British & Irish History

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodWhat does it mean when a civilization turns to images of catastrophe, ruin, and upheaval to articulate its deepest anxieties?...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingA masterly act of curation by one of Britain's most beloved popular educators, The Book...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerStep into a world of immaculate herbaceous borders, grand glasshouses, and carefully sculpted landscapes — The Victorian Garden by Tom Carter is...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerLong before the age of social media, the English kept diaries — and in doing so,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFrom the smoke-choked skies above Tower Bridge to the smouldering ruins of Coventry and beyond, Blitz on Britain presents a definitive and unflinching account of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerWhen the roar of aircraft engines became the sound of royal ceremony, the story of British monarchy took to the skies —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the helm of one of history's most audacious maritime undertakings, Arthur Phillip — naval officer, visionary administrator, and reluctant empire-builder — charted a...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew writers have loved the British landscape with as much intellectual passion and lyrical precision as Geoffrey Grigson, and Geoffrey Grigson's Countryside: The Classic Companion...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFor the discerning collector who has ever held a piece of Wedgwood and sensed the history embedded in its cool, sculpted surface, 18th-Century Wedgwood:...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew British writers of the twentieth century have inspired as much fascination, controversy, and devoted readership as Evelyn Waugh — and Evelyn Waugh and His...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodLong before the term nature journaling entered the cultural lexicon, Edith Holden was quietly chronicling the world around her with an eye of uncommon beauty...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodWhat if a city itself could be read as a novel — its streets, pubs, and alleyways forming the very architecture of a literary...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew characters in literary history have captured the imagination of readers across generations quite like the razor-sharp detective of 221B Baker Street, and this magnificent omnibus...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt Britain's darkest moment, when the skies above the English Channel became the crucible of civilisation's survival, Their Finest Hour chronicles the extraordinary story...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodCondition remarks: In mylar sleeveAgainst all odds and against all reason, Douglas Bader — a man who lost both legs...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn the bitter South Atlantic winter of 1982, Britain and Argentina fought a conflict that would define a generation — The Battle for the...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingHe was a young man who stared death in the face and wrote about it with the clarity of someone who had nothing left...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedFrom the inner circles of early twentieth-century Bohemian Europe, a unique and intimate portrait emerges — GM: Memories of George...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodLong before the age of modern medicine, a guild of tradesmen-turned-healers quietly shaped the health and wellbeing of an entire city — The London Apothecaries chronicles...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingFew political figures in British history cast as long a shadow as William Ewart Gladstone, and The Gladstone Diaries: Volume...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerFrom the fog-laden parlours of Victorian England to the tense, clock-ticking duels of the twentieth century,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingBehind the closed doors of a Royal Navy tribunal, one man's honour, career, and legacy hang in the balance — Court Martial by Alastair...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedIn the turbulent heart of seventeenth-century Britain, where loyalty was a currency as volatile as gunpowder, James Hamilton, First Duke...

Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingBehind every great literary movement stands a great publisher, and few in the twentieth century cast a longer shadow...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodAt the heart of Britain's most turbulent twentieth century decades stood two remarkable figures whose quiet dignity and steadfast resolve would define a nation's character...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodShe was a creature utterly unlike any other — imperious, bizarre, and incandescently gifted — and Victoria Glendinning's Edith Sitwell: A Unicorn Among Lions...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the waning years of the Second World War, one man quietly crisscrossed England, not as a soldier or statesman, but as a custodian...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodCondition remarks: Original price sticker '$60.00' on back of DJ.A treasure trove of centuries of accumulated English wisdom, The Oxford Dictionary of English...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew works in the Western canon have matched the shattering emotional power of The Tragedy of King Lear, William Shakespeare's towering masterpiece of pride, betrayal, and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingFew figures in the annals of exploration command as much reverence and fascination as James Cook, the Yorkshire-born navigator who charted the unknown...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingFew novels in the English language have captured the turbulent passage from innocence to experience with the raw emotional power of Great Expectations. Charles...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingAt the heart of Victorian England's sharpest social satire stands old Martin Chuzzlewit, a wealthy patriarch surrounded by...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew colonial ventures captured the idealism and ambition of the Victorian era quite like the Canterbury Settlement — and A....

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew figures in the annals of exploration cast as long a shadow as Captain James Cook, and Richard Hough's The Murder of Captain James...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: marking '4' on title page. Set against the rugged industrial landscape of Victorian...

Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsAt the height of the Elizabethan age, when England's ambitions stretched...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedCondition remarks: fep clipped. Set against the glittering spectacle of a royal coronation in mid-twentieth-century London, Paul...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedAt its zenith, the British Empire was the largest the world had ever seen, spanning continents, reshaping...

Edition: 2nd aus ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerLong before Winnie-the-Pooh captured the world's imagination, A. A. Milne gifted children and adults alike...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodFew works have so fundamentally reshaped our understanding of private life as Lawrence Stone's monumental The Family, Sex and Marriage: In England...

Edition: 5th ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedCondition remarks: price clipped dj. Set against the roaring furnaces and coal-blackened valleys of nineteenth-century Wales, Rape of the Fair...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedFreedom has always come at a price, and Thirty Who Were Tried: or Eternal Vigilance by Leslie Hale presents a...

Edition: Left Book Club EditionCondition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Newspaper clipping adhered to rear pastedown. Minimal underlining and...

Edition: 9th ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodNestled in the rolling Northumberland countryside, Wallington Hall stands as one of England's most remarkable country houses...