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Brand: Head of Zeus
A vivid double biography of two fearless early medieval queens. 'Brings the Merovingian empire to thrilling, bewildering, horrifying life' Helen Castor 'Restores two half-forgotten and much-mythologized queens to their proper place in medieval histo..
12.50£
Brand: Birlinn Ltd
The Stewart Dynasty in Scotland series aims to bring the rich political heritage of late medieval and early modern Scotland before as wide a reading public as possible, with specialist authors writing for the general reader as well as the student or..
38.44£
Brand: Princeton University Press
Why Europe is on the decline-and what can be done about itHas Europe's extraordinary postwar recovery limped to an end? It would seem so. The United Kingdom, Belgium, France, Italy, and former Soviet Bloc countries have experienced ethnic or religio..
26.86£
Brand: Penguin Books Ltd
In The English Jeremy Paxman sets out to find about the English. Not the British overall, not the Scots, not the Irish or Welsh, but the English. Why do they seem so unsure of who they are?Jeremy Paxman is to many the embodiment of Englishness yet e..
15.48£
Brand: Getty Publications
Much of what we know about the Etruscans came from their artifacts, which were scattered far outside of Etruria as artists and artisans came and went into this center of the arts, making, selling and taking their products through much of what is now..
48.58£
Brand: OUP Oxford
The European Union (EU) stands out as a fascinatingly unique political organisation. On the one hand, it has shown the potential for developing deep and wide-ranging cooperation between member states, going far beyond that found anywhere else in the..
11.60£
Brand: Yale University Press
A leading expert reexamines history to offer a stunningly original portrait of Hitler as a competent military commander and strategist After Germany's humiliating World War II defeat, numerous German generals published memoirs claiming that their co..
19.38£
Fans of Sherlock Holmes will delight to investigate Victorian England, a world where crimes large and small abound and where dark corners and well-lit drawing rooms alike hide villainy.Through the enduring eye of Sherlock Holmes, noted historian Jer..
26.26£
Brand: Gill Books
The Great Irish Famine of 1845-52 was the defining event in the history of modern Ireland. At least one million people died, and double that number fled the country within a decade. The Great Irish Famine surveys the history of this great tragedy th..
22.58£
Brand: Vintage Publishing
Robert Conquest's The Great Terror is the book that revealed the horrors of Stalin's regime to the West. This definitive fiftieth anniversary edition features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum.One of the most important books ever written about the So..
24.67£
Brand: Penguin Books Ltd
The Habsburgs have been described at one extreme as demons - responsible for a 'long history of atrocities'; and, at the other, as dodos - living fossils unable to adapt to the modern world. In reality, the flamboyant royal family appear, in many wa..
18.00£
Brand: Birlinn Ltd
The Hebrides of Scotland - around 500 diverse islands - form the north-western Atlantic fringe of Europe. This book surveys the cultural landscape of this dramatically beautiful, complex and conflicted area, with emphasis on what may be interpreted ..
42.00£
Brand: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
A fine research tool which has so many applications. SPECULUM ISBN: 9780859912136Publisher: Boydell & Brewer LtdImprint: D.S. BrewerPublished date: 22 Dec 1989DEWEY: 936.200992DEWEY edition: 19Language: English,LatinNumber of pages: 400Weight: 742gH..
97.73£
Brand: Gill Books
Here is the story of Ireland's Civil War in colour - a defining moment in Irish history brought to life for the first time in hand-coloured photographs. The events of 1922-1923 are revealed using photographs painstakingly hand-coloured by John O'Byr..
31.88£
The cottage is an indelible image of rural Ireland, a symbol of both poverty and romanticism. This fully illustrated book: Examines the evolution of the rural vernacular Irish cottage in the period 1860-1960, exploring the subject in a holistic co..
22.43£
Brand: Harvard Common Press
Thrust into power in the midst of the bloodiest conflict Europe had ever experienced, Amalia Elisabeth fought to save her country, her Calvinist church, and her children's inheritance. Tryntje Helfferich's vivid portrait reveals how this unique and ..
45.51£
Brand: Amberley Publishing
Jane Austen is one of England's greatest and best-loved novelists, whose works are still widely read and enjoyed nearly two hundred years after her death. Memories of Jane were increasingly recorded as her reputation and fame grew in the nineteenth ..
20.84£
Brand: Amberley Publishing
James Graham was a Scottish nobleman, poet and soldier who joined the Covenanters but sided with Charles I as the English Civil War progressed. Through a string of brilliant military victories Montrose won the civil war in Scotland until it was plai..
22.74£
Brand: Random House
Never before has there been a book devoted entirely to Anne Boleyn's fall. Now, Alison Weir's richly researched and impressively detailed portrait gives us the compelling story of the last days of history's most charismatic, controversial and tragic..
18.58£
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing
Beyond its housing estates and identikit high streets there is another Britain. This is the Britain of mist-drenched forests and unpredictable sea-frets: of wraith-like fog banks, druidic mistletoe and peculiar creatures that lurk, half-unseen, in t..
18.07£
Brand: Head of Zeus
The story of the Renaissance city and palace of Urbino, and the life of the extraordinary man who created it: Federico da Montefeltro. 'Painstakingly researched and yet unfailingly readable' Ross King 'An insight into one of Renaissance Italy's most..
15.88£ 15.92£
Brand: Vintage Publishing
'There are books that enlarge the mind, there are books that enrich the soul, but rarely comes a book so beautifully written and profound that it manages to do both' ELIF SHAFAK'...luminous, erudite...de Bellaigue has written a gripping account that..
25.38£
Brand: The History Press
The Little Book of Scotland is a funny, fast-paced, fact-packed compendium of the sort of frivolous, fantastic or simply strange information which no-one will want to be without. Discover the most unusual crimes and punishments, eccentric inhabitant..
15.20£
Brand: The History Press
Did You Know? Wales is the only nation in the United Kingdom not to be represented on the Union Jack. During the First World War, Cardiff was the largest coal port in the world. Guglielmo Marconi sent the first ever wireless communication over open ..
15.22£