British History Books
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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...- £10.99
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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...- £12.99
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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,...- £10.99
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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...- £10.99
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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...- £16.99
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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...- £12.99
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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....- £12.99
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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....- £10.99
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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...- £10.99
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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...- £10.99
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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...- £9.99
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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...- £10.99
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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...- £12.99
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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...- £9.99
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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:...- £9.99
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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...- £22.00
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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...- £10.99
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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...- £14.99
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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...- £10.99
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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...- £9.99
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