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Bringing Life to Aberdeen: A History of Maternity and Neonatal Services by Lesley G Dunbar
RRP: €20.22€14.84How did Aberdeen revolutionise modern midwifery and mother and baby care? Whether you were born in - or gave birth in - Aberdeen or elsewhere, you will probably have benefitted from the pioneering work of some of the people mentioned in this book... -
Our NHS: A History of Britain's Best Loved Institution by Andrew Seaton 9780300268270
RRP: €23.80€20.21An engaging, inclusive history of the NHS, exploring its surprising survival-and the people who have kept it running In recent decades, a wave of appreciation for the NHS has swept across the UK. Britons have clapped for frontline workers and... -
How Did Our Garden Grow?: The History of Hatton Garden by Vivian Watson
RRP: €47.60€36.65Never before has the full history of Hatton Garden and its diamond and jewellery trade been revealed in such detail.Stories of individuals who made the community what it is today and events that are usually hidden from the public's eye have been compiled... -
The Oxford History of the Renaissance by Gordon Campbell
RRP: €15.46€10.82Histories you can trust. The Renaissance is one of the most celebrated periods in European history. But when did it begin? When did it end? And what did it include? Traditionally regarded as a revival of classical art and learning, centred upon... -
The Opera of Bartolomeo Scappi (1570): L'arte et prudenza d'un maestro cuoco (The Art and Craft of a Master Cook) by Terence Scully
RRP: €49.98€42.80Bartolomeo Scappi (c. 1500-1577) was arguably the most famous chef of the Italian Renaissance. He oversaw the preparation of meals for several Cardinals and was such a master of his profession that he became the personal cook for two Popes. At the... -
Forbidden Rites: A Necromancer's Manual of the Fifteenth Century by Richard Kieckhefer
RRP: €36.83€33.51Preserved in the Bavarian State Library in Munich is a manuscript that few scholars have noticed and that no one in modern times has treated with the seriousness it deserves. Forbidden Rites consists of an edition of this medieval Latin text with a full... -
Spy in Chancery (Hugh Corbett Mysteries, Book 3): Intrigue and treachery in a thrilling medieval mystery by Paul Doherty
RRP: €11.89€8.09Edward I of England and Philip IV of France are at war. Philip, by devious means, has managed to seize control of the English duchy of Aquitaine in France, and is now determined to crush Edward. King Edward suspects that his enemy is being aided by a spy... -
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg
RRP: €17.84€11.66The New York Times BestsellerA ground-breaking history of the class system in America, which challenges popular myths about equality in the land of opportunity.In this landmark book, Nancy Isenberg argues that the voters who boosted Trump all the way to... -
Victoria (Penguin Monarchs): Queen, Matriarch, Empress by Jane Ridley
RRP: €8.32€6.10The acclaimed Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers - now in paperbackQueen Victoria inherited the throne at 18 and went on to become the longest-reigning female monarch in history, in a time of intense industrial,... -
The Battle of Crecy: A Casebook by Michael Livingston 9781781382707
RRP: €32.73€30.40Winner of the Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award 2017This casebook is the most extensive collection of documents ever assembled for the study of one of the famous battles in history. Here we see the Battle of Crecy across the cultural... -
Dandy Style: 250 Years of British Men's Fashion by Shaun Cole
RRP: €29.75€28.96Celebrating 250 years of male self-expression, investigating the portraiture and wardrobe of the fashionable British man The style of the dandy is elegant but bold-dedicated to the perfection of taste. This meticulously choreographed look has a vibrant... -
Homo Britannicus: The Incredible Story of Human Life in Britain by Chris Stringer
RRP: €13.08€9.25Chris Stringer's Homo Britannicus is the epic history of life in Britain, from man's very first footsteps through to the present day. When did the first people arrive here? What did they look like? How did they survive? Who were the Neanderthals? Chris... -
The History of the Rebellion: A new selection by Edward Hyde,Earl of Clarendon
RRP: €16.65€12.53'I am doing your Majesty some service here, whilst I am preparing the story of your sufferings; that posterity may know by whose default the nation was even overwhelmed with calamities, and by whose virtue it was redeemed.' Clarendon's massive History... -
Henry III: The Son of Magna Carta by Matthew Lewis
RRP: €14.27€8.46King of a lost realm. Wearer of a pawned crown. Heir to an empire beyond reach. From the ashes of Magna Carta, a new England was to be forged. Henry III became King of England within days of his ninth birthday. His father, King John, had overseen a... -
London: A Cultural and Literary History by Richard Tames 9781904955214
RRP: €17.85€16.24It may not be the longest, deepest or widest river in the world but few bodies of water reveal as much about a nation's past and present, or are suggestive of its future, as England's River Thames. Tales of legendary lock-keepers and long-vanished weirs... -
In Defense of German Colonialism: And How Its Critics Empowered Nazis, Communists, and the Enemies of the West by Bruce Gilley
RRP: €26.18€21.57Famed historian and author of the groundbreaking "The Case for Colonialism" demonstrates that, contary to modern presuppositions, German colonialism from its early roots to the mid-twentieth century was overall a force for good in the world where... -
Reading Early Handwriting 1500-1700 by Mark Forrest 9780948140044
RRP: €11.90€10.44Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Corris Railway: The Story of a Mid-Wales Slate Railway by Peter Johnson
RRP: €23.79€17.47One of Wales' oldest narrow gauge railways, the 2ft 3in gauge Corris Railway was built to carry slate from several quarries in the Dulas valley to wharves on the river Dyfi. At first forbidden to use steam locomotives or to carry passengers, it overcame... -
HST: The Train That Saved Britain's Railways by Andrew Royle 9781910809983
RRP: €23.80€18.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910809983Author Andrew RoyleFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy PublishingWeight(grams) 215g -
Carshalton, Wallington and Beddington by John Phillips 9780752403410
RRP: €15.46€11.45Carshalton, Wallington and BeddingtonBook InformationISBN 9780752403410Author John PhillipsFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 240mm * 172mm * 10mm -
Battersea and Clapham by Patrick Loobey 9780752416502
RRP: €17.84€13.74This book is part of the Images of England series, which uses old photographs and archived images to show the history of various local areas in England, through their streets, shops, pubs, and people.Book InformationISBN 9780752416502Author Patrick... -
Bloc Life: Stories from the Lost World of Communism by Peter Molloy
RRP: €19.03€13.82There was life before the fall.1989 was a year of astonishing and rapid change: the fall of the Berlin Wall marked the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and an end to an entire way of life for millions of people behind the Iron Curtain. Bloc Life... -
Warrior of God: Jan Zizka and the Hussite Revolution by Victor Verney
RRP: €17.84€13.03Born in 1360, Jan Zizka was a formidable figure whose life and military career was set amidst the whirlwind of monumental revolutions - military, religious, political and social - that engulfed medieval Europe in the 14th and 15th centuries. The leader... -
Architects of Terror: Paranoia, Conspiracy and Anti-Semitism in Franco’s Spain by Paul Preston 9780008522155
RRP: €15.46€10.09A TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR From the preeminent historian of 20th century Spain Paul Preston, Architects of Terror is a new history of how paranoia, conspiracy and anti-Semitism was used to justify the military coup of 1936 and enabled the... -
What We Have Lost: The Dismantling of Great Britain by James Hamilton-Paterson
RRP: €11.89€8.46'Exquisitely written and ripe with detail' Sunday Times. 'An engaging book... He knows his British stuff' The Times. 'One of England's most skilled and alluring prose writers in or out of fiction, has done something even more original' London Review... -
Medieval Military Medicine: From the Vikings to the High Middle Ages by Burfield, Brian 9781526754745
RRP: €23.80€17.01Soldiers of the Middle Ages faced razor-sharp swords and axes that could slice through flesh with gruesome ease, while spears and arrows were made to puncture both armour and the wearer, and even more sinister means of causing harm produced burns and... -
No Case to Answer: The Men Who Got Away with the Great Train Robbery by Andrew Cook 9781803994130
RRP: €17.84€13.74In the early hours of Thursday, 8 August 1963, sixteen masked men ambushed the Glasgow-Euston mail train at Sears Crossing in Buckinghamshire.Making off with a record haul of GBP2.6 million, the robbers received approximately GBP150,000 each (over GBP2... -
The Nazi Dictatorship: Problems and Perspectives of Interpretation by Ian Kershaw
RRP: €30.93€28.75'Unquestionably the most authoritative, balanced, readable, and meticulously documented introduction to the Third Reich.' - International History Review Sir Ian Kershaw is regarded by many as the world's leading authority on Hitler and the Third... -
The Great Silence: 1918-1920: Living in the Shadow of the Great War by Juliet Nicolson
RRP: €13.08€8.81Peace at last, after Lloyd George declared it had been 'the war to end all wars', would surely bring relief and a renewed sense of optimism? But this assumption turned out to be deeply misplaced as people began to realise that the men they loved were... -
The Fabrication of Louis XIV by Peter Burke 9780300059434
RRP: €17.79€15.48Louis XIV was a man like any other, but the money and attention lavished on his public image by the French government transformed him into a godlike figure. In this engrossing book, an internationally respected historian gives an account of contemporary... -
The Oxford Plaque Guide by Elizabeth Jean Warr 9780752456874
RRP: €11.89€8.98Including handy maps and photographs, this illustrated guide tells the story behind the many and varied plaques to be found adorning buildings, monuments and statues around the university city of Oxford. This is a unique publication, featuring the lives... -
James I by Michael Brown
RRP: €29.75€24.16Conditioned by a childhood surrounded by the rivalries of the Stewart family, and by eighteen years of enforced exile in England, James I was to prove a king very different from his elderly and conservative forerunners. This major study draws on a wide... -
The Book of Margery Kempe by Margery Kempe 9780393976397
€16.99Kempe's work is accompanied by an introduction, a map of medieval England, a Kempe lexicon, and explanatory annotations. "Contexts" collects primary readings that illuminate The Book of Margery Kempe. Included are excerpts from The Constitutions of... -
Protest and the Politics of Space and Place, 1789-1848 by Katrina Navickas 9781526116703
RRP: €29.75€25.93This book is a wide-ranging survey of the rise of mass movements for democracy and workers' rights in northern England from 1789 to 1848. It is a provocative narrative of the closing down of public space and dispossession from place. It offers historical... -
Enver Hoxha: The Iron Fist of Albania by Majlinda Nishku 9781350360747
RRP: €20.22€16.72Stalinism, that particularly brutal phase of communism, came to an end in most of Eastern Europe with the death of Josef Stalin in 1953 or at least with the Khrushchev reforms that began in the Soviet Union in 1956. However, in one country - Albania -... -
The Tale of the Axe: How the Neolithic Revolution Transformed Britain by David Miles
RRP: €17.84€11.66Focusing on the British Isles, the author explores a period of huge societal change - the Neolithic, or 'New Stone Age' - through the most iconic artifact of its time: the polished stone axe, using an ancient stone axe-head brought to him by a local... -
Elizabeth's Spymaster by Robert Hutchinson
RRP: €15.46€10.82The incredible real life story of the world's first super spy'Full of stimulating detail... vivid glimpses of the world of Elizabethan espionage' GUARDIAN'Walsingham emerges from these pages as a hero of epic stature' DAILY TELEGRAPHFrancis Walsingham... -
No Labour, No Battle: Military Labour during the First World War by John Starling
RRP: €29.75€22.54From 1917 British soldiers who were unfit or too old for front-line service were to serve unarmed and within the range of German guns for weeks or even months at a time undertaking labouring tasks. Both at the time and since they have arguably not been... -
Personal Pleasures: Essays on Enjoying LIfe by Rose Macaulay
RRP: €15.46€10.27In 1935 Rose Macaulay (1881-1958) was a well-established novelist, reviewer, columnist and feminist wit. She was part of the 'intellectual aristocracy' of England, but was also passionately interested in everyday life and its foolishnesses. Personal... -
The Book of the Cailleach: Stories of the Wise Woman Healer by Gearoid Crualaoich 9781859184127
€31.46This powerful analysis of the 'wise women healer' from the oral traditions of Ireland's rural communities, is unique in its depth and perspective. Stories, told and retold, embedded in the texture of culture and community, collected and studied for many...