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Pariah: Misfortunes of the Britsh Kingdom
Pariah: Misfortunes of the Britsh Kingdom
by Tom Nairn
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Pariah is a retrospect of Tony Blair's recent New Labour plebiscite, so far the most absurd 'election' of the 21st century. After a much-vaunted Constitutional Revolution, overwhelming victory was obtained on less than a quarter of the electoral register,... (read more)

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England Under the Tudors 3RD Edition
England Under the Tudors 3RD Edition
by G R Elton
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First published in 1955, "England Under the Tudors" has remained a classic text on Tudor history. This fully revised third edition contains an expanded bibliography, taking into account the latest research in sixteenth-century British history.... (read more)

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Edward the Black Prince: Power in Medieval Europe (Medieval World)
Edward the Black Prince: Power in Medieval Europe (Medieval World)
by David Green
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This is much more than a fine biography. It is a wide-ranging and deeply imaginative portrait of fourteenth-century aristocratic society, based on intimate knowledge of both the primary and secondary sources: a fitting culmination to years of research... (read more)

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Urban Survival the Essential Guide To Street C
Urban Survival the Essential Guide To Street C
by Julian Johnson
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This title takes a ficticious nerdy character, Woodrow, and charts his journey of self-discovery from a country-side, public-school backbround, to the mean street of London. It shows how to survive in the "hood", with information on phone texting... (read more)

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Sir John Hawkins: Queen Elizabeth's Slave Trader
Sir John Hawkins: Queen Elizabeth's Slave Trader
by Harry Kelsey
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 371-388) and index.... (read more)

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Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain
by Karen Obrien
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During the long eighteenth century, ideas of society and of social progress were first fully investigated. These investigations took place in the contexts of economic, theological, historical and literary writings which paid unprecedented attention to... (read more)

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Curious Scotland: Tales from a Hidden History
Curious Scotland: Tales from a Hidden History
by George Rosie
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Since he was a schoolboy in Edinburgh, George Rosie has been driven by powerful curiosity about his country. This lively mindset has established him as one of Scotland's most inquisitive writers and journalists. Here, he unearths and illuminates many... (read more)

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Diana an Amazing Life: The People Cover Stories 1981-1997
Diana an Amazing Life: The People Cover Stories 1981-1997
by People Magazine
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For the first time, on the tenth anniversary of her death, the magazine that covered the Princess better than anyone else opens its archives to tell Dianas remarkable story as it happened: all the key stories and covers, in order, with original pictures... (read more)

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The Life of Elizabeth I (American)
The Life of Elizabeth I (American)
by Alison Weir
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Perhaps the most influential sovereign England has ever known, Queen Elizabeth I reigned prosperously for more than forty years, from 1558 until her death in 1603. During her rule, however, she remained an extremely private person, keeping her own... (read more)

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Last Days of Glory: The Death of Queen Victoria
Last Days of Glory: The Death of Queen Victoria
by Tony Rennell
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Through the prism of Queen Victoria's last 23 days, from her final journey to Osborne House to her funeral, Tony Rennell presents a series of resonant and absorbing snapshots of a nation coping with change, balancing nostalgia with the Victorian Age and... (read more)

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Poll Tax Rebellion
Poll Tax Rebellion
by Danny Burns
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The gripping inside story of the biggest mass movement in British history, which at its peak involved over 17 million people. Using a combination of photos, text, and graphics, and drawing from the voices of activists and non-payers, it describes the... (read more)

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Scotlands Empire 1600 To 1815
Scotlands Empire 1600 To 1815
by T M Devine
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The Scots had an enormous impact on the global development of the British Empire as emigrants, soldiers, merchants and colonial administrators. This text explores in depth many key themes including the slave trade, the Scots on the colonial frontier... (read more)

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Family Sex & Marriage in England 1500
Family Sex & Marriage in England 1500
by Lawrence Stone
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"The best book of the history of the family in any nation or period."(--Lawrence Stone,Chronicle of Higher Education)... (read more)

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The Rise of English Nationalism
The Rise of English Nationalism
by Gerald Newman
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The Rise of English Nationalism is a tour de force reinterpretation of English history and culture in the era of King George III. Where historians have often seen England as having been bypassed by the phenomenom of nationalism, Newman, equally at home... (read more)

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Religion and Society in Twentieth-Century Britain (Religion, Politics, and Society in Britain)
Religion and Society in Twentieth-Century Britain (Religion, Politics, and Society in Britain)
by Callum G Brown
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Religion, Politics and Society in Britain Series Editor: Keith Robbins Throughout the history of Britain religion has been a potent and influential force, permeating social and political life at many different levels. Yet it has often been written... (read more)

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A History of the House of Lords
A History of the House of Lords
by Lord Longford
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Never before has the House of Lords been more threatened. The hereditary principle certainly hangs in the balance, but nobody can know precisely what the future holds. What is beyond doubt, though, is that hundreds of years of tradition are at stake... (read more)

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Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford
Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford
by Jessica Mitford
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A luminous portrait of an inimitable woman and her remarkable world. In a profile of J.K. Rowling, The Daily Telegraph (UK) said, "Her favorite drink is gin and tonic, her least favorite food, trip. Her heroine is Jessica Mitford." "Decca... (read more)

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The Bodyguard's Story: Diana, the Crash, and the Sole Survivor
The Bodyguard's Story: Diana, the Crash, and the Sole Survivor
by Trevor Rees Jones
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Where were you when Diana died?<P>For Trevor Rees-Jones the answer is simple: he was in the same hospital as Diana, fighting for his own life a few rooms away. As bodyguard to her companion Dodi Fayed, he was with the couple when, hounded by... (read more)

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Appeasement and Rearmament: Britain, 1936-1939
Appeasement and Rearmament: Britain, 1936-1939
by James P. Levy
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Standing against conventional wisdom, historian James P. Levy reevaluates Britain's twin policies of appeasement and rearmament in the late 1930s. By carefully examining the political and economic environment of the times, Levy argues that Neville... (read more)

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Alfred the Great: The King and His England
Alfred the Great: The King and His England
by E S Duckett
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Filled with drama and action, here is the story of the ninth-century life and times of Alfredwarrior, conqueror, lawmaker, scholar, and the only king whom England has ever called "The Great." Based on up-to-date information on ninth-century history... (read more)

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