British & Irish History

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodStep into one of the world's most extraordinary repositories of human civilisation — the British Museum in London. Part of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image; worn spine/ In 1788, eleven ships carrying convicts, marines, and colonial officers departed Portsmouth, England,...

Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodCondition remarks: Bumbs and shelf wear to edge of DJ.For over a hundred years, Royal Doulton's Character and Toby Jugs have...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsFew collections in the world can rival the breathtaking scope and magnificence of the British Royal Collection, and The Royal Collection:...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFew organisations have shaped the fabric of British rural life as profoundly as the Women's Institute, and Jam and Jerusalem...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingLong before The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady became a publishing sensation, there was a woman behind...

Featured here are famous historic gardens, as well as new and restored ones. The photographs capture the atmosphere of each garden while the text describes the design, planting and ornamental...

A witty, informative narrative of one of history's most fascinating, enigmatic monarchs. Mary Queen of Scots is perhaps one of the most controversial and divisive monarchs in regal history. Her...

To stand beneath Joyce's tower in Sandycove reading "Finnegan's Wake" and pretending that he got it; to sing "Wild Rover" and "Black Velvet Band" in a pub until someone paid...

'That spider needs a good squishing!' Spuds is just an ordinary, everyday leprechaun, living life quietly with his wife, Rose. He's not easily upset. In fact, there's only one thing...

Childhood is confusing enough, but compared to middle age it is a piece of cake. When Christopher Matthew was six, the poems of A. A. Milne were always on hand...

In a radical new reading of Ulysses , Maria Tymoczko argues that previous scholarship has distorted our understanding of Joyce's epic novel by focusing on its English and continental literary...

An account of a journey through fear and hatred, and a report on ordinary life and the legacy of history in the desolate landscape of Northern Ireland. Toibin describes the...

Ireland is a strikingly different country now to the one it was in the mid-1990s. Dramatic economic, social and cultural changes, including the Celtic Tiger boom and increasingly secular debate...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingFew names in the English language carry the weight of William Shakespeare, and this magnificent...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the early nineteenth century, the colonial ambitions of the British Empire extended to the remote southern shores...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew institutions in the world command the reverence and artistic prestige of London's National...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWaddesdon Manor, the magnificent French Renaissance-style château nestled in the Buckinghamshire countryside, stands as one of Britain's most...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodCondition remarks: One small tear at back of jacket - repaired with non-acidic tape.Three hundred years after the revocation of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the haunting words of those who lived through it, Forgotten Voices of the Great War resurrects the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingFew monarchs in history have commanded such enduring fascination as Elizabeth I of England, and Elizabeth Jenkins's Elizabeth...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodHistory has never felt so immediate as it does in Peeps Into the Past, a richly illustrated journey through the defining moments...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the heart of one of the world's most enduring institutions lies a paradox: a hereditary monarchy navigating the turbulent currents of a modern...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFrom the Tudor age to the modern era, The Observers presents a rich tapestry of primary sources, readings, and structured exercises that chronicle British history from...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew names resonate through the corridors of English literary history with the enduring power of Geoffrey...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodBehind the grand doors of Whitehall, where ambition and incompetence collide in perfect harmony, The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodBefore the age of jet travel and GPS, venturing abroad was a matter of nerve, preparation, and — apparently — the right orthopaedic equipment....

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew moments in modern British history carry the seismic weight of the 1936 abdication crisis, and The Windsor Tapestry presents a sweeping, authoritative examination...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew monarchs in history have commanded the stage of power, pageantry, and political intrigue with the authority of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerSet against the sweeping backdrop of Revolutionary France, The Glass-Blowers chronicles the turbulent lives of the Busson family...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodWhat does it really mean to be British — and does the class you were born into still define who you are? Jilly Cooper's Class:...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom the sunlit dales of Yorkshire to the windswept farms of rural England, The Lord God Made Them All is a warm, irresistible memoir...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodCornwall in the early nineteenth century is a land of raw coastlines, industrial ambition, and simmering social tensions — and it is into this...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingBehind the prim façade of Victorian respectability lay a world of hidden desires, clandestine publications, and cultural contradictions that A...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the young and turbulent colonies of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land, the years between 1822 and 1838 crackle with...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew institutions are as deeply woven into the fabric of England's identity as the village — a living tapestry of thatched rooftops, ancient church...

Edition: 1st aus edCondition remarks:Book: FairJacket: DamagedPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: DJ: chipped and worn, with moderate loss; clipped. In the steaming jungles of wartime Borneo, ace RAF pilot James...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerAt the intersection of literary history and social transformation, Clifford Siskin's The Work of Writing presents a bold and provocative argument: that...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew figures in Victorian cultural life were as richly contradictory as Edward Lear — celebrated painter, tireless traveller, and the genius behind some of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew collections have shaped the English-speaking world's understanding of its own poetic heritage quite like English Poetry: In Three Volumes — Volume I: From Chaucer to...

Edition: 2nd pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: YellowedP.G. Wodehouse's Uncle Fred in the Springtime is a masterpiece of comic invention, plunging readers headlong into the gloriously absurd world of Blandings Castle,...

Edition: 7th pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingWhen the supremely unflappable Jeeves is once again called upon to rescue his well-meaning but catastrophically inept employer, Bertie Wooster, from a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: YellowedFrom the master of English comic fiction comes Summer Moonshine, a gloriously farcical novel set against the backdrop of a crumbling English country house and the...

Edition: 5th pr.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingFew comic partnerships in English literature have endured quite like that of Bertie Wooster and his unflappable manservant Jeeves, and Right Ho,...

Edition: 6th pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: YellowedWhat happens when an amiable, silver-tongued young man of leisure is blackmailed into stealing a policeman's helmet, outwitting a proto-fascist country squire, and navigating...

'An atmospheric story, sweeping across 80 years' Sunday Independent Donegal, Ireland, 1939 As the world teeters on the brink of WWII, Eliza Lavery is alone in the world after her...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersAt the turbulent dawn of European settlement in the Pacific, one man's ambition, tenacity,...