British & Irish History

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBorn into the turbulent world of the English Lake District at the dawn of the nineteenth century, Judith...

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Edition: 6th pr.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerAt the crossroads of landscape, labour, and identity stands Irish Heritage: The Landscape, The People and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodBehind the respectable façade of post-war Britain, loyalties fracture and moral certainties crumble in James Barlow's tense and unsparing novel, The Patriots. Set against the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the turbulent landscape of post-war British industry, Fairfields: A Study of Industrial Change stands as a landmark account of one of the most...

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Edition: 2nd ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodFrom the oar-driven triremes of ancient Greece to the iron-clad behemoths of the modern age, Man-of-War: A History of the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodFrom the mud-churned battlefields of the Somme to the tense pre-war rearmament of the late 1930s, British Battle Tanks: World War I...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodThere is a rhythm to the countryside that most modern lives have forgotten — A Countryman's Year by Alan C. Jenkins restores it, guiding...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodAt the dawn of a new era, when a king reclaimed his throne and a city pulsed with reinvented energy, Restoration London transports readers into...

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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerVictorian London springs vividly to life in Mayhew's London, a masterfully curated selection drawn from Henry Mayhew's monumental...

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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerAt the turn of the twentieth century, the British Empire sent its soldiers marching into the...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodA landmark of twentieth-century historiography, English History 1914-1945 by A.J.P. Taylor chronicles one of the most turbulent and transformative periods...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodIn the turbulent decades following American independence, two proud nations — one bearing the ancient crown of the British lion, the other...

Edition: facsimile ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew sporting rivalries have captured the imagination quite like cricket's great Anglo-Australian contests, and The Third Australian Team in England stands as...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Slipcase: WornPages: GoodAt the intersection of cartographic history and regional heritage stands this meticulously reproduced facsimile of Sheet 76 — the Bath & Wells sheet — drawn...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodCondition remarks: one small tear along the map edgeAt the dawn of the nineteenth century, the Ordnance Survey embarked on one of the most ambitious...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerA remarkable piece of English sporting heritage, History of Cricket in...

Edition: No. 153 of 250 copiesCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: minor marks and specks on the boards; binding...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew memoirs capture the raw beauty of displacement and reinvention quite like The Winter Sparrows: Growing Up in Scotland & Australia. Mary Rose Liverani chronicles...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerBritain in the 1970s is a nation gripped by stagnation, disillusionment, and economic collapse — and Margaret Drabble's The Ice Age captures this...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThe 1946 English cricket season marked a triumphant and poignant return to first-class play following the six-year suspension...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the fourteenth century, Sir John Mandeville penned one of the most extraordinary travel accounts ever written —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodCondition remarks: Protective covering over dust jacket (removable)For over a century, the rolling fields and ancient farmsteads of Sussex were alive with the sound of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerBehind the handshakes, the club memberships, and the shared school ties lies a invisible architecture of power that...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodBehind the notorious epithet lies a woman of extraordinary complexity — and Carolly Erickson's Bloody Mary presents the definitive biographical portrait of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the twilight's edge of the Roman world and the dawn of medieval Christendom, Britain and Ireland underwent a profound and tumultuous transformation —...

Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous owner,Ex-library with usual markingsFrom the windswept peaks of Snowdonia to the ancient monastic ruins of the south, Exploring Wales is an authoritative...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodA privileged childhood becomes a vivid window into the grandeur and peculiarities of colonial governance in Adelaide Lubbock's People in Glass Houses:...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn Reflections, Sir John Marks CBE — a distinguished figure in British public life — presents an intimate and candid memoir charting...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerFor centuries, the gentle art of fishing has woven itself into the very fabric of British life, and Bernard Venables'...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodBorn in poverty as Amy Lyon, the daughter of a Cheshire blacksmith, Emma Hamilton rose through scandal, patronage, and sheer force of personality to...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodCondition remarks: minor nick/tear on the fepBefore the gold rushes transformed Melbourne into a boomtown of frantic ambition and immigrant masses, a small, self-conscious...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerLong before the age of satellites and GPS, brave men charted the unknown...

Edition: 17th ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingLong before the age of motorways and mass tourism, H. V. Morton set out on a journey through the heart of England...

Edition: 4th ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerLong before climate was a household word, Griffith Taylor's Australia: A Study of Warm Environments and Their Effect on British...

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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOne of the most celebrated and controversial figures of the British Empire, General Charles George Gordon — Gordon...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodLondon's streets, squares, and parks are home to some of the world's most powerful works of public sculpture — and The Immortals: London's Finest Statues brings...