British Isles Archives

British Isles

One of the last volumes in the Penguin Monarchs series.

Henry VII (Penguin Monarchs)

Sean Cunningham

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The amiable duo have now traversed the length and breadth of Britain - from Pembrokeshire to Kent, Scotland to Cornwall.

British Gardens

Monty Don

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In 1850, before the railway came to Cornwall, Collins set out on foot from Plymouth to Land's End with his artist friend Henry Brandling, whose illustrations are included in this nice new ed... read more

Wilkie Collins on Cornwall

Wilkie Collins

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The poet's 1913 walk from Buckinghamshire to Suffolk.

The Icknield Way

Edward Thomas

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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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Switching from macro to micro, Stewart has assembled his articles published in his Cumbrian constituency's local paper. The tensions in a bucolic rural landscape...

Middleland: Dispatches From the Borders

Rory Stewart

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A generous, humorous portrait of a CofE community looking for a resident rector and dealing with ripples of grief, suspicion and anxiety in the aftermath of the death of a member of the Chur... read more

Love Divine: A Novella

Ysenda Maxtone Graham

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A wonderful - and serious - compendium by the British folklorist, scholar and author.

Briggs’s Dictionary of Fairies: Banshees, Boggarts and Other Fol ...

Katharine Briggs

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A hymn to the extraordinary in the roadside ordinary, in praise of an endangered British species.

226 Garages and Service Stations

Philip Butler

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Cutlers, coopers, watchmakers etc, from the author of The World According to Colour: A Cultural History.

Craftland: A Journey Through Britain’s Lost Arts and Vanishing T ...

James Fox

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The relationship between landscape and land use explored with subtlety and enthusiasm by the late architectural historian, Cannon by name and also Canon Historian for Bristol Cathedral. A wi... read more

The Stones of Britain: A History of Britain Through Its Geology ...

Jon Cannon

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Before the publisher released the sub-title, we believed that finally, after several years hanging out with different birds in various damp and uncomfortable places, this well-loved nature-w... read more

Night Life: Walking Britain’s wild landscapes after dark ...

John Lewis-Stempel

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An engaging tour of vanished worlds in Britain and Ireland: besides Doggerland and Dunwich, there's a surreal Victorian amusement park on the Isle of Wight, Bronze Age settlements in the Sci... read more

Lost to the Sea: A Journey Round the Edges of Britain and Ireland ...

Lisa Woollett

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An engaging tour of vanished worlds in Britain and Ireland: besides Doggerland and Dunwich, there's a surreal Victorian amusement park on the Isle of Wight, Bronze Age settlements in the Sci... read more

Lost to the Sea: A Journey Around the Edges of Britain and Ireland ...

Lisa Woollett

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Eloquently addresses the brave lifeboat crews and volunteers who help the refugees in the small boats crisis. This short book began ‘with a feeling of deep disquiet’ following a perio... read more

We Came By Sea: Stories of a Greater Britain

Horatio Clare

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A splendid illustrated book on this Palladian wonder, with scholarly essays on its artworks and library too.

Holkham: An English Treasure House and Its Landscape ...

Leo Schmidt

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When everyone walked: the network of footpaths and bridleways that connected rural communities and criss-crossed the land unchanged for centuries until the dominance of the internal combusti... read more

The English Path

Kim Taplin

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The over-grazed, debt-ridden farm is on Bodmin Moor, with a vestige of temperate rainforest still remaining. Merlin H-T, a veteran of the war in Afghanistan and son of the renowned explorer,... read more

Our Oaken Bones: Reviving a Family, a Farm and Britain’s Ancient ...

Merlin Hanbury-Tenison

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This beautiful garden includes the fabulous early C18th wrought iron arbour known as 'the Birdcage' as well as a grotto, fountains, statues and tree-lined all?es, making it the finest surivi... read more

Melbourne Hall Garden

Jodie Jones

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A first biography of the late Ronald Blythe, author of Akenfield and many other books and essays. His friends included John and Christine Nash (in whose house he came to live), Cedric Morris... read more

Blythe Spirit: The Remarkable Life of Ronald Blythe ...

Ian Collins

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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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A re-issue of MH's six-month journey around the Western Isles, illustrated with her watercolours. She lived on the island of Coll for many years, and is the author of the charming Katie Mora... read more

An Eye on the Hebrides: An Illustrated Journey

Mairi Hedderwick

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A beautifully produced book on an unusual subject: a single street in Hull... Alec Gill spent 15 years photographing the working-class neighbourhood as its fishing trade dwindled and housing... read more

The Alec Gill Hessle Road photo archive: 1971-1987

Alec Gill

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The stone circles of Britain and Ireland: their location in a landscapes, construction, composition, chronology. An excellent illustrated guide, by region, with maps.

Stone Circles: A Field Guide

Colin Richards

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The early bird at Radio 3 has written a fine book about that mysterious peninsula.

Trelawny’s Cornwall: A Journey through Western Lands ...

Petroc Trelawny

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Walking the Bones of Britain: A 3 Billion Year Journey from the Outer ...

Christopher Somerville

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The story of one of the most tumultuous moments in British history, which analyses how James I's rule was haunted by Elizabethan political norms and values.

From Tudor to Stuart: The Regime Change from Elizabeth I to James I ...

Susan Doran

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A deft account of how Churchill's vigorous networking in the US worked not only for his own benefit (speaking fees) but also to Britain's benefit.

Churchill’s American Network: Winston Churchill and the Forging ...

Cita Stelzer

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This rich historical analysis argues that the Enlightenment was a failure on its own terms. Terror, revolution, corruption, gross commercial excess and Empire prevailed instead of Reason.

The End of Enlightenment: Empire, Commerce, Crisis

Richard Whatmore

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Harris' wondrously eclectic mind has previously produced Weatherland and Romantic Moderns. Here she weaves stories of the Sussex landscape of her youth, with threads of Blake, Milton, Consta... read more

The Rising Down: Lives in a Sussex Landscape

Alexandra Harris

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A facsimile of his last intact sketchbook, with an accompanying poem by Tracy Emin - whose hometown, Margate, Turner returned to throughout his life.

Turner’s Last Sketchbook

J. M. W. Turner

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Orme is back with another piece of medieval social history. Here he traces the development of 62 English cathedrals and describes the life and activities that occurred within their walls.

The History of England’s Cathedrals

Nicholas Orme

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Neolithic, pagan, Christian and moderns ways.

On This Holy Island: A Modern Pilgrimage Across Britain ...

Oliver Smith

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A memoir of inner and outer pilgrimage that begins with PS quitting her travel-writing job, leaving her partner and cutting short her Camino de Santiago to return home to North Wales, and th... read more

Wayfarer: Love, loss and life on Britain’s ancient paths ...

Phoebe Smith

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Reflections by a poet and a painter on the River Dodder, which runs from the Wicklow Mountains down to Dublin. Signed by both.

Winter Heliotrope

Amanda Bell

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Prominent in both Thatcher and Major's cabinets, the author is a shrewd observer of the corridors of power, with their surprising chicanes and U-turns.

The Best of Enemies: Diaries 1980-1997

Norman Fowler

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