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Lost Heirs of the Medieval Crown: The Kings and Queens Who Never Were by J F Andrews 9781526736512
RRP: €23.79€16.99When 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... -
Stopping Places: A Gypsy History of South London and Kent by Simon Evans 9781902806303
RRP: €17.84€16.23The story of the enforced settlement of Gypsy travelers in southeast England, whose nomadic lifestyle ended when they were moved to concrete ghettos of local-government-run caravan sites following the 1968 Caravan Sites Act, is told in this textual and... -
Massacre At Montsegur: A History Of The Albigensian Crusade by Zoe Oldenbourg
RRP: €20.22€13.73A best-selling history of the Third Crusade, when the Catholic Church waged war against heretics in its own ranksIn 1208 Pope Innocent III called for a Crusade against a country of fellow-Christians. The new enemy was Raymond VI, Count of Toulouse, one... -
The NHS at 70: A Living History by Ellen Welch
RRP: €15.46€10.82At midnight on 5th July 1948, the National Health Service was born with the founding principal to be free at the point of use and based on clinical need rather than on a person's ability to pay. Seventy years since its formation, these core principals... -
Mosquito Victory by Jack Currie 9780907579335
RRP: €11.89€6.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780907579335Author Jack CurrieFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Goodall Publications LtdPublisher Crecy Publishing -
The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages by Norman Cohn 9780195004564
RRP: €25.57€18.14The end of the millennium has always held the world in fear of earthquakes, plague, and the catastrophic destruction of the world. At the dawn of the 21st millennium the world is still experiencing these anxieties, as seen by the onslaught of fantasies... -
Russia's Road to War with Ukraine: Invasion amidst the ashes of empires by Samir Puri 9781785907708
RRP: €23.80€17.23When Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine on 24 February 2022, many in the West were left stunned at his act of brutal imperialism. To those who had been paying attention, however, the warning signs of the bloodshed and slaughter to come had been there for... -
Ingimund's Saga: Viking Wirral: 2016 by Stephen Harding 9781908258304
€20.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908258304Author Stephen HardingFormat PaperbackPage Count 249Imprint University of Chester PressPublisher University of Chester Press -
The Richest Man Who Ever Lived: The Life and Times of Jacob Fugger by Greg Steinmetz
RRP: €15.46€9.73In the days when Columbus sailed the ocean and Da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa, a German banker named Jacob Fugger became the richest man in history. Fugger lived in Germany at the turn of the sixteenth century, the grandson of a peasant. By the time... -
England's Queens From Boudica to Elizabeth of York by Elizabeth Norton
RRP: €13.08€8.63England has always been a place of queens. The earliest known lived nearly 2,000 years ago. Early queens, such as Boudica and Cartimandua, are historical figures, while others, such as Cordelia and Guinevere, are mythical. In both historical documents... -
Describing Women’s Clothing in Eighteenth-Century England by Dr Elizabeth Spencer 9781837650347
RRP: €95.20€91.17Uncovers sources from the parish pauper to the gentlewoman to consider relationships with clothing across the social hierarchy in the long eighteenth century. Descriptions of women's clothing increasingly circulated across textual genres and beyond in... -
The Bridge by Bill Konigsberg 9780702304293
RRP: €9.51€6.22"A powerful, honest, heart-tugging, nail-biting, so-real-it-reaches-into-your-bones story about suicide and mental health and the ways in which too many of us struggle alone. Except we're not alone. Bill Konigsberg makes... -
A Concise History of Russia by Paul Bushkovitch 9780521543231
RRP: €29.74€24.54Accessible to students, tourists and general readers alike, this book provides a broad overview of Russian history since the ninth century. Paul Bushkovitch emphasizes the enormous changes in the understanding of Russian history resulting from the end of... -
The Third Plantagenet: George, Duke of Clarence, Richard III's Brother by John Ashdown-Hill 9780752499499
RRP: €20.22€15.87Less well-known than his brothers, Edward IV and Richard III, little has been written about George, Duke of Clarence, leaving us with a series of unanswered questions: What was he really like? What set him and his brother Edward IV against one another?... -
The Austrian Revolution by Otto Bauer 9781642591620
RRP: €29.74€22.49This is the story of the decline and fall of an empire, a region devastated by war, and a world stage fundamentally transformed by the Russian Revolution. Bauer's magisterial work -- available in English for the first time in full -- charts the evolution... -
Birth of the Border: The Impact of Partition in Ireland by Cormac Moore 9781785372933
RRP: €23.79€19.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785372933Author Cormac MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion Press -
Thomas Telford by L. T. C. Rolt
RRP: €17.84€13.74Thomas Telford, the son of a shepherd, was born in Westerkirk, Scotland in 1757. At the age of 14, he was apprenticed to a stonemason. He worked for a time in Edinburgh and in 1792, he moved to London where he was involved in building additions to... -
An Armenian Sketchbook by Vasily Grossman
RRP: €13.08€8.81Few writers had to confront so many of the last century's mass tragedies as Vasily Grossman. He is likely to be remembered, above all, for the terrifying clarity with which he writes about the Shoah, the Battle of Stalingrad and the Terror Famine in the... -
The Letters of Margaret of Anjou by Helen E Maurer 9781783276820
RRP: €32.12€31.94New study and edition of the remarkable letter collection of Margaret of Anjou, bringing all her correspondence together in one volume for the first time. 2020 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award Winner Margaret of Anjou remains a figure of... -
H. H. Asquith Letters to Venetia Stanley by Michael Brock
€47.85H. H. Asquith fell in love with Venetia Stanley in the spring of 1912. Over the next three years he wrote to her whenever he could not see her: sometimes three times a day, sometimes during a debate in the house of Commons, on occasion even during a... -
Ark Royal: Sailing Into Glory by Mike Rossiter 9780552174541
RRP: €19.03€13.82In June 1941 the Ark Royal won one of Britain's most famous naval victories. The German destroyer, Bismarck, had been ravaging the British fleet in the Atlantic. Sailing through a ferocious storm the Ark Royal tracked the Bismarck. A dozen swordfish... -
Titian's Touch: Art, Magic and Philosophy by Maria Loh 9781789140828
RRP: €21.36€15.85At the end of his long, prolific life, Titian was rumored to paint directly on the canvas with his bare hands. He would slide his fingers across bright ridges of oil paint, loosening the colors, blending, blurring, and then bringing them together again... -
A Pattern of Secrets by Lindsay Littleson
RRP: €8.32€5.85Paisley 1876. 12-year-old Jim has escaped from the Poor House and now he must save his little brother from the same fate. His only hope lies in a mysterious family heirloom - a Paisley patterned shawl that has five guineas sewn into its hem - the... -
The Most Beautiful Villages of England by James Bentley
RRP: €22.55€21.12Villages are the very embodiment of Englishness. The village inn and the local farm, great houses, humble cottages and beautiful country gardens speak of a way of life that has developed peacefully since Anglo-Saxon times. A few days spent in England's... -
Brexit Without The Bullshit: The Facts on Food, Jobs, Schools, and the NHS by Gavin Esler 9781912454358
RRP: €10.70€6.93'Punchy, pithy and short.' - POLLY TOYNBEE, GUARDIAN COLUMNIST 'In an ideal world every citizen would read this essential book, and think hard.' - PROFESSOR AC GRAYLING, ACADEMIC The broadcaster and journalist Gavin Esler reveals the long-lasting... -
The Little Book of Surrey by Ruper Matthews 9780752456331
RRP: €11.89€8.98The Little Book of Surrey is a funny, fast-paced, fact-packed compendium of the sort of frivolous, fantastic or simply strange information which no-one will want to be without. The county's most unusual crimes and punishments, eccentric inhabitants,... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Aegean Bronze Age by Cynthia W. Shelmerdine
RRP: €41.64€34.25This book is a comprehensive up-to-date survey of the Aegean Bronze Age, from its beginnings to the period following the collapse of the Mycenaean palace system. In essays by leading authorities commissioned especially for this volume, it covers the... -
King James VI and I and the Reunion of Christendom by W. B. Patterson 9780521793858
RRP: €35.69€33.08This book shows King James VI and I, king of Scotland and England, in an unaccustomed light. Long regarded as inept, pedantic, and whimsical, James is shown here as an astute and far-sighted statesman whose reign was focused on achieving a permanent... -
Invasive Aliens: The Plants and Animals From Over There That Are Over Here by Dan Eatherley 9780008262785
RRP: €11.89€7.90'The story of "invasive species" is really the story of human history, and Eatherley tells it with great verve ... Fascinating' Daily Telegraph A unique history of plant and animal invaders of the British isles spanning thousands... -
Royal Tombs of Medieval England by Mark Duffy 9780752425795
RRP: €32.73€24.61This comprehensive and detailed survey of English royal tombs from 1066-1509, including junior royals as well as kings and queens, is combined with accounts of burial practice, tomb design, craftsmen, and construction.Book InformationISBN... -
Railway Posters by Lorna Frost
RRP: €10.70€8.81Railway posters have huge appeal for the modern audience, but just what explains this continuing interest? Enduring images of iconic locomotives, bathing beauties and characters such as Sunny South Sam are testament to the creativity of the railway... -
Snow, Ice and Sacrifice: The Italian Army in Russia, 1941-1943 by Massimiliano Afiero
RRP: €53.55€37.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915070869Author Massimiliano AfieroFormat HardbackPage Count 314Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The South Downs by Peter Brandon
RRP: €23.80€18.37The South Downs has throughout history been a focus of English popular culture. With chalkland, their river valleys and scarp-foot the Downs have been shaped for over millennia by successive generations of farmers, ranging from Europe's oldest... -
Visitors' Historic Britain: Northumberland: Romans to Victorians by Craig Armstrong 9781526702784
RRP: €15.46€10.82Northumberland to the Romans it was Ad Fines, the limit of the Empire, the end of the Roman World. It was here in 122 AD that the Emperor Hadrian decided to build a wall stretching from coast-to-coast to provide protection, to show the might of the... -
Rising Sun And Tumbling Bear: Russia's War with Japan by Richard Connaughton
RRP: €13.08€8.81The definitive history of the Russo-Japanese warThe Russians were wrong-footed from the start, fighting in Manchuria at the end of a 5,000 mile single track railway; the Japanese were a week or so from their bases. The Russian command structure was... -
Erasmus of Rotterdam: The Spirit of a Scholar by William Barker 9781789144512
RRP: €21.36€15.37Erasmus of Rotterdam came from an obscure background and through remarkable perseverance, skill, and vision became a powerful intellectual figure in Europe in the early sixteenth century. He was known for his vigorous opposition to war, intolerance and... -
North Dublin: Ireland in Old Photographs by Derek Stanley 9781845887742
RRP: €20.22€15.40North Dublin is vibrant, lively and always changing, a place where people live against the backdrop of some of the city's most renowned landmarks and beautiful buildings. In this book, the author captures the history of North Dublin before the... -
Shrewsbury in the 1950s, `60s and `70s: Britain in Old Photographs by David Trumper
RRP: €15.46€11.45The county town of Shropshire underwent great changes in the twenty-five years between 1950 and 1975, when the council's watchword was 'down with the old and up with the new'. This book contains over 180 images of Shrewsbury from that time, from the... -
Electric Arches by Eve Ewing
RRP: €11.89€8.46Blending stark realism with the surreal and fantastic, Eve L. Ewing's narrative takes us from the streets of Chicago to an unspecified future, deftly navigating the boundaries of space, time, and reality. Ewing imagines familiar figures in magical... -
Coatbridge: Images of Scotland by Helen Moir 9780752421322
RRP: €17.84€13.74Located in the parish of Old Monkland, Coatbridge was a sleepy collection of villages until the late eighteenth century. Then, with the discovery of ironstone, the building of the Monkland Canal and the increased mining of coal, the sleepy villages grew...