Aristocrats: Power, Grace and Decadence - Britain's Great Ruling Classes from 1066 to the Present by Lawrence James
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Category: British | Reading Level: very good
For nine hundred years the British aristocracy has considered itself ideally qualified to rule others, make laws and guide the fortunes of the nation. Tracing the history of this remarkable supremacy, ARISTOCRATS is a story of wars, intrigue, chicanery and extremes of both selflessness and greed. James ...Show more
Foundation - The History of England: Volume I by Peter Ackroyd
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Category: British | Series: The\History of England Ser. | Reading Level: 16
The first volume in a new six-part history of England from acclaimed author Peter Ackroyd. Having written enthralling biographies of London and of its great river, the Thames, Peter Ackroyd now turns to England itself. This first volume of six takes us from the time that England was first settled, more ...Show more
Tudors - The History of England: Volume II by Peter Ackroyd
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Category: British | Series: The\History of England Ser. | Reading Level: 16
Rich in detail and atmosphere and told in vivid prose, Tudors recounts the transformation of England from a settled Catholic country to a Protestant superpower. It is the story of Henry VIII's cataclysmic break with Rome, and his relentless pursuit of both the perfect wife and the perfect heir; of how t ...Show more
Abducting a General - The Kreipe Operation and SOE in Crete by Patrick Leigh Fermor
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Category: British | Reading Level: good
One of the greatest feats in Patrick Leigh Fermor's remarkable life was the kidnapping of General Kreipe, the German commander in Crete, on 26 April 1944. He and Captain Billy Moss hatched a daring plan to abduct the general, while ensuring that no reprisals were taken against the Cretan population. Dre ...Show more
Magna Carta by David Carpenter
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Category: British
With a new commentary by David Carpenter "No free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his rights or possessions, or outlawed or exiled, or deprived of his standing in any other way, nor will we proceed with force against him, or send others to do so, except by the lawful judgment of his eq ...Show more
Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal: by Ben Macintyre
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Category: British
Kim Philby was the most notorious British defector and Soviet mole in history. Agent, double agent, traitor and enigma, he betrayed every secret of Allied operations to the Russians in the early years of the Cold War.Philby's two closest friends in the intelligence world, Nicholas Elliott of MI6 and Jam ...Show more
Modernity Britain: 1957-1962 by David Kynaston
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Category: British
David Kynaston's history of post-war Britain has so far taken us from the radically reforming Labour governments of the late 1940s in Austerity Britain and through the growing prosperity of Family Britain's more placid 1950s. Now Modernity Britain 1957-62 sees the coming of a new Zeitgeist as Kynaston g ...Show more
The London Scene by Virginia Woolf
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Category: British | Series: (with Virginia Woolf)
A Strange Business: Making Art and Money in Nineteenth-Century Britain by James Hamilton
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Category: British
"Britain in the nineteenth century saw a series of technological and social changes which continue to influence and direct us today. Its reactants were human genius, money and influence, its crucibles the streets and institutions, its catalyst time, its control the market. In this rich and fascinating b ...Show more
Royalty Inc: Britain's Best-Known Brand by Stephen Bates
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Category: British
It is an amazing feat in the 21st century that Queen Elizabeth II, a small, elderly woman in her mid-eighties, should be one of the most recognisable people on the planet. Her voice is redolent of another era, her interests are esoteric to many of her people, her opinions on anything from the weather to ...Show more
Stephen: The Reign of Anarchy by Carl Watkins
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Category: British | Series: Penguin Monarchs
Known as 'the anarchy', the reign of Stephen (1135-1141) saw England plunged into a civil war that illuminated the fatal flaw in the powerful Norman monarchy, that without clear rules ordering succession, conflict between members of William the Conqueror's family were inevitable. But there was another p ...Show more
William II: The Red King by John Gillingham
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Category: British | Series: Penguin Monarchs
William II (1087-1100), or William Rufus, will always be most famous for his death: killed by an arrow while out hunting, perhaps through accident or perhaps murder. But, as John Gillingham makes clear in this elegant book, as the son and successor to William the Conqueror it was William Rufus who had t ...Show more