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Reading Ireland: Print, Reading and Social Change in Early Modern Ireland by Raymond Gillespie
RRP: $38.98$34.34This fascinating and innovative study explores the lives of people living in early modern Ireland through the books and printed ephemera which they bought, borrowed or stole from others. While the importance of books and printing in influencing the... -
The Orchards of Eastern England: History, ecology and place by Gerry Barnes 9781912260423
RRP: $33.13$29.85Although the history of orchards and fruit varieties is of great popular interest, there have been few academic treatments of the subject. This book presents results from a three-year project, 'Orchards East', investigating the history and ecology of... -
Queen Victoria After Albert: Her Life and Loves by Ilana D Miller 9781399099714
RRP: $48.75$34.36Few British monarchs have fit the time, the tone or the energy of an era quite the way Queen Victoria mastered her reign. From her ascension to the throne in 1837 to her death in 1901, her monarchy was one of spectacular advances in the British Empire... -
Hitler: Only the World Was Enough by Brendan Simms
RRP: $33.13$23.95SHORTLISTED FOR THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE 2020A DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019A revelatory new biography of Adolf Hitler from the acclaimed historian Brendan SimmsAdolf Hitler is one of the most studied men in history, and yet the most... -
The Domesday Quest: In search of the Roots of England by Michael Wood
RRP: $33.13$23.95In 1086, Domesday Book, perhaps the most remarkable historical document in existence, was compiled. This tremendous story of England and its people was made at the behest of the Norman king William the Conqueror. It was called Domesday, the day of... -
Anarchist Seeds Beneath The Snow: Left-Libertarian Thought and British Writers from William Morris to Colin Ward by David Goodway
RRP: $44.83$30.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604862218Author David GoodwayFormat PaperbackPage Count 436Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 621g -
Ancient Battle Formations by Justin Swanton 9781526740069
RRP: $48.75$35.14Justin Swanton examines the principal battle-winning formations of the Ancient world, determining their composition, function and efficacy. An introductory chapter looks at the fundamental components of the principal battle formations of heavy and light... -
The Regency Revolution: Jane Austen, Napoleon, Lord Byron and the Making of the Modern World by Robert Morrison
RRP: $25.33$16.69Shortlisted for the HWA Non-fiction Crown Award 2020'Superb' The Economist'Elegant, entertaining and frequently surprising' New York TimesThe fascinating story of the Regency period in Britain - an immensely colourful and chaotic decade that marked the... -
Kensington & Chelsea: Britain in Old Photographs by Barbara Denny
RRP: $33.13$25.23This fascinating selection of historic photographs documents the dramatic transformation that has taken place over the last 150 years in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. The book gives an unforgettable impression of familiar streets and... -
Italy in the Age of the Renaissance: 1300-1550 by John M. Najemy 9780198700401
RRP: $70.18$58.79Italy in the Age of Renaissance offers a new introduction to the most celebrated period of Italian history in twelve essays by leading and innovative scholars. Recent scholarship has enriched our understanding of Renaissance Italy by adding new themes... -
Things I Learned on the 6.28: A Guide to Daily Reading by Stig Abell
RRP: $21.43$14.43For a whole year on his train to work, Stig Abell read books from across genres and time periods. Then he wrote about them, and their impact on our culture and his own life.The result is a work of many things: a brisk guide to the canon of Western... -
Manchester Cathedral: A History of the Collegiate Church and Cathedral, 1421 to the Present by Jeremy Gregory
RRP: $68.25$50.12Founded in 1421, the Collegiate Church of Manchester, which became a cathedral in 1847, is of outstanding historical and architectural importance. But until now it has not been the subject of a comprehensive study. Appearing on the 600th anniversary of... -
Propaganda and Empire: The Manipulation of British Public Opinion, 1880-1960 by John M. MacKenzie 9780719018695
RRP: $38.98$34.34Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Children of the 1940s: A Social History by Mike Hutton 9781399049504
RRP: $42.90$30.46What was it really like growing up in the 1940s? There are tales of being dragged from bombed out homes and of watching dog fights in the skies above. Of evacuation and a clash of cultures between city centre kids and their country cousins. All endured... -
Blood on the Snow: The Killing of Olof Palme by Jan Bondeson
RRP: $50.68$43.86The Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme, a major figure in world politics and an ardent opponent of apartheid, was shot dead on the streets of Stockholm in February 1986. At the time of his death, Palme was deeply involved in Middle East diplomacy and was... -
The English Resistance: The Underground War Againt the Normans by Peter Rex
RRP: $25.33$16.54In 1066 the English were conquered by the infamous William the Conqueror. However, the English did not just roll over and die before their oppressors; far from it. For over five years the English violently rebelled against the invading Normans, murdering... -
The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill by Dominique Enright 9781843175650
RRP: $19.48$13.36Sir Winston Churchill remains a British hero, lauded for his oratorical skill. He wrote histories, biographies, memoirs, and even a novel, while his journalism, speeches and broadcasts run to millions of words. From 1940 he inspired and united the... -
Unearthing London: The Ancient World Beneath the Metropolis by Simon Webb 9780752462745
RRP: $29.23$22.52Unearthing London reveals the almost-forgotten ritual landscape which lies hidden beneath the streets of the modern capital. It is the city nobody knows, a vast and intricate network of hilltop shrines, tracks, sacred rivers, mounds, ditches, enclosures... -
Kokoschka's Doll by Afonso Cruz
RRP: $19.50$13.26"A novel par excellence that is destined to become a classic' of almost byzantine splendour . . . At its best worthy of comparison with Gabriel Garcia Marquez" Catherine Taylor, Irish Times"Afonso Cruz is one of the strongest voices in contemporary... -
The Economy of a Norse Settlement in the Outer Hebrides: Excavations at Mounds 2 and 2A Bornais, South Uist by Niall Sharples
RRP: $68.25$62.85This book explores the economic evidence for the settlement at Bornais on South Uist. It reports in detail on the large assemblages of material found during the excavations at mounds 2 and 2A. There is important evidence for craft activity, such as bone... -
Army of Shadows by Joseph Kessel 9781940625225
$25.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940625225Author Joseph KesselFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint Contra Mundum PressPublisher Contra Mundum PressWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 203mm... -
Asian Britain: A Photographic History by Susheila Nasta 9781908906113
RRP: $39.00$27.98South Asians have lived in Britain for centuries. From the first trade conducted between the two nations along the Silk Route to the adoption of Chicken Tikka Masala as a national dish, the ongoing mutual exchange of cultures continues to flourish today... -
Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast by Marjoleine Kars 9781620974599
RRP: $54.58$36.35Winner of the Cundill History Prize Winner of the Frederick Douglass Book Prize Named One of the Best Books of the Year by NPRA breathtakingly original work of history that uncovers a massive enslaved persons' revolt that almost changed the face of the... -
The Confessions Of Saint Augustine: Translated By E. B. Pusey (Edward Bouverie) by Saint Augustine 9789353445829
RRP: $23.40$20.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789353445829Author Saint AugustineFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Lector HousePublisher Lector HouseWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm *... -
Attlee by David Howell 9781904950646
$17.53Famously beating Churchill in the 1945 election, Attlee's post-war government enacted a broad programme of socialist legislation in spite of conditions of austerity in which rationing was actually extended. He also gave independence to India, Pakistan,... -
The Little History of the East End by Dee Gordon 9780750991964
RRP: $23.40$17.41The modern history of London's East End has been well-documented - but what of its ancient roots? From embryonic beginnings in the Stone Age, through Roman rule and civil wars, all the way to its jam-packed twentieth-century timeline, the East End has... -
Have You Been Good?: A Memoir by Vanessa Nicolson 9781783780785
RRP: $19.48$13.07Vanessa Nicolson is the granddaughter of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson. She was born to an illustrious name and an unhappy marriage. Her father, the art historian Ben Nicolson, was homosexual and his marriage to Vanessa's Italian mother fell... -
The Tudors by Richard Rex
RRP: $21.43$14.14The Tudor Age began in August 1485 when Henry Tudor landed with a small force at Milford Haven intent on snatching the English throne from Richard III. For more than a hundred years England was to be dominated by the personalities of the five Tudor... -
The Mamluks: Slave Warriors of Medieval Islam by John Brunton 9781398107342
RRP: $44.83$30.38From humble beginnings as slaves in Egypt, the Mamluks trained as soldiers and rose in status to seize control of the largest empire in Islam. They ruled over Egypt and Syria for over two centuries. They saved the region from devastation by the Mongols... -
Kilmichael: The Life and Afterlife of an Ambush by Eve Morrison
RRP: $35.08$33.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788551458Author Eve MorrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Irish Academic Press LtdPublisher Irish Academic Press Ltd -
The Making of Modern British Politics: 1867 - 1945 by Martin Pugh 9780631225904
RRP: $64.25$56.82The third edition of this successful text has been revised to include a new chapter on the politics of the Second World War, and to reflect recent developments in research into the period. Third edition of this insightful survey of changes in British... -
Life is Simple: How Occam's Razor Set Science Free And Unlocked The Universe by JohnJoe McFadden
RRP: $48.75$32.23'The most sheerly enjoyable history of science of recent years' The Spectator'This is one of the best science books I have read in a decade' Paul DaviesLife is Simple tells the remarkable story of how a thirteenth century monk's search for simplicity led... -
Arms and Armour of the Medieval Joust by Tobias Capwell 9780948092831
RRP: $19.48$13.77Jousting is the most iconic form of mounted combat. For more than five hundred years, the sport itself, and the chivalric culture that surrounded it, took on almost mythical qualities. Here, Tobias Capwell explains the glitz and glamour of a sport that... -
Revolutionary Activism in the 1950s & 60s. Volume 2. Britain 1965 - 1970 by Ernest Tate
RRP: $25.35$25.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780902869608Author Ernest TateFormat PaperbackPage Count 422Imprint I.M.G.PublicationsPublisher Resistance Books -
Bow & Bromley-by-Bow: Britain in Old Photographs by Gary Haines
RRP: $25.33$18.76Bow and Bromley-by-Bow, at the heart of London's East End, grew up around crossings over the river Lea. The area saw rapid changes from a seventeenth-century rural retreat to densely populated terraced streets, as mills were built along the river and a... -
Shakespeare's First Folio: Four Centuries of an Iconic Book by Emma Smith 9780198819998
RRP: $25.33$17.73This is a biography of a book: the first collected edition of Shakespeare's plays printed in 1623 and known as the First Folio. It begins with the story of its first purchaser in London in December 1623, and goes on to explore the ways people have... -
The 1990s by Press Association, Ltd. 9781906672157
RRP: $29.23$19.89This series is each devoted to a decade of British life and contains around 300 photographs which were hand-picked by PA Photos' own archivists. Most have lain unseen since they were first used as news pictures and each image has been scanned especially,... -
Match of the Century: England, Hungary, and the Game that Changed Football Forever by Matt Clough
RRP: $39.00$29.33On 25 November 1953, the footballing landscape was altered forever. In a mist-shrouded Wembley Stadium, the beautiful game's historic dominant force, England, met the most exciting team of the 1950s, Hungary. What followed sent shockwaves through the... -
What a Way to Go by Geoffrey Abbott
$26.89In this wickedly humorous book, Geoffrey Abbott describes the effectiveness of instruments of torture and reveals the macabre origins of phrases such as gone west or drawn a blank. From the preparation of the victim to the disposal of the body, "What a... -
The Wrench by Primo Levi
RRP: $19.48$13.26'This is not a book for journalists. Civil servants, too, will feel uneasy while reading it, and as for lawyers, they will never sleep again. For it is about a man in his capacity as homo faber, a maker of things with his hands, and what has any of us...