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The Policy of the Entente
Cambridge University Press 1985; US$ 29.00This book presents a realistic assessment of British priorities in the years before 1914. more...
The Great Filth
The History Press 2011; US$ 18.94Victorian Britain was the world's industrial powerhouse. Its factories, mills and foundries supplied a global demand for manufactured goods. As Britain changed from an agricultural to an industrial ecomony, people swarmed into the towns and cities where the work was; by the end of Queen Victoria's reign, almost 80 per cent of the population was urban.... more...
A Brief History of the Private Life of Elizabeth II
Constable & Robinson 2012; US$ 13.11Elizabeth II is within a few years of becoming the longest-reigning British monarch. A personally quiet, modest and dutiful person, she is far better-informed about the lives of her subjects than they often realize. She has known every Prime Minister since Winston Churchill and every American President since Eisenhower.Yet what of the woman behind... more...
Whatever Next?
Biteback Publishing 2011; US$ 29.15To say this is not a political autobiography would be an understatement. In fact, the author reckons it is not an autobiography at all. This book is more Downton Abbey than 10 Downing Street. It traces Earl Ferrers' aristocratic upbringing in the 1930s in the stately surroundings of Staunton Harold through his wartime childhood, national service in... more...
The Final Curtsey
Birlinn 2012; US$ 15.21This is the intimate and revealing autobiography of Margaret Rhodes, the first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II and the niece of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. Margaret was born into the Scottish aristocracy, into a now almost vanished world of privilege. Royalty often came to stay and her house was run in the style of Downton Abbey. In the Second... more...
Bloody British History: Lincoln
The History Press 2012; US$ 14.57Built by the Romans, looted by the Danes and conquered by King William I (who devastated the town to build a castle and a cathedral), the city of Lincoln has had a long and most dreadful history. Containing medieval child murder, vile sieges of (and escapes from) the castle, the savage repression of the Lincolnshire rising by King Henry VIII (who had... more...
Bloody British History: Chelmsford
The History Press 2012; US$ 14.57This is the bloody, brutal and downright amazing history of Chelmsford containing leprosy, Black Death and rioting peasants, the hideous death of William Caleys, the reign of terror of the Witchfinder General, the vanished palace of Anne Boley, the birth of Robert the Bruce, the capture of the notorious Coggeshall gang, battle against the Zulus, PoWs... more...
Bloody British History: Hereford
The History Press 2012; US$ 14.57Hereford has a darker side to its history, filled with strange - and sometimes unlikely - true tales. Was King Arthur a Hereford man? Why was its patron saint murdered his would-be father-in-law? Why did another of its saints become the only saint to die excommunicated? Was a Bishop of Hereford involved in the murder of a king by the most frightful... more...
Back from the Brink
Atlantic Books Ltd 2011; US$ 11.65In the late summer of 2007, shares of Northern Rock went into free-fall, causing a run on the bank - the first in over 150 years. Northern Rock proved to be only the first. Twelve months later, as the world was engulfed in the worst banking crisis for more than a century, one of its largest banks, RBS, came within hours of collapse. Back from the... more...
Bloody British History: Glasgow
The History Press 2012; US$ 14.57Glasgow has one of the bloodiest and most tumultuous histories on record, riddled with plagues and pirate attacks, religious divides and reconciliations, bombs, executions, fires and floods. A city of slums and grandeur, of razor gangs and rebels, of sectarian violence and cultural assimiliation, here you will find a condensed history of the best... more...









