British & Irish History

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFor collectors, curators, and connoisseurs alike, Dictionary of British Antique Glass stands as an indispensable reference guide to one of Britain's most refined decorative...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersFew writers have captured the soul of rural England with such raw...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersFew figures in royal history have captured the world's imagination quite like Edward...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodFew figures in modern history cast as long a shadow as Winston Spencer Churchill, and William Manchester's monumental The Last Lion: Winston...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingFew intellectual partnerships have so profoundly shaped the course of modern history as that of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: price clipped djOne of the most decisive commanders of the Second World War speaks directly to...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingIn the fifth volume of his monumental six-part memoir, Winston S. Churchill chronicles the critical turning...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: foxed and worn boards; binding remains tight, clean text....

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: hinges crackedFew military memoirs carry the weight of a...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerFew battles have shaped the course of history as decisively as the clash of fleets off Cape...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodFew publishing endeavours are as ambitious — or as magnificently executed — as The Folio Society's landmark multi-volume A History of England, a sweeping...

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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodOne of the most intimate and vivid windows into seventeenth-century England, Pepys' Diary stands as an unparalleled masterpiece of personal writing — a candid,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew conflicts in the annals of the British Empire carry the dramatic, almost mythic weight of the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879, and The Zulu War:...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat began as a purely functional necessity became, in the hands of Britain's most eccentric architects and craftsmen,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAlong the winding banks of the Salt Water River, a remarkable generation of Irish women carved out lives...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFew lives have been as vividly and secretly documented as that of Margaret Fountaine, a Victorian gentlewoman who broke every...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedLong before the gold rush fever and the roar of colonial ambition reshaped the Australian continent, the land that would become Victoria...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodBehind the formidable image of an empire's sovereign lay the tender hand of a devoted artist — and Queen Victoria's...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom the clash of medieval steel to the thunder of modern artillery, History of the British Army presents a sweeping panorama of one of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn the rugged, sun-scorched landscapes of colonial Australia, one man's remarkable journey unfolds across twenty-five years of wandering, labour, and survival — Diary...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingWhen the sirens wailed and the blackout curtains were drawn across Britain's windows, an entire nation was called...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedFor nearly a century, the Royal Navy maintained a commanding presence across the vast and turbulent waters of the South West Pacific, and The...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingAt the dawn of powered flight, when the skies were the final frontier of human ambition, Fred T. Jane compiled...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew documents capture the heartbeat of Victorian rural England as vividly and intimately as Kilvert's Diary: 1870-1879. Written by the Reverend Francis Kilvert, a curate serving...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodTwo centuries after eleven tall ships carrying convicts, marines, and settlers departed Portsmouth Harbour to forge a new colony at the edge of the...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodFrom the gossipy salons of seventeenth-century England emerges one of history's most captivating collections of biography — John Aubrey's Brief Lives chronicles the lives...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the crossroads of engineering ambition and artistic grandeur stands the Victorian railway station — a monument to an age that dared to dream...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: WornPages: GoodFew works have so profoundly shaped the popular understanding of England's past as John Richard Green's landmark narrative, first published in 1874 to immediate...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: price clipped djs. Few works have captured the full sweep of English life with...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerFew figures in modern history possessed the audacity to chronicle the sweeping saga of an entire...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerAt its imperial zenith, London was a city of breathtaking contradictions — a sprawling metropolis of soaring neoclassical...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: RSL stamps on endpapers and prelims; faded boards;Few aircraft have captured the imagination...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the scorching hills and plains of southern Africa, 1879 became the year Britain's imperial ambitions collided catastrophically with one of the most formidable...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom the roar of Spitfires over the English Channel to the thunderous sorties of Lancaster bombers deep into enemy territory, Royal Air Force at...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodFrom the thunderous roar of a Spitfire to the supersonic scream of the Tornado, Eagles: 80 Aircraft That Made History With The...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedThe final chapter of the naval war unfolds with gripping authority in The War at Sea 1939–1945: Volume III, The...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerOne of the most captivating collections in English literary history, Brief Lives presents the irresistibly candid and intimate portraits of seventeenth-century England's most...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodAt the very heart of one of Victorian England's most revolutionary artistic movements stands a singular witness — William Michael Rossetti, brother of Dante...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodFew cities have inspired as rich a visual record as London, and London: Portrait of a City presents that legacy in magnificent, curated form...

Edition: 10th pr.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodFew names in the English literary canon command the reverence and adoration afforded to Jane Austen, and this magnificent seven-volume boxed set...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodFrom the windswept bogs of Connaught to the gaslit tenements of Dublin, Irish Short Stories is a masterfully curated anthology that captures the restless...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodFew nations have shaped the modern world as profoundly as Britain, and The Illustrated History of Britain presents a sweeping, visually rich...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Slipcase: WornPages: GoodCondition remarks: damaged slipcase, repaired with tape. Few documents illuminate the moral and political character of a civilisation more vividly than the records of its...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodFrom the mists of medieval England to the consolidation of the Tudor crown, The Kings of England: Ever Since It Was So Called presents...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodIn the autumn of 1933, J.B. Priestley set out on a sweeping tour of England, travelling from Southampton to Newcastle, through the Midlands and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerBehind the beloved watercolour pages of The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady lies a remarkable woman whose life was...