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  • Steeple Chasing: Around Britain by Church

    Steeple Chasing: Around Britain by Church

    By Peter Ross (Author)Format: Paperback / softback 432 pagesPublisher: Headline Publishing GroupImprint: Headline Book PublishingISBN: 9781472281951Published: 1 Feb 2024Weight: 384g Churches are all around us. Their steeples remain landmarks in our towns, villages and cities, even as their influence and authority has waned.They contain...
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  • Storyland: A New Mythology of Britain-9781529408003

    Storyland: A New Mythology of Britain

    By: Amy JeffsBinding: Paperback / softbackA TIMES BESTSELLER, January 2022A TIMES HISTORICAL FICTION BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEARA BBC HISTORY MAG BOOK OF THE YEARA DAILY EXPRESS BOOK OF THE YEAR'Expressive, bold and quite beautiful' The Lady'[a] delight of...
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  • A Tomb With a View - The Stories & Glories of Graveyards : Scottish Non-fiction Book of the Year 2021-9781472267788

    A Tomb With a View - The Stories & Glories of Graveyards : Scottish Non-fiction Book of the Year 2021

    By: Peter RossBinding: **WINNER OF THE SCOTTISH NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2021****A FINANCIAL TIMES, I PAPER AND STYLIST BOOK OF THE YEAR**'In his absorbing book about the lost and the gone, Peter Ross takes us from Flanders Fields to Milltown to Kensal...
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  • A Home for All Seasons-9781838954802

    A Home for All Seasons

    By: Gavin (author) PlumleyBinding: Paperback / softback'Charming - a love-letter to home, history, and nature.'LEAH BROAD, Author of Quartet'A tender and illuminating history of an overlooked world.'HORATIO CLARE'Truly a revelation on every page.'PETROC TRELAWNY'A richly textured book, replete with illuminating discoveries and observations.' COUNTRY...
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  • Winters in the World : A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year-9781789147735

    Winters in the World : A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year

    By: Eleanor ParkerBinding: Now available in paperback, Winters in the World is a beautifully observed journey through the cycle of the year in Anglo-Saxon England, exploring the festivals, customs and traditions linked to the different seasons. Drawing on a wide variety of source material,...
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  • Wild : Tales from Early Medieval Britain-9781529424263

    Wild : Tales from Early Medieval Britain

    By: Amy JeffsBinding: Paperback / softbackBy the bestselling author of Storyland. Sheer cliffs, salt spray, explosive sea spume, thunderous clouds, icy waves, whales with mountains on their backs, sleet, bitter winds, bleak, impenetrable marshes, howling wolves, forests, the unceasing cries of birds and the...
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  • The Stripping of the Altars : Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580-9780300254419

    The Stripping of the Altars : Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580

    By: Eamon DuffyBinding: Paperback / softbackThis prize-winning account of the pre-Reformation church recreates lay people's experience of religion, showing that late-medieval Catholicism was neither decadent nor decayed, but a strong and vigorous tradition. For this edition, Duffy has written a new introduction reflecting on...
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  • Going to Church in Medieval England-9780300266436

    Going to Church in Medieval England

    By: Nicholas OrmeBinding: Paperback / softbackAn engaging, richly illustrated account of parish churches and churchgoers in England, from the Anglo-Saxons to the mid-sixteenth century Parish churches were at the heart of English religious and social life in the Middle Ages and the sixteenth century....
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  • Hollow Places : An Unusual History of Land and Legend-9780008319526

    Hollow Places : An Unusual History of Land and Legend

    By: Christopher HadleyBinding: Paperback / softback'Impossible to summarise and delightfully absorbing, Hadley's book is comfortably the most unexpected history book of the year' Sunday Times A luminous journey through a thousand years of folklore and English history. Once upon a time in a Hertfordshire...
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  • The Restless Republic : Britain without a Crown-9780008282059

    The Restless Republic : Britain without a Crown

    By: Anna KeayBinding: Paperback / softbackTHE SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 WINNER OF THE POL ROGER DUFF COOPER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE Eleven years when Britain had no king. In 1649 Britain was engulfed by revolution....
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  • The Fens : Discovering England's Ancient Depths-9781788547093

    The Fens : Discovering England's Ancient Depths

    By: Francis PryorBinding: Paperback / softbackA BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. 'Francis Pryor brings the magic of the Fens to life in a deeply personal and utterly enthralling way' TONY ROBINSON. 'Pryor feels the land rather than simply knowing it' GUARDIAN. Inland...
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  • English Food : A People’s History

    English Food : A People’s History

    Format: Paperback / softback 560 pagesPublisher: HarperCollins PublishersImprint: William CollinsISBN: 9780007255573Published: 9 Nov 2023Weight: 402gDimensions: 130 x 199 x 38 (mm) "An absolute gem" - Sunday Times "A mouthwatering history" - The Guardian In this delicious history of Britain's food traditions, Diane Purkiss invites...
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  • Viking Britain : A History-9780008171957

    Viking Britain : A History

    By: Thomas WilliamsBinding: Paperback / softbackA new narrative history of the Viking Age, interwoven with exploration of the physical remains and landscapes that the Vikings fashioned and walked: their rune-stones and ship burials, settlements and battlefields. To many, the word 'Viking' brings to mind...
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  • The Anglo-Saxons : A History of the Beginnings of England-9781529156980

    The Anglo-Saxons : A History of the Beginnings of England

    By: Marc MorrisBinding: Paperback / softbackTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'[A] clever, lively ... splendid new book'DAN JONES, SUNDAY TIMES'A big gold bar of delight'SPECTATORSixteen hundred years ago Britain left the Roman Empire and swiftly fell into ruin. Into this violent and unstable world came foreign...
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  • River Kings : The Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Roads

    River Kings : The Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Roads

    By Cat Jarman (Author)Format: Paperback / softback 352 pagesPublisher: HarperCollins PublishersImprint: William CollinsISBN: 9780008353117Published: 2 Sep 2021Classifications: United Kingdom, Great Britain, Northern Europe, Scandinavia, c 500 CE to c 1000 CE, c 1000 CE to c 1500, British & Irish history, Medieval European archaeologyWeight:...
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  • The Road : A Story of Romans and Ways to the Past

    The Road : A Story of Romans and Ways to the Past

    By Christopher Hadley (Author)Format: Paperback / softback 320 pagesPublisher: HarperCollins PublishersImprint: William CollinsISBN: 9780008356729Published: 15 Feb 2024Weight: 324gDimensions:129 x 197 x 29 (mm) Have you ever heard the march of legions on a lonely country road? For two thousand years, the roads the Romans...
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  • The Stonemason : A History of Building Britain-9781473663947

    The Stonemason : A History of Building Britain

    By: Andrew ZiminskiBinding: Paperback / softbackA stonemason's story of the building of Britain: part archaeological history, part deeply personal insight into an ancient craft. In his thirty-year career, stonemason Andrew Ziminski has worked on many of our greatest monuments. From Neolithic monoliths to Roman...
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  • Crypt : Life, Death and Disease in the Middle Ages and Beyond

    Crypt : Life, Death and Disease in the Middle Ages and Beyond

    By Alice Roberts (Author)Format: Hardback 352 pages, 1 x 8pp colour plate sectionPublisher: Simon & Schuster LtdISBN: 9781398519237Published: 29 Feb 2024Weight: 536gDimensions: 162 x 242 x 30 (mm) The new book by Sunday Times bestselling author of Ancestors and Buried - the final instalment...
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  • The Dissolution of the Monasteries : A New History-9780300269956

    The Dissolution of the Monasteries : A New History

    By: James ClarkBinding: Paperback / softbackThe first account of the dissolution of the monasteries for fifty years-exploring its profound impact on the people of Tudor England "This is a book about people, though, not ideas, and as a detailed account of an extraordinary human...
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  • Scotland's Forgotten Past: A History of the Mislaid, Misplaced and Misunderstood

    Scotland's Forgotten Past: A History of the Mislaid, Misplaced and Misunderstood

    By Alistair Moffat (Author)Format: Paperback / softback 224 pages, 37 Illustrations, black and whitePublisher: Thames & Hudson LtdImprint: Thames & Hudson LtdISBN: 9780500297803Published: 25 Jan 2024Classifications: Scotland, British & Irish historyWeight: 222gDimensions: 197 x 130 x 19 (mm) A charming, lively and often amusing...
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  • The Hollow Crown : The Wars of the Roses and the Rise of the Tudors-9780571288083

    The Hollow Crown : The Wars of the Roses and the Rise of the Tudors

    By: Dan JonesBinding: Paperback / softbackThe fifteenth century experienced the longest and bloodiest series of civil wars in British history. The crown of England changed hands violently five times as the great families of England fought to the death for the right to rule....
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  • Grounded : A Journey into the Landscapes of Our Ancestors

    Grounded : A Journey into the Landscapes of Our Ancestors

    by James Canton (Author)Format: Paperback / softback 272 pages, B&W line illustrations throughoutPublisher: Canongate BooksImprint: Canongate BooksEdition: MainISBN: 9781838855895Published: 1 Feb 2024Classifications: Prehistory, Landscape archaeology, Natural historyWeight: 190gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 18 (mm)
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  • England's Villages : An Extraordinary Journey Through Time by Dr Ben Robinson 9781788704601

    England's Villages : An Extraordinary Journey Through Time

    THE STUNNING NEW BOOK FROM THE HOST OF BBC 2'S VILLAGES BY THE SEAEngland's villages have survived, developed, and thrived over hundreds of years. But what makes a village and how has that changed over time? Take a charming and unexpected journey through the...
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  • The Norman Conquest-9780099537441

    The Norman Conquest

    By: Marc MorrisBinding: An upstart French duke who sets out to conquer the most powerful and unified kingdom in Christendom. An invasion force on a scale not seen since the days of the Romans. One of the bloodiest and most decisive battles ever fought....
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  • The Women Who Saved the English Countryside-9780300270396

    The Women Who Saved the English Countryside

    By: Matthew KellyBinding: Paperback / softbackA vibrant history of English landscape preservation over the last 150 years, told through the lives of four remarkable women In Britain today, a mosaic of regulations protects the natural environment and guarantees public access to green spaces. But...
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  • The Making of the English Landscape

    The Making of the English Landscape

    By W.G. Hoskins (Author)Series: Nature Classics LibraryFormat: Paperback / softback 304 pages, Black and white photographs throughoutPublisher: Little Toller BooksImprint: Little Toller BooksISBN: 9781908213105Published: 1 May 2013Weight: 448gDimensions: 216 x 159 x 25 (mm) W.G. Hoskins was one of the most original and influential...
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  • The Palace : From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of History at Hampton Court-9780008436988

    The Palace : From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of History at Hampton Court

    By: Gareth RussellBinding: Hardback'If a house could gossip, this is the book that Hampton Court would whisper. An enjoyable and readable stroll through 500 years of Hampton Court history: royal residents, common visitors, thieves, invaders and ghosts' PHILIPPA GREGORY For centuries, Hampton Court has...
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  • The World Turned Upside Down : Radical Ideas During the English Revolution

    The World Turned Upside Down : Radical Ideas During the English Revolution

    By Christopher Hill (Author)Format: Paperback / softback 448 pagesPublisher: Penguin Books LtdImprint: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780141993133Published: 6 Feb 2020Weight: 332gDimensions: 128 x 197 x 29 (mm)
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  • Imperial Mud : The Fight for the Fens-9781785787157

    Imperial Mud : The Fight for the Fens

    By: James BoyceBinding: Paperback / softback**WINNER OF THE HISTORY AND TRADITION CATEGORY, EAST ANGLIAN BOOK AWARDS 2020****SHORTLISTED FOR THE TASMANIAN LITERARY AWARD 2022****LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2021** 'A real page-turner ... a warning about what happens when the rich and powerful dress...
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  • Blitz Spirit

    Blitz Spirit

    By Becky Brown (Author)Format: Paperback / softback 320 pagesPublisher: Hodder & StoughtonImprint: Hodder PaperbackISBN: 9781529347081Published: 3 Nov 2022Weight: 228gDimensions: 199 x 129 x 25 (mm)
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