History - Local Publications
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Ta’ Liesse
Malta's Waterfront Shrine for Mariners€55.00In its physical dimensions, the Liesse church would count as small, no more than an enthusiastic chapel. Size apart, anything else related to it ha...
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Maltese Picture Postcards The Definitive Catalogue - Volume 1: The Early Years 1898-1906
Anthony J. Abela Medici€60.00The visual imprint of our Maltese Nation can be seen from photographic archives, lithographic prints, and postcards which, all together, provide a ...
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Valletta Porta Reale and Environs
Michael Ellul€14.99The purpose of this work is to call attention to the historical and contextual importance of Porta Reale within the urban architecture of Valletta....
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MUSEUMS OF MALTA 360°
Enrico Formica€93.50Museums of Malta 360° is a lavish pictorial journey through Malta’s cultural treasure houses. A representative selection of the country’s museums i...
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UNDERGROUND MALTA 360° Volume 2
Enrico Formica€60.00Once again, Miranda Publishers went deep into Malta’s underground sites situated beneath churches, museums, offices and private residences and it b...
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Antiquing in Malta: The La Vallette Helmet & other Finds
Robert Attard€35.00This book tells the stories of ‘Maltese’ treasures lost and found. The first chapter explores the history of the de Vallette helmet previously in t...
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Fortress Colony: The Final Act - Vol 1 1945-1954 HB
Joseph M. Pirotta€58.00Professor Joseph M. Pirotta who holds a Ph.D. in politics from the University of Reading, is a former head of the Department of International Relat...
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Knights at Sea - The Caravan Diaries
Thomas Freller€15.00On 6 February 1807 the Bavarian colonel and artillery expert Cajetan von Spreti was killed by a shrapnel in course of the siege of the Prussian for...
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Malta: The Order of St John (HB)
Thomas Freller€40.00The urban, cultural and political profile of the Maltese islands is deeply marked by the presence for 268 years of the Knights of St John. The Orde...
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The Observing Eye: The French artist Jean Houel in Malta
Thomas Freller€38.00The French artist Jean Pierre Louis Laurent Hoüel is rightly described as master of the ‘vedutismo itinerante’. Art historians have acknowledged hi...
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The People of the North (1546-1610)
Agenda Bookshop€25.00The book breaks new ground in so far as it brings together the information from extensive archival research into a variety of primary sources. The ...
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The making of Malta
Reuben Grima€40.00A journey into Malta's checkered history through the seven basic elements that most influenced its roots and made Malta what it is: sea, rock, wate...
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Malta in World War II (Wartime Drawings by Alf Gerada)
Albert Ganado€45.00This book includes over 100 watercolours which were painting around the Valletta area during the Second World War. They offer a rare glimpse of eve...
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The Examined Life: Writings in Honour of Guido Lanfranco
MarkAnthony Falzon (ed.)€50.00This book is written and brought together in honour of an ample and selfless lifework of Guido Lanfranco. The book bears a forward by Desmond Morri...
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Remembering Sette Giugno 1919
Alexander Cutajar€12.00This publication is essential for those who want to study and truly appreciate the trials and tribulations endured by our forefathers in their figh...
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Tifkiriet ta'Tfulija fil-Furjana: Malta fil-Paċi u fil-Gwerra
Joe Bugeja€33.00Din mhix biss storja ta' ħajja ta' bniedem iżda wkoll kummentarju kritiku ta' dawk il-ġrajjiet importanti fl-istorja ta' Malta li żewqu dik il-ħajj...
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Fortress Colony: The Final Act Vol. IV 1945-1964
Joseph M.Pirotta€68.00Professor Joseph M. Pirotta who holds a Ph.D. in politics from the University of Reading, is a former head of the Department of International Relat...
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The Peerage & Knightage in Malta HB
Charles A Gauci€60.00The book is divided into three parts.The Peerage part comprises four sections packed with details about the Maltese nobility , the two Maltese Prin...
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Fortress Colony: The Final Act Vol. II 1945-1964
Jospeh M.Pirotta€65.00Professor Joseph M. Pirotta who holds a Ph.D. in politics from the University of Reading, is a former head of the Department of International Relat...
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The First Gozitans (and Ġgantija) - "Maybe the history and guide books need to be rewritten..."
Revel Barker€17.50There are more than two dozen, and maybe three dozen, Neolithic (‘New Stone Age’) sites on Malta and Gozo. Nobody knows the actual figure because m...
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“Freedom but in the realm of vision dwells” - The friendship-album of Eitel Kuhn detained as a prisoner of war in Malta
Ralf Heimrath€20.99Even though he himself was not a soldier, Eitel Kuhn was captured by British armed forces in November 1914 and was interned in ‘St Clement’s Camp’ ...
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Nation, Pride and Dignity. Borg Olivier and the National Anthem
Joseph M.Pirotta€30.00“Nation, Pride and Dignity. Borg Olivier and the National Anthem is another systematically constructed historical account, profusely annotated, wri...
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Mikiel Anton Vassalli 17641829
Frans Ciappara€30.00This is the first complete biography of Mikiel Anton Vassalli (17641829). He a giant of an individual, who displayed remarkable courage, daring, a ...
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Valletta – Lost City (Vol 2)
Giovanni Bonello€80.00Following the success of the first volume in this series, comes this unique book that visually documents the Valletta that once was and no longer e...
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Malta’s Early Warning System during World War II
Tony Abela€20.00This is the fascinating account of a technological breakthrough which gave the Allies a propitious leg-up in achieving victory over the Nazis back ...
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X'Kien Ġara Sew FisSette Giugno
Paul Bartolo€39.50Edizzjoni ġdida, riveduta u aġġornata b’żjieda ta’ kapitlu ġdida filmitt anniversarju tasSette Giugno. Edizzjoni mimlija b’tagħrif ritratti u dokum...
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THE HISTORIC CHAPELS OF MALTA & GOZO 360º Volume 2
Enrico Formica€85.00The second of a series of five volumes of this unique series of books aimed at capturing the wealth of historical chapels in a way never seen befor...
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The Maltese Village Festa A Traditional Yearly Ritual
Carmel Cassar€49.50Patrick Fenech has long harboured a secret desire to publish a photographic essay on the Maltese and Gozitan festa, by taking as many photographs o...
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The Fleet of the Knights of Malta Its Organisation during the Eighteenth Century
Joseph F. Grima€45.00The starting point is the beginning of the 18th century, when the Order of St John introduced its second element to the fleet: the so-called vascel...
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Strait Street Malta's Red-Light district revealed
Emily Morrissey€19.99This book encapsulates the spirit of Malta’s Strait Street, a bohemian district with cabaret, theatre, jazz and dance hall culture. For me, a Bonac...
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THE SHIPWRECK OF ST PAUL
Daniel Cilia€50.00The Shipwreck of St Paul in AD60 is one important event that changed the history of the Maltese islands forever. When its feast day comes around, i...
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The Great Maltese Composers
Joseoh Vella Bondin€75.00The Great Mal'tese Composers: historical context, lives, and works' is the first comprehensive study of Maltese music to be written in the English ...
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Fortress Colony: The Final Act - Vol 3 1958-1961 PB
Joseph M. Pirotta€58.00In his four-volume study, Pirotta meticulously examines Malta’s twenty-year transformation from Britain’s foremost Mediterranean fortress colony to...
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The Sword and the Boudoir:...
Thomas Freller€45.00Description The Knights of the Order of St John did not live in a social vacuum. As human beings they had their needs which often clashed with the...
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