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Parish Church Treasures
Parish Church Treasures
Our parish churches constitute a living patrimony without precise European parallel. Their cultural riches are astonishing, not only for their quality and quantity, but also their diversity and i...
1666: Plague, War And Hellfire
1666 : Plague, War and Hellfire
1666 was a watershed year for England. The outbreak of the Great Plague, the eruption of the second Dutch War and the Great Fire of London all struck the country in rapid succession and w...
Primitive Rebels
Primitive Rebels
Social agitation is as essential a part of public life today as it has ever been. In Eric Hobsbawm's masterful study, Primitive Rebels, he shines a light on the origins of contemporary rebellion: Robin ...
1916: The Easter Rising
1916: The Easter Rising
An account of the events, personalities and repercussions of the Irish rebellionThe Easter Rising began at 12 noon, 24 April, 1916 and lasted for six short but bloody days, resulting in the death...
An English Affair : Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo
An English Affair : Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo
Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the Profumo scandal, 'An English Affair' is a sharp-focused snapshot of a nation on the brink of soci...
Biographic Shakespeare
Shakespeare : Great Lives in Graphic Form
The Biographies series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest thinkers and creatives. It takes the 50 defining facts, dates, thoughts, habi...
Censored
Censored : A Literary History of Subversion and Control
The list of books suppressed in the English language features the sacred and profane, poetic and pornographic, famous and infamous. A history of literary censorshi...
England's Medieval Navy
England's Medieval Navy 1066-1509
We are accustomed to think of England in terms of Shakespeare's 'precious stone set in a silver sea', safe behind its watery ramparts with its naval strength resisting all invaders. To ...
Fatal Colours
Fatal Colours : Towton, 1461 - England's Most Brutal Battle
A gripping account of the Wars of the Roses battle of Towton - the most brutal day in English history.'Vivid, humane and superbly researched' David Starkey'The...
Guide To War Publications of the First & Second World Wars
Guide To War Publications of the First and Second World Wars
In WW2 information leaflets and posters proliferated. Soldiers were bombarded with Field Regulations, airmen with the latest updates about airborne early warn...
Irish History: An Illustrated A-Z
Irish History : An Illustrated A-Z
The history of Ireland is one of oppression and emancipation, characterized by foreign rule and the fight for freedom. It is a history in which religious and political conflicts sit si...
Jane & Dorothy
Jane & Dorothy : A True Tale of Sense & Sensibility
Jane Austen and Dorothy Wordsworth were born just four years apart, in the 1770s, in a world torn between heady revolutionary ideas and fierce conservatism, and both w...
Mansions Of Misery
Mansions Of Misery : A Biography of the Marshalsea Debtors' Prison
For Londoners of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, debt was a part of everyday life. But when your creditors lost their patience, you might be th...
One Lump Or Two
One Lump or Two : Tea , Twinings & Edward Bawden
One Lump or Two is a delightful infusion of tea, limericks and the art of Edward Bawden RA (1903-1989). In the 1930s the artist collaborated with celebrated author and ep...
Protestants
Protestants : The Radicals Who Made the Modern World
On the 500th anniversary of Luther's rebellion, this spectacular global history traces the revolutionary faith that shaped the modern world.Five hundred years ago Pro...
Queen Victoria: A Life Of Contradictions
Queen Victoria A Life Of Contradictions
She lived in the shadow of her mother and then under the tutelage of her husband: during her protracted widowhood she belatedly embraced self-reliance. Fresh, witty and accessible...
Secret Days: Codebreaking In Bletchley Park
Secret Days: Codebreaking in Bletchley Park : A Memoir of Hut Six and the Enigma Machine
The Bletchley Park memoir of Lord ASA Briggs will be one of the most important documents to be published in 2010. Lord Briggs has ...
The 50 Greatest Prehistoric Sites Of The World
50 Greatest Prehistoric Sites of the World
Humanity's written history stretches back only 5,000 years, a mere blip on the timeline of our existence. If you want to know what it really means to be fully human, to see the...
The Adventurer's Notebook
The Adventurer's Notebook
From the authors of London Adventure Walks, The Adventurer' s Notebook has heaps of white space for creative young minds to fill with drawings, stories and ideas inspired by all the wonderful t...
The Catholics
The Catholics : The Church and its People in Britain and Ireland, from the Reformation to the Present Day
"The story of Catholicism in Britain from the Reformation to the present day, from a master of popular history - ...
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