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Ingenious Trade: Women and Work in Seventeenth-Century London by Laura Gowing
RRP: $68.23$58.68Ingenious Trade recovers the intricate stories of the young women who came to London in the late seventeenth century to earn their own living, most often with the needle, and the mistresses who set up shops and supervised their apprenticeships. Tracking... -
Scarcity: A History from the Origins of Capitalism to the Climate Crisis by Fredrik Albritton Jonsson
RRP: $58.40$46.14A sweeping intellectual history of the concept of economic scarcity-its development across five hundred years of European thought and its decisive role in fostering the climate crisis.Modern economics presumes a particular view of scarcity, in which... -
Promised Land: A Northern Love Story by Anthony Clavane
RRP: $33.13$23.95This is a book about football. It's about unconditional love for a club, even when it doesn't always seem to love you back. But it is also a book about much more than that.Anthony Clavane loves Leeds - certainly the football club, but also the city, and... -
The Tiger Moth Story by Alan Bramson
RRP: $17.53$12.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910809440Author Alan BramsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Goodall Publications LtdPublisher Crecy Publishing -
Alesia 52 BC by Nic Fields
RRP: $33.13$23.95In 52 BC Caesar's continued strategy of annihilation had engendered a spirit of desperation, which detonated into a revolt of Gallic tribes under the leadership of the charismatic young Arvernian noble Vercingetorix. Major engagements were fought at... -
Medieval Philosophy: A New History of Western Philosophy, Volume 2 by Anthony Kenny
RRP: $33.13$24.73Sir Anthony Kenny continues his magisterial new history of Western philosophy with a fascinating guide through more than a millennium of thought from 400 AD onwards, charting the story of philosophy from the founders of Christian and Islamic thought... -
Scotland from Pre-History to the Present by Fiona Watson
RRP: $29.23$22.52From the early settlers after the last Ice Age, and the myth and ritual that surrounds that prehistoric period, Fiona Watson charts the evolution of the Scottish people - as Scots, Picts and Angles - and their interaction with the world abroad, from... -
Goering: The Iron Man by Professor Richard Overy
RRP: $44.83$39.21Published in the Bloomsbury Revelations series and featuring a new preface by the author, this classic biography by acclaimed historian Richard Overy takes the reader on a chilling journey into the heart of Hitler's inner circle. Hermann Goering was... -
The Practice of Conceptual History: Timing History, Spacing Concepts by Reinhart Koselleck
RRP: $54.58$47.15Reinhart Koselleck is one of the most important theorists of history and historiography of the last half century. His work has implications for contemporary cultural studies that extend far beyond discussions of the practical problems of historical... -
The Diver and The Lover by Jeremy Vine
RRP: $39.00$22.72'The lives of the characters get entangled in this powerful read' WOMAN'S OWN'A pacy, gripping tale of secrets, love and betrayal in 1950s Catalonia, written with skill and colour. It gave me enormous pleasure to read such a satisfying novel.' SANTA... -
West Yorkshire Folk Tales by John Billingsley
RRP: $25.33$18.76Whether hailing from the open Pennine hills or the close-knit neighbourhoods of industrial towns, West Yorkshire folk have always been fond of a good tale. This collection of stories from around the county is a tribute to their narrative vitality, and... -
Norwegian Pattern Knitting: Squares, Stripes, and Lice: 25 Traditional Designs from Salhus, Norway by Ann Kristin Ramstrom
RRP: $38.90$25.82A wealth of stylish patterns inspired by the textile history of Norway. One of the oldest textile factories in Norway, Salhus Tricotagefabrik (1859-1989) operated outside Bergen for over 130 years, producing thousands of sweaters and other durable... -
Lost Aberdeen by Diane Morgan
RRP: $29.23$21.00The initial chapters are an odyssey through the early town, from the Green to the Gallowgate, charting the disappearance of the irreplaceable medieval townscape. Moving on to more modern times she traces the evolution and gradual erosion of the Granite... -
Haunted Derry by Madeline McCully 9781845888688
RRP: $29.23$22.52From the Admore Banshee to the ghost in the Bog of Lettermuck, this collection of spine-chilling tales from across County Derry is guaranteed to make your blood run cold. This spooky selection features stories of unexplained phenomena, ghostly... -
Laugh or Cry: The British Soldier on the Western Front, 1914-1918 by Peter Hart 9781399068772
RRP: $48.75$34.36Awakened by great shouted oaths below. Peeped over the side of the manger and saw a Belgian lass milking and addressing a cow with a comprehensive luridness that left no doubt in my mind that British soldiers had been billeted here before.' Private... -
The Book of the British Library by Michael Leapman 9780712358378
RRP: $48.75$33.89As well as holding some of the world's most prized cultural treasures, the British Library is the repository of the nation's collective memory. Owing its origin to the generosity and far-sightedness of a handful of eighteenth-century scholars and... -
Fort Nelson Guidebook by Royal Armouries 9780948092916
RRP: $11.68$8.70Fort Nelson was built in the 1860s, as part of a chain of fortifications protecting the great naval harbour of Portsmouth and its Royal Dockyard from a feared French invasion. It now houses the national collection of artillery, held in trust for the... -
Timeline of the British Monarchy by Matt Baker 9781667200798
RRP: $50.68$36.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781667200798Author Matt BakerFormat HardbackPage Count 80Imprint Thunder Bay PressPublisher Thunder Bay PressWeight(grams) 1043gDimensions(mm) 308mm * 228mm... -
The Archaeology of Athens by John M. Camp 9780300101515
RRP: $68.25$66.90The definitive work on the monuments of ancient Athens and Attica In this book, a leading authority on the archaeology of ancient Greece presents a survey of the monuments-first chronologically and then site by site. John M. Camp begins with a... -
Friends of the People: The Uneasy Radicals in the Age of the Chartists by Owen R. Ashton 9780850365191
RRP: $31.10$28.16This is study of six Chartist Leaders. It portrays movements for democracy and social progress, and explores the role of the uneasy middle classes, in movements for working class rights. The comparative analysis provides insights in to the development of... -
A Revolution of Feeling: The Decade that Forged the Modern Mind by Rachel Hewitt
RRP: $25.33$16.69In the 1790s, Britain underwent what the politician Edmund Burke called 'the most important of all revolutions...a revolution in sentiments'. Inspired by the French Revolution, British radicals concocted new political worlds to enshrine healthier, more... -
Social Change and Everyday Life in Ireland, 1850-1922 by Caitriona Clear
RRP: $38.98$27.85Men and women who were born, grew up and died in Ireland between 1850 and 1922 made decisions - to train, to emigrate, to stay at home, to marry, to stay single, to stay at school - based on the knowledge and resources they had at the time. This, the... -
Hidden From History: 300 Years of Women's Oppression and the Fight Against It by Sheila Rowbotham
RRP: $48.73$31.94In this classic study of women in Britain from the Puritan revolution of the mid-seventeenth century to the 1930s, Sheila Rowbotham shows how class and sex, work and the family, personal life and social pressures have shaped and hindered women's... -
The Cistercian Evolution: The Invention of a Religious Order in Twelfth-Century Europe by Constance Hoffman Berman
RRP: $60.45$54.13According to the received history, the Cistercian order was founded in Citeaux, France, in 1098 by a group of Benedictine monks who wished for a stricter community. They sought a monastic life that called for extreme asceticism, rejection of feudal... -
Fishbourne Roman Palace by Barry Cunliffe 9780752414089
RRP: $53.63$39.55The discovery, during the early 1960s, of the site of a Roman Palace and its garden at Fishbourne, near Chichester, remains the most important and exciting event in Romano-British archaeology over the last half-century. Since his original excavation,... -
The Invention of Improvement: Information and Material Progress in Seventeenth-Century England by Paul Slack 9780199645916
RRP: $122.85$77.79Improvement was a new concept in seventeenth-century England; only then did it become usual for people to think that the most effective way to change things for the better was not a revolution or a return to the past, but the persistent application of... -
Boom Cities: Architect Planners and the Politics of Radical Urban Renewal in 1960s Britain by Otto Saumarez Smith
RRP: $59.46$54.68Boom Cities is the first published history of the profound transformations of British city centres in the 1960s. It has often been said that urban planners did more damage to Britain's cities than even the Luftwaffe had managed, and this study... -
The Festiniog Railway: From 1950 by Andrew Wilson 9780752423975
RRP: $29.23$22.52The Festiniog Railway can trace its history back to 1829 and it was constructed to serve the slate quarries in the area. It was built to the gauge of 2ft as this was the track width used in the quarries. Originally powered by gravity and horses, by 1863... -
Macchi C.202 Folgore: Italy's Best Fighter of the Second World War by Davide F. Jabes 9781781558300
RRP: $58.50$41.63The Macchi C.202 was probably the most successful Italian fighter during the Second World War. It is generally agreed that the performance of the Macchi was superior to both the Hawker Hurricane and the Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk and on a par with the... -
Wilhelm II: Into the Abyss of War and Exile, 1900-1941 by John C. G. Rohl 9781107544192
RRP: $107.23$100.93This final volume of John Roehl's acclaimed biography of Kaiser Wilhelm II reveals the Kaiser's central role in the origins of the First World War. The book examines the Kaiser's part in the Boer War, the Russo-Japanese War, the naval arms race with... -
The Knight Who Saved England: William Marshal and the French Invasion, 1217 by Richard Brooks
RRP: $25.33$17.73In 1217 England was facing her darkest hour, with foreign troops pillaging the country and defeat close at hand. But, at the battle of Lincoln, the seventy-year-old William Marshal led his men to a victory that would secure the future of his nation. Earl... -
War and Society in Medieval Wales 633-1283: Welsh Military Institutions by Sean Davies 9781783161393
RRP: $25.33$18.92This text offers an examination of Welsh military organization, strategy, tactics and conduct in war which goes beyond the military sphere and touches on all aspects of Welsh society in this period. It helps to explain the transformation of the country... -
France 1814 - 1914 by Robert Tombs 9780582493148
$90.44Here is an incomparably rich portrait of France in the years when the disparate elements that made up the fragmented kingdom of the ancien regime were forged into the modern nation. The survey begins with an exploration of national obsessions and... -
Bygone Maryhill by Guthrie Hutton 9781840333275
RRP: $23.30$21.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840333275Author Guthrie HuttonFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 174mm * 240mm * 4mm -
Atlas of Early Modern Britain, 1485-1715 by Christopher Daniell
RRP: $64.33$56.86The Atlas of Early Modern Britain presents a unique visual survey of British history from the end of the Wars of the Roses through to the accession of George I in 1715. Featuring 117 maps, accompanied throughout by straightforward commentary and... -
A Brief History of the Wars of the Roses by Desmond Seward
RRP: $25.33$16.77During the fifteenth century England was split in a bloody conflict between the Houses of York and Lancaster over who should claim the crown. The civil wars consumed the whole nation in a series of battles that eventually saw the Tudor dynasty take power... -
The Call-Up by Tom Hickman
RRP: $21.43$14.43From 1947 to 1963 some 2.3 million men were conscripted to do national service. For some it was to prove the most exciting and terrifying time of their lives, as many were sent to the Korean War or to countries such as Palestine and Kenya where the... -
A Grim Almanac of the Workhouse by Peter Higginbotham
RRP: $29.23$23.30For two centuries, the shadow of the workhouse hung over Britain. The recourse of only the most desperate, dark and terrible tales of malnutrition, misery, mistreatment and murder ran like wildfire through the poorer classes, who lived in terror of being... -
Shakespeare's Dark Lady: Amelia Bassano Lanier the woman behind Shakespeare's plays? by John Hudson 9781445655246
RRP: $25.33$16.54Amelia Bassano was born in 1569 into a family of Venetian Jews who were court musicians to Queen Elizabeth I. At about the age of thirteen, she became mistress to the fiftysix-year-old Lord Hunsdon, Henry VIII's reputed son by Mary Boleyn. As Lord... -
Distant Strangers: How Britain Became Modern by James Vernon 9780520282049
RRP: $40.95$32.43What does it mean to live in the modern world? How different is that world from those that preceded it, and when did we become modern? In Distant Strangers, James Vernon argues that the world was made modern not by revolution, industrialization, or the...