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Fatal Path
Fatal Path
This is a magisterial narrative of the most turbulent decade in Anglo-Irish history: a decade of unleashed passions that came close to destroying the parliamentary system and to causing civil war in the Unite...
Ferguson's Gang
Ferguson Gang : The Remarkable Story fo the National Trust Gangsters
1927. Britain's heritage is vanishing. Beautiful landscapes are being bulldozed.
Historic buildings are being blown up. Stonehenge is collapsing. En...
Festival Of Britain Design 1951
Festival Of Britain Design 1951
Inspired by the Great Exhibition of 1851, the Festival of Britain followed soon after the austerity of the war years. The major events were focused around the twenty-seven-acre bomb site ...
First Through The Clouds
First Through The Clouds : The Autobiography of a Box-Kite Pioneer
The early years of aviation were marked by flimsy, unreliable machines and daring adventurous young men. One of the pioneer aviators leading the way in ...
Fit Men Wanted
Fit Men Wanted
This book reproduces the best of the Imperial War Museum's collection of over 30,000 British Government wartime posters and proclamations, mostly from the First and Second World Wars, and most forgotten a...
For Honour And Fame : Chivalry in England 1066-1500
For Honour And Fame : Chivalry in England 1066-1500
The world of medieval chivalry is at once glamorous and violent, alluring yet alien. Our popular views of the period are largely inherited from the nineteenth-century ...
Foundation : The History of England Volume 1
Foundation : The History of England Volume 1
Having written enthralling biographies of London and of its great river, the Thames, Peter Ackroyd now turns to England itself. This first volume of six takes us from the tim...
Four Queens And A Countess
Four Queens And A Countess : Mary Queen of Scots, Elizabeth I, Mary I, Lady Jane and Bess of Hardwick
When Mary Stuart was forced off the Scottish throne she fled to England, a move that made her cousin Queen Elizabeth ...
From A Rock To A Hard Place
From A Rock To A Hard Place : Memories of the 1984/85 Miners' Strike
By the end of the notorious 1984/85 miners' strike many wanted to forget their painful experiences. Thirty years on people are ready to look back and ...
George I
George I The Lucky King
George I was not the most charismatic of the Hanoverian monarchs to have reigned in England but he was probably the most important. He was certainly the luckiest.Born the youngest son of a landle...
George II
George II
Despite a long and eventful reign, Britain's George II is a largely forgotten monarch, his achievements overlooked and his abilities misunderstood. This landmark biography uncovers extensive new evidence in Br...
Georgiana : Duchess of Devonshire
Georgiana : Duchess of Devonshire
Sex, intrigue and adultery in the world of high politics and huge wealth in late eighteenth-century England. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire was one of the most flamboyant and influent...
Gimson's Prime Ministers
Gimson's Prime Ministers
A concise, sharp-witted and illuminating account of the lives of Britain's prime ministers from Walpole to May, illustrated by Martin Rowson. For the reader who has heard of such giants as Glads...
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 As You
Good As You : From Prejudice to Pride A Gay British History
In 1984 the pulsing electronics and soft vocals of Smalltown Boy would become an anthem uniting gay men. A month later, an aggressive virus, HIV, would be iden...
Graven With Diamonds : The Many Lives of Thomas Wyatt
Graven With Diamonds : The Many Lives Of Thomas Wyatt
These bloody days have broken my heart. Thomas Wyatt
Learned divines despised it, sober heads ignored it, but for Henry, the beau ideal of chivalry, poetry made thi...
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...
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