British & Irish History

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingBeneath the glittering chandeliers and behind the gilded carriages of Victorian and Edwardian England, a world of scandal, ambition, and elaborate social...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerAt the heart of one of the most turbulent centuries in English history stood Sir Edward...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodBehind the pageantry of a monarchy that has endured for centuries, Elizabeth & Philip: The Untold Story pulls back the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingBehind the powdered wig and the austere bench of the Old Bailey stood one of the most formidable...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedA literary life lived at the intersection of royalty, war, and world affairs — Thirty Years is Hector Bolitho's compelling memoir chronicling...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingFew figures in British royal history have captivated and confounded the public imagination quite like Edward VIII, the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingFew figures in the history of British theatre command the same reverence as Sir Ralph Richardson, a man whose singular genius straddled...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedShe cooked for kings, charmed aristocrats, and ran one of London's most legendary hotels with a iron will and a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedFew figures in British royal history court as much fascination and controversy as George IV, a man whose extravagance, romanticism,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingIn the gilded drawing rooms and country estates of Victorian and Edwardian England, a new and audacious social transaction was...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingBehind every throne lies a story of desire, ambition, and dangerous influence — and The Kings' Mistresses by...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedA titan of British wit, law, and letters finally turns the lens on himself — the result is a memoir...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodShe was imperious, eccentric, and utterly unlike anyone who had come before her — Dame Edith Sitwell, one of the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingBritain has always harboured a magnificent gallery of gloriously peculiar souls, and Edith Sitwell's The English Eccentrics chronicles...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodWhat does it truly mean to dedicate a life to the pursuit of history? The Making of an Historian presents the collected essays...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodBeneath the grey skies of England, the Thames has flowed silently through millennia of human ambition, worship, tragedy, and...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the desperate opening years of the Second World War, as Nazi forces swept across Europe with terrifying speed, the Allied nations...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerAt the height of an era defined by aerial warfare, J. M. Spaight — one of Britain's foremost authorities on...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingFew figures in the history of Christendom command as much reverence as Saint Boniface — the Devon-born monk who became the Apostle...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn the dying months of the First World War, a bold and visionary experiment in aerial warfare was launched — the Independent...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingAt the crossroads of ambition and decline, Britain's Aircraft Industry: What Went Right? What Went Wrong? presents a rigorous and unflinching post-mortem...

Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew aircraft have shaped the fate of a nation as decisively as the Hawker Hurricane, and Paul Gallico's The Hurricane Story is...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn the rugged pastoral landscape of nineteenth-century Queensland, a family's story becomes the story of a nation. The Generations of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingIn the annals of military history, few stories grip the imagination quite like the tale of a command...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom the sun-scorched decks of aircraft carriers to the freezing Arctic convoys, Pictorial History of the Fleet Air Arm chronicles the dramatic story of...

Edition: First Ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the heart of Britain's wartime media establishment, Cecil H. King witnessed the Second World War not from the trenches, but from...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingFew figures in the twentieth century did more to bring art to the masses than Kenneth Clark — the aristocratic scholar, broadcaster,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the intersection of privilege and catastrophe, Lady Cynthia Asquith's Diaries 1915-1918 presents an intimate, unfiltered chronicle of life in Britain during the most...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedA life shaped by duty, distinction, and the turbulent currents of twentieth-century Britain — Score of Years is the memoir...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersBefore he became the defining statesman of the twentieth...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom the smoke-filled skies over the Somme to the decisive aerial battles of the Second World War, The Royal Air Force and Two World...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Vol II - markings on page 90 (dates corrected). A landmark true crime trilogy in forensic science history,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodAnthony Burgess's Shakespeare stands as one of the most audacious and brilliantly conceived biographical studies of the English language's greatest...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew figures shaped the Victorian understanding of art and beauty as profoundly as John Ruskin, and John Ruskin and the Victorian Eye presents a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom the Anglo-Saxon poets who forged verse out of myth and battle-cry to the modernist writers who shattered the very form of the novel,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodCondition remarks: Small stain on top of block - does not extend internally.In an age of powdered wigs and cannon fire, one man rose...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsAgainst the dramatic backdrop of the Scottish Highlands, The Scottish Ospreys: From Extinction to Survival chronicles one of the most...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn the desperate final days of May 1940, nearly 400,000 Allied soldiers stood trapped on the beaches of Dunkirk, their backs to...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodIn the summer of 1940, with Europe fallen and invasion imminent, a few hundred Royal Air Force pilots stood as...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFrom the ancient Celtic tribes who carved their myths into the landscape to the modern communities shaped by centuries of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Minor marking to board, yellowed pages. A cornerstone of British genealogical and heraldic scholarship, Debrett's...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks: Condition: Very Good. Jacket: Good, bright with no tears or chips, minor shelf wear. Page Condition: Good. Markings: Remainder mark. Binding condition: Tight and secure. A richly...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, some minor wear to edges and corners; price clipped. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Binding intact. Ruth Hall's Marie Stopes: A...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, some chipping at edges and corners, minor tears; price clipped. Page Condition: Yellowed with age. Markings: No markings noted. Binding condition: Binding...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. One of the great achievements of Victorian fiction, The...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Oliver Twist is one of Charles Dickens' most celebrated...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. A cornerstone of Victorian literature, The Mill on the...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Always A Countryman is a charming and reflective memoir...