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by Peter Hunter Blair  Publisher Comments This third edition of Peter Hunter Blair's classic account of Anglo-Saxon history includes a completely new introduction written by Simon Keynes. The first two chapters survey Anglo-Saxon England: its wars and invasions, people and kings. The remaining... (read more)  List Price $27.00 Your price $19.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Robert Lacey Publisher Comments Robert, Earl of Essex, captured Elizabeth I's heart--and almost cost her the throne. Their relationship courted disaster, eventually leading the flamboyant earl to the block. Though fabled in romantic legends, he's even far more interesting in real life.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Anna Paterson Publisher Comments Love of the native landscape is part of Scottish culture, but the economic demands of a devolved region may put greater strains than ever on already damaged natural resources. "Scotland's Landscape" reviews the role of the landscapes and cityscapes of... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price $14.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Molly Mcclain Publisher Comments The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort survived the tumultuous and uncertain decades that followed the English civil war by creating a remarkable political partnership. Together, they worked to restore their family's estates and political power base as well as... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Rowland Parker Publisher Comments The setting is the village of Foxton, in Cambridgeshire, and the common stream is the story of its development from the first traces of human settlement to the present day. The common stream is also the rivulet that runs through it.... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $4.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Colin Pilkington Publisher Comments This book provides a comprehensive and systematic introduction to the key political issues in Britain and their impact on the electoral and policy process. The author concentrates on those issues that have won and lost elections in recent years--taxation,... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
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by George Courtauld Publisher Comments This self-published sensation sold over 120,000 copies in one month in Great Britain. George Courtauld wrote it when he discovered one evening that his three young boys had history questions even he couldn't answer. So, he set out to create a simple book... (read more) List Price $10.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Nigel Saul Publisher Comments From the departure of the Roman legions, to the battle of Bosworth and the rise of the Tudors, the world of medieval England was one of profound diversity and change. Now, in The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval England, readers have an... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price $11.20 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Gyles Brandreth Publisher Comments Brandreth presents a unique and revealing portrait of a remarkable partnership, told with candor and authority, and illustrated with Prince Philip's family photographs and pictures from the Queen's royal collection.... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by John A Wagner Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 361-376) and index.... (read more) Your price $16.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert Lacey Publisher Comments - With insight, humor and fascinating detail, Robert Lacey brings brilliantly to life the stories that made England. From Ethelred the Unready to Richard the Lionheart, the Venerable Bede to Piers the Ploughman, this is, quite simply, history as history... (read more) List Price $36.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Judith Flanders Publisher Comments THE VICTORIAN AGE is much closer to us in time than we might believe. Yet at that time, in the most technologically advanced nation in the world, people buried meat in fresh earth to prevent mold forming and wrung sheets out in boiling water with their... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jerrold Packard Publisher Comments Five women who shared one of the most extraordinary and privileged sisterhoods of all time...Vicky, Alice, Helena, Louise, and Beatrice were historically unique sisters, born to a sovereign who ruled over a quarter of the earth's people and who gave her... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Roy Jenkins Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [953]-957) and index.... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Lytton Strachey Publisher Comments 1921. Strachey was one of the leading members of the Bloomsbury group. He is credited with having revolutionized the art of writing biography. His evident affection for his subject make this a landmark work. Contents: Antecedents; Childhood; Lord... (read more) List Price $37.95 Your price $19.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Claire Breay Synopsis "Magna Carta" is one of the most celebrated documents in English history and one of the most popular exhibits at The British Library. This work explores the context in which it was issued to discover what it really meant to its creators and how it came... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael Shea Publisher Comments As a distinguished diplomat and for ten years the Queen's widely respected Press Secretary, Michael Shea had a privileged insight into the lives of the truly famous and powerful. In this book, he interweaves personal experience, anecdote and reflection... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Kate Williams Publisher Comments A vivid biography of Emma Hamilton re-creates her dramatic rags-to-riches saga from her birth as the daughter of a blacksmith in a poor English mining town, through her colorful career as a mistress to one aristocrat and wife of another, to her notorious... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $17.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Daniel Hahn Synopsis When King Henry III was given three leopards by his brother-in-law, Frederick, the Holy Roman Emperor, he ordered them to be sent to the Tower of London. Over the next 600 years the Tower played host to thousands more exotic animals. Hahn explores the... (read more) Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Hilda Hollingswroth Synopsis Hilda Hollingsworth's story of the World War II evacuation of nearly 1 million children from London's big cities to so called Places of Greater safety just prior to the Nazi blitz offers a look at the Christian side of the holocaust. Hilda and her... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $5.60 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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