London - A Social History by Roy Porter
$25.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
This dazzling and yet intimate book is the first modern one-volume history of London from Roman times to the present. An extraordinary city, London grew from a backwater in the Classical age into an important medieval city, a significant Renaissance urban center, and a modern colossus. Roy Porter paints ...Show more
The Victorian City - Everyday Life in Dickens' London by Judith Flanders
$20.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: good-very good
The nineteenth century was a time of unprecedented transformation, and nowhere was this more apparent than on the streets of London. In only a few decades, London grew from a Regency town to the biggest city the world had ever seen, with more than 6.5 million people and railways, street-lighting and new ...Show more
A Dictionary of British Place-names by A D Mills
$14.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
This revised edition of the Dictionary of British Place-Names includes over 17,000 engaging and informative entries, tracing the development of the featured place-names from earliest times to the present day. Included place-names range from the familiar to the obscure, among them 'Beer', 'Findlater', 'B ...Show more
The Gentleman's Daughter - Women's Lives in Georgian England by Amanda Vickery
$30.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
Letters to Vicky - The correspondence between Queen Victoria and her daughter Victoria, Empress of Germany 1858-1901
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
George VI by Sarah Bradford
$12.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
The definitive biography of George VI, the hero of The King's Speech George VI reigned through taxing times. Acceding to the throne upon his brother's abdication, he was immediately confronted with the turmoil in European politics leading up to the Second World War, then the War itself, followed by a pe ...Show more
After The Victorians - The World our Parents Knew by A. N. Wilson
$14.00 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
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
A War Imagined - The First World War and English Culture by Samuel Hynes
$12.00 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
Albion - The Origins of the English Imagination by Peter Ackroyd
$25.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: near fine
This title covers the whole of English cultural history from its roots in the Anglo-Saxon period, through the centuries, to numerous examples from contemporary times. Explorations include: forgery and plagerism; ruins and antiquarianism; the English love of miniatures; and drag acts and eccentrics.
One Hundred Summers by Vanessa Branson
$16.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine
Taking the reader on a journey from the dying embers of Edwardian England, through the trauma of two world wars, the hedonism of London in the 1980s and 'Cool Britannia' in the 1990s right up to the present day, One Hundred Summers is a portrait of a century as it was experienced by one extraordinary fa ...Show more
To Catch a King - Charles II's Great Escape by Charles Spencer
$10.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
How did the most wanted man in the country outwit the greatest manhunt in British history?In January 1649, King Charles I was beheaded in London outside his palace of Whitehall and Britain became a republic. When his eldest son, Charles, returned in 1651 to fight for his throne, he was crushed by the mi ...Show more