The Victorians by A. N. Wilson
$12.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
People, not abstract ideas, make history and in this volume A.N. Wilson has pieced together hundreds of different lives to tell a story - one that is still unfinished in our own day. The "global village" is a Victorian village and many of the ideas we take for granted, for good or ill, originated with t ...Show more
An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo by Richard Davenport-Hines
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Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the Profumo scandal, 'An English Affair' is a sharp-focused snapshot of a nation on the brink of social revolution. Britain in 1963 - Harold Macmillan was the Prime Minister of a Conservative government, dedicated to tradition, hierarchy and, above ...Show more
The Big House : The story of a country house and its family by Christopher Simon Sykes
$12.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: good
The highly praised biography of an archetypal great house and the family who lived there for over 250 years.On 17 June 1751 Richard Sykes, 'laid the first stone of the new house at Sledmere, in a God-forsaken spot high up on the Yorkshire Wolds, where wolves had roamed freely less than fifty years befor ...Show more
Skipness: Memories of a Highland Estate by Angus Graham
$10.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
The estate of Skipness had been in Campbell hands since 1511, when it was given to Archibald, second son of the second Earl of Argyll. The last Campbell laird, Walter, sold it in 1843 to William Fraser, whose son in turn sold it in 1866 to the Grahams, who had made their money in the grocery and wine tr ...Show more
Elizabeth. The Exhibition at the National Maritime Museum by David Starkey
$30.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
With contributions from experts on Tudor history, this catalogue focuses on Elizabeth's court, her relationship with the City of London, the importance of Elizabeth's maritime adventurers, burgeoning maritime enterprise and the beginnings of an overseas empire.
The Victorian Vision: Inventing New Britain by John M MacKenzie (ed.)
$25.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
The Victorians were a people of visions. Their visions were partly inspired by the immense social problems they inherited from their predecessors and, additionally, created for themselves. They were also influenced by the intellectual ferment of their age; by the political turmoil of Europe; by the tech ...Show more
Home Front. The Best of Good Housekeeping 1939-1945 by Braithwaite
$14.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
The Victorians by A.N. Wilson
$20.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
People, not abstract ideas, make history and in this volume A.N. Wilson has pieced together hundreds of different lives to tell a story - one that is still unfinished in our own day. Here are the poor and obscure as well as the lofty and famous - each in the very act of creating the Victorian age. Hardb ...Show more
The Lunar Men: The Friends Who Made the Future 1730-1810 by Jenny Uglow
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Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
Led by Erasmus Darwin, the Lunar Society of Birmingham was formed from a group of amateur experimenters, tradesmen and artisans who met and made friends in the Midlands in the 1760s. Most came from humble families, all lived far from the centre of things, but they were young and their optimism was bound ...Show more
The King's Peace: 1637-1641 by C. V. Wedgwood
$16.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
Abbotsford to Zion: The Story of Scottish Place-Names Around the World by Elspeth Wills
$14.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
Over the centuries countless Scots have travelled to every conceivable corner of the globe - some to start a new life, others asentrepreneurs, explorers, missionaries, colonial administrators, soldiers and in a multitude of other contexts. This book takes the reader on a journey from the wastes of Antar ...Show more