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The Politically Incorrect Guide to the British Empire
$21.99 Read moreA brawling, rambunctious history celebrating the Empire–and the intrepid empire-builders–that gave the United States, Canada, India, and Australia not just a common language, but common ideals of fr… [more below]
- Series: Politically Incorrect Guides (Paperback)
- Author: Crocker, H. W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 24 2011
- ISBN10: 1596986298
- Language: English
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Jane Austen’s England: Daily Life in the Georgian and Regency Periods
$27.00 Add to cartAn authoritative account of everyday life in Regency England, the backdrop of Austen’s beloved novels, from the authors of the forthcoming Gibraltar: The Greatest Siege in British History (March 2018)… [more below]
- Author: Adkins, Roy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: July 29 2014
- ISBN10: 0143125729
- Language: English
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London: The Biography
$30.00 Add to cartA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
Here are two thousand years of London’s history and folklore, its chroniclers and criminals and plain citizens, its food and drink and countless pleasures. Blackfriar’s an… [more below]- Author: Ackroyd, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 848
- Publish Date: April 08 2003
- ISBN10: 0385497717
- Language: English
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To Marry an English Lord: Tales of Wealth and Marriage, Sex and Snobbery in the Gilded Age (an Inspiration for Downton Abbey)
$19.99 Add to cart“Marvelous and entertaining.” –Julian Fellowes, creator of Downton Abbey
Discover the true stories behind the women who inspired DowntonAbbey and HBO’s The Gilded Age, the heiresses–including a Van- Author: MacColl, Gail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 15 2012
- ISBN10: 0761171959
- Language: English
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The Common Stream: Two Thousand Years of the English Village
$16.95 Read moreThis is the story of the village of Foxton, in Cambridgeshire. The author studied archaeological excavations, oral tradition, manor court rolls, land tax returns, wills, bishops’ registers and many ot… [more below]
- Author: Parker, Rowland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: August 30 2005
- ISBN10: 897333918
- Language: English
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Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power
$21.99 Add to cartA bestselling historian shows how the British Empire created the modern world, in a book lauded as “a rattling good tale” (Wall Street Journal) and “popular history at its best” (Washington Post)
The- Author: Ferguson, Niall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 14 2004
- ISBN10: 0465023290
- Language: English
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Rude Girls: Women in 2 Tone and One Step Beyond
$25.00 Add to cartThe ska revival in the UK and the 2 Tone label represented unity of black and white in both the content of the songs, and appearance of the bands. While race may have been central to this declaration,
- Author: Augustyn, Heather
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 396
- Publish Date: March 08 2023
- ISBN10: 1088122922
- Language: English
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The Great Fire of London: In That Apocalyptic Year, 1666
$19.95 Add to cartThe tragic story of the disastrous London fire is told here from both a human and architectural point of view, as the fire destroyed lives along with buildings such as the original St. Paul’s cathedra… [more below]
- Author: Hanson, Neil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 322
- Publish Date: August 15 2002
- ISBN10: 1620458381
- Language: English
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The Socialist Patriot: George Orwell and War
$18.00 Add to cartAn incisive demonstration of how Orwell’s body of work was defined by the four major conflicts that punctuated his life: World War I, the Spanish Civil War, World War II, and the Cold War.
Few English
- Author: Stansky, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 150363549X
- Language: English
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Shadowlands: A Journey Through Britain’s Lost Cities and Vanished Villages
$18.95 Read moreDrowned. Buried by sand. Decimated by plague. Plunged off a cliff. This is the extraordinary tale of Britain’s eerie and remarkable ghost towns and villages; shadowlands that once hummed with life. P
- Author: Green, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1324064498
- Language: English
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The Tudors: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe monarchs of the Tudor period are among some of the most well-known figures in British history. John Guy presents a compelling and fascinating exploration of the Tudors in the new edition of this V… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Guy, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: October 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0199674728
- Language: English
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Faith of Our Fathers: A History of True England
$19.95 Read moreThe Catholic Church has been a part of English history since the arrival of Christian missionaries to Roman Britain in the first century after Christ. England was evangelized in these early centuries
- Author: Pearce, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 16 2022
- ISBN10: 1621644359
- Language: English
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The Kings and Queens of England and Great Britain Colouring Book
$10.99 Add to cartFrom William the Conqueror and the Normans, through Henry VIII and the Tudors, and all the way up to Elizabeth II and the house of Windsor, this beautifully illustrated book covers all of the kings an
- Author: Stephen, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 114
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 8412232577
- Language: English
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Geography Is Destiny: Britain and the World: A 10,000-Year History
$22.00 Add to cartIn the wake of Brexit, Ian Morris chronicles the ten-thousand-year history of Britain’s relationship to Europe as it has changed in the context of a globalizing world.
When Britain voted to leave the- Author: Morris, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1250872197
- Language: English
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The English and Their History
$29.00 Add to cartNamed a Book of the Year by the Daily Telegraph, Times Literary Supplement, The Times, Spectator, and The Economist
The English first materialized as an idea, before they had a common ruler and before- Author: Tombs, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1040
- Publish Date: November 29 2016
- ISBN10: 1101873361
- Language: English
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The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-1940
$26.00 Read more“The best Churchill biography for] this generation . . . Even readers who know the basic story will find much that is new.”–Newsweek
In this powerful biography, the middle volume of William Manchest- Author: Manchester, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 800
- Publish Date: September 03 1989
- ISBN10: 0385313314
- Language: English
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Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain
$29.00 Read moreA best-selling journalist’s illuminating tour through the hidden legacies and modern realities of British empire that exposes how much of the present-day United Kingdom is actually rooted in its colon… [more below]
- Author: Sanghera, Sathnam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0593316673
- Language: English
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What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist-The Facts of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century England
$20.99 Add to cartA “delightful reader’s companion” (The New York Times) to the great nineteenth-century British novels of Austen, Dickens, Trollope, the Bront?, and more, this lively guide clarifies the sometimes biza
- Author: Pool, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 21, 1994
- ISBN10: 0671882368
- Language: English
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The Britannias: An Archipelago’s Tale
$35.00 Add to cartFrom Neolithic Orkney, Viking Shetland, and Druidical Anglesey to the joys and strangeness of modern Thanet, The Britannias explores the farthest reaches of Britain’s island topography, once known by
- Author: Albinia, Alice
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 0393608557
- Language: English
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Weird Walk: Wanderings and Wonderings Through the British Ritual Year
$28.95 Read moreThe first book by iconic zine creators and cultural phenomenon Weird Walk. This is a superbly designed guide to Britain’s strange and ancient places, to standing stones and pagan rituals, and to the p… [more below]
- Author: Walk, Weird
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1786786826
- Language: English
