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changed the course of history and got the European Reformation under way. Luther’s relations with the Humanist scholar Erasmus, Staupitz the vicar general who supported him in his plans for reform, the indulgence-salesman and propagandist Tetzel and his rival Johann Eck are discussed in detail plus the sensitive question of Luther’s anti-Semitism. 400pp, drawings. £20 NOW £7.50


69490 HOUSE OF TREASON: The Rise and Fall


of A Tudor Dynasty by Robert Hutchinson The Howard family, the Dukes of Norfolk, were the wealthiest and most powerful aristocrats in Tudor England, regarding themselves as the true power behind the throne. Here are the kingmakers, conspirators, criminals, nobles and seducers. Certainly the Howard family were influential with two women marrying Henry VIII - Anne Boleyn and the 15 year old Catherine Howard. But in the treacherous world of the Tudor Court, no faction could afford to rest on its laurels. The Howards consolidated their power with a tremendous web of schemes and conspiracies, but even they could not always hold their enemies at bay and their history is marked by treason, beheadings and incarceration. 402pp, paperback, colour photos. £9.99 NOW £4.50


69021 THOMAS CROMWELL: The Rise and


Fall of Henry VIII’s Most Notorious Minister by Robert Hutchinson


Known as ‘the most hated man in England’, Thomas Cromwell manoeuvred his way to the top by intrigue, bribery and sheer force of personality. Tasked with engineering the judicial murder of Anne Boleyn, he organised a ‘show trial’ of merciless efficiency. He also orchestrated the seizure of the monasteries and used their enormous wealth to cement the loyalty of the English nobility. Not only did he enrich the crown, but he made himself a fortune too, soliciting colossal bribes and bringing the noble families to him with easy loans. The story is told with infectious relish and vividly evokes the politics and personalities of an extraordinary decade. 360 paperback pages with colour plates, chronology, dramatis personae. £9.99 NOW £4.50


69422 VISCOUNT PALMERSTON, K. G. by John Campbell


Viscount Palmerston (1784-1865) became Prime Minister for the first time at the age of 71. First published in 1892, this volume details the life and work of a great British statesman who held government positions almost continuously from 1807 until his death in 1865. Beginning his political career as a Tory and ending it as a Liberal, he was Foreign Secretary when Britain was at the height of its power and twice served as Prime Minister during the 1850s and 1860s. The author paints a portrait of a man whose beliefs and opinions moulded his sense of duty, a duty which was clearly expressed in his public actions. 192 pages. £14.99 NOW £3.75


69494 MARY QUEEN OF


SCOTS by Antonia Fraser Beautiful, flamboyant Mary Queen of Scots had a formidable intellect but her political sense, formed at the absolute court of France, plunged her country into a maelstrom of intrigue, marriage and murder that triggered one of the most turbulent periods of history, and her untimely end. Lady Antonia Fraser has the perfect eye for physical detail and a


high feeling for the central tragedy. First published in 1969 we have the 40th anniversary edition. 760pp in paperback, photos. £9.99 NOW £4


HISTORY


Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.


- Oscar Wilde


70689 FOUNDRIES AND ROLLING MILLS: Memories of Industrial Britain by Fred


Dibnah and David Hall Fred Dibnah grew up in Bolton at a time when the world of industry was radically changing. In the postwar years factories were closing down all around, giving the inquisitive young lad an opportunity to explore derelict buildings and disused machinery. Dibnah became


a steeplejack, and when his work was featured on TV he became a popular champion of Britain’s lost industrial heritage. This book is part-memoir, part gazetteer, combining Fred’s early fascination with machinery and the history of Britain’s industrial past. Iron smelting began to interest him when he was employed to paint the blast furnaces at Hick Hargreaves, which on a big job had four furnaces going all together. Tinsley Viaduct east of Sheffield was an iconic site of steel production in the 70s, its blazing furnaces illuminating the twin cooling towers of the nearby power station, but in the 21st century everything there has disappeared. Dibnah describes the work of dedicated volunteers to salvage and preserve what they could before it was too late, for instance at the Blist’s Hill complex near Ironbridge or the restoration of Middleton Railway near Leeds. The gazetteer lists over 200 places which celebrate Britain’s industrial heritage, organised by region and including opening times, contact details and maps. 208pp. £14.99 NOW £6.50


70380 MRS WOOLF AND THE SERVANTS: An Intimate History of Domestic Life in Bloomsbury by Alison Light


Hailed by the Observer as ‘a scintillating meeting of biography, social history and literary criticism’ this brilliant book works on many levels. Like thousands of other British households, Woolf’s ménage relied on live-in domestics for the most intimate of daily tasks. Throughout her childhood and adult life the ‘room of her own’ she so valued was cleaned, heated and supplied with meals by a series of cooks and maids. These servants were hardly noticed by the Bloomsbury


AMERICAN HISTORY 70324 A SHORT HISTORY


OF THE UNITED STATES


by Robert V. Remini This concise, entertaining and accessible history of the US and the Western Hemisphere provides the essential facts about the discovery, settlement, growth and development of the American nation and its institutions. The initial settlement of the Americas was most likely across a land bridge


between Siberia and Alaska some 50,000 years ago. These people spread across the entire continent and, apart from a brief visit by the Vikings around 1000AD, were unaware of the Old World until the late 15th century, when first the Spanish, then the English, French and Dutch staked their claims. Remini takes us from these first colonies through the Revolution and its causes to the founding of a republic under the Constitution. Following this, the 1812 war as Britain attempted to retake some of its lost territory, and the immense economic and cultural changes that ensued. Rapid expansion to the west and south was followed by the struggle over slavery, which led to the Civil War, in which millions died. The rise of big business, the US as a global superpower, the Depression sandwiched between two world wars, the rise of conservatism and the outbreak of terrorism at home and abroad brings us up to date. What is particularly enjoyable here is how the author makes regular reference to the people and their remarkable achievements - how former English and Spanish subjects became Americans, and how they united a collection of sovereign independent colonies into a workable and constantly evolving republic. 16 pages of b/w photos plus many explanatory maps. 373pp. £16.99 NOW £6.50


70610 ILLUSTRATED ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE PRESIDENTS OF AMERICA


by Professor Jon Roper The President of America is arguably the most powerful person in the world, and this comprehensive history of 44 presidents gives full details about each holder of the office from George Washington to Barack


Obama, including major events during their term. American independence was founded on the principle that taxes could not be imposed without the consent of the people, and Jefferson, America’s third president, held King George III of England personally responsible for the unworkable Stamp Act which finally triggered rebellion. The new democratic America would have no king in accordance with Thomas Paine’s famous principle: “The Law is King”. Colour reproductions and highlighted boxes supplement the text: for instance, we learn that Washington was a slave owner who freed household slaves in his will, while a photograph of Lincoln shows him delivering the famous Gettysburg Address in a top hat which stands out above a seething mass of jostling soldiers and civilians. Calvin Coolidge in the 1920s was widely regarded as a nonentity, but major events of his presidency were the dedication of the Mount Rushmore Sculptures and the notorious Scopes trial at which John Scopes was prosecuted for teaching his students the


intellectuals and, indeed, by historians, but now Alison Light gives them depth and dignity. By so doing, she adds revealing nuances to the reader’s picture of Woolf, both as a woman and a writer. Here is her diary entry about one servant: ‘She is in a state of nature, untrained, uneducated, to me almost incredibly without the power of analysis or logic, so that one sees a human mind wriggling undressed’. This careless remark tells the reader as much about Woolf as it does about the maid. Also captured is the fascinating period of British history, primarily between the wars, when modern oil stoves were creeping into kitchens to replace coal, and young women were starting to dream of working in hat shops rather than mansions. This compelling account reveals how, despite the conscious efforts of the Bloomsbury set to leave their Victorian past behind them and adopt a liberal outlook, their homes were nevertheless divided into the completely different worlds of ‘us’ and ‘them’. 376 pages with illustrations in b/w. $30 NOW £7


70416 LAST DAYS OF THE ROMANOVS: Tragedy at Ekaterinburg


by Helen Rappaport In an exhaustively researched account, hailed by critics as ‘the most accurate depiction’ of the brutal assassination of Tsar Nicholas II, his desperately ill wife Tsarina Alexandra and their four beautiful daughters, the author, a specialist in Russian and 19th century women’s


history, brings to life a close-knit family whose lives were to be curtailed in a blood bath. This murder ended 300 years of Romanov rule and set off an era of state- orchestrated terror and savage repression. Marshalling overlooked evidence from key witnesses, such as Sir Thomas Preston, the British consul to Ekaterinburg, American and British travellers in Siberia and the now- forgotten American journalist Herman Bernstein, the author provides a telling report of the political forces swirling through the remote town in the Ural mountains. She conveys the tension of the watching world and draws on recent releases from the Russian archives to challenge the view that the deaths were a unilateral act by a maverick group of the Bolsheviks. She also identifies a chain of command that, she believes, stretches direct to Moscow and to Lenin himself. Here is a Russia in turmoil, on the brink of a devastating civil war, and here the royal family, their servants and guards, thrown together into an oppressive atmosphere, which was finally to lead to their being shot and bayoneted to death in a basement room. A chilling and poignant 254 pages with b/w archive photos. $25.95 NOW £6


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theory of evolution. Another turbulent decade was the sixties when Civil Rights, Women’s Rights and the Vietnam War created political ferment for the doomed Robert Kennedy. 256pp, softback, over 400 colour and archive reproductions. ONLY £6.50


70365 GERONIMO: The True Story of America’s Most


Ferocious Warrior by S. M. Barrett


First published in 1906, this is the collaborative work of Geronimo, Chief and medicine man of the Chiricahua Apache and the author S. M. Barrett, superintendent of schools in Lawton Oklahoma. The latter was given special permission from the then president Theodore


Roosevelt to interview Geronimo while he was being held as a prisoner of war at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. What Barrett recorded is a frank, first-hand account of the 25 years Geronimo spent fighting the US government. In this amazing true account, the famous Native American discusses the history of the Apache people, where they came from, their early history and their tribal customs. He bluntly expresses his views on how the white men who settled in the West negatively affected his tribe, the wrongs done to his people and their removal from their homeland. The book ends with the imprisonment for life of Geronimo. In his moving ‘dedicatory’ the Native American writes: ‘Because he has given me permission to tell my story, because he has read that story and knows I try to speak the truth, because I believe that he is fair-minded and will cause my people to receive justice in the future, and because he is chief of a great people, I dedicate this story of my life to Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States’. Considering that US troops had already slaughtered numerous Native Americans, including women and children, or at best driven them from their homes, and that their later treatment of the Native American population was extremely harsh, Geronimo’s optimism may seem to have been somewhat misplaced. 123 pages with b/w archive photos.


$19.95 NOW £5.50 70398 AUTHENTIC LIFE OF


BILLY THE KID by Pat Garrett


Pat Garrett was the sheriff of Lincoln County New Mexico and is best known for killing Billy the Kid. Before becoming sheriff, he had worked as a cowboy and a buffalo hunter. More than 100 years after Billy’s death, the popular legends surrounding his life show no sign of dissipating. Here is both a tribute to


and an exposé from the man who took him down. Written just eight months after he shot Billy in 1881, this testimony is a historical document, relying as it does on Pat’s word alone. William Bonney began his criminal career early. At the age of 12, he stabbed a man in a bar fight, then spent his teenage years stealing and gambling. At 17 he committed his first murder and earned his nickname from the news reporters who followed his exploits and helped his reputation to reach epic heights. Garrett takes the reader through Billy’s earliest days in New York, his move west, his adventures in Mexico and his repeated arrests and escapes, all of which were to lead to his eventual death. An incredible and gripping 138 pages illustrated in b/w. $19.95 NOW £5


70456 CHOOSE YOUR WEAPONS: The British Foreign Secretary 200 Years of Argument, Success and Failure by Douglas Hurd and Edward Young


Jack Straw of the Observer remarked that: ‘Any future foreign secretary would be well advised to read this engrossing book on their first day in office’. A strong recommendation indeed! The post


of foreign secretary is regarded as the second most powerful job in British politics because its holder is required to lead the nation in matters abroad. However, the differences in approach to the task of pursuing British interests have often caused great dilemmas and even divided governments. There is always a difficult choice between using diplomacy and building alliances and, on the other hand, being in favour of intervention and self- assertion. As a former foreign secretary himself, the author is able to give an insider’s view on British foreign policy-making and he explains how this vital role and its responsibilities have changed over two centuries. This insightful book focuses on the lives and impact of 11 of the men who have filled the role, including George Canning and Viscount Robert Castlereagh, who actually drew pistols at dawn on Putney Heath in 1809! It is difficult to imagine the suave Anthony Eden doing such a thing, although possibly the pugnacious Ernest Bevin might have been tempted. Other holders of the office revealed in fascinating detail here are: George Gordon 4th Earl of Aberdeen, Henry Temple 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Edward Stanley 15th Earl of Derby, Robert Cecil 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Sir Edward Grey, Ramsay MacDonald and Sir Austen Chamberlain and in addition, the detailed background includes a cast of thousands. 415 paperback pages with colour and b/w plates.


£12.99 NOW £5 70645 BAD HISTORY: How


We Got the Past Wrong by Emma Marriott Was the defeat of the Spanish Amada England’s greatest victory? Did Mussolini make the trains run on time? Looking at the telescope and Galileo, Roman roads and recent archaeological excavations, imported artillery from America, Trotsky and Bismarck, the founding fathers and cowboys, Captain Scott and Vichy France and how Pétain tried to save Jews from the Holocaust here are


the myths and historical fallacies entrenched in popular e-mail: orders@bibliophilebooks.com


beliefs which on many occasions are inaccurate. Our book exposes the facts and how they have wrongly influenced our understanding of key historical events and figures. St. Patrick was Irish, the Man in the Iron Mask was Louis XIVs brother, Cecil Rhodes and Oliver Cromwell are among the characters, places and events we are taken to in this at-a-glance potted history of myth and truth. 192pp with line art. £9.99 NOW £4.50


70092 MRS BROWN IS A MAN AND A BROTHER: Women in Merseyside’s Political Organisations 1890-


1920 by Krista Cowman The author’s grandmothers and great-aunt personally witnessed many of the events described in this vivid account of how women’s politics functioned at the grass roots, away from the schisms and personality clashes of the national


political scene, so it is incumbent upon her to report as accurately as she can. Drawing on a variety of other sources as well, including branch records, personal documents and local newspapers, she offers the first detailed regional study of women’s politics in the United Kingdom in the period before the First World War. By analysing a wide variety of organisations within the boundaries of a small local area, the book throws fresh light on the tactics used for recruiting and retaining membership, publicising a cause and drawing women into the public political area. It also looks at the ways in which women moved between different priorities of class, gender and religious affiliation when choosing where to locate their political activities, and examines the impact of the autonomous, all-female suffrage campaigns on older political groups in which women competed with men. A valuable and interesting piece of social research from Liverpool University Press. 196 pages. £50 NOW £7.50


70347 DANGEROUS


KNOWLEDGE: Orientalism and its Discontents by Robert Irwin


In 1981 Edward Said published Orientalism, a hugely influential and controversial book which called into question the entire history of the West’s study of Islamic culture, condemning it for presenting deliberately misleading and demeaning representations of


Islamic people and institutions. But was Said’s interpretation and condemnation of Western “Orientalism” fair and unbiased? Robert Irwin’s groundbreaking history looks at the colourful collection of intellectuals and eccentrics who first brought an understanding of the Islamic world to the West - from the Ancient Greeks’ perception of the Persians, via the early Western translators of Arabic, to the contemporary Muslim world’s perceptions of the Western study of Islam - and affirms the value of the Orientalists’ legacy. Just as passionate and controversial as Said’s book, this is certain to encourage an immediate rethink of our relationship with the Islamic world. 410pp. $35 NOW £7


70524 OLD REGIME AND


THE FRENCH REVOLUTION by Alexis de Tocqueville Facsimile reprint of the 1856 original here translated by John Bonner, unabridged and with original typography. One of the most important books ever written about the French Revolution, this treatise is the work of a celebrated political thinker and historian. Alexis de Tocqueville reveals the rebellion’s origins and consequences by


examining France’s political and cultural environment. His view of the Revolution as part of a gradual and ongoing social process offers timeless insights into the pursuits of individual and political freedom. The survey begins with a consideration of the contradictory opinions surrounding the Revolution’s outbreak. It looks at the old regime including its administration, tribunals, official manners and customs, internecine quarrels and class divisions. Tocqueville explores a range of influences on the rebellion’s development including the political rise of the nation’s literary figures, the growth of anti-religious attitudes and the widespread desire for reform and liberty. For all interested in political philosophy, Enlightenment history and the French Revolution. 344pp in paperback.


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70697 COMRADE OR BROTHER? A History of the British Labour Movement, Second Edition by Mary Davis


The author has not only written, broadcast and lectured widely on women’s history, labour history, imperialism and racism, she is also a leading activist in the labour movement. Her book is an updated and expanded edition of a classic


feminist account of British labour history. Critical and iconoclastic, it traces the history of the British labour movement from its very beginnings, starting with the economic and political background between 1780 and 1850, examining the impact of the French Revolution, of post-war radicalism and the age of Chartism. Then the rise of trade unions, socialist politics, the shop stewards’ movement and the First World War are examined in detail and their development analysed right up to the end of the 20th century. As well as providing a critical analysis of the rival ideologies which played a role in the uneven development of the labour movement, it discusses the place of women and the influence of racism and sexism on them. A valuable piece of social history. 304 paperback pages. £15.99 NOW £5


69447 RURAL RIDES OF THE BRISTOL CHURCHGOER by Joseph Leech


In September 1843, the first of the ‘Churchgoer’ articles appeared on the back page of ‘The Bristol Times’ and attracted a considerable following. The first series ended in June 1844, but shortly afterwards began the ‘Rural


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