Britannia's Daughters: Women of the British Empire by Joanna Trollope
$25.00 AUD
Category: British
In Britannia's Daughters, best-selling novelist Joanna Trollope examines the contribution of women in building and sustaining the British Empire. She draws on a vast range of sources, including diaries and letters home. She provides a panoramic picture of the countless women who departed Britain for Ind ...Show more
Shakespeare's Library: Unlocking the Greatest Mystery in Literature by Stuart Kells
$35.00 AUD
Category: British
Millions of words of scholarship have been expended on the world's most famous author and his work. And yet a critical part of the puzzle, Shakespeare's library, is a mystery. For four centuries people have searched for it: in mansions, palaces and libraries; in riverbeds, sheep pens and partridge coops ...Show more
The Rise and Fall of the British Nation: A Twentieth-Century History by David Edgerton
$70.00 AUD
Category: British
From the acclaimed author of Britain's War Machine and The Shock of the Old, a bold reassessment of Britain's twentieth century. It is usual to see the United Kingdom as an island of continuity in an otherwise convulsed and unstable Europe; its political history a smooth sequence of administrations, fr ...Show more
The English and Their History by Robert Tombs
$50.00 AUD
Category: British
Named a Book of the Year by the Daily Telegraph, Times Literary Supplement, The Times, Spectator, and The Economist The English first materialized as an idea, before they had a common ruler and before the country they lived in even had a name. From the armed Saxon bands that descended onto Roman-control ...Show more
The Greedy Queen : Eating with Victoria by Annie Gray
$23.00 AUD
Category: British
From Dr Annie Gray, presenter of BBC2's Victorian Bakers What does it mean to eat like a queen? Elizabeth gorged on sugar, Mary on chocolate and Anne was known as 'Brandy Nan'. Victoria ate all of this and more. The Greedy Queen celebrates Victoria's appetite, both for food and, indeed, for life. Born i ...Show more
The Viceroys["The Creation of the British"] by Christopher Lee
$70.00 AUD
Category: British
Six Minutes in May: How Churchill Unexpectedly Became Prime Minister by Nicholas Shakespeare
$23.00 AUD
Category: British
*** Selected as a 2017 Book of the Year in the Guardian, Daily Telegraph, Observer and The Economist *** 'A gripping story of Churchill's unlikely rise to power' Observer London, May 1940. Britain is under threat of invasion and Neville Chamberlain's government is about to fall. It is hard for us to i ...Show more
Shakespeare's London on 5 Groats a Day by Richard Tames
$20.00 AUD
Category: British
This entertaining and fact-packed guide provides all the information you'll need to travel back in time to Elizabethan London - a booming city of courtiers, cutthroats, merchants, beggars, lawyers, dramatists, apprentices and adventurers. Find out the best way to the capital and where to stay. Saunter o ...Show more
Bohemian London : From Thomas De Quincey To Jeffrey Bernard by Travis Elborough
$25.00 AUD
Category: British
London has always been home to outsiders. To people who won’t, or can’t, abide by the conventions of respectable society. For close to two centuries, these misfit individualists have had a name. They have been called Bohemians. This book is an entertaining, anecdotal history of Bohemian London. A guide ...Show more
The Debatable Land: The Lost World Between Scotland and England by Graham Robb
$32.99 AUD
Category: British
The Debatable Land was an independent territory which used to exist between Scotland and England. It is the oldest detectable territorial division in Great Britain. At the height of its notoriety, it was the bloodiest region in the country, and preoccupied the monarchs and parliaments of England, Scotla ...Show more
Enemies Within: Communists, Spies and the Making of Modern Britain by Richard Davenport-Hines
$32.99 AUD
Category: British
What pushed Blunt, Burgess, Cairncross, Maclean and Philby into Soviet hands?With access to recently released papers and other neglected documents, this sharp analysis of the intelligence world examines how and why these men and others betrayed their country and what this cost Britain and its allies.Ene ...Show more
The Scots: A Genetic Journey by Alistair Moffat
$27.00 AUD
Category: British
History has always mattered to Scots, and rarely more so than now at the outset of a new century, after more than ten years of a new parliament and the new census of 2011. An almost limitless archive of our history lies hidden inside our bodies and we carry the ancient story of Scotland around with us. ...Show more