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The London Restaurant, 1840-1914 by Brenda Assael
RRP: £28.99£26.71This is the first scholarly treatment of the history of public eating in London in the Victorian and Edwardian eras. The quotidian nature of eating out during the working day or evening should not be allowed to obscure the significance of the... -
The Loss of the S. S. Titanic: Its Story and Its Lessons by Lawrence Beesley 9781781391693
£6.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781391693Author Lawrence BeesleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Benediction ClassicsPublisher Benediction ClassicsWeight(grams) 196gDimensions(mm)... -
The Archaeology of Egyptian Non-Royal Burial Customs in New Kingdom Egypt and Its Empire by Wolfram Grajetzki
RRP: £17.00£14.72This Element provides a new evaluation of burial customs in New Kingdom Egypt, from about 1550 to 1077 BC, with an emphasis on burials of the wider population. It also covers the regions then under Egyptian control: the Southern Levant and the area of... -
Pilgrim Souvenirs and Secular Badges by Brian Spencer
RRP: £40.00£34.59An exceptional reference work to pilgrim and secular badges of the middle ages. This is the first major catalogue in English devoted to medieval badges. These fascinating objects provide us with a guide to the popularity of different cults and pilgrim... -
Bronze Age Worlds: A Social Prehistory of Britain and Ireland by Robert Johnston 9781138037885
RRP: £37.99£33.78Bronze Age Worlds brings a new way of thinking about kinship to the task of explaining the formation of social life in Bronze Age Britain and Ireland.Britain and Ireland's diverse landscapes and societies experienced varied and profound transformations... -
Archaeological Investigation by Martin Carver
RRP: £43.99£39.44Drawing its numerous examples from Britain and beyond, Archaeological Investigation explores the procedures used in field archaeology travelling over the whole process from discovery to publication. Divided into four parts, it argues for a set of... -
Archaeology, Economy, and Society: England from the Fifth to the Fifteenth Century by David A. Hinton
RRP: £36.99£32.53This book examines the contribution of archaeology to the study of the social, economic, religious, and other developments in England from the end of the Roman period at the start of the fifth century to the beginnings of the Renaissance at the end of... -
The Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta Stone by Edward Dolnick 9781501198946
RRP: £20.00£12.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501198946Author Edward DolnickFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster -
Rome Then and Now (R) by Federica D'Orazio
RRP: £20.00£14.34A visual historical tour through all the great tourist locations of Rome, with vintage images paired with their modern-day equivalent in this compelling bilingual edition. Rome is 'the eternal city' and was a stopping-off place on the Grand... -
The Body in History: Europe from the Palaeolithic to the Future by John Robb
RRP: £34.99£30.73This book is a long-term history of how the human body has been understood in Europe from the Palaeolithic to the present day, focusing on specific moments of change. Developing a multi-scalar approach to the past, and drawing on the work of an... -
Kings and Kingdoms of Early Anglo-Saxon England by Barbara Yorke 9780415166393
RRP: £43.99£38.44Kings and Kingdoms of Early Anglo-Saxon England provides a unique survey of the six major Anglo-Saxon kingdoms - Kent, the East Saxons, the East Angles, Northumbria, Mercia and Wessex - and their royal families, examining the most recent research in this... -
Knoydart: A History by Denis Rixson
RRP: £10.99£7.64Knoydart - the northern edge of the 'Rough Bounds' is one of the most evocative names in Scotland. This text offers a history of Knoydart from the earliest times to the present day. A remote and desolate peninsula, its name derives from Viking settlers... -
South Devon's Shipwreck Trail by Jessica Berry
RRP: £16.99£12.28There is always a good story in a shipwreck. The tales from survivors, or frequently from those who tried to rescue them, are often astonishing in the accounts of bravery and self-sacrifice they reveal. Britain's long maritime past can be traced through... -
The Land of Boudica: Prehistoric and Roman Norfolk by John Davies 9781905223336
RRP: £19.95£18.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905223336Author John DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 251Imprint Heritage Marketing & Publications LtdPublisher Heritage Marketing & Publications Ltd -
Danebury Hillfort by Barry Cunliffe 9780752429106
RRP: £20.00£15.44An extremely well-preserved example of an Iron Age hillfort, Danebury is typical of many in Wessex but made exceptional by being the most thoroughly excavated and explored hillfort in the whole of Europe. Barry Cunliffe recreates the hillfort's past... -
The History of Central Asia: The Age of the Steppe Warriors (Volume 1) by Christoph Baumer 9781780760605
RRP: £85.00£76.91The epic plains and arid deserts of Central Asia have witnessed some of the greatest migrations, as well as many of the most transformative developments, in the history of civilization. Christoph Baumer's ambitious four-volume treatment of the region... -
The Ancient Egyptian Coffin Texts by R. O. Faulkner 9780856687549
£112.71Faulkner's authoritative English translation of Middle Kingdom coffin texts is essential for all Egyptologists. This new edition reprints his whole work in one volume. Filling the gap between the `Pyramid' texts and the New Kingdom Book of the Dead, ... -
Depicting the Dead: Self-Representation and Commemoration on Roman Sarcophagi with Portraits by Stine Birk 9788771240184
£49.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788771240184Author Stine BirkFormat HardbackPage Count 333Imprint Aalborg UniversitetsforlagPublisher Aarhus University PressWeight(grams) 1370g -
Alexander III, 1249-1286: First Among Equals by Norman H. Reid
RRP: £30.00£21.00Winner of the Saltire Society Scottish History Book of the Year 2019 Presiding over an age of relative peace and prosperity, Alexander III represented the zenith of Scottish medieval kingship. The events which followed his early and unexpected death... -
Wonderful Things: A History of Egyptology 2: The Golden Age: 1881–1914 by Jason Thompson
RRP: £24.99£20.29The discovery of ancient Egypt and the development of Egyptology are momentous events in intellectual and cultural history. The history of Egyptology is the story of the people, famous and obscure, who constructed the picture of ancient Egypt that we... -
Divided We Stand: The Battle Over Women's Rights and Family Values That Polarized American Politics by Marjorie J. Spruill
RRP: £10.99£8.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632863164Author Marjorie J. SpruillFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 482g -
Spatial Technology and Archaeology: The Archaeological Applications of GIS by David Wheatley
RRP: £58.99£51.08Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and related spatial technologies have a new and powerful role to play in archaeological interpretation. Beginning with a conceptual approach to the representation of space adopted by GIS, this book examines spatial... -
Villages of Glasgow: North of the Clyde by Aileen Smart 9781839830402
RRP: £12.99£8.94This revised and updated edition of Aileen Smart's best-selling book paints a fascinating picture of those villages north of the Clyde that helped forge Glasgow into one of Britain's most energetic and vibrant cities. Although now subsumed within... -
Llanilltud - The Story of a Celtic Christian Community by Philip Morris
RRP: £9.99£8.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784617530Author Philip MorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y Lolfa -
50 Roman Finds from the Portable Antiquities Scheme by John Pearce 9781445686844
RRP: £15.99£10.8550 Roman Finds From the Portable Antiquities Scheme highlights some of the most important and interesting Roman objects recorded by the Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) or reported as Treasure. It features a wide variety of objects, allowing for a... -
The Fire Is upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America by Nicholas Buccola
RRP: £25.00£20.59"A great read."-Whoopi Goldberg, The ViewHow the clash between the civil rights firebrand and the father of modern conservatism continues to illuminate America's racial divideOn February 18, 1965, an overflowing crowd packed the Cambridge Union in... -
Time After Time by Victor Watson
RRP: £7.99£5.79A young Anglo-Saxon woman is travelling across an empty East Anglian landscape. She's dressed as a man, for safety. But when her only companion is murdered, she knows she faces discovery, and almost certainly much worse. In the Napoleonic period, a... -
A Viking Market Kingdom in Ireland and Britain: Trade Networks and the Importation of a Southern Scandinavian Silver Bullion Economy by Tom Horne 9781032197333
RRP: £39.99£35.06Viking-Age trade, network theory, silver economies, kingdom formation, and the Scandinavian raiding and settlement of Ireland and Britain are all popular subjects. However, few have looked for possible connections between these phenomena, something this... -
The Archaeology of Sutton Park by Michael Hodder 9780752468006
RRP: £17.99£13.64Sutton Park is a nationally important historic landscape. Its many visitors are often drawn by the rich ecology that this public open space of about 2,250 acres provides. However, the Park also contains extensive and well-preserved archaeological remains... -
The Neolithic of Mainland Scotland by Kenneth Brophy
RRP: £23.99£19.91What was life like in Scotland between 4000 and 2000 BC? Where were people living? How did they treat their dead? Why did they spend so much time building extravagant ritual monuments? What was special about the relationship people had with trees and... -
The Medieval Horse and its Equipment, c.1150-1450 by John Clark
RRP: £24.99£21.30Over 400 recent finds associated with horses and excavated in London, from the utilitarian to the highly decorated, illustrated and discussed. Whether knight's charger or beast of burden, horses played a vital role in medieval life. The wealth of... -
Interpreting the English Village: Landscape and Community at Shapwick, Somerset by Mick Aston 9781905119455
RRP: £29.95£28.73An original and approachable account of how archaeology can tell the story of the English village. Shapwick lies in the middle of Somerset, next to the important monastic centre of Glastonbury: the abbey owned the manor for 800 years from the 8th to the... -
The Prehistory of Music: Human Evolution, Archaeology, and the Origins of Musicality by Iain Morley 9780198827269
RRP: £31.99£29.75Music is possessed by all human cultures, and archaeological evidence for musical activities pre-dates even the earliest known cave art. Music has been the subject of keen investigation across a great diversity of fields, from neuroscience and psychology... -
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age by Annalee Newitz 9780393652666
RRP: £21.99£18.15In Four Lost Cities, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes readers on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history of urban life. Investigating across the centuries and around the world, Newitz explores the rise and fall... -
The Complete World of the Dead Sea Scrolls by Philip R. Davies 9780500283714
RRP: £14.95£10.18New in paperback, this is a fully illustrated volume on the discovery, meaning and significance of all the Dead Sea Scrolls by acknowledged experts in the field. Offering intriguing historical and religious insights into the period of authorship, from... -
The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Hunter-Gatherers by Vicki Cummings 9780198831044
£49.32For more than a century, the study of hunting and gathering societies has been central to the development of both archaeology and anthropology as academic disciplines, and has also generated widespread public interest and debate. The Oxford Handbook of... -
Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels: How Human Values Evolve by Ian Morris
RRP: £20.00£15.89Most people in the world today think democracy and gender equality are good, and that violence and wealth inequality are bad. But most people who lived during the 10,000 years before the nineteenth century thought just the opposite. Drawing on... -
The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey's Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894-1924 by Benny Morris 9780674916456
£32.66A reappraisal of the giant massacres perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire, and then the Turkish Republic, against their Christian minorities.Between 1894 and 1924, three waves of violence swept across Anatolia, targeting the region's Christian minorities,... -
An Archaeology of Natural Places by Richard Bradley 9780415221504
RRP: £36.99£32.53This volume explores why natural places such as caves, mountains, springs and rivers assumed a sacred character in European prehistory, and how the evidence for this can be analysed in the field. It shows how established research on votive deposits, rock... -
Codex and Crafts in Late Antiquity by Georgios Boudalis
RRP: £22.50£21.68The transition from roll to codex as the standard format of the book is one of the most culturally significant innovations of Late Antiquity. The Codex and Crafts in Late Antiquity examines surviving evidence in order to better understand how this...