HISTORY / BRITISH from Chilton Books

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.… Read more about this item

Northampton: Northampton Record Society, 1986.. 1st edition. Volume Two 1885-1910. " As an elder statesman, he played a prominent part in combating the Liberal Imperialists, led by Rosebery, and in negotiating with Unionist free traders on the tariff reform issue. During the years 1903 to 1905, when Balfour's ministry seemed likely to collapse, Spencer was recognised as the… Read more about this item

Northampton: Northampton Record Society, 1981.. 1st edition. Volume One. 1835-1885. "The letters deal with a wide range of topics: Ireland, Northamptonshire and agricultural politics, the workings of Liberal cabinets and the party in opposition.". Pp.xii/328, black & white portrait frontispiece + 8 futher illustrations. Green cloth, dustwrapper. VG/VG.

London: Michael Joseph Ltd, 1953.. 1st edition. Being a New Solution to the old Mystery of The Douglas Cause. A Notorious 18th Century Scandal over the disputed Birthright of Archie Douglas. Heir, or Imposter? To which is added, the Secret History of Andrew Stuart and his Detections in Foreign Parts; with a candid Character of Lady Jane Douglas, The… Read more about this item

London: Chatto & Windus, 1968.. 1st edition. "Traces the fortunes of the de la Rue family from their impecuious Guernsey beginnings to the start of their playing card business in pre-Victorian London and on through the company's dealings with Imperial Russia and the Confederated States of America to the mounting of the Great Exhibition and De La Rue's association… Read more about this item

London: Cleaver-Hume Press Ltd, 1953.. 1st edition. When Vermuyden cmae to England (in r around 1621) he came from the Isle of tholen in the Province of Zeeland where the art of land reclamation was a tradition, and he arrived in England at a time when the accumulation of seemingly isolated incidents had led to a real interest in… Read more about this item

London: B.T.Batsford Ltd, 1956.. 1st edition. "The centenary history of Lewis's, one of the largest British retail undertakings, but with a central but neglected theme in the making of contemporary society....It was in 1856 that David Lewis started in Liverpool the tiny business which 100 years later was to have branches in Manchester, Birmingham, Glasgow, Leeds, Hanley, Leicester, Bristol… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.. An extensive study of the sixteenth and seventeenth century belief that God actively intervened in human affairs to punish, reward, warn, try and chastise. "Explores a range of dramatic events and puzzling phenomena in which contemporaries detected the divine finger at work: tragic accidents and sudden deaths, strange sights and mysterious portents, monstrous births… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2011.. 1st edition. Includes : Correspondence with Thomas Cromwell and Lord Chancellor Audley; Elizabethan medical prescriptions amd business letters; correspondence about evading the penal laws aggainst Catholics; a ,ock-heroic Latin skit on James I; a personal letter from one of the Jesuits executed at tjhe time of the Oates Plot, and an official certificate that… Read more about this item

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+.

Brighouse: John Hartley, 1895.. Third edition. Revised with several new chapters added. Nineteenth century social and political history. Pp.350, portrait frontispiece + 7 further black & white illustrations, toning to endpapers, small pink waterstains to rear endpapers, plus folding information leaflet "The Luddites" produced by Kirklees Museums/Heritage Unit loosely enclosed. Dark red cloth, gilt title to front and spine,… Read more about this item

London:Oxford University Press, 1960.. 1st edition. The History of Two and a Half Centuries of British Insurance. "Drawing on the Sun's extensive records and on other sources, the author describes the origins of the Office and the leading part which it has played in creating and developing the services of British fire insurance at home and overseas." Pp.xiv/324,… Read more about this item

London: Lutterworth Press,1955.. 1st edition. "His Independent or Congregational churchmanship, with roots in Separatism and spiritual "democracy", appears to run counter to so much within his life, and we submit that the issues raised by hus life and thought must therefore be of interest not only to historians and students of political institutions, but also to any who are… Read more about this item

Shannon: Irish University Press, 1971.. Facsimile of the third edition of 1877-78 (unabridged).. The Development of Industrial Society Series which reprints contemporary documents and commentaries on the social, political and economic upheavals in nineteenth-century England. Vol.1.Pp.x/485; Vol.2.Pp.515; Vol.3.Pp.501; Vol.4.Pp.506. Black boards, gilt titles to spines. A heavy set which may require extra to send overseas. VG.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968.. These collected essays were originally published in 1937 to commemorate the distinguished Oxford scholar Maude Violet Clarke. "Some of these essays are now recognized to be unusually important discussions of difficult and crucial themes....By bringing together articles unpublished or scattered in learned periodicals, it is hoped to make the fruits of her learning easily accessible… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,1940.. Riess's monograph, first published in 1885, successfully challenged many of the conclusions of older authorities like Stubbs and Gneist, and profoundly influenced all later studies of English Constitutional History. Pp.xii/107. Brown cloth, dustwrapper has toning to spine and edges but now in a removable clear protective wrap. VG/G+.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,1958.. 1st edition. "A study of the ecclesiastical history of Tudor England might well take Cambridge as its focal point, for the members of the University during the period included Fisher, Erasmus, Latimer, Cranmer, Parker, Cartwright and Whitgift. Because the significance of each event was intensified by the closed, academic context, the growth of English religious… Read more about this item