‘this exploration of John Clare’s life highlights the socio-economic and environmental aspects of his observations and includes his reports on an insidious revolution taking place in the English countryside.’

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R S ATTACK

ISBN:  9780856832703

Price:   £ 9.95

‘Despite his record as ‘the man who won the war’, Winston Churchill is often accused of being a war criminal. This book sets out to correct the historical record in a stimulating collection of essays.’

Jeremy Havardi

ISBN: 9780856832659

Hardback Price: £25.00

‘This book offers brief portraits of each occupant of the highest political office in Britain’

Roger Ellis & Geoffrey Treasure
Preface by Lord Butler of Brockwell

ISBN: 9780856832345

Hardback Price: £25.00

‘Philippa Bernard follows Kathleen Raine’s struggle against the constrictions of her suburban childhood to her exciting days at Girton College in the twenties, where she became friends with many brilliant writers, artists and scientists’.

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Philippa Bernard

ISBN: 9780856832680

Hardback Price: £20.00

Empress Marie (1847-1928) lived one of the most dramatic lives of any princess who sat on the Russian throne. Born Princess Dagmar of Denmark she was betrothed to Tsarevitch Nicholas of Russia, a love match on both sides, but he died months before the wedding. Out of duty she married his brother who came to the throne as Tsar Alexander III in 1881 on the assassination of his father Alxander II. Her son was Nicholas II, the last Tsar.

Coryne Hall

ISBN: 9780856832291

Paperback Price: £14.95

‘Tracing the life of the author’s father, this passionate, vivid memoir follows him through his childhood in the west of England, his successful 25-year career in the Indian Army prior to the country’s independence in 1947, and his final years in Devonshire, where he raised a family while the symptoms of Huntington's disease gradually set in.’

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John Symons

ISBN: 9780856832642

Paperback Price: £12.95

A tribute to the people of the Isles of Scilly. Past and Present – may your Scillonian stories be told. While to those who have made the long journey and discovered the secret that is Scilly, let's just keep it just that – a secret!

Jeremy Reseigh Watts

ISBN: 9780856832390

Hardback Price: £17.50

Redistributing ever-growing levels of taxation has always been the major weapon for alleviating poverty but what is the cause of poverty? Andrew MacLaren MP, inspired by Henry George, saw clearly the underlying reasons. His views, and the solution to this grave social problem, which were endorsed by no less than five Prime Ministers, make fascinating reading.

John Stewart

ISBN: 9780856831942

Hardback Price: £12.95

The eight volumes which make up the Who's Who in British History series, range from Roman to Victorian times, presenting history as biography, complementing the conventional approach. The authors give us more than the bare facts of their subject's lives: they place them in the context of the age, evoke their personalities and their achievements.

ISBN: 9780856831737                ISBN: 9780856831744

Hardback Price: £200.00       Paperback Price: £103.60

'When histories, too often, have little room for the individuals who are the life and soul of the past, there is a place for a history which is composed of the lives of those who helped to make it what it was - and is.'
GEOFFREY TREASURE, Series Editor, from the INTRODUCTION

Richard Fletcher

ISBN: 9780856830891                 ISBN: 9780856831140

Hardback Price: £27.50       Paperback Price: £14.95

'These well-constructed and and informative essays, almost all of which end with two or three specific recommendations for further reading, are masters of their kind ... '
REFERENCE REVIEWS

Christopher J Tyerman

ISBN: 9780856830914              ISBN: 9780856831324

Hardback Price: £27.50      Paperback Price: £15.95

Each biographical entry is a complete essay, skilful in its selection of evidence and its methods of assessment. The authors have all been teachers, but it is their view that history which is instructive can also be entertaining.

Michael Hicks

ISBN: 9780856830921                   ISBN: 9780856831256

Hardback Price: £27.50            Paperback Price: £18.95

'Readers will be instructed, stimulated and entertained '
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

C R N Routh, revised by Peter Holmes

ISBN: 0856830938                  ISBN: 0856831195

Hardback Price: £27.50            Paperback Price: £15.95

The range of personalities included is extensive, embracing royalty, politicians, poets, playrights, inventors and artists. The sequence is broadly chronological rather than alphabetical, making it easier for the reader to browse from one contemporary to another, building up a picture of the age in which they lived. The index, with it's cross references, facilitates the tracing of further information.

C P Hill

ISBN: 9780856830754                 ISBN: 9780856831102

Hardback Price: £27.50          Paperback Price: £17.95

'Highly recommended for all history lovers, students - and indeed historical novelists.'
SARAH BROADHURST, THE BOOKSELLER

Geoffrey Treasure

ISBN: 9780856830761                  ISBN: 9780856831317

Hardback Price: £27.50          Paperback Price: £17.95

'This series brings history to life and its completion is welcomed.'
CONTEMPORARY REVIEW

Geoffrey Treasure

ISBN: 9780856830945                  ISBN: 9780856831379

Hardback Price: £27.50         Paperback Price: £17.95

'Eminently readable' The Good Book Guide

Roger Ellis

ISBN: 9780856830952                     ISBN: 9780856831386

Hardback Price: £27.50            Paperback Price: £17.95

‘the result of eight years research, España Britannia is the first book to reveal how much more there is to Anglo-Spanish history than the Armada and Gibraltar.’

Alistair Ward

ISBN: 9780856832246

Paperback Price: £11.95

‘There are always two sides to every conflict in negotiation, but it is also true that both sides have a common objective. This common objective is the continued success or prosperity of the company, the industry, or even the nation.’

John Stewart

ISBN: 9780856832185

Hardback Price: £12.95

'…a finely documented and vivid portrayal of her life in North Carolina…'
THE SCOTSMAN

Ruairidh H MacLeod

ISBN: 9780856831478

Paperback Price: £9.95

The first book-length presentation of the life and works of James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-1889), the eminent Shakespearean scholar and author, whom critics of widely diverse orientation recognize as the greatest contributor of his age to our knowledge of Shakespeare's life and times .

Marvin Spevack

ISBN: 9780856831935

Hardback Price: £25.00