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Josh Sutton
Food Worth Fighting for : From Food Riots to Food Banks£12.00This book takes a look at some of the food riot...This book takes a look at some of the food riots of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and other food related social conflict in the UK and tells the story of those involved. Using words and v... -
Jean Barr
The Legacy: A Memoir : One family's role in Britain's cover-ups£9.99Jean Barr opens the antique chest she inherited...Jean Barr opens the antique chest she inherited from her great-great-uncle Alexander and unravels the strands of his life as an evangelical Presbyterian minister in late nineteenth century Italy, u... -
Professor Jonathan Faiers
Tartan : Revised and Updated£25.99Featuring new insights and an additional chapte...Featuring new insights and an additional chapter on masculinities, this updated edition of Tartan revitalizes discussions about the fabric’s traditional, sentimental Highland origins and its delibe... -
Andrew Pettegree
The Book at War : Libraries and Readers in an Age of Conflict£30.00Rich, authoritative and highly readable, Andrew...Rich, authoritative and highly readable, Andrew Pettegree's tour de force will appeal to anyone for whom, whatever the circumstances, books are an abiding, indispensable part of life.' David Kynast... -
Peter Taylor
Operation Chiffon : The Secret Story of MI5 and MI6 and the Road to Peace in Ireland£22.00April 1998: the Good Friday Agreement is signed...April 1998: the Good Friday Agreement is signed, ending decades of violence and bloodshed in Northern Ireland. The process of getting the IRA to end its 'armed struggle' was always the prerequisite... -
Peter Stothard
Palatine: An Alternative History of the Caesars£22.0014 CE: The first Roman emperor is dead. A secon...14 CE: The first Roman emperor is dead. A second is about to succeed.The Forum of Rome, once fought over so fiercely, has become hardly more than a museum. The house of all power is up above on the... -
Various
Galloway The Lost Province of Gaelic Scotland£19.99Galloway and Carrick form the south-western cor...Galloway and Carrick form the south-western corner of Scotland. Though cut of by the Lowlands and the sea from the rest of the Gaelic-speaking world, the area has a proud Gaelic past. In this mould... -
Sherry Buchanan
On The Ho Chi Minh Trail - The Blood Road, The Women Who Defended It, The Legacy£20.00Part travelogue, part history, and part reflect...Part travelogue, part history, and part reflective meditation on conflict and reconciliation, Sherry Buchanan's new book offers both a personal and historical exploration of the Ho Chi Minh Trail, ... -
Stephen Moss
Ten Birds That Changed the World£16.99For the whole of human history, we have lived a...For the whole of human history, we have lived alongside birds. We have hunted and domesticated them for food; venerated them in our mythologies, religion and rituals; exploited them for their natur... -
Rosemary Goring
Scotland: Her Story£12.99Scotland's history has been told many times, bu...Scotland's history has been told many times, but never exclusively by its women. This book takes a unique perspective on dramatic national events as well as ordinary life, as experienced by women d... -
Thomas Halliday
Otherlands : A World in the Making£10.99This is the past as we've never seen it before....This is the past as we've never seen it before. Otherlands is an epic, exhilarating journey into deep time, showing us the Earth as it used to exist, and the worlds that were here before ours. Awar... -
Mary Wellesley
Hidden Hands: The Lives of Manuscripts and Their Makers£12.99Manuscripts teem with life. They are not only t...Manuscripts teem with life. They are not only the stuff of history and literature, but they offer some of the only tangible evidence we have of entire lives, long receded.Hidden Hands tells the sto...