History from Swainby Books

Book is mint condition apart from tiny black mark on lower edge A stimulating contribution to the field of Anglo-Saxon studies. MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGY A mind-stretching read. NOTES AND QUERIES The papers contained in this volume, by leading researchers in the field, cover a wide range of social, economic and ideological aspects of the culture of early Anglo-Saxon England, from an inter-disciplinary… Read more about this item

Complete set in very good condition. Not marked. Dust jacket covered with extra plastic cover. Price includes extra shipping costs The Oxford History of England (1934–65) was a notable book series on the history of the United Kingdom. Published by Oxford University Press, it was originally intended to span from Roman Britain to the outbreak of… Read more about this item

By Christmas Eve 1941 the war could hardly have been worse for Britain or the United States. The Japanese had entered the war, first bombing Pearl Harbor where they sank five US battleships; a few days later Japanese torpedo-bombers sank the Royal Navy's battleship Prince of Wales and the battlecruiser Repulse. Their forces were soon landing on Hong Kong Island,… Read more about this item

This fascinating collection of letters traces the exchanges between a young subaltern on the front, Gerard 'Ged' Garvin, and his mother and father at home. Correspondence was eagerly awaited by all. Ged savoured letters home like 'Jim Hawkins trickling the doubloons through his fingers'. Equally, his mother and father at home were always fearful that each letter they received would… Read more about this item

Gripping...an outstanding portrait of a technocrat, at work and at home - The Wall Street Journal Evocative...relentless - The New York Times Book Review This is biography and history at its best. - Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Team of Rivals and The Bully Pulpit The remarkable life of one of the most influential men of the greatest generation, James B.… Read more about this item

Copy signed by author The award-winning biography of William Pitt the Younger by William Hague, the youngest leader of the Tory Party since Pitt himself. William Pitt the Younger was one of the most extraordinary figures in British history. Prime minister at the age of twenty-four, he went on to dominate British politics for two decades, presiding over such complex and treacherous… Read more about this item

Cardinal Wolsey is a controversial figure: a butcher s son, a man of letters and the Church, a divisive political expert, a man of principle yet, to some, an arrogant upstart. As Lord Chancellor to the incorrigible Henry VIII he achieved much both at home and abroad, but his failure to achieve the mighty monarch s divorce from Catherine of… Read more about this item

In 476 AD, the last of Rome's emperors, known as Augustulus, was deposed by a barbarian general, the son of one of Attila the Hun's henchmen. With the imperial vestments dispatched to Constantinople, the curtain fell on the Roman empire in Western Europe, its territories divided among successor kingdoms constructed around barbarian military manpower.But, if the Roman Empire was dead, Romans… Read more about this item

En route to a golden future as one of France's greatest geologists, Jacques Deprat was suddenly accused of scientific fraud and plunged into a desperate fight to save his reputation. This book recreates the hothouse atmosphere of colonial Indochina in the early 20th century. Tiny creases on bottom rear of dust jacket, otherwise top condition

Informative biography of Arthur Balfour by his niece, Blanche Dugdale. Covers the period up to 1905. Considering its age, book is in remarkably good condition.

A fascinating book on the origins of Lloyd's of London in the coffee shops. The book is in excellent condition for its age.

The author was a journalist and author, born in 1887. He converted to Catholicism in 1923 and died in 1944. He worked first as a journalist and until World War II a farmer in Surrey; he was a leading spirit in Marydown Catholic land colony; he then returned to journalism, editing the Ransomer 1926-1932, writing novels and non-fiction… Read more about this item

The classic text with chapters on Germanic kingship and the Romans, King Aethelbert, the Seventh Century, Bede, Charlemagne and Offa and finally, Charles the Bald and Alfred. A paperback edition in good condition with slightly faded edges to the papers. The pages themselves are clear and unmarked.

Excellent and well-illustrated book, especially useful for theatre and set designers. White pictorial dust jacket over brown cloth. Pages and binding with no major defects. Overall a good condition item. Ex-library with boards having mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning. Clipped jacket has light edge wear with very minor tears and chipping. Mild… Read more about this item

Transactions of the Royal Historical Society is an annual collection of articles based on papers given to the Society by distinguished invited speakers and winners of RHS prizes. Volume 31 of the Sixth Series includes the following articles: 'Material Turns in British History: IV. Empire in India, Cancel Cultures and the Country House,' 'Responding to Violence: Liturgy, Authority and Sacred… Read more about this item

The Shire horse is thought to have descended from "the Great Horse," a warhorse hundreds of years ago. This horse is often depicted in rolling fields in the countryside, predominantly used in agriculture and for pulling heavy carts. By the late 18th century, the famous stallion called the Packington Blind Horse was a stud in Leicestershire, now recognised as the… Read more about this item

All Our Working Lives provides a vivid and popular history of Britain at work since 1914. It draws on a range of personal memories of shopfloor workers and managers across a range of jobs, from shipbuilding to farming, coal mining to aircraft manufacture, shopkeeping to electronics. It is about working conditions and job satisfaction, pay, business success and failure… Read more about this item