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by Jennifer Laing  Publisher Comments This is a readable outline of Romano-British art - its origins, influences and developments - which can also be used as an introduction to the subject of Roman Britain. The close relationship between the political and economic history of the province and... (read more)  List Price $35.95 Your price $9.60 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies 
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by James Muirden Publisher Comments This cheerful poem has been written To tell the history of Britain; For People puzzled by the Past— If this means YOU, here’s help at last! From Celts to Churchill, it relates (With all the most Important Dates) Our country’s convoluted... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Timothy Heppell Book News Annotation Heppell (British politics, U. of Huddersfield, Britain) explains why the predictions of perpetual rule by the Conservative Party after its unprecedented fourth consecutive General Election victory in April 1992 proved wrong. Between then and its worst... (read more) List Price $119.95 Your price $90.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by H Spencer Churchill Publisher Comments Every history buff wishes that walls could talk. In this first book ever written about Blenheim and the Churchills by a family member, Lady Henrietta Spencer-Churchill explores the relationship between one of history's most important families and its... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price $31.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Ian Lloyd Publisher Comments Published to coincide with William's 21st birthday, and featuring 200 color photos, this handsome volume offers a unique insight into the life of England's charismatic young prince.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $4.99 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by John Charmley Publisher Comments The New York Times Book Review called John Charmley's previous book on Winston Churchill "entertaining, informative, and infuriating." With equally impressive scholarship, eloquence, and wit, Charmley now turns to the Anglo-American "special relationship"... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by A Lloyd Moote Publisher Comments In the winter of 1664-65, a bitter cold descended on London in the days before Christmas. Above the city, an unusually bright comet traced an arc in the sky, exciting much comment and portending horrible windes and tempests. And in the remote, squalid... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $16.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Melanie Phillips Publisher Comments The suicide bombings carried out in London in 2005 by British Muslims revealed an enormous fifth column of Islamist terrorists and their sympathizers. Under the noses of British intelligence, London has become the European hub for the promotion... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Martin Gilbert Publisher Comments Distilled from years of meticulous research and documentation, filled with material unavailable when the earliest books of the official biography's eight volumes went to press, Churchill is a brilliant marriage of the hard facts of the public life and... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Richard Wood Publisher Comments Sensitive treatments recall the trials and triumphs of two remarkable -- and vastly different -- role models in easy-to-read photo essays. Time lines and chronologies summarize highlights for young researchers. Young readers can follow Princess Diana... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price $2.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jeremy Black Publisher Comments From the earliest pre-history to the present day, Jeremy Black's vigorous and fascinating narrative explores the rich historical influence of the British Isles and the varied stages through which they have passed to achieve their present identity. Giving... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Lauren Kassell Publisher Comments Simon Forman (1552-1611) is one of London's most infamous astrologers. Whilst he was consulted thousands of times a year for medical and other questions he stood apart from the medical elite as he boldly asserted medical ideas that were at odds with most... (read more) List Price $143.00 Your price $69.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Stephen Porter Synopsis The Great Fire of London was the greatest catastrophe of its kind in Europe, with 13,200 houses and 87 churches destroyed. Stephen Porter examines the events leading up to and during the fire as well as the proposals to rebuild the city.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Tom Pocock Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-248) and index.... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Jim Tomlinson Publisher Comments Surveying governmental industrial policy in Britain, James Tomlinson explores the perennial concern of government to improve the efficiency and the competitiveness of British industry. Organized chronologically, the book focuses on the formation of... (read more) List Price $116.00 Your price $20.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Brian Thompson Publisher Comments A portrait of a true Victorian eccentric--an outrageous, flirtatious, unstoppable woman who survived a slew of misfortunes and wild adventures, most of them of her own making. Born to fanatically snobbish parents on Princess Victoria's eighteenth... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $2.49 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by W L Warren Publisher Comments King John is a study not only of a king and his political misfortunes, but also of a period--a period of profound changes in society at large, and hence one of unprecedented stressed. John's personality, so distorted by chronicles such as Roger of... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by David Cannadine Publisher Comments An intriguing look at ways in which perceptions of a glorious past have continued to haunt the British present, often crushing efforts to shake them off. The book centers on Churchill, a titanic figure whose influence spanned the century... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Press Association Publisher Comments Britain's experience of conflict and dissent in the 20th century has been dramatic in its scope and impact. This book draws on the historic archive of the Press Association to recall some of the country's defining moments of revolt and war. The... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price $4.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Mary Robertson Publisher Comments Before she became the Princess of Wales and captured the hearts of millions around the globe, she was Lady Diana Spencer -- a shy, young nanny employed with the Robertsons, an American family living in London who would forge a lifelong friendship with... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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