Pares, Richard,

LIMITED MONARCHY IN GREAT BRITAIN IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.

Historical Association, London, 1960, reprint, paperback, 28pp, stapled lettered card wrappers, pamphlet G 35 in the general series published by the Historical Association by accomplished contemporary historians, an examination of the nature of the limited monarch in Great Britain in the eighteenth century, a little rubbed at extrems., very good,

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Book number: 40799

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: british history monarchy parliament politics religion

Peddie, John,

INVASION - The Roman invasion of Britain in the year AD 43 and the events leading to their occupation of the West Country.

Alan Sutton, Gloucester, 1987, 1st edn. UK, xvi, 214pp, half tone ills., line drawings, maps and diagrams in text, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, a little rubbed and bumped at extrems., no dustwrapper, good plus,

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Book number: 39056

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: british history roman invasion

Pelling, Henry,

A SHORT HISTORY OF THE LABOUR PARTY.

Macmillan, London, 5th edition 1976, 180pp, 8pp photo ills., ex public library, usual marks, stamps, etc, dustwrapper: laminated to boards, reading copy only,

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Book number: 14134

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: britain history england politics labour

Pertwee, Bill,

BESIDE THE SEASIDE - A Celebration of 100 Years of Seaside Entertainment.

Collins and Brown, London, 1999, 1st edn., 144pp, sepia photo pictorial half title, coloured facsimile frontis, facsimiles, coloured and half tone ills. throughout, coloured endpapers, large format (11 x 9 inches approx.), laminated coloured pictorial montage boards with matching dustwrapper, an account of British seaside entertainment, the tradition of 100 years from the days of the Pierrots before WW1, the concert parties between the two wars and in more recent times the big star variety shows at the major resorts, with numerous illustrations of the stars, parties and troops, the towns and venues, and the posters and programmes, faintly bumped at lower tips, dustwrapper: lightly rubbwed at tips, very good plus in a near fine dustwrapper,

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Book number: 39388

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: british history performing arts seaside entertainment concert parties pierrots

Petrie, Sir Charles, Bt.,

THE CARLTON CLUB.

Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1955, 1st edn., 221pp, [iii] blank, col'd frontis and 4 halftone photo plates, turquoise cloth with maroon title panel at spine lettered and ruled in gilt, upper edge coloured, col'd pictorial dustwrapper, a history of the Carlton Club, the club of the Conservative Party whose members included all the great Tory leaders from from Peel and Gladstone to Churchill, bump and repaired split to cloth at head of spine, fore and lower edges tanned, a few faint fox marks to endpapers, dustwrapper: rubbed with chips to head of spine, light overall soiling, repaired to reverse, good in a good plus dustwrapper,

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Book number: 37892

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: london club society social history 19th century conservative party politics

Pincher, Chapman,

THEIR TRADE IS TREACHERY.

Sidgwick and Jackson, London, 1986, 5th imp., paperback, xii, 318pp, decorated upper wrapper, expanded edition from the original hardback about the penetration of MI5 by Soviet intelligence, with much facinating new material and naming several who had previously been unidentified, faint creasing to wrappers, edges tanned, very good,

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Book number: 36464

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: espionage hollis mi5 thatcher

Pincher, Chapman,

THEIR TRADE IS TREACHERY.

Sidgwick and Jackson, London, 1981, 1st edn., xii, 240pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., maroon cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured lettered dustwrapper, a little bumped at lower tips, edges tanned, dustwrapper: faint creasing at lower cnrs., very good in a near fine dustwrapper,

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Book number: 43093

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: espionage hollis mi5

Pitts, Mike,

HENGEWORLD.

Century, London, 2000, 1st edn., [xii], 404pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., maps, diagrams and line drawings in text, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured photo pictorial dustwrapper, an update on the state of archeological investigation and the advances in the knowledge of the stone and wood henges of Britain, lightly rubbed at tips, edges stanned, dustwrapper: price clipped, lightly rubbed at tips, small nick upper edge front flap fold repaired to reverse, very good plus in a very good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 40800

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: british history archeaology stonehenge avebury stanton drew

Plumb, J. H.,

THE FIRST FOUR GEORGES.

Penguin Books, London, 2000, trade paperback, 188pp, half tone frontis and half tone, line and silhouette ills. in text, pictorial wrappers, in the Penguin Classic History series, an analysis of the rule and influence of the four consecutive Kings, George I - IV, from 1714 to 1830, lightly rubbed at tips, very good plus,

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Book number: 32144

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: england britain history george i ii iii iv royalty biography

Pollard, Tony and Oliver, Neil,

TWO MEN IN A TRENCH - Battlefield Archaeology - The Key To Unlocking The Past.

Michael Joseph, London, 2002, 1st edn., 353pp, coloured photo pictorial title, coloured and half tone photo ills., maps and diagrams throughout, coloured endpapers, black cloth lettered in silver at spine, decorative head and tail bands, coloured photo pictorial montage dustwrapper, an account of the archaeological investigation of the sites of six major British battles: Shrewsbury (1403), Barnet (1471), Flodden (1513), Newark (1642-6), Colloden (1746) and The Firth of Forth (1939), tiny bump fore-edge, dustwrapper: tiny bump fore-edge, very good plus in a very good plus dustwrapper,

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Book number: 38485

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: british history battlefield archaeology shrewsbury barnet flodden newark culloden firth of forth

Porter, Stephen,

THE PLAGUES OF LONDON.

Tempus, Stroud, 2008, 1st in imprint, trade paperback, 286pp, half tone ills. in text, decorative head and tail pieces, [ii] ads., coloured pictorial upper wrapper, an account of the outbreak of bubonic plague in London, from the Black Death of the 14th century through the various less severe outbreaks to the devastating Great Plague of 1665, faintly rubnbed at tips, near fine,

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Book number: 40802

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: british history london plague pestilence black death disease epidemic

Postgate, Raymond,

POCKET HISTORY OF THE BRITISH WORKING CLASS.

N.C.L.C. Publishing Society Ltd., Tillicoultry - Scotland, 1964, 3rd edn., paperback, 103pp, ills. in line by J. F. Horrabin, paper wrappers, a history of the working class and labour movement in Great Britain, lightly rubbed at tips, several small marks and slight surface loss upper wrapper, ink name/date inside fr. wrapper, edges tanned, very good,

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Book number: 40232

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: british social history

Priestley, J. B.,

THE PRINCE OF PLEASURE AND HIS REGENCY 1811-20.

Sphere Books, London, 1971, 1st in imprint, paperback, 304pp, illustrated throughout in half tones and colour. large format 9.75 inches x 7.75 inches, col'd pictorial wrappers, a portrait of the notable patron of the arts the Prince Regent, his life and times, the extravagances and eccentricities against a background of poverty and social deprivation of the majority of the people of England, lightly rubbed at extrems., sl. sunning upper wrapper, very good,

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Book number: 21725

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: social british history regency regent heyer interest

Pritchard, R. E. (ed. and intro. by),

DICKENS'S ENGLAND - Life in Victorian Times.

The History Press, Stroud, 2009, paperback, [iv], 284pp, half tone ills. and line drawings in text, large format (9 x 6 inches approx.), pictorial montage upper wrapper, a description of the life and social conditions of the English from 1837 when Victoria came to the throne until about 1870, a time of great commerce as a result of the industrial revolution, of great prosperity for a few whose investments were paying well but also of great poverty for many who were still locked into a hand-to-mouth industrial or pastoral existence, and of the emergence of a middle class who worked but who also had some time and money to spend on leisure pursuits, lightly rubbed at tips, very good plus,

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Book number: 43021

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: british history victoria dickens

Quennell, Marjorie and C. H. B.,

A HISTORY OF EVERYDAY THINGS IN ENGLAND, vol 4 1851 to 1942.

B. T. Batsford, London, 1942, 2nd imp., 214pp, frontis, 3 single and 3 double page col'd ills, 30pp half tone ills, numerous in text line ills., blue/grey cloth dec. in blue, an illustrated history of later Victorian and Edwardian England, edges, prelims and eps. rather foxed, light mainly marginal foxing throughout, dustwrapper: rubbed and a little dusty at extrems., very good plus in a very good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 21726

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: britain history england social country farm domestic fashion railway industry manufacturing building architecture