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£9.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781398510050 | ISBN 10: 139851005x
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
‘Tender, fascinating... Lucid and illuminating’ Robert Macfarlane
Funerary rituals show us what people thought about mortality; how they felt about loss; what they believed came next. From Roman cremati ... more
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£18.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780300267754 | ISBN 10: 0300267754
Crushed by the Romans in the first century A.D., the ancient Druids of Britain left almost no reliable evidence behind. Because of this, historian Ronald Hutton shows, succeeding British generations have been free to reimagine, reinterpret, and reinv ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780300268348 | ISBN 10: 0300268343
Britain's pagan past, with its mysterious monuments, atmospheric sites, enigmatic artifacts, bloodthirsty legends, and cryptic inscriptions, is both enthralling and perplexing to a resident of the twenty-first century. In this ambitious and tho ... more
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£25.00 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781526167033 | ISBN 10: 1526167034
The 1840s witnessed widespread hunger and malnutrition at home and mass starvation in Ireland. And yet the aptly named 'Hungry 40s' came amidst claims that, notwithstanding Malthusian prophecies, absolute biological want had been eliminated in Englan ... more
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£15.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781398109506 | ISBN 10: 1398109509
Published in association with the Museum of Liverpool, this book explores 20 significant archaeological digs on Merseyside and what they uncovered.
The archaeology of Merseyside is extremely rich and varied. Humans have been modifying th ... more
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£20.00 hardback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780571338023 | ISBN 10: 057133802x
The untold story of the hidden places across Britain that have slipped through the fingers of history.
Drowned. Buried by sand. Decimated by plague. Plunged off a cliff.
This is the forgotten history of Britain’s lost cities, ghos ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781472142337 | ISBN 10: 1472142330
The British empire, in sentimental myth, was more free, more just and more fair than its rivals. But this claim that the British empire was ‘free’ and that, for all its flaws, it promised liberty to all its subjects was never true. The British em ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781471188046 | ISBN 10: 1471188043
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
An extraordinary exploration of the ancestry of Britain through seven burial sites. By using new advances in genetics and taking us through important archaeological discoveries, Professor Alice Roberts helps us be ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781839764226 | ISBN 10: 1839764228
A magisterial history of the foundation of the British empire, and the forgotten story of resistance to its formation.
Contrary to nationalist legend and schoolboy history lessons, the British Empire was not a great civilizing power bringing ... more
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£19.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781845234829 | ISBN 10: 1845234820
Green Unpleasant Land explores the countryside’s repressed colonial past and demonstrates its importance as a source of ideas about Englishness.Â
The book presents historical evidence to show that rural England was a place of conflict and globa ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781784165352 | ISBN 10: 1784165352
From much-loved historian Neil Oliver, comes this beautifully written, kaleidoscopic history of a place with a story like no other.
The British Isles, this archipelago of islands, is to Neil Oliver the best place in the world. From north to ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781780264448 | ISBN 10: 1780264445
An old union rep, Joe, and his granddaughter, Arushi, spend a few pleasant days together going over the history of the labour movement. Over tea and sandwiches in his studio they consider the whole wide sweep and points of connection throughout histo ... more
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£16.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781910636169 | ISBN 10: 1910636169
Wild Ruins B.C. reveals Britain’s extraordinary ancient history, from 10,000 years ago to the birth of Christ. Exploring over 400 wild sites, discover the lost remains and mysterious stones that lie hidden in some of the most beautiful landscapes o ... more
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£16.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780745338309 | ISBN 10: 0745338305
Staying Power is a panoramic history of black Britons. Stretching back to the Roman conquest, encompassing the court of Henry VIII, and following a host of characters from Mary Seacole to the abolitionist Olaudah Equiano, Peter Fryer paints a picture ... more
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£11.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781784783891 | ISBN 10: 1784783897
The gripping story of the Levellers, the radical movement at the heart of the English Revolution.
The Levellers, formed out of the explosive tumult of the 1640s and the battlefields of the Civil War, are central figures in the history of dem ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784080334 | ISBN 10: 1784080330
The five centuries between the end of Roman Britain (410) and the death of Alfred the Great (899) have left few voices save a handful of chroniclers, but Britain's 'Dark Ages' can still be explored through their material remnants: buildings, books, m ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781473614550 | ISBN 10: 1473614554
A thrilling fictional recreation of the biggest rebellion in English history - the so-called Peasants' Revolt.
In this gripping novel, Melvyn Bragg brings an extraordinary episode in English history to fresh, urgent life.
At the end ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781846274206 | ISBN 10: 1846274206
England may be a small country on a small island, but its inhabitants have always had a boundless curiosity about the world beyond their shoreline.
From the nation's modern origins in the Renaissance, travellers have eagerly roamed the glob ... more
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£11.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781629631073 | ISBN 10: 1629631078
“May Day is about affirmation, the love of life, and the start of spring, so it has to be about the beginning of the end of the capitalist system of exploitation, oppression, war, and overall misery, toil, and moil.” So writes celebrated historian Pe ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781781856628 | ISBN 10: 1781856621
A beautiful new edition of a classic work of landscape history, in which Alfred Watkins introduced the idea of ancient 'ley lines' criss-crossing the English countryside.
First published in 1925, The Old Straight Track described the author's ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780349123820 | ISBN 10: 0349123829
A fascinating and evocative account of the Peasants' Revolt from the acclaimed author of Agincourt.
The dramatic and shocking events of the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 are to be the backdrop to Juliet Barker's latest book: a snapshot of what ever ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780745334097 | ISBN 10: 0745334091
The radical response to conservative heritage tours and banal day-tripper guides, Rebel Footprints brings to life the history of social movements in the capital. Transporting readers from well-known landmarks to history-making hidden corners, David R ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780349138565 | ISBN 10: 0349138567
The sensational murder trial of Florence Maybrick that gripped Victorian society.
In the summer of 1889, young Southern belle Florence Maybrick stood trial for the alleged arsenic poisoning of her much older husband, Liverpool cotton merchant James ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780099549147 | ISBN 10: 009954914x
September 1613.
In Belvoir Castle, the heir of one of England’s great noble families falls suddenly and dangerously ill. His body is ‘tormented’ with violent convulsions. Within a few short weeks he will suffer an excruciating death. Soon th ... more
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£9.99 hardback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780750952125 | ISBN 10: 0750952121
Out of 193 countries that are currently UN member states, we’ve invaded or fought conflicts in the territory of 171. That’s not far off a massive, jaw-dropping 90 per cent.
Not too many Britons know that we invaded Iran in the Second World War ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780141030586 | ISBN 10: 0141030585
In The Old Ways Robert Macfarlane sets off from his Cambridge home to follow the ancient tracks, holloways, drove-roads and sea paths that form part of a vast network of routes criss-crossing the British landscape and its waters, and connecting them ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780752458564 | ISBN 10: 0752458566
From regicides to revolutionaries; from fascists to anarchists; from Tom Paine to Tom Wintringham, this book is a history of noble ideals and crushing failures in which Clive Bloom takes us on a journey through British history, exploring our often ro ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781906621070 | ISBN 10: 1906621071
A classic study of megaliths with a global perspective; beautifully illustrated.
Originally titled Rude Stone Monuments, this text is required reading for any serious student of ancient history and architecture. In the author’s own words ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780349120263 | ISBN 10: 0349120269
From medieval Runnymede to twentieth-century Jarrow, from King Alfred to George Orwell by way of John Lilburne and Mary Wollstonecraft, a rich and colourful thread of radicalism runs through a thousand years of British history. In this fascinating st ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780141025476 | ISBN 10: 0141025476
The English have a rich and glorious history of making trouble for themselves. One hundred and forty years before the French Revolution, the English executed their king and instituted a radical revolutionary government. In 1215, more than 570 years b ... more
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£16.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781848540415 | ISBN 10: 1848540418
The Book of English Magic explores the curious and little-known fact that of all the countries in the world, England has the richest history of magical lore and practice. English authors such as J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Terry Pratchett, and J. ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780007213931 | ISBN 10: 000721393x
Revolt and upheaval in medieval Britain by a brilliant new narrative historian, Summer of Blood breaks new ground in its portrayal of the personalities and politics of the bloody days of June 1381.
The Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 is one of the ... more
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£2.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780099542285 | ISBN 10: 0099542285
Produced as part of the 2010 Quick Reads Series, Alison Weir's Traitors of the Tower is a wonderful introduction to this brilliant historian.
More than four hundred years ago, seven people – five of them women – were beheaded in the Tower of ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781845950996 | ISBN 10: 1845950992
The past is a foreign country: this is your guidebook.
Imagine you could get into a time machine and travel back to the fourteenth century. What would you see? What would you smell? More to the point, where are you going to stay? Should you go t ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781848840591 | ISBN 10: 1848840594
If you want to find out about the life of an ancestor who was active in the labour movement or was a union member, this handbook will be a fascinating introduction to the subject. Mark Crail provides a graphic and authoritative account of the history ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781845294823 | ISBN 10: 1845294823
Stephen Oppenheimer’s extraordinary scientific detective story combining genetics, linguistics, archaeology and historical record shatters the myths we have come to live by. It demonstrates that the Anglo-Saxon invasions contributed just a tiny fract ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780413776341 | ISBN 10: 0413776344
A lively historical exploration of the lives of English sailors in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries when England dominated the world in commerce and naval power.
Drawing on primary documents and diaries, Peter Earle explores every a ... more
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£22.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780415404938 | ISBN 10: 0415404932
A.J Pollard takes us back to the earliest surviving stories of Robin Hood, the stories, tales and ballads of the fifteenth century and he re-examines the story of this fascinating figure. Setting out the economic, social and political context of the ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780571223756 | ISBN 10: 0571223753
At the end of the eighteenth-century Britain fell in love with nature. Two books marked this moment - Gilbert White's "Natural History of Selborne" and Thomas Bewick's "History of British Birds", the first 'field-guide' for ordinary people, illustrat ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780719561214 | ISBN 10: 0719561213
By the Spring of 1645, civil war had exacted a terrible toll upon England. Disease was rife, apocalyptic omens appeared in the skies, and idolators were detected in every shire. In a remote corner of Essex two obscure gentlemen began interrogating wo ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780907123453 | ISBN 10: 0907123457
The author describes London's East End at a time of mass immigration from Eastern Europe to the shabby tenements of Stepney and Whitechapel. This was the birthplace of the Jewish socialist and libertarian movement. The book brings alive a forgotten a ... more
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£26.99 paperback (2002) - ISBN 13: 9780745313733 | ISBN 10: 0745313736
In this groundbreaking book Rozina Visram offers an extensively researched, comprehensive study of Asians from the Indian subcontinent in Britain. Spanning four centuries, it tells the history of the Indian community in Britain from the first recorde ... more
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£16.50 paperback (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780951494585 | ISBN 10: 0951494589
This book provides a wealth of information about communities, communes & co-operatives, of all types and scales, that existed in the UK from the 14th century until World War II. It brings the various characters to life, assisted by plenty of photogra ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780140435795 | ISBN 10: 0140435794
Travelling on horseback through southern England in the early 19th century, William Cobbett provides evocative and accurate descriptions of the countryside, colourful accounts of his encounters with labourers, and indignant outbursts at the encroachi ... more
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