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BY ROYAL APPOINTMENT
Tales from the Privy Council – the Unknown Arm of GovernmentDAVID ROGERS
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You Save: 45%Traditionally, the Privy Council has always existed to advise the Sovereign on the exercise of the Royal Prerogative, to make laws, to condemn to death and to go to war. Nowadays, most of its power ha... Learn More -
BRITANNIA AND THE BEAR
The Anglo-Russian Intelligence Wars, 1917-1929VICTOR MADEIRA
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You Save: 71%For Bolshevik Russia, Great Britain -- not America -- was the enemy. By exploring British and Russian mind-sets in the critical interwar years this book traces the links between wartime social unrest,... Learn More -
THE OUTER EDGE OF ULSTER
A Memoir of Social Life in Nineteenth-Century DonegalHUGH DORIAN
Edited By :BREANDÁN MACSUIBHNE and DAVID DICKSON
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You Save: 54%Dorian was born in poverty in rural Donegal in 1834. He survived Ireland’s Great Famine, only to squander uncommon opportunities for self-advancement. Having lost his job and clashed with priests an... Learn More -
HOUSMAN COUNTRY
Into the Heart of EnglandPETER PARKER
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You Save: 43%Why is it that for many people ‘England’ has always meant an unspoilt rural landscape rather than the ever-changing urban world in which most English people live? What is about the English that ma... Learn More -
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Surviving the Great Fire of LondonHAZEL FORSYTH
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You Save: 51%The author, Senior Curator of the Medieval and Post-Medieval Collections at the Museum of London, delves into never-before-studied primary sources to shed light on the dramatic aftermath of the Great ... Learn More -
THE LONG SHADOW
The Great War and the Twentieth CenturyDAVID REYNOLDS
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You Save: 50%Our overriding sense of the Great War is of a meaningless, futile bloodbath in the mud of Flanders, but by reducing the conflict to personal tragedies, however moving, we have lost the big picture: hi... Learn More -
THE IRISH
A Photohistory, 1840-1940SEAN SEXTON and CHRISTINE KINEALY
£17.95The first Irish photographs date from 1840, a year after Louis Daguerre’s discovery of the photographic process. In the century that followed, Irish political life was dominated by the struggle for ... Learn More -
BITTER FREEDOM
Ireland in a Revolutionary World, 1918-1923MAURICE WALSH
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You Save: 45%This history of the Irish Revolution -- the first successful revolt anywhere against the British Empire -- places the country in the global disorder born of the terrible slaughter of total war, as wel... Learn More -
THE OPINIONS OF WILLIAM COBBETT
Edited by JAMES GRANDE, JOHN STEVENSON and RICHARD THOMAS
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You Save: 54%Politician, journalist, reformer, convict, social commentator and all-round thorn in the side of the establishment, William Cobbett cut a swathe through late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century Br... Learn More -
THE INVISIBLE SPIRIT
A Life of Post-War Scotland, 1945-75KENNETH ROY
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You Save: 61%This panorama of post-war Scottish life begins with the VE night celebrations and ends with the coming onstream of North Sea oil. It is a complex and often disturbing story of a country riven by pover... Learn More
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