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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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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A thousand years A thousand words. A Celebration of the Royal Mail Millennium Stamps project by Michael Benson | The Camberwell Press, 1999
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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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A Brief History of Moscovia – John Milton | The Blackamore Press
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