History Books
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Julius Caesars Civil War
Book SynopsisDescribes the campaigns that destroyed the fabric of the Roman Republic and resulted in Julius Caesar's elevation to Dictator for Life.
£21.25
Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Ptolemies Rise of a Dynasty
Book SynopsisJohn Grainger skilfully narrates the political and social developments, complex diplomacy and wars that marked the reigns of the first two Ptolemies.
£21.25
Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Forty Sieges of Constantinople
Book SynopsisIdentifies and narrates 40 sieges of the city that was Byzantion, then Constantinople and now Istanbul.
£21.25
Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Roman Empire in Crisis 248260
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£15.29
Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Son that Elizabeth I Never Had
Book SynopsisRobert Dudley, the son Elizabeth never had, is the story of a scholar, an adventurer and Elizabethan seadog that deserves to be better known.
£17.00
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Great Scandals of the Victorians
Book SynopsisGreat Scandals of the Victorians features a collection of true stories that shocked, outraged, angered or simply amused the Victorians in nineteenth-century Britain. Drawing on a wide variety of original material, seven disreputable stories that dominated the national newspapers for many weeks are explored, including the Great Warwickshire Scandal, a highly publicized divorce case where for the first time in history a Prince of Wales was called to give evidence in court; a baby' scandal that disrupted Queen Victoria's court and threatened the monarchy; the sex scandals of the Abode of Love, a mysterious religious cult founded by a defrocked clergyman, Henry James Prince and the sensational trial of Fanny and Stella, two outrageous cross-dressers accused of sodomy. Some scandals, though traumatic for the people involved, produced a positive outcome, such as the scandalous custody battle between Caroline Norton and her husband, which led to the passing of the Custody of Infants Act, gr
£21.25
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Maritime London
Book SynopsisThis book tells the story of London's maritime history from the the establishment of Roman Londinium to the present day.
£24.00
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Royal Yachts Under Sail
Book SynopsisThe first book to deal in detail with the development and uses of royal yachts.
£40.00
Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Rise of Persia and the First GrecoPersian
Book SynopsisThe epic story of the first Greco-Persian War and the Persian invasion of Europe and Greece.
£21.25
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Edward Is Regent
Book SynopsisThis book explores Edmund's life and character, the sources and expenditure of his wealth, his landholdings, his service to the king including three years as regent, his piety and his activities in the local communities in which he had a presence.
£21.25
Pen & Sword Books Ltd James I The King Who United Scotland and England
Book SynopsisThis book explores who King James was as an individual by looking at key events and relationships that shaped him.
£21.25
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Armies of the Roman Republic 26430 BC
Book SynopsisCovers the period of Rome's greatest expansion, from an Italy-only state to master of the Mediterranean World.
£21.25
Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Slave Trade in Africa
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£19.05
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Balchens Victory
Book SynopsisA fascinating and, until now, unknown story of a ship and her captain. The recent discovery of her wreck and salvage of her guns has propelled the ship into the public limelight. A highly significant story within the wider naval history of the 18th-century
£21.25
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Roman Britains Pirate King
Book SynopsisThe remarkable story of Carausius, who was sent to clear the North Sea and Channel of Germanic pirates but, when accused of pocketing their loot, revolted against Rome in 286.
£18.70
Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Trojan War as Military History
Book SynopsisDetailed study of the weapons, armour and tactics of Bronze Age warfare is enriched by the author's insights from experimental archaeology.
£21.25
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Alexander the Great a Battle for Truth and
Book SynopsisA long overdue new appraisal of the sources for Alexander the Great.
£21.25
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Henry VIIIs Imprisoned Women
Book SynopsisA fresh examination of the Tudor reign through the lives of women who were persecuted, condemned and executed.
£21.25
Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Private Life of Thomas Cromwell
Thomas Cromwell was King Henry VIII's most faithful servant, the only man the king ever openly regretted executing. But Thomas Cromwell came to royal prominence late in life, and had 45 years of family, friends and experiences behind him before catching Henry's eye. Born a common boy at a time of significant change in England in 1485, Cromwell grew up in a happy, close-knit family, before heading to Europe for dramatic adventures. Returning to England a decade later, Cromwell emerged with the skills of a lawyer and merchant, with the European language skills and connections to match. Marriage, children, friends, family and manor homes all furnished Cromwell's life, a man happy and settled in London. But more beckoned for the Italian-Englishman, when a special friendship with Cardinal Thomas Wolsey grew, along with the attention of the king. Tragic personal loss affected Cromwell, hidden behind the more-recorded professional accolades. But friendships remained throughout time, changes in allegiance and even religion. Men who had met the young Cromwell stuck close to him through the years, and Cromwell never forgot a single loyal friend. Cromwell's desire to support his son saw Gregory become brother-in-law to the king himself, only for more tragedy to harm the ever-growing Cromwell family. Far from the seemingly dour, black-clad, serious man, Cromwell lavished those around him with gifts, parties, extravagant games, entertainments, animals and outfits. But the glamour and beauty of Cromwell's life would come to a sudden end, leaving a trail of devastated men and women, and an extraordinary manor home, Austin Friars, scattered to the wind. Using a wide variety of primary material, this exciting biography weaves a new narrative on the indefatigable Thomas Cromwell, illustrating him more vividly than we've known him before.
£21.25
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Henry VIIIs Children
Book SynopsisCaroline Angus takes a fresh look at the early lives of King Henry's children, the many children sadly lost, and evaluates the claims made by the men and women rumoured to be the king's illegitimate children.
£21.25
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Stuart Spouses
Book Synopsis_Stuart Spouses_ looks at the oft-overshadowed consorts of the Stuart monarchs, from 1406 to 1714. By focusing on these people and detailing their rises to matrimony, the trials and tribulations of their courtships, and the impact their unions and dissolutions had on the kingdoms of Scotland, England, Ireland, and Wales, one learns not only the history of these kingdoms but the true, sometimes soft, power behind the throne.
£21.25
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Educating the Tudors
Book SynopsisEducating the Tudors not only looks at Henry but also his siblings and his children.
£17.00
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Fighting Napoleon at Home
Book SynopsisA startling portrayal of society in Britain during the Napoleonic
£21.25
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Why the Titanic was Doomed
Book SynopsisHere is a new and unique look at the circumstances which came together to send Titanic to the bottom of the North Atlantic with the loss of 1,500 passengers.
£17.00
Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Archaeology of the Royal Flying Corps
Book SynopsisAn insightful and original study of the trench art, souvenirs and lucky mascots of the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War.
£17.00
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Invasion Rome Against the Cimbri 113101 BC
Book SynopsisNarrates a war that seriously threatened the destruction of Rome.
£17.00
Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Life of Cicero
Book SynopsisCicero was Rome''s greatest orator and one of the key statesmen of the late Roman Republic. He championed traditional Republican values against populist demagogues like Julius Caesar during a tumultuous period of civil war and unrest. During his term as consul (63 BCE), his decisive actions thwarted a plot to overthrow the Senate, controversially having the ringleaders executed. He outlived Caesar but then mounted a virulent opposition to Mark Antony, which led to Cicero''s proscription andexecution as an enemy of the state.The legacy of his speeches, letters and treatises on politics, law, oratory and other subjects endured, however, and was massively influential on Latin literature and, when rediscovered in the Middle Ages, formed one of the cornerstones of the Renaissance.The period in which Cicero flourished and died was one in which democracy was under attack from radical demagoguery and Philip Kay-Bujak believes his career holds important parallels and lessons for our own times.
£21.25
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Wars of the Roses
Book SynopsisThis book is an exploration of the buildings, monuments, towns and battlefields of that turbulent era across both England and Wales places that can still be visited and experienced today.
£21.25
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Hellenistic Naval Warfare and Warships 33630 BC
Book Synopsis*Traces the development of ships and naval warfare from Alexander the Great to the Battle of Actium.
£24.00
Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Greek Victories and the Persian Ebb 480479 BC
Book SynopsisConcluding part of a significant trilogy on the Greco-Persian Wars.
£24.00
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Power Treason and Plot in Tudor England
Book SynopsisSet against the backdrop of Elizabethan England, Margaret Clitherow's story -her trial, execution and sainthood -gives a fresh perspective on one of the most turbulent areas of the Tudor period.
£17.00
Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Salvation Army
Book SynopsisThe history of The Salvation Army, and the women and men behind its creation.
£21.25
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Naval Battles of the Second World War
Book SynopsisHighly illustrated account of the major naval battles fought in the Atlantic and Mediterranean during the Second World War.
£17.00
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Royal Childbirth in the Middle Ages
£19.80
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Silence of the Stands
Book SynopsisLONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2023 - FOOTBALL BOOK OF THE YEARPowerful and poignant' Henry Winter Empathetic and poignant the game's answer to A Journal of the Plague Year' Harry Pearson The Durham City midfielder wore the resigned look of a man trying to find a jar of harissa in Farmfoods. Up front for Jarrow, a centre-forward darted around frenetically, as if chasing a kite during a hurricane...' When football disappeared in March 2020, writer and broadcaster Daniel Gray used its absence to reflect on everything the game meant to him. That bred a pledge: whenever and wherever fans were allowed to return, he would be there. The Silence of the Stands is the result of that pledge: a joyous travelogue documenting a precarious season, in which behind-closed-doors matches and travel restrictions combined to make trips to Kendal and Workington seem impossibly exotic.OfferinTrade ReviewWhen society locked down, football played on without fans. A powerful and poignant look at life behind closed doors. * Henry Winter *Joy is at the heart of Gray's writing; his delight in the little things, humble settings and small human dramas involved in the game. From the dark of Covid, this breezy and bright love letter to football was produced. Smile. Enjoy. -- Jonathan Northcroft * Sunday Times *A vivid, funny reminder of what was the weirdest time ever to be a football fan. Empathetic and poignant, it's the game's answer to A Journal of the Plague Year. -- Harry PearsonGray is a master of observing and amplifying the things we love about football but wonder if anyone else even notices * The Times *Gray writes like Lowry paints. Superb * BBC Radio *Gray is an endearing and authentic football observer, and this book reaffirms the meaning and importance of football in so many ways. -- Ian Aspinall * Late Tackle magazine *A joyous travelogue documenting a rocky season…offering a poignant peak at a surreal age and a slab of social history…moving, heartfelt and surprising uplifting. * Four Four Two *His peerless eye for the game’s endless little oddities and charms is used to chronicle his own return to the terraces after the forced exile of lockdown. No-one else writes with such obvious appreciation and warmth for the game. * The Scottish Times *We’re spoiled that the writer engaged with this task is Daniel Gray, who navigated complicated lockdown rules to produce this poetic account of football while the fans were locked out. * Scotland on Sunday *Covid could not stop football but it could stop fans from attending a game. It is a time that deserves to be recorded. It has found its peerless chronicler in Daniel Gray. * The Daily Mail *A joyous travelogue documenting a precarious season…moving, heartfelt and surprisingly uplifting * When Saturday Comes *Table of ContentsIntroduction – Jarrow 3 v 1 Durham City 1 Middlesbrough 1 v 1 Bournemouth 2 Lancaster City 1 v 2 Basford United 3 Workington 2 v 0 Mossley 4 Kendal Town 0 v 3 Tadcaster Albion 5 Southport 1 v 1 Alfreton Town 6 Cowdenbeath 2 v 0 Brechin City 7 Raith Rovers 3 v 1 Dundee 8 Rothbury 5 v 1 Forest Hall 9 Billingham Synthonia 0 v 2 West Auckland Town Epilogue Selected bibliography Acknowledgements
£12.34
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Whatever Happened to Tradition
Book SynopsisThe West feels lost. Brexit, Trump, the coronavirus: we hurtle from one crisis to another, lacking definition, terrified that our best days are behind us. The central argument of this book is that we can only face the future with hope if we have a proper sense of tradition political, social and religious. We ignore our past at our peril. The problem, argues Tim Stanley, is that the Western tradition is anti-tradition, that we have a habit of discarding old ways and old knowledge, leaving us uncertain how to act or, even, of who we really are.In this wide-ranging book, we see how tradition can be both beautiful and useful, from the deserts of Australia to the court of nineteenth-century Japan. Some of the concepts defended here are highly controversial in the modern West: authority, nostalgia, rejection of self and the hunt for spiritual transcendence. We''ll even meet a tribe who dress up their dead relatives and invite them to tea. Stanley illustrateTrade ReviewThis is a rich and reflective book, based on wide reading and personal experience. * Literary Review *Whatever Happened to Tradition? is stuffed with marvellous vignettes… the reader is left feeling grateful for the abundance of knowledge and the ebullient conviction with which it is shared. -- Allison Pearson * Telegraph *The writer he most resembles is Roger Scruton… Since Scruton died last year, there is a vacancy for a political philosopher who will defend the traditions of this nation with all his heart and all his considerable brain. I suspect we may have found his successor. -- Allison Pearson * Telegraph *This book is brilliant. It's really radical in a way that all the other stuff that says it's radical is not. It really gives you an idea that there is something else outside this airless bubble of the self we are stuck in today. I find that kind of inspiring. -- Adam Curtis, filmmakerHe persuasively presents tradition as rooting us in the world and in society, and as subtly adaptable. -- Jane O’Grady * The Daily Telegraph *Roger Scruton’s death deprived public discourse of its most intelligent and cogent defender of tradition, but Tim Stanley’s Whatever Happened to Tradition? steps bravely into the breach. * Church Times *Tim Stanley suggests in his engaging way that fidelity to the past determines future happiness — for our civilisation, not just our souls. -- Christopher Howse * The Spectator *The book is warmly recommended...it is full of fascinating fact and anecdotes...it is such a refreshing challenge to the sad and lazy assumptions of our age. * faith.org.uk *Table of ContentsIntroduction PART ONE 1 Defining Tradition 2 The West’s War on Tradition 3 The Invention of Tradition 4 The Uses of Nostalgia PART TWO 5 Hurrah for the Old 6 Tradition and Identity 7 Tradition and Order 8 Tradition and Freedom 9 Tradition and Equality 10 Tradition and Faith Conclusion Notes Acknowledgements Index
£10.44
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Age of the City
Book SynopsisOne of the Financial Times'' Best Economics Books of 2023Visionary Oxford professor Ian Goldin and The Economist''s Tom Lee-Devlin show why the city is where the battles of inequality, social division, pandemics and climate change must be faced.From centres of antiquity like Athens or Rome to modern metropolises like New York or Shanghai, cities throughout history have been the engines of human progress and the epicentres of our greatest achievements. Now, for the first time, more than half of humanity lives in cities, and that continues to rise. In the developing world, cities are growing at a rate never seen before.Professor Goldin and Tom Lee-Devlin show why making our societies fairer, more cohesive and sustainable must start with our cities. Globalization and technological change have concentrated wealth into a small number of booming metropolises, leaving many smaller cities and towns behind and feeding populist resentment. Y
£12.34
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Monuments 2nd edition
Book SynopsisTrade Review‘A masterful account of the five classics that should become a classic itself … a triumph of readability: fine tales very well told’ * Road.cc *‘Peter Cossins has skilfully combined history, analysis and anecdote to bring these classic contests vividly to life’ * Independent on Sunday *‘The Monuments is a book that should be on every cyclist’s bookshelf’ * Podium Café *‘A treasure trove for the committed cycling fan’ * thewashingmachinepost *Table of ContentsPart 1: Liège-Bastogne-Liège – La Doyenne Part 2: Paris-Roubaix – The Hell of the North Part 3: The Tour of Lombardy – The Race of the Falling Leaves Part 4: Milan-Sanremo – La Classicissima Part 5: The Tour of Flanders – Vlaanderens Mooiste Endpiece Appendix Bibliography Acknowledgements Index
£14.39
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Big Caesars and Little Caesars
Book SynopsisA WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEARWho said that dictatorship was dead? The world today is full of Strong Men and their imitators. Caesarism is alive and well. Yet in modern times it's become a strangely neglected subject. Ferdinand Mount opens up a fascinating exploration of how and why Caesars seize power and why they fall. Fast paced and impassioned -- Sunday TelegraphWonderfully wry -- The Guardian...a delight -- Sunday TimesDelicious work, beautifully and acerbically written -- Wall Street JournalThere is a comforting illusion shared by historians and political commentators from Fukuyama back to Macaulay, Mill and Marx, that history progresses in a nice straight line towards liberal democracy or socialism, despite the odd hiccup. In reality, every democracy, however sophisticated or stable it may look, has been attacked or actually destroyed by a would-be Caesar, from Ancient Greece to the present day. Marx was wrong. This Caesarism is not an absurd throwback, it is an ever-present d
£12.34
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Groupthink
Book SynopsisIn Groupthink, his final book, the late, eminent journalist and bestselling author Christopher Booker seeks to identify the hidden key to understanding much that is disturbing about the world today. With reference to the ideas of a Yale professor who first identified the theory, and to the writings of George Orwell from whose ''newspeak'' the word was adapted, Booker sheds new light on the remarkable and worrying effects of ''groupthink'', and its influence on our society. Booker defines the three rules of groupthink: the adoption of a common view or belief not based on objective reality; the establishment of a consensus of right-minded people, an ''in group''; and the need to treat the views of anyone who questions the belief as wholly unacceptable. He shows how various interest groups, journalists and even governments in the twenty-first century have subscribed to this way of thinking, with deeply disturbing results. As Booker shows, such be
£10.44
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Women of Westminster
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£12.34
Edinburgh University Press The Duke of Lennox 15741624
Book SynopsisA biography of the second Duke of Lennox, the most consequential person in the Jacobean court in Scotland and EnglandTrade Review"Ludovic Stuart, Duke of Lennox, has long been known as a ubiquitous Jacobean courtier and cousin of the king, but our knowledge of him has been limited by the absence of any scholarly biography. This thoroughly-researched book at last brings him out of the shadows." -Julian Goodare, Professor of History, University of Edinburgh
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press Turkish Politics and the People
Book SynopsisExplores the transformations of the notion of 'the people' from the late Ottoman to current Turkish political discourses
£81.00
Edinburgh University Press Arab Philosophical Trends
Book SynopsisIlluminates the core beliefs of twentieth-century Arab philosophers in response to Western ideas of modernisation
£80.75
Edinburgh University Press Arab Philosophical Trends
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£31.49
Edinburgh University Press The Loneliest Revolution
Book SynopsisIn this first-hand account of the Iranian Revolution, Mirsepassi deftly weaves together his memories of provincial life and radical activism in 1960s and 1970s Iran with insights gleaned in his subsequent career as a sociologist of Iran.Trade Review"The prose of our historiography is changing. Solid scholars with an impeccable academic background are turning to the more publicly accessible genre of memoir, and Ali Mirsepassi's exceptionally insightful new book is a vintage of such fruitful prose. Deeply erudite, and yet intimate, endearing, and irresistibly readable, The Loneliest Revolution charts a whole new way of writing history. A bravura performance! ?" -Hamid Dabashi, Columbia University
£18.22
Edinburgh University Press Slavery and Rebellion in Second Century Bc Sicily
Book SynopsisOffers a new look at slave revolts in ancient history and ancient historiography
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press The Struggle to Reshape the Middle East in the
Book SynopsisThe volume examines the causes and consequences of regional turbulence in the Middle East following the 2003 Iraq war and the 2011 Arab uprisings. ?
£22.49
