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Henry VIII: The Life and Rule of England's Nero
This compelling account of Henry VIII is by no means yet another history of the a old monstera and his reign. The a monstera displayed here is, at the very...
The Reign - Life in Elizabeth's Britain: Part I: The Way It Was, [...]
She came to the throne in 1952 when Britain had a far-flung empire, sweets were rationed, mums stayed home and kids played on bombsites. Seventy years on, everything has changed...
Cromwell's Convicts: The Death March from Dunbar 1650
On 3 September 1650 Oliver Cromwell won a decisive victory over the Scottish Covenanters at the Battle of Dunbar - a victory that is often regarded as his finest hour...
The 19th Century Criminal Underworld
Take a walk on the dark side of the street in this unique exploration of the fears and desires at the heart of the British Empire, from the Regency dandy's...
Battle of Killiecrankie 1689: The Last Act of the Killing Times
The fifty-odd years of Scottish history dominated by the Jacobite Risings are amongst its most evocative and whilst the last battle, Culloden in 1746, is deservedly remembered as a national...
The Scandal of George III's Court
From Windsor to Weymouth, the shadow of scandal was never too far from the walls of the House of Hanover. Did a fearsome duke really commit murder or a royal...
Belfast Transport
`Belfast Transport' is the story of public transport in Belfast from the horse buses of the 1860s to the Metro buses which were introduced in 2005. It is a fascinating...
Martial Law and English Laws, c.1500-c.1700
John M. Collins presents the first comprehensive history of martial law in the early modern period. He argues that rather than being a state of exception from law, martial law...
Counting: Humans, History and the Infinite Lives of Numbers
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO COUNT? WHY ARE HUMANS THE ONLY SPECIES ON EARTH THAT CAN DO IT? WHERE DID COUNTING COME FROM? HOW HAS IT SHAPED SOCIETIES ALONG THE...
The Boke of the Cyte of Ladyes by Christine de Pizan: Volume 457
Christine de Pizan attracted an international audience of admirers her during her lifetime, including many readers in England. The Boke of the Cyte of Ladyes (1521) is the earliest English...
The Profits of Nature: Colonial Development and the Quest for Resources in Nineteenth-Century China
Author: Peter B. LavelleFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 229mm, 304 pagesPublished: Columbia University Press, United States, 2020In the nineteenth century, the Qing empire experienced a period of profound turmoil caused by...
So Great a Prince
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Author: Lauren JohnsonFormat: Paperback, 150mm x 221mm, 363g, 336 pagesPublished: Pegasus Books, United States, 2018England, 1509. Henry VII, the first Tudor monarch, is dead; his successor, the seventeen-year-old Henry VIII,...
Architecture and the Turkish City: An Urban History of Istanbul since the Ottomans
Author: Murat GulFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 671g, 336 pagesPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2017Architecture and urban planning have always been used by political regimes to stamp their ideologies...
A Gambling Man: Charles II and the Restoration
Author: Jenny UglowFormat: Hardback, 165mm x 240mm, 1085g, 592 pagesPublished: Faber & Faber, United Kingdom, 2009Charles II was thirty when he crossed the Channel in fine May weather in 1660....
So Great a Prince
Author: Lauren JohnsonFormat: Paperback, 150mm x 221mm, 363g, 336 pagesPublished: Pegasus Books, United States, 2018England, 1509. Henry VII, the first Tudor monarch, is dead; his successor, the seventeen-year-old Henry VIII,...
The Profits of Nature: Colonial Development and the Quest for Resources in Nineteenth-Century China
Author: Peter B. LavelleFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 229mm, 304 pagesPublished: Columbia University Press, United States, 2020In the nineteenth century, the Qing empire experienced a period of profound turmoil caused by...
Among the Wolves of Court: The Untold Story of Thomas and George Boleyn
Author: Lauren Mackay (Independent Historian, UK)Format: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 696g, 312 pagesPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2020The tragic story of Anne Boleyn has been retold over the centuries,...
Portraiture in South Asia since the Mughals: Art, Representation and History
Author: Crispin BranfootFormat: Hardback, 138mm x 216mm, 676g, 320 pagesPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2018One of the most remarkable artistic achievements of the Mughal Empire was the emergence in...
Legacies in Steel: Personalized and Historical German Military Edged Weapons 1800-1990
Author: Hermann HampeFormat: Hardback, 254mm x 318mm, 612 pagesPublished: Casemate Publishers, United States, 2019A sumptuous collection of nearly 100 German military edged weapons, predominantly swords and daggers, are displayed in...
Defiance: The Life and Choices of Lady Anne Barnard
Author: Stephen TaylorFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 340g, 400 pagesPublished: Faber & Faber, United Kingdom, 2017Lady Anne Barnard lived at the heart of Georgian society, yet was never fully part...
Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought
How British authorities and Indian intellectuals developed ideas about deviant female sexuality to control and organize modern society in IndiaDuring the colonial period in India, European scholars, British officials, and...
The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution
Author: Christopher Hill Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 A gripping, extraordinary account of England in an era of revolutionary turmoil Within the English revolution of the mid-seventeenth...
Witcraft: The Invention of Philosophy in English
Author: Jonathan Ree Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 768 'Ree, one of Britain's best-known living philosophers ... has delivered an impressive reimagining of what a history of philosophy...
Tudor Church Militant: Edward VI and the Protestant Reformation
Author: Diarmaid MacCulloch Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The leading book on the short, radically Protestant reign of Edward VI, reissued for the 500th anniversary of the...
London's Triumph: Merchant Adventurers and the Tudor City
Author: Stephen Alford Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The story of the individuals whose ambition and recklessness transformed London, England and the world. Life in Europe was...
The Arabs: A History - Revised and Updated Edition
Author: Eugene Rogan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 736 The extraordinary story of the Arab world, from defeat and colonization to independence and astonishing wealth. Eugene Rogan has...
All Things Made New: Writings on the Reformation
Author: Diarmaid MacCulloch Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 A brilliant kaleidoscope on the Reformation from 'one of the best historians writing in English today' (Sunday Telegraph) The...
God's Englishman: Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution
Author: Christopher Hill Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The classic life of Cromwell by one of Britain's great radical historians A nuanced biography of Oliver Cromwell, breaking...
This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World
Author: Jerry Brotton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 A richly detailed account of the little-known cultural and political relationship between Elizabethan England and the Islamic world In...
Islamic Empires: Fifteen Cities that Define a Civilization
Author: Justin Marozzi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 An epic history of Islam and the Middle East through the cities which best epitomized it Islamic civilization was...
The Holy Roman Empire: A Thousand Years of Europe's History
Author: Peter H. Wilson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1008 An astonishing, essential book on what was for ten centuries Europe's largest state - the Holy Roman Empire....
Conquistadores
Author: Fernando Cervantes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 A riveting new history of Spanish imperialism, and the men who laid its foundations The 'conquistadores', the early explorers...
The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Christopher Columbus, His Son, and the Quest to Build the World's Greatest Library
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Author: Edward Wilson-Lee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 This impeccably researched and "adventure-packed" (The Washington Post) account of the obsessive quest by Christopher Columbus's son to create...
The Six Wives of Henry VIII
Author: Alison Weir Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 Thoroughly researched and with a real understanding of the times these six fascinating women lived through, Alison Weir's book...
Beyond Good and Evil
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Beyond Good and Evil demonstrates that the world is steeped in false piety and infected with a 'slave morality'. With wit...
The Beauty and the Terror: An Alternative History of the Italian Renaissance
Author: Catherine Fletcher Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 An imaginative and revelatory new history of the Italian Renaissance that challenges our preconceptions of the era *A THE...