British & Irish History

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew women of the eighteenth century wielded a pen with such quiet brilliance as Frances Fanny Burney — novelist, diarist, and reluctant courtier —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingIn an era defined by industry, empire, and radical transformation, Victorian Visionaries illuminates the extraordinary minds who dared to imagine a different...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingAt the crossroads of Victorian orthodoxy and radical dissent, Heretics: The London Heretics 1870–1914 chronicles the vibrant intellectual...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodAt the crossroads of human behaviour and historical forces, Readings in Economic and Social History presents a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodBehind the polished prose of one of the twentieth century's most enigmatic literary voices lies a turbulent inner world, now laid bare in Jean...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedAt the dawn of the twentieth century, Britain stood at a crossroads — caught between the dying embers of Victorian...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the Roman conquest to the modern age, The History Today Companion to British History is an authoritative...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodAt the heart of one of history's most formidable reigns stands a woman of startling contradictions — a young girl who ascended the throne at eighteen...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: YellowedIn the turbulent decades of the seventeenth century, England tore itself apart in one of the most dramatic and consequential conflicts in its history — and...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingAt the turbulent heart of early twentieth-century British intellectual life stood one of its most captivating and contradictory figures —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the very heart of British democracy lies a labyrinth of secrets, scandals, and ruthless ambition — and The House pulls back the curtain...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedIn the annals of military catastrophe, few episodes are as haunting or as grimly spectacular as the Charge of the Light Brigade, and Cecil...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the dawn of the modern world, Britain stood as the forge of a global empire — and...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Advanced Reading Copy.Britain in the early 1960s stands at a crossroads — a nation shedding its imperial skin, wrestling with modernity, and...

Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingLong before the roar of the tractor engine transformed the British countryside, generations of farmers shaped the land with an extraordinary...

Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingIn the annals of Victorian naval disaster, few tragedies are as haunting or as preventable as the...

Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingOne of the most celebrated airmen of the Second World War, Wing Commander Guy Gibson...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFew literary lives are as rich, contradictory, and compulsively readable as that of William Somerset Maugham — and Ted Morgan's...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingFew bodies of work have so profoundly shaped the landscape of historical fiction as Sir...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerOne of the most unflinching social documents of the Victorian era, William Acton's Prostitution presents a groundbreaking and methodical examination...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerAt the dawn of the twentieth century, the British Empire found itself locked...

Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: FEP missingMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsIn the blood-soaked fields of northern France, one of the most catastrophic...

Edition: one of 450 copies printed for the English marketCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: quarter leather marbled boards rebound copy. Binding slightly shaky; rear ads present)Before the...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerFrom the dust of the Western Sudan to the collapse of one of...

Condition remarks:Book: PoorJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingIn the golden age of the English novel, Henry Fielding's The History of the Adventures...

Edition: special edition for sandpiper booksCondition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodAt the intersection of royal power and parliamentary authority lies one of the most consequential struggles of the medieval...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the gilded corridors of Edwardian England, a sharp-witted Southern belle from Virginia transforms herself into one of the most formidable political figures Britain...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the heart of Victorian Britain's most turbulent democratic crisis stands the Second Reform Act of 1867 — a seismic piece of legislation that...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerAt the intersection of intellectual ambition and radical politics stands the Fabian Society — a movement that, for over a...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the crossroads of faith, politics, and warfare, Britain, Ireland and the Crusades, c.1000–1300 presents a rigorous...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: Signed with inscriptionCondition remarks: Boards: faded spine, light bumping on corners. Binding: remains tight....

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Signed,Previous ownerAt the very heart of the City of London, on a street whose...

Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsAt the twilight of the Roman Empire and through the turbulent centuries that followed,...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: YellowedTen years after the events that made Trainspotting a cultural phenomenon, Irvine Welsh drags his iconic cast of Edinburgh misfits back into the light...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Remainder markWhat does it truly mean to be English — and why is England so perpetually, magnificently furious? In The Angry Island: Hunting...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: YellowedFrom the Norman Conquest to the final throes of the Hundred Years' War, England in Europe 1066–1453 presents a sweeping and authoritative examination of...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodCondition remarks: price clipped dj. From one of the twentieth century's most distinctive literary voices comes Marching Soldier, a long...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodIn the turbulent age of the Plantagenets, the knights and landowners of Yorkshire were far more...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew transformations in modern history are as dramatic as the metamorphosis of a penal colony into a thriving nation, and Australia: Gaol to Colony,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew partnerships in the history of entertainment have proven as enduringly beloved as that of W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, whose comic...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodThree hundred years after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 shattered the lives of hundreds of thousands of Protestant Huguenots across France,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFrom the turbulent aftermath of the Easter Rising to the complexities of the Troubles and beyond, Modern Ireland presents a compelling and authoritative chronicle of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerWhen the monarchy was swept back into power in 1660, England underwent one of the most dramatic political reversals in its long...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew documents illuminate the pageantry and constitutional machinery of the British Empire quite like the formal...