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MYSTICISM, MYTH AND CELTIC IDENTITY
Edited by MARION GIBSON, SHELLEY TROWER and GARRY TREGIDGA
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You Save: 59%An exploration of how the mythical and mystical past informs national imaginations. Building on notions of invented tradition and myths of the nation, it looks at the power of narrative and fiction to... Learn More -
IRISH CIVILIZATION
An IntroductionARTHUR AUGHEY and JOHN OAKLAND
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You Save: 72%This is the perfect background to both the history of Ireland until 1921 and the development of Ireland and Northern Ireland since that time. The book illustrates how these societies have developed in... Learn More -
THE CRUCIFORM BROOCH AND ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND
TOBY F MARTIN
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You Save: 54%This book provides a multifaceted, holistic analysis of more than 2,000 Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooches. It offers a critical examination of identity in Early Medieval society, suggesting that the idea... Learn More -
CLANS AND CLEARANCE
The Highland Clearances: Vol 1ALWYN EDGAR
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You Save: 26%If you go to the Scottish Highlands now, you will find many valleys almost without people. Yet we know from history and archaeology that the Highlands were inhabited for thousands of years. What happe... Learn More -
A SHORT HISTORY OF ENGLAND
SIMON JENKINS
£16.00Beginning in 410 with the rise of the Saxons, the author divides the chapters into time frames, each focusing on important events of the period. This allows a comprehensive discussion of time periods ... Learn More -
RULERSHIP AND REBELLION IN THE ANGLO-NORMAN WORLD, c1066-c1216
Essays in Honour of Professor Edmund KingEdited by PAUL DALTON and DAVID LUSCOMBE
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You Save: 70%The importance of the themes of rulership and rebellion in the history of the Anglo-Norman world between 1066 and the early thirteenth century is incontrovertible. The power, government and influence ... Learn More -
THE COUNTRYSIDE OF EAST ANGLIA
Changing Landscapes, 1870-1950SUSANNA WADE MARTINS and TOM WILLIAMSON
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You Save: 45%This book investigates how the landscape of East Anglia developed in the period of the so-called great depression, beginning in 1870, and the phase of wartime intensification which succeeded it after ... Learn More -
CHAUCER’S PEOPLE
Everyday Lives in the Middle AgesLIZA PICARD
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You Save: 47%This is an absorbing and revealing guide to the Middle Ages, populated with Chaucer’s pilgrims from The Canterbury Tales. These are lives spent at the pedal of a loom, maintaining the ledgers... Learn More -
BRITISH TRAVELLERS AND THE ENCOUNTER WITH BRITAIN, 1450-1700
JOHN CRAMSIE
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You Save: 63%When William Camden set out to write the history of Britannia in the sixteenth century, he deliberately took to the roads to discover it first-hand. Here, Cramsie offers original perspectives on the d... Learn More -
THE BRITISH NAVY IN THE BALTIC
JOHN D GRAINGER
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You Save: 74%This book presents a comprehensive overview of the activities of the British navy in the Baltic Sea from the earliest times until the twentieth century. It traces developments from Anglo-Saxon times, ... Learn More
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