Great Britain
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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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Dinner with Joseph Johnson: Books and Friendship in a Revolutionary Age
$75.00 Read moreA fascinating portrait of a radical age through the writers associated with a London publisher and bookseller–from William Wordsworth and Mary Wollstonecraft to Benjamin Franklin
Once a week, in late- Author: Hay, Daisy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 536
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0691243964
- Language: English
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Journal of the American Revolution 2022: Annual Volume
$40.00 Read moreThe year’s best articles from the leading on-line source of new research on the Revolution and Founding eras
The Journal of the American Revolution, Annual Volume 2022, presents the journal’s best hi- Author: Hagist, Don N.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: June 10 2022
- ISBN10: 1594163855
- Language: English
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Goin’ Home with the Rolling Stones ’66: Photographs by Gered Mankowitz
$35.00 Add to cartThe Stones at home and unplugged by official Stones photographer Gered Mankowitz
By the start of 1966, the Rolling Stones’ position as rock gods was established. They were making serious money and spla
- Author: Mankowitz, Gered
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: November 03 2020
- ISBN10: 1909526746
- Language: English
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We Were Rich and We Didn’t Know It: A Memoir of My Irish Boyhood
$17.99 Add to cart“You don’t have to be Irish to cherish this literary gift–just being human and curious and from a family will suffice.” –Malachy McCourt, New York Times bestselling author of A Monk Swimming
In the- Author: Phelan, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 03 2020
- ISBN10: 150119710X
- Language: English
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Victorian City
$39.00 Add to cartThe nineteenth century was a time of unprecedented change, and nowhere was this more apparent than London, which, in only a few decades, grew from a compact Regency town into the largest city the worl
- Author: Flanders, Judith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: July 14 2015
- ISBN10: 1250068266
- Language: English
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The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
$37.00 Add to cartFrom New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, which culminated in Captain James Cook’s death in Hawaii, and left a compl… [more below]
- Author: Sides, Hampton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0593863186
- Language: English
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Verse, Chorus, Monster!
$29.95 Read moreA long-awaited memoir of Blur co-founder, guitar legend and visual artist Graham Coxon.
Among the noise and clamour of the Britpop era, Blur co-founder Graham Coxon managed to carve out a niche to be- Author: Coxon, Graham
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0571322131
- Language: English
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The River War: An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan
$16.95 Read moreChurchill’s first major historical work is still considered one of his most riveting. — Library Journal
It’s a great read. — The Washington Examiner
A story of heroism and glory that rivals any work o… [more below]- Author: Churchill, Winston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 24 2006
- ISBN10: 0486447855
- Language: English
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Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt: The Story of a Daughter and a Mother in the Gilded Age
$24.99 Add to cart“A dual life story that reads as pleasurably as the best fiction but with all the intelligence of a first-rate biography. . . . completely absorbing.”–Amanda Foreman, author of Georgiana: Duchess of
- Series: P.S.
- Author: MacKenzie Stuart, Amanda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: January 09 2007
- ISBN10: 0060938250
- Language: English
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The Black Joke: The True Story of One Ship’s Battle Against the Slave Trade
$29.00 Read moreA groundbreaking history of the Black Joke, the most famous member of the British Royal Navy’s anti-slavery squadron, and the long fight to end the transatlantic slave trade.
The most feared ship in B- Author: Rooks, A. E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1982128267
- Language: English
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The Fascist Groove Thing: A History of Thatcher’s Britain in 21 Mixtapes
$22.95 Add to cartThis is the late 1970s and ’80s as explained through the urgent and still-relevant songs of the Clash, the Specials, the Au Pairs, the Style Council, the Pet Shop Boys, and nearly four hundred other b
- Author: Hodges, Hugh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1629638846
- Language: English
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The Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around the Coast of Great Britain
$15.95 Add to cartAfter eleven years as an American living in London, the renowned travel writer Paul Theroux set out to travel clockwise around the coast of Great Britain to find out what the British were really like.
- Author: Theroux, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0618658955
- 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 Read more‘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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Queen Consort (Formerly the Duchess): The Life of Queen Camilla
$20.99 Add to cart“Thoroughly well-written, this is a believable portrait of a woman who did not seek publicity or a royal role but instead to support the love of her life, Prince Charles.” — Library Journal (starred
- Author: Junor, Penny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0062471112
- Language: English
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The Real and the Romantic: English Art Between Two World Wars
$50.00 Add to cartThe twenty-first century has seen a surge of interest in English art of the interwar years. High-profile exhibitions have attracted record-breaking visitor numbers and challenged received opinion. In
- Author: Spalding, Frances
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 0500518645
- Language: English
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George V: Never a Dull Moment
$35.00 Read moreFrom one of the most beloved and distinguished historians of the British monarchy, here is a lively, intimately detailed biography of a long-overlooked king who reimagined the Crown in the aftermath o
- Author: Ridley, Jane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: January 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0062567497
- Language: English
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The Time Traveler’s Guide to Regency Britain: A Handbook for Visitors to 1789-1830
$29.95 Read moreA vivid and immersive history of Georgian England that gives its reader a firsthand experience of life as it was truly lived during the era of Jane Austen, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and the Duke of Wellin… [more below]
- Author: Mortimer, Ian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1643138812
- Language: English
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Disaster on the Spanish Main: The Tragic British-American Expedition to the West Indies During the War of Jenkins’ Ear
$29.95 Add to cart2023 Silver Medal in History from the Military Writers Society of America
Disaster on the Spanish Main unveils and illuminates an overlooked yet remarkable episode of European and American military hi- Author: Chapman, Craig S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 426
- Publish Date: October 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1640124314
- Language: English
