Savage, Anne (translated and collated by),

THE ANGLO-SAXON CHRONICLES.

Guild Publishing, London, 1985, 4th imp., 288pp, numerous coloured and half tone photo ills. and maps in text, large format (12 x 9 inches), dark brown cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured decorated lettered dustwrapper, the four main texts of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles (Parker-Winchester/Christchurch, Cotton-Abingdon, Cotton-Worcester and Laud-Peterborough), the oldest source material for the history of Mediaeval England from 880-1154, with additions from others, written in modern English with numerous in text illustrations of surviving contemporary artifacts and a number of examples of original texts, tiny bump top cnr. lower board, vertical crease fore-edge front free endpaper, dustwrapper: unpriced, lightly rubbed at tips, light creasing in laminate lower panel, very good plus in a very good plus dustwrapper,

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Book number: 30176

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: british england mediaeval medieval history social invasion roman viking danish norman architecture religion economy

Seaman, L. C. B.,

POST-VICTORIAN BRITAIN 1902-1951.

Methuen, London, 1979, reprint, paperback, [xii], 531pp, maps and cartoons in text, large format (8.5 x 5 inches approx.), half tone photo pictorial upper wrapper, a comprehensive survey of English history during the first half of the 20th century, featuring the political and social consequences of the rise of the Labour Party at the expence of the Liberals, the development of the welfare state, and the changes in Britain's imperial and international position resulting from the ambitions of Germany and Japan and the rise of USA and USSR as world powers, slight skew and slant to spine, a little rubbed at extrems., edges tanned, very good,

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Book number: 40808

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: british history politics conservatives liberals germany ireland middle east india labour general strikeeconomy war ww1 ww2

Smith, Lesley M. (ed.),

THE MAKING OF BRITAIN - The Age of Expansion.

Macmillan / Channel Four, London, 1986, paperback, [x], 194pp, half tone ills. and facsimiles in text, large format (9.5 x 7 inches approx.), tv tie-in - the third volume in the Making of Britain series which accompanies the London Weekend Televison/Channel Four series, a re-interpretation of the history of Britain from 1500 to 1763, when Britain was traansformed from a collection of small nationa to a major colonial power, a little rubbed at extrems., some faint creasing to wrappers, lacks half title otherwise very good, very good,

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Book number: 40847

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: british history politics religion reformation civil war empire

Smurthwaite, David,

The Ordnance Survey Complete Guide to the BATTLEFIELDS OF BRITAIN.

Webb and Bower, London, 1989, paperback, 224pp, coloured pictorial double title, numerous maps, plans, coloured and half tone ills. in text, large format (9.5 x 7.5 inches approx.), coloured pictorial wrappers, a comprehensive survey of over 100 British battlefields from Roman times to the Battle of Britain, with maps, plans of battle formations (where known), illustrations of the sites and images of artefacts, lightly rubbed at tips, near fine,

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Book number: 40340

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: british history battlefields civil war roman invasion bob roses

Somerset, Anne,

LADIES-IN-WAITING - From The Tudors To The Present Day.

Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1984, 1st edn., x, 342pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., brown cloth lettered in gilt at spine, pictorial dustwrapper, a study of ladies-in-waiting at the English royal court drawn from a variety of sources '...including the diaries of such shrewd onlookers as Lady Anne Clifford, Lady Cowper and Fanny Burney..', very sl. cocked, dustwrapper: price clipped, very good plus in a very good plus dustwrapper,

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Book number: 30100

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: monarchy royalty court carlisle marlborough castlemaine

Steinberg, S. H. and Evans, I. H. (edited by),

STEINBERG'S DICTIONARY OF BRITISH HISTORY (Second Edition).

Book Club Associates, London, 1974, club edn., viii, 421pp, navy blue cloth lettered in silver at spine, top edge coloured, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, lightly rubbed at extrems., a little bumped at cnrs., edges tanned, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at extrems., sunned at spine, very good in a good plus dustwrapper,

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Book number: 39273

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: british history reference dictionary

Stenton, F. M.,

ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND.

Oxford University Press, Oxford, ND (circa 2002), 3rd edn., reprint, trade paperback, xliv, 765pp, maps in text, coloured decorated upper wrapper, an account of the emergence of the earliest English kingdoms to the establishment of the Anglo-Norman monarchy in 1087, the development of English society, from the growth of royal power to the establishment of feudalism after the Norman Conquest, describing the chief phases in the history of the Anglo-Saxon church, including the Conversion of the various English kingdoms, and the unification of Britain by the kings of Mercia and completed by the kings of Wessexfaint vertical creasing in spine, edges tanned, ink name and date half title, lightly rubbed at tips, very good,

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Book number: 41102

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: british history anglo-saxon england

Stenton, Doris Mary,

ENGLISH SOCIETY IN THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES 1066-1307.

Pelican / Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1965, 4th edn., paperback, 320pp, pictorial upper wrapper, The Pelican History of England series volume 3, how England was governed after the Norman Conquest, how the government developed and the location of town or country, the economy and the developing religious orders influenced the lives of the people, lightly rubbed at extrems, wrinkling to spine, edges tanned, ink name inside upper wrapper, very good,

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Book number: 40848

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: british history middle ages

Sweet, Jack,

YEOVIL'S YEARS.

Amberley, Stroud, 2010, 1st edn., paperback original, 128pp, half tone photo ills. in text, large format (9 x 6.5 inches approx.), half tone photo pictorial upper wrapper, a month by month collection of stories from Yeovil's past, of local news, events and tragedies, stories from the magistrates courts, the contributions in two World Wars, the celebrations of VE and VJ Days in 1945, the death of King George VI in 1952, etc, lightly rubbed at tips, very good,

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Book number: 43023

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: british history yeovil somerset

Swinglehurst, Edmund,

FAMILY LIFE IN BRITAIN 1900-1950.

Time Warner, London, 2005, 1st edn., 128pp, half tone photo pictorial half title and title, half tone photo ills. throughout, large landscape format (12 x 8 inches approx.), laminated photo pictorial montage boards with matching dustwrapper, a record of the considerable changes in families and family life in 50 years, covering the sizes of families, women in the workplace during two world wars, mass entertainment via records and the silver screen, the coming of radio and later television, etc., fine in a fine dustwrapper,

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Book number: 36722

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: social history britain war ww1 ww2 edwardian

Symons, Julian,

ENGLAND'S PRIDE - The Story of the Gordon Relief Expedition.

The History Book Club, London, 1966, club edn., xi, 299pp, half tone frontis. port., 12pp half tone photo ills., folding map and map in text, russet cloth lettered in gilt at spine, pictorial dustwrapper, an account the expedition led by General Lord Wolseley to relieve General Charles George Gordon, sent to the Sudan to put down a rising by the Madhi, light creasing front free endpaper, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at extrems., very good plus in a very good plus dustwrapper,

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Book number: 29929

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: british history gordon khartoum sudan wolseley

Symons, Julian,

ENGLAND'S PRIDE - The Story of the Gordon Relief Expedition.

White Lion, London, 1974, 1st in imprint, xii, 299pp, 2 maps and 18 plates in line and half tone, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, pictorial dustwrapper, an account the expedition led by General Lord Wolseley to relieve General Charles George Gordon, sent to the Sudan to put down a rising by the Madhi, inscribed, signed and dated by author, sl. cocked, rubbed and a little bumped at extrems., edges tanned, dustwrapper: rubbed with sl. loss and creasing at extrems., very good in a good plus dustwrapper,

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Book number: 36002

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: british history gordon khartoum sudan wolseley

Taylor, A. J. P.,

ENGLISH HISTORY 1914-1945.

Readers Union, London, 1967, club edn., xxvii, 708pp, charts and 7 maps in text, double page map at final endpapers, maroon cloth lettered in gilt at spine, pictorial dustwrapper, an account of English history from the outbreak of WW1 throught the war, the years between the wars and WW2, lightly rubbed at extrems., several faint marks to fore-edge, dustwrapper: rubbed at extrems. with a number of edge tears, sl. loss to spine ends and cnrs., very good plus in a good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 29930

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: english history war ww1 ww2 politics economy monarchy

Taylor, Avram,

WORKING CLASS CREDIT AND COMMUNITY SINCE 1918.

Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2002, 1st edn., x, 218pp, black cloth lettered in silver at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, an examination, based on archival research and oral history interviews, of the development of the sources of credit in use by the working classes of Tyneside, including pawnshops, talleymen and retail credit, with a comparison of changes pre and post WW2, edges tanned, near fine in a fine dustwrapper,

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Book number: 43024

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: british history working class credit community pawnshops tallymen

Thomson, David,

ENGLAND IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY (1815-1914).

Pelican / Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1961, reprint, paperback, 251pp, [i] blank, [iv] ads., col'd pictorial upper wrapper, No. 8 in the Pelican History of England series, sl. roll to spine, wrappers laminated and faintly creased, edges tanned, old sello stains inside wrappers and first and last leaf, very good,

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Book number: 32979

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: british history victoria philanthropists religion parliament chartism politics