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The Peacetime Revolutions of Post-War BritainPAUL ADDISON
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You Save: 53%The author charts the vastly changing character of British society since the end of the Second World War, showing how a series of peaceful revolutions has completely transformed the country and assess... Learn More -
FARMING IN THE FIRST MILLENIUM AD
British Agriculture between Julius Caesar and William the ConquerorPETER FOWLER
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You Save: 44%This authoritative work is the first synthesis of our knowledge of farming in Britain in the first millennium AD for a generation. Successive chapters assemble and analyse the latest evidence on farms... Learn More -
BRITISH SHIPBUILDING AND THE STATE SINCE 1918
A Political Economy of DeclineLEWIS JOHNMAN and HUGH MURPHY
£4.95Few industries attest to the decline of Britain's political and economic power as does the near-disappearance of British shipbuilding. On the eve of the First World War, British shipbuilding produced ... Learn More -
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 WELSH BIBLE
A HistoryERYN WHITE
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You Save: 45%This is a history both of how the Bible came to be translated into Welsh and of its remarkable influence on Welsh life and culture, from the sixteenth century to the twentieth. In 1563 Elizabeth I's g... 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
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