The Children History Forgot by Sue Wilkes
79.99 NZD
Category: History
Once upon a time, Britain forged a mighty industrial empire - built with the blood, sweat and tears of society's most vulnerable members. Children History Forgot explores young people's working lives during the late Georgian and Victorian eras, when boys and girls created almost every item in our ancest ...Show more
A House For Spies : SIS Operations into Occupied France from a Sussex Farmhouse by Edward Wake-Walker
79.99 NZD
Category: History
This is the story of the bizarre role played by Barbara Bertram in the Second World War. From 1941 to 1944 she provided board and lodging in her Sussex farmhouse to men and women of the French Resistance who, acting as intelligence agents for the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), were flown by moonligh ...Show more
The Popes: A History by John Julius Norwich
69.99 NZD
Category: History
Well known for his histories of Norman Sicily, Venice, the Byzantine Empire and the Mediterranean, John Julius Norwich has now turned his attention to the oldest continuing institution in the world, tracing the papal line down the centuries from St Peter himself - traditionally (though by no means histo ...Show more
Shapely Ankle Preferr'd: A History of the Lonely Hearts Ad 1695 - 2010 by Francesca Beauman
39.99 NZD
Category: History
What do women look for in a man? And what do men look for in a woman? And how and why has this changed over the centuries? Every week thousands of people advertise for love either in newspapers, magazines or online. But if you think this is a modern phenomenon, think again - the ads have been running fo ...Show more
China Witness: Voices from a Silent Generation by Xinran
37.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: good
In 1912, five thousand years of feudal rule ended in China. Warlords, Western businessmen, soldiers, missionaries, and Japanese all ruled China, exploited, and fought one another, and the Chinese. In 1949, Mao Zedong came to power. China Witness is a personal testimony from a normally silent generation, ...Show more
Elizabeth. The Exhibition at the National Maritime Museum by David Starkey
84.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
With contributions from experts on Tudor history, this catalogue focuses on Elizabeth's court, her relationship with the City of London, the importance of Elizabeth's maritime adventurers, burgeoning maritime enterprise and the beginnings of an overseas empire.
The English Ghost: Spectres Through Time by Peter Ackroyd
39.99 NZD
Category: History
The English, Peter Ackroyd tells us in this fascinating collection, see more ghosts than any other nation. Each region has its own particular spirits, from the Celtic ghosts of Cornwall to the dobies and boggarts of the north. Some speak and some are silent, some smell of old leather, others of fragrant ...Show more
London Under by Peter Ackroyd
39.99 NZD
Category: History
From the author of the bestselling London: The Biography, a poetic and powerful urban history of life and legend beneath London. This is a wonderful, atmospheric, historical, imaginative, oozing little study of verything that goes on under London, from original springs and streams and Roman amphitheatre ...Show more
Thames - Sacred River by Peter Ackroyd
24.99 NZD
75.00 (66% off)
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
"Thames: Sacred River" is about the river from source to sea. It covers history from prehistoric times to the present, the flora and fauna of the river, paintings and photographs inspired by the Thames, its geology, smells and colours, its literature, laws and landscape, its magic and myths, its archite ...Show more
At Canaan's Edge - America in the King Years 1965-68 by Taylor Branch
54.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: good-very good
Chronicles dramatic campaigns in Mississippi and Alabama, King's tormented alliance with Lyndon Johnson, his painful break with Stokey Carmichael over black power, and persecution by Hoover's FBI. This book brings the decades of the Civil Rights struggle alive and preserves the integrity of those who ma ...Show more
The Evolution of Useful Things by Henry Petroski
32.99 NZD
35.00 (5% off)
Category: History
Fugitive Justice: Runaways, Rescuers, and Slavery on Trial by Steven Lubet
54.95 NZD
Category: History
During the tumultuous decade before the Civil War, no issue was more divisive than the pursuit and return of fugitive slaves - a practice enforced under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. When free Blacks and their abolitionist allies intervened, prosecutions and trials inevitably followed. These cases inv ...Show more