The Archaeology of Britain

This highly illustrated book tells the heroic story of the air battle, as well asthe Blitz bombing campaign which followed, through photographs, in...

Tells the stories of the men who earned the award of the 1939-1945 Star with Battle of Britain Clasp between 10 July and 31 October 1940.Publisher:...

This book assesses the Roman invasion of Britain in AD 43.Publisher: The History Press LtdAuthor(s): John ManleyNumber of pages: 208Publication dat...

Reducere. Little is definitively known of the life and schooling of Geoffrey of Monmouth, but his extraordinary literary works have survived centuries as a t...

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A sweeping, groundbreaking epic that combines military with social history, to illuminate the ways in which Great Britain and its people were perma...

Power. Glory. Death. Courage. How well do we know the story of the Second World War?

Explore the history of the British Isles in this celebration of its monarchs, and the development of its fine architectural legacy. The first half ...

DescriptionSited at the furthest limits of the Neolithic revolution and standing at the confluence of the two great sea routes of prehistory, Brita...

DescriptionThe purpose of this book is to take what we think we know about the Roman Conquest of Britain from historical sources, and compare it wi...

Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain-the earliest book to detail the legendary foundation of Britain and life of King Arthur-was ...

Turning the conventional Break-Up of Britain narrative inside-out, this book scans the horizon of overseas projections of British identities that u...

The United Kingdom was united in battle - and some of those battles, though an important part of British history, have been forgotten.Publisher: Am...

An investigation of the obscure centuries that followed the departure of the Romans from Britain.Publisher: Head of ZeusAuthor(s): Max AdamsNumber ...

Publisher: Key Publishing LtdAuthor(s): Lee ChapmanIllustration(s): 160Number of pages: 128Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 167 x 246 x 13Cover ty...

This book provides an authoritative new narrative of the Roman conquest of Britain, from the two campaigns of Julius Caesar up until the constructi...

An investigation of the obscure centuries that followed the departure of the Romans from Britain.

The Mesolithic in Britain proposes a new division of the Mesolithic period into four parts, each with its distinct character.Publisher: Taylor & Fr...

Stephen Bungay's magisterial history is acclaimed as the account of the Battle of Britain. Unrivalled for its synthesis of all previous historical ...

Although 1759 is not a date as well known in British history as 1215, 1588, or 1688, there is a strong case to be made that it is the most signific...

Publisher: Simon & Schuster LtdAuthor(s): Alice RobertsIllustration(s): 8pp colour platesNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 162 ...

From the Norman Conquest to the Battle of Bosworth Field - how Britain was invaded and become a nation. The first volume in the stunning four-volum...

The Temptations of Trade reveals the opportunities and tensions of doing business in regions far from strict imperial control, where the actions of...

Publisher: University of Virginia PressAuthor(s): Adam SillsNumber of pages: 312Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 176 x 255 x 21Cover type: Paperba...

'... a thrillingly provocative book' Tom Holland, Sunday Times

A fully updated, authoritative and exceptionally readable history of Britain from the Romans to the present.

Day-by-day listings are included covering the locations in Britain where every V1 was either destroyed or where they impacted, plus those for all t...

This concise volume reviews the literature on population history, and explains the different population trends evident in parts of Britain and Irel...

The Preface, History and Epistle of Gildas' principal work, De Excidio Britanniae, a sermon in three parts condemning the acts of his contemporarie...

The remarkable Battle of Britain experiences of Spitfire pilot Brian Lane, DFC. Brian Lane was only 23 when he when he wrote his dramatic account o...

Reducere. Although lowland Britain in 300 CE had been as Roman as any province in the empire, in the generations on either side of 400, urban life, the money...

From the bestselling author of Viking Britain, a new epic history of our forgotten past. As Tolkien knew, Britain in the 'Dark Ages' was a mosaic o...

A gripping chronicle of the personal and political rivalries from the birth of Queen Victoria to the unification of Germany during the decades lead...

Subtitled, }A New History In The Words Of The Men & Women On Both Sides{. The latest in the bestselling }Forgotten Voices{ series, this draws on ma...

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DescriptionHow public land has been stolen from us. Much has been written about Britain's trailblazing post-1970s privatization program, but the bi...

Continues a series that has received good reviews. Fascinating discussion of plausible what if scenarios grounded in real history.Illustrations: 1 ...

Publisher: British Museum PressAuthor(s): Ralph JacksonIllustration(s): Illustrated in colour throughoutNumber of pages: 160Publication date: 2010D...

This definitive account reveals how the political and social progress of Britain has been inextricably intertwined with the strength - and weakness...

Written in the 1130s, Geoffrey's imaginative history of the Britons from Brutus to Cadwallader, the first work to recount the woes of Lear and the ...

Reducere. The battle of Britain pitted the Hurricanes and Spitfires of the Royal Air Force against the Messerschmitts of Hitler's Luftwaffe in the skies over...

An ambitious yet accessible account of Britain's Neolithic Revolution that examines how the early agricultural settlers on our island shaped their ...

A comprehensive history of the Georgians, comparing past views of these exciting, turbulent, and controversial times with our attitudes today.Publi...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Kate GuthrieIllustration(s): 14 music examples, 10 b-w illustrationsNumber of pages: 306Collect...

Weaves together the histories of England, Scotland and Wales in a new way, describing fascinating moments and characters.

A comprehensive list of all the Luftwaffe personnel who achieved the status of Ace and who flew in the summer of 1940.Illustrations: 100 black and ...

Reducere. A new edition of this best-selling history of Britain, from Roman times, now updated to cover the first decade of the 21st century. The Oxford Hist...

These were the shadows that hung over a country paralysed by frozen heating oil, burst pipes and power cuts. And yet underneath the frozen surface,...

Reducere. This imaginative history of the Britons, written in the twelfth century, is the first work to recount the woes of Lear and the glittering career of...

Attempts to understand how Roman Britain ends and Anglo-Saxon England begins have been undermined by the division of studies into pre-Roman, Roman ...

Reducere. Throughout the chronicle of Britain's history, one factor above all others has determined the fate of kings, the security of trade, and the integri...

One of the world's leading writers on propaganda and information projection presents a remarkably detailed history and critique of the workings and...

Some 140 plus images of the work of RAF and civilian salvage squads during the Battle of Britain, the Blitz and beyond. includes many photos never ...

DescriptionOne moment the sky would be full of aircraft wheeling and positioning for the best shot at the enemy; a sky full of danger and menace. T...

The amazing story of one of the 'Few', fighter ace Tom Neil who shot down 13 enemy aircraft during the Battle of Britain.

The amazing story of human life in Britain during the last million years, told by two scientists at the forefront of research intoancient ancestors...

Now available in a fully-revised and updated second edition, A History of Modern Britain: 1714 to the Present provides a comprehensive survey of th...

Reducere. From William the Conqueror and the Normans, through Henry VIII and the Tudors, and all the way up to Elizabeth II and the house of Windsor, this be...

Simon Schama explores the forces that tore Britain apart during two centuries of dynamic change - transforming outlooks, allegiances and boundaries...

Shellac and Swing! tells the story of the gramophone's 'golden age, ' when it helped to shape Britain's musical, social and political life and impa...

Reducere. In nineteenth-century England, sodomy was punishable by death; even an accusation could damage a man's reputation for life. The last executions for...

The first book on a British effort to save lives, as important as the well known kindertransport, but this was only men - their wives and children ...

Dramatic social and economic change during the middle ages altered the lives of the people of Britain in far-reaching ways, from the structure of t...

This book is a social history of popular history in Britain between the end of the First World War and the 1970s. It considers how ordinary people ...

DescriptionHow competing visions of world order in the 1940s gave rise to the modern concept of globalismDuring and after the Second World War, pub...

The tumultuous story of the Romanovs and Britain's enigmatic relationship is brought to life in Stephan Roman's Isle and Empires, as he explores th...

Bounded by the Great War on one side and by the looming shadow of the Second World War on the other, the inter-war period has characteristically be...

A portrait of 18th century England, from its princes to its paupers, from its metropolis to its smallest hamlet. It covers topics that include - di...

In that dark hour America saw its chance to challenge British dominance: her troops invaded Canada and American frigates attacked British merchant ...

In September 1946, the London Gazette published a despatch from Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh C T Dowding that was titled simply: The Battle of Britai...