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EDINBURGH
The Golden AgeMARY COSH
£9.95The development of Edinburgh into one of the great intellectual centres of Europe is paralleled in the story of the growth of the city, as architects such as Robert Adam reflected the confidence of a ... Learn More -
FIGHTING LIKE THE DEVIL FOR THE SAKE OF GOD
Protestants, Catholics and the Origins of Violence in Victorian BelfastMARK DOYLE
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You Save: 61%This book about Belfast in the middle of the nineteenth century looks at how and why Ireland's most prosperous and industrialised town began to tear itself apart. Through a series of steadily escalati... Learn More -
MONEY IN THE MEDIEVAL ENGLISH ECONOMY, 973-1489
J L BOLTON
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You Save: 46%The importance of money in the workings of the medieval economy is often overlooked. This study provides a background to the problems of modelling the medieval economy, to the practical processes of s... Learn More -
THE SUMMIT
The Biggest Battle of the Second World War – Fought Behind Closed DoorsED CONWAY
£10.95Gatherings of world leaders in the midst of economic crisis have become all-too-familiar. But the summit at Bretton Woods in 1944 was the only time countries from around the world have agreed to overh... Learn More -
GREAT WAR RAILWAYMEN
Britain’s Railway Company Workers at War, 1914-1918JEREMY HIGGINS
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You Save: 53%The railways were intrinsic to fighting the First World War, whether at home or abroad. On the Western Front and beyond trains ferried men and supplies to and from the front on a staggering scale, ens... Learn More -
CHURCHILL AND THE ISLAMIC WORLD
Orientalism, Empire and Diplomacy in the Middle EastWARREN DOCKTER
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You Save: 25%Winston Churchill began his career as a junior officer and war correspondent in the northwest borderlands of British India, and this experience was the beginning of his long relationship with the Isla... Learn More -
AUSTERITY BRITAIN, 1945-1951
DAVID KYNASTON
£5.95Coursing through Austerity Britain is an astonishing variety of voices -- vivid, unselfconscious and unaware of what the future holds. A Chingford housewife endures the tribulations of rationin... Learn More -
VANISHING CAMBRIDGESHIRE
MIKE PETTY
£8.95In 1925, a group of Cambridge antiquarians loaded their car with cameras, tripods and glass-plate negatives and their journey took them into a landscape of ancient remains, crumbling churches and dila... Learn More -
UNDERGROUND, OVERGROUND
A Passenger’s History of the TubeANDREW MARTIN
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You Save: 45%Why is the Victoria Line so hot? What is an Electrical Multiple Unit? Is it really possible to ride from King’s Cross on the Circle line? The London Underground is the oldest, most sprawling and ill... Learn More -
CORNISH WRECKING, 1700-1860
Reality and Popular MythCATHRYN J PEARCE
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You Save: 75%Although the popular myth of Cornish wrecking is well-known, this book is the first systematic inquiry to separate out the layers of myth from the actual practices. Weaving in legal, social and cultur... Learn More
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