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The Jamestown Brides: The Bartered Wives of the New World
In 1621, fifty-seven women undertook a three-month journey to Jamestown after responding to an advert placed by the Virginia Company of London calling for maids 'young and uncorrupt' to make...
Nightfall (Ashen Torment, Book 3)
Book Three in stunning Scandinavia-inspired fantasy trilogy The Ashen Torment. The sky is filled with dragons: the people are ready to burn the regime to the ground. The seas churn...
The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor
Every Tudor Queen had ladies-in-waiting. They were her confidantes and her chaperones. Only the Queen's ladies had the right to enter her most private chambers, spending hours helping her to...
The Cambridge Illustrated History of British Theatre
Written with style, imagination and insight, and packed with interesting illustrations, this authoritative book traces the development through the ages of plays and playwriting, forms of staging, the acting profession...
The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor
Every Tudor Queen had ladies-in-waiting. They were her confidantes and her chaperones. Only the Queen's ladies had the right to enter her most private chambers, spending hours helping her to...
Superstition and Science: Mystics, sceptics, truth-seekers and
'A dazzling chronicle, a bracing challenge to modernity's smug assumptions' - Bryce Christensen, Booklist 'O what a world of profit and delight Of power, of honour and omnipotence Is promised...
The Cardinal: from the Sunday Times bestseller, the gripping new novel
'Alison Weir has this astonishing ability to make history come alive and jump right off the pages' 'Thomas's story is incredible' 'A gripping tale of power and downfall, passion and...
Cursed in the Lost City: the thrilling second book in the Elizabethan
It's 1599. Fang and Lazare are on the run with their friends Amber, Nell and half-fae child Tem. The news that Tem possesses the power to make humans immortal is...
Carl Gustav Armfelt and the Struggle for Finland during the Great
A comprehensive account of the military career of one of the great and tragic figures from the final death throes of the Swedish empire. Charles XII's planned conquest of Norway...
Six Tudor Queens: Katheryn Howard, The Tainted Queen: Six Tudor Queens
'This six-book series looks likely to become a landmark in historical fiction' The Times Alison Weir, historian and author of the Sunday Times- bestselling Six Tudor Queen s series, relates...
Six Tudor Queens: Anna of Kleve, Queen of Secrets: Six Tudor Queens 4
'Alison Weir transforms Henry VIII's much-maligned fourth wife into a woman of passion, courage and mystery' Tracy Borman Alison Weir, historian and author of the Sunday Times bestsellers KATHERINE OF...
Henry VIII's Secret Diary
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From the bestselling team behind Horrible Histories - a hilarious and equally gory spin-off series delving into the diaries of famous people of the past! It's time to delve into...
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers 1500 - 2000: Economic Change and
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The book titled The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers 1500 - 2000: Economic Change and by the author PAUL Y KENNEDY. This is a secondhand book. Please contact...
A History of Britain in Ten Enemies
From the multimillion-copy bestselling author of the Horrible Histories, this is a witty, whistlestop tour through the history of Britain (for grown ups) - a ST bestseller with 30k+ hardbacks...
Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America
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In the early 1770s, the men who invented America were living quiet, provincial lives in the rustic backwaters of the New World, devoted primarily to family, craft, and the private...
The Russian Revolution
The book titled The Russian Revolution by the author Richard Pipes. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Mr. President: George Washington and the Making of the Nation's
Although the framers gave the president little authority, George Washington knew whatever he did would set precedents for generations of future leaders. To ensure their ability to defend the nation,...
Post Book
By awarding the European post monopoly to the Thurn & Taxis family 500 years ago, a truly continental postal service was born. Moreover, 1516 also saw the early birth of...
Fight for a Throne: The Jacobite '45 Reconsidered
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The bid of Bonnie Prince Charlie and his Jacobites for the throne of Britain has never lost its grip on the popular imagination. In July 1745 he and a tiny...
The Lion from the North: Volume 1, The Swedish Army of Gustavus
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The book describes and analyses the early modern Swedish army, with a particular emphasis on the reforms introduced by King Gustavus Adolphus before and during the Thirty Years War. Furthermore,...
The Curse of the School Rabbit
The laugh-out-loud story of a boy who needs a new bike for Christmas, the rabbit who might help him get it, and a lot of bad luck... From the one...
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...
Boleyn Traitor: The new thrilling historical novel from the
Sister. Liar. Witness. Spy. Traitor? Her secrets shaped a kingdom. The truth will change history. Sunday Times bestseller Jane Boleyn watches from the shadows of the Tudor court. Where nothing...
France: A History: from Gaul to de Gaulle
'For his final book, the late Norwich tackled the dauntingly vast subject of two millennia of French history with admirable lightness and urbanity . . . his comic footnotes deserve...
Montgomery of Tasmania: Henry and Maud Montgomery in Australasia
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In comparison with the fame of their son, Bernard, Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, Henry and Maud Montgomery, leaders in their own right, are largely forgotten. Henry, fourth Anglican Bishop of...
The Barbarous Years: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675
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Bernard Bailyn gives us a compelling account of the first great transit of people from Britain, Europe, and Africa to British North America, their involvements with each other, and their...
Things I Didn't Throw Out
Lamps, penknives, paperbacks, mechanical pencils, inflatable headrests. Marcin Wicha's mother Joanna was a collector of everyday objects. She found intrinsic - and often idiosyncratic - value in each item. When...
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...
London's 'Golden Mile': The Great Houses of the Strand, 1550-1650
A reconstruction of the 'Strand palaces', where England's early-modern and post-Reformation elites jostled to build and furnish new, secular cathedrals This book reconstructs the so-called "Strand palaces" - eleven great...
Artificial Sunshine: A History of Country House Lighting
Why artificial sunshine? Today we can light our homes at the flick of a switch, turning night into day. Only when things go wrong, like a power cut, can we...
10 Downing Street: The Illustrated History
The black shiny door of 10 Downing Street is perhaps the best known entrance in Britain, possibly even in the world. Yet how many people know what really lurks on...
JOSEPHINE LIFE OF AN EMPRESS
Carolly Erickson brings to life the complex, charming, ever-resilient Josephine, from the sensual richness of her childhood in the tropics to her final lonely days at Malmaison.'
Apprenticeship In England, 1600-1914
Apprenticeship was one of the most enduring economic and social institutions in the lives of the English working class. The young apprentice, "bound by indentures to a tradesman, who is...
Wharves to the World: The Development of Melbourne's World Trade
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Wharves to the World: The Development of Melbourne's World Trade Centre is a photographic chronicle of the history of the World Trade Centre and its surrounds. The book traces the...
Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of
Dark Renaissance is the thrilling story of the writer who transformed culture in Elizabethan England, bringing it out of the darkness and into the light. Poor boy. Dark star. Spy....
The Tyranny of Taste: The Politics of Architecture and Design in
How do countries acquire their distinctive features and appearance, their look or style? In this stimulating book, Jules Lubbock answers this question by focusing on Britain, with its characteristic terraced...
Classic French Wrought Iron: Twelfth-Nineteenth Century
From grilles and gates to balconies and complex lock and key mechanisms, this book traces the successive styles of decorative French ironwork over its 700-year development. The authoritative work on...
Fool: In Search of Henry VIII's Closest Man
The first biography of Henry VIII's court fool William Somer, a legendary entertainer and one of the most intriguing figures of the Tudor age. In some portraits of Henry VIII...
Adventures of Napoleon and Josephine
The Adventures of Napoleon and Josephine is an ideal introduction to this captivating period in France's history. Packed with interesting historical and cultural facts, this title is a delight for...
Pagan Dream of the Renaissance, The
During the Renaissance, a profound transformation occurred in Western culture, fuelled in large part by the rediscovery of the mythological, pagan imagination. This large-format and highly illustrated book provides new...
Companion to Scottish History from the Reformation to the Present
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The book titled Companion to Scottish History from the Reformation to the Present by the author Ian Donnachie. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...
The Building of London: From the Conquest to the Great Fire
This is a fully revised survey of London up to the Great Fire.
A Day of Battle: Mars-la-Tour, 16 August 1870
The book titled A Day of Battle: Mars-la-Tour, 16 August 1870 by the author David Ascoli. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Roads To Rome: A Journey Into Europe's Past
Brimming with life and drama, this is a magnificent journey into two thousand years of history, from the acclaimed and beloved historian of Europe 'All roads lead to Rome.' It's...
Revolting: A riotous history of rebellions and revolutions
Multi-million copy bestselling author Terry Deary shows you the history of the world through the eyes of Mr and Mrs Peasant (and their good friend Monsieur Guillotine...). A globetrotting, laugh-out-loud...
Men Without Country: The true story of exploration and rebellion in
'What joy to be at sea again, adrift on the vast Pacific, in the clutches of a gifted storyteller. Harrison Christian and the mutineers of Men Without Country held me...
Public Lettering: Script, Power and Culture
Public lettering in all its forms--official inscriptions on buildings, commercial graphics, signs, epitaphs on tombstones, graffiti--is a fixture of urban life. In Public Lettering, Armando Petrucci reconstructs the history of...
The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Daniel Defoe
This comprehensive and authoritative edition of the correspondence of Daniel Defoe situates each letter in its biographical, literary, and historical contexts. A unique source for a turbulent period of British...