Zbirka: Britanska in irska zgodovina
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At Home with the Brontes(2013) DINSDALE, ANNThe story of the world-famous home of the Bronte sisters. Explores the impact of the Brontes' home on their writing and what it was like for their successors living in a literary shrine. New exhibition focusing on the building starts at the Bronte ParsonaVezava: Mehka22,22 € -
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Castle(2012) MORRIS, MARCBe it ever so grand or ever so humble, a castle was first and foremost a home. To understand castles – who built them, who lived in them, and why – is to understand the forces that shaped medieval Britain.Vezava: Mehka15,27 € -
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Prometheans(2010) ADAMS, MAXThe story of four maverick brothers, and a thrillingly ambitious portrait of Britain in an era of technological and political revolution.Vezava: Mehka18,05 € -
Leprosy in Medieval England(2009) RAWCLIFFE, CAROLEA major reassessment, based on hitherto unpublished manuscript material, of a disease whose history has attracted more myths and misunderstandings than any other.Vezava: Mehka58,55 € -
E. J. Rudsdale's Journals of Wartime Colchester(2010) PEARSON, CATHERINEE J Rudsdale's journals of wartime ColchesterVezava: Mehka20,83 € -
Road Past Mandalay(2012) MASTERS, JOHNThe second part of the bestselling novelist's autobiography about his time in the Gurkhas during the second world warVezava: Mehka13,88 € -
Bradshaw’s Handbook(2012) BRADSHAW, GEORGECollector's item, landmark in the history of the tour guide, snapshot of Britain in the 1860s - Bradshaw's Handbook deserves a place on the bookshelf of any traveller, railway enthusiast, historian or anglophile.Vezava: Trda19,40 € -
Demobbed(2010) ALLPORT, ALANSnapshots of gaiety and celebration are how some people today think of Britain in 1945. This book tells the real story of what happened when millions of ex-servicemen returned home. It draws on their personal letters and diaries to illuminate the darker sVezava: Mehka20,20 € -
War on our Doorstep(2012) SALISBURY, HARRIET,THE MUSEUM OF LONDON GROUPLondon's East Enders are known for being a tough, humorous and lively lot. The old East End communities were gone forever. Told by the residents themselves, The War on Our Doorstep is an eye-opening, moving and laugh-out-loud depiction of the history ofVezava: Mehka23,61 € -
Gentry(2012) NICOLSON, ADAMAdam Nicolson tells the story of England through the history of fourteen gentry families – from the 15th century to the present day. This sparkling work of history reads like a real-life Downton Abbey, as the loves, hatreds and many times of grief of hisVezava: Mehka18,05 € -
Fatal Colours(2012) GOODWIN, GEORGEA gripping account of the Wars of the Roses battle of Towton - the most brutal day in English history.Vezava: Mehka15,27 € -
Arbella: England's Lost Queen(2004) GRISTWOOD, SARAH'It is Arbella they would proclaim Queen if her mistress should happen to die' Sir William Stanley, 1592Niece to Mary, Queen of Scots, granddaughter to the great Tudor dynast Bess of Hardwick, Lady Arbella Stuart was brought up in the belief that she woulVezava: Mehka18,05 € -
Queen(2012) PIMLOTT, BENAn updated edition of Ben Pimlott’s classic biography of the Queen: ‘There is no better biography of Elizabeth II.’ PETER HENNESSY, Independent on SundayVezava: Mehka23,61 € -
English(2007) PAXMAN, JEREMYA title, in which, the author sets out to find about the English. Not the British overall, not the Scots, not the Irish or Welsh, but the English. Why do they seem so unsure of who they are?Vezava: Mehka18,05 € -
Palmerston(2012) BROWN, DAVIDA grand and fascinating figure in Victorian politics, the charismatic Lord Palmerston (1784-1865) presided over a period of great political and social change. This title gives full weight not only to his foreign policy achievements, but also to his domestVezava: Mehka36,74 € -
Book Of Fire(2011) MOYNAHAN, BRIAN* A reissue of the vivid, compellingly researched biography of one of history's most celebrated martyrs - translator of the Bible William Tyndale, published to coincide with the 400th anniversary of the publication of the King James BibleVezava: Mehka20,83 € -
Twenty Years A-Growing(1983) O'SULLIVAN, MAURICEMaurice O'Sullivan was born on the Great Blasket in 1904, and 'Twenty years A-Growing' tells the story of his youth and of a way of life which belonged to the Middle Ages. He wrote for his own pleasure and for the entertainment of his friends, without anyVezava: Mehka13,18 €
