Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500
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ÆLfred’s Britain
£9.99ÆLfred’s Britain
A history of the peoples of Britain, in the century and a half between the first Viking raids and the expulsion of the Vikings from York in 954.
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Anatomy of a Nation
£30.00Anatomy of a Nation
Britain is experiencing an acute trauma of identity, being pulled simultaneously towards its European, Atlantic, and wider heritages. One way to understand the dislocation and collapse in consensus is by looking to Britain’s rich history: its evolution, achievements, complexities, and tensions. ‘Anatomy of a Nation’ explores over 800,000 years of British identity by examining 50 documents that tell the story of what makes Britain unique. They are not Britain’s most famous documents, but each reveals something key about who the British have been down the ages. A few of the documents are well known. Most are not. The result is an anthology that offers a rich and unusual insight into the development of the British people and their sense of place in the world.
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Edward the Elder
£10.99Edward the Elder
New in paperback – The first biography of Alfred the Great’s son, the forgotten king who was crucial to uniting England.
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Empires of the Normans
£25.00Empires of the Normans
How did descendants of Viking marauders come to dominate Europe, the Mediterranean and the Middle East? It is a tale of ambitious adventures and fierce freebooters, of fortunes made and fortunes lost. The Normans made their influence felt across all of western Europe and the Mediterranean, from the British Isles to North Africa, and Lisbon to the Holy Land. In ‘Empires of the Normans’ we discover how they combined military might and political savvy with deeply held religious beliefs and a profound sense of their own destiny. For a century and a half, they remade Europe in their own image, and yet their heritage was quickly forgotten – until now.
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Going to Church in Medieval England
£20.00Going to Church in Medieval England
An engaging, richly illustrated account of parish churches and churchgoers in England, from the Anglo-Saxons to the mid-sixteenth century£20.00 -
Going to Church in Medieval England
£12.99Going to Church in Medieval England
An engaging, richly illustrated account of parish churches and churchgoers in England, from the Anglo-Saxons to the mid-sixteenth century
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Powers and Thrones
£10.99Powers 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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Queens of the Wild
£18.99Queens of the Wild
A concise history of the goddess-like figures who evade both Christian and pagan traditions, from the medieval period to the present day
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Soldiers
£25.00Soldiers
‘A gripping new collection from Max Hastings that puts you at the heart of the battle ? Compelling’ Daily Mail
‘An unmissable read’ Sunday Times
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The Anglo-Saxons
£10.99The Anglo-Saxons
Sixteen hundred years ago Britain left the Roman Empire and swiftly fell into ruin. Grand cities and luxurious villas were deserted and left to crumble, and civil society collapsed into chaos. Into this violent and unstable world came foreign invaders from across the sea, and established themselves as its new masters. The Anglo-Saxons traces the turbulent history of these people across the next six centuries. It explains how their earliest rulers fought relentlessly against each other for glory and supremacy, and then were almost destroyed by the onslaught of the vikings.
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The Battles of King Arthur
£20.00The Battles of King Arthur
The ninth century ‘Historia Brittonum’ is the first source that mentions Arthur and lists twelve battles, including the famous Badon Hill. Much ink has been spilt debating the identity and location of Arthur. This book will demonstrate that some of the battles can indeed be located with some confidence. Rather than fit a specific theory as to his identity the battles are placed in the fragmenting provincial, political and military context of the late fifth and early sixth century Britain.
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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 Kingdom of the Anglo-Saxons
£25.00The Kingdom of the Anglo-Saxons
A military and political history of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom, exploring England’s birth amidst the devastation and fury of the Danish invasions of the ninth century. Paul Hill provides insight into the English response to the new challenges of warfare in these years of turbulence and danger.
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Women of Power in Anglo-Saxon England
£14.99Women of Power in Anglo-Saxon England
From seventh-century Northumbria to eleventh-century Wessex and making extensive use of primary sources, ‘Women of Power in Anglo-Saxon England’ examines the lives of individual women in a way that has often been done for the Anglo-Saxon men but not for their wives, sisters, mothers and daughters. It tells their stories: those who ruled and schemed, the peace-weavers and the warrior women, the saints and the sinners. It explores, and restores, their reputations.
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