Elizabeth I by Anne Somerset
$14.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Series: Phoenix Giants | Reading Level: good-very good
Glitteringly detailed and engagingly written, the magisterial Elizabeth I brings to vivid life the golden age of sixteenth-century England and the uniquely fascinating monarch who presided over it. A woman of intellect and presence, Elizabeth was the object of extravagant adoration by her contemporaries ...Show more
Revolution and Counter-Revolution in England, Ireland and Scotland, 1658-1660 by Brian Manning
$14.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
Detailing the events between the death of Cromwell and the Restoration of the monarchy in Britain, historian Brian Manning, whose work has been highly praised by the late Christopher Hill, shows that the Restoration was by no means inevitable after Cromwell's death. He argues that there were great ideol ...Show more
The Gunpowder Plot - Terror & Faith in 1605 by Antonia Fraser
$15.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
George III and the Mad Business by Ida Macalpine; Richard Hunter
$14.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
This text is a combination of medical, psychiatric and historical detection showing the political, personal and cultural dilemmas that arose in the early days of psychiatry when the person who went out of his mind was none other than the king himself. It provides a study of what drives people mad and wh ...Show more
Churchill - His Life and Times 1874-1965 by Malcolm Thomson
$14.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Timpson's Towns of England and Wales - Oddities and Curiosities by John Timpson; Libby Turner (Illustrator)
$14.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
The Oxford Illustrated History of the British Monarchy by John Cannon; Ralph Griffiths
$35.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
Convicts & The Colonies - A study of penal transportation from great Britain & ireland to Australia & other parts of the British Empire by A G L Shaw
$25.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
Disraeli's Grand Tour - Benjamin Disraeli and the Holy Land, 1830-31 by Robert Blake
$12.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: good-very good
The Dreadful Judgement - The true story of the great fire of London by Neil Hanson
$12.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: good
Katherine the Queen - The remarkable life of Katherine Parr by Linda Porter
$14.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: good
Acclaimed historical biographer Linda Porter provides a vivid life of Katherine Parr revealing Henry VIII's last queen to have been a more human, complex and modern figure than has hitherto been realized. The general perception of Katherine Parr, the sixth and last wife of Henry VIII, is that she was a ...Show more
Greenwich - The Place Where Days Begin & End by Charles Jennings
$10.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good