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She Was Aye Workin': Memories of Tenement Women in Edinburgh and Glasgow by Helen Clark Publisher Comments Memories of tenement women in Edinburgh and Glasgow.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Queen Victoria and Thomas Sully by Carrie Barratt Publisher Comments In 1837, Thomas Sully, who had created a vogue for full-length portraiture among the elite of Philadelphia, was offered a commission to paint the young Queen Victoria. He had already painted Andrew Jackson and Lafayette, but it was his refined and... (read more) List Price $37.50 Your price $5.25 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Lord Minimus: The Extraordinary Life of Britain's Smallest Man by Nick Page Publisher Comments In 1628, as the guest of a lavish banquet thrown by the Duke of Buckingham, the newly married Queen Henrietta Maria watched as servants set a large pie in front of her. Before she could cut into it, the crust began to rise and from the pie emerged a tiny... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Rise & Fall of the British Empire by Lawrence James Publisher Comments A history of British expansions overseas from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. 16pp b/w illus.... (read more) Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The House of Windsor (Royal History of England) by Antonia Fraser Publisher Comments Each of these lavishly illustrated books serves up a brief and manageable portion of the Fraser-edited and much-touted Lives of the Kings and Queens of England. A set of six jewels for Fraser's crown.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $2.60 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list An Imperial Possession: Britain in the Roman Empire, 54 BC - AD 409 (Penguin History of Britain) by David Mattingly Publisher Comments The definitive history of Roman Britain In the first major narative history of the subject in more than a generation, David Mattingly brings life in Britain during four hundred years of Roman domination into vivid relief. Drawing on a wealth of new... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Human Tradition in Modern Britain (Human Tradition Around the World) by Caroli Litzenberger Publisher Comments This engaging book provides a gateway to larger themes in modern British history through a set of fascinating portraits of individuals that explore important events and movements from the perspective of the people involved. As a rich and humanized... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Real Oliver Twist: Robert Blincoe: A Life That Illuminates a Violent Age by John Walker Publisher Comments Robert Blincoe's political, personal and turbulent story illuminates the Dickensian age like never before. His life provides an outstanding example of courage and a refusal to be downtrodden.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Churchill Wanted Dead Or Alive by Celia Sandys Synopsis Using British and Boer sources, Churchill's granddaughter covers a neglected part of his life in which he avoided military regulations to combine the roles of soldier and war correspondent during the Boer War. She has visited campsites, battlefields, and... (read more) Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Great Fire of London by Stephen Porter Publisher Comments In this account, the author examines the background to 1666, events leading up to and during the fire, the proposals to rebuild the city and the progress of the five-year program which followed.... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $6.00 (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   Court Lady and Country Wife: Two Noble Sisters in Seventeenth-Century England by Lita Ros Betcherman Publisher Comments A dual portrait of aristocratic sisters Lucy and Dorothy Percy traces their births during the reign of Elizabeth I and rise to prominence at the court of Charles I in the 1630s, describing how Lucy's beauty and political power played a key role in the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Before the Luddites: Custom, Community and Machinery in the English Woollen Industry, 1776-1809 by Adrian Randall Publisher Comments A study of the early Industrial Revolution in the English woollen cloth making industry.... (read more) List Price $43.00 Your price $30.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Eminent Victorians: Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Dr. Arnold, General Gordon by Lytton Strachey Publisher Comments Few books have had such an impact on their own generation as did Eminent Victorians, which exposed the hypocrisy of the Victorian era by deflating the legends surrounding four of its most notable figures. In the process, Strachey revitalized the art of... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price $5.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Boswell's Presumptuous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr. Johnson by Adam Sisman Publisher Comments James Boswell's The 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 Boswell himself has generally been considered little more than an idiot and... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Women in Early Britain, 1450-1640 (Social History in Perspective) by Christine Peters Publisher Comments The history of women in Wales and Scotland is in a thriving infancy compared to England. This book draws on this work to examine the significance of contrasting social, economic and religious conditions in shaping the lives of women in Britain. Although... (read more) List Price $110.00 Your price $25.75 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Never Give In!: The Best of Winston Churchill's Speeches by Winston S Churchill Publisher Comments Winston Churchill was the most eloquent and expressive statesman of his time. It was as an orator that Churchill became most completely alive, and it was through his oratory that his words made their greatest and most enduring impact. While the... (read more) List Price $34.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Rough Music: Blair/Bombs/Baghdad/London/Terror by Tariq Ali Publisher Comments A seething report on the explosive state of affairs in Britain, highlighting Blair's alliance with Washington and Bush's losing war on terror. On July 7, 2005, the murderous mayhem that Blair's war has sown in Iraq came home to London in a... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Becoming Victoria by Lynne Vallone Publisher Comments Just eight months old when her father, Edward, duke of Kent, died unexpectedly, the princess Victoria moved significantly closer to England’s throne. The task of raising a potential female monarch assumed critical importance for the nation, yet... (read more) List Price $32.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Private Passions of Bonnie Prince Charlie by Hugh Douglas Publisher Comments The author re-examines the life of the Scottish hero whose flawed character and romantic frustrations influenced the history of Scotland and England.... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $5.60 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Winston and Clementine: The Personal Letters of the Churchills by Winston Churchill Publisher Comments 'Winston and Clementine Churchill wrote to each other constantly throughout the fifty-seven years of their life together, from the passionate and charming exchanges of their courtship and early marriage until the year before Winston\'s death in 1965... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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