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Now in its fifth edition, this hugely successful text remains as vivid and readable as ever. Frank Barlow illuminates every aspect of the Anglo-Norman world, but the central appeal of the book conti……続きを見る

This popular study covers two major topics: the formation of the Labour Party and its emergence as the main rival to the conservatives. This transformation of the British political scene has been ac……続きを見る

'You can't reform profit capitalism and inhumanity. Just kick it till it breaks.' ー Angry Brigade, communiqué 8. Between 1970 and 1972 the Angry Brigade used guns and bombs in a series of symbolic ……続きを見る

The new 2014 edition of Alf Cobb: Mugsborough Rebel by Mike Matthews is especially welcome, as this year is the centenary of the death of Robert Tressell, author of the famous book The Ragged Trouse……続きを見る

When our children turn on the home's television sets, they will often flip through the channels to see the news or some nature channel. After seeing the video clips of film taken in other parts of t……続きを見る

Dave Douglass was a pitman for 40 years in the coalfields of the Tyne and in South Yorkshire. This book, the second in his trilogy Stardust and Coaldust, deals with the period from the end of the 60……続きを見る

The Sunday Times Number 1 Bestseller ‘A fabulous story, superbly told … cannot be bettered’ Max Hastings ‘Some battles change nothing. Waterloo changed almost everything.’ On the 18th June 1815 the ……続きを見る

Of all the sovereigns that have worn the crown of England, Queen Elizabeth is the most puzzling, the most fascinating, the most blindly praised, and the most unjustly blamed. To make lists of her fa……続きを見る

The French Revolution catapulted Europe into a new period of political upheaval, social change, and into the modern era. This book provides a concise introduction to the impact of the French Revolut……続きを見る

In Victorian London, filth was everywhere: horse traffic filled the streets with dung, household rubbish went uncollected, cesspools brimmed with "night soil," graveyards teemed with rotting corpses……続きを見る

Rich in detail but vigorous, authoritative and unsentimental, A History of**Modern Wales is a comprehensive and unromanticised examination of Wales as it was and is. It stresses both the long-term c……続きを見る

In 866, the city of York was captured by a ‘Great Army’ of Viking warriors. Ten years later, according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, the Viking army made the transition from warfare to settlement, a……続きを見る

This book explores the benefits and challenges of transnational history for the study of modern Ireland. In recent years the word "transnational" has become more and more conspicuous in history writ……続きを見る

Known for his influential role in the debates that established the founding documents of the United States, Benjamin Franklin was not only an astute politician, but also an Atlantic citizen whose co……続きを見る

Winner of the Lord Aberdare Literary Prize 2015- from the British Society for Sports History. From its advent in the mid-late nineteenth century as a garden-party pastime to its development into a h……続きを見る

The definitive history of the great coal strike of 1984/85 and the background to it, this book explodes all the prevailing myths around that epic period, and corrects the inaccuracies in dozens of b……続きを見る

Tea drinking in Victorian England was a pervasive activity that, when seen through the lens of a century’s perspective, presents a unique overview of Victorian culture. Tea was a necessity and a lux……続きを見る

A history of the small Orcadian island of Sanday (the then base of anarchist publisher Cienfuegos Press), ー with an introduction by the publisher, Stuart Christie ー to the Rev. Alexander Goodfello……続きを見る

Albert Meltzer's personal account and reminiscences of the anarchist movement and its personalities in London between 1935 and 1955. Originally published by Cienfuegos Press, Over the Water, Sanday,……続きを見る

The actual course given to all secret agents in SOE before working behind enemy lines. It includes everything you needed to know to go undercover – from documents, cover stories and how to live off ……続きを見る

WITH THE CURRENT centennial chatter on the whys and wherefores of the First World War, not much has been said about the preceding general European social crisis as a force for international tension ……続きを見る

‘An elegantly argued and searing indictment of the economic and sociological background of the British political system of ‘representative’ democracy in general, and parliamentary socialism in parti……続きを見る

Henry II (1154-89) through a series of astonishing dynastic coups became the ruler of an enormous European empire. One of the most dynamic, restless and clever men ever to rule England, he was broug……続きを見る

Part of the Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers in a collectible format Queen Victoria inherited the throne at 18 and went on to become the longest-reigning fe……続きを見る

William III (1689-1702) & Mary II (1689-94) (Britain's only ever 'joint monarchs') changed the course of the entire country's history, coming to power through a coup (which involved Mary betraying h……続きを見る

Numerous studies consider the history of childhood, adolescence and old age, yet the middle aged, consistently the most productive and powerful of age groups have been consistently ignored. In this ……続きを見る

Britain's waterways have been used as a source of transport ever since man needed to convey large quantities of minerals, raw material and mass produced commodities. The Romans introduced canals to ……続きを見る

Bestselling author Charlie Connelly returns with a First World War memoir of his great uncle, Edward Connelly, who was an ordinary boy sent to fight in a war the likes of which the world had never s……続きを見る

Bestselling author Charlie Connelly returns with a First World War memoir of his great uncle, Edward Connelly, who was an ordinary boy sent to fight in a war the likes of which the world had never s……続きを見る

Bestselling author Charlie Connelly returns with a First World War memoir of his great uncle, Edward Connelly, who was an ordinary boy sent to fight in a war the likes of which the world had never s……続きを見る