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The Jewish Community of Golders Green: A Social History by Pam Fox 9780750965873
RRP: £16.99£12.94The first Jews settled in Golders Green just before the First World War, and by 1930 the suburb had been recognised for its significant Jewish community. By 1960 the Jewish population of Golders Green had tripled. A century after the arrival of the first... -
The Death of King Arthur by Simon Armitage
RRP: £12.99£7.12By the Poet LaureateThe Alliterative Morte Arthure - the title given to a four-thousand line poem written sometime around 1400 - was part of a medieval Arthurian revival which produced such masterpieces as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Sir... -
The Shadow in the East: Vladimir Putin and the New Baltic Front by Aliide Naylor 9781350352896
RRP: £12.99£9.79'An insightful, nuanced account that highlights the present multitude of currents at play in Europe' - Peter Pomerantsev The Baltics are vital democracies in North-Eastern Europe, but with a belligerent Vladimir Putin to their east - plotting his war... -
Fifty Things You Need To Know About British History by Hugh Williams
RRP: £14.99£9.70What are the 50 key events you need to understand to grasp British history? If you could choose the 50 things that define British history, events of significance not only in themselves, but in their importance to wider themes running through... -
Ring of Stone Circles: Exploring Neolithic Cumbria by Stan L Abbott
RRP: £9.99£6.80To paraphrase L.P. Hartley, "The past is a different country." Stan L Abbott sets out to explore the visible clues to our mysterious past from the Neolithic and Bronze Ages: stone circles. Cumbria boasts more of these monuments than any other English... -
The Baltic Cauldron: Two Navies and the Fight for Freedom by Michael Ellis
RRP: £30.00£24.17The Baltic Cauldron commemorates several centuries of Anglo-Swedish relations, which, after events in Eastern Europe in 2022, have acquired a new resonance as a record of the struggle for survival and independence of nations bordering the Baltic. This is... -
Macbeth: The True Story by Fiona Watson
RRP: £12.99£8.60Thanks to Shakespeare, the name Macbeth has become a byword for political ambition realised by bloody violence. Fiona Watson has uncovered, buried beneath the layers of myth, a history that is entirely different from, but just as extraordinary as, that... -
Donatello by Peta Motture
RRP: £45.00£34.21Arguably the greatest sculptor of all time, Donatello (c.1386-1466) was at the vanguard of a revolution in sculptural practice in the early Renaissance. Combining ideas from classical and medieval sculpture to create innovative sculptural forms,... -
On the Scale of the World: The Formation of Black Anticolonial Thought by Musab Younis
RRP: £25.00£19.59This expansive history of Black political thought shows us the origins-and the echoes-of anticolonial liberation on a global scale.On the Scale of the World examines the reverberations of anticolonial ideas that spread across the Atlantic between the two... -
Sunderland Memories by Janette Hilton 9780752444918
RRP: £14.99£11.55Sunderland, a historic shipbuilding port renowned for its trade in beautiful, vividly coloured glass, has seen many changes over the last century. Collected in this book are the personal memories of Sunderland people, who provide eloquent descriptions of... -
The Salvation Army: 150 Years of Blood and Fire by Huggins, Stephen 9781399098229
RRP: £25.00£17.62In 2015 the Salvation Army celebrated the 150th anniversary of its birth in the poverty and squalor of London's East End. Today the Army is to be found in towns and cities throughout Britain, its members readily recognised through their military uniform... -
The New Model Army: Agent of Revolution by Ian Gentles
RRP: £25.00£20.92The definitive account of the superior fighting force that powered the English Revolution The New Model Army was one of the most formidable fighting forces ever assembled. Formed in 1645, it was crucial in overthrowing the monarchy and propelling one of... -
Prince Albert: The Man Who Saved the Monarchy by A. N. Wilson 9781782398318
RRP: £25.00£16.99Chosen as a Book of the Year in The Times and the Daily Mail 'Highly entertaining' Sunday Times 'Enthralling' Daily Telegraph For more than six decades, Queen Victoria ruled a great Empire at the height of its power. Beside her for more than twenty of... -
A Dancer in Wartime: The touching true story of a young girl's journey from the Blitz to the Bright Lights by Gillian Lynne
RRP: £16.99£7.11London during the Blitz was a time of hardship, heroism and hope.For Gillian Lynne - a budding ballerina - it was also a time of great change as she was evacuated from war-torn London to a crumbling mansion, where dance classes took place in the faded... -
The Magician's Death (Hugh Corbett Mysteries, Book 14): A twisting medieval mystery of intrigue and suspense by Paul Doherty
RRP: £9.99£6.80The monk and scholar Roger Bacon claimed to have seen many marvels of nature and science and concealed these in a book written in an unbreakable code. Sir Hugh Corbett has been instructed to organise agents in Paris to steal this Book of Secrets. They do... -
The Vulgate Bible, Volume I: The Pentateuch: Douay-Rheims Translation by Swift Edgar 9780674055346
RRP: £29.95£25.26The Vulgate Bible, compiled and translated in large part by Saint Jerome at the intersection of the fourth and fifth centuries CE, was used from the early Middle Ages through the twentieth century in the Western European Christian (and, later,... -
Harold: The Last Anglo-Saxon King by Ian W. Walker
RRP: £12.99£9.62King Harold Godwineson is one of history's shadowy figures, known mainly for his defeat and death at the Battle of Hastings. His true status and achievements have been overshadowed by the events of October 1066 and by the bias imposed by the Norman... -
Gaeilge: A Radical Revolution by Caoimhin de Barra
£18.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781782189077Author Caoimhin de BarraFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Currach PressPublisher Columba Books -
I Never Knew That About Coastal England by Christopher Winn
RRP: £12.99£9.09We all love to be beside the seaside! Be it the crunch of the sand beneath your feet, or the promise of an unexplored rock pool that draws you to the sea, prepare to be whisked away by bestselling author Christopher Winn as you delve into the charming... -
Sleep in Early Modern England by Sasha Handley
RRP: £30.00£29.65A riveting look at how the early modern world revolutionized sleep and its relation to body, mind, soul, and society Drawing on diverse archival sources and material artifacts, Handley reveals that the way we sleep is as dependent on culture as it is... -
Six Weeks of Blenheim Summer: One Pilot's Extraordinary Account of the Battle of France by Alastair Panton
RRP: £12.99£9.09'DESERVES TO JOIN REACH FOR THE SKY AND THE LAST ENEMY AS ONE OF THE GREAT RAF BOOKS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR' - ANDREW ROBERTSAs I write, I can clearly recall the stinging heat of aburning Blenheim, smells, tastes, expressions, sounds of voices and, most... -
George V (Penguin Monarchs): The Unexpected King by Mr David Cannadine
RRP: £4.99£3.80The acclaimed Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers - now in paperbackFor a man with such conventional tastes and views, George V had a revolutionary impact. Almost despite himself he marked a decisive break with his... -
A Nurse's War: A Diary of Heroism and Heartache on the Home Front by Patricia Malcolmson
RRP: £8.99£6.02The remarkable wartime diary of nurse Kathleen Johnstone 'Warm, chatty and endlessly absorbing, this delightful diary brims with intelligence and humour.' Wendy Moore, author of Endell Street: The Women... -
Collision of Empires by Prit Buttar
RRP: £16.99£12.68Collision of Empires is the first major historical work on the Eastern Front during World War I since the 1970s. One of the primary triggers of the outbreak of World War I was undoubtedly the myriad alliances and suspicions that existed between the... -
Brother to the Sun King: Philippe, Duke of Orleans by Nancy Nichols Barker
RRP: £31.50£28.23In battle he fought with legendary valor ...At court, dressed in silks and ribbons, he openly favored his male lovers ...Despised but feared by his brother, he was the perpetual loser in a lifelong sibling rivalry ...Brother to the Sun King: Philippe,... -
A Short History of the Irish Revolution: 1912 -1927 by Richard Killeen
RRP: £11.99£8.43The Irish revolution began with the Ulster crisis of 1912 followed by the Irish Nationalist Party securing the passage of the Home Rule Act in 1914. By then, however, the Great War had broken out: the Act was suspended for the duration of the war, with... -
Speakers' Corner: Debate, Democracy and Disturbing the Peace by Philip Wolmuth
RRP: £14.99£11.55Speakers' Corner is a unique look at the people who come to argue, discuss and preach at Speakers' Corner in London's Hyde Park, regarded worldwide as the home of free speech. Many of the photographs, taken on Sunday afternoons stretching back almost... -
Pilgrim Soul: W.B. Yeats and the Ireland of His Time by Daniel Mulhall 9781848408814
RRP: £15.99£11.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781848408814Author Daniel MulhallFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint New Island BooksPublisher New Island BooksWeight(grams) 373gDimensions(mm) 215mm *... -
London`s New Scene - Art and Culture in the 1960s by Lisa Tickner
RRP: £35.00£31.17A groundbreaking and extensively researched account of the 1960s London art scene In the 1960s, London became a vibrant hub of artistic production. Postwar reconstruction, jet air travel, television arts programs, new color supplements, a generation of... -
The Country Formerly Known as Great Britain by Ian Jack
RRP: £15.99£11.61In this selection from over twenty years of reporting and writing, Ian Jack sets out to deal with contemporary Britain - from national disasters to football matches to obesity - but is always drawn back in time, vexed by the question of what came first... -
Henry VIII's Children: Legitimate and Illegitimate Sons and Daughters of the Tudor King by Caroline Angus 9781399095860
RRP: £25.00£17.62Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
A Concise History of the Netherlands by James C. Kennedy 9780521699174
RRP: £30.99£23.25The Netherlands is known among foreigners today for its cheese and its windmills, its Golden Age paintings and its experimentation in social policies such as cannabis and euthanasia. Yet the historical background for any of these quintessentially Dutch... -
Heiresses: The Lives of the Million Dollar Babies by Laura Thompson 9781788548229
RRP: £25.00£21.79Heiresses is a glorious book, endlessly entertaining and about much more than its stated subject. Thompson is a fabulous writer' Caroline O'Donoghue 'Witty, insightful, deliciously gossip-laden and slightly scandalous... Heiresses makes for an... -
Blazing a Trail: Irish Women Who Changed the World by Sarah Webb
RRP: £14.99£11.66A book for everyone who dreams of changing the world. From fearless aviator, Lady Mary Heath, the first woman in the world to parachute from an aeroplane, to Margaret Bulkley, the 18th-century surgeon who lived as a man, meet 28 remarkable Irish women... -
Thomas Clarke: 16Lives by Helen Litton
RRP: £15.99£12.37A fascinating examination of the life of Thomas Clarke, a member of the Fenians and a key leader of the Irish Republican Brotherhood in 1916. Clarke spent fifteen years in penal labour for his role in a bombing campaign in London between 1883 and... -
St Petersburg: Three Centuries of Murderous Desire by Jonathan Miles
RRP: £14.99£11.35'This extraordinary book brings to life an astonishing place. Beautiful prose renders brutality vivid' The Times - BOOK OF THE WEEK From Peter the Great to Putin, this is the unforgettable story of St Petersburg - one of the most magical, menacing and... -
Fifty Years On: The Troubles and the Struggle for Change in Northern Ireland by Malachi O'Doherty 9781786496669
RRP: £12.99£8.56In 1969, an eruption of armed violence traumatized Northern Ireland and transformed a period of street protest over civil rights into decades of paramilitary warfare by republicans and loyalists. In this evocative memoir, Malachi O'Doherty not only... -
A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain
RRP: £12.99£9.49Twain's account of travelling in Europe, A TRAMP ABROAD (1880), sparkles with the author's shrewd observations and highly opinionated comments on Old World culture, and showcases his unparalleled ability to integrate humorous sketches, autobiographical... -
Haunted Stirling by David Kinnaird 9780752458441
RRP: £14.99£11.55From heart-stopping accounts of apparitions, poltergeists and related supernatural phenomena, to first-hand encounters with phantoms and spirits, this collection of stories contains both new and well-known spooky tales from around Stirling. A whole... -
Edmund Campion: Jesuit and Martyr by Evelyn Waugh
RRP: £9.99£7.11In 1581 Edmund Campion, a Jesuit priest working underground in Protestant England, was found guilty of treason and hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn. Years later he would be beatified. Evelyn Waugh's compelling and elegant narrative is a homage to...