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British History
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Great British Architecture : Remarkable Stories of Our History and Heritage€19.99Discover the extraordinary stories written into Britain’s historic buildings – and the people, power and ideas that shaped them. From time-worn ruins and cathedrals to tucked-away country churches and elegant stately homes, Britain is full of genuinely incredible – but often surprisingly overlooked – historic buildings.
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The Rise of Fascism in Britain : From the Suffrage Movement to Oswald MosleySpecial Price €23.99 Regular Price €27.99
Rigorous yet accessible, this book reveals how fear of socialism, national trauma, and misplaced patriotism combined to create fertile ground for authoritarian ideas, and how, ultimately, fascism in Britain failed to take hold. . .
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Divide and Rule : Royal Women and Their Battles€26.99Globally famous and yet universally misunderstood – these are the complex and utterly engrossing stories of Britain's royal women behind the public façade. Saints or sinners? Perfect princesses or difficult duchesses?
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Divide and Rule : Royal Women and Their Battles (Paperback)€20.99Globally famous and yet universally misunderstood – these are the complex and utterly engrossing stories of Britain's royal women behind the public façade. Saints or sinners? Perfect princesses or difficult duchesses?
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A Rebel and a Traitor : A Fugitive, the Manhunt and the Birth of the IRA€17.99A Rebel and a Traitor is the story of a rogue imperial consul who sought to forge a new nation in the middle of a war - and the mercurial spy chief who sought to destroy him by any means. The rogue consul was Sir Roger Casement, a decorated diplomat who turned his back on the British empire and instead joined the rising Irish cause at the turn of the 20th century.
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The Blood in Winter : A Nation Descends, 1642€16.99On 4 January 1642 Charles marches on the small riverside city of Westminster at the head of an army, seeking to arrest five Members of Parliament. In doing so, he sets in motion a series of events that will lead to bloodshed and war, changing a nation forever. . .
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The Mercian Chronicles : King Offa and the Birth of the Anglo-Saxon State, AD 630–918€13.99The story of Aelfred the Great, his war against the Vikings and the foundations of modern Britain. In AD 865, a 'great host' of battle-hardened Norse warriors landed on England's eastern coast, overwhelmed East Anglia with terrifying swiftness and laid the North to waste.
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Neptune’s Fortune : The Billion-Dollar Shipwreck and the Ghosts of the Spanish Empire€29.99The riveting true story of a legendary Spanish galleon that sunk with over $1 billion in gold and silver—and one man’s obsessive quest to find it—from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Madhouse at the End of the Earth
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Childhood and the Irish : A Miscellany€25.99Following the success of the four-volume series, 'Birth, Marriage, Christmas and Death and the Irish', this collection examines the celebration of Childhood among the Irish, from the seventh century to the present day.
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Royal Mint, National Debt : The shocking truth about the royals' finances€26.99In his irreverent and uncompromising bestseller... And What Do You Do?, former Minister of State and Privy Counsellor Norman Baker laid bare what the British royal family didn't want us to know, namely its extravagant use of public money and general bad behaviour.
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The Windsor Legacy : A Royal Dynasty of Secrets, Scandal and Survival€28.99AUTHOR OF CATHERINE, THE PRINCESS OF WALES: THE BIOGRAPHY Hailed as 'the Godfather of royal reporting' by the Wall Street Journal, Robert Jobson offers a meticulously researched and fascinating insider insight into the British monarchy's resilience and influence over the past century from Elizabeth II to the future King William.
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Wolfpack : Inside Hitler’s U-Boat War€29.99A landmark history of the U-Boat war told through the experiences and recollections of the U-Boat crews themselves. Winston Churchill famously remarked that the threat of the German U-Boats was the only thing that had “really frightened” him during World War Two.
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Alison Weir : Queens at War : England's Medieval Queens€29.99The fifteenth century was a turbulent age: the Hundred Years War between England and France, and the Wars of the Roses dominated the lives of people both inside and out of the royal courts.
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Sam Leith : The Haunted Wood : A History of Childhood Reading€15.99The stories we read as children matter a great deal. The best ones are indelible in our memories; reaching far beyond our childhoods, they are a window into our deepest hopes, joys and anxieties.
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An Accidental Villain : Sir Hugh Tudor, Churchill’s Enforcer in Revolutionary Ireland€19.99A gripping deep-dive into the legacy of Sir Hugh Tudor, Churchill’s trusted military man who oversaw the violent repression of Irish revolutionaries through the notorious Black and Tans.
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Black England€15.99The idea that Britain became a mixed-race country after 1945 is a common mistake. Georgian England had a large and distinctive Black community. Whether prosperous citizens or newly freed slaves, they all ran the risk of kidnap and sale to plantations.
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The Siege : The Remarkable Story of the Greatest SAS Hostage Drama€14.99The Siege is the remarkable story of what really happened on those fateful six days, and the first full account of a moment that forever changed the way the nation thought about the SAS – and itself.
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London: The Hidden Corners For Curious Wanderers€19.99An all-new collection of London curiosities and secluded hidden gems that dig even deeper into the city’s rich past. From the alleyways of Soho to the medieval remains of Moorgate, the second book from Sunday Times bestselling author Jack Chesher takes you on a journey through London and its history, showing you its hidden corners.
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Story of a Murder : The Wives, the Mistress and Dr Crippen€32.00No murderer should ever be the keeper of their victim's story …On 1 February, 1910, vivacious music-hall performer, Belle Elmore, suddenly vanished from her north London home.
