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  • $12.00 Discovering Heraldry
    Book Heraldry's unfamiliar terminology tends to discourage people from learning more about this fascinating subject. But heraldic language is essential for the precise description of a coat of arms and is soon learned with...
  • $33.00 Domesday Book: a complete translation
    Book 'Domesday Book is the book of English history. No other country in the world possesses such a detailed single record from so jar back. . . A m ust for scholars and history buffs everywhere' Michael Wood. Domesday Book...
  • $28.00 England's Living History: The English Abbey explained - Monasteries - Priories
    Book The English abbey conjures up images of soaring cathedrals, hooded monks and great medieval churches. These images are further enhanced by the craggy ruins that grace the wooded valleys of the countryside. Yet what was...
  • $25.00 English Churches Explained
    Book The local church is a familiar landmark in every town, city and village. The story of its past is the story of the people for whom, down the centuries, it was the centre of the community. But how many people actually...
  • $25.00 Fenian Fire; The British Government plot to assassinate Queen Victoria
    Book In a masterpiece of historical detective work, Christy Campbell exposes the true instigators behind one of the most serpentine of all the attempts on Queen Victoria's life. Irish-American bombers had waged a five-year...
  • $40.00 History of Britain
    Book "While Britain was losing an empire, it was finding itself". The compelling opening words to this volume, The Fate of Empire, set the tone and agenda for the final stage of Simon Schama's epic voyage around Britain, her...
  • $66.00 How our ancestors lived: history of life a hundred years ago
    Book This book interprets the unique information revealed in the 1901 census and weaves it into an absorbing exploration of late Victorian and Edwardian social history.
  • $22.00 Industrial Revolution Explained
    Book The English Industrial Revolution was a triumph of ingenuity and invention. New sources of power, better manufacturing methods and expanding transport systems brought fantastic changed affecting every walk of life. Man...
  • $75.00 Medieval Genealogy
    Book How to Find Your Medieval Ancestors by Paul ChambersWilliam had much thought and deep discussion about this country - how it was occupied or with what sorts of people. Then he sent his men all over England into every...
  • $30.00 New History of England
    Book `Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.' Cecil Rhodes's characteristically nineteenth-century confidence rings rather hollow as England enters the twenty-first...
  • $32.00 Oxford Dictionary of British History
    Book This dictionary covers all aspects of British history from 55 BC to the present day. Derived from the acclaimed Oxford Companion to British History, it features entries written by more than 100 specialist contributors...
  • $48.00 Routledge Atlas of British History
    Book The changing story of the British Isles forms the central theme of this fascinating and compelling atlas, which covrs England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales - and the expansion and gradual disintegration of Brim's...
  • $20.00 Starting Out in Local History
    Book A new approach covering such topics as how to do research, oral history, interpreting buildings, getting around and people, their means and occupations. Author: Simon Fowler...
  • $50.00 Workhouse: the people, the places, the life behind doors
    Book The true stories of those who lived in, ran or investigated the institutions that dominated lives for 250 years Synopsis: Workhouses in Britain cast terrifying shadows over ordinary lives, especially after the New Poor...
  • $25.00 Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium
    Book In the year 1000 the world was one of mystery and magicians, monks, warriors and wandering merchants - people who feared an apocalypse and who had no idea what year it was or what lay beyond the nearest valley. It was a...

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