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		3D Expo 1862
		A Magic Journey to Victorian England		History
		Michael Tongue
		Discovery 2006  112 pages
		Hardback  Illustrated  9197211826		Qty
		Published Price £20.00		Our Price £7.99
	With the aid of rare stereoscopic photographs and a built-in stereo viewer, this book is our ticket to the International Exhibition at the Crystal Palace, South Kensington, in 1862. Michael Tongue puts the Exhibition in historical context and also explains how the stereographic photographs were made before we set off through the galleries of national exhibits, art works and the wonders of modern technology circa 1860. Each 3D image is accompanied by excerpts from the official guide, conjuring up the spirit and atmosphere of the great event.

		British History 1815-1914
		Second edition		History
		Norman McCord; Bill Purdue (Edited by)
		Oxford University Press 2007  601 pages
		Paperback    0199261644		Qty
		Published Price £24.99		Our Price £7.99
	Part of The Short Oxford History of the Modern World, this is a popular and authoritative account of a period that offers 'the engrossing spectacle of a decentralized rural society facing enormous and unprecedented pressures of economic and social change'. In each of four sections (1815-30, 1830-50, 1850-80, 1880-1914) a succinct political narrative is followed by discussion of government and administration and a survey of economic and social developments. First published in 1991, now revised, with the terminal date extended from 1906 to 1914.

		The Art of Street Jewellery
				History
		Christopher Baglee; Andrew Morley
		New Cavendish 2006  240 pages
		Hardback  Illustrated  1872727646  295x245mm		Qty
		Published Price £35.00		Our Price £14.99
	During the 19th century, as manufactured produce began to replace some home-made or locally-produced food and wares, the race to advertise began; and in the 1870s the colourful enamel sign emerged as the advertisers' favourite medium. In this definitive work on the subject, Baglee and Morley describe the history, manufacture, and evolving styles of enamel signs. The book illustrates over 2,400 of them, with familiar brands like Cadbury's, Pear's Soap and Michelin alongside products such as Swastik Lamps and Zebra Grate Polish that have long since disappeared.

		Magic Stones
		The Secret World of Ancient Megaliths		History
		Jan Pohribny
		Merrell 2007  304 pages
		Hardback  Illustrated  1858944139		Qty
		Published Price £29.95		Our Price £12.99
	During a 17-year pilgrimage around Europe, from the far north of Scandinavia to the Mediterranean islands, the award-winning Czech photographer Jan Pohribny captured the magic of megalithic architecture of tombs and temples and standing stones. Beginning with the enigmatic single standing stones - with examples from the Czech Republic, Wales and Majorca as well as the famous menhirs of Brittany - the book contains over 250 magnificent photographs, with an introduction by the archaeologist and broadcaster Julian Richards.

		London's Dead
		A Guided Tour of the Capital's Dead		History
		Ed Glinert
		HarperCollins 2008  310 pages
		Hardback  Illustrated  0007254970		Qty
		Published Price £12.99		Our Price £4.99
	Anarchists at the King Bomba cafe in Old Compton Street, Lord Haw-Haw hanged for treason in Wandsworth Prison, ten workmen dead during the building of Brunel's Thames Tunnel in the 1840s, 51 drowned in the Marchioness disaster in 1989... Ed Glinart tells the stories of remarkable deaths in London. The book is arranged by the capital's traditional postcodes - EC1 to W14 (where Marcus Garvey suffered a stroke at 53 Ralgarth Road in 1940) - and ends, fittingly, with the Underground.

		Histories of the Hanged
		The Dirty War in Kenya and the End of Empire		History
		David Anderson
		WW Norton 2005  406 pages
		Hardback  Illustrated  0393059863		Qty
		Published Price $25.95		Our Price £5.99
	In the struggle to retain authority over the Empire, Britain dealt brutally with the Mau Mau 'emergency' which began in Kenya in 1952 and resulted in the hangings of over 1,000 Africans and the detention without trial of more than 70,000 - contrasting with the deaths of just 32 white settlers. This history of the seven-year 'war on terror' draws on eyewitness accounts and court records to document the development of internecine war and the workings of a draconian police state.

		Celtic and Anglo-Saxon Art
		Geometric Aspects		History
		Derek Hull
		Liverpool University Press 2003  256 pages
		Paperback  Illustrated  085323549X		Qty
		Published Price £25.00		Our Price £7.99
	A distinguished materials scientist with a special interest in complex pattern and fractography, Derek Hull first became fascinated with Celtic and Anglo-Saxon art after seeing the interlacing patterns on an old stone cross. Exploring how the patterns were produced using relatively simple motifs combined to form complex and exotic designs, this well-illustrated study reveals many new and intriguing aspects of ancient and early medieval sculptured stones, illuminated manuscripts and metal artefacts.

		Slavery
				History
		Stanley Engerman; Seymour Drescher; Robert Paquette (Edited by)
		Oxford University Press 2001  506 pages
		Paperback    0192893025		Qty
		Published Price £25.00		Our Price £9.99
	Drawing on a wide range of documentary sources this Oxford Reader explores the origins, history and realities of slavery from a global perspective. In passages that range chronologically from the Bible and Aristotle to the Economist in 1997, the volume covers the historical justification for slavery, methods of enslavement and the slave trade, as well as slave resistance and abolitionism, providing key insights through the writings of slaves, slave owners, abolitionists, economists, lawyers and historians.

		The Times History of Europe
				History
		Thomas Cussans; Philip Parker; (Edited by)
		Harper Collins 2006  208 pages
		Paperback  Illustrated  000723239X  305x230mm		Qty
		Published Price £17.99		Our Price £5.99
	From the ancient civilizations of the Near East and the Aegean, to the aftermath of the USSR, this historical atlas has a distinctly political emphasis as it maps the changing frontiers of Europe's states over the last 3,000 years. For each of 46 significant dates, a principal maps shows the whole of Europe, while larger scale maps focus on important areas in detail and the clear, authoritative text provides background and describes significant changes in the borders of nations, states and empires.

		London 1945
		Life in the Debris of War		History
		Maureen Waller
		John Murray 2005  512 pages
		Paperback  Illustrated  0719566029		Qty
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	By 1945 London was reeling from the effects of seemingly never-ending bombing raids. Once a vibrant metropolis, the capital had been reduced to a shabby wreck, a shadow of its former self, pervaded by the smell of ash. Drawing on first hand testimonies and archive photographs, acclaimed historian Maureen Waller examines every aspect of this pivotal year, from the social deprivation and exhaustion of war to the social utopia promised by the new Labour government.

		The Scottish Empire
				History
		Michael Fry
		Birlinn 2002  582 pages
		Paperback    184158259X		Qty
		Published Price £16.99		Our Price £5.99
	Michael Fry's ambitious imperial history charts the Scots' distinctive contribution to, and eventual domination of, the British Empire. From the aftermath of the Darien debacle to beyond the end of the Empire itself, he presents a richly entertaining story of great dramas and charismatic characters, endeavours ranging from education, evangelism and exploration to spying and opium-dealing, hugely successful business men such as Jardine and Matheson, and Scottish regiments serving in British dominions from Cairo to Canada.

		The Postcard Century
		2000 Cards and Their Messages		History
		Tom Phillips
		Thames & Hudson 2000  452 pages
		Paperback  Illustrated  0500975906  300x245mm		Qty
		Published Price £19.95		Our Price £7.99
	'A composite illustrated diary in which nearly 2,000 people have made their entries', this engrossing book is a year-by-year history of the 20th century in postcards. Each year begins with a card of special relevance - the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1900, the opening of the Bilbao Guggenheim in 1998 - and views of London and New York posted during that year, followed by a selection of greetings from private journeys or great public events, with transcribed messages of the cards and notes.

		Three Empires on the Nile
		The Victorian Jihad, 1869-1899		History
		Dominic Green
		Free Press 2007  330 pages
		Hardback    0743280717		Qty
		Published Price $27.00		Our Price £6.99
	Just after the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, the area around the River Nile became the setting for an epic conflict between Europeans, Arabs and Africans which lasted for decades and came to define the relationship between the West and the Islamic world for generations to come. Dominic Green's gripping account unravels the complex threads of shifting alliances and the deadly mixture of imperialism, religious fervour, nationalism, government incompetence and naked greed which characterized this tragic adventure.

		The Anglo-Saxon Minsters of Winchester
		Part III: Property and Piety in Early Medieval Winchester		History
		Alexander R Rumble
		Oxford University Press 2002  256 pages
		Hardback    0198134134		Qty
		Published Price £177.00		Our Price £30.00
	This volume from the Winchester Studies series comprises an edition and translation, with extensive commentary, of 33 Anglo-Saxon and Norman documents relating to the topography and minsters of early medieval Winchester. The documents record the physical effects on the city of the foundation and expansion of the three neighbouring minsters, and of the removal of the New Minster to Hyde (c.1110). They also record various aspects of the 10th century reform of Benedictine monasticism, of which Winchester was the leading centre.

		Greek Athletics in the Roman World
		Victory and Virtue		History
		Zahra Newby
		Oxford University Press 2005  314 pages
		Hardback  Illustrated  0199279306		Qty
		Published Price £97.00		Our Price £30.00
	Romans have traditionally been viewed as hostile to Greek athletics, but Zahra Newby demonstrates that Roman culture of the first three centuries CE was strongly influenced by this legacy of the classical past. Basing her argument on the plentiful visual evidence, along with epigraphic and literary sources, she first considers the reactions of the Roman West before turning to the East, where the conquered Greeks used athletic traditions as a way of continuing to assert their cultural identity.

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