The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England together with an historical view of the affairs of Ireland by Edward Earl of Clarendon
$450.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
Roman Britain - Life at the Edge of Empire by Richard Hobbs; Ralph Jackson
$14.00 NZD
Category: Ancient History | Reading Level: very good
This is an accessible, highly illustrated introduction to the history, society, culture and art of Britain when it was a province of the Roman Empire. This is a readable and attractive presentation of Britain's Roman heritage. This is a high-profile subject, as 2010 is the 1600th anniversary of the end ...Show more
Lines on the Underground - An Anthology for Underground London Travellers by Dorothy Meade (Compiled by); Tatiana Wolff (Compiled by)
$10.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: good
Scotland and the Americas 1600-1800 by David Armitage et al.
$30.00 NZD
Category: Books About Books | Reading Level: very good
Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress Volume 1 by Jan Morris
$12.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
Jan Morris tells the epic story of the rise of the British Empire, from the accession of Queen Victoria in 1837 to her Diamond Jubilee in 1897. In this celebrated masterwork she vividly evokes every aspect of the 'great adventure', ranging from ships and botanical gardens to hill stations and sugar plan ...Show more
Imperial Warriors - Britain and the Gurkhas by Tony Gould
$12.00 NZD
Category: Military | Reading Level: good-very good
Gurkhas have been recruited into the British and Indian armies since 1814-15 the year the East India Company went to war with Nepal and this study examines the many legends that have grown up around them. It puts the story of the expansion and contraction of Britain's Gurkha force into the context of Ne ...Show more
Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire by Janmes Morris
$20.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: good-very good
The Pax Britannica trilogy is Jan Morris's masterly telling of the British Empire from the accession of Queen Victoria to the death of Winston Churchill. It is a towering achievement: informative, accessible, entertaining and written with all her usual bravura. Pax Britannica, the second volume, is a sn ...Show more
What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew - From Fox Hunting to Whist - the Facts of Daily Life in 19th Century British Life by Daniel Pool
$15.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
Dozens of short essays provides a panoramic view of British life during the nineteenth century, including information on social niceties, definitions of British phrases, and details about sex, government, law, money, and social institutions.
Perfect Mechanics - Instrument Makers at the Royal Society of London in the Eighteenth Century by Richard Sorrenson
$15.00 NZD
Category: Science | Reading Level: very good
Perfect Mechanics captures the excitement of Georgian "big science" and the starring roles played by London instrument makers in the scientific expeditions to measure the shape of the earth, to find and map unknown lands in the Pacific, and to explore the heavens. Yet these indispensible practitioners o ...Show more
Illustrated Daughters of Britannia - The public and private worlds of the diplomatic wife by Katie Hickman
$15.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: good-very good
An authoritative, entertaining and moving account of the courageous and unusual women who have been the backbone of the foreign service. Accompanying their spouses in the most extraordinary, tough, sometimes terrifying circumstances, the women written about in this book struggled to bring their civ ...Show more
Christian England Volume 2 - from the reformation to the 18th century by David L Edwards
$20.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
Chronicle of Youth - Great War Diary 1913-1917 by Vera Brittain
$14.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
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