Search Results: HISTORY / BRITISH from Chilton Books

Ipswich: Brechinset Publications, 1984.. 1st edition. An eclectic and light-hearted selection of extracts from the Ipswich Journal for the year 1804 - the year that Napoleon Bonaparte formally proclaimed himself Emperor.. 21cms x 15cms. Pp.128, occasional vignette illustrations by Anne Fletcher, signed by the author to title page, plus a handwritten letter from the author tipped-in to front free endpaper. Paperback, fading to front and faded discolouration to spine. Scarce. Good,

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1981.. Social changes which the people of England experienced during the period of ' the great peace' between the Battle of Waterloo and the First World War." Pp, 254. P/b, illustrated cover. G+.

London: Hamish Hamilton,1966.. 1st edition. A narrative of Beaverbrook's own part in the King's Affair. Provides a vivid, day-by-day record of the crisis as Beaverbrook saw it unfold around him and includes a number of scathing attacks on Baldwin and others whom the writer regarded as the King's foes." Pp.122, black & white photo frontispiece + 29 further photo illustrations. Purple cloth, dustwrapper has small chip to top edge next to spine but is in a removable clear protective wrap. VG/G+.

Huddersfield: Oblong, 2017.. 1st edition. "This is a study of the skills and pastimes of upper-class women and the works they produced during a 200 year period. These activities included watercolours, printmaking and embroidery, shell work, rolled and cut paper work, sand painting, wax flower modelling, painting on fabrics and china, feather work, japanning, silhouettes, photography and many others..." Pp.viii/460, profusely illustrated with colour and black & white photos/ illustrations throughout. Grey cloth, dustwrapper. As New/As New.

London: Andre Deutsch Ltd., 1979.. 1st ed. The Mirror of Britain Series. "Walter Hodges, in tracing the astonishing flowering of the Tudor period, lays emphasis on two events, both of which took place in 1485." Pp. 144, 8 colour plates, 57 b/w illustrations. Blue cloth, gilt title to spine, illustrated d/w (detail from a 16th century miniature by Simon Beninck). VG/VG.

Edinburgh: Mercat Press, 2001.. James Boswell's relish for life, unflinching honesty and wide social contacts make him one of he aciest and most entertaining of all diarists. This is the first one-volume edition of the journals he kept while making his living as an advocate in eighteenth-century Edinburgh....[Milne's] introduction and notes remove the barriers that time has placed between Boswell and ourselves, and contain much new material and information, particularlu about Boswell's legal and Scottish background." Pp.xiv/607, double page plan of the City, Castle and suburbs of Edinburgh to end. Paperback. VG.

London: Panther Books. 1968.. The story leading up to Bosworth is fascinating...Recreates the dynastic conflict, its battles and sudden death and the transition from Medieval to Tudor England." Pp. 416. 16 b/w illustrations. 3 sketch maps. Toning to pages. P/b. Spine slightly creased. Illustrated cover. G.

Harmondsworth: Pelican Books, 1945.. 1st ed. The story of the Roman occupation of Britain, from the first landing of Julius Caesar in 55 B.C. until the abandonment of the islands. Pp. 144, 15 b/w photos, 17 figs. Toning to pages. P/b. G.

London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1964.. Rep. A full-length account of the history of Great Britain between the two world wars: from the Armistice in 1918 to the fall of France in 1940. Pp. 9/694, occasional marks to margins, inscrip. to fep. Black cloth, gilt title to spine, d/w. G+/G+.

Wiltshire: Firth Book Company Ltd, 2001.. Rep. Images from the archives of the Francis Firth Collection. Pp. 137, b/w photo's throughout book. VG.

Lancaster: Carnegie Publishing Ltd, 2005.. 1st edition. "When the cavalry charged to disperse the huge crowd assembled to discuss parliamentary reform on St Peter's Field, over 600 people were injured, some 15 of them dying of their wounds. Was this a massacre? Or, as historians are inclined to think, were most of the injuries accidentally caused by the crush of the fleeing crowd? A detailed analysis of the eight surviving lists of tose killed and injured allows Michael Bush to answer these questions with fresh insight, new information and finality." Pp.x/166, 10 tables and 3 maps, owner's name to front free endpaper. Red cloth, dustwrapper. VG/VG.

London: Harper & Collins, 1993.. 1st ed. "This is a narrative history of the Civil War in England concentrating upon what happened rather than upon what brought it about, upon the minor engagements and sieges- in which most of the war's casualties were incurred-rather than upon the major battles, and upon the impact which the fighting had upon the civilian population." Pp.337, colour & b/w photo's throughout book. P/b. VG.

London: Collins, 1986. 1st ed. "... Dickens takes us on a tour of London's criminal haunts: into the great metropolitan prisons; into a ragged school; into a workhouse; into a home for fallen women." 26cms. x 19.5cms. Pp. 160, b/w illustrations throughout. Dark green cloth, gilt title to spine, illustrated d/w (Sir Luke Fildes, "Applicants for Admission to a Casual Ward, 1874.) VG/VG.

London: BBC. (circa 1966).. This pamphlet introduces a series of six programmes in Network Three." 23.5cm x 18cm., some b/w illustrations and sketch maps. P/b, illustrated cover, small spot to front cover. G+.

Clapham: The Clapham Antiquarian Society by Edmund Baldwin,1927.. 1st ed. Pp.14/236, frontispiece + 12 other black & white illustrations + maps of Clapham to endpapers, minor spotting to preliminaries. Blue cloth, gilt crest to front, gilt title to spine, slight darkening to spine, bumps to corners. G+.

Stroud: The History Press, 2016.. M.K.Lawson brings to life the reality of this paradoxical king: his remorselessness to his enemies alongside his piety and law-giving. He also provides an insight into how a Danish king managed to accommodate himself to an English administrative system that has resonated through history." Pp.255. Paperback. VG.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1966.. 1st British ed. The Crossroads of World History Series. "This new examination on '1066 and all that' by a distinguished author makes exciting and thought-provoking reading." 24.3cms. x 16cms. Pp. 1/318, 4 b/w illustrations + 3 maps, maps to endpapers. Black cloth, gilt title to spine, d/w has clear tape to spine and chipping. VG/G+.

London: Edward Arnold, 1978.. 1st.ed. "History of the period from the fall of the Commonwealth to the death of Queen Ann...Shows how England had emerged by 1714 as a major power in Continental affairs." 15.5cm. x 23cm. Pp, 377, name to fep. P/b, illustrated cover. G+.

Toronto: Stoddart Publishing Co. Ltd., 1989.. 1st ed. Illustrated personal memories of Britain's 3,500,000 evacuees. "This vivid collection of memories recreates the whole traumatic story." 25cms. x 19.5cms. Pp. 175, b/w photographs throughout. Sage green cloth, gilt title to spine, illustrated d/w. VG/G+.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998.. Oxford Studies in Social History series. "Examines the effects of religious change on the English 'way of death' between 1480 and 1750...(Houlbrooke) discusses relatively neglected aspects of the subject, such as the death-bed, will making, and the last rites.He also examines the rich variety of commemorative media and practics and is the first to describe the development of the English funeral sermon between the late Middle Ages and the eighteenth century." Pp.xiv/435, owner's label to front free endpaper. Black cloth, dustwrapper has minor edge wear. VG/VG.