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
Wake up: Why the World Has Gone Nuts by Piers Morgan
$35.00 AUD
Category: British
'The biggest threat to our freedom in the 21st century isn't coronavirus but hysterically woke liberals trying to kill democracy by suppressing free speech. 'This is my clarion call, as a liberal myself, for them to stop screaming, shaming and cancelling everyone they disagree with, and start being par ...Show more
In the Reign of King John - A Year in the Life of Plantagenet England by Dan Jones
$50.00 AUD
Category: British
A vivid and richly illustrated portrait of English society in the penultimate year of the reign of a king with the worst reputation of any in our history. 1215 is chiefly remembered for King John attaching his seal to Magna Carta in a quiet Thames-side water-meadow - a milestone in the history of libert ...Show more
The Churchill Complex by Ian Buruma
$40.00 AUD
Category: British
A brilliant and insightful history of the special relationship between the UK and the USA, which Ian Buruma argues is now under threat with the election of Donald Trump and Brexit.
Queens of the Crusades - Eleanor of Aquitaine and Her Successors 1154-1291 by Alison Weir
$35.00 AUD
Category: British | Series: England's Medieval Queens
The Plantagenet queens of England played a role in some of the most dramatic events in our history. Crusading queens, queens in rebellion against their king, queen seductresses, learned queens, queens in battle, queens who enlivened England with the romantic culture of southern Europe - these determined ...Show more
A Short History of London: The Creation of a World Capital by Simon Jenkins
$23.00 AUD
Category: British
LONDON: a settlement founded by the Romans, occupied by the Saxons, conquered by the Danes and ruled by the Normans. This changeful place became a medieval maze of alleys and courtyards, later to be chequered with grand estates of Georgian splendour. It swelled with industry and became the centre of the ...Show more
Agent Sonya - Lover, Mother, Soldier, Spy by Ben MacIntyre
$50.00 AUD
Category: British
In the quiet Cotswolds village of Great Rollright in 1944, a thin, and unusually elegant, housewife emerged from her cottage to go on her usual bike ride. A devoted mother-of-three, attentive wife and friendly neighbour, Sonya Burton seemed to epitomise rural British domesticity. However, rather than pe ...Show more
This Land - The Story of a Movement by Owen Jones
$35.00 AUD
Category: British
We live in an age of upheaval. The global crisis of Covid-19 has laid bare the deep social and economic inequalities which were the toxic legacy of austerity. These revolutionary times are an opportunity for a radical rethink of Britain as we know it, as the politically impossible suddenly becomes imagi ...Show more
A New History of England A New History of England by Jeremy Black
$33.00 AUD
Category: British | Series: Classic Histories Ser.
'Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.' Cecil Rhodes's characteristically nineteenth-century confidence rings rather hollow as England enters the twenty-first century in somewhat reduced circumstances. Jeremy Black steers his way through the l ...Show more