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Viking Clothing by Thor Ewing 9780752435879
RRP: £22.00£16.44Describing the different garments worn by women and men, this book looks at the aspects of cloth production - raw materials, production tools and techniques for woven and non-woven textiles, decorative textiles and embroidery. It also shows how much can... -
A History of the Modern British Isles, 1603-1707: The Double Crown by David Lee Smith 9780631194026
RRP: £34.95£31.23This is a survey of a seminal and intensely controversial period in British history, from the union of the Crowns of England and Scotland in 1603 to the union of the Kingdoms in 1707. The book explores the intersecting histories of the Stuart monarchies... -
World Without End: The Global Empire of Philip II by Hugh Thomas
RRP: £14.99£10.95Following Rivers of Gold and The Golden Age, World Without End is the conclusion of a magisterial three-volume history of the Spanish Empire by Hugh Thomas, its foremost worldwide authorityWorld Without End is the climax of Hugh Thomas's great history of... -
Pendragon: Essays Collected for the Coronation of King Charles III by Mahmoud Shelton 9780974146867
RRP: £10.00£8.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780974146867Author Mahmoud SheltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Temple of Justice BooksPublisher Temple of Justice BooksWeight(grams) 82g -
Birth of a State: The Anglo-Irish Treaty by Micheal O Fathartaigh
RRP: £17.99£17.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788551595Author Micheal O FathartaighFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Irish Academic Press LtdPublisher Irish Academic Press Ltd -
Mud Sweeter than Honey: Voices of Communist Albania by Margo Rejmer 9781529411461
RRP: £18.99£12.75"[An] incredibly moving collection of oral histories . . . important enough to be added to the history curriculum" Telegraph"A moving evocation of the 'everyday terror' systematically perpetrated over 41 years of Albanian communism . . . An illuminating... -
Country Cottage Conservation: A Guide to Maintenance and Repair by Bevis Claxton
RRP: £16.99£14.50Country Cottage Conservation is essential reading for everyone who loves country cottages. From simple DIY redecoration to employing architects and builders to tackle significant repairs, this book is full of helpful information. The author explains... -
Authority and the Sacred: Aspects of the Christianisation of the Roman World by Peter Brown 9780521595575
RRP: £15.99£12.56The Christianisation of the Roman world lies at the root of modern Europe, yet at the time it was a tentative and piecemeal process. Peter Brown's fascinating study examines the factors which proved decisive and the compromises which made the emergence... -
The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to Napoleon: The New Penguin History of France by Colin Jones 9780140130935
RRP: £20.00£14.29There can be few more mesmerising historical narratives than the story of how the dazzlingly confident and secure monarchy Louis XIV, 'the Sun King', left to his successors in 1715 became the discredited, debt-ridden failure toppled by Revolution in1789... -
The Gorbals: An Illustrated History by Eric Eunson 9781872074689
RRP: £21.95£19.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781872074689Author Eric EunsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake Publishing -
History of the Lombards by Paul the Deacon
RRP: £27.99£24.14History of the Lombards, by Paul the Deacon (c. 720-c. 799), is among the most important and oldest accounts of the Germanic nation. The book preserves many ancient myths and popular traditions and draws from sources that are now lost. The history traces... -
To Everything a Season: A View from the Fen by Dr. Charles Moseley
RRP: £15.99£11.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913159368Author Dr. Charles MoseleyFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Merlin Unwin BooksPublisher Merlin Unwin BooksWeight(grams) 464gDimensions(mm)... -
British Railway Disasters: Lessons learned from tragedies on the tracks: 2019 by Robin Jones
RRP: £14.99£10.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911658016Author Robin JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 132Imprint Mortons Media GroupPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 465gDimensions(mm) 245mm *... -
Pegasus and Orne Bridges by Neil Barber 9781473822740
RRP: £15.99£12.01The glider-borne operation to capture Pegasus Bridge has an established place in the annals of warfare. Conducted by Major John Howard and his company of Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry it was a superbly daring, brilliantly executed 'coup de... -
Access to History: Elizabeth I Meeting the Challenge:England 1541-1603 by John Warren Stewig
£25.21Ensure your students have access to the authoritative and in-depth content of this popular and trusted A Level History series. For over twenty years Access to History has been providing students with reliable, engaging and accessible content on a wide... -
Marie-Therese: The Fate of Marie Antoinette's Daughter by Susan Nagel 9780747596660
RRP: £16.99£12.28In December 1795, seventeen-year-old Marie-Therese, the only surviving child of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI, fled Paris's notorious Temple Prison. Kept in solitary confinement after her parents' brutal execution during the Terror, she had been unaware... -
Germany: Jekyll And Hyde: A Contemporary Account of Nazi Germany by Sebastian Haffner
RRP: £11.99£8.00A few years ago, Sebastian Haffner's DEFYING HITLER, a memoir about growing up in interwar Germany, sold over forty thousand copies. After he moved to Britain in the 1930s Haffner became so shocked about the situation in his native country that he wrote... -
Moldova: A History by Rebecca Haynes
RRP: £22.99£22.43Moldova is a new nation-state with a long history. Despite only recently gaining independence, following the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, Moldova's roots stretch all the way back to the Principality of Moldavia, established in 1359. After centuries... -
The Last Greek by Christian Cameron
RRP: £9.99£6.80Few writers are better at conjuring up a vision of Ancient Greece' THE TIMES* * * * * * *210BCE.The most powerful empires in the world brawl over the spoils of a declawed Greece.Philopoemen has a vision to end the chaos and anarchy that consumes his... -
A Brief History of the Tudor Age by Jasper Ridley
RRP: £11.99£3.32From the arrival of Henry Tudor and his army, at Milford in 1485, to the death of the great Queen Elizabeth I in 1603, this was an astonishingly eventful and contradictory age. All the strands of Tudor life are gathered in a rich tapestry - London and... -
Magna Carta: The Making and Legacy of the Great Charter by Dan Jones
RRP: £12.99£9.09A beautifully produced account of the signing, impact and legacy of Magna Carta, a document that became one of the most influential statements in the history of democracy, as part of the stunning landmark library series. On a summer's day in 1215 a... -
Blood of Others: Stalin's Crimean Atrocity and the Poetics of Solidarity by Rory Finnin 9781487558253
RRP: £23.99£20.84In the spring of 1944, Stalin deported the Crimean Tatars, a small Sunni Muslim nation, from their ancestral homeland on the Black Sea peninsula. The gravity of this event, which ultimately claimed the lives of tens of thousands of victims, was shrouded... -
The Final Crisis of the Stuart Monarchy - The Revolutions of 1688-91 in their British, Atlantic and European Contexts by Tim Harris 9781783270446
RRP: £24.99£23.92Written in a lively and engaging style, and designed to be accessible to a broader audience, this collection combines new research with the latest scholarship to provide a fresh and invigorating introduction to the revolutionary period that transformed... -
The Fall of the GDR by David Childs
RRP: £115.00£99.36The book charts the dramatic months leading to one of the most profound changes of the 20th century, the opening of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the restoration of German unity in 1990. The author analyses the nature of Communist rule in the GDR over 40... -
Vikings of the Irish Sea by David Griffiths 9780752436463
RRP: £20.00£15.04This book looks at the activities of the Vikings in the Irish Sea, a band of water that has been important since prehistoric times in the history of maritime cultural exchange between Britain and Ireland as well as the Scandinavian countries. The Vikings... -
20th Century Britain: Economic, Cultural and Social Change by Nicole Robertson
RRP: £33.99£32.9620th Century Britain provides an authoritative and accessible survey of contemporary research on economic activity, society, political development and culture. Written by leading academics, it examines recent advances in scholarship and gives a grounding... -
Steep, Strait and High - Ancient Houses of Central Lincoln by Christopher Johnson
RRP: £40.00£39.55Architectural and historical surveys of many of the most important buildings in Lincoln. This volume illuminates the development of different building styles in timber, stone and brick over a period of 750 years, in one of the oldest areas of Lincoln... -
La Passione: How Italy Seduced the World by Dianne Hales
RRP: £22.00£15.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451499165Author Dianne HalesFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Crown PublicationsPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Surviving Katyn: Stalin's Polish Massacre and the Search for Truth by Jane Rogoyska
RRP: £10.99£7.00WINNER OF THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 'A gripping reconstruction... utterly compelling reading.' Adam Zamoyski 'This is a grim story, thoroughly researched and brilliantly told.' Geoffrey Alderman, Times... -
Introducing Machiavelli: A Graphic Guide by Patrick Curry 9781848311756
RRP: £8.99£4.04Illustrated guide to the crucial Italian philosopher and author of The Prince. 'Machiavellian' is a popular byword for treachery and opportunism. Machiavelli's classic book on statecraft, The Prince, published over 400 years ago, remains controversial to... -
The Light's On At Signpost: Memoirs of the Movies, among other matters by George MacDonald Fraser
RRP: £9.99£6.64From the author of the ever-popular Flashman novels, a collection of film-world reminiscences and trenchant thoughts on Cool Britannia, New Labour and other abominations. George MacDonald Fraser has been a newspaperman, soldier, novelist... -
A Royal Christmas by Jeremy Archer
RRP: £10.99£7.47'A rich achievement full of glorious anecdotes' Hugo Vickers A Royal Christmas is a Christmas pudding of a book, enticingly full of silver threepenny pieces. Organised thematically, it covers such topics as Christmas and conflict in the 20th... -
To Kidnap a Pope: Napoleon and Pius VII by Ambrogio Caiani
RRP: £22.50£18.95A groundbreaking account of Napoleon Bonaparte, Pope Pius VII, and the kidnapping that would forever divide church and state "In gripping, vivid prose, Caiani brings to life the struggle for power that would shape modern Europe. It all makes for a... -
The Vikings in England: Settlement, Society and Culture by Martin Hargreaves 9780719059827
RRP: £19.99£14.52The viking invasion and settlement in England has been the subject of a large and complex body of scholarship, with the consensus of opinion among scholars as to its exact nature and influence shifting considerably over the years.This is a fascinating... -
Early Greek Philosophy, Volume V: Western Greek Thinkers, Part 2 by Andre Laks
RRP: £24.95£23.39A major new edition of the so-called Presocratics.The fragments and testimonia of the early Greek philosophers (often labeled the 'Presocratics') have always been not only a fundamental source for understanding archaic Greek culture and ancient... -
Bristol Murders by Nicola Sly
RRP: £14.99£11.55Contained within the pages of Bristol Murders are the stories behind some of the most heinous crimes ever committed in Bristol. They include the murder and suicide of a brother and sister in 1842; the tragic death of 10-year-old Mabel Price in 1897; the... -
Queer Beyond London by Matt Cook
RRP: £20.00£14.93Where exactly is queer England? There has been much discussion of London as a queer city, but what about the many thousands of queer lives lived elsewhere? From Manchester's bars and nightclubs, to Brighton's seafront, the attractions of Leeds to the... -
The Annotated Prison Writings of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde
RRP: £19.95£16.12"And I? May I say nothing, my lord?" With these words, Oscar Wilde's courtroom trials came to a close. The lord in question, High Court justice Sir Alfred Wills, sent Wilde to the cells, sentenced to two years in prison with hard labor for the crime of... -
After the Black Death: Economy, society, and the law in fourteenth-century England by Mark Bailey
RRP: £48.49£44.36The Black Death of 1348-9 is the most catastrophic event and worst pandemic in recorded history. After the Black Death offers a major reinterpretation of its immediate impact and longer-term consequences in England. After the Black Death reassesses... -
Lost Heirs of the Medieval Crown: The Kings and Queens Who Never Were by J F Andrews 9781526736512
RRP: £19.99£14.28When William the Conqueror died in 1087 he left the throne of England to William Rufus his second son. The result was an immediate war as Rufus's elder brother Robert fought to gain the crown he saw as rightfully his; this conflict marked the start of...