Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500
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Alfred the Great
£3.99Alfred the Great
A concise account of the place of Alfred, King of the West Saxons, in English history.
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City of Fortune
£10.99City of Fortune
‘City of Fortune’ tells the story of the Venetian ascent from lagoon dwellers to the greatest power in the Mediterranean – an epic five hundred year voyage that encompassed crusade and trade, plague, sea battles and colonial adventure. In Venice, the path to empire unfolded in a series of extraordinary contests.
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Conquest and Colonisation
£13.50Conquest and Colonisation
This edition investigates the Norman Conquest from a number of perspectives, examining the dynamics of colonization & exploring the effect of the Norman settlement in a number of key areas, including government, military organisation & the Church.
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Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Hearts
£20.00Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Hearts
Elizabeth Stuart is one the most misrepresented – and underestimated – figures of the seventeenth century. This biography reveals the impact that she had on both England and Europe.
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Lincoln Castle Revealed
£25.00Lincoln Castle Revealed
Accessible, lavishly illustrated history of Lincoln Castle, from the Roman period through to the 20th century incorporating the results of numerous archaeological excavations.
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Powers and Thrones
£25.00Powers and Thrones
Dan Jones’s epic new history tells nothing less than the story of how the world we know today came to be built.
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The Burgundians
£30.00The Burgundians
The story of the Burgundian elite and its remarkable court and culture, a medieval and early modern epic of dynastic struggle, artistic achievement and eventual extinction.
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The Century of Calamity
£20.00The Century of Calamity
The dramatic story of a tumultuous period of English history – a time when kings fell, families were split and a way of life was lost forever. Packed with flawed characters and momentous events, this book recounts a thrilling century of betrayal, loyalty and lost causes.
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The Fall of Christendom
£20.00The Fall of Christendom
The dramatic Muslim victory over the Crusaders that finally ended the Christian dream of ruling the Middle East.
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The First Kingdom
£9.99The First Kingdom
An investigation of the obscure centuries that followed the departure of the Romans from Britain.
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The Venetian Empire
£9.99The Venetian Empire
For six centuries, the Republic of Venice was a maritime empire, its sovereign power extending throughout much of the eastern Mediterranean. This book reconstructs the whole of this glittering dominion in the form of a sea-voyage, travelling along the historic Venetian trade routes from Venice itself to Greece, Crete and Cyprus.
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The Wordhord
£12.99The Wordhord
Old English is the language we think we know until we actually see it. Used in England over a thousand years ago, it is rich with words that haven’t changed (word), others that are unrecognisable (neorxnawang – paradise) and some that are curiously mystifying (gafol-fisc – tax-fish). In this beautiful little book, Hana Videen has gathered these gems together to create a glorious trove and illuminate the lives, beliefs and habits of our linguistic ancestors. We discover a world where choking on a bit of bread might prove your guilt, where fiend-ship was as likely as friend-ship, and you might grow up to be a laughter-smith. These are the magical roots of our own language: you’ll never see English in the same way again.
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The Year 1000
£9.99The Year 1000
When did globalization begin? Most observers have settled on 1492, the year Columbus discovered America. But as celebrated Yale professor Valerie Hansen shows, it was the year 1000, when for the first time new trade routes linked the entire globe, so an object could in theory circumnavigate the world. This was the ‘big bang’ of globalization, which ushered in a new era of exploration and trade, and which paved the way for Europeans to dominate after Columbus reached America. Drawing on a wide range of new historical sources and cutting-edge archaeology, Hansen shows, for example, that the Maya began to trade with the native peoples of modern New Mexico from traces of theobromine – the chemical signature of chocolate – and that frozen textiles found in Greenland contain hairs from animals that could only have come from North America.
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Two Lives of Charlemagne
£9.99Two Lives of Charlemagne
Two fascinating biographical accounts of the great medieval ruler, translated by David Ganz and Lewis Thorpe.
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Vikings
£12.99Vikings
New B-format paperback – A comprehensive new history of the infamous Vikings. Those men and women raided and traded their way into history whilst at the same time helping to build new nations in Scandinavia and beyond.
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William II
£10.99William II
William II (1087-1100), or William Rufus, will always be most famous for his death: killed by an arrow while out hunting, perhaps through accident or perhaps murder. But, as John Gillingham makes clear in this book, as the son and successor to William the Conqueror it was William Rufus who had to establish permanent Norman rule. A ruthless, irascible man, he frequently argued acrimoniously with his older brother Robert over their father’s inheritance – but he also handed out effective justice, leaving as his legacy one of the most extraordinary of all medieval buildings, Westminster Hall.
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