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Nine Days in May: The General Strike of 1926

Jonathan Schneer

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Appointed Archbishop of Canterbury in 1396, Arundel was exiled by Richard II and then - with Bolingbroke - assisted in his overthrow; he was a clever and politically astute administrator.

Archbishop, Chancellor, Kingmaker: A Life of Thomas Arundel ...

Chris Given-Wilson

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One of the last volumes in the Penguin Monarchs series.

Henry VII (Penguin Monarchs)

Sean Cunningham

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The illegitimate son of a ploughman in NE Scotland, MacDonald's rise was certainly remarkable. He has been widely disparaged by both sides of the political spectrum. Reid argues that he was ... read more

The Cancelled Prime Minister: The Extraordinary Rise and Tragic Fall o ...

Walter Reid

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After the Romans left, England split into a shrinking Celtic northwest and an expanding Germanic southeast. A fascinating early history of the country, drawing on ancient literature and new ... read more

How England Began: From Roman Britain to the Anglo-Saxons ...

Nicholas J. Higham

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As in his books on Culloden and Waterloo, O'Keeffe is interested in the consequences of the battle as well as its course.

Trafalgar: Battle & Aftermath

Paul O'Keeffe

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Considered controversial, Benson's superb diaries were sealed for one hundred years at his death. This selection shows the novelist, poet, don and Eton master to have been an acute and waspi... read more

The Benson Diary

A.C. Benson

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A biography of the restless, dazzling and dubious Sir George Downing: Pepys was his clerk; Milton wrote his letters; Wren was his surveyor (in the eponymous street).

Turncoat: Roundhead to Royalist, the Double Life of Cromwell’s S ...

Dennis Sewell

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From Carlos the Jackal and Baader-Meinhof to the Iranian Revolution and Israel's Raid on Entebbe in which the commander Yoni Netanyahu (brother of Benjamin) was killed. Burke, an eminent war... read more

The Revolutionists: The Story of the Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970s ...

Jason Burke

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Pivotal moments that illuminate our history, avoiding the canon in favour of intimate glimpses of private experience.

A History of England in 25 Poems

Catherine Clarke

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A rich and scholarly undertaking: AD has gone looking for unconventional lives across the period and found them in abundance. His portraits are rounded, unexpected and humane.

Queer Georgians

Anthony Delaney

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We anticipate the index being the most closely examined part of this thorough book.

Heirs and Graces: A History of the Modern British Aristocracy ...

Eleanor Doughty

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Double, double toil and trouble at the house of Dr. Dee et al.

The Years of the Wizard: The Strange History and Home Life of Renaissa ...

Rachel Morris

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Dizzying encounters and immense historical arcs: a hugely entertaining look (often from a bicycle) at our peculiar, scattered island nations, by the author of The Discovery of France.

The Discovery of Britain: An Accidental History

Graham Robb

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The author is of course the distinguished Law Lord who presided over the Supreme Court's carefully-argued judgement that Johnson's prorogation of Parliament in 2016 was an impossibility unde... read more

With the Law on Our Side: How the Law Works For Everyone and How We Ca ...

Brenda Hale

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Doing the hokey-cokey with Europe - and who danced with whom - by the astute political observer.

Between the Waves: The Hidden History of a Very British Revolution 194 ...

Tom McTague

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Uses paintings, sculpture, prints, tapestries, embroideries, clothes, jewels and household objects to conjure a broad spectrum of Tudor life.

The Story of Tudor Art: A History of Tudor England Through its Art and ...

Christina J. Faraday

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A fine study, bringing together architectural, urban and social history.

The Modern British City 1945-2000

Simon Gunn

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Positively ghoulish tales of Britain's storied royal abodes, by several authors including Alexia Casale and Joseph Coelho. Ages 8-12.

Historic Royal Palaces: Ghosts in the Walls

Various

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First edition, in fine condition with a fine dust jacket: almost as new. The scandal arising from the case between Sir Charles Mordaunt and his wife Harriett Moncrieffe, which involved an ap... read more

The Warwickshire Scandal

Elizabeth Hamilton

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First edition. Near-fine copy in fine dust jacket. Top and bottom edges of page block somewhat shelfworn.

The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy

David Cannadine

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The pre-eminent biographer of the late Queen has had plenty of time to prepare - and update - this.

Charles III: New King. New Court. The Inside Story

Robert Hardman

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Daughter of F.E. Smith and married to Lord Camrose, Pamela Berry was at the centre of British life for 50 years. This biography of one of the 'Bright Young Things', who became a redoubtable ... read more

Lady Pamela Berry: Passion, Politics and Power

Harriet Cullen

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A new study of this brilliant Renaissance man, so influential on the history of mainland Europe as well as England.

Thomas More: A Life

Joanne Paul

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Thrilling narrative history embracing the Hundred Years War, the Black Death and - with plenty of turmoil and skulduggery - the end of the Plantaganets.

Sceptred Isle: A New History of the Fourteenth Century ...

Helen Carr

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A collection of C19th photographic portraits of Black African, Afro-Caribbean, South Asian and mixed heritage people. This feat of curation brings together plate negatives, stereoscopic imag... read more

Black Chronicles: Photography, Race and Difference in Victorian Britai ...

Renee Mussai

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The parallel paths of Sir Bulstrode Whitelocke and Edward Hyde (later Lord Clarendon). Friends in youth indeed, they found themselves on opposing sides in the Civil War. Dinshaw has a C17th ... read more

Friends in Youth: Choosing Sides in the English Civil War ...

Minoo Dinshaw

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The huge army that landed in East Anglia in 845CE became a constant presence for the next fifteen years - unlike previous raids that took place only in the summer months. New archaeological... read more

Life in the Viking Great Army: Raiders, Traders, and Settlers ...

Dawn M. Hadley

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Pevsner, Gombrich, Weidenfeld... the list of 1930s' émigrés who profoundly enriched British culture is extraordinary and very long. OH argues that we forget our proud tradition of asylum a... read more

The Alienation Effect: How Central European Emigres Transformed the Br ...

Owen Hatherley

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Favourite and lover of James I and beloved friend of his son; husband, father, art collector, tireless statesman... The cost of his pearl-spilling outfit when he went to meet Henrietta Maria... read more

The Scapegoat: The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham ...

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

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The second volume of Hutton's excellent biography, this covers the period from the capture of Charles I to the expulsion of the Long Parliament. (Volume 1 - The Making of Oliver Cromwell is ... read more

Oliver Cromwell: Commander in Chief

Ronald Hutton

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Selected journalism, lectures and recollections from the veteran historian and commentator.

The Back of an Envelope: A Life in Writing

Peter Hennessy

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One married the Tsar, another wed Kaiser Wilhelm's brother, another a Russian Grand Duke, the fourth a Battenberg. Their lives were overshadowed (and some cut short) by the Russian Revolutio... read more

The Lives and Deaths of the Princesses of Hesse: The curious destinies ...

Frances Welch

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Despite having birthright, Richard was deluded, bitter, and inspired fear. His cousin Henry - born just three months apart - was regarded as a chivalric hero and inspired loyalty. A triumph ... read more

The Eagle and the Hart: The Tragedy of Richard II and Henry IV ...

Helen Castor

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A brisk chronological survey, showing what it felt like to live through those turbulent years.

Republic: Britain’s Revolutionary Decade, 1649-1660 ...

Alice Hunt

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The Safeguard of the Sea: 660-1649 came out in 1997. Vol 2 was The Command of the Ocean: 1649-1815 (2004). Here is the culmination to an astonishing, sustained work of scholarship.

The Price of Victory: A Naval History of Britain: 1814-1945 ...

N.A.M. Rodger

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