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Scotland (Traveller's History of Scotland)
by Andrew Fisher
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Scotland's story is chronicled by one of the country's best historians. Andrew Fisher begins with Scotland's first people and their culture and ends with Devolution and the setting up of the first Scottish parliament since 1707. Maps. Illustrations.... ( read more)
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Defining the Common Good: Empire, Religion and Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Ideas in Context)
by Peter N Miller
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This book focuses on the political thought of late eighteenth-century Britain, discussing the crisis of the early modern state provoked by the American revolution and setting it in its European context.... ( read more)
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The Queen & Di: The Untold Story
by Ingrid Seward
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Revealing the real woman behind the fairy-tale princess, "The Queen & Di" is written by the editor of "Majesty" magazine. "A surprisingly fresh addition to the mountain of biographies of the late Princes of Wales. . . . Well-written, guilt-free treat.... ( read more)
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To Marry an English Lord: Or, How Anglomania Really Got Started
by Gail Maccoll
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AMERICAN HEIRESSES TAKE ON THE PEERAGE In 1895, nine American girls, including a Vanderbilt (railroads), LaRoche (pharmaceuticals), Rogers (oil) and Whitney (New York trolleys), married peers of the British realmoXamong them, a duke, an earl, three... ( read more)
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Kings and Queens of England and Scotland
by Plantagenet Fry
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A spectacularly illustrated guide to the royal histories of England
and Scotland as well as the parallel events in English history, e.g.
the Battle of Hastings, the Spanish Armada, the Civil War. A running
chronology covers the major events of each... ( read more)
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Boswells London Journal 1762 1763 2ND Edition
by James Boswell
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Praise for the earlier edition: "The journal is admirably edited and annotated."--W. H. Auden, New... ( read more)
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Mary Queen of Scots: Romance and Nation
by Jayne Lewis
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Examining visual, musical and literary works from the late Tudor period to the First World War, "Mary Queen of Scots" traces a nation's long romance with the queen it once rejected.
Considering both mainstream works (from Edmund Spenser to Sir Walter... ( read more)
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Mary Seacole: The Most Famous Black Woman of the Victorian Age
by Jane Robinson
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The first biography of the brave Afro-Caribbean woman who triumphed over the prejudices of the Victorian age.... ( read more)
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Shakespeare's England: Life in Elizabethan & Jacobean Times
by Ron Pritchard
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This anthology paints a vivid picture of life during Shakespeare's time.... ( read more)
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Singled Out: How Two Million British Women Survived Without Men After the First World War
by Virginia Nicholson
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Almost three-quarters of a million British soldiers lost their lives during the First World War, and many more were incapacitated by their wounds, leaving behind a generation of women who, raised to see marriage as "the crown and joy of woman's life... ( read more)
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Crowded With Genius : the Scottish Enlightenment : Edinburgh's Moment of the Mind (03 Edition)
by James Buchan
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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)
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Mary Tudor: The Spanish Tudor
by H F M Prescott
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Notorious for her persecution of Protestants, Queen Mary I has been vilified by generations of historians as Bloody Mary. But this award-winning biography offers a more humane and measured perspective on the life of this tormented woman. With sympathy... ( read more)
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Year Zero: An Inside View of the Scottish Parliament
by Mike Watson
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As a member of the Scottish Parliament, Mike Watson is uniquely situated to offer insight into its workings in its first year of operation. In this book, he asks whether the Parliament has delivered what it promised the people of Scotland and explores... ( read more)
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Politics Without Democracy 1815 1914 2ND Edition
by Michael Bentley
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Politics Without Democracyprovides an entertaining and highly original view of how Britain made a peaceful transition to representative democracy - a change characterized in other countries by convulsive and bloody civil strife.... ( read more)
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History in Our Time
by David Cannadine
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Why did the royal family become dysfunctional? How did the House of Windsor amass so much wealth? In this entertaining and thought-provoking collection David Cannadine answers these questions and more, offering dazzling brief overviews of topics ranging... ( read more)
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Dandyism
by Jules Daurevilly
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This dazzling portrait of Beau Brommell as dandy extraordinaire has been a classic in the literature of the modernsit self for more than a century.... ( read more)
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Jennie
by Ralph Martin
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An internationally acclaimed "New York Times" bestseller, this biography of Jennie Churchill--the mother of Winston Churchill--tells how this Brooklyn-born beauty became the most captivating and desired woman of her age, and raised a son who would go on... ( read more)
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The Queen: A Biography of Elizabeth II
by Ben Pimlott
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This acclaimed biography outlines the life of the fifth-longest reigning monarch in British history and places her in the context of the changing role of the monarchy and shifting stance of Britain and its Commonwealth in the international arena in this... ( read more)
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The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family
by Mary S Lovell
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"[L]ively and engrossing...the group biography also does a commendable job of separating the myths that fiction created from thesometimes more mundane realities of the Mitfords' activities and relationships." Publishers... ( read more)
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On Royalty: A Very Polite Inquiry Into Some Strangely Related Families
by Jeremy Paxman
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The notable characteristic of the royal families of Europe is that they have so very little of anything remotely resembling true power. Increasingly, they tend towards the condition of pipsqueak principalities like Liechtenstein and Monaco—fancy... ( read more)
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