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England, France and Aquitaine: From Victory to Defeat in the Hundred Years War

England, France and Aquitaine: From Victory to Defeat in the Hundred Years War

$75.00 AUD$60.00 AUD
This is a narrative history of England and France during the Hundred Years War, from the triumphs of Henry V to the defeat of the English and loss of Gascony...
Inside the Regiment: The Officers and Men of the 30th Regiment During the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

Inside the Regiment: The Officers and Men of the 30th Regiment During the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

$57.99 AUD$46.39 AUD
In this companion volume to her pioneering study Redcoats Against Napoleon, Carole Divall tells the fascinating inside story of a typical infantry regiment during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. Rather...
Queen Victoria's Skull: George Combe and the Mid-Victorian Mind

Queen Victoria's Skull: George Combe and the Mid-Victorian Mind

$180.00 AUD$144.00 AUD
Queen Victoria's Skull explores the life and thinking of the Edinburgh phrenologist George Combe. Phrenology is a theory which claims to be able to detect personality traits, character and predisposition...
Outbreak: 1939

Outbreak: 1939

$64.95 AUD$51.96 AUD
11-15 am, 3 September 1939. The nation gathers around their radios to hear Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain make the announcement they have feared for months- Britain is at war with...
Mapping Shakespeare: An exploration of Shakespeare's worlds through maps

Mapping Shakespeare: An exploration of Shakespeare's worlds through maps

$49.99 AUD$39.99 AUD
William Shakespeare's lifetime (1564-1616) spanned the reigns of the last of the Tudors, Elizabeth I and the first of the Stuart kings, James I and the changing times and political...
The First Serious Optimist: A. C. Pigou and the Birth of Welfare Economics

The First Serious Optimist: A. C. Pigou and the Birth of Welfare Economics

$62.99 AUD$50.39 AUD
A groundbreaking intellectual biography of one of the twentieth century's most influential economists The First Serious Optimist is an intellectual biography of the British economist A. C. Pigou (1877-1959), a...
The Fall of Carthage: The Punic Wars 265-146BC

The Fall of Carthage: The Punic Wars 265-146BC

$26.99 AUD$21.59 AUD
The struggle between Rome and Carthage in the Punic Wars was arguably the greatest and most desperate conflict of Antiquity. The forces involved and the casualties suffered by both sides...
Precarious Childhood in Post-Independence Ireland

Precarious Childhood in Post-Independence Ireland

$183.99 AUD$147.19 AUD
This fascinating study reveals the desperate plight of the poor, illegitimate and abused children in an Irish society that claimed to "cherish" and hold them sacred, but in fact marginalised...
The Boke of the Cyte of Ladyes by Christine de Pizan: Volume 457

The Boke of the Cyte of Ladyes by Christine de Pizan: Volume 457

$49.99 AUD$39.99 AUD
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...
Religion and the Book in Early Modern England: The Making of John Foxe's 'Book of Martyrs'

Religion and the Book in Early Modern England: The Making of John Foxe's 'Book of Martyrs'

$203.95 AUD$163.16 AUD
John Foxe's Acts and Monuments - popularly known as the 'Book of Martyrs' - is a milestone in the history of the English book. An essential history of the English...
American Government in Ireland, 1790-1913: A History of the Us Consular Service

American Government in Ireland, 1790-1913: A History of the Us Consular Service

$183.99 AUD$147.19 AUD
This book reconstructs American consular activity in Ireland from 1790 to 1913 and elucidates the interconnectedness of America's foreign interests, Irish nationalism and British imperialism. Its originality lies in that...
Order and Conflict: Anthony Ascham and English Political Thought (1648-50)

Order and Conflict: Anthony Ascham and English Political Thought (1648-50)

$183.99 AUD$147.19 AUD
This book provides a careful and systematic analysis of Anthony Ascham's career and writings for the first time in English. During the crucial period between the Second Civil War and...
The Legitimacy of Bastards: The Place of Illegitimate Children in Later Medieval England

The Legitimacy of Bastards: The Place of Illegitimate Children in Later Medieval England

$65.99 AUD$52.80 AUD
For the nobility and gentry in later medieval England, land was a source of wealth and status. Their marriages were arranged with this in mind, and it is not surprising...
Three Behaim Boys: Growing Up in Early Modern Germany - A Chronicle of Their Lives

Three Behaim Boys: Growing Up in Early Modern Germany - A Chronicle of Their Lives

$35.95 AUD$28.76 AUD
Author: Steven E. Ozment Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 312 Through correspondence to mothers and guardians, the reader experiences the lives of three generations of German boys in sixteenth- and...
Keir Starmer: The Biography

Keir Starmer: The Biography

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THE BESTSELLING BIOGRAPHY OF THE NEW BRITISH PRIME MINISTER'Required reading for anyone who has an interest in who governs Britain' ALASTAIR CAMPBELL'This will be the most important political book of...
A Writer's House in Wales

A Writer's House in Wales

$39.99 AUD$17.50 AUD
Through an exploration of her country home in Wales, acclaimed travel writer Jan Morris discovers the heart of her fascinating country and what it means to be Welsh. Trefan Morys,...
Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History

Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History

$29.99 AUD$25.49 AUD
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A lasting work of social history' THE TIMES'A genuinely new history of our nation' DAN JONES'This celebration of women is a triumph of popular history' SPECTATOR...
The Austrian Revolution

The Austrian Revolution

$49.99 AUD$20.00 AUD
The definitive work on Eastern Europe's revolutionary period and the unique working-class experiment of Red Vienna.This is the story of the decline and fall of an empire, a region devastated...
The Hidden Perspective: The Military Conversations 1906-1914

The Hidden Perspective: The Military Conversations 1906-1914

$31.95 AUD$15.00 AUD
In 1905, British Foreign Secretary Edward Grey agreed to speak secretly with his French counterparts about sending a British expeditionary force to France in the event of a German attack....
Tanks on the Somme: from Morval to Beaumont Hamel

Tanks on the Somme: from Morval to Beaumont Hamel

$57.99 AUD$30.00 AUD
Author: Trevor PidgeonFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 160 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2010On 15 September 1916 during the Battle of the Somme, tanks - one of...
Sceptres and Sciences in the Spains: Four Humanists and the New Philosophy, c 1680-1740

Sceptres and Sciences in the Spains: Four Humanists and the New Philosophy, c 1680-1740

$111.95 AUD$50.00 AUD
Author: Ruth Hill (Dept. of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, University of Virginia (United States))Format: Hardback, 163mm x 239mm, 304 pagesPublished: Liverpool University Press, United Kingdom, 2000This study centres on science,...
Goldstar Century: 31 Squadron RAF 1915-2015

Goldstar Century: 31 Squadron RAF 1915-2015

$80.00 AUD$35.00 AUD
Author: Ian HallFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 304 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2015Number 31 Squadron RAF will celebrate its centenary in 2015; a pivotal milestone for...
Frederick the Great: King of Prussia

Frederick the Great: King of Prussia

$40.00 AUD
Author: Tim BlanningFormat: Hardback, 167mm x 242mm, 998g, 688 pagesPublished: Random House USA Inc, United States, 2016The definitive biography of the legendary autocrat whose enlightened rule transformed the map of...
Voices in Flight: RAF Fighter Pilots in WWII

Voices in Flight: RAF Fighter Pilots in WWII

$80.00 AUD$40.00 AUD
Author: Martin W BowmanFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 256 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2015This is a pulsating account of the young RAF fighter boys who flew...
Clothing and Landscape in Victorian England: Working-Class Dress and Rural Life

Clothing and Landscape in Victorian England: Working-Class Dress and Rural Life

$240.00 AUD$110.00 AUD
Author: Rachel WorthFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 256 pagesPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2018In the context of this rapidly changing world, Rachel Worth explores the ways in which the...
Western Front 1914-1916

Western Front 1914-1916

$57.99 AUD$30.00 AUD
Author: Martin MaceFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 211 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2013From the moment the German army moved quietly into Luxemburg on 2 August 1914,...
Churchill, Kitchener and Lloyd George: First World Warlords

Churchill, Kitchener and Lloyd George: First World Warlords

$40.99 AUD$32.79 AUD
Author: Steve CliffeFormat: Paperback, 192 pagesPublished: Fonthill Media Ltd, United Kingdom, 2013Do I think the Great War could have been avoided? My answer categorically is yes. So David Lloyd George,...
Voices in Flight: RAF Fighter Pilots in WWII

Voices in Flight: RAF Fighter Pilots in WWII

$80.00 AUD$64.00 AUD
Author: Martin W BowmanFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 256 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2015This is a pulsating account of the young RAF fighter boys who flew...
Goldstar Century: 31 Squadron RAF 1915-2015

Goldstar Century: 31 Squadron RAF 1915-2015

$80.00 AUD$64.00 AUD
Author: Ian HallFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 304 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2015Number 31 Squadron RAF will celebrate its centenary in 2015; a pivotal milestone for...
So Great a Prince

So Great a Prince

$34.99 AUD$27.99 AUD
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,...
Tanks on the Somme: from Morval to Beaumont Hamel

Tanks on the Somme: from Morval to Beaumont Hamel

$57.99 AUD$46.39 AUD
Author: Trevor PidgeonFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 160 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2010On 15 September 1916 during the Battle of the Somme, tanks - one of...
The Spell of Hypnos: Sleep and Sleeplessness in Ancient Greek Literature

The Spell of Hypnos: Sleep and Sleeplessness in Ancient Greek Literature

$260.00 AUD$208.00 AUD
Author: Silvia Montiglio (Johns Hopkins University, USA)Format: Hardback, 138mm x 216mm, 570g, 336 pagesPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2015Sleep was viewed as a boon by the ancient Greeks: sweet,...
Western Front 1914-1916

Western Front 1914-1916

$57.99 AUD$46.40 AUD
Author: Martin MaceFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 211 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2013From the moment the German army moved quietly into Luxemburg on 2 August 1914,...
Fields of Battle

Fields of Battle

$80.00 AUD$64.00 AUD
Author: Richard EvansFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 256 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2015Richard Evans revisits the sites of a selection of Greek and Roman battles and...
Fifteen Rounds a Minute: The Grenadiers at War, August to December 1914

Fifteen Rounds a Minute: The Grenadiers at War, August to December 1914

$57.99 AUD$46.40 AUD
Author: Michael CrasterFormat: Paperback, 156mm x 234mm, 256 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2012This book, originally published in 1976, is an account of the first five months...
Civilisations: How Do We Look / The Eye of Faith

Civilisations: How Do We Look / The Eye of Faith

$34.99 AUD$27.99 AUD
Author: Mary BeardFormat: Hardback, 148mm x 218mm, 670g, 240 pagesPublished: Profile Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2018Focusing on the arrival of the human figure as a subject of art, Mary Beard...
A Revolution of Feeling: The Decade that Forged the Modern Mind

A Revolution of Feeling: The Decade that Forged the Modern Mind

$29.99 AUD$23.99 AUD
Author: Rachel HewittFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 414g, 560 pagesPublished: Granta Books, United Kingdom, 2018In the 1790s, Britain underwent what the politician Edmund Burke called 'the most important of all...
Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire - The Sunday Times Bestseller

Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire - The Sunday Times Bestseller

$24.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
Author: AkalaFormat: Paperback, 128mm x 196mm, 249g, 352 pagesPublished: John Murray Press, United Kingdom, 2019'My book of the year. It's personal, historical, political, and it speaks to where we are...
Join the Vikings: The Raid

Join the Vikings: The Raid

$70.00 AUD$56.00 AUD
Author: Peter PentzFormat: Hardback, 170mm x 230mm, 830g, 304 pagesPublished: Strandberg Publishing, Denmark, 2021Join the Vikings - On Raid contains 16 fascinating accounts of Viking exploits during the early Viking...
Nero: the man behind the myth

Nero: the man behind the myth

$49.99 AUD$42.50 AUD
Author: Thorsten OpperFormat: Paperback, 250mm x 280mm, 1660g, 304 pagesPublished: British Museum Press, United Kingdom, 2021One of the best known figures from Roman history, Nero (r. AD 54-68) is most...
The Last Secret of the Secret Annex

The Last Secret of the Secret Annex

$34.99 AUD$15.00 AUD
Author: Joop van Wijk-Voskuijl Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The extraordinary, never-before-told story of Bep Voskuijl, Anne Frank's closest friend during the 761 days she spent in the Secret...
Ten Caesars: Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine

Ten Caesars: Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine

$34.99 AUD$27.99 AUD
Author: Barry Strauss Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 Bestselling classical historian Barry Strauss delivers "an exceptionally accessible history of the Roman Empire...much of Ten Caesars reads like a script...
African Europeans: An Untold History

African Europeans: An Untold History

$24.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
Author: Olivette Otele Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 A Guardian Best Book of 2020 A History Today Book of the Year, 2020 Renowned historian Olivette Otele uncovers the untold...
Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution

Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution

$49.99 AUD$25.00 AUD
Author: Mike Duncan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 Few in history can match the revolutionary career of the Marquis de Lafayette. Over fifty incredible years at the heart of...
Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations

Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations

$59.99 AUD$25.00 AUD
Author: Simon Schama Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 'This splendid and often moving work of history... Schama has a gift for combining novelistically colourful detail, serious analysis and wryly...
Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations

Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations

$59.99 AUD$47.99 AUD
Author: Simon Schama Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 'This splendid and often moving work of history... Schama has a gift for combining novelistically colourful detail, serious analysis and wryly...
A Lethal Legacy: A History of Ireland in 18 Murders

A Lethal Legacy: A History of Ireland in 18 Murders

$39.99 AUD$31.99 AUD
Author: Fin Dwyer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 The Instant Top 5 Irish Times Bestseller From the creator of The Irish History Podcast comes a fascinating look at Irish...
Margot at War: Love and Betrayal in Downing Street, 1912-1916

Margot at War: Love and Betrayal in Downing Street, 1912-1916

$24.99 AUD$19.99 AUD
Author: Anne de Courcy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Margot Asquith was perhaps the most daring and unconventional Prime Minister's wife in British history. Known for her wit, style...