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The Life of Anthony Wood in His Own Words by Nicolas K. Kiessling
RRP: $68.25$58.44Anthony Wood's account of his life is one of the few written by university persons in the seventeenth century. It is full of information about famous people, including Christopher Wren, John Locke, the physician John Lower, the Catholic Ralph Sheldon,... -
Rome: The Passenger by Various
RRP: $37.03$25.02The Passenger collects the best new writing, photography, and reportage from around the world. Its aim, to break down barriers and introduce the essence of the place. Packed with essays and investigative journalism; original photography and... -
Are Ye Dancin'?: The Story of Scotland's Dance Halls - And How Yer Dad Met Yer Ma! by Martin Kielty 9781849340458
RRP: $19.48$13.86Are Ye Dancin'? - The first-ever inside story of how Scotland's ballrooms and dance halls remained a central part of Scottish culture throughout the 20th Century. Told by the people who made it happen, the agents, managers and promoters. Eddie Tobin is... -
Forging the Kingdom: Power in English Society, 973-1189 by Judith A. Green
RRP: $46.78$39.72Between the imperial coronation of Edgar in 973 and the death of Henry II in 1189, English society was transformed. This lively and wide-ranging study explores social and political change in England across this period, and examines the reasons for such... -
Who's In, Who's Out: The Journals of Kenneth Rose: Volume One 1944-1979 by Kenneth Rose 9781474601542
RRP: $58.50$39.78'The most detailed, amusing and accurate account ever of the post-war world of the English Establishment' William Shawcross, Daily Telegraph'Extremely entertaining' Jane Ridley, Literary ReviewKenneth Rose was one of the most astute observers of the... -
Empire of the Clouds: When Britain's Aircraft Ruled the World by James Hamilton-Paterson
RRP: $19.48$6.84In 1945 Britain was the world's leading designer and builder of aircraft - a world-class achievement that was not mere rhetoric. And what aircraft they were. The sleek Comet, the first jet airliner. The awesome delta-winged Vulcan, an intercontinental... -
Literary Trails: Haworth and the Bront s by Walford, David F 9781526720856
RRP: $29.23$21.35This light-hearted but deeply researched book offers interest and guidance to walkers, social historians and lovers of the Bronte family; their lives and works. Set in and around the town of Haworth it gives a dual introduction to walkers and lovers of... -
The Bronze Horseman of Justinian in Constantinople: The Cross-Cultural Biography of a Mediterranean Monument by Elena N. Boeck
RRP: $58.48$54.21Justinian's triumphal column was the tallest free-standing column of the pre-modern world and was crowned with arguably the largest metal equestrian sculpture created anywhere in the world before 1699. The Byzantine empire's bronze horseman towered over... -
The Black and Tans: British Police and Auxiliaries in the Irish War of Independence, 1920-1921 by D. M. Leeson 9780199658824
RRP: $81.88$51.54This is the story of the Black and Tans and Auxiliaries, the most notorious police forces in the history of the British Isles. During the Irish War of Independence (1920-1), the British government recruited thousands of ex-soldiers to serve as constables... -
Bowen's Court & Seven Winters by Elizabeth Bowen
RRP: $25.33$17.73Bowen's Court describes the history of one Anglo-Irish family in County Cork from the Cromwellian settlement until 1959, when Elizabeth Bowen was forced to sell the family house she loved. Bowen reviews ten generations of her family, representatives of... -
The Irish Difference: The Story of Ireland's 400-Year Journey to Independence by Fergal Tobin
RRP: $21.43$14.27An Irish TImes Book of the Year'The beauty of this book is in the telling: The Irish Difference lays out its themes and chronologies with impeccable clarity, and is full of fascinating detail... Exemplary.' Irish IndependentFor hundreds of years, the... -
Charles: The Misunderstood Prince. 'The royal biography everyone's talking about' The Daily Mail by Sally Bedell Smith
RRP: $25.33$17.73Heir. Prince. King. Discover the real Charles - our King - in the definitive biography from the bestselling author of Elizabeth the Queen 'Brilliant, startling. The royal biography everyone's talking about' Daily Mail_________His destiny was to become... -
Colchester: A History by Andrew Phillips 9780750986915
RRP: $31.18$23.89Colchester boasts 2,000 years of history. Few towns in Britain can equal that. Yet this new book, by a local author, is the first full and concise history of Colchester to be published for over half a century, during which time our knowledge of the... -
The Annals of the Four Masters: Irish History, Kingship and Society in the Early Seventeenth Century by Bernadette Cunningham
$54.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846825385Author Bernadette CunninghamFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press Ltd -
The Book of the Skelligs by John Crowley
$92.39This book explores the Skelligs, Ireland's most dramatic and beautiful Atlantic islands, and focuses particularly on Skellig Michael, a famous UNESCO World Heritage Site. It considers why the construction of a remarkable monastic site near the peak of... -
Fortress of Fury by Matthew Harffy
RRP: $19.48$15.11Beobrand is besieged in the action-packed instalment in the Bernicia Chronicles set in AD 647 Anglo-Saxon Britain. War hangs heavy in the hot summer air as Penda of Mercia and his allies march into the north. Caught unawares, the Bernician forces are... -
Tanks on the Streets?: The Battle of George Square, Glasgow, 1919 by Gordon Barclay 9781526782656
RRP: $48.75$34.36At 12.08pm on Friday 31 January 1919, Margaret Buchanan drives her tram into George Square in Glasgow's city centre. She slows down to avoid the youths and men holding their arms up to stop her; some even jump onto the front of her tram. Swirling around... -
Towers of Defiance - Castles and Fortifications of the Welsh Princes by Paul R. Davis
RRP: $38.98$36.29An extremely comprehensive, fully illustrated guide to the history and evolution of the castle under Wales' native rulers (c.1066-1283). Spectacular aerial photography, plans and reconstruction drawings examine the various architectural designs and... -
The Italian Boy: Murder and Grave-Robbery in 1830s London by Sarah Wise
RRP: $25.33$17.73Towards the end of 1831, the authorities unearthed a series of crimes at Number 3, Nova Scotia Gardens in East London that appeared to echo the notorious Burke and Hare killings in Edinburgh three years earlier. After a long investigation, three... -
Henry I by C. Warren Hollister
RRP: $48.75$41.57Henry I, son of William the Conqueror, ruled from 1100 to 1135, a time of fundamental change in the Anglo-Norman world. This long-awaited biography, written by one of the most distinguished medievalists of his generation, offers a major reassessment of... -
Medieval Wrestling: Modern Practice of a Fifteenth-Century Art by Jessica Finley
$58.21In the Middle Ages, wrestling was practiced as both pastime and self-defense by every level of society - nobles, townsman and peasants alike - and was regarded as the foundation of all other martial arts. And no medieval wrestler's name looms as large as... -
A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary by J. R. Clark-Hall
RRP: $62.40$52.46This classic dictionary deals carefully and exhaustively with all the words which occur in Anglo-Saxon poetry and prose. Variant dialectic forms are given, together with variant forms found in the same dialect. Purely poetic words and words not common in... -
Wales by Alison Jenkins
RRP: $19.48$13.86Amazing and Extraordinary Facts: Wales takes you on an absorbing journey around Wales to unearth the adventures, inventions, legends, firsts and birthplaces that have shaped the unique history of Wales. From the ancient mines of the Great... -
Albert and the Whale by Philip Hoare
RRP: $21.43$14.14A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR AN OBSERVER BEST ART BOOK OF 2021 SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2022 'This is a wonderful book. A... -
The Penguin Dictionary of British Surnames by John Titford
RRP: $33.13$23.95The Penguin Dictionary of British Surnames is a useful and fascinating guide to the surnames that offer a unique insight into the place of origin, the occupations - and even the personality traits - of our ancestors. Detailed and informative, this... -
The Metropolitan-Vickers Type 2 Co-Bo Diesel-Electric Locomotives: From Design to Destruction by Anthony P Sayer 9781526742810
RRP: $78.00$58.48This book provides an in-depth history of the Metropolitan-Vickers diesel-electric Type 2 locomotives, more frequently known collectively as the Co-Bo's due to their unusual wheel arrangement. Twenty locomotives were constructed during the late-1950s for... -
1809 Thunder on the Danube: Napoleon's Defeat of the Hapsburgs, Volume I by John H. Gill 9781848327573
RRP: $37.03$27.32The Franco-Austrian War of 1809 was Napoleon's last victorious war. He would win many battles in his future campaigns, but never again would one of Europe's great powers lie broken at his feet. In this respect 1809 represents a high point of the First... -
The Nazi Economic Recovery 1932-1938 by R. J. Overy 9780521557672
RRP: $46.78$38.98The performance of the German economy between the Great Crash and the Second World War has been the subject of intense academic debate. The problems of economic growth were acute in inter-war Germany, and the depression of the early 1930s intensified... -
A History of Halesowen by Julian Hunt
RRP: $35.08$26.60Halesowen is an old place, planned and laid out by the monks of the Premonstratensian Abbey of Hales. Much has been written about its medieval past and William Shenstone's landscape gardens at the Leasowes, but this history of the town is the first to... -
Women of the Anarchy by Sharon Bennett Connolly 9781445691718
RRP: $44.83$30.38In 1135, Stephen of Blois usurped the throne, stealing it from his cousin Empress Matilda and sparking a nineteen-year civil war that would become known as the Anarchy, one of the bloodiest periods in English history. On the one side is Empress... -
Funeral for a Queen: Twelve Days in London by John Fraser
RRP: $25.33$16.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781989555903Author John FraserFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint The Sutherland House Inc.Publisher The Sutherland House Inc. -
Property and Politics 1870-1914: Landownership, Law, Ideology and Urban Development in England by Avner Offer 9780521129985
RRP: $60.43$55.93Landed and urban property exercised a powerful influence on social policy, urban development and national party politics in Victorian and Edwardian England. This book presents an innovative study of the economic, legal and social foundations of the... -
The Hidden Horticulturists: The Untold Story of the Men who Shaped Britain's Gardens by Fiona Davison
RRP: $48.75$33.13'Delightful... The Hidden Horticulturists pulsates with the extraordinary energy and excitement of the time.' Daily MailChosen as one of the Sunday Telegraph's 'Top Ten Gardening Books of the Year' _____________________The untold story of the remarkable... -
Iron, Steam & Money: The Making of the Industrial Revolution by Roger Osborne
RRP: $37.03$26.54In late eighteenth-century Britain a handful of men brought about the greatest transformation in human history. Inventors, industrialists and entrepreneurs ushered in the age of powered machinery and the factory, and thereby changed the whole of human... -
Shakespeare's London on 5 Groats a Day by Richard Tames
RRP: $17.53$11.45This entertaining and fact-packed guide provides all the information you'll need to travel back in time to Elizabethan London - a booming city of courtiers, cutthroats, merchants, beggars, lawyers, dramatists, apprentices and adventurers. Find out the... -
Notebooks: 1934-1947 by Victor Serge
RRP: $40.95$28.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681372709Author Victor SergeFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc -
British Celtic Coins: Art or Imitation? by Tim Wright 9781912667987
RRP: $58.50$54.17The book aims to introduce pre-Roman British coins to a new audience, by making the subject more accessible, providing a collector lens, and demonstrating the beauty of these coins through images.About the AuthorTim Wright is a collector of ancient coins... -
The Rise of the Labour Party 1880-1945 by Paul Adelman 9780582292109
$69.69This popular study covers two major topics: the formation of the Labour Party and its emergence as the main rival to the conservatives. This transformation of the British political scene has been accounted for in a variety of ways. Dr Adelman examines... -
Queen Elizabeth II and Her Church: Royal Service at Westminster Abbey by The Very Revd Dr John Hall
RRP: $29.23$22.91The Queen, when she was 21, declared that her whole life whether it was long or short would be devoted to service. At the coronation, she was set apart for service after the example of Jesus Christ. In Her Majesty's diamond jubilee year, the Dean of... -
Seawomen of Iceland: Survival on the Edge by Margaret Willson
RRP: $42.88$31.51Finalist for the 2017 Washington State Book Award in General Nonfiction / History The plaque said this was the winter fishing hut of Thuridur Einarsdottir, one of Iceland's greatest fishing captains, and that she lived from 1777 to 1863. "Wait,"...