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The Ghost Map: A Street, an Epidemic and the Hidden Power of Urban Networks. by Steven Johnson
RRP: $21.43$15.15From the bestselling author of Everything Bad is Good For You, Steven Johnson's The Ghost Map vividly recreates Victorian London to show how huge populations live together, how cities can kill - and how they can save us. Steven Johnson is one of today's... -
The Politics of English Nationhood by Michael Kenny 9780199608614
$90.69The Politics of English Nationhood supplies the first comprehensive overview of the evidence, research and major arguments relating to the revival of Englishness, exploring its varied, and often overlooked, political ramifications and dimensions. It... -
Oxford AQA History for A Level: Challenge and Transformation: Britain c1851-1964 by Sally Waller 9780198354666
$71.53Please note this title is suitable for any student studying: Exam Board: AQA Level/Subject: AS and A Level History First teaching: 2015 First exams: June 2017 Retaining well-loved features from the previous editions, Challenge and Transformation... -
Kent's Strangest Tales: Extraordinary but true stories from a very curious county by Martin Latham
RRP: $19.48$12.95Kent's Strangest Tales is a book devoted to the weird and wonderful side of the Garden of England. Home to historically rich towns such as Canterbury, Margate and Ramsgate, Kent is a county with more strangeness than you can shake a... -
London in the Twentieth Century: A City and Its People by Jerry White 9781847924537
RRP: $48.75$35.14Jerry White's London in the Twentieth Century, Winner of the Wolfson Prize, is a masterful account of the city's most tumultuous century by its leading expert.In 1901 no other city matched London in size, wealth and grandeur. Yet it was also a city where... -
All the Wide Border: Wales, England and the Places Between by Mike Parker 9780008499211
RRP: $21.43$14.14A Waterstones Travel Book of the Year 2023 A funny, warm and timely meditation on identity and belonging, following the scenic route along the England-Wales border: Britain's deepest faultline. There is a... -
Monte Cassino by Matthew Parker
RRP: $21.43$14.4380th anniversary of the Battle of Monte CassinoThe six-month battle for Monte Cassino was Britain's bitterest and bloodiest encounter with the German army on any front in World War Two.At the beginning of 1944 Italy was the western Allies' only active... -
Colours of London: A History Peter Ackroyd 9780711269422
RRP: $48.75$33.89Celebrated novelist, biographer and critic Peter Ackroyd paints a vivid picture of one of the world's greatest cities in this brilliant and original work, exploring how the city's many hues have come to shape its history and identity. Think of the... -
NKJV, Personal Size Reference Bible, Sovereign Collection, Leathersoft, Black, Red Letter, Comfort Print: Holy Bible, New King James Version Thomas Nelson 9780785264903
RRP: $58.50$40.03This elegant Bible edition honors the beauty and richness of the New King James Version in a convenient portable size with essential study tools and traditional red-letter text for the Words of Christ.The New King James Version in the Sovereign... -
A Grim Almanac of Kent by W. H. Johnson
RRP: $29.23$22.52In A Grim Almanac of Kent, W.H. Johnson has discovered a sinister, macabre or horrifying occurrence for every day of the year, and presents his readers with 365 graphic, spine-tingling and dramatic events. The wicked, the mad, the foolish and the... -
Elizabeth by David Starkey
RRP: $29.23$21.35'The best account in English of the early years of Elizabeth' Evening Standard A woman in a man's world, Queen Elizabeth I was to become England's most successful ruler. Confident in her destiny, intensely intelligent, passionately sexual yet (she said)... -
All In It Together: England in the Early 21st Century by Alwyn Turner
RRP: $39.00$35.14A SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 'He writes with a tremendous sense of fun. The result is a rare thing: not just a serious work of contemporary history, but an unashamed, 24-carat hoot' - Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times 'Up there with the... -
My Revision Notes: AQA AS/A-level History: The Tudors: England, 1485-1603 Roger Turvey 9781471876103
RRP: $24.38$23.09Exam Board: AQALevel: AS/A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2016Target success in AQA AS/A-level History with this proven formula for effective, structured revision; key content coverage is combined with exam... -
A Northern Wind: Britain 1962-65 by David Kynaston 9781526657572
RRP: $58.50$42.80A WATERSTONES, TIMES, TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN, SPECTATOR AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR The early sixties in Britain told as only David Kynaston ('the most entertaining historian alive' Spectator) can. Running from 1962 to 1965, A Northern... -
Scotland: The Story of a Nation by Magnus Magnusson
RRP: $37.03$24.78A timely and vivid look at Scotland's long and difficult road to nationhood, re-exploring some cherished myths and unearthing a wealth of fascinating new detail. Magnus Magnusson's starting point is Sir Walter Scott's classic version of... -
Sport and the British: A Modern History by Richard Holt 9780192852298
RRP: $126.75$105.89This lively and deeply researched history - the first of its kind - goes beyond the great names and moments to explain how British sport has changed since 1800, and what it has meant to ordinary people. It shows how the way we play reflects not just our... -
Broadmoor Women: Tales from Britain's First Criminal Lunatic Asylum Kim E Thomas 9781526794260
RRP: $29.23$21.35Broadmoor, Britain's first asylum for criminal lunatics, was founded in 1863. In the first years of its existence, one in five patients was female. Most had been tried for terrible crimes and sent to Broadmoor after being found not guilty by virtue of... -
Mosquito Men: The Elite Pathfinders of 627 Squadron by David Price 9781800242302
RRP: $21.43$13.88Nicknamed The 'Wooden Wonder' for its timber frame and superb performance, the de Havilland Mosquito ranks alongside the Spitfire, the Hurricane and the Lancaster as one of the RAF's greatest-ever flying machines. Novel in design, operationally flexible... -
Fulham Match of My Life: Fifteen Stars Relive Their Greatest Games by Michael Heatley
RRP: $19.48$14.72Fifteen Fulham legends come together to tell the stories behind their favourite ever games for the club - enabling Cottagers fans of all ages to relive these magic moments through the eyes and emotions of the men who were there, playing their hearts out... -
A Brief History of the Anglo-Saxons by Geoffrey Hindley
RRP: $9.73$6.84Starting AD 400 (around the time of their invasion of England) and running through to the 1100s (the 'Aftermath'), historian Geoffrey Hindley shows the Anglo-Saxons as formative in the history not only of England but also of Europe. The society inspired... -
Hastings: Wartime Memories and Photographs by Nathan Dylan Goodwin
RRP: $35.08$26.60Hastings: Wartime Memories and Photographs weaves the personal stories of 75 people who endured life in Hastings during the Home Front war years with more than 140 photographs, the majority of which have never been published before. It describes the... -
All In It Together: England in the Early 21st Century Alwyn Turner 9781788166737
RRP: $19.48$13.86'Turner's seductive blend of political analysis, social reportage and cultural immersion puts him wonderfully at ease with his readers' David Kynaston 'Reading Alwyn Turner's account of life in the first two decades of the 21st century is a bit like... -
Ireland, 1912-1985: Politics and Society by Joseph J. Lee
RRP: $79.93$70.32Ireland, 1912-1985 is the first study on this scale of Irish performance, North and South, in the twentieth century. Although stressing the primacy of politics in Irish public affairs, it argues that Irish politics must be understood in the broad context... -
Witchfinders by Malcolm Gaskill
RRP: $25.33$9.18By the spring of 1645, civil war had exacted a terrible toll upon England. Disease was rife, apocalyptic omens appeared in the skies, and idolators detected in every shire. In a remote corner of Essex, two obscure gentlemen began interrogating women... -
The Suitcase: Six Attempts to Cross a Border by Frances Stonor Saunders
RRP: $19.48$13.86*Winner of the PEN Ackerley Prize 2022*'This is family history at its best... the words fizz off the page and flutter in the mind' Sunday TimesIf you open that suitcase you'll never close it again.Ten years ago, Frances Stonor Saunders was handed an old... -
Legacy: Gangsters, Corruption and the London Olympics by Michael Gillard
RRP: $25.33$17.73'Reveals criminal corruption on a scale that the Kray twins would never have dreamt of' John Pearson, Profession of Violence, The Rise and Fall of the Kray Twins 'Gillard's detailed investigation makes for a stunning and shocking read' Barry Keeffe,... -
Secrets of Station X by Michael Smith 9781849540957
RRP: $21.43$15.46When Captain Ridley's shooting partyA" arrived at Bletchley Park in 1939 no-one would have guessed that by 1945 the guests would number nearly 10,000 and that collectively they would have contributed decisively to the Allied war effort. Their role? To... -
SBS - Silent Warriors: The Authorised Wartime History by Saul David 9780008394561
RRP: $19.48$12.95THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A terrific book ... It really is one of the most enjoyable histories I've read in many a year' JAMES HOLLAND 'Riveting ... A brilliant account' DAILY MAIL ... -
Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: $25.33$17.73'Droll, provocative and crammed to busting with startling facts' Simon Callow, GuardianIn this powerful Sunday Times bestseller Peter Ackroyd looks at London in a whole new way - through the history and experiences of its gay population.In Roman... -
The Fishing Fleet: Husband-Hunting in the Raj Anne De Courcy 9780753828960
RRP: $19.48$13.26The adventurous young women who sailed to India during the Raj in search of husbands.From the late 19th century, when the Raj was at its height, many of Britain's best and brightest young men went out to India to work as administrators, soldiers and... -
The Modified Bulleid Pacifics: How Ron Jarvis Reconstructed the Bulleid Pacifics by Tim Hillier-Graves 9781526721662
RRP: $78.00$57.31Oliver Bulleid's Pacifics were perhaps the most controversial steam locomotives ever built in Britain. They seem to been loved and loathed in equal measure and the debate over their strengths and weaknesses took on a new dimension when BR decided to... -
Thames Path in London: From Hampton Court to Crayford Ness: 50 miles of historic riverside walk Phoebe Clapham 9781781317549
RRP: $29.23$19.11Fully revised and updated. This comprehensive guide to the London section of the Thames Path Trail Guide covers the route from Hampton Court in the east to the Thames Barrier in the west, with an extension into Crayford Ness. From the Mesolithic Period... -
The Battle for the Falklands by Max Hastings
RRP: $37.03$25.66'Excellent' Financial Times'Stirring, impressively detailed' Time magazineThe Battle for the Falklands is a thoughtful and informed analysis of an astonishing chapter in modern British history from journalist and military historian Sir Max Hastings and... -
Inside 10 Rillington Place: John Christie and me, the untold truth by Peter Thorley
RRP: $17.53$12.5810 Rillington Place: the house of death.John Reginald Halliday Christie and Timothy John Evans were hanged after a series of brutal murders in the 1940s and 1950s.But should they both have been executed?The sole survivor who grew up with Christie and... -
The Village that Died for England: Tyneham and the Legend of Churchill's Pledge by Patrick Wright
RRP: $37.03$26.81Shortly before Christmas in 1943, the British military announced they were taking over a remote valley on the Dorset coast and turning it into a firing range for tanks in preparation for D-Day. The residents of the village of Tyneham loyally packed up... -
Never Had It So Good: A History of Britain from Suez to the Beatles by Dominic Sandbrook
RRP: $37.03$25.64In 1956 the Suez Crisis finally shattered the old myths of the British Empire and paved the way for the tumultuous changes of the decades to come. In NEVER HAD IT SO GOOD, Dominic Sandbrook takes a fresh look at the dramatic story of affluence and... -
Castles Map of Scotland: Explore Scotland’s ancient monuments (Collins Pictorial Maps) by Collins Maps 9780008665005
RRP: $15.58$10.55Discover Scotland's ancient monuments and castles. Explore Scotland's ancient monuments with this pictorial map featuring over 700 castles and fortified houses. Includes an easy-to-use index listing visitor information and an attractive... -
Jeoffry: The Poet's Cat by Oliver Soden
RRP: $25.33$18.76Jeoffry was a real cat who lived 250 years ago, confined to an asylum with Christopher Smart, one of the most visionary poets of the age. In exchange for love and companionship, Smart rewarded Jeoffry with the greatest tribute to a feline ever written... -
Britain Alone: The Path from Suez to Brexit by Philip Stephens
RRP: $21.43$14.27NEW AND UPDATED EDITIONA magisterial and profoundly perceptive survey of Britain's post-war role on the global stage, from Suez to Brexit. 'The fullest long-run political and diplomatic narrative yet of Britain's fateful, tragi-comic road to Brexit.'... -
Attack Warning Red!: How Britain Prepared for Nuclear War by Julie McDowall
RRP: $42.90$30.46*A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK*The first book to tell the story of day-to-day life on the nuclear home front - from the host of #1 podcast Atomic Hobo'So entertaining' The Times 'Cracking' Sunday TelegraphThe atomic bombs of 1945 changed war forever...