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The Royal Navy at Dunkirk
Commanding Officers' Reports of British Warships in Action During Operation Dynamo
Martin Mace

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Mutiny on Board HMS Bounty
William Bligh

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The History of Britain
From Neolithic Times to the Present Day
Richard Dargie
Covering the story of Britain in eight chronological sections – on prehistory, Roman Britain, the age of invaders and settlers, medieval, early modern, Georgian and Victorian Britain and the 20th century up to and beyond the millennium – Richard Dargie offers a rapid and very accessible survey of these islands’ history, with timelines, text boxes on special topics and illustrations.

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Untitled
The Real Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor
Anna Pasternak
The woman for whom Edward VIII renounced the throne was vilified in the press as a scheming social climber but Anne Pasternak portrays a very different person. Testimony from the couple’s closest friends reveals a woman whose impoverished childhood and unconventional looks taught her to rely on her intelligence and intuition – qualities that made her ‘too bright and witty’ for a royal consort of the time. It also provides evidence of the depth of their mutual feelings.

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Under Every Leaf
How Britain Played the Greater Game from Afghanistan to Africa
William Beaver

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Untitled
The Real Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor
Anna Pasternak
The woman for whom Edward VIII renounced the throne was vilified in the press as a scheming social climber but Anne Pasternak portrays a very different person. Testimony from the couple’s closest friends reveals a woman whose impoverished childhood and unconventional looks taught her to rely on her intelligence and intuition – qualities that made her ‘too bright and witty’ for a royal consort of the time. It also provides evidence of the depth of their mutual feelings.

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Royal Renegades
The Children of Charles I and the English Civil Wars
Linda Porter

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Cops and Robbers
The Story of the British Police Car
Ant Anstead
A former police constable turned car builder, Ant Anstead presents a lively history of the British Police Force’s relationship with the car, from chasing pioneer motorists on bicycles and the realization that they needed to be quicker than the offenders, to the high spec supercars in use today. Anstead traces the car’s changing role in policing with the emphasis on the motors, whether Morris Minor panda cars or powerful Subaru Impreza Turbos.

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Wellington's Voice
The Candid Letters of Lieutenant Colonel John Fremantle, Coldstream Guards, 1808–1837
Ed. Gareth Glover

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Torquay in the Great War
Your Towns and Cities in the Great War
Alex Potter

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Toll-houses of Somerset
Janet Dowding;Patrick Taylor

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The Royal Naval Air Service in the First World War
Aircraft and Events as Recorded in Official Documents
Philip Jarrett

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Renaissance Warfare
Military History from Primary Sources
James Grant

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Petroleum Rail Tank Wagons of Britain
R Tourret

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Norwich in the Great War
Your Towns and Cities in the Great War
Stephen Browning

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Exeter in the Great War
Your Towns and Cities in the Great War
Derek Tait

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Churchill: Warrior
How a Military Life Guided Winston's Finest Hours
Brian Lavery

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They Fought Alone
The True Story of the Starr Brothers, British Secret Agents in Nazi-Occupied France
Charles Glass

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Daughters of the Winter Queen
Four Remarkable Sisters, the Crown of Bohemia, and the Enduring Legacy of Mary, Queen of Scots
Nancy Goldstone

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Jocelin of Brakelond
The Life of a Monk and Chronicler of the Great Abbey of St Edmund
Norman Scarfe

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The Social Life of Books
Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home
Abigail Williams
Starting with the example of William and Dorothy Wordsworth’s cosy evening in a tavern reading ‘an odd volume of Congreve’s plays’, as recorded in Dorothy’s diary, Abigail Williams sets out to show how ‘a history of sociable reading puts books back into the lives and homes, enabling us to see literature in the round’. Discussing topics such as verse at home, drama and recital, the rise of the novel, non-fiction and religious reading, the book offers fresh insights into middle-class domestic life.

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Support for the Fleet
Architecture and Engineering of the Royal Navy's Bases 1700-1914
Jonathan Coad

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Votes for Women
The Pioneers and Heroines of Female Suffrage
Jenni Murray
Jenni Murray, the former presenter of BBC Radio 4's Women’s Hour, counter’s Carlyle’s assertion that history ‘is but the biography of great men’ with a personal selection of inspirational women who have made significant contributions to British history. In 21 short biographies, Murray includes just one queen, Elizabeth I, among writers, artists and scientists, social reformers and politicians from Boadicea to Nicola Sturgeon.

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The Trials of the King of Hampshire
Madness, Secrecy and Betrayal in Georgian England
Elizabeth Foyster
Every family has its skeletons, but in 1823 the aristocratic Wallops were about to have theirs laid bare to the world. This biography tells the dramatic story of the Third Earl of Portsmouth. Wealthy and well-connected, a friend of Byron and Jane Austen, he was widely considered a harmless eccentric until – amid accusations of blackmail, abduction and sodomy – his own family set out to have him declared insane in a trial that scandalized the nation.

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Viking London
Thomas Williams
‘London’, writes Thomas Williams, ‘is a city of spectres, of ghosts walking in the footsteps of other ghosts, and the Viking Age is perhaps its most forgotten hinterland’. This colourful account of the city in the centuries between 842 and 1016 – a period that saw over a dozen Viking attacks on London – describes how it withstood the ‘great heathen horde’; how it endured and prospered through to the time of Cnut; and how the Viking legacy lives on in the capital.

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Richard III
Brother Protector King
Chris Skidmore
The loyal brother of Edward IV, Richard was entrusted as Protector of Edward’s son and heir, but in 1483 he took the crown himself while his nephews, Edward V and Prince Richard, disappeared. It was widely rumoured that the king had murdered his brother’s sons. Avoiding the bias of Richard’s evil reputation, this narrative history of his life and reign returns to original sources and looks in depth at contemporary politics, Richard’s earlier years and northern affinity, and how he constructed his own power base.

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Queen Victoria
Anniversary Edition
Elizabeth Longford

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Eavesdropping on Jane Austen's England
How Our Ancestors Lived Two Centuries Ago
Lesley Adkins;Roy Adkins
Drawing on contemporary sources including diaries, letters, newspapers and trial proceedings as well as Jane Austen's own correspondence and writings, Roy and Lesley Adkins have created a wide-ranging and richly detailed social history of English life in the early 19th century that offers new perspectives on the world of the great novelist. Covering everything from childbirth, education and work to the darker side of Georgian society, poverty and crime, the book provides an illuminating companion to Austen's novels.

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Churchill and Smuts
From Enemies to Life Long Friends
Richard Steyn

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The Restless Kings
Henry II, His Sons and the Wars for The Plantagenet Crown
Nick Barratt
For 60 years, England was dominated by Henry II and his sons Richard the Lionheart and John. Combining biography and political history, this book begins with the dynasty’s turbulent origins in the death of Henry I’s heir William in the White Ship disaster and the ensuing war between Stephen and Matilda. It then follows Henry II’s conflict with Thomas à Beckett, the loss of Normandy, Richard’s crusades, and John’s struggle with the barons that led to Magna Carta.

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The Restless Kings
Henry II, His Sons and the Wars for the Plantagenet Crown
Nick Barratt
For 60 years, England was dominated by Henry II and his sons Richard the Lionheart and John. Combining biography and political history, this book begins with the dynasty’s turbulent origins in the death of Henry I’s heir William in the White Ship disaster and the ensuing war between Stephen and Matilda. It then follows Henry II’s conflict with Thomas à Beckett, the loss of Normandy, Richard’s crusades, and John’s struggle with the barons that led to Magna Carta.

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The Stewart Dynasty
Stewart Ross
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£12.99

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Germans in Britain Since 1500
Panikos Panayi
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£50.00

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£9.99
Church and Society in the Medieval North of England
R.B. Dobson
Slightly off-mint

£85.00

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Asquith as War Leader
George H Cassar
Slightly off-mint

£100.00

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Collision of Empires
Britain in Three World Wars, 1793–1945
A D Harvey
Slightly off-mint

£140.00

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£9.99
Crime, Protest and Popular Politics in Southern England, 1740-1850
John Rule;Roger A. E. Wells
Slightly off-mint

£85.00

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England and her Neighbours, 1066-1453
Essays in Honour of Pierre Chaplais
M. C. E. Jones;M.G.A. Vale
Slightly off-mint

£110.00

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Palmerston and Africa
Rio Nunez Affair, Competition, Diplomacy and Justice
Roderick Braithwaite;Jasper Ridley
Off-mint

£95.00

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Communities and Courts in Britain, 1150-1900 (British legal history conference)
C. W. Brooks;Michael Lobban
Off-mint

£95.00

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Germans in Britain Since 1500
Ed. Panikos Panayi
Off-mint

£50.00

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£16.99
Asquith as War Leader
George H. Cassar
Off-mint

£95.00

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£9.99
Collision of Empires
Britain in Three World Wars, 1793-1945
A. D. Harvey
Off-mint

£130.00

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£9.99
English Medieval Industries
Craftsmen, Techniques, Products
Ed. John Blair: Nigel Ramsay
Off-mint

£65.00

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£16.99
British Politics in the Age of Anne
Geoffrey S. Holmes
Off-mint

£95.00

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£9.99
Feudal Empires
Norman and Plantagenet
John Le Patourel;Michael Jones
Off-mint

£95.00

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£16.99
Taking Liberties
The Struggle for Britain's Freedoms and Rights
Mike Ashley
Off-mint

£15.95

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£5.99
Ban This Filth
Letters From the Mary Whitehouse Archive
Ben Thompson;Johnny Trun
Off-mint

£16.99

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£2.99
Elginhaugh
A Roman Frontier Fort in Scotland
William S Hanson
Discovered in 1979, the Roman fort at Elginhaugh near Dalkeith is now the most completely excavated timber-built auxiliary fort in the Roman Empire. Here, Professor Hanson describes the discovery, excavation and interpretation of the site and sets the findings in the wider context of the fort’s builders and the lives of its inhabitants.

£17.99

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A History of Britain book III, The Tudors 1485-1603 (Classic British History)
E. H. Carter;R .A. F. Mears;David Evans
Slightly off-mint

£10.00

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21st Century Courage
Stirring Stories of Modern British Heroes
Mark Felton
Slightly off-mint

£19.99

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Reader's Digest and the Royals
A Jubilee Celebration of the British Royal Family
Digest Reader's;Jennie Bond
Slightly off-mint

£9.99

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£3.99
Elginhaugh
A Roman Frontier Fort in Scotland
William S Hanson
Discovered in 1979, the Roman fort at Elginhaugh near Dalkeith is now the most completely excavated timber-built auxiliary fort in the Roman Empire. Here, Professor Hanson describes the discovery, excavation and interpretation of the site and sets the findings in the wider context of the fort’s builders and the lives of its inhabitants. Slightly off-mint

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The People's Bread
A History of the Anti-Corn Law League
Paul Pickering;Alex Tyrell
Slightly off-mint

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Paddy Finucane
Fighter Ace
Doug Stokes

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Transformation in Anglo-Saxon Culture
Toller Lectures on Art, Archaeology and Text
Ed. Charles Insley;Gale R Owen-Crocker

£38.00

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Hunters, Fishers and Foragers in Wales
Towards a Social Narrative of Mesolithic Lifeways
Malcolm Lillie

£40.00

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£12.99
Stowe House
Saving an Architectural Masterpiece
Ed. Nick Morris

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£9.99
Longford Castle
The Treasures and the Collectors
Amelia Smith

£40.00

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£14.99
Blood and Fears
How America's Bomber Boys and Girls in England Won Their War
Kevin Wilson
Drawing on letters, diaries and interviews, Kevin Wilson recreates the experiences of the men of the US 8th Air Force, and the Women’s Army who served alongside them, from their arrival in Britain in February 1944 to victory in May 1945. Their own words offer vivid glimpses of the camaraderie, relations with their British hosts, and the terror of daytime raids over Berlin.

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A History of the English-Speaking Peoples since 1900
Andrew Roberts
Picking up where Churchill’s work of the same title left off, Andrew Roberts follows Britain’s relations with the United States and the Commonwealth over the last 120 years. He examines the Western Alliance’s response to the challenges of two world wars and the Cold War, arguing that the unity of the English-speaking peoples is a bastion of liberty, and warning that the ‘wasted breathing space’ between 1991 and 2011 left us ill-prepared to meet the rise of Islamic fundamentalism.

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Zeppelins Over the Midlands
The Air Raids of 31 January 1916
Mick Powis
On 31 January 1916, nine German Zeppelins bombed several major towns in the Midlands, killing 70 people in the worst air raid of the First World War. Using local newspapers, coroner’s reports and GCHQ documents, this history records the routes taken by each airship and where its bombs fell, and names the officers, crew members and those who died.

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Victorians in Camera
The World of 19th Century Studio Photography
Robert Pols
Whether it was an expensive daguerreotype, a piece of studio trickery, or a carte de visite, the Victorians were fascinated by photography, and by portraits in particular. Using contemporary texts and images, Robert Pols describes the experience of the 19th-century photographic studio from the subjects’ point of view, exploring why and how they chose a photographer, pose or style, and their uses for the finished products.

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The Victorians
A Beginner's Guide
David Gange
This concise introduction covers many aspects of Victorian society: class, religion, gender roles, the city and the empire. It considers how British views of the era have changed, and how it has shaped the modern world, from the infrastructure of British politics and culture to the global struggles of the post-colonial era.

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A Revolution of Feeling
The Decade that Forged the Modern Mind
Rachel Hewitt
In the 1790s Britain experienced what Edmund Burke called ‘a revolution in sentiments’: Hewitt shows how the French Revolution inspired British radicals to incorporate raw emotion into reformist ideals concerning sex, education, commerce and medicine. However, while this had enduring political effects, the aspirations of Enlightenment figures including Samuel Coleridge, William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft and Thomas Wedgwood went unfulfilled as the ensuing Terror led to political crackdowns in Britain.

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Patriot or Traitor
The Life and Death of Sir Walter Ralegh
Anna Beer
Walter Ralegh’s virtues led to him captaining an Atlantic voyage, winning a commission in the English army, and catching Queen Elizabeth’s eye before the age of 30, but his flaws included the monstrous egotism that led to some disastrous enterprises and to his final downfall. Anna Beer’s biography reveals both sides of the man who inspired many myths; a talented writer, soldier, politician, courtier, spy and explorer.

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Mapping Shakespeare
An Exploration of Shakespeare's World Through Maps
Jeremy Black
In Shakespeare’s time explorers were adding to European knowledge of distant places and peoples, while advances in cartography allowed for more accurate projections and more detailed mapping. Presenting many contemporary representations of English and European locations, the wider world and the heavens, Jeremy Black examines what such maps reveal about the ways in which playwright and audience understood geography and how they viewed their place in the world and the universe. Slightly off-mint.

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The Dark Side of East London
David Charnick
The alleyways and estates of Tower Hamlets were rife with poverty and crime in the 18th and 19th centuries. Local historian David Charnick tells dark tales of murders, poisonings and abductions that occurred there, using them to reveal aspects of everyday life before and during the encroachment of London’s East End. A specially commissioned section of black and white photographs shows the locations of many of the events.

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Vanishing Edinburgh
In the Steps of George Washington Wilson
Alastair J. Durie

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6-10 Henry VI (1427-1432) (23) (Public ... Office
Claire Noble;Christine Carpenter
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£195.00

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Goodnight Children, Everywhere
Voices of Evacuees
Monica B. Morris

£12.99

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Wallis in Love
The Untold Life of the Duchess of Windsor, the Woman Who Changed the Monarchy
Andrew Morton
Andrew Morton, author of Diana: Her True Story, turns his attention to Wallis Simpson, the twice-married divorcée who claimed the heart of Edward VIII, causing his abdication. Using 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.

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Operation Columba
The Secret Pigeon Service
Gordon Corera
Pigeons were still in use during the Second World War to carry messages from planes and battlefields but Operation Columba set them to work in a more ambitious project gathering intelligence across Nazi-occupied Europe. BBC security correspondent Gordon Corera tells the recently declassified story of the thousands of birds released over Holland, Belgium and France and assesses the value of the information they brought home. Slightly off-mint. Felt-tip mark on lower trimmed edge.

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Conan Doyle for the Defense
The True Story of a Sensational British Murder, a Quest for Justice, and the World's Most Famous Detective Writer
Margalit Fox

$27.00

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£6.99
The Licensed City
Regulating Drink in Liverpool, 1830–1920
David Beckingham

£90.00

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£12.99
Land Travel and Communications in Tudor and Stuart England
Achieving a Joined-up Realm
Mark Brayshay
Dealing with the period between 1500 and 1700, this study documents the unprecedented growth in road travel by all sections of society, from paupers to princes; the increasing volume of wheeled vehicles on the highways; and the radical changes in the means of conveying correspondence, both within England and beyond its borders.

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'Into Another Mould'
Aspects of the Interregnum
Ivan Roots
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British Shipbuilding and the State since 1918
A Political Economy in Decline
Lewis Johnman;Hugh Murphy

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St Paul's Cathedral Before Wren
John Schofield
Based largely on excavations and research in and around the present cathedral between 1969 and 2006, this English Heritage volume presents the archaeology and history of the precinct and successive cathedrals of St Paul in the City of London, from Roman times up to the construction of Wren’s building in 1675–1711.

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Played in London
Charting the Heritage of a City at Play
Simon Inglis
This overview of the capital’s sporting heritage and architecture details the background and history of a comprehensive variety of events, including current and forgotten venues from the centre to the suburbs, together with a range of anecdotes and archive photos.

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Hillforts
Prehistoric Strongholds of Northumberland National Park
Al Oswald;Stewart Ainsworth;Trevor Pearson
The hillforts of Northumberland are extraordinarily well-preserved, their interiors relatively untouched since they were last occupied, around 1,500 years ago. Presenting the key results of the detailed and extensive archaeological landscape surveys carried out by English Heritage, this well-illustrated account, aimed at hill-walkers and other visitors, describes what hillforts would have looked like when they were first built and what life was like for the inhabitants.

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Glasgow
A History of the City
Michael Fry
The historian and columnist for The National in Scotland, Michael Fry offers a new perspective on the history and culture of Glasgow as ‘a unique species of urban civilization’. His book takes in the whole span of the city’s history, from the sixth century to the present day, but is structured thematically, in chapters exploring Glasgow’s trade and industry, religion, the lives and politics of its ‘patricians’ and ‘plebeians’, and its distinctive styles of language, literature and art.

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The Dandy at Dusk
Taste and Melancholy in the Twentieth Century
Philip Mann
Dandyism is often thought to be about extravagance of dress. Combining biography, social history and men’s fashion, this study reveals it to be something different: an austere, almost religious dedication to style. Through profiles of six 20th-century dandies – the Duke of Windsor, the architect Adolf Loos, Bunny Roger, Quentin Crisp, Jean-Philippe Melville and the film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder – it probes issues of identity, nostalgia and the self-created persona.

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The King's Bed
Sex, Power and the Court of Charles II
Don Jordan;Michael Walsh
Charles II was obsessed by women, and his conquests ranged across the classes, from the actress Nell Gwyn to the aristocrat Barbara Villiers. For the first time, this revealing book places the king’s compulsive philandering at the centre of an account of his reign. Taking us behind the scenes, it introduces a colourful cast of court favourites, politicians and a parade of mistresses fighting for influence over a king ruled – and ruined – by his passions.

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War! Hellish War! Star Shell Reflections 1916–1918
The Illustrated Great War Diaries of Jim Maultsaid
Barbara McClune
Jim Maultsaid was injured on the Somme in 1916, after which he was commissioned into the Chinese Labour Corps, directing these foreign recruits in non-combatant support work and manual labour. His unusual war diaries include his frank but often upbeat observations about his experiences as well as drawings, satirical cartoons and scrapbook photographs which give a unique insight into his everyday activities and the characters he encountered.

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The Real Guy Fawkes
Nick Holland
Guy Fawkes is among British history’s most recognizable figures, burned in effigy every November to celebrate the Gunpowder Plot’s failure. His early life is less familiar though, and so this biography focuses on his youth as a Protestant in York and the motivations that led him to fight as a mercenary and to plan mass murder for the Catholic cause, asking whether he was ‘a fanatic, a fool, or a freedom fighter’.

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The Life of Henrietta Anne
Daughter of Charles I
Melanie Clegg
Melanie Clegg offers a detailed biography of the youngest daughter of Charles I. Her prestige enhanced by her dramatic escape from parliamentary forces during the Civil War, the infant Henrietta Anne was cherished by the court in her mother's native France. As a young woman, her flirtatious reputation belied her political acumen, but the part she played in negotiating the Secret Treaty of Dover in 1670 was a notable high point in her short, at times controversial, life.

£19.99

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Wingfield College and its Patrons
Piety and Patronage in Medieval Suffolk
Ed. Peter Bloore;Edward Martin

£60.00

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£14.99
A Sixpence at Whist
Gaming and the Middle Classes 1680–1830
Janet E Mullin

£50.00

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£14.99
The Royal Touch in Early Modern England
Politics. Medicine and Sin
Stephen Brogan

£60.00

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£14.99
'Only Connect'
Learned Societies in Nineteenth-Century Britain
William C Lubenow

£60.00

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£14.99
The Livery Collar in Late Medieval England and Wales
Politics, Identity and Affinity
Matthew Ward

£50.00

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£19.99
Children and Youth in Premodern Scotland
Ed. Janay Nugent;Elizabeth L Ewan

£70.00

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British Travellers and the Encounter with Britain
1450–1700
John Cramsie

£50.00

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British Battle Planning in 1916 and the Battle of Fromelles
A Case Study of an Evolving Skill
Roger Lee
With its high casualty count, Fromelles (19–20 July 1916) is generally considered a failure resulting from incompetent British generalship. By analysing the process of planning the battle, Lee gives a more nuanced picture of the command structure’s strengths and weaknesses.

£95.00

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£19.99
The Mediterranean Fleet
1930–1939
Paul G Halpern

£125.00

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£25.00