Servants: A Downstairs View of Twentieth-century Britain by Lucy Lethbridge
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
Servants: A Downstairs View of Twentieth-century Britain is the social history of the last century through the eyes of those who served. From the butler, the footman, the maid and the cook of 1900 to the au pairs, cleaners and childminders who took their place seventy years later, a previously unheard c ...Show more
Do You Remember The 1980s: Objects and Moments of a Dynamic Era by Patricia Masso
$39.95 AUD
Category: History
A wind of change was blowing in the 1980s, and by the end of the decade the Cold War was history. But what really absorbed a whole generation in these thrilling years ws one question: is there a solution to the Rubik's cube? Prepare yourself for an amazing journey back to the 1980s when technical progre ...Show more
From Democrats to Kings: From the downfall of Athens to the rise of Alexander the Great by Michael Scott
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
Athens, 404 BC. The democratic city-state has been ravaged by a long and bloody war with neighbouring Sparta. The search for scapegoats begins and Athens, liberty's beacon in the ancient world, turns its sword on its own way of life. Defining moments of Greek history, culture, politics, religion and ide ...Show more
France A History: from Gaul to de Gaulle by John Julius Norwich
$45.00 AUD
Category: History
I can still feel, as if it were yesterday, the excitement of my first Channel crossing (as a child of nearly 7) in September 1936; the regiment of porters, smelling asphyxiatingly of garlic in their blue-green blousons; the raucous sound all around me of spoken French; the immense fields of Normandy str ...Show more