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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 -
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 -
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 -
BRITISH SPIES AND IRISH REBELS
British Intelligence and Ireland, 1916-1945PAUL McMAHON
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You Save: 54%Rebellion, partition and a messy peace settlement ensured that Ireland was a constant thorn in Britain's side after 1916. Britain faced the bombs and bullets of militant republicans, the clandestine i... Learn More -
NIGHTS OUT
Life in Cosmopolitan LondonJUDITH R WALKOWITZ
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You Save: 69%London's Soho district underwent a spectacular transformation between the late Victorian era and the end of the Second World War: its fin-de-siècle buildings and dark streets infamous for sex,... Learn More -
CHEEK BY JOWL
A History of NeighboursEMILY COCKAYNE
£4.50Temporarily Out of stock
Cockayne traces the history of the British neighbour through nine centuries – spanning medieval, Tudor and Victorian periods, two world wars and up to today's virtual world. She discusses the... Learn More
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