Crown And Country : A History of England Through the Monarchy
From one of our finest historians comes an outstanding exploration of the British monarchy from the retreat of the Romans up until the modern day. This compe...
Crown of Blood : The Deadly Inheritance of Lady Jane Grey
Good people, I am come hither to die, and by a law I am condemned to the same.These were the words uttered by the seventeen-year-old Lady Jane Grey as she stood ...
Crown Of Thistles : The Fatal Inheritance of Mary Queen of Scots
The struggle between the fecund Stewarts and the barren Tudors is generally seen only in terms of the relationship between Elizabeth I and her cousin, Mar...
Released to coincide with a major BBC TV documentary series on the crusades presented by the author. In the eleventh century, a vast Christian army, summoned to holy war by the pope,...
Originally named Juan Fernandez, the island of Robinson Crusoe in the South Pacific was the inspiration for Defoe's classic novel about the adventures of a shipwrecked sailor. Yet the complex story of Br...
Cursed Kings tells the story of the destruction of France by the madness of its king and the greed and violence of his family. In the early fifteenth century, France had gone from...
In Dark Days of Georgian Britain, James Hobson challenges the long established view of high society during the Regency, and instead details an account of a society in change. Often upheld a...
Dashing For The Post : The Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor
A revelatory collection of letters written by the author of The Broken Road. Handsome, spirited and erudite, Patrick Leigh Fermor was a war hero and one the gre...
In 1873 frail Polly Weaver, a lady's maid, fell in love with Alfred Hayes, a gamekeeper in Worcestershire, but circumstances kept them apart for seven years. Alf's letters...
Imagine performing surgery on a patient without anaesthetic, administering medicine that could kill or cure. Welcome to the world of the surgeon-apothecary...During the eighteenth and ninet...
No empire has been larger or more diverse than the British Empire. At its apogee in the 1930s, 42 million Britons governed 500 million foreign subjects. Britannia ruled t...
Decolonisation : The British experience since 1945 - 2nd. Edition
Decolonisation: The British Experience since 1945 is a concise and accessible introduction which introduces students to this often dramatic story of colo...
From traditional seaside holiday treats like candy floss, ice cream and fish 'n' chips, to the British fascination for baking, the Victorian era has shaped British culinary heritage. Victoria'...
The first uniform English translation, published in parallel text with Abraham Farley's Latin text of 1783. Volumes in this edition also contain an introduction, glossary, full notes, index ...
The first uniform English translation, published in parallel text with Abraham Farley's Latin text of 1783. Volumes in this edition also contain an introduction, glossary, full notes, index of ...
The first uniform English translation, published in parallel text with Abraham Farley's Latin text of 1783. Volumes in this edition also contain an introduction, glossary, full notes, ind...