During their heyday in the mid-eighteenth century the pleasure gardens were one of the hubs of polite society. Laid out ......more
The First World War affected the lives of a whole generation of people in Britain and the Commonwealth. Most people livi......more
In 1801, some five years after Robert Burns death, nine of his friends sat down to dinner in what is now known as Burns......more
In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries England underwent a series of transformations. The turbulent reigns of the Tu......more
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The Journal of Joachim Hane; containing his escapes and sufferings during his employment by Oliver Cromwell in France fr......more
A group of Christian Socialists inspired by Leo Tolstoy’s ideas went ’back to the land’ in Essex to form a Utopian colon......more
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H. G. Wells s passionate and influential manifesto--never before available in the United States--was first published in ......more
The Highland Line is the most profound internal boundary in Britain. First recognised by Agricola in the first century A......more
The son of William and Kate is greeted worldwide with great excitement and enthusiasm. The baby boy s arrival marks a ti......more
As one of the most remote corners of the British Isles, the island archipelago of St Kilda has long held a fascination f......more
For the majority of the British public in the Victorian period the railways were the only way to travel. In 1880 the pop......more
A vivid and compelling memoir recounting the real lives, loves and friendship of 1940s Soho and its working girls. Barba......more
Following strict criteria laid down by Rangers based on talent, length of service and ambassadorship to the club, here a......more
In 1688, King James VII of Scotland and II of England was ousted in the so-called ’Glorious Revolution’. Yet in parts of......more
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While women in modern Western society have spent the last century fighting for equal rights, women in ancient Ireland we......more
Acts of 30 & 43 Geo. III. relating to a district in the Parish of Saint Luke, Chelsea, called Hans Town" is a classic bo......more
A book full of ingenious characters who speak their names in riddles-a bookworm, an iceberg, an oyster, the sun and moon......more
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It is historical fiction set in events of the time. The story has resonances in today’s society - suppression of freedom......more
It will be very reasonably asked why I should consent, though upon a sort of challenge, to write even a popular essay in......more
This book traces the Park’s early history and provides a guide to the key wartime buildings and what went on behind the ......more
Hillsborough, Saturday 15th April 1989. Ninety-seven men, women and children were unlawfully killed. They went to a foot......more
This is the story of the founding of the British Interplanetary Society in Liverpool in 1933 before it moved to London i......more
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A fascinating collection of early speeches to Parliament from perhaps the greatest orator and statesman of the twentieth......more
NEW PRINT WITH PROFESSIONAL TYPE-SET IN CONTRAST TO SCANNED PRINTS OFFERED BY OTHERS Bibliomania In The Middle Ages: Or ......more
NEW PRINT WITH PROFESSIONAL TYPE-SET IN CONTRAST TO SCANNED PRINTS OFFERED BY OTHERS Chronological Retrospect Of The His......more
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Owen Rhoscomyl (1863-1919) seems like a figure out of legend. A cowboy, frontiersman, soldier, and mercenary who roved t......more
The wave of unrest which took place in the 1840s in Wales known as "the Rebecca riots" stands out as a success story wit......more
In the wake of the Scottish vote on independence, questions of sovereignty, devolution, and local control have perhaps n......more
In Secret Sins, Russell Davies reveals Carmarthenshire, a rural society in southeast Wales, to have been a hotbed of deb......more
A historical investigation into one of the most serpentine attempts on Queen Victoria’s life that reveals for the first ......more
Royal Wales offers a comprehensive history of the royalty of Wales, from those families that ruled during the early Midd......more
This book is an account of the origins and development of Cardiff’s and Wales’s medical school during the first four dec......more
The sheer scale of surviving early modern Welsh court archives attests to the importance of the institutions that produc......more
In this book, which details the main Jacobite risings of 1689, 1715 and 1745, Dane Love reveals that it was a bloody tim......more
Just another day at the office follows Chris fascinating and sometimes stressful careers as part of a British Forces bo......more
A study of the age which saw the crystallization of the party-system and representative government...more
Starting, quite literally, at the beginning, this Companion takes the reader on an unorthodox tour of the lesser-known g......more
On a spring evening in 1779, as she emerged from London s Covent Garden Theatre, a beautiful young woman was shot in the......more
A new and innovative series offering in-depth cultural, historical and literary guides to the great cities of the world....more
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This work examines how the Welsh became absorbed into London s population yet retained aspects of Welsh culture from lan......more
Heraldry s unfamiliar terminology discourages people from learning more about this fascinating subject but heraldic lang......more
Sir Howard Elphinstone, dashing hero of the Crimean War, was awarded the Victoria Cross in 1858 aged just twenty-nine. H......more
This utterely compelling memoir opens with a sceptical nine-year-old Bryan Magee being taught the facts of life. It goes......more
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From the bestselling author of ’The Lighthouse Stevensons’, a gripping history of the drama and danger of wrecking since......more