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After the Victorians 1901-1953 by A.N. Wilson
$25.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
When this book begins, in the reign of Edward VII, Great Britain commands the mightiest empire the world has ever seen. By the time it ends, with the Coronation of Elizabeth II, Britain has emerged victorious from a world war, but ruined as a world power. How did Britain's power and influence decline? T ...Show more
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold
$14.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. They came from Fleet Street, Knightsbridge, Wolverhampton, Sweden and Wales. They wrote ballads, ran coffee houses, lived on country estates, they breathed ink-dust from printing presses and escaped pe ...Show more
Henry VIII - The King and His Court by Alison Weir
$18.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
Henry VIII, renowned for his command of power and celebrated for his intellect, presided over one of the most magnificent-and dangerous-courts in Renaissance Europe. Never before has a detailed, personal biography of this charismatic monarch been set against the cultural, social, and political backgrou ...Show more
Medieval Britain by Boris Ford (Editor)
$15.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Series: The Cambridge Cultural History | Reading Level: very good
Mary Queen of Scots by Antonia Fraser
$14.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Series: Women in History Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'Ground-breaking ... One of the greatest international bestsellers of the post-war period' Andrew Roberts, Daily Telegraph 'Reads like an engrossing novel' Sunday Times An infant queen. A teenage widow. Beautiful, flamboyant Mary Queen of Scots had a formidable intellect but her political sense - forme ...Show more
News and the British World - The Emergence of an Imperial Press System 1876-1922 by Simon J. Potter
$20.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Series: Oxford Historical Monographs | Reading Level: good-very good
During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa were increasingly drawn together by an imperial press system. This is the first scholarly study of the development of that system. Revealed to contemporaries by the South African War, the ...Show more
Prophets Without Honour - A Background to Freud, Kafka, Einstein and Their World by Frederic V. Grunfeld
$16.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: good-very good
Damn His Blood: Being a True and Detailed History of the Most Barbarous and Inhumane Murder at Oddingley and the Quick and Awful Retribution by Peter Moore
$14.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
'Damn him!' he swore. 'There is no more harm in shooting him than a mad dog!' The brutal murder of the Reverend George Parker in the rural village of Oddingley on Midsummer's Day in 1806 - shot and beaten to death, his body set on fire and left smouldering in his own glebe field - gripped everyone from ...Show more
The Tyrannicide Brief : The story of the man who sent Charles I to the scaffold by Geoffrey Robertson
$12.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: good
Radical barrister, John Cooke had the skill and daring to prosecute a King who was above the law. He was the son of a poor Leicestershire farmer whose puritan conscience, political vision and love of civil liberty gave him the courage to bring the trial of Charles I to its dramatic conclusion: the Engli ...Show more
A War Imagined - The First World War and English Culture by Samuel Hynes
$14.00 NZD
Category: Military | Reading Level: good
Between the opulent Edwardian years and the 1920s, World War I opens like a gap in history, separating one world of beliefs and values from another, and changing not only the map of Europe, but the ways in which men and women imagined reality itself. England after the war was a different place: the arts ...Show more
The Last White Rose: Dynasty, Rebellion and Treason - The Secret Wars Against the Tudors by Desmond Seward
$12.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: good
This is a brilliant new interpretation of one of the most dramatic periods of British history. The Wars of the Roses didn't end at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485. Despite the death of Richard III and Henry VII's victory, it continued underground into the following century with plots, pretenders and subt ...Show more
The Faber Book of Conservatism by Kenneth Baker (ed.)
$14.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: good
Containing the essence of conservative principles, ideas and attitudes, this book includes speeches and writings as well as poems by Chaucer, Shakespeare, Kipling, Yeats, Eliot and Auden, with passages from Dickens, Trollope, Galsworthy, Conrad and Evelyn Waugh. All of these illustrate the many streams ...Show more