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A History of Modern Britain: 1714 to the Present by Ellis Wasson
RRP: £30.95£27.85Now available in a fully-revised and updated second edition, A History of Modern Britain: 1714 to the Present provides a comprehensive survey of the social, political, economic and cultural history of Great Britain from the Hanoverian succession to the... -
Go Listen to the Crofters by A.D. Cameron 9780861520633
RRP: £12.99£11.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861520633Author A.D. CameronFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint AcairPublisher AcairDimensions(mm) 290mm * 220mm * 14mm -
Old Dumbarton by John Hood 9781840330588
RRP: £11.95£10.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840330588Author John HoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 180mm * 236mm * 4mm -
Basingstoke in the 1960s: Britain in Old Photographs by Robert Brown
RRP: £12.99£9.62Basingstoke in the 1960s looks at the North Hampshire town during the period in which it was drastically altered to accept the flow of population from London and other areas under the Town Development Scheme. The town centre was partially demolished to... -
Mad Dog: They Shot Me in the Head, They Gave Me Cyanide and They Stabbed Me, But I'm Still Standing by Johnny Adair 9781844548194
£9.59Johnny Adair placed himself at the heart of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. To some he was a criminal and a terrorist. To others he was an integral part of Belfast's bloody history and in it he reveals its roots in his own uncompromising and compelling... -
Convicts and Orphans: Forced and State-Sponsored Colonizers in the Portuguese Empire, 1550-1755 by Timothy J. Coates
RRP: £79.00£68.71This book examines how the early modern Portuguese state used convicts and orphans to populate its global empire over a period of two hundred years. In a country with as small a population base and the global labor requirements of Portugal, no one was... -
Bloody British History: Chelmsford by Robert Hallmann 9780752471150
RRP: £15.99£12.25Witches, martyrs, bodysnatchers, Zulus and rioting peasants! The Black Death in Chelmsford! The horrible true stories of the Moat Farm Murder and the death of Jael Denny! The terrible tragedy of the Great Flood of 1880! The incredible histories of... -
Worcester Locomotive Shed: Engines and Train Workings by Steve Bartlett 9781526750594
RRP: £25.00£18.62WORCESTER LOCOMOTIVE SHED is the third in a series of in depth studies of Western Region motive power depots. This provincial city was a busy and fascinating rail centre with main line passenger and freight services passing through alongside local... -
The Little Book of Cumbria by David Ramshaw 9780750984799
RRP: £14.99£11.55This is a fact-packed compendium of snippets from the past and present, including historical tales, legends and myths of the Lake District and the rest of the region from Barrow to Carlisle. The towns and villages all have their stories to tell of... -
A Concise History of Greece by Richard Clogg
RRP: £22.99£18.74Now reissued in a fourth, updated edition, this book provides a concise, illustrated introduction to the modern history of Greece, from the first stirrings of the national movement in the late eighteenth century to the present day. As Greece emerges from... -
Falklands Gunner: A Day-by-Day Personal Account of the Royal Artillery in the Falklands War by Tom Martin 9781473881211
RRP: £25.00£18.02The Royal Artillery played a vital, though often forgotten, part in the British armed forces' successful operation to re-capture of the Falkland Islands in 1982. However, the actions of the artillery were recorded by one young officer in a journal which... -
A Description of the Western Islands of Scotland, Circa 1695: A Late Voyage to St Kilda by Martin Martin 9781839830358
RRP: £14.99£10.77Written before the Jacobite rebellions irrevocably changed the face of Highland society, Martin Martin's A Description of the Western Islands of Scotland and A Late Voyage to St Kilda paint a fascinating picture of the Hebrides at a crucial point in... -
Unwritten Rome by T. P. Wiseman 9780859898232
RRP: £34.99£32.12In Unwritten Rome, a new book by the author of Myths of Rome, T.P. Wiseman presents us with an imaginative and appealing picture of the early society of pre-literary Rome-as a free and uninhibited world in which the arts and popular entertainments... -
The End of the Habsburgs: The Decline and Fall of the Austrian Monarchy by John Van der Kiste 9781781557709
RRP: £25.00£17.62In 1806, the Holy Roman Empire ceased to exist when Francis II became Emperor of Austria. 112 years later, the Habsburg empire collapsed after the First World War after surviving many tribulations. During the year of revolutions in 1848 the much-loved... -
The Hammer and the Cross: A New History of the Vikings by Robert Ferguson
RRP: £14.99£10.95For those living outside Scandinavia, the Viking Age effectively began in 793 with an attack on the monastery at Lindisfarne, a characteristically violent harbinger of what was in store for Britain and much of Europe from the Vikings for the next 300... -
The House of Grey: Friends & Foes of Kings by Melita Thomas
RRP: £12.99£8.48The Grey family was one of mediaeval England's most important dynasties, serving the kings of England as sheriffs, barons and military leaders from the reign of William the Conqueror. In Henry IV's reign the rivalry between Owain Glyndwr and Lord Grey of... -
Old Achill Island by Hugh Oram 9781840335965
RRP: £11.95£10.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840335965Author Hugh OramFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 174mm * 240mm * 4mm -
The Modern World-System I: Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-Economy in the Sixteenth Century by Immanuel Wallerstein 9780520267572
RRP: £31.00£24.43Immanuel Wallerstein's highly influential, multi-volume opus, "The Modern World-System", is one of this century's greatest works of social science. An innovative, panoramic reinterpretation of global history, it traces the emergence and development of... -
Travel and Ethnology in the Renaissance: South India through European Eyes, 1250-1625 by Joan-Pau Rubies 9780521526135
RRP: £30.99£28.68This book, first published in 2000, offers a wide-ranging and ambitious analysis of how European travellers in India developed their perceptions of ethnic, political and religious diversity over three hundred years. It analyses the growth of novel... -
Marriage and Love in England, 1300 - 1840: Modes of Reproduction by Alan MacFarlane 9780631154389
RRP: £21.95£19.72Marriage and Love in England: Modes of Reproduction 1300-1840 is a history of the intimate lives and aspirations of the English people from medieval to modern times. It is scholarly, provocative, and highly readable. Explores why people married, at what... -
Imprisoning Mary Queen of Scots: The Men Who Kept the Stuart Queen by Mayhew, Mickey 9781399010993
RRP: £20.00£14.29Imprisoning Mary Queen of Scots covers the lives and careers of the men and women who kept' Mary Queen of Scots when she was a political prisoner in England, circa 1568/9-1587. Mary's troubled claim to the English throne - much to the consternation of... -
The Palace Papers: The Sunday Times bestseller by Tina Brown 9781529124712
RRP: £14.99£14.52The Amazon No.1 BestsellerTHE ROYAL BOOK OF THE YEAR_________________________________'Eye-poppingly revealing. . . impeccable sources, historical heft and canny insights served up with a zingy wit. There are many royal biographers, but few as good as... -
Edward III and the Triumph of England: The Battle of Crecy and the Company of the Garter by Richard Barber
RRP: £18.99£13.61The destruction of the French army at Crecy in 1346 and the subsequent siege and capture of Calais marked a new era in European history. The most powerful, glamorous and respected of all western monarchies had been completely humiliated by England, a... -
Venice: The Lion, the City and the Water by Cees Nooteboom 9781529402575
RRP: £12.99£7.51"Witty and meditative by turns, the overall effect is like being shown around by a wonderfully self-effacing, but impressively erudite guide" The Sunday Times BOOKS OF THE YEAR"Nooteboom has achieved the impossible: to say something new about the ageless... -
The Royal Women Who Made England: The Tenth Century in Saxon England by M J Porter 9781399068437
RRP: £20.00£14.31Throughout the tenth century, England, as it would be recognised today, formed. No longer many Saxon kingdoms, but rather, just England. Yet, this development masks much in the century in which the Viking raiders were seemingly driven from England's... -
Letters Written in France by Helen Maria Williams
£27.37Helen Maria Williams was a poet, novelist, and radical thinker deeply immersed in the political struggles of the 1790s. Her Letters Written in France is the first and most important of eight volumes chronicling the French Revolution to an England fearful... -
The Cathars and the Albigensian Crusade by Michael Costen 9780719043321
RRP: £19.99£17.82Clear introduction to a fascinating subject. Brings together new material on the social background of the 'heresy'. Lovely illustrations and maps.About the AuthorMichael Costen is Senior Lecturer in Adult Education and Tutor in Historical Studies at the... -
The Rise and Fall of Owain Glyn Dwr: England, France and the Welsh Rebellion in the Late Middle Ages by Gideon Brough
RRP: £19.99£17.61The subject of this compelling biography, Owain Glyn Dwr is one of the great figures of Welsh and military history. Initially a loyal subject of the king of England, he reluctantly took up arms against the Crown he had served. Once committed to... -
The Virago Book of Women and the Great War by Joyce Marlow
RRP: £12.99£8.60Joyce Marlow presents a fascinating and varied collection of women's writing on the Great War drawn from diaries, newspapers, letters and memoirs from across Europe and the States. Starting with material from 1914, she outlines the pre-war campaigns for... -
The Awakening: A History of the Western Mind AD 500 - AD 1700 by Charles Freeman
RRP: £30.00£20.95A monumental and exhilarating history of European thought, from the fall of Rome in the fifth century AD to the Scientific Revolution thirteen centuries later. The Awakening traces the recovery and refashioning of Europe's classical heritage from the... -
Cromwell's Convicts: The Death March from Dunbar 1650 by John Sadler 9781526738202
RRP: £19.99£14.68On 3 September 1650 Oliver Cromwell won a decisive victory over the Scottish Covenanters at the Battle of Dunbar - a victory that is often regarded as his finest hour - but the aftermath, the forced march of 5,000 prisoners from the battlefield to... -
The Art of Resistance: My Four Years in the French Underground by Justus Rosenberg
RRP: £9.99£6.64A gripping memoir written by a 96-year-old Jewish Holocaust survivor about his escape from Nazi-occupied Poland in the 1930's and his adventures with the French Resistance during World War II In 1937, as the Nazi... -
The Kings & Queens of England: The Biography by David Loades
RRP: £14.99£9.70This is the history of the men and women who occupied the highest position in English, and later British, society. From Richard III's infamous life and death, to Henry VIII's wives, Charles I's execution and Queen Victoria's exceptionally long reign,... -
Arnhem 1944: The Human Tragedy of the Bridge Too Far by Dilip Sarkar 9781526732736
RRP: £30.00£21.95The airborne battle for the bridges across the Rhine at Arnhem ranks amongst the Second World War's most famous actions - inspiring innumerable books and the star-studded 1977 movie. This book, however, is unique: deeply moved, the author provides a... -
Remembering The Armed Struggle: My Time With the Red Army Faction by Margrit Schiller 9781629638737
RRP: £18.99£12.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629638737Author Margrit SchillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press -
A Grim Almanac of York by Alan Sharp
RRP: £12.99£9.62This day-by-day account of gruesome tales from York's past reveals the seedy underbelly of what was historically the most important city in the North. Inside these pages you will find true stories of murder and intrigue, battles and conspiracies, witches... -
Cicero and Rome by David Taylor 9781853995064
RRP: £19.99£19.04In "Cicero and Rome", David Taylor takes Cicero as the focal point for examination of the last years of the Roman Republic. He traces the often dramatic and violent events from the harsh dictatorship of Sulla (82 BC) to Cicero's own death in the... -
A Woman of Influence: The Spectacular Rise of Alice Spencer in Tudor England by Vanessa Wilkie 9781982154288
RRP: £18.99£12.27This extraordinary true story transports us to Tudor and Stuart England as Alice Spencer, the daughter of an upstart sheep farmer, becomes one of the most powerful women in the country and establishes a powerful dynasty that endures to this day. Perfect... -
The Art of Anatomy in Medieval Europe by Taylor McCall
RRP: £16.95£12.26This book is the first modern history of medieval European anatomical images. Richly illustrated, it explores the many ways in which medieval surgeons, doctors, monks and artists understood and depicted human anatomy. Taylor McCall refutes the common... -
In the Footsteps of the Six Wives of Henry VIII: The visitor's companion to the palaces, castles & houses associated with Henry VIII's iconic queens by Sarah Morris
RRP: £20.00£14.69This book provides a fresh perspective on the lives of Henry VIII's six wives by embarking on a journey through the manors, castles and palaces in which their lives were played out. This journey traces their steps to the Alhambra in Spain, childhood home...