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  • How to Behave Badly in Renaissance Britain
    Ruth Goodman
    Nothing reveals as much about a society as its bad behaviour, and if Shakespeare’s England is remembered for courtly ceremony, it was also an age of brawling, boozing and badmouthing. Drawing on contemporary behaviour manuals, court cases and sermons, Ruth Goodman, the presenter of Victorian Farm, reveals what most upset and infuriated our forebears. Her entertaining survey dishes the dirt on ninny-hammers, wittols, stinkards and draggletails, and offers practical advice on how to handle yourself in a fight. Off-mint.

    £20.00

    now£7.99
  • Where to See Wildlife in Britain and Ireland
    Over 800 Best Wildlife Sites in the British Isles
    Christopher Somerville
    The 10,000 acres of saltmarsh and 65,000 acres of tidal sandbanks and mudflats around the Wash on the east coast are a haven for wildlife, with about 500,000 wildfowl wintering there and common seals breeding there in summer, when the saltmarsh is abundant with wildflowers. This practical guide focuses on 800 wildlife-rich locations in the UK and advises on what to see, when to visit and how to get there, with detailed mapping and over 500 photographs.

    £20.00

    now£9.99
  • Britain's Best Walks
    200 Classic Walks from The Times
    Christopher Somerville
    Veteran ramblers and novice walkers alike have delighted in Christopher Somerville’s 'A Good Walk' column in The Times. This book presents 200 of the best, ranging across the UK from Glen Nevis to Romney Marsh, and from the Breidden Hills of Powys to the Mourne Mountains of County Down. Each walk is described in detail, with length and level of difficulty, directions to the starting point, advice on where to eat and stay, colour photographs and maps.

    £16.99

    now£6.99
  • In Search of the Real Dad's Army
    The Home Guard and the Defence of the United Kingdom 1940–1944
    Stephen M Cullen
    By the summer of 1940 nearly a million and a half British men had joined the Local Defence Volunteers (LDV), a response to the very real threat of invasion by a rapidly advancing German Army. This book explores the LDV’s transformation from an enthusiastic yet ill-equipped organisation into the capable Home Guard, which, as the threat of invasion receded, nevertheless became key to the UK’s local defence strategy, as well as a means of combating the purported Fifth Column. Off-mint.

    £14.99

    now£5.99
  • Lady Fanshawe's Receipt Book
    An Englishwoman's Life During the Civil War
    Lucy Moore
    In the mid 17th century, England was riven by bloody civil war. For Ann Fanshawe, married to a Royalist diplomat, it was a time of insecurity and danger. Throughout the turmoil, she kept a leather-bound book full of ink-stained recipes for everything from life-saving remedies to hot chocolate. That volume forms the basis for this account of her attempts to keep a household together in the face of adversity, and her passionate devotion to the Stuart cause.

    £9.99

    now£4.99
  • Our History of the 20th Century
    As Told in Diaries, Journals and Letters
    Ed. Travis Elborough
    From Queen Victoria’s journal entry for 1 January 1900, (‘full of anxiety & fear of what may be before us!’) to MP Oona King’s lament at spending the end of the millennium in a queue, Elborough’s compilation presents personal, contemporary and candid responses to world history as it happened. The book features over 100 diarists and provides one or more writers’ reaction to every major event or trend, whether a world war, the 1975 Europe Referendum or the latest Star Wars movie.

    £25.00

    now£7.99
  • Life in the Victorian Kitchen
    Culinary Secrets and Servants' Stories
    Karen Foy
    Life in a 19th-century kitchen could be tough and exacting, and staff below stairs needed a broader range of skills than ever before, as new and exotic ingredients were arriving from around the Empire. Using case studies and detailed research, Karen Foy examines Victorian cuisine through the seasons (with some recipes), and discusses useful tools and the sourcing of ingredients as well as introducing early cookery writers, including Catherine Dickens.

    £12.99

    now£5.99
  • Vermeer & the Dutch Masters
    Rosalind Ormiston
    In this generously illustrated guide to the Dutch Golden Age of painting, genre works by Vermeer, Rembrandt, Steen and many others are fêted for their power to transform the everyday – artisanship, domesticity, intellectual curiosity – into the extraordinary. Covering themes of patronage, trade, meaning and motif, the book shows how a rich array of subject matter, including still life, landscape and domestic interiors, reflects the blossoming of Dutch society in a time of economic prosperity and artistic freedom.

    £25.00

    now£9.99
  • Voices from the Second World War
    Witnesses Share Their Stories with the Children of Today
    The recollections in this book cover a wide range of wartime experiences from fleeing Nazi Germany and surviving the Blitz to working for the resistance in occupied Europe, parachuting into France as part of the D-Day invasion, and being the navigator on the Enola Gay when it dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Many of the accounts were collected by children as part of a project organized by the children's newspaper First News. Age 9+

    £14.99

    now£7.99
  • A Year in the Life of Ancient Egypt
    Ann Rosalie David
    What would it have been like to live in Ancient Egypt? In this book one of the world’s most acclaimed Egyptologists imagines a year in the life of a government official and his family. Organized according to the three agricultural seasons that structured Egyptian lives – inundation, planting and harvesting – the family’s story illustrates aspects of their everyday lives and customs, their experience of the educational, medical and legal professions and their preparations for the afterlife.

    £25.00

    now£9.99
  • A Good Face for Radio
    Confessions of a Radio Head
    Eddie Mair
    As the host of Radio 4's PM for 15 years, Eddie Mair established a unique style, bringing deadpan humour to the programme alongside hard-hitting political interviews and serious news journalism. This collection of his weekly columns, which were published in the Radio Times between 2010 and 2016, reflects his idiosyncratic wit and mischievous tone, lampooning contemporary political events, poking fun at his fellow broadcasters and musing on the quirks of everyday life.

    £18.99

    now£6.99
  • Oak Furniture
    The British Tradition
    Victor Chinnery
    An essential guide for collectors of oak furniture, this new edition (first published in 1979) incorporates additional colour photographs and improved quality black-and-white originals. The text remains the same, featuring a short background history, practical contexts, detailed consideration of the changing language used to describe furniture, and style, from a 13th-century chest to a late-19th-century armchair. A pictorial index including all items illustrated in the main text assists readers with dating and identification of pieces.

    £75.00

    now£30.00
  • The Times Concise Atlas of the World
    For the 13th edition, this major atlas has been updated to 2016 and includes, among several new features, nine historical maps of the world since 1858 and satellite images of the continents. The main body of the atlas comprises over 200 pages of Collins Bartholomew maps covering the continents, oceans and polar regions. Other features include world maps, 41 city plans and geographical information, new sections on climate change and economy, a glossary and a comprehensive index of place names. Slipcased.

    £90.00

    now£25.00
  • The World's Heritage
    The Definitive Guide to All 1007 World Heritage Sites
    UNESCO's 'guide to the world’s most extraordinary places' presents all 1,007 sites on the World Heritage List, first mapped by continent, then arranged chronologically by the year in which they were inscribed on the List. From the Galápagos Islands (added 1978) to the rich biodiversity of the Great Himalayan National Park Conservation Area (added 2014), the guide covers a remarkable range of monuments and landscapes, with cultural, natural and mixed sites, each described individually and the majority shown in photographs.

    £25.00

    now£9.99
  • Corsets & Codpieces
    A Social History of Outrageous Fashion
    Karen Bowman
    With tales both tragic (the 2,500 deaths from crinoline fires in 1864) and amusing (the horse that ate the stuffing from a race-goer’s bustle), Bowman takes readers on a lively journey from Roman times through to 1940s Britain, examining some of the more unusual trends that have been deemed fashionable at one time or another. From the style that was invented to mask disease, to a 1920s hairdo that ended relationships, there’s more to fashion that first meets the eye.

    £16.99

    now£6.99
  • North Downs Landscapes
    Exploring the Glorious English Countryside on London's Doorstep
    Doug Kennedy
    Stretching approximately 100 miles from Dover through rolling Kentish farmland and along the southern fringe of London to Farnham in Surrey, the North Downs offer some of the most unspoilt countryside and spectacular views within easy reach of the capital. Illustrated with full-page colour photographs, this book follows the course of the Downs, explores their history, geography, geology, ecology and wildlife, and charts the campaigns to protect them from encroaching development.

    £16.99

    now£7.99
  • Zealots
    How A Group of Scottish Conspirators Unleashed Half A Century of War In Britain
    Oliver Thomson
    Fife in the 1630s was a hotbed of rebel priests, fire-breathing politicians and unemployed mercenaries, many connected through family. This innovative history shows how a combustible mixture of Covenanters, Catholics, Gibbites, Malignants and a host of other sects ignited not only Scotland’s wars of religion, but conflict in Ireland, and the English Civil War, resulting in more than 600,000 deaths. The book concludes with a gazetteer of the buildings, ruins, monuments and battlefields of Scottish wars from 1639 to 1689.

    £20.00

    now£9.99
  • Black's Guide to Scotland
    Picturesque Tourist Guide 1840
    Adam Black
    Published in 1840 by Adam and Charles Black of Edinburgh, this ‘Picturesque Tourist’ guide promises ‘engraved charts and views of the scenery, plans of Edinburgh and Glasgow, and a copious itinerary’. Arranged as 14 tours, the guide also assures the reader of accurate, plain and intelligible accounts, with much information on tradition, history and associations – a swipe at the purple prose of rival guides. The present book is a facsimile reprint of the first edition. No jacket.

    £9.99

    now£4.99
  • The Mythology of the 'Princes in the Tower'
    John Ashdown-Hill
    Were the sons of Edward IV – the boy king Edward V and his younger brother, Richard, Duke of York – genuinely held against their will in the Tower of London; and were they murdered there? Bones found in the Tower were interred in Westminster Abbey in 1674, and their burial urn was opened in 1933. Now, drawing on genetic science, John Ashdown-Hill re-examines the case of the two princes, questioning the orthodox view and stripping away the myths that surround their fate.

    £20.00

    now£9.99
  • Wallis in Love
    The Untold True Passion of the Duchess of Windsor
    Andrew Morton
    Andrew Morton, author of Diana: Her True Story, turns his attention to Wallis Simpson, the twice-married divorcee who claimed the heart of Edward VIII, causing his abdication. Drawing on interviews, secret letters, diaries and previously unseen primary sources, Morton charts Wallis’s life, from falling in love with a female teacher as a teenager to ignoring the cries of her husband as he lay dying. While Morton makes plain Wallis’s disdain for the duke, it seems his devotion to her never wavered.

    £20.00

    now£7.99

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  • Wallis in Love
    The Untold True Passion of the Duchess of Windsor
    Andrew Morton
    Andrew Morton, author of Diana: Her True Story, turns his attention to Wallis Simpson, the twice-married divorcee who claimed the heart of Edward VIII, causing his abdication. Drawing on interviews, secret letters, diaries and previously unseen primary sources, Morton charts Wallis’s life, from falling in love with a female teacher as a teenager to ignoring the cries of her husband as he lay dying. While Morton makes plain Wallis’s disdain for the duke, it seems his devotion to her never wavered.

    £20.00

    now£7.99
  • Comic, Curious and Quirky
    News Stories from Centuries Past
    Rona Levin
    Rona Levin, of the British Library's Newspaper Archive, has tracked down an eclectic variety of stories, ranging in date from 1729 to 1930, which cover dastardly crimes, sexual scandals, animal antics and medical oddities. Some (such as the lady offended by seeing footballers' knees) reveal profound shifts in British society, while others (horsemeat fraud and doctors' poor handwriting) remind us that many things haven't changed.

    £7.99

    now£2.99
  • The Mythology of the 'Princes in the Tower'
    John Ashdown-Hill
    Were the sons of Edward IV – the boy king Edward V and his younger brother, Richard, Duke of York – genuinely held against their will in the Tower of London; and were they murdered there? Bones found in the Tower were interred in Westminster Abbey in 1674, and their burial urn was opened in 1933. Now, drawing on genetic science, John Ashdown-Hill re-examines the case of the two princes, questioning the orthodox view and stripping away the myths that surround their fate.

    £20.00

    now£9.99
  • 17 Carnations
    The Windsors, The Nazis and the Cover-Up
    Andrew Morton
    Edward Windsor, the former king, and Wallis Simpson were already an embarrassment to the establishment, and their connections to leading Nazis during the 1930s were too damaging to the crown to be allowed to surface after the war. This investigative report reveals their links to Nazi sympathizers and examines Hitler's plan to install Edward as a puppet king. The title refers to flowers apparently sent by German diplomat von Ribbentrop to Simpson commemorating their love affair.

    £12.99

    now£4.99
  • Jesus the Wicked Priest
    How Christianity Was Born of an Essene Schism
    Marvin Vining
    This book’s provocative thesis is that the Dead Sea Scrolls refer directly to Jesus, as the ‘wicked priest’ who opposed the rigid, militant views of the Essene movement. Revealing how Jesus’ message is presented in the Scrolls’ coded language, Vining explores the possibility that Christianity arose out of a schism resulting from the refusal of this ‘ultimate Reform Jew’ to follow Essene orthodoxy; his research also reopens doctrinal questions about reincarnation and the virgin birth.

    £13.99

    now£4.99
  • One-Pot Dishes
    The Women's Institute
    Women's Institute
    One-pot dishes not only streamline your cooking (you save on washing-up, for a start) – they also help you to create innovative meals that are full of flavour. This collection features dozens of main dishes, for vegetarians as well as meat-eaters, from risottos and stir-frys to pasta bakes and casseroles, in addition to twelve soup recipes. Some are for everyday meals; others are for entertaining.

    £12.99

    now£4.99
  • Cream Teas, Traffic Jams and Sunburn
    The Great British Holiday
    Brian Viner
    In this funny, acutely observed and engaging social history, Brian Viner celebrates the British holidaymaker at home and abroad. A surprising recent phenomenon is the increase in holidays in Britain, while the holiday abroad appears to be in decline. From holiday flings to the hen night, from the 'full English' to the long-haul gap year, the minutiae of British holiday-making is examined here in all its glory.

    £7.99

    now£3.99
  • Vermeer & the Dutch Masters
    Rosalind Ormiston
    In this generously illustrated guide to the Dutch Golden Age of painting, genre works by Vermeer, Rembrandt, Steen and many others are fêted for their power to transform the everyday – artisanship, domesticity, intellectual curiosity – into the extraordinary. Covering themes of patronage, trade, meaning and motif, the book shows how a rich array of subject matter, including still life, landscape and domestic interiors, reflects the blossoming of Dutch society in a time of economic prosperity and artistic freedom.

    £25.00

    now£9.99
  • The Last Horsemen
    A Year at Sillywrea, Britain's Only Horse-Powered Farm
    Charles Bowden
    First published in 2001, this study of a disappearing way of life took place over three years, on the last farm in Britain still reliant on horse power rather than machinery. Sillywrea Farm has belonged to the same family for over 150 years, and the book follows two of the family’s recent farmers and their five Clydesdale horses through four seasons, ploughing, haymaking and training a young foal.

    £12.99

    now£5.99
  • District Nurse
    My Life as a Nurse in the 1950s
    Patricia Jordan
    Exchanging her native Belfast for Cumbria, Patricia Jordan worked as a midwife and district nurse in Borrowdale during the 1950s. This memoir recalls her tough nursing training in London, tells how a romance with a patient took her to the North West and recounts her many heart-warming and sometimes heartbreaking experiences as her work took her into people's homes at times of crisis and celebration.

    £5.99

    now£2.99
  • Death in Devon (The County Guides)
    Ian Sansom
    Swanton Morley, the People’s Professor, sets off for Devon to continue The County Guides, his history of England; but when he arrives at All Souls School, he hears that a pupil has died in mysterious circumstances. Cue another adventure in the dark heart of 1930s England for Morley, Sefton and Miriam - the trio first encountered in The Norfolk Mystery.

    £8.99

    now£3.99
  • The Fall of the Tay Bridge
    David Swinfen
    In a disaster commemorated by one of William McGonagall’s famously bad poems, engineer Thomas Bouch's Tay Bridge collapsed when a train was passing over it during a storm in 1879, killing everyone on board. This revision of David Swinfen's 1994 study of the event analyses the evidence and technical studies to answer the still-contested questions of why the bridge failed and how many people lost their lives.

    £10.99

    now£4.99
  • Alfie
    Alfie and Grandma
    Shirley Hughes
    These three gentle, beautifully illustrated stories feature Alfie and his good friend Grandma. A missing tortoise is disguised as a stone, Alfie goes exploring indoors and Alfie and Grandma help a lost sheep. A map at the back of the book shows Grandma’s house, so that readers can spot locations that feature in the story. Age 3+

    £6.99

    now£2.99
  • The Secret World of the Victorian Lodging House
    Joseph O'Neill
    Throughout the burgeoning cities of Victorian Britain, lodging houses provided shelter to those who flocked from the countryside in search of work. Crowded, insanitary and often disreputable, they aroused the horror of respectable society, and were viewed as hotbeds of crime and disease. Drawing on contemporary accounts, newspaper reports and court cases, this fascinating social history shines a light into the shadowy world of itinerant labourers, criminals, street entertainers, peddlers, prostitutes, abandoned children, and families fallen on hard times.

    £19.99

    now£7.99
  • Divorced, Beheaded, Died...
    The History of Britain's Kings and Queens in Bite-sized Chunks
    Kevin Flude
    Kevin Flute’s history of Britain's kings and queens in bite-sized chunks includes legendary kings, Dark Age warlords, Scottish monarchs and kings of Wales as well as Normans, Plantagenets etc – up to the House of Windsor and Elizabeth II.

    £6.99

    now£2.99
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