Queen of Our Times - The Life of Elizabeth II by Robert Hardman
$20.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine
The definitive new biography of Her Majesty The Queen by one of Britain's leading royal authorities. With original insights from those who know her best, unseen papers, new interviews with world leaders and a fresh perspective on the longest reign in British history, Robert Hardman tells the full life s ...Show more
A History of the Bailiwick of Guernsey - The Islanders' Story by L James Marr
$25.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
London - The Biography by Peter Ackroyd
$18.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress by James Morris
$20.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: good-very good
Depicting the rise and decline of the British Empire, this text tells the story from Queen Victoria's accession in 1837 to her diamond jubilee in 1897.
In Memory of England - A Novelist's view of history by Peter Vansittart
$16.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
This is a description of England by the novelist Peter Vansittart, beginning with the mythical land of Albion, of Jack the Giant Killer, Arthur and Merlin. This idealized view of England informs his account of the more conventional heroes and villains, oppressions and advances in this island.
The Victorian World Picture by David Newsome
$14.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
How did the Victorians come to grips with the vastly changing world in which they found themselves? This magnificent book, from the Whitbread Prize-winning author David Newsome, lays bare the Victorian mindset. âe~David Newsomeâe(tm)s Victorian World Pictureâe¦ attempts to plait together all the sights, ...Show more
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples by Winston Churchill
$150.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
The History Today Companion to British History by Juliet Gardiner (Editor); Neil Wenborn (Editor)
$25.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
Henry VIII - A European Court in England by David Starkey (ed.)
$18.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
Offering a reconstruction of Henry's Palace at Greenwich, this book also provides an evocation of the splendour and richness of incident of his reign. It was at Greenwich that Henry was born in 1491, spent two-thirds of his life and married the first of his six wives, Catherine of Aragon. Elizabeth, the ...Show more
A Monarchy Transformed - Britain 1603-1714 by Mark Kishlansky
$12.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
This sixth volume of the nine-volume work narrates the tempestuous political events of the Stuart dynasty. It charts the reigns of the six monarchs, and the course of two revolutions as well as religious upheavals that shook the beliefs of the 17th-century Britons to the core.