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From Fatwa to Jihad: How the World Changed: The Satanic Verses to Charlie Hebdo by Kenan Malik
RRP: €15.46€10.19Almost thirty years ago, the image of burning copies of Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses held aloft by thousand-strong mobs of protesters became an internationally familiar symbol of anger and offence. In From Fatwa to Jihad, Kenan Malik reveals how... -
A Very Fine Regiment: The 47th Foot During the American War of Independence, 1773-1783 by Paul Knight
RRP: €29.75€20.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914059865Author Paul KnightFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Habsburgs: To Rule the World by Martyn Rady 9781541644502
RRP: €41.65€24.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541644502Author Martyn RadyFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 617gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 150mm * 38mm -
Fitzrovia, The Other Side of Oxford Street: A Social History 1900-1950 by Ann Basu 9780750987905
RRP: €21.41€16.23This is the other side of the story. Before the Second World War, Ann Basu's family of Jewish tailors lived where the BT Tower stands today. At that time of high migration, the women's fashion trade and the new car industry were sweeping into Fitzrovia,... -
66 The House that Viewed the World by John D. O. Fulton
RRP: €11.89€8.32"[The book explores] how lives interconnect, how we are all creatures of our time, how rich and complex life is in this sometimes shy and reticent city. Not for a moment does our interest flag."-Alexander McCall Smith Set in 66 Queen Street, a... -
Tudor Roses: From Margaret Beaufort to Elizabeth I by Amy Licence 9781398117297
RRP: €17.84€11.34A dynasty is defined by its men: by their personalities, their wars and reigns, their laws and decisions. Their mothers, wives, sisters and daughters are often depicted as mere foils, shadowy figures whose value lies in the inheritance they brought, or... -
Henry I (Penguin Monarchs): The Father of His People by Edmund King 9780141978987
RRP: €15.46€10.82The youngest of William the Conqueror's sons, Henry I (1100-35) was never meant to be king, but he was destined to become one of the greatest of all medieval monarchs, both through his own ruthlessness and intelligence and through the dynastic legacy of... -
Fair Mile Hospital: A Victorian Asylum by Ian Wheeler
RRP: €17.84€13.74Fair Mile was more than just a psychiatric hospital; it was an example of a nationwide network of 'pauper lunatic asylums', born of responsible Victorian legislation and compassion for the disadvantaged. It was a secure home to many of its patients and... -
The Third Reich: A Chronicle by Richard Overy
RRP: €17.84€11.66The Third Reich was the name Hitler and the Nazi Party gave to the dictatorship that began in 1933 and ended twelve years later with the utter destruction of Germany and Hitler's suicide. Defined by the messianic, iconic figure of the Fuhrer, the Third... -
Porthcawl and Newton Nottage by Keith Morgan 9780752406077
RRP: €15.46€11.45This fascinating collection of over 200 old photographs provides a unique and nostalgic pictorial history of Porthcawl, Newton and Nottage. The author was given the opportunity to use photographs and records from the archives of the Bridgend and... -
Myth and Materiality in a Woman's World: Shetland 1800-2000 by Lynn Abrams 9780719065934
RRP: €23.79€20.96The place of women in Shetland society is unique. In this isolated island group off the north of Scotland, women dominated the family, economy and the cultural imagination for 200 years. Here, women were numerically preponderant and economically vital... -
London at War by Alan Jeffreys 9781904897330
RRP: €29.75€22.49London was a city on the front line in the Second World War. It suffered hits from nearly 12,000 tons of bombs, with nearly 30,000 civilians killed by enemy action. The Blitz changed the landscape of the city. Many famous landmarks were hit, including... -
Is Paris Burning by Collins 9780446392259
RRP: €29.74€20.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780446392259Author CollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 404Imprint Little, Brown and CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & Company -
Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World by Deirdre McCloskey 9780226556741
RRP: €24.99€19.67The big economic story of our times is not the Great Recession. It is how China and India began to embrace neoliberal ideas of economics and attributed a sense of dignity and liberty to the bourgeoisie they had denied for so long. The result was an... -
Wiltshire by Jason Hawkes 9780857040046
RRP: €17.84€15.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857040046Author Jason HawkesFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint HalsgrovePublisher Halsgrove -
French Napoleonic Infantry Tactics 1792-1815 by Paddy Griffith 9781846032783
€13.98This book will provide a careful analysis of the preparation of the French troops from manual regulations to the training ground, as well a study of the changing quality of command and control within the army. Initially this ensured that the French... -
The Narrative of Trajan's Column by Italo Calvino
RRP: €9.51€6.89'When the last fire goes out, time too will be finished'Italo Calvino was one of the most joyful and imaginative writers of the twentieth century. Here he muses on what the things we leave behind - whether waxworks or ancient graffiti, enigmatic maps or... -
Saxons versus Vikings: Alfred the Great and the Birth of England by Ed West 9781915952059
RRP: €15.46€13.64A witty and concise return to the very beginning of English history. England. 871. The land is overrun by Vikings: the unrelenting, impervious, bloodthirsty Scandinavian assailants who have instilled terror across early medieval Europe. For the... -
The Peterloo Massacre by Robert Reid
RRP: €14.27€10.03__________________________'The universal significance of this historic event becomes ever more relevant in our own turbulent times.' MIKE LEIGH, director of the award-winning film Peterloo__________________________The Peterloo Massacre is a revealing and... -
Dirty Old London: The Victorian Fight Against Filth by Lee Jackson
RRP: €14.27€12.08In Victorian London, filth was everywhere: horse traffic filled the streets with dung, household rubbish went uncollected, cesspools brimmed with "night soil," graveyards teemed with rotting corpses, the air itself was choked with smoke. In... -
The Emperor and the Elephant: Christians and Muslims in the Age of Charlemagne by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby 9780691227962
RRP: €41.65€33.01A new history of Christian-Muslim relations in the Carolingian period that provides a fresh account of events by drawing on Arabic as well as western sourcesIn the year 802, an elephant arrived at the court of the Emperor Charlemagne in Aachen, sent as a... -
Imagining the Balkans by Maria Todorova 9780195387865
RRP: €39.26€30.65"If the Balkans hadn't existed, they would have been invented" was the verdict of Count Hermann Keyserling in his famous 1928 publication, Europe. Over ten years ago, Maria Todorova traced the relationship between the reality and the invention. Based on... -
The Forgotten Sister by Nicola Cornick
RRP: €9.51€6.35'A most engaging novel, full of intrigue and atmosphere' Anne O'Brien'A real page-turner; I couldn't put it down' Tracy Rees'Weaves the past and present together skilfully' Sarah Morgan'Transporting and imaginative' Woman__________ Shortlisted... -
Southall by Jonathan Oates
RRP: €15.46€11.45A history of SouthallBook InformationISBN 9780752422688Author Dr Jonathan OatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 165mm * 10mm -
Percy Bysshe Shelley: Poet and Revolutionary by Jacqueline Mulhallen
RRP: €20.22€13.73Percy Shelley (1792-1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets. This biography emphasises the political, revolutionary side of his dramatic life. Shelley has long been revered for his poems To A Skylark and The Mask of Anarchy, but this was... -
The College Graces of Oxford and Cambridge by Reginald H. Adams
RRP: €11.89€9.21At which Oxford college does a trumpeter summon you to dinner? What does the appearance of a rose bowl signify? How would you use a grace cup as distinct from a sconce cup? The custom of dining in formal hall at Oxford and Cambridge dates back to the... -
Menagerie: The History of Exotic Animals in England by Caroline Grigson 9780198714705
RRP: €34.50€25.23Menagerie is the story of the panoply of exotic animals that were brought into Britain from time immemorial until the foundation of the London Zoo - a tale replete with the extravagant, the eccentric, and - on occasion - the downright bizarre. From... -
The Welsh Life of St. David by D. Simon Evans 9781783169535
RRP: €15.46€11.54This scholarly edition of The Welsh Life of St David presents the medieval text of the Life of one of the early Christian missionaries of west Wales. More than one recension of the Latin Life written by Rhigyfarch was produced between the end of the... -
Eva Braun: Life With Hitler by Heike B. Gortemaker 9780241955925
RRP: €19.03€13.82DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOKS OF THE YEAR and BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK CLUB title'I want to be a beautiful corpse, I will take poison' Eva Braun, 1945Eva Braun and Adolf Hitler were together for fourteen years, a relationship that ended only with their marriage... -
The Serbs: History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia by Tim Judah 9780300158267
RRP: €20.22€17.39Journalist Tim Judah's classic account, now brought fully up to date to include the overthrow of Milosevic, the assassination of Zoran Djindic, the breakaway of Kosovo, and the arrest of Radovan Karadzic. Praise for the first edition: "A lively and... -
Decadent Women: Yellow Book Lives by Jad Adams 9781789147896
RRP: €23.80€17.48During the 1890s, British women for the first time began to leave their family homes to seek work, accommodation, and financial and sexual freedom. Decadent Women is an account of some of these women who wrote for the innovative art and literary journal... -
Watford: Britain in Old Photographs by Hertfordshire Archived & Local Studies
RRP: €15.46€11.45Watford in Old Photographs contains over 200 previously unpublished photographs of the town drawn from the vast collection at Hertfordshire Archives & Local Studies. The views show daily life in Watford during the twentieth century, before many of the... -
Paris on the Brink: The 1930s Paris of Jean Renoir, Salvador Dali, Simone de Beauvoir, Andre Gide, Sylvia Beach, Leon Blum, and Their Friends by Mary McAuliffe 9781538121795
RRP: €17.84€13.72Paris on the Brink vividly portrays the City of Light during the tumultuous 1930s, from the Wall Street Crash of 1929 to war and German Occupation. This was a dangerous and turbulent decade, during which workers flexed their economic muscle and their... -
A Revolution of the Mind: Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Democracy by Jonathan Israel
RRP: €29.75€23.31Democracy, free thought and expression, religious tolerance, individual liberty, political self-determination of peoples, sexual and racial equality--these values have firmly entered the mainstream in the decades since they were enshrined in the 1948 U.N... -
Tudor Brandons: Mary and Charles - Henry Viii's Nearest & Dearest by Sarah-Beth Watkins
RRP: €11.89€10.22This fascinating book studies the life and times of Mary Tudor and Charles Brandon, Henry VIII's dearest sister and his closest companion. Charles rose from being Henry's childhood friend to becoming the Duke of Suffolk; a consummate courtier and... -
The Book of Ulster Surnames by Robert Bell 9781909556867
€14.66Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Merchants: The Community That Shaped England's Trade and Empire, 1550-1650 by Edmond Smith
RRP: €32.73€27.24WINNER OF THE 2023 RALPH GOMORY BOOK PRIZE "A superb book."-Jerry Brotton "Wonderfully wide-ranging and deeply-researched."-William Dalrymple "Sharply observed, innovatively analysed, and always accessible."-Nandini Das A new history of English... -
Charlotte Mew: and Her Friends by Penelope Fitzgerald
RRP: €13.08€9.25Penelope Fitzgerald's fascinating portrait of the tragic poet and her life at the heart of the Bloomsbury set. Charlotte Mew (1869-1928) cut one of the most distinctive figures of the twentieth century - beloved of Siegfried Sassoon and Walter... -
The A-Z of Curious Somerset by Geoff Body 9780752493299
RRP: €17.84€13.74This book draws on the long and unique heritage of the county of Somerset, bringing to life seventy of the little known but fascinating and unusual aspects of a much-loved area. It tells of body-snatchers and bewitchment; crime and conflict; lepers and... -
The Life of Louis XVI by John Hardman 9780300273649
RRP: €15.46€13.64A thought-provoking, authoritative biography of one of history's most maligned rulers: France's Louis XVI "The definitive contribution to our understanding of Louis XVI as a man and a monarch."-P. M. Jones, English Historical Review "Monumental. . . ...