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Wolverhampton: Britain in Old Photographs by Heidi McIntosh 9780752463568
RRP: $27.28$21.16This fascinating collection of over 200 archive images traces some of the changes and developments that have taken place in Wolverhampton during the last century, as many old agricultural communities were swallowed up by the development of modern... -
Difference Is Born on the Lips: Reflections on sexuality, stigma and society by Michael Handrick
RRP: $33.13$27.50In this shockingly raw but beautifully written book, Michael Handrick unpicks the toxic narratives and myths built up by society of what it means to be a man, gay and working class. Moving through time and memory, from a rural council estate surrounded... -
Suffolk in the Middle Ages - Studies in Places and Place-Names, the Sutton Hoo Ship-Burial, Saints, Mummies and Crosses, Domesday Book and Chronicles by Norman Scarfe
RRP: $48.73$40.76Norman Scarfe explores place names, the Sutton Hoo ship burial, the coming of Christianity, and the abbey at Bury St Edmunds, concluding with an evocative study of five Suffolk places - Southwold, Dunwich, Yoxford, and Wingfield and Fressingfield. The... -
Fish and Chips and the British Working Class, 1870-1940 by John K. Walton 9780718521202
$156.08Unlike other institutions of central importance to working-class life, the fish-and-chip trade has not yet been rescued from what the author of this book regards as "the massive condescension of posterity". In attempting to begin this process,... -
His Invention So Fertile by Adrian Tinniswood 9780712673648
RRP: $58.50$41.63Christopher Wren (1632-1723) was the greatest architect Britain has ever known. But he was more than that. A founder of the Royal Society, he mapped the moon and the stars, investigated the problem of longitude and the rings of Saturn, and carried out... -
The Cheltenham Book of Days by Michael Hasted 9780752465449
RRP: $19.48$14.72Taking you through the year day by day, The Cheltenham Book of Days contains quirky, eccentric, amusing and important events and facts from different periods of history, many of which had a major impact on the religious and political history of Britain... -
Able Archer 83: The Secret History of the NATO Exercise That Almost Triggered Nuclear War by Nate Jones 9781620972618
RRP: $44.83$30.93In November 1983, Soviet nuclear forces went on high alert when intelligence reported alarming activity on US bases. In response, the Soviets planned for a nuclear strike by NATO on Eastern Europe. And then Able Archer 83, a vast NATO war game exercise,... -
Orbanland: Why Viktor Orban's Hungary Matters by Lasse Skytt
RRP: $23.38$15.60From Europe to America, political landscapes have shifted in recent years in a way summed up in microcosm no better than by the trajectory of one small country, Hungary--whose leader, Viktor Orban, has gained outsized international notoriety as the bad... -
Northamptonshire at War 1939 - 1945 by Kevin Turton 9781473876675
RRP: $25.33$8.48When the Second World War was declared in September 1939, Northamptonshire was better prepared for the years that followed than it had been twenty-five years earlier. Lessons had been learned from the First World War, and people were far more aware of... -
Castles of Wales by Davis, John Paul 9781399018876
RRP: $48.75$35.14In 1277, Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, Prince of Gwynedd, met with Edward I of England in Aberconwy to finalise a treaty that would change the fate of both nations. His hand forced by Edward's invasion earlier that year, Llywelyn's acceptance of the terms... -
Last Years of the London Titan by Matthew Wharmby 9781526749710
RRP: $48.75$24.53Already depleted by withdrawals in the London Buses Ltd era, the Leyland Titan fleet of T class was divided upon privatisation between three new companies; London Central, Stagecoach East London and Stagecoach Selkent. Together with a host of smaller... -
Feudal Society by Marc Bloch
RRP: $38.98$35.28Marc Bloch said that his goal in writing Feudal Society was to go beyond the technical study a medievalist would typically write and 'dismantle a social structure.' In this outstanding and monumental work, which has introduced generations of students and... -
God's Playground A History of Poland: Volume II: 1795 to the Present by Norman Davies
RRP: $111.15$95.06This new edition of Norman Davies's classic study of the history of Poland has been revised and fully updated with two new chapters to bring the story to the end of the twentieth century. The writing of Polish history, like Poland itself, has frequently... -
The Few: July-October 1940 by Alex Kershaw
RRP: $17.53$12.58In the summer of 1940 a handful of volunteer pilots defied their country to fight when we needed them most. This is the story of their Battle of Britain.In the early days of World War Two when Britain stood alone against the terror of Hitler's... -
Escaping Hitler: Heroic True Stories of Great Escapes in Nazi Europe by Monty Halls 9781509865826
RRP: $39.00$30.11'I was on a train, and a German soldier began shouting at me and poking me in the ribs with his machine gun. I just thought that was it, the game was up . . .'Downed airman Bob Frost faced danger at every turn as he was smuggled out of France and over... -
Ypres: Great Battles by Mark Connelly
RRP: $51.66$36.29In 1914, Ypres was a sleepy Belgian city admired for its magnificent Gothic architecture. The arrival of the rival armies in October 1914 transformed it into a place known throughout the world, each of the combatants associating the place with it its own... -
Town Planning in Britain Since 1900: The Rise and Fall of the Planning Ideal by Gordon E. Cherry 9780631199946
RRP: $74.00$66.69This book examines town and country planning policy in twentieth-century Britain as an important aspect of state activity. Tracing the origins of planning ideals and practice, Gordon Cherry charts the adoption by state, both at the central and local... -
Old Airdrie by Campbell McCutcheon 9781840334685
RRP: $23.30$21.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840334685Author Campbell McCutcheonFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingWeight(grams) 171gDimensions(mm)... -
We Came, We Saw, God Conquered: The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth's Military Effort in the Relief of Vienna, 1683 by Michal Paradowski
RRP: $48.75$41.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914059742Author Michal ParadowskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Cambridgeshire at War 1939-45 by Glynis Cooper 9781473875838
RRP: $25.33$17.39Few could believe that within twenty years of the war to end all wars being won the world was once again at war. Veterans of the Great War feared going through the same thing again and, even worse, many knew that this time their children would also be... -
North Shields by Eric Hollerton 9780752407302
RRP: $25.33$18.76This collection of over 200 photographs draws on the archives of North Tyneside Libraries which have been built up through the donations of local people. The majority of the old scenes are from within living memory, but before the redevelopments of the... -
Alfred the Great: War, Kingship and Culture in Anglo-Saxon England by Richard Abels 9780582040472
RRP: $93.58$89.66This biography of Alfred the Great, king of the West Saxons (871-899), combines a sensitive reading of the primary sources with a careful evaluation of the most recent scholarly research on the history and archaeology of ninth-century England. Alfred... -
The Story of Shrewsbury by Mary De Saulles
RRP: $31.18$26.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906663681Author Mary De SaullesFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Logaston PressPublisher Fircone Books Ltd -
I am Minded to Rise: The Clothing, Weapons and Accoutrements of the Jacobites from 1689 to 1719 by Jenn Scott 9781912866632
RRP: $38.90$27.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912866632Author Jenn ScottFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Battle of the Four Courts: The First Three Days of the Irish Civil War by Michael Fewer
RRP: $19.48$13.86A meticulous, compellingly readable reconstruction of those three summer days that ignited the civil war - the defining event of modern Irish politics. The Irish Civil War began at around four o'clock in the morning on June 28, 1922. An 18-pounder... -
The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance by Leah DeVun 9780231195515
RRP: $58.50$45.42Winner, 2024 Haskins Medal, Medieval Academy of AmericaWinner, 2023 Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize, History of Science SocietyWinner, 2022 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion: Historical Studies, American Academy of... -
Backstop Land by Glenn Patterson
RRP: $27.28$24.59'Funny, wise, entertaining and illuminating, this book is one of the best things to come out of the Brexit saga' FINTAN O'TOOLE. 'Read this absorbing book to understand why, since 2016, we have been playing with fire. There is no longer any excuse for... -
A Place in History: Social and Monumental Time in a Cretan Town by Michael Herzfeld
RRP: $97.50$76.28Michael Herzfeld describes what happens when a bureaucracy charged with historic conservation clashes with a local populace hostile to the state and suspicious of tourism. Focusing on the Cretan town of Rethemnos, once a center of learning under Venetian... -
Outside In by Peter Hain 9781849544108
RRP: $25.33$18.06Peter Hain has lived an extraordinary life. Formerly an 'outsider' he became an 'insider', one of the last Labour government's most effective ministers. He held an array of glittering posts in the British political establishment, from key roles in the... -
A Freeborn People: Politics and the Nation in Seventeenth-Century England by David Underdown 9780198206125
$162.32A Freeborn People is a provocative exploration of the ways in which the political cultures of the elite and of common people intersected during the seventeenth century. David Underdown shows that the two worlds were not as separate as historians have... -
Hidden Aberdeenshire: The Coast by Fiona-Jane Brown
RRP: $19.48$14.72Following on from the bestselling Hidden Aberdeen, Fiona-Jane Brown now presents a brand new volume, Hidden Aberdeenshire: The Coast, exploring the rich history and the most fascinating, quirky stories from the windswept lands beside the North Sea... -
Old Norse for Modern Times by Ian Stuart Sharpe
RRP: $46.78$29.72Never be lost for words again...with this book of lost words. Have you ever wanted to wield the silver tongue of Loki, or to hammer home your point like a Thundergod? Old Norse is the language of legends and the stuff of sagas, the inspiration for... -
Valentine Ackland: A Transgressive Life by Frances Bingham
RRP: $31.18$21.53'One November evening in 1925, two young women from London arrived at the village of Chaldon, in Dorset. They brought with them two suitcases, a gramophone, and a wooden boxful of records; the bare necessities. Both wore trousers and had Eton-cropped... -
Rome Resurgent: War and Empire in the Age of Justinian by Peter Heather 9780197500538
RRP: $35.08$29.00Between the fall of the western Roman Empire in the fifth century and the collapse of the east in the face of the Arab invasions in the seventh, the remarkable era of the Emperor Justinian (527-568) dominated the Mediterranean region. Famous for his... -
Secret Letters: A Battle of Britain Love Story by John Willis
RRP: $48.75$35.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912914173Author John WillisFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Mensch PublishingPublisher Mensch PublishingWeight(grams) 382g -
The Devonshires: The Story of a Family and a Nation by Roy Hattersley
RRP: $33.13$23.95William Cavendish, the father of the first Earl, dissolved monasteries for Henry VIII. Bess, his second wife, was gaoler-companion to Mary Queen of Scots during her long imprisonment in England. Arbella Stuart, their granddaughter, was a heartbeat away... -
A Day of Reckoning by Matthew Harffy 9781804548547
RRP: $39.00$33.05Hunlaf battles peril and intrigue on a dangerous voyage to Muslim Spain. AD 796. Sailing in search of an object of great power, Hunlaf and his comrades are far from home when they are caught up in a violent skirmish against pirates. After the... -
Michael Davitt After the Land League, 1882-1906 by Carla King 9781906359928
RRP: $87.75$85.90Michael Davitt is known as the 'Father of the Land League'. His story of suffering and self-sacrifice, childhood eviction and exile, youthful radicalism, harsh imprisonment and eventual triumph over adversity ensures his memory in the pages of history... -
Microcosm: A Portrait of a Central European City by Norman Davies
RRP: $39.00$28.65The story of Central Europe is anything but simple. As the region located between East and West, it has always been endowed with a rich variety of migrants, and has repeatedly been the scene of nomadic invasions, mixed settlements and military conquests... -
The Lawn Road Flats - Spies, Writers and Artists by David Burke 9781783274703
RRP: $38.98$33.87The story of a modernist building with a significant place in the history of Soviet espionage in Britain, where communist spies rubbed shoulders with British artists, sculptors and writers The Isokon building, also know as Lawn Road Flats, in London...