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Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle by Fiona Carnarvon Review US“Almina was a woman of great charm and courage.” —New York Times Book Review “The more interesting and entertaining book is Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle. Written by the castle's... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Jane Austen's England by Lesley Adkins Publisher Comments A cultural snapshot of everyday life in the world of Jane Austen Jane Austen, arguably the greatest novelist of the English language, wrote brilliantly about the gentry and aristocracy of two centuries ago in her accounts of young women looking for love.... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Last Lion, Volume 2: Winston Spencer Churchill Alone 1932-1940 by William Manchester Publisher Comments Alone is the second volume in William Manchester's projected three-volume biography of Winston Churchill, The Last Lion, the first volume of which was critically acclaimed: Manchester has such control over a huge and moving narrative, such... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century by Ian Mortimer Publisher Comments The past is a foreign country. This is your guidebook. A time machine has just transported you back into the fourteenth century. What do you see? How do you dress? How do you earn a living and how much are you paid? What sort of food will you be offered... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A History of Britain: At the Edge of the World, 3500 B.C.-1603 A.D. by Simon Schama From Powells.com This first installment in the series from celebrated historian Simon Schama was both a colossal undertaking and a smashing success. In it, Schama (The Embarrassment of Riches, Rembrandt's Eyes) concisely lays out the themes and events that... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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1215: The Year of Magna Carta by Danny Danziger Publisher Comments Surveying a broad landscape through a narrow lens, 1215 sweeps readers back eight centuries in an absorbing portrait of life during a time of global upheaval, the ripples of which can still be felt today. At the center of this fascinating period is the... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Lion's Share: A Short History of British Imperialism 1850-1995 by Bernard Porter Publisher Comments 'As for Dr Porter's study, this reviewer found it one of the most captivating pieces he had read for a long time: his book abounds in wit, is studded with brief but telling phrases, and reveals an unerring eye for the relevant fact and apposite quotation'... (read more) List Price $99.75 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Virgin Queen: Elizabeth I, Genuis of the Golden Age by Christopher Hibbert Publisher Comments An intimate portrait of historys most fascinating monarch.... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Battle of Hastings by Jim Bradbury Publisher Comments This is the first time a military historian has attempted to make accessible to the general reader all that is known about the Battle of Hastings and to present as deatiled a reconstruction as is possible. Furthermore, the author places the battle in the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Boswell's Presumptuous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr. Johnson by Adam Sisman Publisher Comments A heroic, brilliantly detailed portrait of the biographer as artist. James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson is the most celebrated of all biographies, acknowledged as one of the greatest and most entertaining books in the English language. Yet... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Angry Brigade: A History of Britain's First Urban Guerilla Group by Gordon Carr Publisher Comments Based on extensive research, this book remains the essential study of the Angry Brigade, a group of urban guerillas, who, between 1970 and 1972, used guns and bombs on embassies of repressive regimes, police stations and army barracks... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Modern Wales a Concise History 2ND Edition by Gareth Elwyn Jones Publisher Comments This book surveys the history of Wales in modern times. It explores first a society which was dominated by the landed gentry then divides at the Industrial Revolution which transformed the face and fortune of Wales, as well as its place in British... (read more) List Price $52.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A History of Ancient Britain by Neil Oliver Synopsis Who were the first Britons? Famed archaeologist Neil Oliver answers that question and more, excavating the past to weave an epic story of half-a-million years, from the mists of prehistory to the departure of the Roman Empire in the fifth century AD. As... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover
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Women of the Raj: The Mothers, Wives, and Daughters of the British Empire in India by Margaret Macmillan Publisher Comments From the "New York Times" bestselling author of "Paris 1919" and "Nixon and Mao" comes this fascinating glimpse of women and Empire in 19th- and 20th-century India. Illustrated.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Mistress of the Elgin Marbles: A Biography of Mary Nisbet, Countess of Elgin by Susan Nagel Publisher Comments The remarkable Mary Nisbet was the Countess of Elgin in Romantic-era Scotland and the wife of the seventh Earl of Elgin. When Mary accompanied her husband to diplomatic duty in Turkey, she changed history. She helped bring the smallpox vaccine to the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Short History of England: The Glorious Story of a Rowdy Nation by Simon Jenkins Publisher Comments The heroes and villains, triumphs and disasters of English history are instantly familiarfrom the Norman Conquest to Henry VIII, Queen Victoria to the two world wars. But to understand their full significance we need to know the whole story. A... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $15.95 Used - Hardcover
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A History of Britain, Volume 3: The Fate of Empire 1776-2002 by Simon Schama Publisher Comments Simon Schama's dramatic, broad-ranging, and immensely readable epic history of Britain reaches its triumphant conclusion in this third and final volume, which stretches from the American Revolution to the present. The Fate of Empire tells the... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $23.00 Used - Hardcover
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Wait for Me!: Memoirs by Duchess Deborah Mitford Publisher Comments Deborah Mitford, Duchess of Devonshire, is the youngest of the famously witty brood of six daughters and one son that included the writers Jessica and Nancy, who wrote, when Deborah was born, “How disgusting of the poor darling to go and be a girl.... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Oxford illustrated history of Britain by Kenneth O Morgan Publisher Comments This beautifully illustrated volume tells the story of Britain and its peoples over two thousand years, from the coming of the Roman legions to the present day. Encompassing political, social, economic, and cultural developments throughout the British... (read more) List Price $26.50 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Very Short Introductions #19: Medieval Britain: A Very Short Introduction by John Gri Gillingham Publisher Comments A comprehensive and authoritative short guide, this Very Short Introduction to Medieval Britain covers the establishment of the Anglo-Norman monarchy in the early Middle Ages, through to England's failure to dominate the British Isles and France in the... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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