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Shakespeare's England: Life in Elizabethan & Jacobean Times by Ron Pritchard Publisher Comments This anthology paints a vivid picture of life during Shakespeare's time.... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Year Zero: An Inside View of the Scottish Parliament by Mike Watson Publisher Comments 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) List Price $24.00 Your price $4.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list History in Our Time by David Cannadine Publisher Comments 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) List Price $15.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list King Arthur Chivalry & Legend by Anne Berthelot Synopsis A text which explores the reasons and the history of why the legend of King Arthur still continues to appeal, including new approaches in modern fiction and film. If Arthur had existed, he would have lived in the Dark Ages and by the 12th century he was... (read more) Your price $2.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Churchill and America by Martin Gilbert Publisher Comments Named Churchill's official biographer in 1968, renowned historian Sir Martin Gilbert has amassed exclusive archival and personal documentation to explore the statesman's famed affinity for and relationship with the United States. Churchill and America... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Edward VI: The Lost King of England by Christophe Skidmore Publisher Comments The birth of Edward on October 12, 1537, ended his father’s twenty-seven-year wait for an heir. Nine years later, Edward was on the throne, a boy-king in a court where manipulation, treachery, and plotting were rife.   Henry VIII’s death... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $15.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Kindness of Sisters: Annabella Milbanke and the Destruction of the Byrons by David Crane About the Author David Crane teaches English literature in London. He is the author of Lord Byron’s Jackal: A Life of Edward John Trelawny. He lives in northwest Scotland.... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $3.74 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Burt's Letters: From the North of Scotland by Edmund Burt Publisher Comments In 1730, Captain Edmund Burt, an officer of the English army, was sent to Scotland to work as a contractor. He wrote regularly to an acquaintance in London about his experiences. These are vivid, often witty and satirical descriptions of the Highland and... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Letters Concerning the English Nation (Oxford World's Classics) by Voltaire Publisher Comments Inspired by Voltaire's two-year stay in England (1726-8), this is one of the key works of the Enlightenment. His controversial pronouncements on politics, philosophy, religion, and literature have placed the Letters among the great Augustan satires... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A Walk Across England: A Walk of 382 Miles in 11 Days from the West Coast to the East Coast of England by Richard Long Synopsis This text records Richard Long's 1995 journey on foot from Devon to Suffolk - a walk of 382 miles which took 11 days. In his regular work as an artist, Long uses basic elements from the natural world - stones, mud and water. His walk reveals his... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

Sign up for our Recently Arrived Used Books newsletter service and find great used titles in Great Britain on the very day they're added to our shelves. email address   Isolarion: A Different Oxford Journey by James Attlee Publisher Comments Through the centuries, people from all walks of life have heard the siren call of a pilgrimage, the lure to journey away from the familiar in search of understanding. But is a pilgrimage even possible these days for city-dwellers enmeshed in the... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Perfect Prince: The Mystery of Perkin Warbeck and His Quest for the Throne of England by Ann Wroe Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 531-589) and index.... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $6.25 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Yorkshire Encounters by Lin Watts Synopsis Yorkshire possesses within its boundaries an abundance of differing landscapes - each with their own identity. In this book Lin Watts has chosen seven of them and devotes one chapter to each. Together, these seven journeys encompass the areas of... (read more) Your price $5.75 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Snowdon: Public Figure, Private Man by Brian Hoey Publisher Comments When Antony Armstrong-Jones married Princess Margaret in Westminster Abbey on 6 May 1960, he became, at a stroke, a member of the Royal Family. He was also a trailblazer who prepared the way for other commoners such as Mark Phillips, Diana Spencer and... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $2.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Building Jerusalem: The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City by Tristram Hunt Publisher Comments Since "Hard Times, when Charles Dickens put the poverty-ridden factory towns of 19th-century England on trial, the Victorian city has been an object of derision: a byword for deprivation, criminality, and pollution. Yet, as Tristram Hunt argues in his... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Counting My Chickens--: And Other Home Thoughts by Deborah Devonshire Publisher Comments A unique window on an extraordinary life lived with tremendous zest, discrimination, and intelligence The Duchess of Devonshire is the youngest of the Mitford siblings, the famous brood that includes the writers Nancy and Jessica. Like them, she has... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $13.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Defending the Island by Norman Longmate Publisher Comments In a brilliantly imaginative blend of military, social, and diplomatic history, Norman Longmate retells Britain's island story from the perspective of its defenders in a narrative stretching from the Celtic tribes who fought against Caesar to the great... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self by Claire Tomalin Powells.com Staff Pick Samuel Pepys's diary gave readers a startlingly frank examination of a decade in his life. Claire Tomalin's fascinating biography chronicles Pepys's full life, and gives readers an understanding of his contemporaries, as well as insight into the history... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Revolution and Rebellion: State and Society in England in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries by J C D Clark Publisher Comments This depiction of the non-revolutionary nature of politics, political ideology and social change in 1600 (and 1688, 1715, 1745) refutes the Marxist interpretation of the 1640s as the period of the \'English Revolution.\'... (read more) Your price $22.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Elizabeth (Profiles in Power) by Christopher Haigh Publisher Comments Elizabeth I <BR>"A sustained reflection on the nature of Elizabethan power that will<BR>challenge historians for a long time to come" History Today <BR>The reign of Elizabeth I was one of the most important periods of expansion and... (read more) List Price $19.80 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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