British & Irish History

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: WornPages: GoodFew publications shaped the landscape of popular fiction as profoundly as *The Strand Magazine*, the legendary London periodical that first brought Sherlock Holmes to...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: WornPages: GoodFew monarchs in history have commanded the pen as masterfully as the sword, but Elizabeth I was no ordinary ruler. Elizabeth I: The Word...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodOne of history's most celebrated intellects turns his formidable pen upon himself in Memoirs of My Life, the unfinished autobiography of Edward Gibbon, the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodCondition remarks: light stain on the dj. At the dawn of Australia's European settlement, a young naval lieutenant named Philip Gidley King sailed into...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew primary sources illuminate the harrowing birth of a nation with such raw, unfiltered humanity as the personal writings of a young British naval...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodCondition remarks: Bruised board. In the blood-soaked fields and castle-studded landscapes of medieval England, war was not merely a political instrument —...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodAt the height of Britain's imperial zenith, the decade spanning Queen Victoria's Golden and Diamond Jubilees — 1887 to 1897 — stands as one...

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Northern Ireland is one hundred years old. Northern Ireland does not exist. Both of these statements are true. It just depends on who you ask. How do you write about...

Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodSpanning tens of thousands of years of human history, People of the Black Mountains: The Beginning is an extraordinary work of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodBehind every great playwright, it seems, stands a constellation of remarkable women — and no writer proved this more dramatically than George Bernard Shaw....

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew women of the eighteenth century wielded a pen with such quiet brilliance as Frances Fanny Burney — novelist, diarist, and reluctant courtier —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingIn an era defined by industry, empire, and radical transformation, Victorian Visionaries illuminates the extraordinary minds who dared to imagine a different...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingAt the crossroads of Victorian orthodoxy and radical dissent, Heretics: The London Heretics 1870–1914 chronicles the vibrant intellectual...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodAt the crossroads of human behaviour and historical forces, Readings in Economic and Social History presents a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodBehind the polished prose of one of the twentieth century's most enigmatic literary voices lies a turbulent inner world, now laid bare in Jean...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedAt the dawn of the twentieth century, Britain stood at a crossroads — caught between the dying embers of Victorian...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodAt the heart of one of history's most formidable reigns stands a woman of startling contradictions — a young girl who ascended the throne at eighteen...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: YellowedIn the turbulent decades of the seventeenth century, England tore itself apart in one of the most dramatic and consequential conflicts in its history — and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingAt the turbulent heart of early twentieth-century British intellectual life stood one of its most captivating and contradictory figures —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the very heart of British democracy lies a labyrinth of secrets, scandals, and ruthless ambition — and The House pulls back the curtain...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedIn the annals of military catastrophe, few episodes are as haunting or as grimly spectacular as the Charge of the Light Brigade, and Cecil...

Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingLong before the roar of the tractor engine transformed the British countryside, generations of farmers shaped the land with an extraordinary...

Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingIn the annals of Victorian naval disaster, few tragedies are as haunting or as preventable as the...

Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingOne of the most celebrated airmen of the Second World War, Wing Commander Guy Gibson...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFew literary lives are as rich, contradictory, and compulsively readable as that of William Somerset Maugham — and Ted Morgan's...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingFew bodies of work have so profoundly shaped the landscape of historical fiction as Sir...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerOne of the most unflinching social documents of the Victorian era, William Acton's Prostitution presents a groundbreaking and methodical examination...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerAt the dawn of the twentieth century, the British Empire found itself locked...

Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: FEP missingMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsIn the blood-soaked fields of northern France, one of the most catastrophic...

Edition: one of 450 copies printed for the English marketCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: quarter leather marbled boards rebound copy. Binding slightly shaky; rear ads present)Before the...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerFrom the dust of the Western Sudan to the collapse of one of...

Condition remarks:Book: PoorJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingIn the golden age of the English novel, Henry Fielding's The History of the Adventures...

Edition: special edition for sandpiper booksCondition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodAt the intersection of royal power and parliamentary authority lies one of the most consequential struggles of the medieval...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the gilded corridors of Edwardian England, a sharp-witted Southern belle from Virginia transforms herself into one of the most formidable political figures Britain...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the heart of Victorian Britain's most turbulent democratic crisis stands the Second Reform Act of 1867 — a seismic piece of legislation that...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerAt the intersection of intellectual ambition and radical politics stands the Fabian Society — a movement that, for over a...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: Signed with inscriptionCondition remarks: Boards: faded spine, light bumping on corners. Binding: remains tight....

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Signed,Previous ownerAt the very heart of the City of London, on a street whose...

Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsAt the twilight of the Roman Empire and through the turbulent centuries that followed,...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: YellowedTen years after the events that made Trainspotting a cultural phenomenon, Irvine Welsh drags his iconic cast of Edinburgh misfits back into the light...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Remainder markWhat does it truly mean to be English — and why is England so perpetually, magnificently furious? In The Angry Island: Hunting...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: YellowedFrom the Norman Conquest to the final throes of the Hundred Years' War, England in Europe 1066–1453 presents a sweeping and authoritative examination of...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodCondition remarks: price clipped dj. From one of the twentieth century's most distinctive literary voices comes Marching Soldier, a long...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodIn the turbulent age of the Plantagenets, the knights and landowners of Yorkshire were far more...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew transformations in modern history are as dramatic as the metamorphosis of a penal colony into a thriving nation, and Australia: Gaol to Colony,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew partnerships in the history of entertainment have proven as enduringly beloved as that of W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, whose comic...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodThree hundred years after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 shattered the lives of hundreds of thousands of Protestant Huguenots across France,...