British & Irish History

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew documents capture the heartbeat of Victorian rural England as vividly and intimately as Kilvert's Diary: 1870-1879. Written by the Reverend Francis Kilvert, a curate serving...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodTwo centuries after eleven tall ships carrying convicts, marines, and settlers departed Portsmouth Harbour to forge a new colony at the edge of the...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodFrom the gossipy salons of seventeenth-century England emerges one of history's most captivating collections of biography — John Aubrey's Brief Lives chronicles the lives...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the crossroads of engineering ambition and artistic grandeur stands the Victorian railway station — a monument to an age that dared to dream...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: WornPages: GoodFew works have so profoundly shaped the popular understanding of England's past as John Richard Green's landmark narrative, first published in 1874 to immediate...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: price clipped djs. Few works have captured the full sweep of English life with...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerFew figures in modern history possessed the audacity to chronicle the sweeping saga of an entire...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerAt its imperial zenith, London was a city of breathtaking contradictions — a sprawling metropolis of soaring neoclassical...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: RSL stamps on endpapers and prelims; faded boards;Few aircraft have captured the imagination...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the scorching hills and plains of southern Africa, 1879 became the year Britain's imperial ambitions collided catastrophically with one of the most formidable...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom the roar of Spitfires over the English Channel to the thunderous sorties of Lancaster bombers deep into enemy territory, Royal Air Force at...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodFrom the thunderous roar of a Spitfire to the supersonic scream of the Tornado, Eagles: 80 Aircraft That Made History With The...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedThe final chapter of the naval war unfolds with gripping authority in The War at Sea 1939–1945: Volume III, The...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerOne of the most captivating collections in English literary history, Brief Lives presents the irresistibly candid and intimate portraits of seventeenth-century England's most...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodAt the very heart of one of Victorian England's most revolutionary artistic movements stands a singular witness — William Michael Rossetti, brother of Dante...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodFew cities have inspired as rich a visual record as London, and London: Portrait of a City presents that legacy in magnificent, curated form...

Edition: 10th pr.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodFew names in the English literary canon command the reverence and adoration afforded to Jane Austen, and this magnificent seven-volume boxed set...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodFrom the windswept bogs of Connaught to the gaslit tenements of Dublin, Irish Short Stories is a masterfully curated anthology that captures the restless...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodFew nations have shaped the modern world as profoundly as Britain, and The Illustrated History of Britain presents a sweeping, visually rich...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Slipcase: WornPages: GoodCondition remarks: damaged slipcase, repaired with tape. Few documents illuminate the moral and political character of a civilisation more vividly than the records of its...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodFrom the mists of medieval England to the consolidation of the Tudor crown, The Kings of England: Ever Since It Was So Called presents...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodIn the autumn of 1933, J.B. Priestley set out on a sweeping tour of England, travelling from Southampton to Newcastle, through the Midlands and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerBehind the beloved watercolour pages of The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady lies a remarkable woman whose life was...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: minor insect damage on fep. Few chapters in the history of the British Empire are as harrowing and...

Edition: First EditionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Boards: fair with some marks and specks; slight discolouration...

The book titled Ireland: An Encyclopedia for the Bewildered by the author K.S. Daly. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

They were the closest of sisters and the best of friends. But when, in a quixotic twist of fate, their uncle Edward VIII decided to abdicate the throne, the dynamic...

'Invaluable . . . A whistle-stop tour down through the ages' Jarlath Burns, GAA President The ultimate book to celebrate 140 years of Ireland's greatest sporting and cultural institution -...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodBehind every legendary voice lies an extraordinary life — and few voices of the twentieth century were as luminous, or...

Edition: Second 1955 reprintCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingFew missions in the annals of aerial warfare have captured the imagination quite like Operation Chastise —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew characters in all of literature have captured the world's imagination quite like the brilliant, eccentric detective of 221B Baker Street — and Sherlock Holmes:...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodHe was a scholar, a soldier, a strategist, and an enigma — T.E. Lawrence, better known to the world as Lawrence of Arabia, remains one...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodSet against the sweeping backdrop of a Welsh estate across the twentieth century, The Wheel of Fortune is Susan Howatch's monumental saga that chronicles...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodBehind every age of empire lurks a figure too wild, too reckless, and too combustible to be contained by its...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew literary figures have cast as long a shadow over the twentieth century as James Joyce — and Stan Gebler Davies's James Joyce: A...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedIn the sweltering heat of early colonial Sydney, a dramatic coup shook the foundations of British authority in the fledgling settlement of New South...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingIn the murky corridors of post-war British public life, two men — architect John Poulson and Newcastle city boss T. Dan Smith...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodFew careers in the annals of British maritime history are as dramatic and morally charged as that of the man at the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew regions of England have inspired such a rich and varied body of writing as the rugged, wind-swept landscapes of the West Country —...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodA cornerstone of the acclaimed Bloomsbury Guides to English Literature series, Victorian Literature: From 1830 to 1900 presents an authoritative and comprehensive survey of...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodPart of Bloomsbury's authoritative Guides to English Literature series, The Twentieth Century: From 1900 to the Present Day presents a comprehensive and rigorously structured...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the turbulent decades between 1790 and 1830, a revolution in human feeling and imagination swept through English letters, producing some of the most...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the century between the Restoration of Charles II and the dawn of the Romantic Age, English literature achieved a brilliance of wit, reason,...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodPart of the prestigious Bloomsbury Guides to English Literature series, The Renaissance: From 1500 to 1660 presents a comprehensive and authoritative survey of one...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerAt the heart of one of English literature's most celebrated family chronicles stands the Forsyte clan — a proud, prosperous,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew phrases carry the weight of Winston Churchill's immortal words — Never was so much owed by so many to so few — and this...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodAt a time when crossing the Channel was an act of daring and the cobblestoned roads of Europe were as treacherous as they were...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodFew monarchs in history have wielded the written and spoken word with the lethal precision of Elizabeth I, and Maria Perry's Elizabeth I: The...