British & Irish History

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingSet against the rugged, windswept landscapes of late 18th-century Cornwall, Jeremy Poldark is the third instalment in Winston Graham's celebrated Poldark saga —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodA cornerstone of architectural scholarship, The Buildings of England: Staffordshire stands as an indispensable guide to one of England's most historically layered counties, chronicling...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingThere are books that make you laugh, and then there are the Dornford Yates Berry novels — gloriously witty, warmly nostalgic, and utterly irresistible...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodAt the turn of the twentieth century, England basked in the last golden glow of imperial confidence — a world...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFirst staged in 1728 to thunderous applause at Lincoln's Inn Fields, John Gay's The Beggar's Opera remains one...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBehind every great monarch stands a figure of equal brilliance, and in King Without a Crown, Daphne Bennett...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the teeming, raucous world of Elizabethan and Jacobean London, few figures burned as brightly — or as...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn one of the most incisive works of literary criticism to emerge from the twentieth century, Vivian Mercier...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat happens when a sharp-eyed modern journalist retraces one of the most celebrated journeys in English literary history?...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedIn the tumultuous theatre of the Hundred Years' War, one man rose to such legendary heights that his very name struck terror into the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodAt just twenty-four years of age, William Pitt the Younger became Britain's youngest Prime Minister, and Robin Reilly's authoritative biography chronicles the extraordinary life of...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodOne of the most infamous episodes in naval history roars back to life in Mutiny!!: Aboard H.M. Armed Transport 'Bounty' in 1789, a gripping...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: YellowedIn the frozen grip of the Arctic, an entire Royal Navy expedition vanished without trace — and the desperate quest to find it became one...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodBefore the age of the computer, there was Ada — a woman of breathtaking intellect born into the shadow of literary legend, whose genius would...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedIn the turbulent literary world of Elizabethan and Jacobean England, satire was not a gentle art — it was a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingLong before the Romantics reshaped English verse, William Cowper was quietly revolutionising poetry from his modest retreat in...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedAt the crossroads of biography and literary criticism stands The Egotistical Sublime, a landmark scholarly work that traces the inner...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingA restless Yorkshire farmer, a spinster escaping her dreary small-town life, and a schoolmaster with...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew figures in English literary history are as brilliantly contradictory as John Wilmot, the second Earl of Rochester — a Restoration court wit, libertine poet, and...

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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: N/APages: GoodAt the crossroads of nationalism and artistic vision, Poetry and Ireland brings together two of the most vital literary voices of the Irish Literary Revival...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedIn the smoky haze of post-war London and Oxford, a remarkable cast of literary figures drank, argued, and burned with...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFrom the twilight of the Victorian era to the turbulent heart of the twentieth century, Missing Persons is the remarkable...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodAt a time when Britain stood on the precipice of industrial transformation, T. S. Ashton's An Economic History of England:...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedA fever dream set along the dark corridors of the River Thames, Iain Sinclair's Downriver is a visionary and hallucinatory...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedIn the annals of Romantic poetry, few lives burned as brightly — or as briefly — as that of John Keats, and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodIn the grand tradition of English letters, few stories are as richly layered as the rise and decline of the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingFor every reader who has ever wondered where Hardy walked, where Keats found his inspiration, or where Shakespeare's world truly began, The Oxford...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the scandalous heart of the Restoration court stood John Wilmot, the Second Earl of Rochester — rake, libertine, and one of the most...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the turbulent heart of eighteenth-century British politics stood a monarch determined to reclaim royal prerogative in the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew monarchs in British history have been so persistently misunderstood as George II, a king who reigned for thirty-three turbulent years yet has long languished...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the glittering, dangerous world of the Restoration court, poetry was as much a weapon as a rapier...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: YellowedOne of the most extraordinary partnerships in modern military history comes to life in Lawrence and the Arabs, Robert Graves's authoritative account of T.E. Lawrence —...