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If Walls Could Talk: An Intimate History of the Home by Lucy Worsley Publisher Comments Why did the flushing toilet take two centuries to catch on? Why did Samuel Pepys never give his mistresses an orgasm? Why did medieval people sleep sitting up? When were the two "dirty centuries"? Why did gas lighting cause Victorian ladies to... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover 
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With Wings Like Eagles: The Untold Story of the Battle of Britain by Michael Korda Publisher Comments In the summer of 1940, fewer than three thousand young fighter pilots of the Royal Air Force stood between Hitler and the victory that seemed almost within his grasp. In this superb history of three epic months that saved the world, Michael Korda... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Ten Men Dead : the Story of the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike (87 Edition) by David Beresford Publisher Comments In 1981 ten men starved themselves to death inside the walls of Long Kesh prison in Belfast. While a stunned world watched and distraught family members kept bedside vigils, one "soldier" after another slowly went to his death in an attempt to make... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Great Hunger: Ireland: 1845-1849 by Cecil Woodham Smith Synopsis An account of one of the worst disasters of all time - the Irish potato famine of the 1840`s, during which time more than a million people died. This book traces the suffering, courage, blundering stupidity and tragedy, whose effects on Ireland, the... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Isles: A History by Norman Davies Publisher Comments Written by one of the most brilliant and provocative historians at work today, The Isles is a revolutionary narrative history that takes a new perspective on the development of Britain and Ireland, looking at them not as self-contained islands, but as an... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $15.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Land Where I Belong: Fifty Years in Focus in the Highlands and Islands: Duncan MacPherson: Photographer and Pharmacist: 1882-1966 by Mary Carmichael Book News Annotation Carmichael, a former museum officer who curated a touring exhibition of Macpherson's work in 2003, collects selected b&w photographs by Duncan Macpherson, a pharmacist who lived in Kyle of Lochalsh in Scotland and recorded life in the Highlands. Along... (read more) List Price $32.00 Your price: $21.44 New - Trade Paper
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Prostitution, Race and Politics : Policing Venereal Disease in the British Empire (03 Edition) by Philippa Levine Publisher Comments From the 1850s until the 1880s, British Colonial administrators across the globe established wide-ranging legislation aimed principally at slowing the spread of venereal disease and the subsequent loss of soldier-power it brought about. Virtually every... (read more) List Price $40.95 Your price: $31.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Course of Irish History by T W Moody Publisher Comments Agreement and the withdrawal of British troops from regular patrols in Northern Ireland, this new edition of a perennial bestseller narrates and interprets Irish history as a whole. Designed and written to be popular and authoritative, critical and... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Crossing Paths or Sharing Tracks?: Future Directions in the Archaeological Study of Post-1550 Britain and Ireland (Society for Post Medieval Archaelogy Monograph) by Audrey Horning And Marilyn Palmer Publisher Comments The impetus for this volume lies in the expansion of interest in Post Medieval archaeology in university, commercial, and voluntary sectors. The study of Post Medieval archaeology is a relatively new discipline but, within archaeology as a whole, it... (read more) List Price $99.25 Your price: $63.65 New - Hardcover
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The Anglo Files: A Field Guide to the British by Sarah Lyall Publisher Comments Sarah Lyall, a reporter for the New York Times, moved to London in the mid-1990s and soon became known for her amusing and incisive dispatches on her adopted country. As she came to terms with its eccentric inhabitants (the English husband who never... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Inheritance: The Story of Knole and the Sackvilles by Robert Sackville West Publisher Comments Since its purchase in 1604 by Thomas Sackville, first Earl of Dorset, the house at Knole, Kent, has been inhabited by thirteen generations of a single aristocratic family, the Sackvilles. Here, drawing on a wealth of unpublished letters, archives, and... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Belfast Diary: War as a Way of Life by John Conroy Publisher Comments Resolution of intractable problems around the world requires understanding ordinary people as well as leaders. This street-level view of Northern Ireland provides the best explanation of the twenty-five-year conflict.... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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From Ecumenism to Community Relations: Inter-Church Relationships in Northern Ireland 1980-2005 by Maria Power Synopsis The main theme of this unique book centers upon ways in which the Protestant and Catholic Churches have worked together to promote peace and reconciliation and improve community relations in Northern Ireland. It examines the various methods and schemes... (read more) List Price $92.50 Your price: $37.50 New - Hardcover
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Crowded With Genius : the Scottish Enlightenment : Edinburgh's Moment of the Mind (03 Edition) by James Buchan Publisher Comments In the early eighteenth century, Edinburgh was a filthy backwater town synonymous with poverty and disease. Yet by century's end, it had become the marvel of modern Europe, home to the finest minds of the day and their breathtaking innovations in... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson Staff Pick Sometimes laugh-out-loud, sometimes poignant, Bill Bryson takes a trip to the villages of his beloved Britain.... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Churchills in Ireland 1660-1965: Connections and Controversies by Robert Mcnamara Book News Annotation Editor McNamara (international history, the U. of Ulster) gathers work by British, Irish, and American historians on one of the most important politico-military dynasties of Britain, and its relationship with Ireland. An introduction outlines the... (read more) List Price $98.95 Your price: $53.57 New - Hardcover
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The World of the Celts by Simon James Synopsis An introduction to the world of the Celts which looks at all aspects of their history. Individual sections chart their rise, their way of life from farming to feasting, their wars, their gods, and their crafstmanship. Also highlighted is the subject of... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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P. S. O'Hegarty (1879-1955): Sinn Fein Fenian (Anthem Nineteenth-Century) by Kieron Curtis Publisher Comments 'P. S. O'Hegarty (1879-1955)' provides a well-researched and engaging biography of a major figure within Irish nationalist politics. Standing at the epicentre of Ireland's revolution, this ardent separatist provided much original thinking on the central... (read more) List Price $99.00 Your price: $66.33 New - Hardcover
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The Archaeology of the Upper and Middle Thames: The First Foundations of Modern Society in the Thames Valley 1500 BC-Ad 50 by George And Mark Robinson Lambrick Publisher Comments In common with other volumes in the Thames Through Time series, this account of the Thames Valley in the millennium and a half before the Roman conquest seeks to examine change in human society from a thematic point of view. The geographical and... (read more) List Price $70.00 Your price: $46.90 New - Hardcover
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Green Flag : a History of Irish Nationalism Volumes I-III (72 Edition) by Robert Kee Publisher Comments Covering Irish history from the beginnings of Irish Nationalism through 1973, Robert Kee's treatment ranges from the Protestant Plantations through Wolfe Tone and the Great Famine to the founding of the Fenian Movement and the Irish Free State. His... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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