Collection: History
Our selection of often rare and hard-to-find history books offers a deeper understanding of the world around us, shedding light on how past events shape present-day politics, society and culture.
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The Story of Scarborough tourism booklet | Introduction by Derrick Boothroyd, 1950s
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Pentagram Papers 24: The Arms of Paris | 1996
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Medieval Death: Ritual and Representation, Paul Binski | The British Museum, 2001
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Le Maine Illustré Guide du Syndicat d'Initiative de la Sarthe, 1918 | R.N Raimbault
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A War Job "Thought Impossible" | Wesley W. Stout, Chrysler | Sperry Gyro-compass
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The Architecture of Victorian London by Sir John Summerson | Virginia University, 1976
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Leaflet for In Defence of Liberty Reading International Brigade Memorial Spanish War | Eric Stanford, 1990
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The Crazy Years: Paris in the Twenties | William Wiser | Thames & Hudson, 1990
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Promotional leaflet for: A Panorama of the Silver Jubilee 1935 | James Rimmell
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Sidewalk Critic: Lewis Mumford's Writings on New York edited by Robert Wojtowicz | Princeton University Press, 1998
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Denmark by Sacheverell Sitwell | Published by B T Batsford, 1956
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Tablets of Anatomy by Thomas Cooke Longmans Green & Co 1889 | annotated by Lewis Gwillim Davies and dated 8 October 1891 | St George's Hospital, London
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Wellington Road by Margaret Lassell | Penguin Books, 1966
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A History of English Lotteries. Now for the first time written John Ashton | Leadenhall Press, 1893
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Humphrey Spender: Worktown – Photographs of Bolton and Blackpool Taken for Mass Observation 1937/38 | Gardner Centre Gallery, 1977
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Camerawork No. 11. Mass Observation, Henry Spender, Nigel Henderson, The Metropolitan Police Card, Inspection Processing | Half Moon Photography Workshop | September 1978
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Dorset. The Isle of Purbeck by Rena Gardiner |The Dovecote Press & Little Toller Books, 2016 | Reprint of original with introductory text by Martin Andrews
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Word from Wormingford. A Parish Year by Ronald Blythe illustrations by John Nash | Viking Press, 1997
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Enigma the Untold Story of the Secret Capture by David Balme | 2016 Signed copy
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Histoire de la Magie. Avec une exposition claire et précise de ses procédés de ses rites et de ses mystères by Éliphas Lévi | 1892 edition Félix Alcan, Paris | Ancienne Librairie Germer Baillière
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Printers and Printing in Glasgow 1830–1890 by Andrew Bird, 1890
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The Industrial Revolution in England | R.M. Hartwell | Historical Association, 1965
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The London Bookshop - Part 1 | Richard Brown and Stanley Brett, 1971
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The London Bookshop - Part 2 | Richard Brown and Stanley Brett, 1977
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Soho in the Fifties by Daniel Farson | Michael Joseph, 1987 | Introduction by George Melly
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Patriotism, Inc by Paul Ostaijen | Edited & Translated by E. M.Beekman, 1971
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Burning the Box of Beautiful Things by Alex Seago | Oxford University Press 1995
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The Britain of Brian Cook. Foreword by Sir Hugh Casson | A Batsford Heritage, 1987
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Dai Greatcoat: a Self-portrait of David Jones in his Letters | Edited by René Hague, 1980
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War Pictures by British Artists. No. 2. Blitz | Oxford University Press, 1942
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The Heart of England by Ivor Brown | Batsford, third edition 1951 Brian Cook D/J
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The Queen’s Beasts text by H. Stanford London illus by Edward Bawden & Cecil Keeling, typography John Lewis, Newman Neale, 1953
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Scott’s Last Expedition. Extracts from the Personal Journal of Capt. R.F. Scott | John Murray, 1952
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Nationalism and Classicism by Athena S. Leoussi | Macmillan Press / University of Reading, 1998
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Art and Industry by Herbert Read | Faber & Faber | Second edition, 1944
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An Account of the Discovery of Tahiti | Robert Gibbings | Folio Society, 1955
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