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Iona: The Other Island
$23.99 Add to cartIn this exciting and beautiful spiritual evocation of Iona, we find inspiring photography, brand new poems, tales recounting legends, local stories and Celtic passages from Adamnan – but there is much
- Author: Steven, Kenneth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 25 2014
- ISBN10: 0861538307
- Language: English
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Londoners: The Days and Nights of London Now–As Told by Those Who Love It, Hate It, Live It, Left It, and Long for It
$19.99 Add to cart“A rich and exuberant kaleidoscopic portrait of a great, messy, noisy, daunting, inspiring, maddening, enthralling, constantly shifting Rorschach test of a place. . . . Delightful. . . . In Taylor’s p
- Author: Taylor, Craig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 05 2013
- ISBN10: 0062005863
- Language: English
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The Industrial Revolution: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe Industrial Revolution was a pivotal point in British history that occurred between the mid-eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries and led to far reaching transformations of society. With the adve… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Allen, Robert C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0198706782
- Language: English
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Ecclesiastical History of the English People
$15.00 Add to cart‘With God’s help, I, Bede … have assembled these facts about the history of the Church in Britain … from the traditions of our forebears, and from my own personal knowledge’
Written in AD 731, Bed- Series: Classics S
- Author: Bede
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 01 1991
- ISBN10: 014044565X
- Language: English
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History of the Barbarians: A Captivating Guide to the Celts, Vandals, Gallic Wars, Sarmatians and Scythians, Goths, Attila the Hun, and Anglo-Sax
$29.99 Add to cartIf you want to discover the captivating history of the Barbarians, then keep reading…
Seven captivating manuscripts in one book:
- Celts: A Captivating Guide to Ancient Celtic History and Mythology,
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 506
- Publish Date: December 02 2019
- ISBN10: 1647480558
- Language: English
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Imagining England’s Past: Inspiration, Enchantment, Obsession
$34.95 Add to cartEngland has long built its sense of self on its past. What does it mean for Geoffrey of Monmouth to call forth King Arthur from the post-Roman fog, for William Morris to resurrect the skills of the me
- Author: Owens, Susan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 0500024332
- Language: English
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The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium: An Englishman’s World
$18.99 Add to cartAs the Shadow of the Millennium Descended Across England and Christendom, it Seemed as if the World was About to End. Actually, it was Only the Beginning… Welcome to the Year 1000. This is What Life… [more below]
- Author: Lacey, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0316511579
- Language: English
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The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake: 1577-1580
$24.00 Add to cartWhen Sir Francis Drake returned to England in 1580, many questions concerning his momentous voyage were left unanswered–his journals were impounded and his men were forbidden, on pain of death, to di… [more below]
- Author: Bawlf, Samuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 25 2004
- ISBN10: 0142004596
- Language: English
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Celtic History: An Enthralling Overview of the Celts
$26.99 Add to cartHave you ever wondered about the ancient Celts of Ireland and what made them who they were? Did you know that Halloween originated with them, that they invented the harp, or that they wielded swords r
- Author: Wellman, Billy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 138
- Publish Date: June 09 2023
- ISBN10: 9798887651743
- Language: English
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Never Give In!: The Best of Winston Churchill’s Speeches
$23.99 Add to cartWinston Churchill was the most eloquent and expressive statesman of his time. It was as an orator that Churchill became most completely alive, and it was through his oratory that his words made their … [more below]
- Author: Churchill, Winston S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 558
- Publish Date: December 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0786888709
- Language: English
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Great Tales from English History: A Treasury of True Stories about the Extraordinary People–Knights and Knaves, Rebels and Heroes, Queens and Commone
$22.99 Add to cartWith insight, humor and fascinating detail, Lacey brings brilliantly to life the stories that made England — from Ethelred the Unready to Richard the Lionheart, the Venerable Bede to Piers the Plough… [more below]
- Author: Lacey, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: November 12 2007
- ISBN10: 0316067571
- Language: English
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The Scotch-Irish: A Social History
$26.00 Add to cartDispelling much of what he terms the ‘mythology’ of the Scotch-Irish, James Leyburn provides an absorbing account of their heritage. He discusses their life in Scotland, when the essentials of their c… [more below]
- Author: Leyburn, James G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 377
- Publish Date: August 30 1989
- ISBN10: 0807842591
- Language: English
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The History of the Kings of Britain
$19.00 Add to cartCompleted in 1136, The History of the Kings of Britain traces the story of the realm from its supposed foundation by Brutus to the coming of the Saxons some two thousand years later. Vividly portrayin… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Geoffrey of Monmouth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 27 1977
- ISBN10: 0140441700
- Language: English
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The Making of the English Working Class
$27.00 Add to cartA seminal text on the history of the working class by one of the most important intellectuals of the twentieth century.
During the formative years of the Industrial Revolution, English workers and ar- Author: Thompson, E. P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: February 12 1966
- ISBN10: 0394703227
- Language: English
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The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain
$44.99 Read moreThis beautifully illustrated volume tells the story of Britain and its people over two thousand years, from the coming of the Roman legions to the present day.
Edited by esteemed historian Kenneth O.- Series: Oxford Illustrated Histories
- Author: Morgan, Kenneth O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: April 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0199544751
- Language: English
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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
$24.00 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
$28.00 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
