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The Official History of Britain: Our Story in Numbers as Told by the Office For National Statistics by Boris Starling
RRP: €11.89€7.90A wonderfully written and entertaining book which places Britain under the microscope and asks who we are today and how we've changed as a nation. 'Entertaining and absorbing' - The Sunday Times In 1841 there were 734 female... -
Mary, Queen of Scots Book of Days by Tudor Times 9781913134891
RRP: €17.85€13.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913134891Author Tudor TimesFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Graffeg LimitedPublisher Graffeg Limited -
James IV by Norman Macdougall
RRP: €35.70€24.99James IV is the best-known of all the late medieval Scottish rulers. Widely praised by his contemporaries, he combined the qualities of successful medieval monarch with a wide interest in the arts and sciences, while remaining acutely conscious of the... -
The Age of Oligarchy: Pre-Industrial Britain 1722-1783 by Geoffrey Holmes 9780582209558
RRP: €130.90€125.12The second volume, on early and mid-Georgian Britain, shows how the country used its expanding wealth, its new-found social cohesion at home and its international influence abroad to become not only a European but an imperial power. As with the first... -
The Roman Invasion of Britain: Archaeology versus History by Hoffmann, Birgitta 9781526756633
RRP: €17.84€13.03The purpose of this book is to take what we think we know about the Roman Conquest of Britain from historical sources, and compare it with the archaeological evidence, which is often contradictory. Archaeologists and historians all too often work in... -
Medieval Money, Merchants, and Morality by Diane Wolfthal 9781913875374
RRP: €41.59€31.17Medieval Money explores the ways art reflected and reinforced the complex ethical discussions that developed from the widespread role of money in everyday life in the Middle Ages. It traces the origins of global money, and surveys economic history,... -
The State Within a State: The KGB and Its Hold on Russia--Past, Present, and Future by Yevgenia Albats 9780374527389
RRP: €34.51€23.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374527389Author Yevgenia AlbatsFormat PaperbackPage Count 412Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)... -
Union and Revolution: Scotland and Beyond, 1625-1745 by Laura Stewart 9781474410175
RRP: €26.17€21.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474410175Author Laura StewartFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press -
Eilean: The Island Photography of Margaret Fay Shaw by Fiona J. Mackenzie
RRP: €29.75€20.93Margaret Fay Shaw took her first photographs of the Hebrides in 1924 whilst travelling through the islands by bicycle. It was her photography which first brought her to the attention of folklorist John Lorne Campbell, and after their marriage in 1935... -
Saint and Nation: Santiago, Teresa of Avila, and Plural Identities in Early Modern Spain by Erin Kathleen Rowe 9780271037738
RRP: €91.57€79.97In early seventeenth-century Spain, the Castilian parliament voted to elevate the newly beatified Teresa of Avila to co-patron saint of Spain alongside the traditional patron, Santiago. Saint and Nation examines Spanish devotion to the cult of saints and... -
Guy Debord by Anselm Jappe 9781629634494
RRP: €24.98€16.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629634494Author Anselm JappeFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press -
The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe by Colm Toibin 9780330373579
RRP: €13.08€9.44Between 1990 and 1994, Colm Toibin made a series of trips through Catholic Europe. His journey led him into close contact with people from all walks of life, from priests to politicians, from the intellectually open to the spiritually bigoted. He then... -
Lincolnshire Villains: Rogues, Rascals and Reprobates by Douglas Wynn 9780752466118
RRP: €15.46€11.45In the past, the east shore of Lincolnshire's long coastline was well adapted for smuggling and the rural quality of the county aided the transport and hiding of contraband goods. In addition to the pirates, coastal criminals and countryside rogues,... -
Thomas Cranmer: A Life by Diarmaid MacCulloch
RRP: €23.79€20.67Thomas Cranmer, the architect of the Anglican Book of Common Prayer, was the archbishop of Canterbury who guided England through the early Reformation-and Henry VIII through the minefields of divorce. This is the first major biography of him for more... -
Dictionary of British and Irish History by Philip Waller 9780631201557
RRP: €38.02€34.86An authoritative and extensive resource for British and Irish history Quickly access basic information on the history of the British Isles from this reliable resource. A Dictionary of British and Irish History provides concise information covering all... -
Waiting for the Miracle: The uplifting and funny new novel from the bestselling Irish author by Anna McPartlin 9781838773908
RRP: €10.70€7.40'I laughed. I cried. I laughed again' Sinead Moriarty'An enthralling read with . . . so many laughs along the way' Liz Nugent'A funny, poignant and moving read' My WeeklyFrom bestselling Irish writer Anna McPartlin, Waiting for the Miracle is an... -
Selected Letters by Horace Walpole
RRP: €20.22€15.09Author of the first gothic novel and son of the first prime minister of Great Britain, Horace Walpole had wide-ranging interests that included literature, politics, world affairs, collecting, antiquities, and architecture, and to his numerous... -
Weapons, Warriors and Battles of Ancient Iberia by Fernando Quesada Sanz 9781781592755
RRP: €47.60€33.78In ancient times, the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal) was home to warriors of great renown. Spanish and Celtiberian warriors, both infantry and cavalry, provided the backbone of the Carthaginian armies that terrorized Italy under Hannibal and... -
Old Regime France 1648-1788 by Professor William Doyle 9780198731290
RRP: €44.61€37.19The kingdom of France, a byword for upheaval and instability for a century before 1660, was transformed over the subsequent generation into the greatest power in Europe and an institutional model admired and imitated almost everywhere. A further century... -
The Secret of Sherwood Forest: Oil Production in England During World War II by Guy H. Woodward 9780806134338
€22.75In August of 1942, Great Britain faced a desperate situation. German bombers hammered the nation's industrial cities and towns daily, and the toll in loss of life and resources rose steadily. Guy H. Woodward and Grace Steele Woodward tell for the first... -
The Great Shame by Thomas Keneally
RRP: €22.60€16.20In the 19th century the Irish population was halved. This masterly book traces the three causes of this depletion; first the manine, second the Irish diaspora and the emigrations to places such as America and Canada and thridly the transportations of... -
Berlin Now: The Rise of the City and the Fall of the Wall by Peter Schneider
RRP: €15.46€10.82In Berlin Now, and on the 25th Anniversary of the fall of the Wall, a legendary Berliner tells the inside story of the city.Over the last five decades, no other city has changed more than Berlin. Divided in 1961, reunited in 1989, it has morphed over the... -
Re-discovering Medieval Realms: Britain 1066-1500 by Alan Large
€30.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780719585425Author Alan LargeFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Hodder MurrayPublisher Hodder EducationWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 274mm * 212mm *... -
Crime and Conflict in Northern Ireland, 1921-2021: Stability, Conflict, Transition by Aogan Mulcahy 9781782055730
RRP: €17.79€14.91The book analyses the relationship between crime and conflict in Northern Ireland since the establishment of the Northern Irish state in 1921. Despite the vast research literature that focuses on Northern Ireland's political divisions and the violence of... -
Theodor Herzl: The Charismatic Leader by Derek Penslar 9780300180404
RRP: €22.60€19.25From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a masterful new biography of Theodor Herzl by an eminent historian of Zionism "An excellent, concise biography of Theodor Herzl, architect of modern Zionism. . . . An exceptionally good, highly readable volume... -
George I by Ragnhild Hatton 9780300088830
€42.25In 1714 George Ludwig, the fifty-eight-year-old elector of Brunswick-Luneburg, became, as George I, the first of the Hanoverian dynasty to rule Britain. Until his death in 1727 George served as both elector of Hanover and British monarch. An enigmatic... -
The Last Witches of England: A Tragedy of Sorcery and Superstition by John Callow
RRP: €35.70€27.18"Fascinating and vivid." New Statesman "Thoroughly researched." The Spectator "Intriguing." BBC History Magazine "Vividly told." BBC History Revealed "A timely warning against persecution." Morning Star "Astute and thoughtful." History Today "An... -
Black Plaques London: Memorials to Misadventure by John Ambrose Hide 9780750989954
RRP: €15.46€11.45Black Plaques are not to be found proudly mounted on a wall - and for good reason. What with their commemoration of a brutal execution outside Westminster Abbey, the selling of sex toys in St James's Park and an intruder at Buckingham Palace with Royal... -
The Imperial Guard of the First Empire. Volume 3: From the Mounted Troops to the Royal Guard by Andre Jouineau
RRP: €53.55€31.17"The Guard charges" Napoleon gave special attention to this splendid unit - the Imperial Guard - and it became a sort of little army within the "Grande Armee". This study of its organisation is here at its most erudite, like the one on the uniforms and... -
The Tudor Arte of Warre. Volume 2: The conduct of war in the reign of Elizabeth I, 1558-1603. Diplomacy, Strategy, Campaigns and Battles by Jonathan Davies
RRP: €35.64€28.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804512012Author Jonathan DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Death in England: An Illustrated History by Peter Jupp
RRP: €29.75€22.85Death in England provides the first ever social history of death from the earliest times 500,000 BC to Diana, Princess of Wales.. The book reveals how attitudes, practices and beliefs about death have undergone constant change: how, why and at what ages... -
The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume III: The Nineteenth Century by Andrew Porter
€50.86Volume III of The Oxford History of the British Empire covers the long nineteenth century, from the achievement of American independence in the 1780s to the eve of world war in 1914. This was the period of Britain's greatest expansion as both... -
Curious Camden Town by Martin Plaut 9781910170236
RRP: €11.89€9.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910170236Author Martin PlautFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Five Leaves PublicationsPublisher Five Leaves Publications -
Lakeland: A Personal Journey by Hunter Davies
RRP: €20.22€18.69'I don't know any tract of land in which in so narrow a compass may be found an equal variety of sublime and beautiful features'. So said the poet Wordsworth of England's Lake District, an area as rich in cultural associations as it is in beautiful... -
Custom and Commercialisation in English Rural Society: Revisiting Tawney and Postan by J. P. Bowen 9781909291454
RRP: €22.60€20.68English rural society underwent fundamental changes between the thirteenth and eighteenth centuries with urbanization, commercialization and industrialization producing new challenges and opportunities for inhabitants of rural communities. However, our... -
The Lost Kings: Lancaster, York and Tudor by Amy Licence
RRP: €17.84€13.74The century spanning the wars of the roses and the reigns of the Tudor kings was a volatile time of battle and bloodshed, execution and unexpected illness. Life could be nasty, brutish and short. Some met their end in battle, others were dragged to the... -
My Life in the IRA:: The Border Campaign by Michael Ryan 9781781175187
€21.53Discover the Inspiring Story of a Revolutionary: Mick Ryan's memoir of growing up in Dublin's East Wall and his journey as former IRA Director of Operations. Explore his commitment to the cause, despite suffering, hardship, and disappointment in My Life... -
The Little Book of County Down by Doreen McBride
RRP: €17.84€13.74Did you know?The world's worst novelist, Amanda McKittrick Ros, was born near Ballynahinch. The entire Kilkeel fishing fleet was sunk by a German U-boat on 30 May 1918 without the loss of a single life. Sir Hans Sloane, whose collection formed the... -
Villers-Bocage Through the Lens by Daniel Taylor
RRP: €21.36€19.33Villers-Bocage has, for years, been the battle that confirmed the reputation of Germany's greatest tank ace, Michael Wittmann. In this book the battle is analysed in depth for the first time through detailed examination of the images taken by war... -
The Story of Kent by Anne Petrie
RRP: €21.41€16.23A richly illustrated history exploring life in Kent. This book tells the amazing story of Kent from earliest times to the modern day. Some of the pivotal moments in the Garden of England's history are recalled, including invasions from Romans,...