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Brixham: Britain in Old Photographs by Ted Gosling
RRP: €15.46€11.45In its heyday, Brixham's fishermen were renowned for the vast number of fish they landed, the choir was one of the finest in the west of England, and it was a beautiful place to live. Today, it continues to be a picturesque place to live and visit, and... -
The A-Z of Curious Sussex: Strange Stories of Mysteries, Crimes and Eccentrics by Wendy Hughes
RRP: €17.84€13.74In this engaging book, Wendy Hughes takes you on a grand tour of the curious and bizarre, the strange and the unusual from Sussex's past. Read about the Alfriston Star - the hostelry for medieval package tours with its unusual ship's figurehead, the... -
The Curtain and the Wall: A Journey in the Shadow of the Cold War by Timothy Phillips
RRP: €23.80€16.49A landmark journey along the full length of the old Iron Curtain - from the Arctic Circle to Turkey's eastern border - tracing the history of the Cold War and meeting the people who live with its legacy. The Iron Curtain divided the continent of... -
The Light Division in the Peninsular War, 1811-1814 by Tim Saunders 9781526770134
RRP: €35.70€25.41Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Class, Gender, and Sexuality in Thomas Gainsborough's Blue Boy by Valerie Hedquist
RRP: €47.59€41.72The reception of Thomas Gainsborough's Blue Boy from its origins to its appearances in contemporary visual culture reveals how its popularity was achieved and maintained by diverse audiences and in varied venues. Performative manifestations resulted in... -
Fatal Colours: Towton, 1461 - England's Most Brutal Battle by George Goodwin
RRP: €13.08€8.81A 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 story has never been told so well or so excitingly' Desmond SewardThe Battle of Towton in 1461... -
The Story of Ely by Michael Rouse 9780750966931
RRP: €21.41€16.71Standing on what was one of the largest islands in the Cambridgeshire Fens, Ely has a rich and varied history. The Story of Ely takes an engaging look at this cathedral city from the earliest times to the modern day, recalling pivotal events and taking... -
Gothic Revival Architecture by Trevor Yorke
RRP: €10.70€8.81From the Houses of Parliament to the Midland Hotel at St Pancras and Strawberry Hill House, Gothic Revival buildings are some of the most distinctive structures found in Britain. Far from a copy of medieval buildings, it was a style full of colour and... -
Recovering Scotland's Slavery Past: The Caribbean Connection by Tom M. Devine
RRP: €26.17€21.38For more than a century and a half the real story of Scotland's connections to transatlantic slavery has been lost to history and shrouded in myth. There was even denial that the Scots, unlike the English, had any significant involvement in slavery... -
Britain in the Middle Ages: An Archaeological History by Francis Pryor
RRP: €15.46€9.90As in 'Britain B.C.' and 'Britain A.D.' (also accompanied by Channel 4 series), eminent archaeologist Francis Pryor challenges familiar historical views of the Middle Ages by examining fresh evidence from the ground. The term 'Middle Ages'... -
Cultivated Power: Flowers, Culture, and Politics in the Reign of Louis XIV by Elizabeth Hyde
€81.34Cultivated Power explores the collection, cultivation, and display of flowers in early modern France at the historical moment when flowering plants, many of which were becoming known in Europe for the first time, piqued the curiosity of European... -
The Potter's Hand by A. N. Wilson
RRP: €19.03€7.68LONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTIONIn 1774, Josiah Wedgwood, master craftsman possessed with a burning scientific vision, embarks upon the thousand piece Frog Service for Catherine the Great. Josiah's nephew Tom journeys to... -
Time Song: Searching for Doggerland by Julia Blackburn
RRP: €17.84€13.51SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE AND THE HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE A journey told through stories and songs into Doggerland, the ancient region that once joined the east coast of England to HollandTime Song tells of the creation, the existence and the... -
The Rebel's Mark by S. W. Perry
RRP: €22.60€15.74Elizabeth's reign is reaching its winter and England's old adversaries are fading. But in a world on the brink of change, showing any weakness can be fatal...1598. Nicholas Shelby, unorthodox physician and reluctant spy for Robert Cecil, has brought his... -
The Battles of Bonnie Prince Charlie: The Young Chevalier at War by Arran Johnston 9781399061148
RRP: €29.75€20.97Prince Charles Edward Stuart (1720-1788) was the grandson of Britain's last Stuart king and the last of his line to fight for their right to the throne. Born in Rome and raised at his father's cultured and cosmopolitan court-in-exile, the young prince... -
Sight, Touch, and Imagination in Byzantium by Roland Betancourt
RRP: €44.02€36.57Considering the interrelations between sight, touch, and imagination, this book surveys classical, late antique, and medieval theories of vision to elaborate on how various spheres of the Byzantine world categorized and comprehended sensation and... -
Gallipoli and the Dardanelles 1915 1916 by Mace, Martin 9781399074681
RRP: €17.84€13.03The fighting in the Gallipoli or Dardanelles campaign began in 1915 as a purely naval affair undertaken partly at the instigation of Winston Churchill, who, as First Lord of the Admiralty, had entertained plans of capturing the Dardanelles as early as... -
The Fire: The Bombing of Germany, 1940-1945 by Jorg Friedrich
€114.73For five years during the Second World War, the Allies launched a trial and error bombing campaign against Germany's historical city landscape. Peaking in the war's final three months, it was the first air attack of its kind. Civilian dwellings were... -
Bedlam: London's Hospital for the Mad by Paul Chambers 9780750991483
RRP: €13.08€10.64Bethlem Hospital is the oldest mental institution in the world, to many famously known as 'Bedlam': a chaotic madhouse that brutalised its patients. Paul Chambers explores the 800-year history of Bethlem and reveals fascinating details of its ambivalent... -
Goodbye Liverpool by Maureen Lee
RRP: €10.70€7.38A heartbreaking story of wartime love, loss and courage, from No.1 Sunday Times bestseller and queen of saga, Maureen Lee.Liverpool, 1937. Trapped in a loveless marriage, Jessica endures her husband's petty cruelty for the sake of her two young children... -
Losing Small Wars: British Military Failure in the 9/11 Wars by Frank Ledwidge
RRP: €19.03€16.45This new edition of Frank Ledwidge's eye-opening analysis of British involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan unpicks the causes and enormous costs of military failure. Updated throughout, and with fresh chapters assessing and enumerating the overall military... -
Making a Success of Brexit and Reforming the EU: The Brexit edition of The Trouble with Europe: 'Bootle is right on every count' - Guardian by Roger Bootle
RRP: €15.46€10.23"I recommend our diplomats and ministers read this book: it will provide them with an intellectual backbone. On the big calls [Bootle] has a spectacularly good record." Dominic Lawson, The Sunday Times "Bootle is right on every count." The Guardian HOW... -
British Marxist Historians, The by Harvey Kaye
RRP: €27.36€23.00The British Marxist Historians remains the first and most complete study of the founders of one of the most influential contemporary academic traditions in history and social theory. In this classic text, Kaye looks at Maurice Dobb and the debate on the... -
The Eastern International: Arabs, Central Asians, and Jews in the Soviet Union's Anticolonial Empire by Masha Kirasirova 9780197685709
RRP: €23.79€21.67In the first few years after the Russian Revolution, an ideological project coalesced to link the development of what Stalin demarcated as the internal "East"--primarily Central Asia and the Caucasus--with nation-building, the overthrow of colonialism,... -
Beyond the Gatehouse: The Eccentric Lives of the English Aristocracy by David Long
RRP: €15.46€11.45Beyond the Gatehouse is a lighthearted, witty but factual biographical account of the eccentric lifestyles of the builders and residents of some of England's best-known country houses. Extraordinary buildings require extraordinary people, and over the... -
The Kings & Queens of Scotland by Richard Oram
RRP: €17.84€13.74The history of the Scottish monarchy is a long tale of triumph over adversity, characterised by the personal achievements of remarkable rulers who transformed their fragile kingdom into the master of northern Britain. The Kings and Queens of Scotland... -
The Elizabethan Image: An Introduction to English Portraiture, 1558-1603 by Roy Strong
RRP: €33.92€28.17The new paperback edition of Roy Strong's popular introduction to Elizabethan portraiture Written for the general reader, Roy Strong's popular introduction to Elizabethan portraiture synthesizes scholarship and research on this subject into a concise... -
Chasing Sam Maguire: The All-Ireland Football Championship 1928–1977 by Dermot Reilly 9781788493802
RRP: €38.07€35.55It is almost one hundred years since the Sam Maguire Cup was first awarded to the winner of the All-Ireland Football Championship, the pinnacle of sporting ambition for generations of Gaelic footballers. Here, we celebrate all the heartbreak and glory of... -
The Little Book of Cardiff by David Collins
RRP: €11.89€8.98Authors David and Gareth take a trip through the places, peculiarities and past practices of Cardiff, stopping off to sample the culinary (and alcoholic) delights of the city along the way. From Clark's Pies and a heaped helping of 'Half and Half' to the... -
Medieval Europe by Chris Wickham
RRP: €15.46€13.64A spirited and thought-provoking history of the vast changes that transformed Europe during the 1,000-year span of the Middle Ages The millennium between the breakup of the western Roman Empire and the Reformation was a long and hugely transformative... -
The Little History of Coventry by Peter Walters 9780750989084
RRP: €14.28€10.63The Little History Of Coventry packs into its pages the colour and incident of a thousand years, telling the story of a city that has perhaps been overlooked by mainstream historians, but has often been at the heart of this country's great events. From... -
The Galloway Hoard: Viking-Age Treasure by Martin Goldberg 9781910682401
RRP: €15.46€13.10In 2017 an intense fundraising campaign ensured that what came to be known as 'the Galloway Hoard' was saved for the nation. Since then work has been ongoing to preserve and understand it. Over 5kg of silver bullion, many unique and enigmatic gold... -
The Spanish Armada by Robert Hutchinson
RRP: €11.89€8.09A dramatic blow-by-blow account of the defeat of the Spanish Armada by the English fleet - a tale of daring and disaster on the high seas by one of our best narrative historians.After the accession of Elizabeth I in 1558, Protestant England was beset by... -
Return To Akenfield: Portrait Of An English Village In The 21st Century by Craig Taylor
RRP: €11.89€7.97Ronald Blythe's 1969 book Akenfield - a moving portrait of English country life told in the voices of the farmers and villagers themselves - is a modern classic. In 2004, writer and reporter Craig Taylor returned to the village in Suffolk on which... -
Ghostly Tyne & Wear by Rob Kirkup
RRP: €15.46€11.45From reports of haunted castles, pubs, theatres and shopping arcades, to heart-stopping accounts of apparitions, poltergeists and related supernatural phenomena, Ghostly Tyne & Wear investigates thirty of the most haunted locations in Tyne & Wear today... -
A Short History Of The First World War by Gordon Kerr 9781843440949
RRP: €15.46€11.45The First World War, lasting just four years, from 1914 to 1918, was without parallel, the first true global conflict in which all of the earth's great powers participated. A Short History of the First World War tells the story of this cataclysmic event... -
Nella Last's Peace: The Post-War Diaries Of Housewife 49 by Patricia Malcolmson
RRP: €13.08€9.25Outwardly Nella's life was probably seen as ordinary; but behind this mask were a lively mind and a persistent pen - a pen that never gave up over almost three decades, reporting, describing, pondering, and disclosing. Nella, 55 when the war ends, writes... -
Nelson: Britain's Greatest Naval Commander by David Ross 9781849344944
RRP: €9.51€6.89Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson KB (1758 - 1805) was a British flag officer in the Royal Navy. Admired for his leadership, strategy and tactics, he led many decisive British naval victories, particularly during the Napoleonic Wars. Known... -
The Corporation That Changed the World: How the East India Company Shaped the Modern Multinational by Nick Robins 9780745331959
RRP: €20.22€13.73This is the history of the East India Company and its enduring legacy as a corporation, dealing in exploitation and violence. The English East India Company was the mother of the modern multinational. Its trading empire encircled the globe, importing... -
British Naval Trawlers and Drifters in Two World Wars: From The John Lambert Collection by Dunn, Steve 9781526794864
RRP: €41.65€30.10John Lambert was a renowned naval draughtsman, whose plans were highly valued for their accuracy and detail by modelmakers and enthusiasts. By the time of his death in 2016 he had produced over 850 sheets of drawings, many of which have never been...