The Anglo-Saxons: A History of the Beginnings of England by Marc Morris
$50.00 AUD
Category: British
A history that spans more than half a millennium, The Anglo-Saxons is nothing less than a quest for England's origins. This is the story of our island at its most strange and evocative period - the time of the Anglo-Saxons.Marc Morris's brilliant new book will take its readers from an alien world of sla ...Show more
The Partition: Ireland Divided, 1885-1925 by Charles Townshend
$50.00 AUD
Category: British
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 argument about 'Home Rule'. The unprecedented nature of the Irish problem - with most Irish people wanting to break away from th ...Show more
Queen Elizabeth II and the Royal Family by DK
$50.00 AUD
Category: British
Queen Elizabeth II and the Royal Family is a magnificent tribute to the life and reign of Queen Elizabeth II and a celebration of the British royal family, from the first English kings through the birth of the queen's second grandchild to Prince William and Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge. Highly illust ...Show more
What Does Jeremy Think? Jeremy Heywood, Civil Service and the Making of Modern Britain by Heywood, Suzanne
$59.99 AUD
Category: British
''From the first day that I started work at the Healthand Safety Executive I was asking restless questionslike ''what is the point of doing that?'' and ''does itactually have an effect on anything?'' That is myeconomist training, which I combine with an assumptionthat things can be improved - and it is ...Show more
Magna Carta - The Making and Legacy of the Great Charter by Dan Jones
$30.00 AUD
Category: British | Series: The\Landmark Library
A beautifully produced account of the signing, impact and legacy of Magna Carta, a document that became one of the most influential statements in the history of democracy, as part of the stunning landmark library series. On a summer's day in 1215 a beleaguered English monarch met a group of disgruntled ...Show more
Victory in the Kitchen: The Life of Churchill's Cook by Annie Gray
$23.00 AUD
Category: British
The story of the twentieth century through one woman's life and the food she cooked for our most famous Prime Minister, Winston Churchill. This is the story of a woman who was not a royal, not rich, not famous; someone who simply worked hard and enjoyed her life. But while Georgina Landemare saw herself ...Show more
The Last Princess by Matthew Dennison
$23.00 AUD
Category: British
Queen Victoria's favourite child - the true story of a royal mother-daughter relationship that changed history Beatrice was the last child born to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Her father died when she was four and as Matthew Dennison relates Victoria came to depend on her youngest daughter absol ...Show more
Orcadia - Lande, sea and stone in neolithic Orkney by Mark Edmonds
$23.00 AUD
Category: British
The Orcadian archipelago is a museum of archaeological wonders. Its largest island, Mainland, is home to some of the oldest and best-preserved Neolithic sites in Europe, the most famous of which are the passage grave of Maeshowe, the megaliths of Stenness, the Ring of Brodgar and the village of Skara Br ...Show more
The First Kingdom : Britain in the Age of Arthur by Max Adams
$60.00 AUD
Category: British
The bestselling author of The King in the Northturns his attention to the obscure era of British history known as 'the age of Arthur'. Somewhere in the shadow time between the departure of the Roman legions in the early fifth century and the arrival in Kent of Augustine's Christian mission at the end of ...Show more
Maiden Voyages - Women and the golden age of transatlantic travel by Siân Evans
$23.00 AUD
Category: British
A VIVID PORTRAIT OF WOMEN'S LIVES DURING THE GOLDEN AGE OF TRANSATLANTIC TRAVEL Before convenient air travel, transatlantic travel was the province of the great ocean liners and never more so than in the glory days of the interwar years. It was an extraordinary undertaking made by many women. Some trav ...Show more
Britain's War - A New World, 1942-1947 by Daniel Todman
$75.00 AUD
Category: British
The second volume in Daniel Todman's acclaimed history of Britain's experience of the Second World War 'A stunning achievement' Max Hastings, Sunday Times 'I cannot recommend this history highly enough' Keith Lowe, Literary Review Part Two of Daniel Todman's epic history of the Second World War opens ...Show more
Decline of Magic: Britain in the Enlightenment by Michael Hunter
$51.95 AUD
Category: British
A new history which overturns the received wisdom that science displaced magic in Enlightenment Britain In early modern Britain, belief in prophecies, omens, ghosts, apparitions and fairies was commonplace. Among both educated and ordinary people the absolute existence of a spiritual world was take ...Show more