Palaces of Revolution: Life, Death and Art at the Stuart Court by Simon Thurley
$23.00 AUD
Category: British
The story of the Stuart dynasty is a breathless soap opera played out in just a hundred years in an array of buildings that span Europe from Scotland, via Denmark, Holland and Spain to England. Life in the court of the House of Stuart has been shrouded in mystery: the first half of the century overshad ...Show more
Loot - Britain and the Benin Bronzes by Barnaby Phillips
$25.00 AUD
Category: British
A tragic story of the British empire run amok and the plunder of great works of art A Prospect Best Book of 2021 In 1897, Britain sent a punitive expedition to the Kingdom of Benin, in what is today Nigeria, in retaliation for the killing of seven British officials and traders. British soldiers and sa ...Show more
Buried: An alternative history of the first millennium in Britain by Alice Roberts
$45.00 AUD
Category: British
Funerary rituals show us what people thought about mortality; how they felt about loss; what they believed came next. From Roman cremations and graveside feasts, to deviant burials with heads rearranged, from richly furnished Anglo Saxon graves to the first Christian burial grounds in Wales, Buried prov ...Show more
Time's Monster: History, Conscience and Britain's Empire by Priya Satia
$25.00 AUD
Category: British
For generations, British thinkers told the history of an empire whose story was still very much in the making. While they wrote of conquest, imperial rule in India, the Middle East, Africa, and the Caribbean was consolidated. While they described the development of imperial governance, rebellions were b ...Show more
Eastern Approaches by Fitzroy Maclean
$33.00 AUD
Category: British | Series: Penguin World War II Collection
'An absorbing mixture of military adventure, urbane wit, cool humour and surprising incident' Financial Times Fitztroy Maclean was one of the real-life inspirations for super-spy James Bond. After adventures in Soviet Russia before the war, Maclean fought with the SAS in North Africa in 1942. There he ...Show more
The House of Dudley: A New History of Tudor England by Joanne Paul
$50.00 AUD
Category: British
Told for the very first time, this is the shocking and extraordinary story of the most-conniving and manipulative Tudor family you've never heard of - the dashing and daring Dudleys . . .'This is riveting stuff: death, desire, power and scandal. Game of Thrones looks tame compared with the real-life mac ...Show more
Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation by Kris Manjapra
$45.00 AUD
Category: British
A revelatory historical indictment of the long afterlife of slavery in the Atlantic worldTo fully understand why the shadow of slavery haunts us today, we must confront the flawed way that it ended. We celebrate abolition - in Haiti after the revolution, in the British Empire in 1833, in the United Stat ...Show more
The Partition: Ireland Divided, 1885-1925 by Charles Townshend
$25.00 AUD
Category: British
A compelling history of the turbulent journey to Irish independence brings Townshend's acclaimed Irish trilogy to a close. In the aftermath of the horrors of the Irish Famine, the grim, distrustful relationship between Ireland and the rest of the United Kingdom deteriorated into a generations-long argu ...Show more
The Other Side of the Coin: The Queen, the Dresser and the Wardrobe [Platinum Edition] by Angela Kelly
$55.00 AUD
Category: British | Series: platinum edition
‘Fascinating book’ HELLO! ‘The book is a trove of warm and insightful anecdotes’ Daily Mail ‘Angela Kelly shares fascinating and charming anecdotes’ Good Housekeeping First print run features a specially designed cut-down dust jacket When Angela Kelly and The Queen are together, laughter echoes through ...Show more
The BBC: A People's History by David Hendy
$50.00 AUD
Category: British
A monumental work of popular history, making the case that the Beeb is as much of a National Treasure as the NHS. In 1922, three men - only one of whom had previously heard of 'broadcasting' - founded the BBC. In doing so, Arthur Burrows, Cecil Lewis, and John Reith set out to accomplish something utte ...Show more
1942: Britain at the Brink by Taylor Downing
$33.00 AUD
Category: British
Eighty years ago, Britain stood at the brink of defeat. In 1942, a string of military disasters engulfed Britain in rapid succession : the collapse in Malaya; the biggest surrender in British history at Singapore; the passing of three large German warships through the Straits of Dover in broad daylight; ...Show more
Mudlark'd: Hidden Histories from the River Thames by Malcolm Russell
$50.00 AUD
Category: British
The first illustrated book on mudlarking that tells the captivating stories of forgotten people through objects recovered from the river Thames. Combining insights from 200 eclectic objects discovered on the Thames foreshore, meticulous historical research and contextual illustrations, Mudlark'd uncover ...Show more