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by Alison Weir  Publisher Comments Handsome, accomplished, and charming, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, staked his claim to the English throne by marrying Mary Stuart, who herself claimed to be the Queen of England. It was not long before Mary discovered that her new husband was interested... (read more)  List Price $18.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Joseph M Levine Publisher Comments The quarrel between the ancients and the moderns was an old dispute when it was resumed with special ferocity in the later seventeenth century as writers and artists, their friends and patrons, debated how far to imitate the classics and how far to risk... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price $11.60 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Amanda Foreman Publisher Comments The winner of Britain's prestigious Whitbread Prize and a bestseller there for months, this wonderfully readable biography offers a rich, rollicking picture of late-eighteenth-century British aristocracy and the intimate story of a woman who for a time... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $4.80 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by James Mcdermott Publisher Comments Adventurous and willful, the swashbuckling Martin Frobisher was both a brave sea-commander who served Elizabeth I with distinction and a privateer who pursued his own interests. This entertaining biography provides a complete picture of Frobisher's... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Flora Fraser Publisher Comments With 16 pages of Full-color photographs.... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by John Cannon Publisher Comments The rich pageant of Britain's history emerges nowhere more colorfully than in the story of its kings and queens. This spectacular book offers the most authoritative account of the British monarchy ever published for the general reader. With over 400... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price $17.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Leslie Zines Publisher Comments This book is concerned with changes and proposed changes to the governmental structures of the four oldest members of the Commonwealth.... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price $10.60 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Jacqueline Simpson Publisher Comments With 1250 entries ranging from dragons to Mother Goose, May Day to Michaelmas, this enchanting dictionary unfurls the colorful history behind the holidays, customs, legends, and superstitious beliefs of England. Ever wonder why we kiss under the... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price $5.25 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Claire Tomalin Publisher Comments Winner of the 2002 Whitbread Biography Prize. Published to coincide with the 300th anniversary of Samuel Pepys' death. Superb hardback review coverage - which will be echoed in paperback - particularly with regard to Whitbread success. "A fabulously... (read more) Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Isaac Kramnick Book News Annotation A study of the political culture of Augustan Britain, much admired upon its original publication in 1968 (Harvard U. Press). Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)... (read more) List Price $23.50 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Anna Marie Smith Publisher Comments A ground-breaking study of racism and homophobia in late twentieth-century British politics.... (read more) List Price $75.00 Your price $10.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by James Chambers Publisher Comments The tragic story of the doomed romance between Charlotte, heir to the English throne, and Leopold, uncle of Queen Victoria and first King of the Belgians. A story that Jane Austen famously declined to tell, declaring: "I could no more write a romance... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by David Cannadine Publisher Comments Composed with characteristic fluency and verve, this book presents a collection of recent writings by Cannadine, the most accomplished historical essayist of his generation. Covering 19th- and 20th-century Britain, the pieces include subjects as varied... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $2.24 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Tim Coates Synopsis In one of the strangest stories in British legal history, the case of Adolph Beck (alias Lord Winton De Willoughby) who was arrested for crimes of deception and larceny in 1895, led to the judge declaring that juries should never be allowed to decide the... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $3.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by P J P Goldberg Synopsis This collection of sources demonstrates the variety of evidence that survives of English women in all walks of life from the time of Edward I to the eve of the Reformation. An overview is included of current thinking about English medieval women below... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Frank Kermode Publisher Comments From a great critic of english literature, a different kind of text: a luminous account of his own life. Throughout this uniquely personal work, Frank Kermode touches on the deeper, lighter, ineffable issues of autobiography, and he does so with his... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price $2.38 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Tina Brown Publisher Comments " Intensely well researched and an un-put-down-able read, Tina Brown's extraordinary book parts the brocaded velvet and allows us an unprecedented look at the world and mind of the most famous person on the planet. A social commentary, a historical... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price $9.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by John L Irwin Publisher Comments Since its first publication in 1976, "Modern Britain" has been widely used as a comprehensive account of the key features of British cultural and political life today. John Irwin examines a wide range of topics which are essential to understanding... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price $5.21 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael Delanoy Publisher Comments George IV continues to be admired as a collector of discernment and an architectural patron of genius. Yet his life was also stalked by tragedy and farce: his father was considered mad, his daughter died in childbirth and his secret marriage was illegal.... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Judith Flanders Publisher Comments The MacDonald sisters started life in the lower-middle classes, denied the advantages of education and the expectation of social advancement. Yet, as wives and mothers, they connected a famous painter, a president of the Royal Academy, a prime minister... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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