British & Irish History

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For more than 70 years, Prince Philip was the Queen's constant companion and support, but his vital role in the monarchy has too often gone largely unnoticed. Now, in Ingrid...

The book titled Ireland: An Encyclopedia for the Bewildered by the author K.S. Daly. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The stunning debut of an important new history writer In this magnificent biography of a marriage-between Great Britain's King George III and Queen Charlotte-Janice Hadlow exposes with astonishing emotional force...

They were the closest of sisters and the best of friends. But when, in a quixotic twist of fate, their uncle Edward VIII decided to abdicate the throne, the dynamic...

The guides that show you what others only tell you! Features a 'Discovery' feature which describes each region and its highlights, to ensure you make the most of your trip....

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew stones in the world carry as much mythic weight as the Blarney Stone, and Blarney Castle: The...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodBehind every legendary voice lies an extraordinary life — and few voices of the twentieth century were as luminous, or...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodHe was a scholar, a soldier, a strategist, and an enigma — T.E. Lawrence, better known to the world as Lawrence of Arabia, remains one...

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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the frost-bitten stillness of the British countryside, where survival is the only law, The Running...

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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the heart of Victorian England's prosperous upper-middle class stands Soames Forsyte, a solicitor of iron will and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodSet against the sweeping backdrop of a Welsh estate across the twentieth century, The Wheel of Fortune is Susan Howatch's monumental saga that chronicles...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodBehind every age of empire lurks a figure too wild, too reckless, and too combustible to be contained by its...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the ancient oral traditions of the Anglo-Saxons to the modernist experimentation of the twentieth century, A Short...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt a time when Northern Ireland was synonymous with conflict, division, and despair, Dervla Murphy did what few...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the mud-soaked trenches of the Western Front to the shattered landscapes of Gallipoli, Death's Men: Soldiers of...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedIn the sweltering heat of early colonial Sydney, a dramatic coup shook the foundations of British authority in the fledgling settlement of New South...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingIn the murky corridors of post-war British public life, two men — architect John Poulson and Newcastle city boss T. Dan Smith...

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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodA cornerstone of the acclaimed Bloomsbury Guides to English Literature series, Victorian Literature: From 1830 to 1900 presents an authoritative and comprehensive survey of...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodPart of Bloomsbury's authoritative Guides to English Literature series, The Twentieth Century: From 1900 to the Present Day presents a comprehensive and rigorously structured...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the turbulent decades between 1790 and 1830, a revolution in human feeling and imagination swept through English letters, producing some of the most...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the century between the Restoration of Charles II and the dawn of the Romantic Age, English literature achieved a brilliance of wit, reason,...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodPart of the prestigious Bloomsbury Guides to English Literature series, The Renaissance: From 1500 to 1660 presents a comprehensive and authoritative survey of one...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerAt the heart of one of English literature's most celebrated family chronicles stands the Forsyte clan — a proud, prosperous,...

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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodAt a time when crossing the Channel was an act of daring and the cobblestoned roads of Europe were as treacherous as they were...

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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodOne of history's most celebrated intellects turns his formidable pen upon himself in Memoirs of My Life, the unfinished autobiography of Edward Gibbon, the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA century after the guns fell silent on the Western Front, The WW1 Centenary Exhibition stands as a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodCondition remarks: light stain on the dj. At the dawn of Australia's European settlement, a young naval lieutenant named Philip Gidley King sailed into...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew primary sources illuminate the harrowing birth of a nation with such raw, unfiltered humanity as the personal writings of a young British naval...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodCondition remarks: Bruised board. In the blood-soaked fields and castle-studded landscapes of medieval England, war was not merely a political instrument —...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodAt the height of Britain's imperial zenith, the decade spanning Queen Victoria's Golden and Diamond Jubilees — 1887 to 1897 — stands as one...

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Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodSpanning tens of thousands of years of human history, People of the Black Mountains: The Beginning is an extraordinary work of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodBehind every great playwright, it seems, stands a constellation of remarkable women — and no writer proved this more dramatically than George Bernard Shaw....