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William Tyndale and the English Language
$40.00 Add to cartA revelatory examination of William Tyndale’s monumental influence on the English language.
“Dearly beloved,” “say the word,” “the powers that be,” “for ever and ever.” Such familiar phrases and many
- Author: Crystal, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: April 10 2026
- ISBN10: 1851246657
- Language: English
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Hoax: Truth and Lies in the Age of Enlightenment
$30.00 Read moreHere lies Fanny Lynes, whose whispers from beyond
Here swings Mary Bateman, who lived a life of lies – and died a
the grave set London alight with scandal.
prophetess and murderer. Here stands Mary Will- Author: Pelling, Madeline
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 01 2026
- ISBN10: 180522235X
- Language: English
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Queens and Kings: An Unusually Personal History
$29.95 Read more“Queens & Kings is history with a uniquely personal touch. Warm, insightful, and full of heart, Worsley has distilled a lifetime of personal experience into this crowning achievement of a book. Prepar… [more below]
- Author: Worsley, Lucy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 03 2026
- ISBN10: 9798897101825
- Language: English
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Britain at Bay: The Epic Story of the Second World War, 1938-1941
$36.00 Add to cartFrom statesmen and military commanders to ordinary Britons, a bold, sweeping history of Britain’s entrance into World War II–and its efforts to survive it–illuminating the ways in which the war perm… [more below]
- Author: Allport, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: October 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1101974699
- Language: English
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A Queer Inheritance: Alternative Histories in the National Trust
$35.00 Add to cart‘A revelatory masterpiece, a true alternative history of our times’ – Simon Jenkins, former Chair of the National Trust
LGBTQ+ histories and identities come out of the National Trust’s properties in t- Author: Hall, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 28 2026
- ISBN10: 178130114X
- Language: English
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New Worlds, Lost Worlds: The Rule of the Tudors, 1485-1603
$27.00 Add to cartNo period in British history has more resonance and mystery today than the sixteenth century. New Worlds, Lost Worlds brings the atmosphere and events of this great epoch to life. Exploring the underl… [more below]
- Series: Penguin History of Britain
- Author: Brigden, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 24 2002
- ISBN10: 0142001252
- Language: English
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The Discovery of Britain: An Accidental History
$34.99 Add to cartInterweaving personal and historical narratives and making use of contemporary sources, Graham Robb’s lively exploration of Britain through the ages peels back the layers of this island nation and sho
- Author: Robb, Graham
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 20 2026
- ISBN10: 1324074949
- Language: English
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Build Your Own Stonehenge
$13.95 Add to cartExplore and replicate the magic of this extraordinary monument in miniature scale right at your desktop!
- Specifications: Includes 16 Stonehenge rocks and landscaped puzzle map
- Illustrated mini book:
- Series: Rp Minis
- Author: Beard, Morgan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 9798894141770
- Language: English
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Folklore: A Journey Through the Past and Present
$29.95 Add to cartA gripping guide to the weird yet everyday world of British folklore.
In this ground-breaking book, two leading experts provide the definitive guide to British folklore past and present. Owen Davies a- Author: Davies, Owen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 1526180383
- Language: English
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Advance Britannia: The Epic Story of the Second World War, 1942-1945
$40.00 Add to cartThe author of Britain at Bay–which The Wall Street Journal said may be “the single best examination of British politics, society, and strategy [from 1938 to 1941] that has ever been written”–picks u… [more below]
- Author: Allport, Alan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 0451494768
- Language: English
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Forgotten London: Exploring the Hidden Life of the City
$40.00 Add to cartNo city shaped the modern world quite like London – a powerhouse of trade, finance and empire, the centre of global influence in the nineteenth century. But beyond the familiar stories of power and po
- Author: Ackroyd, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0711287643
- Language: English
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Dreams and Songs to Sing: A People’s History of Liverpool FC from Shankly to Klopp
$29.95 Add to cartDreams and Songs to Sing is a unique people’s history of the triumphs and tragedies of one of the biggest teams in sport. From Shankly to Klopp, Alan McDougall takes us on a global tour of Liverpool F… [more below]
- Author: McDougall, Alan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 364
- Publish Date: August 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1009340239
- Language: English
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Heiresses: Marriage, Inheritance, and Slavery in the Caribbean
$35.00 Add to cartFrom Jamaica to Charleston, Sierra Leone to India, Australia and back to England, this is the story of the heiresses–and the role they played in the history of enslavement.
Through the eighteenth and- Author: Kaufmann, Miranda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1639368299
- Language: English
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Yes Ma’am: Upstairs Downstairs in the British Royal Family
$29.95 Add to cartWhat really makes the British royal family tick? It’s a question that royal watchers have pondered for as long as there has been a royal family. And the answer? Well, surprisingly, it’s not the royal … [more below]
- Author: Quinn, Tom
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1785908464
- Language: English
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Alice’s Oxford: People and Places That Inspired Wonderland
$20.00 Add to cartA guide and history of the town and young girl that inspired Lewis Caroll’s famous Alice stories.
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass are two of the most famous fantasies in
- Author: Hunt, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: July 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1851246290
- Language: English
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The Street Children of Dickens’s London
$24.95 Read moreMany poor and vulnerable people lived on the streets of Victorian cities. They were the victims of rapid industrialisation, a government policy of non-intervention regarding social issues and the hars… [more below]
- Author: Amy, Helen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 15 2012
- ISBN10: 1848688466
- Language: English
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Eighteen: A History of Britain in 18 Young Lives
$29.99 Add to cart‘Utterly, utterly brilliant. Fizzing with energy, wit and insight’ – Tracy Borman, bestselling historian
Biggest books to look out for in 2024 – The Guardian At eighteen, your life is full of of what-- Author: Loxton, Alice
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1035031280
- Language: English
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Mr. Churchill in the White House: The Untold Story of a Prime Minister and Two Presidents
$32.00 Add to cartWell into the twenty-first century, Winston Churchill continues to be the subject of scores of books. Biographers portray him as a soldier, statesman, writer, painter, and even a daredevil, but Robert
- Author: Schmuhl, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1324093420
- Language: English
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The Countryside: Ten Rural Walks Through Britain and Its Hidden History of Empire
$30.00 Add to cartAn Air Mail Editors’ Pick
Ten walks through idyllic scenery reveal rural Britain’s forgotten links to transatlantic slavery and colonialism–a “revelatory travelogue-cum-expos?” (Publishers Weekly, st- Author: Fowler, Corinne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 166800397X
- Language: English
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Bible and Sword: England and Palestine from the Bronze Age to Balfour
$21.00 Read moreFrom Barbara W. Tuchman, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Guns of August, comes history through a wide-angle lens: a fascinating chronicle of Britain’s long relationship with Palestine and the Mid… [more below]
- Author: Tuchman, Barbara W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0345314271
- Language: English
