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Ghosts of Wales: Accounts from the Victorian Archives by Mark Rees 9780750984188
RRP: £15.99£12.25In the Victorian era, sensational ghost stories were headline news. Spine-chilling reports of two-headed phantoms, murdered knights and spectral locomotives filled the pages of the press. Spirits communicated with the living at dark seances, forced... -
The People's Peace: Britain Since 1945 by Kenneth O. Morgan 9780198841074
RRP: £19.99£14.28The People's Peace: Britain since 1945 is the first comprehensive study by a professional historian of British history from 1945 to the present day. It examines the transformation of post-war Britain from the planning enthusiasm of 1945 to the rise of... -
Sheffield United Match of My Life: Twelve Stars Relive Their Greatest Games by Nick Johnson
RRP: £9.99£5.47A dozen Sheffield United legends come together to tell the stories behind their favourite ever games for the club - enabling Blades fans of all ages to relive these magic moments through the eyes and emotions of the men who were there, playing their... -
Bicester and Chesterton by Bicester Local History Society
RRP: £12.99£9.62This fascinating book of over 200 old photographs provides a glimpse of life in the market town of Bicester and the nearby village of Chesterton over the last 100 years. The quieter pace of village life in the last years of the nineteenth century is also... -
City of Echoes: A New History of Rome, its Popes and its People by Jessica Wärnberg 9781837731053
RRP: £25.00£16.59In Rome the echoes of the past resound clearly in its palaces and monuments, and in the remains of the ancient imperial city. But another presence has dominated Rome for 2,000 years -the pope, whose actions and influence echo down the ages. In this epic... -
The A-Z of Curious Lincolnshire: Strange Stories of Mysteries, Crimes and Eccentrics by Stephen Wade 9780752460277
RRP: £14.99£12.55Curious Tales from Lincolnshire is filled with hilarious and surprising examples of folklore, eccentrics, historical and literary events, and popular culture from days gone by, all taken from Lincolnshire's tumultuous history. Here the reader will meet... -
Cities and the Making of Modern Europe, 1750-1914 by Andrew Lees 9780521548229
RRP: £28.99£25.82This book is a major survey of urbanization and the making of modern Europe from the mid-eighteenth century to the First World War. During these years Europe experienced startling rates of urbanization, with the populations of numerous cities growing by... -
Strong in Will: A First-Hand Account of Working for the American Embassy in Paris During the Nazi Occupation by Marie-Louise Dilkes 9781636243788
RRP: £29.95£20.92"September 1939 slipped into October quite silently as if it did not want to attract any notice. The atmosphere is tense with expectancy, ready for the critical times that lie ahead. Everyone is geared for eventualities with courage and the elan of high... -
Succession to the Crown: From Charles II to Charles III by The Gazette 9780117094314
£26.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780117094314Author The GazetteFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint TSOPublisher TSO -
Letters from Beauly: Pat Hennessy and the Canadian Forestry Corps in Scotland, 1940-1945 by Melynda Jarratt
RRP: £14.99£9.36Shortlisted, New Brunswick Book Award for Non-FictionDuring the Second World War, hundreds of New Brunswick woodsmen joined the Canadian Forestry Corps to log the Scottish Highlands as part of the Canadian war effort. Patrick "Pat" Hennessy of Bathurst... -
The Ninety-Five Theses and Other Writings by Martin Luther
RRP: £12.99£9.09For the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, a new translation of Martin Luther's most famous works by leading scholar and pastor William RussellThis volume contains selections from Martin Luther's most evocative writings, freshly translated for the... -
A Concise History of Sweden by Neil Kent
RRP: £22.99£18.94Neil Kent's book sweeps through Sweden's history from the Stone Age to the present day. Early coverage includes Viking hegemony, the Scandinavian Union, the Reformation and Sweden's political zenith as Europe's greatest superpower in the seventeenth... -
Clem Attlee: Labour's Great Reformer by Francis Beckett
RRP: £12.99£8.99Far from Winston Churchill's jibe that he was a "modest little man with plenty to be modest about," in this acclaimed biography, comprehensively revised in this new edition, Francis Beckett makes the case that Clement Attlee's reputation as Britain's... -
The Little History of Swansea by David Gwynn 9780750993074
RRP: £12.00£9.33Much has changed in Swansea over the years and this short but comprehensive history chronicles the development of the city from the earliest times to today.The Little History of Swansea traces the growth of the medieval town, the rise of the Port of... -
Lady of the House: 19th Century Women and their Role in the English Country House by Charlotte Furness 9781526702746
RRP: £12.99£11.78This book tells the true stories of three gentile women who were born, raised, lived and died within the world of England's Country Houses. This is not the story of 'seen and not heard' women, these are incredible women who endured tremendous tragedy and... -
The Ford Capri Story by Giles Chapman
RRP: £9.99£7.55Before the Ford Capri arrived in 1969, GT cars had tended to be expensive, temperamental, impractical and rarefied. Ford decided there was no reason why a four-seater coupe couldn't look stunning and go like a rocket (with the right engine) yet be as... -
David I: King of Scots, 1124-1153 by Richard D. Oram 9781910900291
RRP: £80.00£55.74David I was never expected to become king, but on succeeding to the Scottish throne in 1124 he quickly demonstrated that he had the skills, ruthlessness and ambition to become one of the kingdom's greatest rulers. Drawing on the experiences and... -
Adventures on the High Teas: In Search of Middle England by Stuart Maconie
RRP: £14.99£10.95Everyone talks about 'Middle England'. Sometimes they mean something bad, like a lynch mob of Daily Mail readers, and sometimes they mean something good, like a pint of ale in a sleepy Cotswold village in summer twilight. But just where and what is... -
Hamburg: A Cultural and Literary History by Matthew Jefferies 9781904955757
RRP: £15.00£13.65It is a popular misconception that Hamburg is a coastal city. In fact, despite possessing Europe s second-busiest port, this 'amphibious city' lies some 65 miles from the North Sea. Its long-standing image as a 'city without culture' is also something of... -
Roads in Roman Britain by Hugh Davies 9780752425030
RRP: £18.99£14.32There has been a strong interest in Roman roads in Britain for centuries and a vast amount of information has been accumulated from observation and excavation. For the first time this new study analyses the data systematically and evaluates it from a... -
Kevin Barry: An Irish Rebel in Life and Death by Eunan O'Halpin
RRP: £14.99£12.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785373497Author Eunan O'HalpinFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion Press -
Hodder GCSE History for Edexcel: Henry VIII and his ministers, 1509-40 by Dale Scarboro
£23.02Exam Board: Pearson EdexcelLevel: GCSESubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: June 2018Endorsed for EdexcelEnable students to achieve their full potential while ensuring pace, enjoyment and motivation with this popular series from the... -
Enlightenment and Change: Scotland 1746-1832 by Bruce Lenman
RRP: £23.99£21.85This second revised and expanded edition of the bestselling Integration and Enlightenment provides a compact survey of developments in Enlightenment Scotland, from the aftermath of the 1745 Jacobite rebellion to the Scottish Reform Act of 1832. The Act... -
The Green Flag: A History of Irish Nationalism by Robert Kee
RRP: £18.99£14.01THE GREEN FLAG stands as the most comprehensive and illuminating history of Irish Nationalism yet published. For many years available as three separate volumes (THE MOST DISTRESSFUL COUNTRY, THE BOLD FENIAN MEN and OURSELVES ALONE), this outstanding... -
In Europe: Travels Through the Twentieth Century by Geert Mak
RRP: £14.99£10.95Geert Mak spent the year 1999 criss-crossing the continent, tracing the history of Europe from Verdun to Berlin, St Petersburg to Auschwitz, Kiev to Srebrenica. He set off in search of evidence and witnesses, looking to define the condition of Europe at... -
Servants of the People: The Inside Story of New Labour by Andrew Rawnsley
RRP: £17.99£12.95Andrew Rawnsley's Servants of the People is a timely and fascinating look at New Labour.Every new government promises to represent a new dawn, but for New Labour it was the Covenant that Tony Blair made with Britain. The party that won a landslide... -
After Stalingrad: Seven Years as a Soviet Prisoner of War by Adelbert Toll 9781526761194
RRP: £12.99£9.09The battle for Stalingrad has been studied and recalled in exhaustive detail ever since the Red Army trapped the German 6th Army in the ruined city in 1942. Graphic first-hand accounts of the fighting have been published by soldiers of all ranks on both... -
Frozen in Time: The Fagel Collection in the Library of Trinity College Dublin by Tim Jackson
RRP: £45.00£40.22'Hendrik Fagel the Younger (1765-1838), Greffier or Chief Minister of Holland, had the misfortune to have his property seized by invading French forces in the winter of 1794-5, but managed to secure the release of his family art collection and library,... -
Elizabeth Gaskell by Jenny Uglow
RRP: £16.99£11.58Winner of the Portico PrizeShortlisted for the Whitbread Biography of the YearHigh-spirited, witty and passionate, Elizabeth Gaskell wrote some of the most enduring novels of the Victorian age, including Mary Barton, North and South and Wives and... -
The World Crisis Volume I: 1911-1914 by Sir Winston S. Churchill 9781472586407
RRP: £25.99£24.56The World Crisis is considered by many to be Winston S. Churchill's literary masterpiece. Published across five volumes between 1923 and 1931, Churchill here tells the story of The Great War, from its origins to the long shadow it cast on the following... -
Stephen and Matilda: The Civil War of 1139-53 by Jim Bradbury
RRP: £12.99£9.62Stephen's reign was one of the darkest periods of English history. He had promised Henry I that he would support the king's daughter, Matilda, as the rightful heir to the English throne, but when Henry dies in December 1135 he broke his promise and... -
The Last Leonardo: The Secret Lives of the World's Most Expensive Painting by Ben Lewis
RRP: £9.99£6.64In 2017 the Salvator Mundi was sold at auction for $450m. But is it a real da Vinci? In a thrilling narrative built on formidable research, Ben Lewis tracks the extraordinary journey of a masterpiece lost and found, lied and fought over... -
Newcastle Upon Tyne In Old Photographs by Peter Hepplewhite 9780752415987
RRP: £17.99£13.64With 200 images, selected from the archives, portraying the city in a bygone age, we embark on an intriguing pictorial journey around Newcastle upon Tyne. The Tyne of course dominates the scene, new bridges are built and old ones demolished to cope with... -
Another Man's Shoes by Sven Somme 9780954913731
RRP: £9.95£8.74"Another Man's Shoes" is a gripping first-hand account of a Norwegian scientist's escape from German custody during the Second World War after his arrest for spying. Written just after the war, Sven Somme vividly describes his 200-mile trek across the... -
De Valera: Rule (1932-1975) by David McCullagh
RRP: £33.99£23.61The concluding volume of David McCullagh's new life of Eamon De Valera. In this, the concluding volume of David McCullagh's monumental new biography of the revolutionary and statesman, we join de Valera in 1932 as he takes the reins of power in the... -
The Quest for Queen Mary by James Pope-Hennessy 9781529330625
RRP: £25.00£16.78* * 'Very funny and astute . . . a loathly feast for royal-watchers' Hilary Mantel, New Statesman Books of the Year 2018'Almost every page is a gem'A. N. Wilson, Spectator Christmas Books'A complete delight, conjuring up, with a few sharp strokes of the... -
After the Reich: From the Liberation of Vienna to the Berlin Airlift by Giles MacDonogh
RRP: £12.99£8.60In 1945 Germany was a nation in tatters. Swathes of its population were despairing, homeless, bombed-out and on the move. Refugees streamed towards the West and soldiers made their way home, often scarring the villages they passed through with parting... -
Scandals of the Royal Palaces: An Intimate Memoir of Royals Behaving Badly by Tom Quinn 9781785906527
RRP: £20.00£14.29George Orwell once said that the British love a really good murder. He might also have said that the only thing the British love more than a good murder is a really good scandal, and best of all are the political and sexual scandals that take place in... -
War of Annihilation: Combat and Genocide on the Eastern Front, 1941 by Geoffrey P. Megargee 9780742544826
RRP: £19.99£17.61On June 22, 1941, Hitler began what would be the most important campaign of the European theater. The war against the Soviet Union would leave tens of millions of Soviet citizens dead and large parts of the country in ruins. The death and destruction... -
From Demons to Dracula: The Creation of the Modern Vampire Myth by Matthew Beresford
£21.14In blood-soaked lore handed down the centuries, the vampire is a monster of endless fascination: from Bram Stoker's "Dracula" to "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", this seductive lover of blood haunts popular culture and inhabits our darkest imaginings. The...