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Ackroyd, Peter.
Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination.
Chatto and Windus. 1150g. Plates, index, 516pp., good in d/w. 12.50
Alcock, Leslie.
Arthur's Britain: History and Archaeology 367-634.
Allen Lane 1972 rep. Plates, biblio., index, 415pp., mark to tp. else good in torn d/w. 8.50
Alcock, Leslie.
Arthur's Britain: History and Archaeology 367-634.
Penguin 1973 400g. Plates, index, 437pp., card covers, good. 4.50
Alcock, Leslie.
'By South Cadbury, is that Camelot...': Excavations at Cadbury Castle 1966-70.
BCA. 1975 Large 8vo. Plates, illus., index, 224pp., good in d/w. 8.00
Alter, Peter.
Nationalism.
Arnold 2nd. ed. Index, 140pp., card covers, good. 3.50
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.
Trans. by Rev. James Ingram.
Everyman's Library Vol. No. 624 1934 rep. Index, 301pp., good in d/w. 6.00
Ashley, Maurice.
Oliver Cromwell and His World.
Thames and Hudson 1972 190mm. by 240mm., 600g. Plates, illus., index, 128pp., good in d/w. 5.00
Ashton, Robert.
The English Civil War: Conservatism and Revolution 1603-1649.
Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1979 rep. 600g. Index, 453pp., ex-lib. copy with usual stamps, lacks ffep., underlining else good reading copy in lib. style binding. 4.00
Ashton, T.S.
The Industrial Revolution 1760-1830.
Oxford UP. 1980 Rep. Index, 135pp., card covers, inscr. else good. 3.50
Barstow, Phyllida.
The English Country House Party.
Sutton Pub. rep. Plates, index, 224pp., large card
covers, vg. 5.00
Bedarida, Francois.
A Social History of England 1851-1975.
Trans. by A.S. Forster.
Methuen 1979 Plates, biblio., index, 347pp., card covers, crease to sp. else good. 5.00
Bede.
A History of the English Church and People.
Trans. by Leo Sherley-Price. Revised by R.E. Latham.
Penguin Classics 1977 rep. 200g. Index, 363pp., card covers, sp. sl. creased else good. 4.50
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de la Bedoyere, Guy.
The Golden Age of Roman Britain.
Tempus. 850g. Plates, illus., index, 194pp., good in d/w. 12.00
Berwick-upon-Tweed History Society.
Berwick in Parliament.
BUTHS 400g. Plates, index, 154pp., good. 3.50
Best, Geoffrey.
Mid-Victorian Britain 1851-75.
Fontana P. 1987 rep. Index, 350pp., card covers, ex-lib. copy with usual stamps, sp. sl. creased good. 2.50
Billings, Malcolm.
The English: The Making of a Nation from 430-1700.
BBC. 190mm. by 225mm., 500g. Plates, 143pp., ex-lib. copy with usual stamps, lacks ffep., else good reading copy in d/w. 3.50
Bird, Dick.
Never the Same Again: A History of VSO.
The Lutterworth Press. 500g. Plates, index, 205pp., card covers, ex-lib. copy with a few stamps else good. 3.50
Blake, Robert.
The Conservative Party from Peel to Churchill.
Fontana 1972 Index, 305pp., card covers,
inscr., else good. 3.50
Bord, Janet & Colin.
Mysterious Britain: Mysterious Britain and The Secret Country.
Paladin 1978 and 1976 2 vols. Plates, index, 287pp., 247pp., card covers, vg. in slipcase. 8.00
Brett, S. Reed.
The Stuart Century 1603-1714.
Harrap 1961 Biblio., index, 452pp., corner of ffep. cut off else good in d/w. 5.00
Briggs, Asa.
A Social History of England.
Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1983 1150g. Large sized. Plates, 320pp., ex-lib. copy with some stamps, lacks ffep., else good reading copy in d/w. 5.00
Briggs, Asa.
Victorian Things.
Penguin rep. Plates, index, 448pp.,
card covers, sl. creased else good. 5.00
Britain in Pictures:
Published by Collins under the general editorship of W.J. Turner this delightful series is standard fare with many second-hand booksellers in the UK. Each volume is designed with usually 8 colour or sepia plates and a number of black and white illustrations in 48 pages. The binding is in decorated boards of one colour and the dustwrapper is almost identical.
- Cecil, Lord David.
The English Poets.
Britain In Pictures Limited. nd. c. 1945 Plates, 47pp., sl. loose and one plate sl. damaged, sp. sunned; reading copy. 2.00
- Darwin, Bernard.
British Golf. Collins 1946 First edition. Good in d/w. 12.00
- No. 11 Blunden, Edmund.
English Villages.
Collins 1947 5th. imp. 41pp. Some foxing to ep's else good in d/w. 5.00
- No. 62 Davies, Rhys.
The Story of Wales.
Collins 1943 First edition. 250g. Plates, 47pp., good in d/w. 5.00
- No. 65 Grigson, Geoffrey. Wild Flowers in Britain.
Collins 1944 3rd. imp. 300g. Plates, 47pp., good in d/w. 5.00
- No. 92 Hawkes, Jacquetta.
Early Britain.
Collins 1946 rep. 300g. 47pp., good in d/w. 5.00
- Johnson, S.C. British Postage Stamps. 1944 First edition. 200g. Plates, 47pp., inscr., else good in d/w. 5.00
- No. 85 Lockley, R.M.
Islands Round Britain.
Collins 1945 First edition. 300g. 47pp., vg. in d/w. 8.00
- Morrah, Dermot. The British Red Cross.
Collins 1944 First edition. Good in sl. frayed/torn good d/w. 5.00
- No. 38 Hennell, Thomas. British Craftsmen.
1946 2nd. imp. Sp. sl. loose else good in marked d/w. 3.50
- No. 89 Gloag, John. British Furniture Makers.
1946 2nd. imp. Good in sl. torn good d/w. 6.00
- No. 106 Dobree, Bonamy. English Essayists.
1946 First edition. Good in frayed, dull d/w. 4.50
Brooke, Christopher.
The Saxon and Norman Kings.
The Fontana Library 1970 rep. Plates, index, 224pp., card covers, sp. creased else good. 2.50
Bryant, Arthur.
A History of Britain and the British People: Volume 2. Freedom's Own Island:
The British Oceanic Expansion.
Grafton 1987 rep. Plates, index, 574pp., card covers, good. 4.00
Bryant, Arthur.
The Years of Endurance 1793-1802.
Fontana 1961 Index, 446pp., card covers, good. 3.50
Burke, John.
An Illustrated History of England.
Collins 1987 rep. Large 8vo. Plates, index, 382pp., good in d/w. 7.00
Burke, Thomas.
The English Townsman.
Batsford 1947 rep. Plates, index, 151pp., good in colourful d/w. 10.00
Burl, Aunbrey.
Prehistoric Avebury.
BCA. 1979 Large 8vo. Plates, notes, index, good in sl. offset d/w. 10.00
Burl, Aunbrey.
The Stone Circles of the British Isles.
Yale University Press 1979 rep. Plates, illus., biblio., index, 410pp., large card covers, crease to sp. else good. 10.00
Bythell, Duncan.
The Handloom Weavers: A Study in the English Cotton Industry during the Industrial Revolution.
Cambridge UP. 1977 rep. 600g. 301pp., index, ex-lib. copy with a few stamps else good in d/w. 8.00
Carlton, Charles.
Archbishop William Laud.
RKP 1987 Notes, index, 272pp., good in d/w. 8.50
Chandler, John. (Ed.)
Travels Through Stuart Britain: The Adventures of John Taylor, The Water Poet.
Alan Sutton. Large 8vo. Illus., plates, index, 308pp., good in d/w. 12.00
Charmley, John.
Chamberlain and the Lost Peace.
Hodder and Stoughton 1989 600g. illus., index, 257pp., good. 5.00
Childs, John.
The Army, James II and the Glorious Revolution.
Manchester UP 1980 Appendices, index, 226pp., small piece of ffep. torn off else vg. in d/w. 10.00
Clarke, I.F.
Voices Prophesying War 1763-1984
Oxford UP. 1966 Plates, biblio., index, 254pp., ex-lib. copy with usual stamps else good in d/w. 8.00
Cole, G.G.H.
A Century of Co-Operation 1844-1944.
Allen and Unwin c. 1944 Index, 427pp., maps, good in torn d/w. 10.00
Collinson, Patrick.
The Elizabethan Puritan Movement.
Cape 1967 750g. Notes, index, 527pp., good in d/w. 10.00
Deane, Phyllis.
The First Industrial Revolution.
Cambridge UP. 1986 rep. Biblio., index, 318pp., card covers sl. marked else good. 4.00
Delgado, Alan.
The Enormous File: A Social History of the Office.
John Murray 1979 600g. 195mm. by 255mm. Plates, illus., index, 120pp., good in d/w. 5.00
Dell, Edmund.
The Chancellors: A History of the Chancellors of the Exchequer 1945-1990.
HarperCollins. 160mm. by 245mm., 1000g. Biblio., index, 618pp., ex-lib. copy with usual stamps, lacks ffep., else good reading copy in d/w. 6.00
Domesday 1086-1986: An exhibition to celebrate the 900th anniversary of Domesday Book.
HMSO. 1986 Plates, illus., biblio., 77pp., square card covers, good. 3.50
Earle, Peter.
The Wreck of The Almiranta: Sir William Phips and the Hispaniola Treasure.
BCA 1979 Plates, notes, index, 260pp., good in d/w. 5.00
Ellis, Peter Berresford.
Caesar's Invasion of Britain.
Constable rep. 190mm. by 250mm., 600g. Plates, index, 144pp., good in d/w. 8.00
Evans, H.T.
Modern Wales. Senior Book II.
Wrexham c. 1920 600g. Plates, 283pp., good. 3.50
Frow, Edmund and Ruth.
To Make That Future Now: A History of the Manchester and Salford Trades Council.
Manchester: Morten 1976 500g. Illus., 176pp., index, card covers, ffep. sl. marked else good. 5.00
Greed, John A.
Glastonbury Tales.
Bristol: St. Trillo Pub. 1975 Illus., 183pp., card covers, inscr., sl. torn and rubbed else good. 5.00
Groves, Reg.
Sharpen the Sickle: A History of the Farm Workers' Union.
Merlin Press 1981 rep. 400g. Plates, index, 256pp., card covers, inscr., ffep. sl. rubbed else good. 5.00
Harrison, Shirley.
The Channel.
Collins 1986 950g. Plates, illus., biblio., 320pp., good in torn d/w. 8.00
Hawkes, Jean (Trans. and intro.)
The London Journal of Flora Tristan.
Virago 1982 400g. Plates, biblio., 306pp., card covers, inscr. else good. 3.50
Hirst, Derek.
Authority and Conflict: England 1603-1658.
The New History of England 4. Arnold 1986 155mm. by 235mm., 650g. Index, 390pp., card covers, inscr., else good. 8.00
Hobsbawm, E.J; Rudee, George.
Captain Swing.
RU. 1970 Frontis., plates, index, 384pp., inscr., else good. 5.00
Jarvis, Geoffrey.
The Story of St. Alban's Abbey.
St. Albans 1979 3rd. ed. 100g. 28pp., card covers, good. 2.00
Jenkins, Elizabeth.
Elizabeth the Great.
Gollancz 1958 Frontis., index, 336pp., good in repaired d/w. 8.00
Jessup, Ronald.
South-East England.
Ancient Peoples and Places.
Thames and Hudson 1970 Illus., plates, index, 273pp., good in d/w. 8.00
Kenyon, J.P. (Ed.)
A Dictionary of British History.
Secker and Warburg 1981 410pp., good in d/w. 8.00
Lane, Peter.
The Industrial Revolution: The Birth of the Modern Age.
BCS 1978 Plates, index, 292pp., good in d/w. 5.00
Lloyd, T.O.
Empire to Welfare State, English History, 1906-1976.
The Short Oxford History of the Modern World 1979 2nd. ed. 800g. Index, 511pp., ex-lib. copy with usual stamps, lacks ffep., some underlining else good reading copy in lib. style binding. 6.00
Loades, David.
Henry VIII and his Queens.
Sutton Pub. 200g. Biblio., index, 178pp., card covers, good. 3.50
Loades, David.
The Tudor Court.
Batsford Studies in British History 1986 600g. Plates, index, 250pp., good in d/w. 12.00
Lord, Walter.
A Night to Remember.
Penguin 1981 rep. Plates, index, 186pp., card covers, sl. creased else good. 3.50
Lord, Walter.
The Night Lives On: Thoughts, Theories and Revelations about the Titanic.
Penguin rep. Plates, index, 272pp., card covers, a bit creased else good. 2.50
McKee, Alexander.
The Golden Wreck.
Four Square. 1963 200g. Plates, 191pp., card covers, good. 3.50
McKee, Alexander.
How We Found The Mary Rose.
Souvenir Press rep. 550g. 175mm. by 235mm. Plates, illus., 152pp., card covers, good. 5.00
McKisack, May.
The Oxford History of England.
The Fourteenth Century 1307-1399.
Oxford UP. 1959 Biblio., index, 598pp., folding chart. Original cloth, small inscr., else good. 12.00
McNeil, William H.
A World History.
Oxford UP. 1979 Plates, biblio, essay, index, 558pp., maps, good in d/w. 6.00
Magnus, Philip.
King Edward VII.
Penguin 1975 rep. Plates, index, 650pp., folding genealogical chart, card covers, good. 5.00
Marshall, Dorothy.
Industrial England 1776-1851.
RKP. 1973 Index, 242pp., ex-lib. copy with usual stamps, lacks ffep., else good in d/w. 5.00
Meacham, Standish.
A Life Apart: The English Working Class 1890-1914.
Thames and Hudson 1977 Plates, index, 272pp., good in d/w. 12.50
Mitford, Nancy.
The Sun King.
Hamish Hamilton 1967 4th. imp. Large 8vo. Plates, index, 255pp., lacks ffep., else good in d/w. 6.00
Monmouth, Earl of.
Memoirs of the life of Robert Cary, Baron of Leppington, and Earl of Monmouth, written by Himself and now published from an original maunscript in the custody of John Earl of Corke and Orrey, with some explanatory notes.
London 1759 Frontis., appendix, 200pp., index, errata, 1/2 marbled boards brown calf raised bands, some staining to top edges of some pages of the appendix and index, front board hinge fragile, spine rubbed and top band frayed and a bit loose, else good. 75.00
Monmouth, Geoffrey of.
The History of the Kings of Britain.
Trans. by Lewis Thorpe.
Penguin Classics 1968 rep. 350g. Index, 373pp., card covers, sl. marked else good. 5.00
O'Morgan, Kenneth. (Ed.)
The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain.
Oxford UP. rep. Illus., plates, 646pp., index,
large card covers, good. 6.00
Orwin, Christabel S; Whetham, Edith H.
History of British Agriculture 1846-1914.
David and Charles 1971 rep. Index, 411pp., ex-lib. copy with usual stamps, lacks ffep., some underlining, else good in d/w. 7.50
The Oxford History of England (Ed. by G.N. Clark):
1087-1216 From Domesday Book to Magna Carta.
Clarendon P. 1951 950g. Index, 541pp., a few library stamps else good in d/w. 10.00
1216-1307 The Thirteenth Century by Sir Maurice Powicke.
Clarendon P. 1953 140mm. by 225mm., 1200g. Index, 829pp., inscr., else good in d/w. 12.00
1307-1399 The Fourteenth Century by May McKisack.
Clarendon P. 1959 140mm. by 225mm., 1050g. Index, 598pp., folding chart, inscr. else good in d/w. 10.00
1399-1485 The Fifteenth Century by E.F. Jacob.
Clarendon P. 1961 140mm. by 225mm., 1200g. Index, 775pp., maps, inscr. else good in d/w. 12.50
1558-1603 The Reign of Elizabeth by J.B. Black.
Clarendon P. 1937 rep. 140mm. by 225mm., 1000g. Index, 448pp., folding maps and charts, inscr., else good in dull d/w. 10.00
1603-1660 The Early Stuarts.
Clarendon P. 1949 rep. 140mm. by 225mm. 750g. Index, 452pp., maps, inscr. else good in d/w. 9.00
1714-1760 The Whig Supremacy by Basil Williams.
Clarendon P. 1945 rep. 140mm by 220mm., 800g. Index, 464pp., folding maps, good in ragged d/w. 10.00
1760-1815 The Reign of George III by J. Steven Watson.
Clarendon P. 1960 140mm. by 225mm., 1100g. Index, 637pp., maps, inscr., else good in d/w. 12.00
1914-1945 English History by A.J.P. Taylor.
Clarendon P. 1966 rep. 140mm. by 225mm., 1200g. Maps, index, 709pp., inscr. else good. 10.00
Parsons, Gerald. (Ed.)
Religion in Victorian Britain: I Traditions.
Manchester UP in assoc. with the OU. 1988 rep. Index, 328pp.,
card covers, vg. 8.00
Parsons, Gerald. (Ed.)
Religion in Victorian Britain: II Controversies.
Manchester UP in assoc. with the OU. 1988 rep. Index, 308pp.,
card covers, sl. marked else vg. 8.00
The Pelican History of England:
Bindoff, S.T.
Vol.5 Tudor England.
1963 rep. Index, 319pp., card covers, creased else good. 3.50
Kenyon, J.P.
Vol.6 Stuart England.
1983 rep. 250g. Index, 383pp., card covers, good. 3.50
Perren, Richard.
Agriculture in Depression 1870-1940.
Cambridge U.P. 100g. Biblio., index, 81pp., card covers, ex-lib. copy with a few stamps else good 2.50
Platt, Colin.
The English Medieval Town.
Secker and Warburg 1976 Large 8vo. Maps, plates, notes, index, 219pp., good in d/w. 12.00
Plowden, Alison.
Lady Jane Grey and the House of Suffolk.
BCA 1986 600g. Plates, family-tree, index, 201pp., good in d/w. 6.00
Renshaw, Patrick.
Nine Days in May: The General Strike.
Eyre Methuen 1975 195mm. by 250mm., 600g. Plates, 134pp., inscr. else good in d/w. 5.00
Sayers, R.S.
A History of Economic Change in England 1880-1939.
Oxford UP. 1978 rep. Index, 179pp., card covers, inscr. else good. 4.00
Seward, Desmond.
Richard III: England's Black Legend.
Country Life 1983 rep. 700g. Plates, index, 220pp., good in d/w. 8.00
Shannon, Richard.
The Crisis of Imperialism 1865-1915.
Paladin 1976 Notes, index, 512pp., card covers, a bit creased else good. 3.50
Slater, Terry.
A History of Warwickshire.
Phillimore 1981 650g., 190mm. by 250mm. Illus., index, 128pp., good in d/w. 8.00
Speck, W.A.
James II.
Profiles in Power. Longman. 300g. Index, 173pp., card covers, ex-lib. copy with some stamps, lacks ffep., else good reading copy. 3.50
Spender, Dale.
Time and Tide Wait for No Man: The story of a feminist political weekly in the 1920's.
Pandora P. 1984 Index, 285pp., card covers, good. 4.00
Swanton, Michael (Trans. and ed.).
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles.
Phoenix Press. 700g. Index, 363pp., paperback, good. 8.00
Taylor, A.J.P.
Revolutions and Revolutionaries.
Hamish Hamilton 1980 Plates, illus., index,
165pp., good in d/w. 5.00
Titley, D.P.
Machines, Money and Men: An Economic and Social History of Great Britain, 1700-1970's.
Hart-Davis Educ. 1982 2nd. ed. rep. 600g. Illus., index, 278pp., ex-lib. copy with usual stamps, lacks ffep., else good working copy in lib. style binding. 2.50
Trevelyan, G.M.
England Under the Stuarts.
Penguin Pelican 546pp., lacks tp. else good card covers. 2.00
Utley, T.E.
Lessons of Utley.
Intro. by Alistair B. Cooke.
Friends of the Union in association with the T.E. Utley Memorial Fund.
New ed. 200g. Appendices, 154pp., card covers,
ex-lib. copy with some stamps/marks else good.
3.00
Walvin, James.
Black Ivory: A History of British Slavery.
Fontana. 350g. Plates, biblio., index, 365pp., card covers, sl. creased, inscr., else good. 3.50
Webb, Sidney and Beatrice.
The History of Trade Unionism.
Longmans 1920 rev. ed. Index, 784pp., covers dull and marked else good. 8.00
Weyer, Robert Van de. (Ed.)
Bede: Celtic and Roman Christianity in Britain.
Arthur James. 250g. Index, 152pp., card covers, sp. creased else good. 3.50
Wilson, Charles.
England's Apprenticeship 1603-1763.
Longmans 1967 rep. Illus., maps, biblio., index, 413pp., inscr., else good. 7.50
Wilson, Derek.
England in the Age of Thomas More.
BCA 1978 600g. Index, 261pp., good in repaired d/w. 5.00
Wolfe, John. (Ed.)
Religion in Victorian Britain: V Culture and Empire.
Manchester UP in assoc. with the OU. Index, 359pp., card covers, good. 8.00
Wood, Michael.
Domesday: A Search for the Roots of England.
BCA 1987 Plates, index, 224pp., good in d/w. 3.50
Wood, Michael.
Domesday: A Search for the Roots of England.
BBC Books 1987 Large 8vo. Rep. plates, index, 224pp., good in d/w.
8.00
Wood, Michael.
In Search of the Dark Ages.
BBC 1981 Large 8vo. Plates, illus., index, 244pp., ex-lib. copy with usual stamps, lacks ffep., sp. sl. loose, else good working copy in lib. style binding. 3.50
Wood, Richard.
History of Fairs and Markets.
Wayland. 600g. Plates, index, 48pp., pictorial boards, rear marked else good. 3.00
Young, John R. (Ed.)
Celtic Dimensions of the British Civil Wars.
John Donald 400g. Index, 232pp., card covers, ex-lib. copy with some stamps else good. 5.00
Ziegel, Philip.
King William IV.
RU 1973 Plates, biblio., index, 335pp., good in d/w. 5.00
