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The Family of Richard III by Michael Hicks
RRP: $19.48$12.71The Wars of the Roses were quarrels within the Plantagenet family, of which Richard's dynasty, the House of York, was one branch. They were about family trees - the capacity of family relationships both to unite and to divide - and notoriously about the... -
Never Greater Slaughter: Brunanburh and the Birth of England by Dr Michael Livingston
RRP: $21.43$15.15'No one has done more than Michael Livingston to revive memories of the battle, and you could not hope for a better guide.' BERNARD CORNWELL Bestselling author of The Last Kingdom series Late in AD 937, four armies met at Brunanburh. On one side stood... -
The Anglo-Saxon Age: A Very Short Introduction by John Blair
RRP: $17.53$12.58First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, John Blair's Very Short Introduction to the Anglo-Saxon Age covers the emergence of the earliest English settlements to the Norman victory in 1066. This book is a... -
The Early Anglo-Saxon Kings by Tony Sullivan
RRP: $42.90$40.97The Early Anglo-Saxon Kings takes a new look at the adventus Saxonum, the arrival of the Saxons, recorded in the earliest literary sources. As the Roman provincial structure fragmented, new cultural identities emerged. In fifth century Britain whatever... -
Burying the Dead: An Archaeological History of Burial Grounds, Graveyards and Cemeteries by Lorraine Evans 9781526706676
RRP: $38.98$27.85Deep in the heart of North Yorkshire, at a place called Walkington Wold, there lies a rather unusual burial ground, an Anglo-Saxon execution cemetery. Twelve skeletons were unearthed by archaeologists, ten without skulls, later examination of the... -
The First Kingdom: Britain in the age of Arthur by Max Adams
RRP: $21.43$14.64The bestselling author of The King in the North turns his attention to the obscure era of British history known as 'the age of Arthur'. 'Not just a valuable book, but a distinctive one as well' Tom Holland, Sunday Times 'An accessible and... -
In the Reign of King John: A Year in the Life of Plantagenet England Dan Jones 9781838934828
RRP: $48.75$35.14A new, beautifully illustrated edition of Realm Divided, Dan Jones's portrait of Plantagenet England in the reign of King John. 1215 was not just the year of Magna Carta and King John's war with his barons, but a year of crusading and church reform,... -
Medieval Castles of England and Wales by Bernard Lowry
RRP: $17.53$12.58Designed to dominate the surrounding area, to house powerful garrisons, offer sumptuous quarters for local nobility, and to discourage and repel enemy attacks, castles dominated England and Wales for more than half a millennium. Though some were built... -
Warrior Treasure: The Staffordshire Hoard in Anglo-Saxon England Chris Fern 9781800854819
RRP: $32.16$29.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800854819Author Chris FernFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Historic EnglandPublisher Liverpool University Press -
The Real Middle-Earth: A History of the Dark Ages that Inspired Tolkein by Brian Bates
RRP: $25.33$18.06In The Real Middle-Earth, explore the magically enchanting early-English civilization on which Tolkien based his world of The Lord of the Rings.Tolkien readily admitted that the concept of Middle-earth was not his own invention. An Old English term for... -
The Coming of the Wolf: The Wild Hunt series prequel by Elizabeth Chadwick 9780751577655
RRP: $17.53$6.84Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Alfred the Great: Asser's Life of King Alfred and Other Contemporary Sources by Asser
RRP: $25.33$17.73Asser'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... -
Early Anglo-Saxon Christian Reliquaries by Anthony Gibson
$73.67Early Anglo-Saxon Christian Reliquaries presents a corpus and discussion of a group of Anglo-Saxon copper-alloy containers dating to the seventh and possibly eighth centuries, and variously described as work boxes, needle cases, amulet containers or... -
Textus Roffensis: The Rochester Book - One of England's Greatest Hidden Treasures by Pitkin
RRP: $8.78$6.81Textus Roffensis was written out by a scribe in 1122 - he was copying out a code of law that had first been issued by Ethelbert, the first Christian King of Kent, in about 607. These were the first laws to be written in English for Englishmen. Today,... -
Penda, Mercia's First King: The Last Great Heathen Warlord of Anglo-Saxon England by Paul Barrett 9781036102562
RRP: $48.75$34.36Since the Venerable Bede wrote his iconic Ecclesiastic History of England in the eighth century, King Penda has been relegated to the role of villain and treated as a barrier to advancement in a battle between new ideas and a new culture. Paul Barrett... -
The Serpent Sword by Matthew Harffy
RRP: $19.48$13.86'HISTORICAL FICTION DOESN'T GET MUCH BETTER THAN THIS' ANGUS DONALD AD 633 Beobrand is a young man with a shadowy past. As an outsider in the kingdom of Bernicia, he is compelled to join his brother, Octa, as a warrior in the household of King... -
The Western Kingdom: The Birth of Cornwall by John Fletcher
RRP: $29.23$22.52In the fifth century, the Roman Empire collapsed and Western Europe began remaking itself in the turmoil that followed. In south-west Britain, old tribal authorities and identities reasserted themselves and a ruling elite led a vibrant and... -
Henry V: The Life of the Warrior King & the Battle of Agincourt by Teresa Cole
RRP: $23.38$15.33In the latter years of the fourteenth century a child was born, so unimportant that even his exact date of birth is unknown. Yet before his twenty-seventh birthday the turn of fortune's wheel had brought him the crown of England. The kingdom he inherited... -
The Reivers: The Story of the Border Reivers Alistair Moffat 9781780274454
RRP: $21.43$17.43From the early fourteenth century to the end of the sixteenth, the Anglo-Scottish borderlands witnessed one of the most intense periods of warfare and disorder ever seen in modern Europe. As a consequence of near-constant conflict between England and... -
A Brief History of the Normans: The Conquests that Changed the Face of Europe by Francois Neveux
RRP: $23.38$8.01The history of the Normans began a long time before 1066. Originating from the 'Norsemen' they were one of the most successful warrior tribes of the Dark Ages that came to dominate Europe from the Baltic Sea to the island of Sicily and the borders of... -
Edmund: In Search of England's Lost King by Francis Young
RRP: $31.18$24.30What buried secret lies beneath the stones of one of England's greatest former churches and shrines, the Benedictine Abbey of Bury St Edmunds? The search for the final resting place of King Edmund has led to this site, beneath which Francis Young argues... -
Stephen (Penguin Monarchs): The Reign of Anarchy by Carl Watkins
RRP: $15.58$11.29'Stephen risked being seen as a man who never quite transcended the essential flawed-ness of his claim to be king. His actions betrayed uneasiness in his new skin' Remembered as a time in which 'Christ and his saints slept', Stephen's troubled reign... -
Edgar, King of the English, 959-975 - New Interpretations by Donald Scragg 9781843839286
RRP: $52.63$51.27Fresh assessments of Edgar's reign, reappraising key elements using documentary, coin, and pictorial evidence. King Edgar ruled England for a short but significant period in the middle of the tenth century. Two of his four children succeeded him as... -
Wolf of Wessex Matthew Harffy 9781838932831
RRP: $17.53$12.58'Harffy's Dunston is a fantastic creation - old, creaking and misanthropic. The forest is beautifully evoked. A treat of a book' The Times. AD 838. Deep in the forests of Wessex, Dunston's solitary existence is shattered when he stumbles on a... -
A Time for Swords Matthew Harffy 9781838932879
RRP: $17.53$12.58When the Vikings attack, a novice monk's life is changed forever in Matthew Harffy's new historical adventure. Lindisfarne, AD793. There had been portents - famine, whirlwinds, lightning from clear skies, serpents seen flying through the air. But when... -
Cnut the Great by Timothy Bolton
RRP: $25.33$22.35A seminal biography of Cnut, the underappreciated eleventh-century Scandinavian warlord-turned-Anglo-Saxon monarch who united the English and Danish crowns to forge a North Sea empire "A gripping and revelatory biography of Britain's Danish conqueror."-... -
A Brief History of Life in the Middle Ages by Martyn Whittock
RRP: $25.33$6.84Using wide-ranging evidence, Martyn Whittock shines a light on Britain in the Middle Ages, bringing it vividly to life in this fascinating new portrait that brings together the everyday and the extraordinary.Thus we glimpse 11th-century rural society... -
The Vikings: A Very Short Introduction by Julian D. Richards
RRP: $17.53$12.58The Viking reputation is of bloodthirsty seafaring warriors, repeatedly plundering the British Isles and the North Atlantic throughout the early Middle Ages. Yet Vikings were also traders, settlers, and farmers, with a complex artistic and linguistic... -
Life in Early Medieval Wales by Prof Nancy Edwards 9780198733218
RRP: $195.00$176.48Research for and the writing of this book was funded by the award of a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship. The period c. AD300--1050, spanning the collapse of Roman rule to the coming of the Normans, was formative in the development of Wales... -
Founder, Fighter, Saxon Queen: Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians Margaret C. Jones 9781399023382
RRP: $29.23$21.35Alfred the Great's daughter defied all expectations of a well-bred Saxon princess. The first Saxon woman ever to rule a kingdom, Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians, led her army in battle against Viking invaders. She further broke with convention by... -
Cnut (Penguin Monarchs): The North Sea King by Ryan Lavelle
RRP: $15.58$11.29'A reputation as a ruthless ruler was sealed that would last beyond his lifetime. In that respect, at least, Cnut had succeeded...'Cnut, or Canute, is one of the great 'what ifs' of English history. The Dane who became King of England after a long... -
A Guide to the Medieval Castles of England by Malcolm Hislop 9781399001106
RRP: $54.60$38.26Spread across the medieval kingdom of England in a network of often formidable strongholds, castles, like cathedrals, are defining landmarks of their age, dominating their settings, in many cases even to this day. By representing an essential aspect of... -
The Kings & Queens of Anglo-Saxon England by Timothy Venning
RRP: $21.43$14.14The Anglo-Saxon era is one of the most important in English history, covering the period from the end of Roman authority in the British Isles to the Norman Conquest of 1066 in which the very idea of England was born. In The Kings& Queens of Anglo-Saxon... -
The English Manor C.1200-C.1500 by Rosemary Horrox
RRP: $38.98$34.75Provides a comprehensive introduction and essential guide to one of the most important institutions in medieval England and to its substantial archive. This is the first book to offer a detailed explanation of the form, structure and evolution of the... -
The Tudor Arte of Warre 1485-1558: The Conduct of War from Henry VII to Mary I by Jonathan Davies 9781913336417
RRP: $68.25$49.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913336417Author Jonathan DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 442Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
MI6: British Secret Intelligence Service Operations, 1909-1945 by Nigel West 9781526755742
RRP: $48.75$35.14Written by the renowned expert Nigel West, this book exposes the operations of Britain's overseas intelligence-gathering organisation, the famed Secret Intelligence Service, MI6, and traces its origins back to its inception in 1909. In this meticulously... -
Magna Carta by David Carpenter
RRP: $25.33$17.73'David Carpenter deserves to replace Sir James Holt as the standard authority, and an unfailingly readable one too.' Ferdinand Mount, TLS 'An invaluable new commentary' Jill Leopore, New Yorker With a new commentary by David Carpenter"No free man shall... -
Warrior of Woden by Matthew Harffy
RRP: $17.53$12.58AD 642. Anglo-Saxon Britain. A gripping, action-packed historical thriller and the fifth instalment in the Bernicia Chronicles. Perfect for fans of Bernard Cornwell. Oswald has reigned over Northumbria for eight years and Beobrand has led the king to... -
Oathbound by Richard Cullen
RRP: $17.53$12.58LONGLISTED FOR THE WILBUR SMITH ADVENTURE WRITING PRIZE 2022. An action-packed historical novel featuring Danish warrior Styrkar, and his journey through the violent Norman Conquest as he fights for vengeance. The champion of a dead king has nothing... -
The King in the North: The Life and Times of Oswald of Northumbria by Max Adams
RRP: $25.33$17.73'A triumph - a Game of Thrones in the Dark Ages' TOM HOLLAND. The magisterial biography of Oswald Whiteblade, exiled prince of Northumbria, who returned in blood and glory to reclaim his birthright. A charismatic leader, a warrior whose prowess in...