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FROM THE CORN LAWS TO FREE TRADE
Interests, Ideas and Institutions in Historical PerspectiveCHERYL SCHONHARDT-BAILEY
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You Save: 70%The Conservatives entered government in 1841 with a strong commitment to protecting agriculture; five years later, the Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel presided over repeal of the protectionist Corn Law... Learn More -
'THE FURIE OF THE ORDNANCE'
Artillery in the English Civil WarsSTEPHEN BULL
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You Save: 67%The English Civil War has frequently been depicted as a struggle between Cavaliers and Roundheads in which technology played little part. The first-hand sources now tell us that this romantic picture ... Learn More -
THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
ANDREW CHANDLER
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You Save: 49%This is the first comprehensive picture of the life and work of the Church of England in the second half of the twentieth century, tracing the evolution of the Church at a time of immense upheaval. Th... Learn More -
PASHAS
Traders and Travellers in the Islamic WorldJAMES MATHER
£12.95Long before they came as occupiers, the British were drawn to the Middle East by the fabled riches of its trade and the enlightened tolerance of its people. The Pashas, merchants and travellers from E... Learn More -
ON THE MOVE
Essays in Labour and Transport HistoryEdited by CHRIS WRIGLEY and JOHN SHEPHERD
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You Save: 89%On the Move is a collection of twelve scholarly essays on the twin themes of labour and transport history. Those on travel range from an account of a journey in late eighteenth-century Britain ... Learn More -
NO TURNING BACK
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
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