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Short History of the Victorian Era (Pocket Essential series)

By: Gordon Kerr

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Oldcastle Books: September 2019

Seller ID: 335140

ISBN: 0857302078

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Beginning in the 1830s and ending with the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, the Victorian Era saw the British Empire--the largest the world had seen--dominate the world. British ingenuity in the fields of technological development and the heavy industry of its Industrial Revolution led to Britain being dubbed "the workshop of the world" while its Royal Navy policed the world's oceans helping to create what has become known as a "Pax Britannica." This book details the sweeping social and economic changes that took place during this period but also examines the events of the time and the lives o...
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Lord Rochester's Monkey

By: Graham Greene

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Viking: September 1974

Seller ID: 320762

ISBN: 0670440558

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Mr Bligh's Bad Language: Passion, Power and Theater on H. M. Armed Vessel Bounty

By: Greg Dening

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Cambridge University Press: June 1992

Seller ID: 138140

ISBN: 0521383706

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

"Captain Bligh" is a cliche of our times for the extravagant and violent misuse of power. In fact, William Bligh was one of the least physically violent disciplinarians in the British navy. That paradox inspires the author to ask why, then, did Bligh have a mutiny? Its answer is to display the theatricality of naval institutions and the mythologizing power of history. Mr Bligh's Bad Language is an anthropological and historical study of the mutiny on the Bounty, and its role in society and culture. Throughout the book, Greg Dening draws on a wide range of intellectual influences, ending with t...
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Mr Bligh's Bad Language: Passion, Power and Theater on H. M. Armed Vessel Bounty

By: Greg Dening

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Cambridge University Press: June 1992

Seller ID: 169947

ISBN: 0521383706

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Clans and families of Ireland: The heritage and heraldry of Irish clans and families

By: Grenham, John

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Gill and Macmillan: January 1993

Seller ID: 340590

ISBN: 0717120325

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The origins of Irish names are intermingled with the nation's long and often tragic past. Telling of invasion, famine, emigration and war, this book provides readers with a glimpse of the history behind 200 of Ireland's most commonly encountered surnames. It sheds light on the origins of the names, highlighting their geographical distribution and providing details of prominent family members. photographs of Ireland's landscapes, historic sites and artefacts.
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The King's English (Wordsworth Collection)

By: H. W. Fowler

Price: $4.95

Publisher: NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company: September 1999

Seller ID: 310817

ISBN: 1853263044

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
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Now I Remember: A Holiday History of England

By: Hamilton, Ronald

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Hogarth Pr: January 1990

Seller ID: 356035

ISBN: 0701205709

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Plantagenets

By: Harvey, John

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Fontana/ Collin: January 1972

Seller ID: 346184

ISBN: 0006329497

Condition: Used - Good

A Magnificent Obsession: Victoria, Albert, and the Death That Changed the British Monarchy

By: Helen Rappaport

Price: $6.95

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin: May 2013

Seller ID: 337089

ISBN: 1250031524

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

As she did in her critically acclaimed The Last Days of the Romanovs, Helen Rappaport brings a compelling documentary feel to the story of this royal marriage and of the queen's obsessive love for her husband - a story that began as fairy tale and ended in tragedy.

After the untimely death of Prince Albert, the queen and her nation were plunged into a state of grief so profound that this one event would dramatically alter the shape of the British monarchy. For Britain had not just lost a prince: during his twenty year marriage to Queen Victoria, Prince Albert had increasingly p...
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Churchill's Bunker

By: Holmes, Richard

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Profile Books(GB): January 2011

Seller ID: 354472

ISBN: 1846682312

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Built as a temporary refuge in case of air raid attacks, Churchill's secret bunker was under the heart of central London & it became a second home to civil servants, military personnel & Churchill himself. This book includes first-hand accounts of people who lived there to reveal what life was like for them in the underground shelter.
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Henry VIII

By: J. J. Scarisbrick

Price: $6.95

Publisher: University of California Press: January 1968

Seller ID: 331845

ISBN: 1125174919

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Churchill

By: J. Rufus Fears

Price: $7.95

Publisher: The Teaching Company: January 2001

Seller ID: 326506

ISBN: 1565853865

Binding: Audio CD

Condition: Used - Good

Scotland: A History (Oxford Illustrated History)

By: Jenny Wormald

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA: December 2005

Seller ID: 331026

ISBN: 0198206151

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Scottish history has long been dominated by the romantic tales of Robert the Bruce, William Wallace, Mary Queen of Scots, and Bonnie Prince Charlie. But the explosion of serious historical research in the last half-century has fueled a keen desire for a better-informed and more satisfying understanding of the Scottish past.
This attractively designed book--boasting scores of illustrations, include eight color plates--brings together the leading authorities on Scottish history, who range from Roman times until the present day, offering a more accurate and sophisticated portrait of Scotland...
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English

By: Jeremy Paxman

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Penguin UK: September 2007

Seller ID: 300293

ISBN: 0141032952

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

In The English Jeremy Paxman sets out to find about the English. Not the British overall, not the Scots, not the Irish or Welsh, but the English. Why do they seem so unsure of who they are?

Jeremy Paxman is to many the embodiment of Englishness yet even he is sometimes forced to ask: who or what exactly are the English? And in setting about addressing this most vexing of questions, Paxman discovers answers to a few others. Like:

Why do the English actually enjoy feeling persecuted?

What is behind the English obsession with games?

How did they acquire thei...
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Aristocratic Century: The Peerage of Eighteenth-Century England (The Wiles Lectures)

By: John Cannon

Price: $8.95

Publisher: Cambridge University Press: May 1987

Seller ID: 316482

ISBN: 0521335663

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Since the work of Butterfield and Namier in the 1930s, it has commonly been said that eighteenth-century England appears atomised, left with no overall interpretation. Subsequent work on religious differences and on party strife served to reinforce the image of a divided society, and in the last ten years historians of the poor and unprivileged have suggested that beneath the surface lurked substantial popular discontent. Professor Cannon uses his 1982 Wiles Lecture to offer a different interpretation - that the widespread acceptance of aristocratic values and aristocratic leadership gave a re...
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Churchill (Profiles in Power Series)

By: Keith Robbins

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Longman Pub Group: December 1992

Seller ID: 140378

ISBN: 0582031362

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

This series provides critical studies of key political figures in world history since 1500. The books are not biographies, though inevitably they contain much biographical material; rather, they are interpretive essays, analyzing the major features of the career within the context of its own time.
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