British & Irish History

Edition: First UKL ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingWhen a body washes ashore in the quiet waters of a seemingly peaceful English sailing community, the stage is...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom the spare medieval lyrics of the thirteenth century to the charged modernist voices of the twentieth, The Albatross Book of Living Verse presents...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerA landmark of twentieth-century literary curation, Collins Albatross Book of Longer Poems presents a sweeping panorama of English...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew figures in the history of the Catholic Church so dramatically straddled two worlds as Daniel Mannix — an Irishman who became one of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodAt the dawn of a new century, British poetry underwent a seismic transformation — and An Anthology of Modern Verse 1900–1920 stands...

Edition: ReprintCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingThe final curtain falls on the world's greatest detective in The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, the last of four...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the summer of 1782, one of Britain's mightiest warships heeled without warning and sank at anchor in Portsmouth Harbour — taking with her...

Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersFew figures in 20th-century military...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingFew figures in British history command the sea of myth and reverence that surrounds Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingAt the crossroads of criticism and celebration, Professing Poetry stands as one of the most candid and illuminating...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFrom the gritty, working-class landscapes of Yorkshire emerges a collection of short fiction that captures the quiet desperation, longing, and resilience of ordinary lives: Stan...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFew figures in twentieth-century British history cut as dramatic a silhouette as Louis Mountbatten — naval commander, Supreme Allied Commander...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFrom the back streets of Cheshire to the glittering courts of Naples and the heart of Britain's greatest naval hero, the life of Emma Hamilton stands...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingAt the glittering heart of Victorian high society, where political intrigue and aristocratic ambition intertwined, the Duchess of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodBefore she became the most powerful woman in the world, Victoria was a sheltered, fiercely monitored child — and Alison Plowden's The Young Victoria chronicles...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThe Admiral's Wife opens a rare and intimate window into the life of Mrs Phillip Parker King, the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerLong before modern labour rights were taken for granted, generations of plumbers and gasfitters fought, organized, and sacrificed to build one of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the age of empire, a bold cadre of British men ventured into the untamed highlands of India, Ceylon, and East Africa to carve...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the summer of 1940, the skies over Britain became the stage for one of the most pivotal aerial confrontations in modern history —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingFew works in the canon of British historiography have shaped the popular understanding of English life as profoundly as G.M....

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: WornPages: GoodBefore there was a Victorian novel in the truest sense, there was The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club — Charles Dickens's uproarious debut...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Ex-library with usual markings,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners,Previous ownerIn the skies above Britain, two world wars converged in a struggle...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew institutions have shaped the course of modern warfare as profoundly as the Royal Air Force, and Royal Air Force at War...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew names in the annals of aerial warfare carry the weight of Group Captain Douglas Bader, the indomitable RAF pilot who, despite losing both...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the dawn of Australia's colonial era, one royal commission would lay bare the contradictions of a society built on convict labour,...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: 23 vols. Most djs are in mylar - all price clipped. Windsor Castle -...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew figures in twentieth-century British public life possessed the singular vantage point of Woodrow Wyatt — industrialist, politician, journalist, and confidant to prime ministers...

Condition remarks:Book: PoorJacket: Very goodPages: FEP missingCondition remarks: Note: fep missing, damaged front pastedown - otherwise internally sound. Clean and bright copy. At the intersection of towering intellect and profound...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerAt the heart of Britain's most turbulent wartime years, Men and Power: 1917-1918 offers a gripping, insider account of the...

Edition: 2nd pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerAt the intersection of faith and verse, Poetry and Life: An Anthology of English...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodAt the heart of Victorian England's collision between science and faith stands one of the most extraordinary memoirs ever written — Edmund Gosse's Father and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the late eighteenth century, a ragged fleet of British ships deposited a cast of convicts, marines, and administrators onto the sun-scorched shores of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodOne of the twentieth century's most celebrated and devastating political cartoonists, David Low tells his own story in Low's Autobiography...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodAt the turbulent crossroads of Victorian faith and doubt stands Leslie Stephen — mountaineer, philosopher, editor, and father of Virginia Woolf — a man who...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodVictorian England harboured few monsters as chilling as Mary Ann Cotton — a soft-spoken widow who buried husband after husband, child after child, collecting...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Ex-library with usual markings,Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.Condition remarks: Bottom of jacket spine cut out to see...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodAt the heart of the radical Enlightenment stood William Godwin — philosopher, novelist, and anarchist thinker whose audacious ideas electrified late eighteenth-century Britain and whose...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Remainder markOne of the most intimate and revealing documents in the English language, The Diary of Samuel Pepys transports readers directly into the heart...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew works in the English literary canon offer as intimate and authoritative a portrait of an age's greatest poets as Samuel Johnson's Lives of the English...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodA landmark gathering of mid-century literary minds, The Craft of Letters in England presents a rich and authoritative symposium on the state of British writing in...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodBehind every great institution lies a singular and extraordinary life — and few lives were as singular as that of Antonin Besse, the enigmatic...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodIn the heart of Victorian London, a scandal of breathtaking proportions threatened to bring down the establishment: a male brothel...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingFew English cities have inspired as much elegance, intrigue, and literary imagination as...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerFew memoirs command the grandeur and literary audacity of Left Hand Right Hand!, Sir Osbert Sitwell's celebrated...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: YellowedIn the rugged, wind-swept landscapes of Ireland and Scotland, Maurice Walsh weaves a tale of quiet heroism and simmering...

Edition: 2nd ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerFew literary lives have burned as brightly — or as turbulently — as that...

Edition: rev ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the golden age of British popular fiction, three authors — Dornford Yates, John Buchan, and Sapper — conjured a world of...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerFrom the plough-furrows of ancient field systems to the bustling trade routes of the early eighteenth century, A Concise Economic History...