Lloyd George: First World Warlords
Author: Steve CliffeFormat: Paperback, 192 pagesPublished: Fonthill Media Ltd, United Kingdom, 2013Do I think the Great War could have been avoided? My answer categorically is yes. So David Lloyd George,...
Goldstar Century: 31 Squadron RAF 1915-2015
Author: Ian HallFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 304 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2015Number 31 Squadron RAF will celebrate its centenary in 2015; a pivotal milestone for...
Most Secret and Confidential: Intelligence in the Age of Nelson
Author: Steven E. MaffeoFormat: Paperback, 152mm x 228mm, 550g, 392 pagesPublished: Naval Institute Press, United States, 2012In today's world of satellites and electronic eavesdropping, it is hard to appreciate the...
'I Was Transformed' Frederick Douglass: An American Slave in Victorian Britain
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Author: Laurence FentonFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 560g, 288 pagesPublished: Amberley Publishing, United Kingdom, 2018In the summer of 1845, Frederick Douglass, the young runaway slave catapulted to fame by his...
'I Was Transformed' Frederick Douglass: An American Slave in Victorian Britain
Author: Laurence FentonFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 560g, 288 pagesPublished: Amberley Publishing, United Kingdom, 2018In the summer of 1845, Frederick Douglass, the young runaway slave catapulted to fame by his...
Churchill, Kitchener and Lloyd George: First World Warlords
Author: Steve CliffeFormat: Paperback, 192 pagesPublished: Fonthill Media Ltd, United Kingdom, 2013Do I think the Great War could have been avoided? My answer categorically is yes. So David Lloyd George,...