Crypt: Life, Death and Disease in the Middle Ages and Beyond by Alice Roberts
$50.00 AUD
Category: British
The new book by Sunday Times bestselling author of Ancestors and Buried - the final instalment in Professor Alice Roberts' acclaimed trilogy.We can unlock secrets from bones preserved for centuries in tombs, graves and crypts.The history of the Middle Ages is typically the story of the rich and powerful ...Show more
Ghosts of the British Museum: A True Story of Colonial Loot and Restless Objects by Noah Angell
$35.00 AUD
Category: British
What if the British Museum isn't a house of learning, but a vast sinkhole of still-bubbling historic injustice? What if it presents us not with a carefully ordered cross section of history but is instead a palatial trophy cabinet of colonial loot swarming with volatile and errant spirits? When artist a ...Show more
Power and Glory: Elizabeth II and the Rebirth of Royalty by Alexander Larman
$35.00 AUD
Category: British
Power and Glory brings us to the dramatic conclusion of Larman's 'Windsors trilogy'. It begins with the fallout from the revelation of the Duke of Windsor's wartime treachery, and ends with the Coronation of Elizabeth II on 2 June 1953. In between, it depicts a monarchy - and a country - struggling to c ...Show more
Empireworld: How British Imperialism Has Shaped the Globe by Sathnam Sanghera
$37.00 AUD
Category: British
2.6 billion people are inhabitants of former British colonies. The empire's influence upon the quarter of the planet it occupied, and its gravitational influence upon the world outside it, has been profound- from the spread of Christianity by missionaries to nearly 1 in 3 driving on the left side of the ...Show more
A Dirty, Filthy Book: Sex, Scandal, and One Woman's Fight in the Victorian Trial of the Century by Michael Meyer
$37.00 AUD
Category: British
An empowering and gripping story of a pioneer of women's rights written by a critically-acclaimed writer and historian, for fans of Hallie Rubenhold, Hermione Lee and prize-winning Victorian histories. London, 1877. A petite young woman stands before an all-male jury, about to risk everything. She takes ...Show more
After Elizabeth - Can the Monarchy Save Itself? by Ed Owens
$50.00 AUD
Category: British
The British monarchy has been through turbulent times of late. Rocked by scandal and strife, and without it seems a clear plan for the future following the death of Queen Elizabeth II, we have been left wondering: what happens next? Nothing seems certain. Will the monarchy survive with its continuing e ...Show more
The Victorian Gothic - An Edinburgh Companion by Andrew Smith (Editor); William Hughes (Editor)
$75.00 AUD
Category: British | Series: Edinburgh Companions to the Gothic Ser.
The first multi-disciplinary scholarly consideration of the Victorian Gothic These 14 chapters, each written by an acknowledged expert in the field, provide an invaluable insight into the complex and various Gothic forms of the nineteenth century. Covering a range of diverse contexts, the chapters focus ...Show more
Hunting the Falcon - Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the Marriage That Shook Europe by John Guy; Julia Fox
$75.00 AUD
Category: British
A groundbreaking, freshly-researched examination of one of the most dramatic and consequential marriages in history: Henry VIII's long courtship, short union, and brutal execution of Anne Boleyn. Hunting the Falcon is the story of how Henry VIII's obsessive desire for Anne Boleyn changed him and his cou ...Show more
Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire by Caroline Elkins
$35.00 AUD
Category: British
**Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2022**'This book is dynamite' - ROBERT GILDEA, author of Empires of the MindA searing, landmark study of the British Empire that lays bare its pervasive use of violence throughout the twentieth century.Sprawling across a quarter of the world's land mass and cl ...Show more
Once a King: The Lost Memoir of Edward VIII by Jane Marguerite Tippett
$35.00 AUD
Category: British
The real story of Edward VIII - the King who abdicated the throne in 1936 - told in his own words, using an unpublished memoir and other never seen sources.
Twenty-First-Century Gothic - An Edinburgh Companion by Maisha Wester (Editor); Xavier Aldana Reyes (Editor)
$120.00 AUD
Category: British | Series: Edinburgh Companions to the Gothic Ser.
A transnational and transmedia companion to the post-millennial Gothic Key Features Covers key areas and themes of the post-millennial Gothic as well as developments in the field and revisions of the Gothic tradition Consitutes the first thematic compendium to this area with a transmedia (literature, f ...Show more
One Fine Day: Britain's Empire on the Brink by Matthew Parker
$37.00 AUD
Category: British | Series: Dilly's Story Ser.
'Marvellous...escapes the inane, balance-sheet view of Empire and sees its full complexity' Sathnam Sanghera, bestselling author of EmpirelandThe story of the British Empire at its maximum territorial extent, including a wider range of voices of the colonised than have ever been recorded before29th Sept ...Show more