British & Irish History

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the turbulent crossroads of Renaissance ambition and Baroque despair, Jacobean theatre produced some of the most psychologically...

Condition remarks:Book: PoorJacket: Very goodPages: FEP missingCondition remarks: Note: fep missing, damaged front pastedown - otherwise internally sound. Clean and bright copy. At the intersection of towering intellect and profound...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerAt the heart of Britain's most turbulent wartime years, Men and Power: 1917-1918 offers a gripping, insider account of the...

Edition: 2nd pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerAt the intersection of faith and verse, Poetry and Life: An Anthology of English...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerPublished in 1975 to immediate critical acclaim, Paul Fussell's The Great War and Modern Memory is a landmark work of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodAt the heart of Victorian England's collision between science and faith stands one of the most extraordinary memoirs ever written — Edmund Gosse's Father and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the late eighteenth century, a ragged fleet of British ships deposited a cast of convicts, marines, and administrators onto the sun-scorched shores of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodOne of the twentieth century's most celebrated and devastating political cartoonists, David Low tells his own story in Low's Autobiography...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodAt the turbulent crossroads of Victorian faith and doubt stands Leslie Stephen — mountaineer, philosopher, editor, and father of Virginia Woolf — a man who...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodVictorian England harboured few monsters as chilling as Mary Ann Cotton — a soft-spoken widow who buried husband after husband, child after child, collecting...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodAt the heart of the radical Enlightenment stood William Godwin — philosopher, novelist, and anarchist thinker whose audacious ideas electrified late eighteenth-century Britain and whose...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Remainder markOne of the most intimate and revealing documents in the English language, The Diary of Samuel Pepys transports readers directly into the heart...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsWhat's in a name? For the towns, villages, hills, and rivers of England, the answer is centuries of layered history,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew works in the English literary canon offer as intimate and authoritative a portrait of an age's greatest poets as Samuel Johnson's Lives of the English...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodA landmark gathering of mid-century literary minds, The Craft of Letters in England presents a rich and authoritative symposium on the state of British writing in...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodBehind every great institution lies a singular and extraordinary life — and few lives were as singular as that of Antonin Besse, the enigmatic...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodIn the heart of Victorian London, a scandal of breathtaking proportions threatened to bring down the establishment: a male brothel...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingFew English cities have inspired as much elegance, intrigue, and literary imagination as...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerFew memoirs command the grandeur and literary audacity of Left Hand Right Hand!, Sir Osbert Sitwell's celebrated...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: YellowedIn the rugged, wind-swept landscapes of Ireland and Scotland, Maurice Walsh weaves a tale of quiet heroism and simmering...

Edition: 2nd ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerFew literary lives have burned as brightly — or as turbulently — as that...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the tumultuous reform agitations of the 1860s to the fractured politics of the mid-1970s, Labour and Socialism...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodAt the crossroads of empire and intellectual revolution stands the remarkable Strachey family, whose extraordinary story arcs from the sun-baked plains of colonial India...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew figures in twentieth-century British politics provoked as fierce a reaction as Enoch Powell — a man of towering intellect, fierce conviction, and spectacular...

Edition: rev ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the golden age of British popular fiction, three authors — Dornford Yates, John Buchan, and Sapper — conjured a world of...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerFrom the plough-furrows of ancient field systems to the bustling trade routes of the early eighteenth century, A Concise Economic History...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedIn the cloistered world of a Cambridge college, a scandal threatens to unravel the carefully maintained fabric...

Edition: 1st us ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Remainder markBehind the austere, imperious gaze that defined one of Britain's most singular literary minds lies a life as dramatic...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBehind the immortal prose of Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm stood a man of fierce contradictions — a...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingAcross centuries of upheaval, persecution, and war, countless thousands have washed upon Britain's shores seeking sanctuary — and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodA decade of paradox, crisis, and ideological fervour, the 1930s remains one of the most turbulent chapters in modern British and world...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingIn the intellectual ferment of nineteenth-century Britain, few movements captured the popular imagination quite so dramatically as phrenology — the...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedSpanning nearly four decades of intimate correspondence, Letters 1895-1933 to Lady Cunard presents a vivid and deeply personal window into...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the heart of one of England's most turbulent centuries stands Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon — statesman, historian, and royal counsellor...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedCondition remarks: price clipped dj. At the turbulent heart of seventeenth-century English political thought stands Thomas Hobbes — a figure so radical,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the heart of the Great Game — that shadowy contest of empires played out across the rooftop...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat did it mean to think, believe, and create in an age torn between faith and reason, tradition...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the bloody crossroads of faith and political revolution, seventeenth-century England tore itself apart — and from the chaos emerged a radical faction whose...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the early 1930s, Evelyn Waugh embarked on a journey through East Africa and the Horn of Africa, and Remote People chronicles that extraordinary adventure...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodThe final curtain falls on one of English literature's most celebrated family sagas in End of the Chapter, John Galsworthy's triumphant conclusion to his...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingFew lives in the twentieth century burned as brilliantly — and as recklessly — as that of Nancy Cunard, the heiress, poet,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodThe definitive reference work for anyone who loves the English literary tradition, The Oxford Companion to English Literature stands as an authoritative and comprehensive...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodBehind the iron resolve and legendary oratory of Britain's most celebrated wartime leader lay a profoundly human story of physical...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFew windows into the soul of a great artist are as intimate and illuminating as his private correspondence, and the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.Behind the razor-sharp wit and darkly comic tales of Edwardian England stood a...