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The Art & History Of Calligraphy
The Art & History of Calligraphy
This stunningly illustrated new book focuses on 77 intricate, expressive and individual examples of calligraphy from the unparalleled collection of the British Library. The author, a ren...
The Beeching Era Rail Atlas
The Beeching Era Rail Atlas
The Beeching Report 'The Reshaping of British Railways' was first published in 1963. This seminal document, about which much has been written and which remains highly controversial to this da...
The Benn Diaries
The Benn Diaries
Tony Benn was one of the twentieth century's most charismatic politicians. The Benn Diaries, kept for almost seventy years, are a uniquely authoritative, fascinating and readable record of the political...
The Black Door
The Black Door : Spies, Secret Intelligence and British Prime Ministers
'The Black Door' explores the evolving relationship between successive British prime ministers and the intelligence agencies, from Asquith's Secret...
The Black Prince
The Black Prince : The King That Never Was
As a child he was given his own suit of armour; in 1346, at the age of 16 he helped defeat the French at Crecy; and in 1356 he captured the king of France at Poitiers. For the ...
The British Dentist
British Dentist
Though the prospect may fill us with dread, most of us need dental treatment at some stage - and the reality is that better care has never been available, as this fully illustrated book shows. Early dent...
The Burning Time
The Burning Time : The Story of the Smithfield Martyrs
Smithfield, settled on the fringes of Roman London, was once a place of revelry. Jesters and crowds flocked for the medieval St Bartholomew's Day celebrations, tour...
The Cabinet Office 1916-2016
The Cabinet Office 1916-2016 : The Birth of Modern Government
The story of the Cabinet Office, created in the depths of the Great War in December 1916, goes to the very heart of the British state over the last 100 years...
The Concise Pepys
The Concise Pepys
Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) began his celebrated diary on 1st January 1660 immediately prior to the Restoration of Charles II to the throne and the subsequent loosening of the rigid moral and social code ...
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The Condition of the Working Class in England
Condition of the Working Class In England
Written when Engels was only twenty-four, and inspired in particular by his time living amongst the poor in Manchester, this forceful polemic explores the staggering human cost ...
The Country Formerly Known As Great Britain
The Country Formerly Known As Great Britain
In this selection from over twenty years of reporting and writing, Ian Jack sets out to deal with contemporary Britain - from national disasters to football matches to obesity...
The Country House And The Great War
The Country House and The Great War: Irish and British Experiences
Drawing on archival materials, and incorporating never-before-seen images, this volume presents a spectrum of experiences from owners, to servants and t...
The Creation of Anne Boleyn
Creation of Anne Boleyn : In Search of the Tudors' Most Notorious Queen
Part biography, part cultural history, The Creation of Anne Boleyn is a fascinating reconstruction of Anne's life and an illuminating look at her a...
The Curious World of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn
The Curious World of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn
An intimate portrait of two pivotal Restoration figures during one of the most dramatic periods of English history Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn are two of the most celeb...
The Dark Side of Samuel Pepys
The Dark Side of Samuel Pepys
Samuel Pepys is popularly known as the founder of the modern navy, a member of the Royal Society and most of all, as a unique and frank diarist. Less well known is the fact that he was a se...
The Dublin King
The Dublin King : The Ture Story of Edward, Earl of Warwick, Lambert Simnel and the 'Princes in the Tower'
A year after Richard III's death, a boy claiming to be a Yorkist prince appeared as if from nowhere, claiming to...
The Elizabethans
The Elizabethans
England under Elizabeth I: A time of war and plague, politics and rebellion, personal heroism and religious fanaticism. When if you were born poor you stayed poor, and the thumbscrews and the rack could...
The English And Their History
The English and Their History
In The English and their History, the first full-length account to appear in one volume for many decades, Robert Tombs gives us the history of the English people, and of how the stories the...
The English Civil War in 100 Facts
The English Civil War in 100 Facts
The English Civil War pitted Parliament against the Crown following a breakdown in their relationship, ultimately caused by a struggle over power, religion and control. The Civil War s...
The Enlightened Mr Parkinson
The Enlightened Mr Parkinson
Parkinson's disease is one of the most common forms of dementia, with 10,000 new cases each year in the UK alone, and yet few know anything about the man the disease is named after. In 1817 ...
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