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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The story of the breaking of the Lorenz machine more complex and secure than Enigma in the words of the man who broke it.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Bader's war.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Flora MacDonald's flight to Skye with Bonnie Prince Charlie made her into a Scottish heroine, and the subject of legend and song. She later emigrated to America and was caught up in the War of Independence. This biography brings her to life.

Hardback. Condition: Good. Historys heroic failures, from Scotlands Panamanian colony to the nuclear-powered car.

Hardback. Condition: Good. A compendium of historical facts and figures, perfect for dipping into. Full of information that will make you say, I never knew that.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. In this, her third case, Frances Doughty must rely on her wit, courage and determination - as well as some loyal friends - to solve the case.

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Paperback. Condition: Good. An intimate account of a middle-class Victorian family, as told through the diaries of Marion Sambourne, who was born in 1851 and died shortly before World War I. Recording the minutiae of family life, as well as meetings with aquaintances of her husband, Punch cartoonist Linley Sambourne.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Whether hailing from the open Yorkshire Dales or the close-knit neighborhoods of its towns and cities, North Yorkshire folk have always been fond of a good tale. This collection of stories from around the county is a tribute to their narrative vitality, and commemorates places and people who have left their mark on their communities. Here you will find dragon slayers, boggarts, and giants, tragic love affairs, thwarted villainy, witches, fairies, ghosts, and much more. Historical characters drift in and out of the stories, strangely transformed by the mists of legend; Dick Turpin, St. Hilda, General Wade, St. Oswald, Mother Shipton, and Ragnar Hairy Breeches--characters as rugged and powerful as the landscape they stride. These intriguing stories, brought to life with over thirty illustrations, will be enjoyed by readers time and again.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. The landscape has had a huge impact on the history of Liverpool and Merseyside. It explains why Liverpool looks the way it does today, and how clues in the modern landscape reveal details of its long history. Youll see how the landscape created Liverpool, and how in turn Liverpool recreated the landscape.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. This book contains hundreds of strange but true facts and anecdotes about English history.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Norfolk is steeped in story. Whether we are treading fields, fens, beaches or streets, the landscape is pregnant with secret histories. The collective imagination of countless generations has populated the county with ghosts, saints, witches, pharisees, giants and supernatural beasts. Stories have evolved around historical characters, with Horatio Nelson, Oliver Cromwell, Anne Boleyn, Tom Paine and King Edmund becoming larger than life in folk-memory. This book is a celebration of the deep connection between a place and its people.…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. A collection of little-known facts and figures compiled to tell the fascinting story of Kent.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. The developments of this famous aircraft took it from uncompromising beginnings to become the legendary last memorial to a great man - an elegant and, with its pilots, a highly effective, weapon of war.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Cambridge student pranks.

Paperback. Condition: Good. A history of Captain Cook's early years.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Black Barty.

Hardback. Condition: Good. A fully illustrated book describing the extraordinary range of food which found its way on to the tables of medieval English society. It covers aspects of hunting, fish breeding, brewing, baking, food hygiene and storage.

Paperback. Condition: Good. In 1428 a young girl from a small French village approached the royal castle of Vaucouleurs with a now famous tale. The ensuing tale of Joans military success is told here in a gripping and authoritative narrative.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. A lighthearted guide to the deeds and misdeeds of all the great names in world history.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Romantic, chaotic and terrifying, Catherine Parr's life unfolds like a romance novel. Married at seventeen to the grandson of a confirmed lunatic and widowed at twenty, Catherine chose a Yorkshire lord twice her age as her second husband. Caught up in the turbulent terrors of the Pilgrimage of Grace in 1536, she was captured by northern rebels, held hostage and suffered violence at their hands. Fleeing to the south shortly afterward, Catherine took refuge in the household of Princess Mary and in the arms of the king's brother-in-law, Sir Thomas Seymour. Her employment in Mary's household brought her to the attention of Mary's father, the unpredictable, often-wed Henry VIII. Desperately in love with Seymour, Catherine was forced into marriage with a king whose passion for her could not be hidden and who was determined to make her his queen.…

Hardback. Condition: Good. Ever wondered how fat Henry VIII really was? Or what made Mary I ?Bloody??Over many hundreds of years, British royalty has had its fair share of accidents, rumours, scandals, misrepresentations and misconceptions. For instance, could Richard III be innocent of the deaths of the ?Princes in the Tower?? And what really happened between Queen Victoria and her Highland servant John Brown?In today?s world, where newspapers clamour to report new revelations about the Royal Family, this informative and quirky book gives the inquisitive reader an in-depth look at the secrets of our past royals. For anyone curious about what went on behind the palace walls, Raymond Lamont-Brown answers those intriguing, confusing and mysterious questions we might have about our monarchs.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Matilda of Flanders, queen to William the Conqueror was beautiful, exquisitely small, clever, with a perfect courtesy trained in the rigid school of medieval manners. But within lay a root of darkness - inheritance, perhaps, of Viking ancestors. Twice, at least, in her lifetime the Viking streak broke through, in vengeance on a faithless lover, in fury wreaked on a rival of the marriage bed. The marriage, though fruitful of so many children, was on her side no match of love. But a passionate loyalty to her husband, an equally passionate ambition, together with her own sense of justice, gave her the will and the skill to dissemble her feelings and to make her the praise of Christendom. No Queen ever wielded so much power as she in the long years she ruled Normandy; before her no woman in England was ever crowned or was known as Queen.…

Hardback. Condition: Good. Biography of Mary Robinson.

Hardback. Condition: Good. In this study of Macbeth in all his manifestations, the author begins by considering the historical context, then traces the origins and development of the myths surrounding him and the culmination of this process in Shakespeare's play and finally looks at the main places associated with him.…

Hardback. Condition: Good. Harold Godwinsson, the last Anglo-Saxon king of England, rose from relative obscurity to ascend the throne, and his death ushered in the Norman Conquest. This full length biography is a valuable resource for those interested in the Saxons or Normans.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Jeremy Black looks at two millennia of English history, and identifies two major themes: a lack of geographic and concomitant economic unity; and the fact that from the Roman invasion onward, a united England was often politically associated with Europe, from Cnut to the Hanoverians.…

Hardback. Condition: Good. After crossing the Atlantic when still in his teens, he played a central part in the conquest of the Incas, survived imprisonment and torture, took an Inca princess as his lover, abandoned his wife for the gaming tables of Lima, and spent the rest of his life in Peru.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 'Simply unforgettable . one of the most beautiful and haunting books of recent times' Alexander McCall Smith.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Queen Victoria's children.