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The Black British Quiz Book by Prtyhere 9780008584313
RRP: $25.33$16.54Dive into this fun and entertaining quiz book from the UK's biggest Black British pub quiz! Get your thinking caps on because it's time to test your knowledge on all things Black and British, with rounds on... -
English Longbowman 1330–1515 by Clive Bartlett 9781855324916
RRP: $29.23$24.53The English military ascendancy which lasted from the mid-14th to the early 15th century was founded upon defensive tactics based on the use of the longbow. This weapon, distinctive in that it was used by English forces alone, was probably the most... -
The European Dynastic States 1494-1660 by Richard Bonney 9780198730231
$127.20This is a study of Europe during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries - a period of economic and cultural upheaval, of dramatic changes in politics, society, and religion, and of constant warring among the emergent states. Richard Bonney draws... -
Sixties Europe by Timothy Scott Brown 9781107552906
RRP: $46.78$39.72Sixties Europe examines the border-crossing uprisings of the 1960s in Europe on both sides of the Cold War divide. Placing European developments within a global context formed by Third World liberation struggles and Cold War geopolitics, Timothy Scott... -
The Territories of Science and Religion by Peter Harrison
RRP: $44.85$43.15The conflict between science and religion seems indelible, even eternal. Surely two such divergent views of the universe have always been in fierce opposition? Actually, that's not the case, says Peter Harrison: our very concepts of science and religion... -
A Geography of Offerings: Deposits of Valuables in the Landscapes of Ancient Europe by Richard Bradley 9781785704772
RRP: $31.18$28.96More than quarter of a century ago Richard Bradley published The Passage of Arms. It was conceived as An Archaeological Analysis of Prehistoric Hoards and Votive Deposits, but, as the author concedes, these terms were too narrowly focused for the complex... -
Wanstead and Woodford by Ian Dowling 9780752401133
RRP: $25.33$18.76This book is part of the Images of London series, which uses old photographs and archived images to show the history of various local areas in England, through their streets, shops, pubs, and people.Book InformationISBN 9780752401133Author Ian... -
The Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars: Volume 1, Politics and Diplomacy by Michael Broers
RRP: $214.50$214.42Volume I of The Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars covers the international foreign political dimensions of the wars and the social, legal, political and economic structures of the Empire. Leading historians from around the world come together to... -
Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality by E. J. Hobsbawm 9781107604629
RRP: $31.18$25.99Nations and Nationalism since 1780 is Eric Hobsbawm's widely acclaimed and highly readable enquiry into the question of nationalism. Events in the late twentieth century in Eastern Europe and the Soviet republics have since reinforced the central... -
Access to History: Russia 1894-1941 for OCR Second Edition by Michael Lynch
$49.94Exam Board: AQA, Edexcel, OCR & WJECLevel: A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2016This is an OCR endorsed resource.Give your students the best chance of success with this tried and tested series, combining in-depth... -
The War that Ended Peace: How Europe abandoned peace for the First World War by Professor Margaret MacMillan
RRP: $29.23$22.13WINNER of the International Affairs Book of the Year at the Political Book Awards 2014Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize 2013 The First World War followed a period of sustained peace in Europe during which people talked with confidence of... -
Meghan: A Hollywood Princess by Andrew Morton 9781789293906
RRP: $19.48$13.16'Highly readable and compelling' Daily Telegraph _______________What an extraordinary journey it has been for Meghan Markle. In this fully revised and updated biography, Andrew Morton navigates the at times baffling twists and turns of a royal saga that... -
Castle Cary, North Cadbury and Wincanton by Bridget Laver 9781845882587
RRP: $11.68$9.32Presents a pictorial history of Castle Cary, North Cadbury and Wincanton through a series of photographs and images. This work features historical captions.Book InformationISBN 9781845882587Author Sam MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Nonsuch... -
Personality and Power: Builders and Destroyers of Modern Europe by Ian Kershaw 9780141998237
RRP: $29.23$21.35One of the great historians of our age asks: how far can a single leader alter the course of history?The modern era saw the emergence of individuals who had command over a terrifying array of instruments of control, persuasion and death. Whole societies... -
Personality and Power: Builders and Destroyers of Modern Europe by Ian Kershaw
RRP: $58.50$41.63One of the great historians of our age asks: how far can a single leader alter the course of history?The modern era saw the emergence of individuals who had command over a terrifying array of instruments of control, persuasion and death. Whole societies... -
A Mediterranean Emporium: The Catalan Kingdom of Majorca by David Abulafia 9780521322447
RRP: $175.50$141.51Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Road to Terror: Stalin and the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932-1939 by J. Arch Getty 9780300104073
RRP: $48.75$46.68Now updated with new facts, and abridged for use in Soviet history courses, this gripping book assembles top secret Soviet documents, translated into English, from the era of Stalin's purges. The dossiers, police reports, private letters, secret... -
The Refuge and the Fortress: Britain and the Flight from Tyranny by Jeremy Seabrook 9780230218789
RRP: $42.90$42.72In the 75th anniversary of CARA (Council for Assisting Refugee Academics), this book explores the experiences and achievements of refugee academics and their rescuers to recount Britain's past relationship with overseas victims of persecution, and as... -
Firepower: How Weapons Shaped Warfare by Paul Lockhart
RRP: $58.50$38.61The history of warfare cannot be fully understood without considering the technology of killing. In Firepower, acclaimed historian Paul Lockhart tells the story of military technology from the Renaissance to the dawn of the atomic era --... -
England's First Castle: The Story of a 1000-Year-Old Mystery by Terry Wardle 9780752447971
RRP: $29.23$22.52In early September 1051, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle recorded that 'the French had built a castle', the first Norman castle in England. Yet for centuries the circumstances behind the construction of this castle and its actual location have remained a... -
Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order by Robert Paxton
RRP: $58.50$46.20Robert O. Paxton's classic study of the aftermath of France's sudden collapse under Nazi invasion utilizes captured German archives and other contemporary materials to construct a strong and disturbing account of the Vichy period in France. With a new... -
On Stalin's Team: The Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics by Sheila Fitzpatrick
RRP: $39.00$30.99Stalin was the unchallenged dictator of the Soviet Union for so long that most historians have dismissed the officials surrounding him as mere yes-men and political window dressing. On Stalin's Team overturns this view, revealing that behind Stalin was a... -
The Oxford Handbook of the English Revolution by Michael J. Braddick
RRP: $79.93$78.96This Handbook brings together leading historians of the events surrounding the English revolution, exploring how the events of the revolution grew out of, and resonated, in the politics and interactions of the each of the Three Kingdoms - England,... -
Dinner in Rome: A History of the World in One Meal by Andreas Viestad 9781789147827
RRP: $21.43$15.15'There is more history in a bowl of pasta than in the Colosseum,' writes Andreas Viestad in Dinner in Rome. From the table of a classic Roman restaurant, Viestad takes us on a fascinating culinary exploration of the Eternal City, and global civilization... -
Footmarks: A Journey Into our Restless Past by Jim Leary
RRP: $37.03$24.34'Lucid, poetic and fascinating' ALICE ROBERTS'Engaging, authoritative and full of fascinating stories of the past' RAY MEARS'A gentle, personal and very readable book' JULIA BLACKBURN AUTHOR OF TIME SONG'A triumph!' JAMES CANTON, AUTHOR OF THE OAK... -
The Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich by Callum MacDonald 9781843410362
RRP: $19.48$13.07On 4 June 1942 one of the most powerful figures of the Nazi regime died in agony from wounds sustained during an assassination attempt in Prague. This is the story of the killing of Reinhard Heydrich, a man of extraordinary intelligence, ruthlessness and... -
The Frankish Kingdoms Under the Carolingians 751-987 by Rosamond McKitterick 9780582490055
$164.11An exciting examination of the entire history of the Carolingian 'dynasty' in western Europe. The author shows the whole period to be one of immense political, religious. cultural and intellectual dynamism; not only did it lay the foundations of the... -
Kutuzov: A Life in War and Peace by Alexander Mikaberidze
RRP: $63.36$44.09A full-life portrait of the man Tolstoy immortalized, Stalin lionized, and Russian history has manipulated and mythologized beyond recognition. Every Russian knows him purely by his patronym. He was the general who triumphed over Napoleons Grande... -
This Land of Promise: A History of Refugees and Exiles in Britain Matthew Lockwood 9780008442569
RRP: $58.50$38.08‘Important, comprehensive, and superbly researched. All the more urgent at the present time’ BART VAN ES How have those who arrived on Britain’s shores shaped its history? Refugees seeking to reach Britain today often face perilous journeys,... -
In the Name of Rome: The Men Who Won the Roman Empire by Adrian Goldsworthy
RRP: $29.23$19.11The complete and definitive history of how Roman generals carved out the greatest and longest-lasting empire the world has ever seen.The Roman army was one of the most effective fighting forces in history. The legions and their commanders carved out an... -
London: A Travel Guide Through Time by Matthew Green
RRP: $25.33$17.73Step back in time and discover the sights, sounds and smells of London through the ages in this enthralling journey into the capital's rich, teeming and occasionally hazardous past.Let time traveller Dr Matthew Green be your guide to six extraordinary... -
Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning by Timothy Snyder
RRP: $25.33$17.73LONGLISTED FOR THE 2015 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE We have come to see the Holocaust as a factory of death, organised by bureaucrats. Yet by the time the gas chambers became operation more than a million European Jews were already dead: shot at close range... -
Annals by Cornelius Tacitus
RRP: $25.33$17.73A compelling new translation of Tacitus' Annals, one of the greatest accounts of ancient Rome, by Cynthia Damon.Tacitus' Annals recounts the major historical events from the years shortly before the death of Augustus to the death of Nero in AD 68. With... -
A Concise History of Germany by Mary Fulbrook
RRP: $42.88$37.60This third edition of Mary Fulbrook's much-admired and popular introduction to German history provides a clear and informative guide to the twists and turns of the story of the German lands and peoples from the early middle ages to the present day... -
How to Plan a Crusade: Reason and Religious War in the High Middle Ages by Christopher Tyerman
RRP: $25.33$17.73'Wonderfully written and characteristically brilliant' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads'Elegant, readable ... an impressive synthesis ... Not many historians could have done it' - Jonathan Sumption, Spectator'Tyerman's book is fascinating not... -
Danubia: A Personal History of Habsburg Europe by Simon Winder 9780330522793
RRP: $25.33$18.06For centuries much of Europe was in the hands of the very peculiar Habsburg family. An unstable mixture of wizards, obsessives, melancholics, bores, musicians and warriors, they saw off - through luck, guile and sheer mulishness - any number of rivals,... -
The Enlightenment by Norman Hampson 9780140137453 [USED COPY]
RRP: $29.23$3.47Armed with the insights of the scientific revolution, the men of the Enlightenment set out to free mankind from its age-old cocoon of pessimism and superstition and establish a more reasonable world of experiment and progress. Yet by the 1760s, this... -
The Enlightenment by Norman Hampson
RRP: $29.23$21.35Armed with the insights of the scientific revolution, the men of the Enlightenment set out to free mankind from its age-old cocoon of pessimism and superstition and establish a more reasonable world of experiment and progress. Yet by the 1760s, this... -
Where Poppies Blow: The British Soldier, Nature, the Great War by John Lewis-Stempel
RRP: $19.48$14.43Winner of the 2017 Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize for nature writingThe natural history of the Western Front during the First World War'If it weren't for the birds, what a hell it would be.'During the Great War, soldiers lived inside the ground,... -
Yes to Europe!: The 1975 Referendum and Seventies Britain by Robert Saunders 9781108442244
RRP: $33.13$29.46On 5 June 1975, voters went to the polls in Britain's first national referendum to decide whether the UK should remain in the European Community. As in 2016, the campaign shattered old political allegiances and triggered a far-reaching debate on...