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Time's Anvil: England, Archaeology and the Imagination Richard Morris 9781780222448
RRP: £12.99£8.60A personal and lyrical rediscovery of the history of England through archaeology and the imagination.History thrives on stories. TIME'S ANVIL explores archaeology's influence on what such stories say, how they are told, who tells them and how we listen... -
Sunken cities: Egypt's lost worlds by Franck Goddio
RRP: £40.00£27.75Beneath the waters of Abukir Bay, at the edge of the Nile Delta, lie the submerged remains of the ancient Egyptian cities Canopus and Thonis-Heracleion, which sank over 1,000 years ago but were dramatically rediscovered in the 20th century and brought to... -
Back to the Shops: The High Street in History and the Future by Rachel Bowlby 9780198815914
RRP: £20.99£17.94What will become of the shops? More than ever, the high street appears to be under mortal threat, its shops boarded up as the sad 'bricks and mortar' survivals of a pre-online retail world. But behind the bleak appearance, there is more to see. Back... -
Scottish Gods: Religion in Modern Scotland 1900-2012 by Steve Bruce
RRP: £23.99£21.85Steve Bruce explores Scotland's transformation from the largely devout Presbyterian country of 1900, with the church as a major social force, to the diverse, more secular society of today, when less than 10 per cent of Scots attend church. He bases his... -
The Politics of Regret: On Collective Memory and Historical Responsibility by Jeffrey K. Olick
RRP: £45.99£40.13In the past decade, Jeffrey Olick has established himself as one of the world's pre-eminent sociologists of memory (and, related to this, both cultural sociology and social theory). His recent book on memory in postwar Germany, In the House of the... -
The World Turned Upside Down: A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution by Yang Jisheng
RRP: £35.00£23.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800750586Author Yang JishengFormat HardbackPage Count 768Imprint Swift PressPublisher Swift Press -
Golden Mummies of Egypt: Interpreting Identities from the Graeco-Roman Period by Campbell Price
RRP: £30.00£22.91Golden Mummies of Egypt presents new insights and a rich perspective on beliefs about the afterlife during an era when Egypt was part of the Greek and Roman worlds (c. 300 BCE-200 CE). This beautifully illustrated book, featuring photography by Julia... -
Sir John Soane's Greatest Treasure: The Sarcophagus of Seti I John H Taylor 9781910258873
RRP: £9.99£6.80Sir John Soane's Greatest Treasure describes one of the most important antiquities ever found in Egypt - the beautiful calcite sarcophagus of the pharaoh Seti I. Re-discovered in 1817 in the tomb of Seti I in the Valley of the Kings by the flamboyant... -
Around Willesden and Wembley by Len Snow
RRP: £12.99£9.62Looks at the history of Brent through a series of articles and pieces. As such, this work is a varied collection of thoughts and facts about local firms, people, buildings and the natural surroundings. It starts with a look at the makers of Brent such as... -
'The People Are Not There': The Transformation of Badenoch 1800–1863 by David Taylor
RRP: £25.00£21.79Winner of the Saltire Society Scottish History Book of the Year Award Badenoch today is a landscape of empty glens and ruined settlements, but it was not always so. This book examines the transformative events that shaped the region's destiny: climate... -
The Tudors: Complete Story of England's Most Notorious Dynasty by G. J. Meyer
RRP: £16.99£12.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385340779Author G. J. MeyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint Bantam Doubleday DellPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)... -
109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos by Jennet Conant
£12.98In 1943, Robert Oppenheimer, the brilliant, charismatic head of the Manhattan Project, recruited scientists to live as virtual prisoners of the U.S. government at Los Alamos, a barren mesa thirty-five miles outside Santa Fe, New Mexico. Thousands of men,... -
Bygone Troon by Hugh Maxwell 9781840337266
RRP: £20.95£18.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840337266Author Hugh MaxwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 274mm * 210mm * 6mm -
The English Poor Law, 1531-1782 by Paul Slack
RRP: £23.99£16.18The poor law had a profound impact on English society between the sixteenth and the eighteenth centuries. Designed to reform the poor as much as to relieve poverty, it also shaped institutions of government and determined people's expectations and... -
Archive Stories: Facts, Fictions, and the Writing of History by Antoinette Burton
RRP: £23.99£21.24Despite the importance of archives to the profession of history, there is very little written about actual encounters with them-about the effect that the researcher's race, gender, or class may have on her experience within them or about the impact that... -
The African Lookbook: A Visual History of 100 Years of African Womanhood by Catherine E McKinley
RRP: £30.00£18.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620403532Author Catherine E. McKinleyFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 730g -
Modi's India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy by Christophe Jaffrelot 9780691206806
RRP: £30.00£24.44A riveting account of how a popularly elected leader has steered the world's largest democracy toward authoritarianism and intoleranceOver the past two decades, thanks to Narendra Modi, Hindu nationalism has been coupled with a form of national-populism... -
Pirates of The West Country by Ed Fox 9780752443775
RRP: £14.99£11.55These true tales of pirates operating from places such as Falmouth, Lulworth Cove, Plymouth and Bristol inspired the pirate fiction we know today.Book InformationISBN 9780752443775Author Ed FoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint The History Press... -
His Dark Materials: Northern Lights by Philip Pullman 9780702311413
RRP: £9.99£7.03"Remarkable writing: courageous and dangerous as the best art should be." The Times "Only Rankin can light and photograph faces with such intensity and drama. I'm delighted with this vision of my story." Philip Pullman... -
Doing Oral History: A Practical Guide by Donald A. Ritchie 9780199329335
RRP: £34.99£29.05Doing Oral History: A Practical Guide is considered the premier guidebook to oral history, used by professional oral historians, public historians, archivists, and genealogists as a core text in college courses and throughout the public history community... -
Day Fighter Aces of the Luftwaffe: Knight's Cross Holders 1939-1942 by Jeremy Dixon 9781526778642
£26.81The German fighter pilots of the Second World War are among the undoubted heroes of the conflict, their reputation for flying skill, single-minded determination and solitary courage hasn't diminished or been clouded by controversy over the years. Their... -
The Western Dunkirk Corridor 1940: Ledringhem, Wormhout and West Capelle by Jerry Murland
RRP: £12.99£10.95Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Religious History of Wales: Religious Life and Practice in Wales from the Seventeenth Century to the Present Day by Richard C. Allen 9781860570797
RRP: £24.99£20.29An essential reference guide, this volume draws together an impressive collection of academics and religious practitioners to map out for the first time the religious multiplicity and diversity of Wales. For the first fifteen hundred years or so of its... -
The Emperor's Feast by Jonathan Clements
RRP: £10.99£7.40'A galloping journey through thousands of years of Chinese culinary history . . . a timely reminder that the country's modern cuisine is the delicious fruit of a rich, ancient and perhaps surprisingly multicultural tradition' FUCHSIA DUNLOP, SPECTATOR'A... -
B-26 "Flak-Bait": The Only American Aircraft to Survive 200 Bombing Missions during the Second World War by Alan F. Crouchman
RRP: £40.99£27.67The definitive history of Flak-Bait, the most accomplished American bomber of the Second World War. Battling flak and enemy fighters over the skies of Europe during World War II, the US Army Air Force Martin B-26 Marauder bomber named "Flak-Bait"... -
The Tombs of Pompeii: Organization, Space, and Society by Virginia L. Campbell
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book offers a comprehensive overview of the tombs of Pompeii and its immediate environs, examining the funerary culture of the population, delving into the importance of social class and self-representation, and developing a broad understanding of... -
Mary Tudor Professor David Loades 9781445608181
RRP: £12.99£8.48Mary Tudor was the first female English sovereign - a ruling queen who was not simply the consort of the king. Yet little is known about this complex woman, whose reputation for ruthlessness belied her emotional fragility and who, like her half-sister... -
Mussolini and Fascist Italy by Martin Blinkhorn
RRP: £36.99£32.53In Mussolini and Fascist Italy Martin Blinkhorn explains the significance of the man, the movement and the regime which dominated Italian life between 1922 and the closing stages of the Second World War. He examines: those aspects of post-Risorgimento... -
Gigantosaurus: 10th Anniversary Edition by Jonny Duddle 9781800789043
RRP: £7.99£5.31CELEBRATING 10 ROARSOME YEARS OF GIGANTOSAURUS!His feet go STOMP! His jaws go CRUNCH!In the blink of an eye you'll be his LUNCH!All young dinosaurs fear the scary Gigantosaurus, so Bonehead volunteers to be the lookout whenever they go into the jungle to... -
Great Irish Households: Inventories from the Long Eighteenth Century by Tessa Murdoch
RRP: £75.00£65.07The value of inventories in charting how houses were arranged, furnished and used is now widely appreciated. Typically, the listings and valuations were occasioned by the death of an owner and the consequent need to deal with testamentary dispositions... -
Sight, Touch, and Imagination in Byzantium by Roland Betancourt
RRP: £36.99£30.73Considering the interrelations between sight, touch, and imagination, this book surveys classical, late antique, and medieval theories of vision to elaborate on how various spheres of the Byzantine world categorized and comprehended sensation and... -
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower
RRP: £17.99£16.31Drawing on a vast range of Japanese sources and illustrated with dozens of astonishing documentary photographs, Embracing Defeat is the fullest and most important history of the more than six years of American occupation, which affected every level of... -
Beyond the Second Sophistic: Adventures in Greek Postclassicism by Tim Whitmarsh
RRP: £30.00£23.29The "Second Sophistic" traditionally refers to a period at the height of the Roman Empire's power that witnessed a flourishing of Greek rhetoric and oratory, and since the 19th century it has often been viewed as a defense of Hellenic civilization... -
Nightmare at Scapa Flow: The Truth About the Sinking of HMS "Royal Oak" by H.J. Weaver
RRP: £7.99£5.69"The place where the German U-boat sank the British battleship Royal Oak was none other than the middle of Scapa Flow, Britain's greatest naval base! It sounds incredible..." - William L Shirer, journalist, 18 October 1939 Sinking the battleship HMS... -
How Novels Think: The Limits of Individualism from 1719-1900 by Nancy Armstrong 9780231130592
RRP: £28.00£21.80Nancy Armstrong argues that the history of the novel and the history of the modern individual are, quite literally, one and the same. She suggests that certain works of fiction created a subject, one displaying wit, will, or energy capable of shifting... -
Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization by Lars Brownworth
RRP: £20.00£9.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307407962Author Lars BrownworthFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 203mm... -
Who's Black and Why?: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
RRP: £24.95£20.29"A fascinating, if disturbing, window onto the origins of racism."-Publishers Weekly"The eighteenth-century essays published for the first time in Who's Black and Why? contain a world of ideas-theories, inventions, and fantasies-about what blackness is,... -
Finding Endurance: Shackleton, My Father and a World Without End by Darrel Bristow-Bovey 9781837731060
RRP: £16.99£11.58Finding Endurance is beautiful, thrilling, heroic and kind, a ripping yarn and a generous and humane reflection on this business of being human. Since the discovery of the wreck of Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance on the bed of the Antarctic ocean,... -
Plantagenet Queens & Consorts: Family, Duty and Power by Dr Steven J. Corvi 9781445699158
RRP: £9.99£6.52What unacknowledged theme can be found across 250 years of English history? What thread runs throughout the Plantagenet Royal House, including as it does the 'cadet' houses of Lancaster and York, to the beginning of the Modern Period in 1485? It is the... -
Mikoyan MiG-23 & MiG-27: Famous Russian Aircraft by Yefim Gordon
£49.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910809310Author Yefim GordonFormat HardbackPage Count 560Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing