Wedgwood, C. V.,

THE TRIAL OF CHARLES l.

The Reprint Society, London, 1966, club edn., 253pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., plan in text, dark blue cloth with purple title panel lettered and decorated in gilt at spine, an account of the trial and execution of King Charles I of England, after defeat in the battlefield had not convinced him of the right of Parliament and the people to govern themselves, lightly bumped at lower tips, paper tanned, no dustwrapper, very good,

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Book number: 29931

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: british history charles cromwell monarchy regicide

Weightman, Gavin,

LONDON PAST.

Collins and Brown, London, 1991, 1st edn., paperback original, 96pp, sepia and half tone photo ills. throughout, large format (10 x 7 inches approx.), photo pictorial montage wrappers, in the 'Pictures from the Past' series, images of London and its people from the mid 19th to the mid 20th century, lightly rubbed at extrems., very good plus,

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Book number: 39411

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: british history england london photographs photography pearly kings covent garden thames barges debutantes ludgate

Weinbren, Daniel,

THE ODDFELLOWS 1810 - 2010 - Two hundred years of making friends and helping people.

Carnegie, Lancaster, 2010, 1st edn., x, 371pp, half tone photo pictorial frontis, coloured and half tone ills in text., large format (9.5 x 6.5 inches approx.), blue cloth lettered in silver at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, faint bump lower cnr. lower board, near fine in a fine dustwrapper,

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Book number: 43096

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: british history oddfellows society institution

Whitelock, Dorothy,

THE BEGINNINGS OF ENGLISH SOCIETY.

Pelican/Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1966, revised edn., paperback, 256pp, coloured pictorial upper wrapper, No. 2 in the Pelican History of England series, an account of '.. the life and thought of the Anglo-Saxons, from the time when they first took possession of the Romanized province of Britain until their unsuccessful stand for freedom at the Battle of Hastings..', sl. roll to spine, a little rubbed at extrems., ink name inside upper wrapper, very good,

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Book number: 43164

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: history english anglo-saxon society religion ethics institutions

Williams, Susan,

THE PEOPLE'S KING - The True Story of the Abdication.

Allen Lane, London, 2003, 1st edn., xxiv, 375pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, a sympathetic account of Edward and Mrs. Simpson, very faint bump lower tip lower board, dustwrapper: very lightly rubbed at tips, very good plus in a very good plus dustwrapper,

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Book number: 35125

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: history monarchy edward viii abdication simpson baldwin churchill

Wilson, A. E.,

THE LYCEUM.

Dennis Yates, London, 1952, 1st edn., 208pp, photo frontis and 36pp ills. in line and half tone, monotone pictorial endpapers, deep green cloth lettered in gilt at spine, upper edge coloured, decorated dustwrapper (unattrib.), an account of one of fluctuating fortunes of one of London's favourite theatres, reaching its peak in the late Victorian times when it was the home of Ellen Terry and Mrs. Patrick Campbell, and the venue of Henry Irving's great Shakespearian productions, a little rubbed at extrems., edges tanned and foxed, small ink mark front free endpapers, dustwrapper: a little rubbed at extrems., tears and creases (with onlt very sl. loss) mainly to spine and lower panel heavily repaired to reverse, old sello repair to upper edge, very good in a poor dustwrapper,

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Book number: 37891

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: london theatre society social history 19th century victorian terry irving

Wilson, Derek,

A TUDOR TAPESTRY - Men, Women and Society in Reformation England.

Heinemann, London, 1972, 1st edn., viii, 287pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., pedigrees and maps in text, coloured endpapers, brown cloth lettered in gilt at spine, decorative head bands, coloured wraparound pictorial dustwrapper, an account of one of the greatest upheavals in English history when, in the sixteenth century over a period of about 50 years the mostly Catholic English became predominantly Protestant, relating the effects on some of the people most deeply involved, lightly rubbed at tips, some slight flecks of colour loss to cloth dressing, edges tanned and foxed, large old ink price front free endpaper, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at tips, very good in a near fine dustwrapper,

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Book number: 41460

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: british history tudor reformation catholic protestant

Wilson, A. N.,

THE VICTORIANS.

Arrow, London, 2003, 1st in imprint, trade paperback, xiv, 738pp, 8pp coloured photo ills., 24pp half tone photo ills., coloured photo pictorial montage wrappers, "...people, not abstract ideas, make history, and nowehere is this more revealed than in A. N. Wilson's superb portrait of the Victorians, in which hundreds of different lives have been pieced together to tell a story...", lightly rubbed at tips, faint vertical creasing to spine, edges tanned, very good plus,

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Book number: 39279

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: british social history victorians

Wood, Michael,

THE STORY OF ENGLAND.

Viking, London, ND (circa 2012), 4th imp., xxiv, 440pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., maps and diagrams in text, coloured endpapers, tv tie-in, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine decorative head and tail bands, pictorial montage dustwrapper, published to accompany the BBC series of the same name, a history of England from the village of Knebworth in Leicestershire, in the centre of the country and concentrating on the rarchaeological remains found there and a rich documentary archive of local letters, tax rolls, etc., describing the changes seen from the time of the Roman occupation to the present, edges tanned, near fine in a fine dustwrapper,

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Book number: 43028

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: british history england

Woodham-Smith, Cecil,

THE GREAT HUNGER - Ireland 1845-9.

Readers Union, London, 1964, club edn., xii, 432pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., map and 2 ills. in text, blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, top edge col'd, pictorial dustwrapper, the meticulously researched account of the Irish potato famine, when over 1,000,000 died and 800,00 emigrated to North America, the consequences of which are still felt today, a little rubbed at extrems., sl. sunning to lower edges of bds., a little bumped upper board, dustwrapper: rubbed at extrems., sl. loss at spine ends and cnrs., very good in a good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 29934

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: ireland famine potato irish history

Wroughton, John,

DOCUMENTS ON BRITISH POLITICAL HISTORY - Book Two - 1815-1914.

Macmillan, London, 1973, reprint, paperback, 119pp, half tone ills. in text, large format (8.5 x 6 inches approx.), half tone pictorial wrappers, covering British mainly domestic history for period between the end of the Napoleonic wars until the outbreak of WW1, using extracts from contemporary documents with editorial comment and listing questions for further investigation of the subject, lightly rubbed at tips, near fine,

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Book number: 40854

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: british political history

Young, Michael and Willmott, Peter,

FAMILY AND KINSHIP IN EAST LONDON.

Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1990, trade paperback, 210pp, half tone photo pictorial upper wrapper, an picture of family life in the East End of the 1950's, of the sense of community and the powerful mother-daughter bond at its heart, and of the disatrous effect of re-housing and the failure of planners to understand human needs, lightly rubbed at tips, pages stanned, very good,

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Book number: 40810

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: british social history london family kinship