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A Description of Moldavia [Hardback]
Dimitrie Cantemir(Author)
$39.99ISBN: 9781592110254
Published by : Center for Romanian Studies
Written by one of the country’s most renowned rulers, A Description of Moldavia provides unique insight into the geography, history, economy, ethnography, culture, and traditions of the principality. Born to a noble family, the author, Dimit... .... Learn More -
The Works of Thomas Traherne [complete set] [Hardback]
Jan Ross(Editor)
$965.00ISBN: 9781843840473
Published by : D.S. Brewer
Series: Works of Thomas Traherne
Thomas Traherne [1637? - 1674], a clergyman of the Church of England during the Restoration, was little known until the early twentieth century, when his poetry and Centuries of Meditations were discovered. There have been since miscellaneo... .... Learn More -
Learned Lives in England, 1900-1950: Institutions, Ideas and Intellectual Experience [Hardback]
William C. Lubenow(Author)
$99.00ISBN: 9781783275502
Published by : Boydell Press
This book explores the tangled relationships between knowledge and politics during the first fifty years of the twentieth century. Changes within universities, particularly in Oxford, Cambridge, and the London School of Economics, made them, more ... .... Learn More -
Proceedings of the Privy Council of Queen Elizabeth I, 1582-83: Two Volume Set [Hardback]
David Crankshaw(Editor)
$325.00ISBN: 9781843836537
Published by : Boydell Press
Series: Proceedings of the Privy Council of Elizabeth I
By 1540, the Privy Council had been established as the Crown's principal policy-making and executive arm. Under the later Tudors, it governed England on the sovereign's behalf, functioning as an elite corporate board, and imbued with a sense of co... .... Learn More -
Malta in World War II: Contemporary watercolours by Alfred Gerada [Paperback]
Albert Ganado(Author)
$65.00ISBN: 9789993276166
Published by : Midsea Books
A unique collection of watercolors of World War Two in Malta which have never been seen before, executed on site by the Maltese war artist, Alfred Gera. He painted with vigor and enthusiasm capturing the whole gamut of life and action during warti... .... Learn More -
North Uist in History and Legend [Paperback]
Bill Lawson(Author)
$18.95ISBN: 9781912476961
Published by : Origin
Like all the Hebrides, North Uist has a fascinating history and a landscape scattered with historic sites, from Neolithic burial chambers, Iron Age forts and medieval churches to battle-sites and townships forged in the days of kelp trade and dese... .... Learn More -
This Great Harbour: Scapa Flow [Paperback]
W.S. Hewison(Author)
$28.95ISBN: 9781912476862
Published by : Origin
Known by mariners since Viking times as a safe anchorage in notoriously savage waters, Scapa Flow is the seaway that runs between the Orkney mainland and the island of Hoy. As the northern base of the Royal Navy and Allied fleets in two world wars... .... Learn More -
The Legacy of Rome: Scotland's Roman Remains [Paperback]
Lawrence Keppie(Author)
$18.95ISBN: 9781912476947
Published by : Origin
As an outpost of empire, Scotland played a significant, if unusual, role in the Roman world. The south and east were occupied intermittently from AD 79 to the early third century, while the north and west remained outside Roman control, though cer... .... Learn More -
St. Valery: The Impossible Odds [Paperback]
Bill Innes(Editor)
$14.95ISBN: 9781912476909
Published by : Origin
The gallant rearguard action which led to the capture of the 51st Highland Division at St Valéry-en-Caux (two weeks after the famous evacuation of the main British army from Dunkirk) may have burned itself into the consciousness of an older... .... Learn More -
Máel Coluim III, 'Canmore': The World of an Eleventh-Century King [Hardback]
Neil McGuigan(Author)
$85.00ISBN: 9781910900192
Published by : John Donald
The legendary Scottish king Máel Coluim III, also known as ‘Malcolm Canmore’, is often held to epitomise Scotland’s ‘ancient Gaelic kings’. But Máel Coluim and his dynasty were in fact newcomers, and the... .... Learn More
