British & Irish History

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat happens when a razor-sharp outsider's eye turns upon the most formidable minds in mid-twentieth-century Britain? Fly and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew eras in British history crackle with as much turbulence, transformation, and contradiction as the eighteenth century —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA century of transformation, conflict, and extraordinary ambition unfolds in David Thomson's authoritative account of Britain's most consequential...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew nations have a story as rich, turbulent, and consequential as England's, and George Macaulay Trevelyan's A Shortened...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageScotland's story is one of fierce independence, sweeping landscapes, and a people who have shaped the course of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThe Scottish Highlands simmer with rebellion and intrigue in Nigel Tranter's Gold for Prince Charlie, the thrilling conclusion...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the intersection of power and public opinion stands the British press — and few figures were better placed to examine that relationship than...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the heart of eighteenth-century English letters stands Samuel Johnson — poet, moralist, and arguably the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersFrom the turbulent reign of George III to the modern era of Elizabeth II, The Making...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the spring of 1982, a young Royal Navy Lieutenant named David Tinker sailed to the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageHailed by *The Times* as the most important book on British Government to have appeared since the war,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodIn the teeming, treacherous streets of eighteenth-century London and Westminster, a young man of singular sincerity embarks on a desperate quest —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerA masterpiece of eighteenth-century satirical fiction, The Spiritual Quixote: or The Summer's Ramble of Mr. Geoffry Wildgoose, A Comic Romance...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerPublished in 1792, Anna St. Ives stands as one of the most radical novels of the English Jacobin literary movement,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew novels of the eighteenth century capture the raucous, unruly spirit of Georgian Britain with the same riotous energy as...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodSet against the turbulent backdrop of twentieth-century Dublin, Farewell Companions chronicles the intertwined lives of a group of Irish men and women as they...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Some pages folded, minor tears.At the turn of the nineteenth century, Ireland was...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingA Modern Comedy is John Galsworthy's masterful continuation of his celebrated Forsyte Chronicles, a sweeping omnibus that binds together three novels — The White...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingA treasury of the English-speaking world's finest verse, The Poets' World: An Anthology of English Poetry is a landmark collection that chronicles the rich...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the turn of the twentieth century, the banks of Belfast Lough thundered with the sound of riveting...

**Features over 100 sumptuous images** From the birth of the house of Windsor in 1917, its leading women - Queen Mary, the Queen Mother, the Duchess of Windsor and Queen...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the slums of Manchester to the corridors of Westminster, Fame is the Spur chronicles the extraordinary rise...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerAt the heart of the Bloomsbury Group, witnessing the tremors that would shake the world into war — Leonard Woolf's Downhill All...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersCondition remarks: Rebound first edition.Few rivers in the British Isles have inspired as much verse...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew novels in the English literary canon have captured the brutal realities of Victorian poverty with such unflinching moral force as Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist. Published...

Condition remarks:Book: PoorJacket: N/APages: GoodCondition remarks: Perfect candidate for rebinding. Pages in good condition with minimal foxing (refer to title page).In an age of religious uncertainty and institutional reckoning, John...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew windows into the Victorian literary mind are as intimate and unguarded as a collection of private correspondence,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn the first half of the nineteenth century, London blazed as the intellectual and creative capital of the world — and London Lights...

Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the heart of Tudor England's political machinery stood Sir Nicholas Bacon, a figure whose shrewd legal mind and formidable administrative talents...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFew institutions have shaped the cultural landscape of Britain quite so profoundly as its monarchy, and Royal Heritage: The Story...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingOne of the world's most celebrated repositories of Western European painting, the National Gallery in London houses a collection that spans seven centuries...

Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: DamagedPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: DJ is damaged with multiple tears to spine.At the glittering heart of the Restoration stage stands William Congreve, a...

Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerAt the intersection of faith and aesthetics, Victorian Types, Victorian Shadows: Biblical Typology in Victorian...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew dynasties have shaped the course...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodAt the crossroads of empire, ideology, and artistic expression, Creditable Warriors presents a sweeping anthology of English literature produced between 1830 and 1876 — a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingFew institutions in the world embody the ambition and aesthetic vision of Victorian Britain quite like the Victoria...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFew works in the English literary canon have provoked as much debate — or remained as urgently relevant — as...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodWhat does it mean when a civilization turns to images of catastrophe, ruin, and upheaval to articulate its deepest anxieties?...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingA masterly act of curation by one of Britain's most beloved popular educators, The Book...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerStep into a world of immaculate herbaceous borders, grand glasshouses, and carefully sculpted landscapes — The Victorian Garden by Tom Carter is...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerLong before the age of social media, the English kept diaries — and in doing so,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFrom the smoke-choked skies above Tower Bridge to the smouldering ruins of Coventry and beyond, Blitz on Britain presents a definitive and unflinching account of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerWhen the roar of aircraft engines became the sound of royal ceremony, the story of British monarchy took to the skies —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the helm of one of history's most audacious maritime undertakings, Arthur Phillip — naval officer, visionary administrator, and reluctant empire-builder — charted a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew artists have captured the raw, untameable power of nature with such breathtaking mastery as J.M.W. Turner, and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew institutions shaped the course of modern warfare as profoundly as the Royal Air Force's maritime squadrons, and Famous Maritime Squadrons of the RAF...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew aircraft have captured the imagination of the world quite like the Supermarine Spitfire — a machine so...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew writers have loved the British landscape with as much intellectual passion and lyrical precision as Geoffrey Grigson, and Geoffrey Grigson's Countryside: The Classic Companion...