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How the Girl Guides won the war (Braille)

Exploring modern-day girlhood through this very British institution's effect on global warfare, this book reveals, for the first time, the dramatic impact that the Guides had on... more

Product code: 22607502

£20.00

A history of the world in 100 objects (Braille)

This book takes a dramatically original approach to the history of humanity, using objects which previous civilisations have left behind them, often accidentally, as prisms through... more

Product code: 22681102

£30.00

The old dog and duck; the secret meanings of pub names (Braille)

After much research about (and in) pubs, Albert Jack brings together the stories behind pub names to reveal how they offer fascinating and subversive insights on our history,... more

Product code: 22643902

£12.99

A world by itself; a history of the British Isles (Braille)

Six distinguished British historians offer the most definitive and compelling history of the British Isles to date. Tracing the political, religious and material cultures from the... more

Product code: 22378902

£30.00

The most powerful idea in the world; a story of steam, industry and invention (Braille)

In this book, we discover that only in Britain did the patent law enshrine the notion that people should profit from their ideas, and so was born the first generation in human... more

Product code: 22543002

£20.00

In Ishmael's house; a history of Jews in Muslim lands (Braille)

Relationships between Jews and Muslims have known many flashpoints, affecting stability in the Middle East and with consequences around the globe. The author sheds light on a time... more

Product code: 22602302

£25.00

Tommy's ark; soldiers and their animals in the Great War (Braille)

"Tommy's Ark" looks at the war through the eyes of the soldiers who were there, and examines their relationship with a strange and unexpected range of animal life, from horses,... more

Product code: 22807002

£16.99

The English rebel; one thousand years of troublemaking from the Normans to the nineties (Braille)

The English have a rich and glorious history of making trouble for themselves. One hundred and forty years before the French Revolution, the English executed their king and... more

Product code: 22809002

£12.99

France (Contracted braille (Grade 2))

It's history with the nasty bits left in! Want to know: Which king thought he was made of glass? Why French bread was once made from broken tiles and bricks? How to play hopscotch... more

Product code: 22829202

£7.99

Fatal colours; the battle of Towton, 1461 (Contracted braille (Grade 2))

The Battle of Towton 1461 was unique in its ferocity and brutality, as the armies of two kings of England engaged with murderous weaponry and in appalling conditions to conclude... more

Product code: 22866802

£20.00

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