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Mapping an Empire: Geographical Construction of British India, 1765-1843 by Matthew Edney
RRP: £33.00£32.45In this history of the British surveys of India, focusing especially on the Great Trigonometrical Survey (GTS) undertaken by the British East India Company, the author relates how imperial Britain employed modern scientific survey techniques not only to... -
Thorns in the Crown: Britain on the Eve of the Coronation by Barry Turner
RRP: £20.00£15.04'A lively book that captures the essence of a modern monarchy and a new Elizabethan era' - Lyndsy Spence, The Lady'Down-to-earth and insightful' - Daily MailIt is 1952 and Britain is changing. The Second World War is over, but the country is still... -
Dumfries by David Carroll
RRP: £12.99£9.62This book celebrates the everyday face of Dumfries and its surrounding area, capturing through old photographs the sights of a town that, although it has witnessed many changes in recent years, would still be instantly familiar to the true 'Doonhamer' of... -
Landscapes of the National Trust by Ben Cowell
RRP: £30.00£28.28A hymn to the British landscape. From the dramatic hills of the Lake District to the beaches and covers of Cornwall, this richly illustrated book brings together new perspectives on the places that have inspired artists, writers and film-makers and... -
From Wakefield and Towton: the Wars of the Roses by Philip A. Haigh 9780850528251
RRP: £12.99£9.09The Wars of the Roses was a complicated, bloody affair between the houses of Lancaster and York, and witnessed much changing of sides. That disjointed feuding persisted for a staggering thirty years and was a north versus south affair. However, the... -
The King and the Catholics: The Fight for Rights 1829 by Lady Antonia Fraser
RRP: £10.99£6.47The story of Catholic Emancipation begins with the violent Anti-Catholic Gordon Riots in 1780, fuelled by the reduction in Penal Laws against the Roman Catholics harking back to the sixteenth century. Some fifty years later, the passing of the... -
The Magna Carta of Humanity: Sinai's Revolutionary Faith and the Future of Freedom by Os Guinness
RRP: £20.99£14.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830847150Author Os GuinnessFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Inter-Varsity Press,USPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams) 558gDimensions(mm) 236mm... -
A Guide to the Buildings of Coventry by Arthur George 9780752431154
RRP: £12.99£9.62In this resource, George Demidowicz looks at the buildings of Coventry, explaining their architecture, their architects, and the original uses of many of the buildings.Book InformationISBN 9780752431154Author George DemidowiczFormat PaperbackPage Count... -
Hodder GCSE History for Edexcel: The reigns of King Richard I and King John, 1189-1216 by Dale Banham
£23.02Exam Board: Pearson EdexcelLevel: GCSESubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: June 2018Endorsed for EdexcelEnable students to achieve their full potential while ensuring pace, enjoyment and motivation with this popular series from the... -
Antigonus The One-Eyed: Greatest of the Successors by Jeff Champion 9781526774897
RRP: £12.99£9.09Plutarch described Antigonus the One Eyed (382-301 BC) 'as 'the oldest and greatest of Alexander's successors.' Antigonus loyally served both Philip II and Alexander the Great as they converted his native Macedonia into an empire stretching from India to... -
Britain's Jews: Confidence, Maturity, Anxiety by Harry Freedman 9781472987235
RRP: £14.99£11.75'...detailed and fair.' - The Spectator 'An exhaustive, impressive achievement.' - The Tablet As a minority, Jews in Britain are confident, their institutions competent and mature. And yet within Jewish life in Britain there is a pervading sense of... -
Scouse: A Social and Cultural History by Tony Crowley 9781846318405
RRP: £24.99£22.41Nowhere in Britain is more closely associated with a form of language than Liverpool. Yet the history of language in Liverpool has been obscured by misrepresentation and myth-making and narratives of Liverpool's linguistic past have scarcely done justice... -
Scotland's Beginnings: Scotland Through Time by Michael Taylor
RRP: £4.99£4.34What would we have seen if we looked out over the landscape of Scotland at its very beginning, before the impact of mankind? What would it be like to swim in the Jurassic sea? Or stand early one morning in the dragon-fly haunted coal forests of the... -
Old Puglia: A Cultural Companion to South-Eastern Italy by Desmond Seward
RRP: £12.99£8.99In recent years, tourists have discovered the rustic charms of Puglia, also known as Apulia, the heel stretching down from the spur of the Italian boot. The region boasts beautiful landscapes and miles of dramatic coastline, cities with Romanesque... -
The God of the Witches by Margaret A. Murray 9780195012705
RRP: £14.99£13.33This celebrated study of witchcraft in Europe traces the worship of the pre-Christian and prehistoric Horned God from paleolithic times to the medieval period. Murray, the first to turn a scholarly eye on the mysteries of witchcraft, enables us to see... -
The Medici: Power, Money, and Ambition in the Italian Renaissance by Paul Strathern 9781681774084
RRP: £18.95£13.11A dazzling history of the modest family that rose to become one of the most powerful in Europe, The Medici is a remarkably modern story of power, money, and ambition. Against the background of an age that saw the rebirth of ancient and classical learning... -
Operation Typhoon: The Assault on Moscow 1941 by Philippe Naud 9781612006710
RRP: £19.99£14.28After the initial successes of Operation Barbarossa, at the end of September 1941 Hitler turned his focus to Moscow, with the unshakeable belief that capturing the capital would knock the Soviets out of the war. On the face of it, it was an unequal... -
Who Loses, Who Wins: The Journals of Kenneth Rose: Volume Two 1979-2014 by Kenneth Rose
RRP: £16.99£11.94Kenneth Rose was one of the most astute observers of the post-war Establishment. The wry and amusing journals of the royal biographer and historian made objective observation a sculpted craft. His impeccable social placement located him within the... -
Battle for Crete by John Hall Spencer 9781526781369
RRP: £14.99£10.95After two years' extensive research the author has written a thorough account of the political and military background to the German invasion of Crete and the bitter fighting that followed the first airborne assault on an island in history. The book... -
The Account Book of Richard Latham, 1724-1767 by Lorna Weatherill 9780197260920
£82.66This account book of a small yeoman farmer in Lancashire, running from 1724 (just after his marriage) to his death in 1767, provides a record of expenditure on domestic, personal, and farming items. It is unique in offering a detailed view of household... -
Lancaster Revisited in Old Photographs by Susan Ashworth 9780750923828
RRP: £14.99£11.55A history in photographs of the Lancastrian towns of Lancaster, Morecambe and Heysham.Book InformationISBN 9780750923828Author Susan AshworthFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press Ltd -
Julian of Norwich, Theologian by Denys Turner
RRP: £25.00£23.94For centuries readers have comfortably accepted Julian of Norwich as simply a mystic. In this astute book, Denys Turner offers a new interpretation of Julian and the significance of her work. Turner argues that this fourteenth-century thinker's... -
The Vikings in Brittany by Neil S. Price
RRP: £10.00£8.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780903521222Author Neil S PriceFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Viking Society for Northern ResearchPublisher Viking Society for Northern... -
Medieval Medicine: A Reader by Faith Wallis 9781442601031
RRP: £42.00£35.97Medical knowledge and practice changed profoundly during the medieval period. In this collection of over 100 primary sources, many translated for the first time, Faith Wallis reveals the dynamic world of medicine in the Middle Ages that has been largely... -
The Rise and Fall of the City of Money: A Financial History of Edinburgh by Ray Perman
RRP: £25.00£23.41It started and ended with a financial catastrophe. The Darien disaster of 1700 drove Scotland into union with England, but spawned the institutions which transformed Edinburgh into a global financial centre. The crash of 2008 wrecked the city's two... -
Walking Waterloo: A Guide by Charles J. Esdaile 9781526740786
£21.67Charles Esdaile's new guide to the Battle of Waterloo presents the experience of the soldiers who took part in the battle in the most graphic and direct way possible - through their own words. In a series of walks he describes in vivid detail what... -
Drama, Poetry and Music in Late-Renaissance Italy: The Life and Works of Leonora Bernardi by Virginia Cox 9781800084322
RRP: £55.00£48.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800084322Author Virginia CoxFormat HardbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 1220g -
Industry, Empire and Unrest: Scotland, 1790-1880 by Iain Hutchison
RRP: £85.00£77.50Industry, Reform and Empire traces the evolution of politics from a repressive, reactionary and electorally restricted regime before 1832 to an era of wider franchise and sweeping institutional reform. Focusing on the impact of rapid industrialisation,... -
JG 26: Top Guns of the Luftwaffe by Donald Caldwell
RRP: £16.99£12.28Jagdgeschwader 26, the German elite fighter unit, was more feared by the Allies than any other Luftwaffe group. Based on extensive archival research in Europe, personal combat diaries and interviews with more than 50 surviving pilots, Caldwell has... -
Attila the Hun: Arch-enemy of Rome by Hughes, Ian 9781781590096
RRP: £19.99£14.28Attila the Hun is a household name. Rising to the Hunnic kingship around 434, he dominated European history for the next two decades. Attila bullied and manipulated both halves of the Roman empire, forcing successive emperors to make tribute payments or... -
Tycho Brahe and the Measure of the Heavens by John Robert Christianson
RRP: £17.95£13.32The Danish aristocrat and astronomer Tycho Brahe personified the inventive vitality of Renaissance life in the sixteenth century. Brahe lost his nose in a student duel, wrote Latin poetry and built one of the most astonishing villas of the period, as... -
Basingstoke Workhouse: And Poor Law Union by Barbara Large
RRP: £12.99£9.62This absorbing book explores all aspects of life in that feared institution, the workhouse. From the staff who lived and worked there to the poor souls kept in the medical wing, it reveals a side of Basingstoke that has long since been forgotten. It... -
1520: The Field of the Cloth of Gold by Amy Licence 9781398115415
RRP: £10.99£7.251520 explores the characters of two larger-than-life kings, whose rivalry and love-hate relations added a feisty edge to European relations in the early sixteenth century. What propelled them to meet, and how did each vie to outdo the other in feats of... -
Emsworth: A History by Robert Whitfield
RRP: £16.99£13.34Emsworth has a unique character. The marketplace at the centre of the town is a reminder of Emsworth's beginnings: as a small hamlet with a weekly market to serve the needs of farmers. It later developed as a centre for milling, fishing, shipbuilding and... -
Clydebank Battlecruisers: Forgotten Photographs from John Brown's Shipyard by Ian Johnston 9781399024891
RRP: £16.99£12.28Between 1906 and 1920 the Clydebank shipyard of John Brown & Sons built five battlecruisers, each one bigger than the last, culminating in the mighty Hood, the largest warship of her day. If Tiger is regarded as a modification of the Lion class design,... -
Builders of the Third Reich: The Organisation Todt and Nazi Forced Labour by Dr. Charles Dick
£25.15This is the first comprehensive critical study of the Organisation Todt (OT), a key institution which oversaw the Third Reich's vast slave labour programme together with the SS, Wehrmacht and industry. The book breaks new ground by revealing the full... -
Along Great Western Road: An Illustrated History of Glasgow's West End by Gordon R. Urquhart
RRP: £35.00£31.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840331158Author Gordon R. UrquhartFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake Publishing -
Red Ellen: The life of Ellen Wilkinson, Socialist, Feminist, Internationalist by Laura Beers
RRP: £35.95£29.96In 1908 Ellen Wilkinson, a fiery adolescent from a working-class family in Manchester, was "the only girl who talks in school debates." By midcentury, Wilkinson had helped found Britain's Communist Party, earned a seat in Parliament, and become a... -
The Temple Church in London - History, Architecture, Art by David Park
RRP: £24.99£21.30First full-length survey of the Temple Church, from its foundation in the twelfth century to the Second World War. Founded as the main church of the Knights Templar in England, at their New Temple in London, the Temple Church is historically and... -
A Champion Cyclist Against the Nazis: The Incredible Life of Gino Bartali by Alberto Toscano 9781526753397
RRP: £19.99£14.28Italy, 1943/. Although allied with Hitler, there were those who refused to accept the fascist policies of racial discrimination and deportation. Among them was Gino Bartali. A champion cyclist, he won the Giro d'Italia (Tour of Italy) three times and...