Thatcher and Sons by Simon Jenkins
$59.95 AUD
Category: History
The history of Britain in the last thirty years, under both Conservative and Labour governments, has been dominated by one figure - Margaret Thatcher. Her election marked a decisive break with the past and her premiership transformed not just her country, but the nature of democratic leadership. In his ...Show more
The Middle Class by Lawrence James
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
This is the enthralling story of the great powerhouse of British history - the middle class.The death of feudalism, the advancement of democracy, the spread of literacy, the industrial and sexual revolutions, the development of mass media - the middle class is never far away, drawing up petitions, pushi ...Show more
Warrior Race by Lawrence James
$28.00 AUD
Category: History
Modern Britain is a nation shaped, both geographically and culturally, by wars. The essence of its identity is the warrior heroes, both real and fictitious, who still capture the national imagination: from Boadicea to King Arthur, Rob Roy to Henry V, the Duke of Wellington to Winston Churchill. In Warri ...Show more
The Middle Class by Lawrence James
$65.00 AUD
Category: History
This is the enthralling story of the great powerhouse of British history - the middle class. The death of feudalism, the advancement of democracy, the spread of literacy, the industrial and sexual revolutions, the development of mass media - the middle class is never far away, drawing up petitions, push ...Show more
The Truth Will Out: Unmasking the Real Shakespeare by Brenda James and William D. Rubinstein
$29.95 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The question of who wrote Shakespeare's plays has been the subject of furious debate among scholars for over 150 years. Everything known about the facts of William Shakespeare's life seems incompatible with the extraordinary genius of his writing. Shakespeare candidates' abound, among them Sir Francis B ...Show more
The Alhambra by Robert Irwin
$26.95 AUD
Category: History
'A perfect introduction to the place and a first-rate account of its history.' - The Guardian The Alhambra, the 'red fort' on its rocky hill above Granada, with its fountained courts and gardens, and intricate decoration, has long been a byword for exotic and melancholy beauty. In a stimulating new book ...Show more
City of Cities: The Birth of Modern London by Stephen Inwood
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
By 1880, London, capital of the largest empire ever known, was the richest and most populous city in the world. And yet it remained an overcrowded, undergoverned city with huge slums gripped by poverty and disease. Over the next three decades, London began its transformation into a new kind of city - on ...Show more
For Lust of Knowing : the Orientalists and their enemies by Robert Irwin
$26.95 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Robert Irwin's history of Orientalism leads from Ancient Greece to the present. He shows that, whether making philological comparisons between Arabic and Hebrew, cataloguing the coins of Fatimid Egypt or establishing the basic chronology of Harun al-Rashid's military campaigns against Byzantium, scholar ...Show more
Paris: The Secret History by Andrew Hussey
$26.95 AUD
Category: History
Paris is the city of light and the city of darkness - a place of ceaseless revolution and reinvention that for two thousand years has drawn those with the highest ideals and the lowest morals to its teeming streets. In Andrew Hussey's wonderful book we encounter the myriad citizens whose stories have sh ...Show more
The Last Days of Henry VIII : Conspiracy, treason and heresy at the court of the dying tyrant by Robert Hutchinson
$26.95 AUD
Category: History
Conspiracies, treason and heresy at the court of the dying tyrant After 35 years in power, Henry VIII was a bloated, hideously obese, black-humoured old man, rarely seen in public. He had striven all his life to ensure the survival of his dynasty by siring legitimate sons, yet his only male heir was eig ...Show more
Elizabeth's Spymaster - Francis Walsingham and the Secret War That Saved England by Robert Hutchinson
$27.00 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: good-very good
Francis Walsingham was the first 'spymaster' in the modern sense. His methods anticipated those of MI5 and MI6 and even those of the KGB. He maintained a network of spies across Europe, including double-agents at the highest level in Rome and Spain - the sworn enemies of Queen Elizabeth and her Protesta ...Show more
Heroes by Lucy Hughes-Hallett
$27.95 AUD
Category: History
On 12 September 2001, a group of people were photographed near the ruins of the World Trade Centre holding up a banner that read WE NEED HEROES NOW. In Lucy Hughes-Hallett's brilliant new book she explores that need through the careers of eight heroes. Her subjects