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Island Cross-talk: Pages from a Diary by Tomas O'Crohan 9780192819093
RRP: €14.27€10.71Written between 1919 and 1925, 'Island Cross-Talk' was the first book to come out of the Blasket Islands - that tiny, remote community off the west coast of Kerry. Springing from a powerful oral tradition, it captured the moment of transition from speech... -
The Secret State: Preparing For The Worst 1945 - 2010 by Peter Hennessy
RRP: €17.84€13.03Peter Hennessy's The Secret State: Preparing for the Worst 1945-2010 is the story of secret government plans for combatting attacks on Britain, from the Cold War to modern counter-terrorism. Now completely revised and updated, Peter Hennessy's acclaimed... -
The Scourging Angel: The Black Death in the British Isles by Benedict Gummer
RRP: €17.84€13.03Nothing experienced in human history, before or since, eclipses the terror, tragedy and scale of the Black Death, the disease which killed millions of people in Medieval Europe. The Scourging Angel tells the story of Britain immediately before, during... -
Henry VIII: King and Court by Alison Weir
RRP: €17.84€13.03Henry VIII, renowned for his command of power and celebrated for his intellect, presided over one of the most magnificent-and dangerous-courts in Renaissance Europe. Never before has a detailed, personal biography of this charismatic monarch been set... -
Nancy: The Story of Lady Astor by Adrian Fort
RRP: €20.22€14.61In 1919, Nancy Astor became the first woman to take a seat in parliament.She was not what had been expected. Far from a virago who had suffered for the cause of female suffrage, she was already near the centre of the ruling society that had for so long... -
The Norman Conquest: A Very Short Introduction by George Garnett
RRP: €10.70€7.68The Norman Conquest in 1066 was the last time England was successfully invaded, and was one of the most profound turning points in English history, cataclysmically transforming a disparate collection of small nations into a European state. But what... -
S.O.E.: An outline history of the special operations executive 1940 - 46 by M. R. D. Foot 9781847922939
RRP: €23.80€17.01SOE, the Special Operations Executive, was a small, tough British secret service, a dirty tricks department established in July 1940 and encouraged by Churchill to 'set Europe ablaze'. Recruited from remarkably diverse callings, the men and women who... -
Jacobites by Jacqueline Riding
RRP: €17.84€13.03The 1745 Jacobite Rebellion was a turning point in British history. When Charles Edward Stuart, commonly known as the Young Pretender, sailed from France to Scotland in July 1745, and with only a handful of supporters to claim the throne for his exiled... -
Pie 'n' Mash & Prefabs: My 1950s Childhood by Norman Jacobs 9781784181239 [USED COPY]
RRP: €10.70€2.56The Blitz had made many families in the East End of London homeless. One solution was to erect prefabs on fields and open spaces to give temporary accommodation to those who had been bombed out. It was in one of these 'modern' boxes that young Norman... -
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft 9780141441252
RRP: €11.89€8.46Writing in an age when the call for the rights of man had brought revolution to America and France, Mary Wollstonecraft produced her own declaration of female independence in 1792. Passionate and forthright, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman attacked... -
1606: Shakespeare and the Year of Lear by James Shapiro
RRP: €15.46€10.191606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear traces Shakespeare's life and times from the autumn of 1605, when he took an old and anonymous Elizabethan play, The Chronicle History of King Leir, and transformed it into his most searing tragedy, King... -
The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death by John Kelly
RRP: €13.08€8.63A compelling history of the Black Death that scoured Europe in the mid 14th-century killing twenty-five million people. It was one of the worst human disasters in history. 'The bodies were sparsely covered that the dogs dragged them forth and... -
Mummified: The Stories Behind Egyptian Mummies in Museums by Angela Stienne
RRP: €23.80€17.29Mummified explores the curious, unsettling and controversial cases of mummies held in French and British museums. From powdered mummies eaten as medicine to mummies unrolled in public, dissected for race studies and DNA-tested in modern laboratories,... -
Square Haunting: Five Women, Freedom and London Between the Wars by Francesca Wade
RRP: €15.46€8.78A SUNDAY TIMES LITERARY NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEARA GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR (AS CHOSEN BY AUTHORS)**LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE****SHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE**'Outstanding. I'll be recommending this all year.' SARAH... -
The Book of Margery Kempe by Margery Kempe 9780140432510
RRP: €11.89€8.46A remarkable medieval woman's life and the earliest surviving autobiography in English, now updated with new materialThe story of the eventful life of Margery Kempe - medieval wife, mother, businesswoman, pilgrim and visionary - is the earliest surviving... -
The Falklands War - There and Back Again: The Story of Naval Party 8901 by Mike Norman 9781526791924
RRP: €19.03€13.82On 1 April 1982 Major Mike Norman, commander of Naval Party 8901, was looking forward to a peaceful year-long tour of duty on the Falkland Islands. But events turned out differently, for the next day the Argentinians invaded and he and his small Royal... -
Entitled: A Critical History of the British Aristocracy by Chris Bryant
RRP: €15.46€10.82"A proudly partisan history of the British aristocracy - which scores some shrewd hits against the upper class themselves, and the nostalgia of the rest of us for their less endearing eccentricities. A great antidote to Downton Abbey." (Mary... -
A Cheesemonger's History of The British Isles Ned Palmer 9781788161176
RRP: €11.89€8.46THE TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Shortlisted for the Andre Simon Food and Drink Book Awards for 2019 'A beautifully textured tour around the cheeseboard' Simon Garfield 'Full of flavour' Sunday Times 'A delightful and informative romp' Bee... -
Loot: Britain and the Benin Bronzes by Barnaby Phillips 9780861543137
RRP: €13.08€9.25A Prospect Best Book of 2021 'A fascinating and timely book.' William Boyd 'Gripping...a must read.' FT 'Compelling...humane, reasonable, and ultimately optimistic.' Evening Standard '[A] valuable guide to a complex narrative.' The Times ... -
Alfred the Great: Asser's Life of King Alfred and Other Contemporary Sources by Asser
RRP: €15.46€10.82Asser's Life of King Alfred, written in 893, is a revealing account of one of the greatest of medieval kings. Composed by a monk of St David's in Wales who became Bishop of Sherborne in Alfred's service and worked with him in his efforts to revive... -
Access to History: Lancastrians, Yorkists and the Wars of the Roses, 1399-1509, Third Edition Roger Turvey 9781510459397
€30.00Exam board: AQA; Pearson Edexcel; OCRLevel: AS/A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2016 (AS); Summer 2017 (A-level)Put your trust in the textbook series that has given thousands of A-level History students deeper... -
White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britain's White Slaves in America by Don Jordan 9780814742969
€30.35The forgotten story of the thousands of white Britons who lived and died in bondage in Britain's American colonies In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, more than 300,000 white people were shipped to America as slaves. Urchins were swept up from... -
Radical Underworld: Prophets, Revolutionaries, and Pornographers in London, 1795-1840 by Iain McCalman 9780198122869
RRP: €73.78€73.60This is a paperback edition of a highly acclaimed study of English popular radicalism during the period between the anti-Jacobin government `Terror' of the 1790s and the beginnings of Chartism. Challenging conventional distinctions between `high' and... -
AEthelstan: The First King of England by Sarah Foot
RRP: €22.60€19.25"AEthelstan was perhaps the most important king of tenth-century England, but we know very little about him, and he has no modern biography. Sarah Foot triumphantly fills this gap, and adds to the richness of our understanding of the period in a way that... -
A History of Coventry by David McGrory
RRP: €23.80€18.37The author, well known as the writer of more books on the city than anyone, explores Coventry's history from Roman times through Earl Leofric, Godiva and the Norman castle, to monastic houses, including St Mary's priory. Coventry has a rich medieval... -
Galloglass 1250-1600: Gaelic Mercenary Warrior by Fergus Cannan 9781846035777
RRP: €17.84€13.98Galloglass, from the Gaelic galloglaigh for 'foreign warriors', were mercenaries from the Western Isles of Scotland who fought in the retinues of Irish magnates from the mid-13th century until the early 17th century. This work looks at the clan and... -
East London: A 1960s Album by Steve Lewis
RRP: €17.84€13.74The photographs in this book capture the gritty reality of life in East London during the Swinging Sixties. As the images graphically illustrate, the pop revolution and the early stirrings of flower power had little discernible impact on the... -
Oxford AQA History for A Level: Revolution and Dictatorship: Russia 1917-1953 by Sally Waller
€40.66Please 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, Revolution and Dictatorship... -
Glasgow: The Autobiography by Alan Taylor
RRP: €15.46€10.19Glasgow: The Autobiography tells the story of the fabled, former Second City of the British Empire from its origins as a bucolic village on the rivers Kelvin and Clyde, through the tumult of the Industrial Revolution to the third millennium. Including... -
English History: People, places and events that built a country (Collins Little Books) by Robert Peal 9780008298135 [USED COPY]
RRP: €8.32€2.57The perfect stocking filler for lovers of English History. A concise guide to key events, people and places in English history and how England has come to be what it is today. From prehistoric England, Stonehenge and the Romans to modern times... -
English History: People, places and events that built a country (Collins Little Books) by Robert Peal
RRP: €8.32€6.51The perfect stocking filler for lovers of English History. A concise guide to key events, people and places in English history and how England has come to be what it is today. From prehistoric England, Stonehenge and the Romans to modern times... -
The Blackest Streets: The Life and Death of a Victorian Slum Sarah Wise 9781844133314
RRP: €13.08€9.25'An excellent and intelligent investigation of the realities of urban living that respond to no design or directive... This is a book about the nature of London itself' Peter Ackroyd, The TimesA powerful exploration of the seedy side of Victorian London... -
British Cruisers: Two World Wars and After by Friedman, Norman 9781399097918
RRP: €29.75€22.87For most of the twentieth century Britain possessed both the worlds largest merchant fleet and its most extensive overseas territories. It is not surprising, therefore, that the Royal Navy always showed a particular interest in the cruiser a... -
England's Villages: An Extraordinary Journey Through Time by Dr Ben Robinson
RRP: €13.08€8.89THE STUNNING NEW BOOK FROM THE HOST OF BBC 2'S VILLAGES BY THE SEAEngland's villages have survived, developed, and thrived over hundreds of years. But what makes a village and how has that changed over time? Take a charming and unexpected journey... -
An Imperial Possession: Britain in the Roman Empire, 54 BC - AD 409 by David Mattingly
RRP: €22.60€16.20Part of the Penguin History of Britain series, An Imperial Possession is the first major narrative history of Roman Britain for a generation. David Mattingly draws on a wealth of new findings and knowledge to cut through the myths and misunderstandings... -
The Littlehampton Libels: A Miscarriage of Justice and a Mystery about Words in 1920s England by Christopher Hilliard 9780198799658
RRP: €54.73€54.29The Littlehampton Libels tells the story of a poison-pen mystery that led to a miscarriage of justice in the years following the First World War. There would be four criminal trials before the real culprit was finally punished, with the case challenging... -
London's Docklands: An Illustrated History by Geoff Marshall 9780750987790
RRP: €23.80€17.90London has always been a bustling place of trade; once the docks teemed with men, ships and goods from all over the world. Now all has been transformed: starting at Canary Wharf and continuing at the Royal Docks, a vibrant new area has sprung into... -
Crisis? What Crisis?: Britain in the 1970s by Alwyn W. Turner 9781781310717 [USED COPY]
RRP: €14.27€2.73'A masterful work of social history and cultural commentary, told with much wit. It almost makes you feel as if you were there' ROGER LEWIS, Mail on Sunday The 1970s. They were the best of times and the worst of times. Wealth inequality was at a record... -
Crisis? What Crisis?: Britain in the 1970s Alwyn W. Turner 9781781310717
RRP: €14.27€9.52'A masterful work of social history and cultural commentary, told with much wit. It almost makes you feel as if you were there' ROGER LEWIS, Mail on Sunday The 1970s. They were the best of times and the worst of times. Wealth inequality was at a record... -
Orkney: A Historical Guide by Caroline Wickham-Jones
RRP: €13.08€8.71Orkney lies only 20 miles north of mainland Scotland, yet for many centuries its culture was more Scandanavian than Scottish. Strong westerly winds account for the scarcity of trees on Orkney and also for the tradition of well-constructed stone...