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London's Triumph: Merchant Adventurers and the Tudor City
Author: Stephen Alford Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The story of the individuals whose ambition and recklessness transformed London, England and the world. Life in Europe was...
The Birth of the RAF, 1918: The World's First Air Force
Author: Richard Overy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 A short, brilliant account of the birth of the RAF for the centenary of its founding The dizzying pace...
Lost Realms: Histories of Britain from the Romans to the Vikings
Author: Thomas Williams Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 'A beautiful, beautiful book . . . archaeology is changing so much about the way we view the so-called Dark Ages...
Diana: The Life and Legacy of the People's Princess
Author: Brian Hoey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 189 Diana, Princess of Wales was admired throughout the world for her vitality, determination and beauty. When she first came on the...
A Revolution of Feeling: The Decade that Forged the Modern Mind
Author: Rachel Hewitt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 In the 1790s, Britain underwent what the politician Edmund Burke called 'the most important of all revolutions...a revolution in sentiments'. Inspired...
Our History of the 20th Century: As Told in Diaries, Journals and Letters
Author: Travis Elborough Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 What better way to understand Britain during the twentieth century than through the eyes of those who experienced it at first...
Royal Renegades: The Children of Charles I and the English Civil Wars
Author: Linda Porter Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 The fact that the English Civil War led to the execution of King Charles I in January 1649 is well known,...
Tudor Church Militant: Edward VI and the Protestant Reformation
Author: Diarmaid MacCulloch Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The leading book on the short, radically Protestant reign of Edward VI, reissued for the 500th anniversary of the...
Thomas Cromwell: A Life
Author: Diarmaid MacCulloch Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 752 'This is the biography we have been awaiting for 400 years' - Hilary Mantel Born in obscurity in Putney,...
The Lost Imperialist: Lord Dufferin, Memory and Mythmaking in an Age of Celebrity
Author: Andrew Gailey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 Winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography 2016 Frederick Hamiton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, enjoyed a glittering...
Loot: Britain and the Benin Bronzes
Author: Barnaby Phillips Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 "In 1897, Britain responded to the killing of a group of officials by razing an empire to the ground. The men...
Crown's Royal Britain
Author: Gill Knappett Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 64 Join us on a behind-the-scenes tour of the filming locations for the award winning Netflix series The Crown. The...
A History of Britain: v.2: British Wars, 1603-1776
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The Wicked Wit of Prince Philip
Author: Karen Dolby Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh, KG, KT, OM, GBE has been at the forefront of British public life since...
The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World - and Globalization Began
Author: Valerie Hansen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 An authoritative rethinking of global history by a leading Yale professor When did globalization begin? Most observers have settled...
Rebellion in the Middle Ages: Fight Against the Crown
Author: Matthew Lewis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 248 Shakespeare's Henry IV lamented 'Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown'. It was true of that king's reign and of...
Diana: Her Last Love
Author: Kate Snell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 WITH NEW AFTERWORD FROM THE AUTHOR. When you're the most famous woman in the world, can you really love...
Aerial Atlas of Ancient Britain
Author: David R. Abram Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 A spectacular collection of aerial photographs of Britain's most extraordinary prehistoric sites. This breathtaking collection of aerial images reveals ancient...
The Channel: The Remarkable Men and Women Who Made It the Most Fascinating Waterway in the World
Author: Charlie Connelly Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 A bulwark against invasion, a conduit for exchange and a challenge to be conquered, the English Channel has always been many...
John Stonehouse, My Father: The True Story of the Runaway MP
Author: Julia Stonehouse Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 'Clear, dispassionate and selfless.' - Spectator 'A compelling account of an extraordinary political scandal, written from inside the Stonehouse...
Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland
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Author: Neal Ascherson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 326 The rediscovery of Scotland's past and a wake-up call about its future, from a leading scholar-journalist Scotland has a new Parliament...
The Elizabethans
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Author: A N Wilson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 "In Wilson's hands these familiar stories make for gripping reading."--The New York Times Book Review New York Times Book Review...
On a Pedestal: A Trip around Britain's Statues
Author: Roger Lytollis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 This is a book for people who are interested in statues . . . and for people who aren't. It explores...
A History of Britain (Vol 1) At the Edge of the World: 3000BC-AD1603
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Queen Elizabeth II's Guide to Life
Author: Karen Dolby Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Queen Elizabeth II - Britain's longest-serving monarch, Supreme Governor of the Church of England and the Head of the Commonwealth -...
Rendezvous at the Russian Tea Rooms: The Spyhunter, the Fashion Designer & the Man From Moscow
Author: Paul Willetts Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 RENDEZVOUS AT THE RUSSIAN TEA ROOMS provides the first comprehensive account of what was once hailed by a leading...
Richard III and the Princes in the Tower
Author: Alison Weir Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Alison Weir investigates one of the most enduring murder mysteries in English history - the death of the lost...
Trumpets from the Steep
Author: Diana Cooper Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The third volume of Diana Cooper's witty, gossipy and brilliant autobiography - the perfect evocation of glittering high society...
The History of the Kings of Britain
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The Restless Republic: Britain without a Crown
Author: Anna Keay Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 THE SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 WINNER OF THE POL ROGER DUFF COOPER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR...
Following in the Footsteps of King Arthur
Author: Andrew Beattie Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 The story of King Arthur is one of the best known in English history: he was the boy who was schooled...
King Charles III: 100 moments from his journey to the throne
Author: Arthur Edwards Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Stunning, photographic King Charles III memorabilia gift for royal fans As the nation celebrates the coronation of...
Lost Realms: Histories of Britain from the Romans to the Vikings
Author: Thomas Williams Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 'A beautiful, beautiful book . . . archaeology is changing so much about the way we view the so-called Dark Ages...
Diana: The Life and Legacy of the People's Princess
Author: Brian Hoey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 189 Diana, Princess of Wales was admired throughout the world for her vitality, determination and beauty. When she first came on the...
She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth
Author: Helen Castor Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 When Edward VI - Henry VIII's longed-for son - died in 1553, extraordinarily, there was no one left to claim the...
The Unsettling of Europe: How Migration Reshaped a Continent
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Author: Peter Gatrell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 An acclaimed historian examines postwar migration's fundamental role in shaping modern Europe Migration is perhaps the most pressing issue of our...
The Last Hurrah: The 1947 Royal Tour of Southern Africa and the End of Empire
Author: Graham Viney Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 'A fascinating but too little noticed book which tells a great deal about [the Queen's] formation. It draws on a single...
Mr Horniman's Walrus: Legacies of a Remarkable Victorian Family
Author: Clare Paterson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Family patriarch John Horniman established the tea company that bore his name in 1826, which went on to become one of...
Henry VIII: The Decline and Fall of a Tyrant
Author: Robert Hutchinson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 'Hutchinson brilliantly conveys the atmosphere of terror...a gripping narrative' DAILY MAIL 'A brilliantly readable account of Henry's last years' SUNDAY TIMES...
Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall: From Outcast to Future Queen Consort
Author: Angela Levin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A compelling new biography of Camilla, Queen Consort, that reveals how she transformed her role and established herself as one of...
Outbreak: 1939
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The Diamond Queen: Elizabeth II and Her People
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Anatomy of a Killing: Life and Death on a Divided Island
Author: Ian Cobain (Y) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 On the morning of Saturday 22nd April 1978, members of an Active Service Unit of the IRA hijacked a car...
After The Victorians
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The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life
Author: John le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The Sunday Times no. 1 memoir now in paperback The Pigeon Tunnel, John le Carre's memoir and his...
This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World
Author: Jerry Brotton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 A richly detailed account of the little-known cultural and political relationship between Elizabethan England and the Islamic world In...
The Gentleman's Daughter: Women's Lives in Georgian England.
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English Country Life
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