William IV: A King at Sea by Roger Knight
$24.99 AUD
Category: British | Series: Penguin Monarchs
William IV, 'the Sailor King', is best known for his naval career and for living for twenty years with the actress Mrs Jordan, with whom he had ten children. Knight's book shows that William was pretty much a disaster in whatever field he found himself.
Ten Cities That Made an Empire by Tristram Hunt
$24.99 AUD
Category: British
From Tristram Hunt, award-winning author of The Frock-Coated Communist and leading UK politician, Ten Cities that Made an Empire presents a new approach to Britain's imperial past through the cities that epitomised it. Since the return of Hong Kong to China in 1997 and the end days of Empire, Britain's ...Show more
Entitled: A Critical History of the British Aristocracy by Chris Bryant
$60.00 AUD
Category: British
A polemical history of the British ruling class and how they ended up owning our nation. The full and sometimes shocking story of the aristocracy in England, Scotland and Ireland, from Anglo-Saxon times until the present day. Exploring the political significance of the peerage in the House of Lords as w ...Show more
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Volume I: The Birth of Britain: The Birth of Britain by Sir Winston S. Churchill
$32.99 AUD
Category: British | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations Ser.
This history will endure; not only because Sir Winston has written it, but also because of its own inherent virtues - its narrative power, its fine judgment of war and politics, of soldiers and statesmen, and even more because it reflects a tradition of what Englishmen in the hey-day of their empire tho ...Show more
Into The Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest by Wade Davis
$29.95 AUD
Category: British | Reading Level: very good
A monumental work of history, biography and adventure - the First World War, Mallory and Mount Everest. For Mallory as for all of his generation, death was but 'a frail barrier that men crossed, smiling and gallant, every day'. As climbers they accepted a degree of risk unimaginable before the war. What ...Show more
Churchill: Walking with Destiny by Andrew Roberts
$35.00 AUD
Category: British
Winston Churchill towers over every other figure in twentieth-century British history. By the time of his death at the age of 90 in 1965, many thought him to be the greatest man in the world. There have been over a thousand previous biographies of Churchill. Andrew Roberts now draws on over forty new so ...Show more
Victoria: The Woman Who Made the Modern World (HB) by Julia Baird
$49.99 AUD
Category: British
The true story for fans of the PBS Masterpiece series Victoria, this page-turning biography reveals the real woman behind the myth: a bold, glamorous, unbreakable queen--a Victoria for our times. Drawing on previously unpublished papers, this stunning new portrait is a story of love and heartbreak, of d ...Show more
Dominion - A History of England Volume V by Peter Ackroyd
$32.99 AUD
Category: British | Series: The History of England | Reading Level: very good
The penultimate volume of Peter Ackroyd's masterful History of England series, Dominion begins in 1815 as national glory following the Battle of Waterloo gives way to post-war depression, spanning the last years of the Regency to the death of Queen Victoria in January 1901.In it, Ackroyd takes us from t ...Show more