Category - History
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The Long War for Britannia, 367-664: Arthur and the History of Post-Roman Britain
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /"For those interested in the history and myths from the Dark Ages, then this book will provide some fresh new ideas that are worth reading about....
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The Discovery of Guiana
PaperbackOriginal price $6.35 - Original price $6.35Original price $6.35$10.99$10.99 - $10.99Current price $10.99| /The Discovery of Guiana is a book by Sir Walter Raleigh, who wrote this account one year after his 1595 journey to "Guiana", the Venezuelan regio...
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The Mysterious Case of the Mary Celeste: 150 Years of Myth and Mystique
HardcoverOriginal price $28.95Original price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /An annotated anthology of the 150 years’ legacy of fact, fiction, and ‘fake news’ surrounding the mysterious abandonment of the brigantine Mary C...
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The Love Letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn & Other Correspondence & Documents Concerning the King and His Wives
HardcoverOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /The king and his wives-letters and documents History is full of notable figures, but far fewer in number are those who have become iconic. An ind...
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'Ten Pound Poms': A life history of British postwar emigration to Australia
PaperbackOriginal price $23.95 - Original price $23.95Original price $23.95$35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /More than a million Britons emigrated to Australia between the 1940s and 1970s. They were the famous 'ten pound Poms' and this is their story. Il...
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Celtic Christianity and the First Christian Kings in Britain: From Saint Patrick and St. Columba, to King Ethelbert and King Alfred
PaperbackOriginal price $12.99 - Original price $12.99Original price $12.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Updated in 2017. Celtic Christianity is as exciting as it is intriguing, from the first native Christians in the British Isles, through to the gr...
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Scottish History: A Concise Overview of the History of Scotland From Start to End
PaperbackOriginal price $13.95 - Original price $13.95Original price $13.95$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /Explore the History of Scotland From Start to End... Are you interested in the romance and drama of Scottish history? Are tales of Robert the B...
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Scotland: A Very Short Introduction
PaperbackOriginal price $11.95 - Original price $11.95Original price $11.95$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /Scotland's past is too often seen through a film of myths and misconceptions. In this Very Short Introduction, Rab Houston explores the key theme...
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The Last Enemy
HardcoverOriginal price $26.99Original price $26.99 - Original price $26.99Original price $26.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Willy Poe is a newcomer to Michigan's Upper Peninsula -- a shy, lonely young lawyer yearning to meet the girl who will call him William. On a lo...
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From Boer War to World War: Tactical Reform of the British Army, 1902-1914
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /The British Expeditionary Force at the start of World War I was tiny by the standards of the other belligerent powers. Yet, when deployed to Fran...
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Pax Britannica: Climax of an Empire
PaperbackOriginal price $40.00Original price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00Current price $38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /This centerpiece of the trilogy captures the British at the height of their vigor and self-satisfaction, imposing their traditions and tastes, th...
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Storied Ground: Landscape and the Shaping of English National Identity
HardcoverOriginal price $37.00Original price $37.00 - Original price $37.00Original price $37.00Current price $30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /People have always attached meaning to the landscape that surrounds them. In Storied Ground Paul Readman uncovers why landscape matters so much t...
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Atlantic Celts: Ancient People Of Modern Invention
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /The Celtic peoples hold a fundamental place in the British national conscious-ness. In this book Simon James surveys ancient and modern ideas of ...
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Behind Closed Doors
HardcoverOriginal price $36.99Original price $36.99 - Original price $36.99Original price $36.99Current price $30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /With a keen eye for the juicy anecdote, Thévoz tells the fascinating and entertaining story of the rise, decline and resurgence of London's priva...
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Britain's War: Into Battle, 1937-1941
HardcoverOriginal price $37.99Original price $37.99 - Original price $37.99Original price $37.99Current price $35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /Great Britain's refusal to yield to Nazi Germany in the Second World War remains one of the greatest survival stories of modern times. Commemorat...
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The Honourable Company
PaperbackOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /During 200 years the East India Company grew from a loose association of Elizabethan tradesmen into the grandest society of merchants in the univ...
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A Guide Through the District of the Lakes in the North of England;With a Description of the Scenery, For the Use of Tourists and Residents
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Born in the Lake District and having spent much of his life there, Wordsworth-together with his compatriots Robert Southey and Samuel Taylor Cole...
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1215: The Year of Magna Carta
PaperbackOriginal price $20.99Original price $20.99 - Original price $20.99Original price $20.99Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /From bestselling author Danny Danziger and medieval expert John Gillingham comes a vivid look at the signing of the Magna Carta and how this even...
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Northern Ireland: A Very Short Introduction
PaperbackOriginal price $11.95 - Original price $11.95Original price $11.95$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /From the Plantation of Ulster in the seventeenth century to the entry into peace talks in the late twentieth century the Northern Irish people ha...
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Never Give In!: The Best of Winston Churchill's Speeches
PaperbackOriginal price $23.99Original price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Winston Churchill was the most eloquent and expressive statesman of his time. It was as an orator that Churchill became most completely alive, an...
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Grand Improvisation: America Confronts the British Superpower, 1945-1957
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /A new understanding of the post World War II era, showing what occurred when the British Empire wouldn’t step aside for the rising American super...
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The Human Factor: Gorbachev, Reagan, and Thatcher, and the End of the Cold War
HardcoverOriginal price $31.99Original price $31.99 - Original price $31.99Original price $31.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /In this penetrating analysis of the role of political leadership in the Cold War's ending, Archie Brown shows why the popular view that Western e...
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Paper Bullets: Two Women Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /“A Nazi resistance story like none you’ve ever heard or read.” —Hampton Sides, author of Ghost Soldiers and On Desperate Ground"Every page is gri...
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Picts: Scourge of Rome, Rulers of the North
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Shortlisted for the EAA Book Prize and the Current Archaeology Book of the Year AwardThe Picts have fascinated for centuries. They emerged c. ad ...
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