British & Irish history
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1066 and before all that
£10.991066 and before all that
A riveting account of the most consequential year in English history, marked by bloody conflict with invaders on all sides.
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A Duty of Care
£20.00A Duty of Care
The ‘duty of care’ which the state owes to its citizens is a phrase much used, but what has it actually meant in Britain historically? And what should it mean in the future, once the immediate Covid crisis has passed? In ‘A Duty of Care’, Peter Hennessy divides post-war British history into BC (before Corona) and AC (after Corona). He looks back to beginnings when, during wartime, Sir William Beveridge identified the ‘five giants’ on the road to recovery: want, disease, ignorance, squalor and idleness and laid the foundations for the modern welfare state. Hennessy examines the attack on the giants after the war and asks what the giants are now, and calls for ‘a new Beveridge’ to build a consensus for post-corona Britain with the ambition and on the scale that was achieved in the decades after the Second World War.
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A Little History of the Royal Academy
£8.95A Little History of the Royal Academy
Packed with illustrations, this brief introduction to the Academy’s 250-year story considers how its homes and some of its characters have made it what it is.
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A northern wind
£30.00A northern wind
How much can change in less than two and a half years? In the case of Britain in the Sixties, the answer is: almost everything. From the seismic coming of the Beatles to a sex scandal that rocked the Tory government to the arrival at No 10 of Harold Wilson, a prime minister utterly different from his Old Etonian predecessors. ‘A Northern Wind’ brings to vivid life the period between October 1962 and February 1965. Drawing upon an unparalleled array of diaries, newspapers and first-hand recollections, Kynaston’s masterful storytelling refreshes familiar events – the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Big Freeze, the assassination of JFK, the funeral of Winston Churchill – while revealing in all their variety the experiences of the people living through this history.
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A Sacred Island
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Aethelred II
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Agincourt
£20.00Agincourt
Agincourt is one of the most famous battles in English history, a defining part of the national myth. Mike Livingston presents a new interpretation of Henry V’s great victory. Mike Livingston goes back to the original sources, including the French battle plan that still survives today, to give a new interpretation, one that challenges the traditional site of the battlefield itself. It is a thrilling new history that not only rewrites the battle as we know it, but also provides fresh insights into the men who fought and died there.
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Alfred’s Wars
£22.99Alfred’s Wars
Collection of source material and crucial interpretations, offering a comprehensive guide to Anglo-Saxon warfare.
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Back to the Shops
£14.99Back to the Shops
Over time, shops have occupied radically different places in cultural arguments and everyday lives. Back to the Shops offers a set of short, often surprising chapters, each one a window into a different shop type or mode of selling.
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Battle for the island kingdom
£20.00Battle for the island kingdom
‘Battle for the Island Kingdom’ reveals the life-and-death struggle for power which changed the course of history. The six decades leading up to 1066 were defined by bloody wars and intrigues, in which three peoples vied for supremacy over the island kingdom. In this epic retelling, Don Hollway (The Last Viking) recounts the clashes of Vikings, Anglo-Saxons and Normans, their warlords and their conniving queens.
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Battle song
£9.99Battle song
Adam de Norton, a young squire devoted to the virtues of chivalry, longs only to be knighted, and to win back his father’s lands. Then a bloody hunting accident leaves him with a new master: the devilish Sir Robert de Dunstanville, who does not hesitate to use the blackest stratagems in pursuit of victory. Following Robert overseas, Adam is introduced to the ruthless world of the tournament, where knights compete for glory and riches, and his new master’s methods prove brutally effective. But as England plunges into violence, Robert and Adam must choose a side in a battle that will decide the fate of the kingdom.
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Battles of Conscience
£20.00Battles of Conscience
Accounts of the Second World War usually involve tales of bravery in battle, or stoicism on the home front, as the British public stood together against the Nazi threat. However, the war looks very different when seen through the eyes of the 60,000 conscientious objectors who refused to take up arms and whose stories, unlike those of the First World War, have been almost entirely forgotten. Tobias Kelly invites us to spend the war with five of these individuals.
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Black and British
£12.99Black and British
An updated edition with new material of the acclaimed re-examination of a shared history, telling the rich and revealing story of the long relationship between the British Isles and the people of Africa and the Caribbean.
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Black Gold
£25.00Black Gold
From the bestselling historian and acclaimed broadcaster
‘A rich social history ? Paxman’s book could hardly be more colourful, and I enjoyed each page enormously’ DOMINIC SANDBROOK, SUNDAY TIMES
‘Vividly told ? Paxman’s fine narrative powers are at their best’ THE TIMES
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Black Victorians
£12.99Black Victorians
Black Victorians shows how Black lives were visible, present and influential – not temporary presences but established and rooted; and how paradox and ambivalence characterised the Victorian view of race.
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Brilliant Isles
£8.99Brilliant Isles
A companion book to the landmark BBC television documentary series to be broadcast from April to June 2022, ‘Brilliant Isles’ tells the turbulent story of British creativity through 80 stunning works of art, music, literature and architecture.
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