British & Irish History

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFrom the turbulent aftermath of the Easter Rising to the complexities of the Troubles and beyond, Modern Ireland presents a compelling and authoritative chronicle of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerWhen the monarchy was swept back into power in 1660, England underwent one of the most dramatic political reversals in its long...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodStep into one of the world's most extraordinary repositories of human civilisation — the British Museum in London. Part of...

Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodCondition remarks: Bumbs and shelf wear to edge of DJ.For over a hundred years, Royal Doulton's Character and Toby Jugs have...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsFew collections in the world can rival the breathtaking scope and magnificence of the British Royal Collection, and The Royal Collection:...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFew organisations have shaped the fabric of British rural life as profoundly as the Women's Institute, and Jam and Jerusalem...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingLong before The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady became a publishing sensation, there was a woman behind...

Featured here are famous historic gardens, as well as new and restored ones. The photographs capture the atmosphere of each garden while the text describes the design, planting and ornamental...

Childhood is confusing enough, but compared to middle age it is a piece of cake. When Christopher Matthew was six, the poems of A. A. Milne were always on hand...

In a radical new reading of Ulysses , Maria Tymoczko argues that previous scholarship has distorted our understanding of Joyce's epic novel by focusing on its English and continental literary...

Ireland is a strikingly different country now to the one it was in the mid-1990s. Dramatic economic, social and cultural changes, including the Celtic Tiger boom and increasingly secular debate...

The gripping account of how the Royal family really operates, from the journalist who has spent years studying them. Who really runs the show and, as Charles III begins his...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingFew names in the English language carry the weight of William Shakespeare, and this magnificent...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodCondition remarks: One small tear at back of jacket - repaired with non-acidic tape.Three hundred years after the revocation of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingFew monarchs in history have commanded such enduring fascination as Elizabeth I of England, and Elizabeth Jenkins's Elizabeth...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodHistory has never felt so immediate as it does in Peeps Into the Past, a richly illustrated journey through the defining moments...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the heart of one of the world's most enduring institutions lies a paradox: a hereditary monarchy navigating the turbulent currents of a modern...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFrom the Tudor age to the modern era, The Observers presents a rich tapestry of primary sources, readings, and structured exercises that chronicle British history from...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodBehind the grand doors of Whitehall, where ambition and incompetence collide in perfect harmony, The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodBefore the age of jet travel and GPS, venturing abroad was a matter of nerve, preparation, and — apparently — the right orthopaedic equipment....

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew moments in modern British history carry the seismic weight of the 1936 abdication crisis, and The Windsor Tapestry presents a sweeping, authoritative examination...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerSet against the sweeping backdrop of Revolutionary France, The Glass-Blowers chronicles the turbulent lives of the Busson family...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodWhat does it really mean to be British — and does the class you were born into still define who you are? Jilly Cooper's Class:...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom the sunlit dales of Yorkshire to the windswept farms of rural England, The Lord God Made Them All is a warm, irresistible memoir...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodCornwall in the early nineteenth century is a land of raw coastlines, industrial ambition, and simmering social tensions — and it is into this...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingBehind the prim façade of Victorian respectability lay a world of hidden desires, clandestine publications, and cultural contradictions that A...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the young and turbulent colonies of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land, the years between 1822 and 1838 crackle with...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew institutions are as deeply woven into the fabric of England's identity as the village — a living tapestry of thatched rooftops, ancient church...

Edition: 1st aus edCondition remarks:Book: FairJacket: DamagedPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: DJ: chipped and worn, with moderate loss; clipped. In the steaming jungles of wartime Borneo, ace RAF pilot James...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerAt the intersection of literary history and social transformation, Clifford Siskin's The Work of Writing presents a bold and provocative argument: that...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew figures in Victorian cultural life were as richly contradictory as Edward Lear — celebrated painter, tireless traveller, and the genius behind some of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew collections have shaped the English-speaking world's understanding of its own poetic heritage quite like English Poetry: In Three Volumes — Volume I: From Chaucer to...

Edition: 2nd pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: YellowedP.G. Wodehouse's Uncle Fred in the Springtime is a masterpiece of comic invention, plunging readers headlong into the gloriously absurd world of Blandings Castle,...

Edition: 7th pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingWhen the supremely unflappable Jeeves is once again called upon to rescue his well-meaning but catastrophically inept employer, Bertie Wooster, from a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: YellowedFrom the master of English comic fiction comes Summer Moonshine, a gloriously farcical novel set against the backdrop of a crumbling English country house and the...

Edition: 5th pr.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingFew comic partnerships in English literature have endured quite like that of Bertie Wooster and his unflappable manservant Jeeves, and Right Ho,...

Edition: 6th pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: YellowedWhat happens when an amiable, silver-tongued young man of leisure is blackmailed into stealing a policeman's helmet, outwitting a proto-fascist country squire, and navigating...

A beautifully written and illustrated account of the threatened plant species that inhabit the British Isles. Britain and Ireland are home to around 300 species of rare flowering plants, and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersAt the turbulent dawn of European settlement in the Pacific, one man's ambition, tenacity,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the fateful year of 1788, eleven ships carrying over a thousand souls — convicts, marines, and officials alike — crossed the vast, unforgiving...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersFor eighty years, the British Empire cast its unwanted across the seas to...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingSet against the sweeping backdrop of Cornwall and Ireland across several turbulent decades, All the Day Long chronicles...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn A Fine Anger, Neil Philip delivers a rigorous and illuminating critical study of one of Britain's most enigmatic and celebrated authors, Alan Garner, whose...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodGavin Maxwell — celebrated naturalist, adventurer, and author of the beloved Ring of Bright Water — turns his luminous prose...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsIn the annals of Australia's colonial past, few stories are as dramatic and ultimately tragic as that of Thomas Peel,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom the crumbling remnants of Saxon burhs to the formidable gatehouse towers of the late medieval period, Town Defences in England and Wales presents...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew figures in English literary history loom as large or as vividly as Samuel Johnson — and John Wain's acclaimed biography captures the full measure...

Edition: limited edition unnumberedCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: DJ: clipped; edges chipped and torn with some loss. Pages: foxing on prelims...