History

A classic and sympathetic description of the Mon / Talaing people of Burma (Myanmar)

An account of the authors time as a colonial official, with his wife, in Northeast India in the late 1800's. 

An idiosyncratic description of the Royal Navy, it's ranks, ships, organisation and customs. We also have volume two in stock.

Uses Pounds translation from the Latin as an example of superlative creative translation, as opposed to the purely literal.

This phenomenological exploration of the streets of Dickens's London opens up new perspectives on the city and the writer.

Traces the development of critical moral psychology in the central novels of the Brontes and George Eliot.

Drawing on the ideas of Foucault, the author places the Gothic at the centre of the debate about Romanticism.

A history of the literary circle that formed around the publisher John Murray, including Gladstone, Salisbury, Livingstone, Borrow and Isabella Bird.

A lovely edition of the famous anthology. Containing poetry, music, maps cocktails and all manner of other pleasantries.

A complete guide to the embroiderers art. With lucid text, clear diagrams and many examples of patterns and old embroideries to inspire.

Subtitled "A Book of Home Interests in General and of one Home in Particular." An account of Dora Owen's  -search for, and creation of a family home.

Intended as in instructional manual for the use of Army and RAF Personnel and revised at the outset of WWII. A most comprehensive and fascinating volume.

A history of the ship modeller's art, with many examples from European and American collections.

Contains all the information needed to build a highly accurate model of the world's most famous liner. 

Part one, "Historical Notes." (Part two contains a list of exhibits with descriptions.) Spanning the earliest Mediterranean ships to the decline of sail in the late 19th century, this history is illustrated by the extensive collection of model ships in the Science Museum.