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The Reign of Elizabeth: England 1558-1603 by Barbara Mervyn
£35.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780719574863Author Barbara MervynFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Hodder MurrayPublisher Hodder EducationWeight(grams) 900gDimensions(mm) 274mm * 218mm... -
Oxford School Shakespeare: The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
RRP: £7.99£5.41Oxford School Shakespeare is an acclaimed edition especially designed for students, with accessible on-page notes and explanatory illustrations, clear background information, and rigorous but accessible scholarly credentials. The Taming of the Shrew is a... -
The New India: The Unmaking of the World's Largest Democracy Rahul Bhatia 9781408717882
RRP: £25.00£16.38The New India is the unforgettable account of the struggle between modern forces and ancient ideas to shape the young country's destiny. It reveals a picture of a nation on the precipice of dramatic change.Based on six years of detailed research and... -
KJV, Gift and Award Bible, Leather-Look, Blue, Red Letter Edition, Comfort Print: Holy Bible, King James Version by Zondervan 9780718097929
£8.17Commemorate a special accomplishment or event with a gift to be treasured for years to come. This edition is published in large KJV Comfort Print type, which was designed exclusively for Thomas Nelson to be the most readable at any size.Featuring the... -
Banned Books by DK
RRP: £12.99£8.35Immerse yourself in the stories behind the most shocking and infamous books ever published!Censorship of one form or another has existed almost as long as the written word, while definitions of what is deemed "acceptable" in published works have shifted... -
Fighting the People's War: The British and Commonwealth Armies and the Second World War by Jonathan Fennell 9781107030954
RRP: £30.00£27.55Fighting the People's War is an unprecedented, panoramic history of the 'citizen armies' of the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand and South Africa, the core of the British and Commonwealth armies in the Second World War. Drawing on... -
Robert the Bruce: Champion of a Nation by Stephen Spinks 9781398119543
RRP: £11.99£8.09Robert the Bruce is a man of both history and legend. In his lifetime he secured Scottish independence in the face of English imperial aggression under the successive leadership of Edward I and Edward II. He was the victor of Bannockburn, a self-made... -
Campaigns of Napoleon: The Mind and Method of History's Greatest Soldier by David Chandler 9780025236608
RRP: £59.99£40.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780025236608Author David G. ChandlerFormat HardbackPage Count 1216Imprint Prentice Hall & IBDPublisher Prentice Hall (a Pearson Education... -
The 43 Group: Battling with Mosley's Blackshirts by Morris Beckman 9780752499420
RRP: £9.99£7.77Oswald Mosley decided he could carry on where Hitler and Mussolini had left off. On street corners his fascist speakers would proclaim 'not enough Jews were burned at Belsen'. Enter the 43 Group. In a ferocious, bloody and brilliantly covert five-year... -
These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore 9780393357424
RRP: £15.99£13.20The American experiment rests on three ideas-"these truths", Jefferson called them-political equality, natural rights and the sovereignty of the people. And it rests, too, "on a dedication to inquiry, fearless and unflinching", writes Jill Lepore in a... -
After the Party by Georgina Lees 9780008497194
RRP: £8.99£6.22'Compelling, heartbreaking and beautifully written. This superb thriller will stay in my mind for a very long time' B P Walter, Sunday Times-bestselling author of The Dinner Guest on The Girl Upstairs He... -
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Edward Gibbon 9781853264993
RRP: £4.99£4.01Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published between 1776 and 1788, is the undisputed masterpiece of English historical writing which can only perish with the language itself. Its length alone is a measure of its monumental quality:... -
American Empire: A Global History by A. G. Hopkins 9780691196879
RRP: £22.00£18.63A new history of the United States that turns American exceptionalism on its headAmerican Empire is a panoramic work of scholarship that presents a bold new global perspective on the history of the United States. Taking readers from the colonial era to... -
Wild Atlantic Way: Where to Eat and Stay by John McKenna
RRP: £9.99£6.84The ultimate guide to the wild atlantic way. A guide to the best places to enjoy the local Irish cuisine and where to rest for the night along the famous Wild Atlantic Way. Elemental, enchanting and inspiring, the Wild Atlantic Way is... -
Land Between the Rivers: A 5000-Year History of Iraq Bartle Bull 9781838957858
RRP: £25.00£16.85Land Between the Rivers is the result of ten years of research, writing, and thinking about the subject. It is an enormous topic: five thousand years, beginning with Gilgamesh at the edge of historical time. It is a big topic in another way. More than... -
National 5 History: Preparation and Support for SQA Exams (Leckie Complete Revision & Practice) by Denise Dunlop
RRP: £10.99£10.77Exam Board: SQA Level: National 5 Subject: History Two books in one! Combining a revision guide and a full set of practice test papers, this fantastic resource is... -
The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution Dan Hicks 9780745341767
RRP: £25.00£17.03Walk into any European museum today and you will see the curated spoils of Empire. They sit behind plate glass: dignified, tastefully lit. Accompanying pieces of card offer a name, date and place of origin. They do not mention that the objects are all... -
Wedlock: How Georgian Britain's Worst Husband Met His Match by Wendy Moore
RRP: £12.99£8.83WEDLOCK is the remarkable story of the Countess of Strathmore and her marriage to Andrew Robinson Stoney. Mary Eleanor Bowes was one of Britain's richest young heiresses. She married the Count of Strathmore who died young, and pregnant with her lover's... -
Edward VI: The Lost King of England Chris Skidmore 9780753823514
RRP: £10.99£7.61The struggle for the soul of England after the death of Henry VIIIIn the death of Henry VIII, the crown passed to his nine-year-old son, Edward. However, real power went to the Protector, Edward's uncle, the Duke of Somerset. The court had been a hotbed... -
From Caesar to Augustus (c. 49 BC-AD 14): Using Coins as Sources by Clare Rowan
RRP: £20.99£18.44This unique book provides the student of Roman history with an accessible and detailed introduction to Roman and provincial coinage in the late Republic and early Empire in the context of current historical themes and debates. Almost two hundred... -
The Age Of Empire: 1875-1914 by Eric Hobsbawm
RRP: £14.99£10.05The splendid finale to Eric Hobsbawm's study of the nineteenth century, THE AGE OF EMPIRE covers the area of Western Imperialism and examines the forces that swept the world to the outbreak of World War One- and shaped modern society.Hobsbawm's classic... -
Take Six Girls: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters by Laura Thompson
RRP: £10.99£7.99'Wonderfully readable... Emphasises their sheer extraordinariness and celebrates them' MAIL ON SUNDAY. The eldest was a razor-sharp novelist of upper-class manners; the second was loved by John Betjeman; the third was a fascist who married Oswald... -
Fear: An Alternative History of the World by Robert Peckham 9781788167239
RRP: £25.00£18.30It's been said that, after 9/11, the 2008 financial crash and the Covid-19 pandemic, we're a more fearful society than ever before. Yet fear, and the panic it produces, have long been driving forces - perhaps the driving force - of world history: fear of... -
A Treasury of British Folklore: Maypoles, Mandrakes and Mistletoe by Dee Dee Chainey
RRP: £12.99£8.58An entertaining and engrossing collection of British customs, superstitions and legends from past and present. Did you know, in Cumbria it was believed a person lying on a pillow stuffed with pigeon's feathers could not die? Or that green is an... -
London's Strangest Tales: Extraordinary but true stories from over a thousand years of London's history by Tom Quinn
RRP: £9.99£6.84A quirky collection of stories from London's stranger side, featuring a tiny prison cell in Trafalgar Square, a train disguised as a ship, and a church that's completely the wrong way round. London's Strangest Tales takes a walk on London's... -
Small Inventions That Made a Big Difference Helen Pilcher 9781787397873
RRP: £14.99£9.17Pockets, matches, spectacles, postage stamps. Whether it's the stitches that hold our clothes together or the syringes that deliver life-saving vaccines, small things really do make a big difference. Yet these modest but essential components of everyday... -
Letters from a Stoic: Epistulae Morales Ad Lucilium by Seneca 9780141395852
RRP: £14.99£10.95Selected from the Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium, Seneca's Letters from a Stoic are a set of 'essays in disguise' from one of the most insightful philosophers of the Silver Age of Roman literature. This Penguin Classics edition is translated from the... -
Martyrs of Henry VIII: Repression, Defiance, Sacrifice by John Matusiak 9780750987950
RRP: £20.00£15.67When Henry VIII passed through Canterbury in 1532, a young woman in her mid-twenties named Elizabeth Barton, widely revered as a visionary and prophetess, burst into his presence and warned him that he was 'so abominable in the sight of God that he was... -
Manmade Wonders of the World by DK
RRP: £35.00£26.69Discover and explore the most incredible statues, monuments, temples, bridges, and ancient cities with this unparalleled survey of the most famous buildings and structures created by humans.From Stonehenge to the Sagrada Familia, from the Great Wall of... -
Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities and Software by Steven Johnson
RRP: £10.99£7.99Steven Johnson's Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities and Software is a fascinating look at how self-organising systems are changing the world. Why do people cluster together in neighborhoods? How do internet communities spring up from... -
James Connolly: Socialist, Nationalist and Internationalist by Liam McNulty
RRP: £25.00£22.38Is the voice of James Connolly, silenced by a British bullet in 1916, coming back? This book offers a measured consideration of Connolly, alive to his continuing political relevance. It seeks to explain Connolly's political development in dialogue... -
Reclaiming the Salient: Resurrecting the Great War Battlegrounds of Flanders Fields by Roger Steward
RRP: £19.95£14.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915113672Author Roger StewardFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Taking Heart: A heartwarming family saga set in Bristol Rowena Summers 9781804365434
RRP: £8.99£6.28Can sisterhood pull them through the darkest days?Imogen Caldwell and her sisters, Daisy and Elsie, are fighting to save their childhood home and stay in Bristol. After times became hard their father sold the family business - now all they have left is... -
Basingstoke in the 1960s: Britain in Old Photographs by Robert Brown
RRP: £12.99£9.87Basingstoke in the 1960s looks at the North Hampshire town during the period in which it was drastically altered to accept the flow of population from London and other areas under the Town Development Scheme. The town centre was partially demolished to... -
Three Sisters: The conclusion to the Tattooist of Auschwitz trilogy by Heather Morris
RRP: £16.99£12.34'Gripping, heartbreaking and uplifting.' Christy Lefteri, author of the million-copy bestseller The Beekeeper of AleppoTHEIR STORY WILL BREAK YOUR HEARTTHEIR JOURNEY WILL FILL YOU WITH HOPEYOU WILL NEVER FORGET THEIR NAMESWhen they are little girls,... -
I Seek a Kind Person: My Father, Seven Children and the Adverts that Helped Them Escape the Holocaust by Julian Borger 9781399803304
RRP: £20.00£11.83'A powerful, eloquent and deeply affecting book. I loved it' EDMUND DE WAAL'Tender, evocative and deeply moving' JONATHAN FREEDLAND'Profound, elegiac and fascinating... I zipped through it' PHILIPPE SANDS'Compelling' DAILY MAIL, BOOK OF THE WEEK'I SEEK A... -
The Forgotten Slave Trade: The White European Slaves of Islam by Webb, Simon 9781526797094
RRP: £14.99£11.11A century before Britain became involved in the trans-Atlantic slave trade, whole villages and towns in England, Ireland, Italy, Spain and other European countries were being depopulated by slavers, who transported the men, women and children to Africa... -
Alamo Defenders: A Fresh Perspective on the Heroes of 1836 by James W Bancroft 9781399009911
RRP: £25.00£17.62Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
My Revision Notes: Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History: Early Elizabethan England, 1558-88 John Wright 9781510403246
£5.16Exam Board: Pearson EdexcelLevel: GCSESubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: Summer 2018Endorsed for EdexcelTarget success in Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History with this proven formula for effective, structured revision.Key content coverage... -
Nuclear War In The UK Taras Young 9781909829169
£11.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909829169Author Taras YoungFormat HardbackPage Count 126Imprint Four Corners BooksPublisher Four Corners BooksDimensions(mm) 220mm * 160mm * 14mm