History Books

Sherlock & Pages is a conservation bookshop. To us this means taking care of what we’ve inherited and all that  we  have  a responsibility to pass on. The  past, the present and the future all become important. Therefore, maintaining  a vibrant and intellectual history section is vital to  us  at  Sherlock & Pages. What are we  without our stories? Without a past? We are particularly strong on British History and  like to think our  shelves could  take a customer on a journey from the origins of the country and well into the 20th century. Elsewhere, we have  books that might catch the  eye in categories such as ‘The History of Commodities and Objects’ or ‘Great Cities.’ The whispers of those gone before us are all around, why not pick up a history blockbuster today and be whisked into some of the greatest stories of all time. 

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  • Forgotten Churches : Exploring England's Hidden Treasures: The Sunday Times Bestseller

  • Forgotten Churches : Exploring England's Hidden Treasures: The Sunday Times Bestseller (Signed Edition)

  • Steeple Chasing : Around Britain by Church

  • Going to Church in Medieval England

  • Storyland: A New Mythology of Britain

  • Pagan Britain

    Pagan Britain

    Ronald Hutton

    £14.99
  • The Scottish Clearances : A History of the Dispossessed, 1600-1900

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

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

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

  • Who Owns England? : How We Lost Our Land and How to Take it Back

  • How To Read A Church

    How To Read A Church

    Dr Richard Taylor

    £14.99
  • A Short History of the World According to Sheep

  • Wild : Tales from Early Medieval Britain from the Bestselling author of Storyland

  • Scenes from Prehistoric Life : From the Ice Age to the Coming of the Romans

  • Medieval Graffiti : The Lost Voices of England's Churches

  • The History of Magic : From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the Present

  • A Time to Keep Silence

    A Time to Keep Silence

    Patrick Leigh Fermor

    £12.99
  • A Village in the Third Reich : How Ordinary Lives Were Transformed By the Rise of Fascism

  • Femina : A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It

  • A Home for All Seasons

    A Home for All Seasons

    Gavin Plumley

    £10.99
  • Hollow Places : An Unusual History of Land and Legend

  • The Path of Peace : Walking the Western Front Way

  • Uprooted : On the Trail of the Green Man