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		Wells
		A Small City		History
		Tony Scrase
		Tempus 2006 160 pages		Qty
		Paperback Illustrated 0752435957
		Published Price £17.99		Our Price £5.99
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		Thomas Cook
		The Holiday-Maker		History
		Jill Hamilton
		Sutton 2005 280 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0750933259
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		The Kings and Queens of Scotland
				History
		Dr Richard Oram (Edited by)
		Tempus 2004 288 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 075242971X
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	Oram traces the colourful, complex and frequently bloody history of the Scottish monarchy, from the Celtic chieftain Calgacus to Queen Anne, the last direct Stuart to rule in Britain.
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		A History of Archaeological Thought
				History
		Bruce G Trigger
		Cambridge University Press 2006 500 pages		Qty
		Paperback 0521338182
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		Historical Blunders
				History
		Geoffrey Regan
		Carlton 2002 186 pages		Qty
		Paperback Illustrated 0233050655 250x190mm
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	Geoffrey Regan, the consultant for Channel 4's Great Military Blunders series, widens his scope here, surveying history from the Crusades to the Cold War and investigating history from below - starving French peasants refusing to eat potatoes because they were believed to cause leprosy - as well as the blunders and misdemeanours of rulers and politicians. This entertaining compensium covers all degrees of failure and folly, from major foreign policy mistakes (Germany's adventure in Morocco in 1905) to tulipomania and 'unsinkable' ships.
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		Wars of Words
		The Politics of Language in Ireland 1537-2004		History
		Tony Crowley
		Oxford University Press 2005 254 pages		Qty
		Hardback 019927343X
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	This is the first comprehensive survey of the politics of language in Ireland during the colonial and post-colonial periods. Beginning with Henry VIII's Act for English order, Habit, and Language (1537) and ending with the Republic of Ireland's Official Languages Act (2003) and the introduction of language rights under the legislation proposed by the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (2004), this clear and accessible narrative follows the continuities and discontinuities of Irish history over the past 500 years.
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		Friend or Foe
		An Anglo-Saxon History of France		History
		Alistair Horne
		Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2005 428 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 0297848941
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	Knighted in the Queen's birthday honours 2003 for services to Franco- British relations, Alistair Horne presents, unashamedly 'a highly personalised, idosyncratic view of France through the ages, written by a Briton, a cher ennemi'. He traces the course of French history - and the French search for security and harmony - over the 2,000 years between Julius Caesar and the founding on Lutetia on what became Paris's Ile de la Cite, and the death of Mitterand in 1996.
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		Southeast Asian History
		Essential Readings		History
		DR SarDesai (Edited by)
		Westview 2006 374 pages		Qty
		Paperback 0813343372
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	SarDesai has selected literary and historical writings that address crucial controversies, outline unusual approaches to history and offer refreshingly new interpretations of events. Including classic and recent works on the history of Southeast Asia, from ancient to contemporary times.
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		English Historical Documents
				History
		Andrew Prescott
		British Library 1988 80 pages		Qty
		Paperback Illustrated 0712301585
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	By examining some of the forms of historical documents in the British Library, this study looks at how historians gather information about the past, covering English history from King Arthur to the Falklands crisis with detailed analyses of documents including the Magna Carta, the Paston Letters and the Nelson memorandum. 9”x8”, colour throughout
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		Catalogue of Printed Maps and Charts and Plans
		Ten-Year Supplement (1965-1974)		History
		The British Library Board
		The British Library 1978 1379 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0714103667 335X230mm
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		Astrology
		A History		History
		Peter Whitfield
		British Library 2001 208 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 0712347186 290x210mm
		Published Price £25.00		Our Price £11.99
	The belief system we know as astrology, based on the simple, yet profound idea that the destiny of mankind is somehow linked to the stars, originated in Babylon around 2,500 years ago. Whitfield's beautifully illustrated study charts the history of astrology, its intellectual roots, social setting and technical language, from ancient Babylonia, Greece and Rome to its near extinction by early Christianity; and from its re-emergence in the Middle Ages and triumph during the Renaissance, to a second defeat by the Enlightenment and its strange survival in the present day.
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		A History of Woking
				History
		Alan Crosby
		Phillimore 2003 210 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 1860772625 272x205mm
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	Woking owes its modern origins to a cemetery company which exploited the potential of cheap land within easy reach of London to promote speculative buildings around a railway station in the midst of an empty heath. Its eccentric development continued with the building of two prisons, a huge lunatic asylum, Britain's first crematorium, a retirement home for actors and actresses, a mosque and an Oriental institute. Crosby explains all in this second edition of his illustrated town history.
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		What Killed Jane Austen?
		and Other Medical Mysteries		History
		George Biro; Jim Leavesley
		Tempus 2007 189 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0752443100
		Published Price £12.99		Our Price £4.99
	Originally providing light relief in medical newspapers, these bizarre, whimsical and ghoulish essays delve into the nooks and crannies of medical history to examine topics such as the digging up of old kings; medical personalities such as Elizabeth Kenny, the 'bush nurse' who revolutionized the treatment of polio; medical aspects of the battle of Waterloo; and the fate of the painters who applied the radium to glow-in-the-dark watch dials.
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		St Petersburg
		The First Three Centuries		History
		Arthur Georgewith Elena George
		Sutton 2006 660 pages		Qty
		Paperback Illustrated 0750938056
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	The city founded by Peter the Great in 1703 and variously known as Sankt Peterburg, Petrograd and Leningrad has been home to some of Russia's greatest cultural figures, among them Pushkin, Tchaikovsky and Nijinsky. Famous for the celebrated architecture of its baroque palaces, bridges and promenades, the city nonetheless suffered depredations in the 1905 Revolution and the Nazi siege. Arthur George, who lived in St Petersburg for several years, charts the high and low points of this most European of Russian cities.
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		Solihull Past
				History
		Sue Bates
		Phillimore 2001 130 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 1860771769 246x182mm
		Published Price £14.99		Our Price £6.99
	Solihull was founded as a new town in the 12th century by the lords of the manor of Ulverlei and situated in the Forest of Arden. Initially a succesful market town, it declined during the 14th and 15th centuries and remained a quiet village until the mid 19th century when the railway arrived. Sue Bates presents a complete history of the town, illustrated with a splendid selection of archive photographs.
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