A History of the English-Speaking Peoples by Winston Churchill
$150.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
The History Today Companion to British History by Juliet Gardiner (Editor); Neil Wenborn (Editor)
$25.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. Six British historians contribute to a comprehensive dictionary which not only is a reference work for events, people and places from 43 AD, but also acknowledges that history is as much about the writing of what happened as what actually did happen. It also includes information on historic ...Show more
Henry VIII - A European Court in England by David Starkey (ed.)
$18.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
Offering a reconstruction of Henry's Palace at Greenwich, this book also provides an evocation of the splendour and richness of incident of his reign. It was at Greenwich that Henry was born in 1491, spent two-thirds of his life and married the first of his six wives, Catherine of Aragon. Elizabeth, the ...Show more
A Monarchy Transformed - Britain 1603-1714 by Mark Kishlansky
$12.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
This sixth volume of the nine-volume work narrates the tempestuous political events of the Stuart dynasty. It charts the reigns of the six monarchs, and the course of two revolutions as well as religious upheavals that shook the beliefs of the 17th-century Britons to the core.
Five Euphemias - Women in Medieval Scotland 1200-1420 by E. Sutherland
$14.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: good-very good
Through the lives of these five women, all r elated, all called Euphemia, and one of them Queen of the Sc ots, Elizabeth Sutherland covers 200 years of Scottish histo ry. This book casts new light on the Scots'' fierce fight for freedom. '
Hadrian's Wall and Its People by Geraint Osborn
$10.00 NZD
Category: Ancient History | Series: Greece and Rome Live | Reading Level: good
Hadrian's Wall - one of the most prominent monuments of the Roman period in Britain - has a special place in the public imagination. It offers a tangible reminder of our ancient past and a concrete link with the Roman occupation. Visitors can stand amid the remains, knowing that they tread in the footst ...Show more
Heroes of the Holocaust - Ordinary Britons Who Risked Their Lives to Make a Difference by Lyn Smith
$10.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
Collected here for the first time are the remarkable and moving stories of the 27 British recipients of the 'Hero of the Holocaust' award. During one of the darkest times in human history they refused to stand by and do nothing; risking their lives to save Jewish friends, or complete strangers. And yet ...Show more
The Beatles' England - There Are Places I'll Remember by David Bacon; Norman Maslov
$12.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: good-very good
Terry Jones' Medieval Lives by Terry Jones; Alan Ereira
$16.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
What the Tudors and Stuarts Did for Us by Adam Hart-Davis
$15.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
Tudor and Stuart England saw the most dramatic shifts in thinking and innovation since the Romans. It was a period that saw the emergence of Protestant churches, the increase in power of parliament, the end of the feudal system, the development of empire, the union of Scotland and England and the emerge ...Show more
Speeches and Letters on American Affairs by Edmund Burke
$8.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good