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English Social History: A Survey Of Six Centuries Chaucer To Queen Victoria
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Author: G. M. Trevelyan, O.M.Binding: HardbackPublished: Longmans, Green and Co., 1946Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: In good condition with slight foxing to extremities and small tear...
Garibaldi And The Thousand (May 1860)
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Author: George Macaulay TrevelyanBinding: HardbackPublished: Longmans, Green and Co., 1948Condition:Book: GoodJacket: UnblemishedPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Slight foxing to extremities and tiny tear to DJThis historical account chronicles the pivotal...
Library Looking-Glass: A Personal Anthology
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Author: David CecilBinding: HardbackPublished: Constable London, 1966Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: UnblemishedPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis volume compiles a diverse array of writings. It provides a unique lens through which to view literary...
The Elizabethan Renaissance: The Life Of The Society
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Author: A. L. RowseBinding: HardbackPublished: Macmillan, 1971Condition:Book: ExcellentJacket: UnblemishedPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThe book examines the social fabric of the Elizabethan era. It details the daily lives, customs, and societal structures...
Essays Presented To Sir Lewis Namier
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Author: Richard Pares And A. J. P. TaylorBinding: HardbackPublished: Macmillan & Co Ltd, 1966Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis volume compiles a series of scholarly essays. The...
The Expansion Of England
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Author: J.R. SeeleyBinding: HardbackPublished: University of Chicago Press, 1971Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis volume presents a seminal work on the historical development of England. It examines the...
The Terrible Secret: Suppression Of The Truth About Hitler's 'Final Solution'
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Author: Walter LaqueurBinding: HardbackPublished: Little Brown & Co, 1980Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Small cut on FEP. This book investigates the deliberate concealment of information surrounding...
The Second World War (Six-Volume Set)
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Author: Winston S. ChurchillBinding: HardbackPublished: Cassell, 1948Condition:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tearPages: Aging or markingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Black cloths with bumping on corners and spines. Faded and worn DJ with...
Her Secret Service: The Forgotten Women of British Intelligence
'Groundbreaking' Sunday Times 'Beautifully written and elegiac . . . a masterpiece' Damien Lewis, Sunday Times bestselling author Since the inception of the Secret Service Bureau back in 1909, women...
The Fighting Nation: Lord Kitchener and His Armies
The British Army was not highly regarded before World War I; the Kaiser was said to have called it "contemptible"; the French regarded it as a colonial police force with...
Who's Who in Tudor England
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Stackpole is pleased to introduce the final two installments in the Who's Who in British History series. Chronologically arranged and extensively indexed, these eight volumes are an indispensable guide to...
Piscinae: Artificial Fishponds in Roman Italy
Pisciculture -- the process of raising fish -- held a lasting fascination for the people of ancient Rome. Whether bred for household consumption, cultivated for sale at market, or simply...
Wellington and the Arbuthnots: A Triangular Friendship
Reform or Revolution?: A Diary of Reform in England, 1830-32
New Visions in Celtic Art
Showcasing the work of ten talented contemporary artists, this full-color volume is a breathtaking collection of some of the best Celtic artwork available, representing a variety of styles and influences....
Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany
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A great deal of Holocaust survival stories revolve around disguise--many Jews were forced into impersonation by the desperateness of their plight. Imagine if a person, by the accident of birth,...
Empire Made: My Search for an Outlaw Uncle Who Vanished in British
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Lost in time for generations, the story of a 19th-century English gentleman in British India--a family mystery of love found and loyalties abandoned, finally brought to light In 1841, twenty-year-old...
The Most Beautiful Country Towns of Provence
The two "Alpes" departements, Haute-Provence and Maritimes, which sweep the north of the province and finally descend to the sea in the east, embrace the varied gems of mountainous Saint-Martin-Vesubie,...
The Creation of the Modern World: The Untold Story of the British
A history of the Enlightenment retraces the innovations in representative government, industrialization, religious tolerance, and individualism that made the eighteenth century so important in the history of England, and the...
A Gambling Man: Charles II's Restoration Game
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The Restoration was a decade of experimentation: from the founding of the Royal Society for investigating the sciences to the startling role of credit and risk; from the shocking licentiousness...
Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium: An
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How did people make sense of the end of one era and the start of another? The Year 1000 plunges readers into the past in colorful detail and provides them...
Captive Queen: The Decrypted History of Mary, Queen of Scots
In Captive Queen: The Decrypted History of Mary, Queen of Scots , Jade Scott, a historian and expert on Mary's correspondence, draws on hundreds of her encrypted letters to paint...
Posh Boys: How English Public Schools Ruin Britain
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'The latest in the series of powerful books on the divisions in modern Britain, and will take its place on many bookshelves beside Reni Eddo-Lodge's Why I'm No Longer Talking...
Aesop's Fables: A New Translation
From a renowned scholar and translator, the definitive translation of Aesop's Fables Aesop's fables are among the most familiar and best-loved stories in the world. Tales like "The Tortoise and...
Why Spencer Perceval Had to Die: The Assassination of a British Prime
On 11 May 1812 Spencer Perceval, the British Prime Minister, was fatally shot at close range in the lobby of the House of Commons. In the confused aftermath, his assailant,...
The Royal Rebel: from the much-loved author of historical fiction
1338: England has declared war on France, and Jeanette of Kent , cousin to King Edward III, says goodbye to her family and travels overseas with the royal court for...
The Usurper King: Henry of Bolingbroke, 1366-99
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This is an assessment of the dramatic events of 1399, when Henry of Bolingbroke invaded England, deposed King Richard II, was crowned King Henry IV and later instigated Richard's murder...
Runaway
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Runaway is not only a powerful account of a singularly spirited girl's growing up, it involves issues which concern us all - the traumatic effects of family breakdown.
No Vulgar Hotel: The Desire and Pursuit of Venice
Love of Venice can strike anyone, not just romantic wusses. Among the toughies with serious cases were Lord Byron, Richard Wagner, Ezra Pound, and Ernest Hemingway. Symptoms include: Wishing that...
No Road Leading Back: An Improbable Escape from the Nazis, 'utterly
'A stunning book, a powerful investigation, utterly compelling,' James Holland, The Daily Telegraph , Five stars 'Terrifying' Simon Schama Ponar, Lithuania. 1944. The Nazis have enslaved Jewish men to exhume...
Clarissa Eden: A Memoir - From Churchill To Eden
The untold story of life as a Churchill and Prime Minister's wife. Winston Churchill was Clarissa's uncle. When she married the 55-year-old Anthony Eden, then Foreign Secretary, the crowds roared...
A Small Place in Italy
Since first setting eyes on Italy at the age of 22 through the periscope of a submarine, Eric Newby has come to feel it is the country he knows and...
City of Echoes: A New History of Rome, its Popes and its People
In Rome the echoes of the past resound clearly in its palaces and monuments, and in the remains of the ancient imperial city. But another presence has dominated Rome for...
How Fat Was Henry VIII?: And Other Questions on Royal History
. Intriguing questions about our monarchs, with surprising answers Ever wondered how fat Henry VIII really was? Or what made Mary I 'Bloody'? Over many hundreds of years royalty has...
Small World: Ireland, 1798-2018
Seamus Deane was one of the most vital and versatile authors of our time. Small World presents an unmatched survey of Irish writing, and of writing about Irish issues, from...
Imperial Emotions: The Politics of Empathy across the British Empire
Emotions are not universal, but are experienced and expressed in diverse ways within different cultures and times. This overview of the history of emotions within nineteenth-century British imperialism focuses on...
Blood Royal: Dynastic Politics in Medieval Europe
Throughout medieval Europe, for hundreds of years, monarchy was the way that politics worked in most countries. This meant power was in the hands of a family - a dynasty;...
Liturgy and the Emotions in Byzantium: Compunction and Hymnody
This book explores the liturgical experience of emotions in Byzantium through the hymns of Romanos the Melodist, Andrew of Crete and Kassia. It reimagines the performance of their hymns during...
The Falklands War: An Imperial History
Why did Britain and Argentina go to war over a wintry archipelago that was home to an unprofitable colony? Could the Falklands War, in fact, have been a last-ditch revival...
The Cambridge Economic History of China: Volume 1, To 1800
China's rise as the world's second-largest economy surely is the most dramatic development in the global economy since the year 2000. But China's prominence in the global economy is hardly...
The Cambridge History of Ireland: Volume 3, 1730-1880
The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was an era of continuity as well as change. Though properly portrayed as the era of 'Protestant Ascendancy' it embraces two phases - the eighteenth...
Dublin's Great Wars: The First World War, the Easter Rising and the
For the first time, Richard S. Grayson tells the story of the Dubliners who served in the British military and in republican forces during the First World War and the...
The Cambridge World History
From 1200 BCE to 900 CE, the world witnessed the rise of powerful new states and empires, as well as networks of cross-cultural exchange and conquest. Considering the formation and...