Among the Thugs
by Bill Buford
A study of football hooliganism in the 1970s.
Listed under 20th Century Britain
Anthony Blunt: His Lives
by Miranda Carter
Listed under Espionage
Black
London: Life Before Emancipation
by Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina
(Paperback -- November 1997)
The
Building of London: From the Conquest to the Great Fire
by John Schofield
(Paperback - November 1999)
Churchill: A Biography
by Roy Jenkins
Listed under Winston
Churchill
The
Creation of the Modern World: The British Enlightenment
by Roy Porter
Hardcover - 608 pages (December 4, 2000)
W.W. Norton & Company; ISBN: 0393048721
Crowded with Genius : The Scottish Enlightenment: Edinburgh's Moment
of the Mind
by James Buchan
Listed under Scottish History
Excavations
at 25 Cannon Street, City of London: From the Middle Bronze Age of the
Great Fire (Molas Archaeology Studies Series, 5)
by Nicholas Elsdon
(Paperback - February 2002)
Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship
by Jon Meacham
Listed under Franklin D. Roosevelt
Francis
Bacon
by John Russell
Includes all the major literary writings on which Bacon's reputation
rests--the Advancement of Learning, the Essays (in their first and last
versions), and the New Atlantis. It also includes sixteen other works not
reprinted for over a century, which show Bacon's remarkable all-round abilities
in politics, law, theology, and poetry. The selections are annotated in
more detail than in any other edition, with particular emphasis on explaining
Bacon's language.
(Hardcover - December 1989)
Francis
Bacon & the Rhetoric of Nature
by John C. Briggs
Francis Bacon and the Rhetoric of Nature offers a synthesis of Bacon's
views about language and nature. John Briggs clarifies the close relation
between Bacon's famous reform of scientific method and his less well known
conceptions of rhetoric, nature, and religion. Amazon.com
(Paperback - November 1999)
The Floating Brothel : The Extraordinary True Story of an Eighteenth-Century
Ship and Its Cargo of Female Convicts
by Sian Rees
Listed under Australian History
The
Story of England
by Christopher Hibbert
Paperback: 224 pages
Phaidon Press Inc.; ISBN: 0714826529; Reprint edition
(March 1993)
The
English : A Portrait of a People
by Jeremy Paxman
What is it about the English? Not the British overall, not the Scots,
not the Irish or the Welsh, but the English. Why do they seem so unsure
of who they are? As Jeremy Paxman remarks in his preface to The English,
being English "used to be so easy". Now, with the Empire gone, with Wales
and Scotland moving into more independent postures, with the troubling
specter of a united Europe (and despite the raucous hype of "Cool Britannia"),
the English seem to have entered a collective crisis of national identity.
Jeremy Paxman has set himself the task of finding just what exactly
is going on. Why, he wonders, "do the English seem to enjoy feeling so
persecuted? What is behind the English obsession with games? How did they
acquire their odd attitudes to sex and food? Where did they get their extraordinary
capacity for hypocrisy?" He ranges widely in pursuit of answers, sifting
through literature, cinema, and history. It is an intriguing investigation,
encompassing many aspects of national life and character (such as it is),
including the obligatory visit to that baffling phenomenon, the funeral
of Princess Diana. Yet Paxman finds something fresh and interesting to
say about even that now rather threadbare topic. In the end, he seems to
find further questions to ask instead of answers. But why not? To him it
is a sign that the English are acquiring a new sense of self. And some
indication of this might lie in the obvious response to his remark that
the English, being top of the British Imperial tree, had nicknames for
their fellow nationalities--Jock, Taffy, Paddy, and Mick--but there was
no corresponding name for an Englishman. Of course, there is one now, and
it comes from one of the bits of empire to which so many undesirables were
exported: Whinging Pom. --Robin Davidson, Amazon.co.uk
Hardcover: 309 pages
Overlook Press; ISBN: 1585670421; (July 6, 2000)
Guns
and Violence: The English Experience
by Joyce Lee Malcolm
(Hardcover -- May 2002)
History
of the Kings of Britain
by Geoffrey of Monmouth, et al
(Paperback -- January 1977)
A
History of Britain : At the Edge of the World, 3500 B.C.-1603 A.D
by Simon Schama
What do you get when you combine the resources and ethos of the BBC
with the literary panache of one of the world's best narrative historians?
The answer is Simon Schama's A History of Britain, the first volume of
which accompanies the BBC-History Channel series of the same name. In a
beautifully written and thoughtfully crafted book, studded with striking
portraits, pictures, and maps, Schama, the bestselling author of books
on European cultural history such as The Embarrassment of Richesand
Citizens,
as well as 1999's Rembrandt's Eyes,
has managed to be both conventional and provocative.
He tells the official version of Britain's island story--from Roman
Britain, through the Norman conquest, the struggles of the Henrys and Richards
with their barons and clerics, Edward I and the subjugation of Wales, King
Death (the plague), and on to the Henrician reformation, before closing
with the remarkable reign of the virgin queen, Elizabeth I. But, while
sticking to a script familiar to anyone who sat up and listened in history
lessons at school, Schama brings it all alive, with memorable prose--Simon
de Montfort's rebel parliament is described as inaugurating the "union
between patriotism and insubordination"; with Henry VIII, Schama says,
"you could practically smell the testosterone." And with fine sensitivity,
too, particularly on the symbolism of buildings, memorials, language, and
ceremonies, and on the complex relations between England and her Celtic
and Catholic neighbors. If history must have gloss, then let it be written
and presented like this. --Miles Taylor, Amazon.co.uk
Hardcover: 416 pages
Talk Miramax Books; ISBN: 0786866756; (October 2000)
A History of Britain, Volume II: The Wars of the British 1603-1776
by Simon Schama
Listed under 18th Century Britain
How the Irish Saved Civilization : The Untold Story of Ireland's
Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe (Hinges
of History,)
by Thomas Cahill
Listed under Irish History
Isaac
Newton
by James Gleick
Hardcover from Pantheon Books
Book Published: 13 May, 2003 |
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In the Lion's Court: Power, Ambition, and Sudden Death in the Reign
of Henry VIII
by Derek A. Wilson
Listed under Tudor Period
Le Morte D'Arthur
by Thomas Malory
Listed under King Arthur
Mary Queen of Scots
by Antonia Fraser
Listed under Tudor Period
Kings,
Queens, Bones and Bastards : Who's Who in the English Monarchy from Egbert
to Elizabeth II
by David Hilliam
(Paperback - April 2000)
The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern
Geology
by Simon Winchester
Listed under Earth
Sciences
Queen Victoria's Family
by Charlotte Zeepvat
Listed under Queen Victoria
The
Most Beautiful Villages of England
by James Bentley, Hugh Palmer (Photographer)
(Hardcover -- May 1999)
To
School Through the Fields: An Irish Country Childhood
by Alice Taylor
(Paperback -- March 1994)
To
Marry an English Lord
by Gail MacColl Jarrett, et al
Paperback: 416 pages
Workman Publishing Company; ISBN: 0894809393; (October
1989)
The
Great Fire at Hampton Court
by Michael Fishlock
An account of the 1986 fire which severely damaged the Wren wing of
Hampton Court Palace, and its subsequent restoration.
Paperback: 128 pages
New Amsterdam Books; ISBN: 1871569494; (January 1, 1990)
Kings,
Queens, Bones and Bastards : Who's Who in the English Monarchy from Egbert
to Elizabeth II
by David Hilliam
(Paperback - April 2000)
A Royal Duty
by Paul Burrell
Listed under Princess Diana
What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew : From Fox Hunting to
Whist-The Facts of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century England
by Daniel Pool
Listed under 19th Century Britain
Wide
As the Waters: The Story of the English Bible and the Revolution It Inspired
by Benson Bobrick
(Paperback -- February 2002)
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