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How Britain Brought Football to the World
Av Stuart Laycock, Philip Laycock
Inbunden, 2022
195 kr
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'Delighted to learn from this very enjoyable new book that the first ever game of football played in Austria was won by the Vienna Cricket Club.' - Tom Holland, Historian and BroadcasterHave we matched Wembley 1966 and 2022, or lost again on penalties? As a football fan in the Home Nations, there …
All the Countries We've Ever Invaded
And the Few We Never Got Round To
Häftad, 2013
125 kr
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Out of 193 countries that are currently UN member states, we’ve invaded or fought conflicts in the territory of 171. That’s not far off a massive, jaw-dropping 90 per cent. Not too many Britons know that we invaded Iran in the Second World War with the Soviets. You can be fairly sure a lot more …
UnRoman Britain
Exposing the Great Myth of Britannia
Av Miles Russell, Stuart Laycock
Häftad, 2019
184 kr
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Roman Britain is usually thought of as a land full of togas, towns and baths with Britons happily going about their Roman lives under the benign gaze of Rome. This is, to a great extent, a myth that developed after Roman control of Britain came to an end, in particular when the British Empire was …
Warlords
The Struggle for Power in Post-Roman Britain
Häftad, 2009
274 kr
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The centuries after the end of Roman control of Britain in AD 410 are some of the most vital in Britain's history - yet some of the least understood. Warlords brings to life a world of ambition, brutality and violence in a politically fragmented land, and provides a compelling new history of an age …
UnRoman Britain
Exposing the Great Myth of Britannia
Av Stuart Laycock, Dr Miles Russell
E-bok, 2011
48 kr
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Roman Britain is usually thought of as a land full of togas, towns and baths with Britons happily going about their Roman lives under the benign gaze of Rome. This is, to a great extent, a myth that developed after Roman control of Britain came to an end, in particular when the British Empire was …
Roman Empire in 100 Haikus
Häftad, 2019
149 kr
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The Roman Empire has been a source of fascination to political thinkers, the obsession of some of the greatest historians, and has influenced art down the ages. Now, in a fresh new take on the era, historian Stuart Laycock sums up the subject in 100 haikus. These original poems are sometimes witty, …
Little Book of England
Av Stuart Laycock, Philip Laycock
Inbunden, 2023
212 kr
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Did you know?• The first African community to arrive in England was stationed at Aballava on Hadrian's Wall to keep out the Picts.• Admiral Robert FitzRoy, creator of the Met Office, was so upset by criticism of his weather forecasts that he shot himself.• While studying at Cambridge, Charles …
From My Old Stamp Album
Exotic Tales of Lost Countries
Häftad, 2023
160 kr
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Pickup an old stamp album and flick through it. You’ll find a host of exotic and unfamiliar names: Cyrenaica, Fernando Poo, Fiume, North Ingria, Obock, Stellaland, Tuva, – distant lands, vanished territories, lost countries. Do they still exist? If not, where were they? What happened to them?From …
