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A fascinating and evocative account of the Peasants' Revolt from the acclaimed author of Agincourt.

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A miscellany from one of the nation's favourite Englishmen of everything an Englishman should know. Like Schott's Miscellany and The Little Book of Patriotism, here is everything to celebrate our Englishness.

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An essential and timely guide to all things England and English.

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Where else will a Hornby clockwork train be happy alongside a Tiptree jam jar, or a Romney Marsh church rub along with a set of Len Deighton book jackets This is a personal natural history of fungi and flowers will segue into an essay on Typhoo tea packets; London transports of delight into unique views of English market towns.

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The perfect stocking filler for lovers of English History.

A concise guide to key events, people and places in English history and how England has come to be what it is today. From prehistoric England, Stonehenge and the Romans to modern times.

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For generations the traditional focus for those wishing to understand the roots of the modern world has been France on the eve of the Revolution. This work makes a case for considering Britain the true home of modernity - a country driven by an exuberance, diversity and power of invention comparable only to twentieth-century America.

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Aimed at the general reader and relevant to many academic disciplines, this book explores the ways people acquired new information, organised their ideas and reached their conclusions.

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"A proudly partisan history of the British aristocracy - which scores some shrewd hits against the upper class themselves, and the nostalgia of the rest of us for their less endearing eccentricities.

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The ash tree has long been an integral part of the British landscape, its familiar branches protruding from limestone scars and chalky cliff faces.

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This is the incredible story of four escape routes out of Nazi occupied Europe and the Allied servicemen and men and women of the Resistance who all risked their lives for freedom.

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A history of the enduring Essex-class ships, the US Navy's finest and most numerous fleet carrier during World War II, which were modernized repeatedly and served with distinction.

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An updated edition of Lynsey Hanley's ground-breaking Estates, with a brand new chapter

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Presents the early Medieval period as a lost world, far removed from our current age, which had risen from the smoking rubble of the Roman Empire, but from which we are cut off by the great plagues and famines that ended it.

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A history of Europe since Napoleon, covering all of the main topics of that period.

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The horrific series of conflicts known as the Thirty Years War (1618-48) tore the heart out of Europe, killing perhaps a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to whole areas of Central Europe to such a degree that many towns and regions never recovered. This title explains a compelling series of events.

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Europe and the question of whether to stay in or leave has dominated British politics for the last three years. Discover the most ambitious history of the continent ever undertaken.

Any European or world citizen should read this History that illuminates the present day Big Issue

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Tells the story of a group of highly competitive and mutually suspicious dynasties, and also of a continent uniquely prone to interference from 'semi-detached' elements, such as Russia, the Ottoman Empire, Britain and the United States.

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The story of the most revolutionary period in naval history--the first iron-hulled, steam-powered warships, their first battles at sea, and the great arms race that followed.

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David Ringrose looks beyond the traditional history of European expansionwhich highlights European conquests, empire building, and hegemonyin order to explore the more human and genuinely cross-cultural dimensions of Europeans abroad before 1750.

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A comprehensive examination of welfare institutions and commitments in and across Europe since 1500.