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A HISTORY OF BRITISH PEWTER
JOHN HATCHER and T C BARKER
£9.95From the early fourteenth century to the mid-eighteenth, among the most common of all manufactured goods were articles cast in pewter. This book aims not merely to provide a fuller historical backgrou... Learn More -
THE PLAGUE IN SHAKESPEARE’S LONDON
F P WILSON
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You Save: 54%Two epidemics of plague swept through Elizabethan London, in 1603 and 1625, with little more than spiritual cleanliness and 'a good Sivill orange stuck with cloves' to impede their progress. Drawing o... Learn More -
THE COUNTRY FORMERLY KNOWN AS GREAT BRITAIN
Writings, 1989-2009IAN JACK
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You Save: 41%The theme of this book is the disappearance of what Jack calls the cornerstones of Britain's identity and what once ‘bound the people of its various nations and regions together in a common enterpri... Learn More -
THE NORMAN ART OF WAR
A Few Well-Positioned CastlesSTUART PRIOR
£18.00Despite years of castle studies, the strategies and tactics that underpinned Norman castle warfare remain largely unexplored. This book outlines a strategic approach to castles — it is not what ... Learn More -
THE IRISH GUARDS IN THE GREAT WAR
Vol 1: The First Battalion
Vol 2: The Second BattalionRUDYARD KIPLING
£15.95In August 1914 Kipling's son John, not yet seventeen, volunteered for a commission in the Army, but was initially refused as he was under age and had poor sight. Kipling pulled some strings to have hi... Learn More -
ANCIENT TREES, LIVING LANDSCAPES
RICHARD MUIR
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You Save: 32%Archaeologists and historians have become increasingly aware of woodland as a vital component of the living cultural landscape. This book shows that from the earliest times woodland has been manipulat... Learn More -
WRITING THE MAP OF ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND
Essays in Cultural GeographyNICHOLAS HOWE
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You Save: 46%An eminent Anglo-Saxon scholar explores how the English, in the centuries before the Norman Conquest, located themselves both literally and imaginatively in the world. Howe’s study focuses on Anglo-... Learn More -
THE SPIRIT OF THE AGE
Victorian EssaysEdited by GERTRUDE HIMMELFARB
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You Save: 47%None of the stereotypes of Victorian England — narrow-minded, inhibited, moralistic, complacent — prepares us for the vitality, variety and above all the extraordinary quality of intellect... Learn More -
THE OFFICIAL HISTORY OF THE FALKLANDS CAMPAIGN
Vol 1: The Origins of the Falklands War
Vol 2: War and DiplomacyLAWRENCE FREEDMAN
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You Save: 53%Drawing on a vast range of previously classified material as well as interviews with key participants, this is the most authoritative account of the Falklands Campaign. In the first volume, the author... Learn More -
UNIVERSITY LIFE IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY OXFORD
GRAHAM MIDGLEY
£19.95This social history of academic life in eighteenth-century Oxford presents an account of the activities of students and dons at the university: the often inordinate eating and drinking; life in the se... Learn More
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