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God's Traitors
God's Traitors : Terror & Faith in Elizabethan England
This book was longlisted for The Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction. It was awarded a Sunday Times Book of the Year, a Daily Telegraph Book of the Year, a Times B...
Going To Extremes
Going To Extremes : The Adventurous Life of Harry de Windt
Harry de Windt (1856-1933) was a man who, by any standards, was a personality, a marked presence in the world of Victorian and Edwardian literature and social l...
Golf
Golf
"Golf": from its Scottish Highland origins to its distinctive wardrobe, and from St Andrews Old Course to the lush greens of Augusta, the word conjures a history and a world - and this book is the perfect window on...
Good Clean Fun
Good Clean Fun
Traces the story of the British Holiday Camp back to its nineteeth-century roots in Liverpool’s Toxteth district.
Guide To The Crew of Titanic
Guide To Crew Of The Titanic
Much has been written about Titanic, the British passenger liner that sank on her maiden voyage after a collision with an iceberg in 1912; however, until now little mention has been made abo...
Guilty Thing
Guilty Thing : A Life of Thomas de Quincy
`Life for De Quincey was either angels ascending on vaults of cloud or vagrants shivering on the city streets.'Thomas De Quincey - opium-eater, celebrity journalist, and profess...
Gwynne's Kings And Queens
Gwynne's Kings and Queens : The Indispensible History of England
Do you know your Kings and Queens of England by heart? Can you tell your Ethelred from your Ethelbert? Your Marcia from your Matilda? Well, passionate edu...
Harold Wilson's Cold War
Harold Wilson's Cold War : The Labour Government and East-West politics, 1964 - 1970
The then Labour government's efforts to promote East-West detente and to improve Anglo-Soviet relations from 1964 to 1970 have been la...
Harold: The King Who Fell At Hastings
Harold : The King Who Fell at Hastings
Harold Godwinson, King of England, was unable to defend his realm from William the Conqueror's invading Norman army in 1066. The Normans wreaked havoc across the country and change...
Having It So Good
Having It So Good
Winner of the Orwell Prize for Political Writing, Peter Hennessy's "Having it So Good: Britain in the Fifties" captures Britain in an extraordinary decade, emerging from the shadow of war into growing...
Health, Medicine And The Sea
Health, Medicine, and the Sea : Australian Voyages 1815 - 1860
During the nineteenth century, over 1.5 million migrants set sail from the British Isles to begin new lives in the Australian colonies. Health, medicine and...
Henrietta Maria
Henrietta Maria
At the heart of the English Civil War stands the wife of Charles I, Henrietta Maria. She came to England in 1625 at the age of fifteen, undermined by her greedy French entourage, blocked by the forceful ...
Henry III: The Great King England Never Knew It Had
Henry III : The Great King England Never Knew It Had
Henry III (1207-72) reigned for 56 years, the longest-serving English monarch until the modern era. Although knighted by William Marshal, he was no warrior king like ...
Henry IV
Henry IV
Henry IV (1399-1413), the son of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, seized the English throne at the age of thirty-two from his cousin Richard II and held it until his death, aged forty-five, when he was succeed...
Henry The Young King 1155-1183
Henry The Young King
This first modern study of Henry the Young King, eldest son of Henry II but the least known Plantagenet monarch, explores the brief but eventful life of the only English ruler after the Norman Conqu...
Henry V New Interpretations
Henry V : New Interpretations
Henry V (1413-22) is widely acclaimed as the most successful late medieval English king. In his short reign of nine and a half years, he re-imposed the rule of law, made the crown solvent, ...
Henry V: The Conscience Of A King
Henry V : The Conscience of a King
More than just a single-minded warrior-king, Henry V comes to life in this fresh account as a gifted ruler acutely conscious of spiritual matters and his subjects' welfare Shakespeare'...
Henry VI
Henry VI : A Good Simple and Innocent Man
Succeeding to the throne at the age of only nine months, Henry VI had a turbulent reign: he inherited a war with France and, in time, found himself at war with his own nobles. J...
Henry VI, Margaret of Anjou and the Wars of the Roses
Henry VI, Margaret of Anjou & The Wars of the Roses
Henry VI (1422-61), a man 'more given to God and devout prayer than handling worldly and temporal things', was the third, and least successful, Lancastrian king of Eng...
Henry VII: The Turdor Dynasty's Greatest King
Henry VII : The Maligned Tudor King
Henry Tudor has been called the most unlikely king of England. Yet his rise from obscurity was foretold by the bards, and the familial bloodbath of the Wars of the Roses by 1485 left ...
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