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Includes insights into the lives of the current royal family Britain's heritage told through the colourful lives of its kings and queens The monarchy is at...

This innovative introduction to the Scientific Revolution features more than 80 foundational documents that chronicle the emergence of organized science. Fr...

Witch-hunting In Scotland Presents A Fresh Perspective On The Trial And Execution Of The Hundreds Of Women And Men Prosecuted For The Crime Of Witchcraft, A...

Dispatches From The New Britain: A Slyly Funny And Compulsively Readable Portrait Of A Nation Finally Refurbished For The Twenty-first Century. Naughty Boys...

Peter Ackroyd follows his acclaimed London: The Biography with a book that once again plumbs the history of England and uncovers the continuities that link ...

A rich and vivid history of Britain's second city through the people who made it A Financial Times Book of the Year 2024 'What Manchester thinks today, En...

A photographic celebration of the history, culture, people, and places that make up a century of life in Ireland.\Covering all 32 counties, this beautiful, ...

"There was a smell in the air of tar and rope and rusted chain, a smell of tidal water. Down harbour, around the point, was the open sea. Here was the freed...

Married at 17 to the grandson of a confirmed lunatic and widowed at 20, Catherine Parr chose a Yorkshire lord twice her age as her second husband. Caught up...

"If Jesus Christ were amongst them, they would deceive him," it was said of the plunders, raiders, and outlaws who terrorized the Anglo-Scottish Border for ...

This Book Is A Tale Of Three Cities: The Fictional London That Lives In The Pages Of Writers From Shakespeare To P.d. James And Martin Amis; The Historical ...

From Roman Times To The Present Day This Is The Story Of Black British HistoryCategories: Teen & Young Adult Education & Reference HistoryModern ...

Though sometimes a source of controversy regarding certain issues, the Catholic Church has in many ways lead the struggle for social justice and rights fo...

A magnificent work of history, biography and adventure.If the quest for Mount Everest began as a grand imperial gesture, as redemption for an empire of expl...

modern City-dwellers Suffer Their Share Of Unpleasant Experiences—traffic Jams, Noisy Neighbors, Pollution, Food Scares—but Urban Nuisances Of The Past Ex...

This lavishly illustrated historical guide to Westminster Abbey is a highly readable account of this great institution, which is central to the long history...

A powerful true story of love, loss and a family torn apart\A vivid, heart-warming story of survivalAnnie Austin’s childhood ends at the age of twelve, wh...

Jessica Warner. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 225-262) And Index.Categories: HistoryWorld

From the Akkadian Empire to modern-day America, Rise and Fall charts the history of the world through its ten greatest empires. Through these we examine hum...

Peter Laslett. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 204-209.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Social SciencesGerontology

An abused child, yet confident of her destiny to reign, a woman in a man's world, passionately sexual -- though, as she maintained, a virgin -- Elizabeth ...

The Naval War of 1812 Chatham Pictorial Histories Hardcover Caxton EditionsCategories: History EuropeGreat Britain

Many books on the Luftwaffe in World War II have been published over the years, although the Night Fighter´s branch has been studied less often. In our Gui...

Few decades have given rise to such potent mythologies as the 1930s. Popular impressions of those years prior to the Second World War were shaped by the sin...

Trapnel, AnnaCategories: Politics & Social SciencesSocial Sciences

"A wonderful offbeat memoir.... Holroyd has written perhaps his best book yet."—Ben Macintyre, New York Times Book Review Renowned biographer Michael Ho...

Bestselling author Ken McGoogan tells the story of those courageous Scots who, ruthlessly evicted from their ancestral homelands, were sent to Canada in co...

Introduction: The Other History: Motherhood -- 1. Miss, I Wish I Had Your Life: The Poor Of London And Their Chroniclers -- 2. There Is Meat Ye Know Not Of:...

From the author of Masters and Commanders, Andrew Roberts' The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War has been hailed as the finest single-volu...

during The Two World Wars, The Chain Of Island Groups - Orkney, Shetland, The Faroes And Iceland - Linking Europe To North America, Acquired Great Strategi...

A journey through a colorful period in history presents life in the latter part of the nineteenth century, from the small innovations that began to transfor...

The explosive love story and full details behind Diana and Charles's relationship have never been revealed ... until now. Their breakup sent shock waves aro...

Looking at the historical evolution of the central political institutions, and the social milieu surrounding them, this book helps to explain Britain's pree...

A dazzling account of peace and conflict in 15th Century England which emphasises the military over the political history of the Wars of the Roses. Frequen...

Tying-in with the 4-part primetime PBS series airing in November 2004, Regency House Party will follow 5 men and 5 women as they meet, flirt and court withi...

King Henry VIII remains one of the most controversial figures in our history. Wilson draws together all the most recent discoveries and looks afresh at the ...

in This Original And Meticulous Work Of Historical Ethnography, Janice Boddy Deftly Offers An Acute Analysis Of Imperial Ambition And The Gendering Of Pol...

Culture and Customs of Russia is a splendid introduction to the largest country in the world. This timely volume gives the scope of the country from earlie...

The ‘Laforays’ were the largest, most powerfully armed and successful ships of this type to see frontline action with the Royal Navy in WWII. They were ...

After nearly two decades in Britain, Bill Bryson made the decision to move back to the States for a while, to let his kids experience life in another countr...

I. Parentage And Early Life, C. 1096-1135 -- Ii. The Succession, 1135-1136 -- Iii. Mistakes, 1136-1139 -- Iv. The Empress And Her Party, 1136-1140 -- V. Dis...

This widely used book, first published in 1987, examines changes in crime and the criminal justice system against the larger changes in an industrialising s...

Since 1914, the Round Tower at Windsor Castle has been home to the Royal Archives, an extraordinary collection of documents dating back to the thirteenth ce...

Libro usado en buenas condiciones, por su antiguedad podria contener señales normales de usoCategories: History Europe Great BritainEngland Book deta...

In the summer of 1940 Britain stood alone as Nazi Germany was swiftly tightening its grip on Europe. Hitler's forces appeared to be invincible, having swept...

Benjamin Weinstein. The Royal Historical Society. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 177-195) And Index.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Poli...