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Railway Crimes Committed in Victorian Britain by Malcolm Clegg
RRP: £20.00£14.29The vast majority of Britain's railways were built between 1830 and 1900 which happened to coincide with the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901). By the turn of the Nineteenth/Twentieth Century, over one hundred different railway companies were operating... -
Canals in Britain by Tony Conder
RRP: £8.99£6.45In the early years of the Industrial Revolution, canals formed the arteries of Britain. Most waterways were local concerns, carrying cargoes over short distances and fitted into regional groups with their own boat types linked to the major river... -
Harry of England: The History of Eight Kings, From Henry I to Henry VIII by Teresa Cole
RRP: £20.00£13.34Eight kings of England were the named Henry, but only two of them were born as heirs to the throne and these - the third and sixth - proved to be the weakest. Two seized the crown by force of arms, one by craft and opportunistic speed, and one by skilful... -
When War came to Wymondham 1939-45: what the townspeople experienced, said and did ... by Adrian Hoare 9781909796621
£13.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909796621Author Adrian HoareFormat PaperbackPage Count 175Imprint Poppyland PublishingPublisher Poppyland Publishing -
The Winding Stair: Francis Bacon, His Rise and Fall by Daphne Du Maurier
RRP: £10.99£7.40FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA' ... a writer of fearless originality' GUARDIAN 'Unlike many authors of popular historical biographies, du Maurier resembled Antonia Fraser in being an indefatigable researcher' FRANCIS KING'du Maurier has no equal'... -
The Cossacks by Shane O'Rourke
RRP: £25.00£17.92This is an exceptional book covering 500 years of the history of the Cossacks - the recklessly brave, wild horsemen or the romantic hero of the steppe or the brutal mounted policemen, as they have been remembered throughout history. Starting with a... -
Orphans of Empire: The Fate of London's Foundlings by Helen Berry 9780198758488
RRP: £26.49£19.09Eighteenth-century London was teeming with humanity, and poverty was never far from politeness. Legend has it that, on his daily commute through this thronging metropolis, Captain Thomas Coram witnessed one of the city's most shocking sights-the... -
The Archaeology of Sutton Park by Michael Hodder 9780752468006
RRP: £17.99£13.64Sutton Park is a nationally important historic landscape. Its many visitors are often drawn by the rich ecology that this public open space of about 2,250 acres provides. However, the Park also contains extensive and well-preserved archaeological remains... -
Bygone Fraserburgh by Jim Buchan 9781840332179
RRP: £11.95£10.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840332179Author Jim BuchanFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake Publishing -
The Neolithic of Mainland Scotland by Kenneth Brophy
RRP: £23.99£19.91What was life like in Scotland between 4000 and 2000 BC? Where were people living? How did they treat their dead? Why did they spend so much time building extravagant ritual monuments? What was special about the relationship people had with trees and... -
Far-Right Politics in Europe by Jean-Yves Camus
RRP: £24.95£19.89In Europe today, staunchly nationalist parties such as France's National Front and the Austrian Freedom Party are identified as far-right movements, though supporters seldom embrace that label. More often, "far right" is pejorative, used by liberals to... -
Francesca Caccini at the Medici Court: Music and the Circulation of Power by Suzanne G. Cusick 9780226132136
RRP: £39.00£38.03A contemporary of Shakespeare and Monteverdi, and a colleague of Galileo and Artemisia Gentileschi at the Medici court, Francesca Caccini was a dominant musical figure there for thirty years. Dazzling listeners with the transformative power of her... -
The Medieval Horse and its Equipment, c.1150-1450 by John Clark
RRP: £24.99£21.30Over 400 recent finds associated with horses and excavated in London, from the utilitarian to the highly decorated, illustrated and discussed. Whether knight's charger or beast of burden, horses played a vital role in medieval life. The wealth of... -
Building Knowledge: An Architectural History of the University of Edinburgh by Nick Haynes
RRP: £25.00£18.40Edinburgh is a city renowned for critical thinking, cutting edge breakthroughs and unique creativity. At the heart of these enlightened ideals lies the University of Edinburgh, which has influenced life in the capital since it was founded in the late... -
Interpreting the English Village: Landscape and Community at Shapwick, Somerset by Mick Aston 9781905119455
RRP: £29.95£28.73An original and approachable account of how archaeology can tell the story of the English village. Shapwick lies in the middle of Somerset, next to the important monastic centre of Glastonbury: the abbey owned the manor for 800 years from the 8th to the... -
Visitors' Historic Britain: West Sussex: Stone Age to Cold War by Kevin Newman 9781526703330
RRP: £14.99£7.54Many writers have written about the delights of the former kingdom of the South Saxons, its Downs, villages, countryside, people and their ways but _Visitors' Historic Britain - West Sussex_ is the first book to take readers on a tour of discovery of... -
The Sherlock Holmes Handbook by Ransom Riggs
RRP: £15.99£10.93The first Sherlock Holmes adventure appeared in 1888, but today the detective is more popular than ever-witness the upcoming release of "Sherlock Holmes", starring Robert Downey Jr. as the legendary Victorian sleuth and Jude Law as his faithful... -
Dunkirk Evacuation - Operation Dynamo: Nine Days that Saved an Army by Martin Mace 9781526770356
RRP: £15.99£11.61The miracle' of Dunkirk is one of the most inspiring stories of all time. The British Expeditionary Force had been all but surrounded, and, with the French armies collapsing on all sides, it appeared that Britain was about to suffer the heaviest defeat... -
Court, Kirk and Community: Scotland 1470-1625 by Jenny Wormald
RRP: £23.99£19.51How did Scots live and change in the dying days of an independent kingdom?This essential history focuses on society and religious life in Reformation Scotland from 1470 to 1625. Now re-issued in the popular New History of Scotland series, with a... -
Uncivil Mirth: Ridicule in Enlightenment Britain by Ross Carroll 9780691241777
RRP: £28.00£23.62How the philosophers and polemicists of eighteenth-century Britain used ridicule in the service of religious toleration, abolition, and political justiceThe relaxing of censorship in Britain at the turn of the eighteenth century led to an explosion of... -
White Innocence: Paradoxes of Colonialism and Race by Gloria Wekker 9780822360759
RRP: £20.99£18.37In White Innocence Gloria Wekker explores a central paradox of Dutch culture: the passionate denial of racial discrimination and colonial violence coexisting alongside aggressive racism and xenophobia. Accessing a cultural archive built over 400 years of... -
The Great Bristol High Street: Glorious Gloucester Road by Colin Moody 9780750992497
RRP: £12.00£8.93Traders are the heart, soul and backbone of our high streets. Their shops provide a focus for community, a friendly face and in hard times a helping hand. This project recognises the personalities and services we rely on and which add to the layers of... -
"Tosca's" Rome: The Play and the Opera in Historical Perspective by Susan V. Nicassio
RRP: £21.00£20.31A timeless tale of love, lust, and politics, "Tosca" is one of the most popular operas ever written. In "Tosca's Rome," Susan Vandiver Nicassio explores the surprising historical realities that lie behind Giacomo Puccini's opera and the play by Victorien... -
The Fortune Hunter: A German Prince in Regency England by Peter James Bowman 9781909930032
RRP: £14.99£13.64The two decades after Waterloo marked the great age of foreign fortune hunters in England. Each year brought a new influx of impecunious Continental noblemen to the world's richest country, and the more brides they carried off, the more alarmed society... -
Cafe Europa: Life after Communism by Slavenka Drakulic 9780140277722
£16.23"Slavenka Drakulic is a journalist and writer whose voice belongs to the world." -Gloria SteinemToday in Eastern Europe the architectural work of revolution is complete: the old order has been replaced by various forms of free market economy and de jure... -
The Hotel on Place Vendome: Life, Death, and Betrayal at the Hotel Ritz in Paris by Tilar J. Mazzeo 9780061791048
RRP: £9.99£6.64Set against the backdrop of the Nazi occupation of World War II, The Hotel on Place Vendome is the captivating history of Paris's world-famous Hotel Ritz-a breathtaking tale of glamour, opulence, and celebrity; dangerous liaisons, espionage, and... -
Fascist Spectacle: The Aesthetics of Power in Mussolini's Italy by Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi
RRP: £27.00£21.06This richly textured cultural history of Italian fascism traces the narrative path that accompanied the making of the regime and the construction of Mussolini's power. Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi reads fascist myths, rituals, images, and speeches as texts... -
The Franks Casket by Leslie Webster
RRP: £6.00£4.40The whalebone box known as the Franks Casket has intrigued and puzzled viewers since its rediscovery in the nineteenth century. Made in northern England in the eighth century AD, the sides and lids of the rectangular casket carry some of the richest and... -
The Cardiff Book of Days by Mike Hall 9780752460086
RRP: £9.99£7.55Taking you through the year day by day, The Cardiff Book of Days contains a quirky, eccentric, amusing or important event or fact from different periods of history, many of which had a major impact on the religious and political history of Britain as a... -
The Soap Man: Lewis, Harris and Lord Leverhulme by Roger Hutchinson 9781841583273
£10.09In 1918, as the First World War was drawing to a close, the eminent liberal industrial Lord Leverhulme bought - lock, stock and barrel - the Hebridean island of Lewis. His intention was to revolutionise the lives and environments of its 30,000 people,... -
The Investiture Controversy: Church and Monarchy from the Ninth to the Twelfth Century by Uta-Renate Blumenthal
RRP: £23.99£21.24"This book describes the roots of a set of ideals that effected a radical transformation of eleventh-century European society that led to the confrontation between church and monarchy known as the investiture struggle or Gregorian reform. Ideas cannot be... -
British Railway Stinks: The Last Railway Chemists by David Smith
RRP: £14.99£11.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911658269Author David SmithFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint Mortons Media GroupPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 230gDimensions(mm) 210mm *... -
La Vie en bleu: France and the French since 1900 by Rod Kedward
RRP: £17.99£12.95Rod Kedward brings to life the great, and often terrible, dramas of modern France - the two cataclysmic wars, the Algerian disaster, the student and worker revolt of 1968 - but also explores the special worlds of the workplace, immigration, minorities,... -
Faces of Muhammad: Western Perceptions of the Prophet of Islam from the Middle Ages to Today by John Tolan 9780691167060
RRP: £35.00£23.62Heretic and impostor or reformer and statesman? The contradictory Western visions of MuhammadIn European culture, Muhammad has been vilified as a heretic, an impostor, and a pagan idol. But these aren't the only images of the Prophet of Islam that emerge... -
Not a Guide to: Manchester by Ben McGarr 9780752471198
RRP: £6.99£5.47This is NOT a guide book. This little book brings together past and present to offer a taste of Manchester. Learn more about the movers and shakers who shaped this fantastic city. The great and the good; the bad and the ugly. Small wonders, tall stories,... -
Fisher's Face by Jan Morris
RRP: £12.99£8.56Admiral of the Fleet Lord 'Jacky' Fisher (1841-1920) was one of the greatest naval reformers in history. He was also a colossal figure to contemporaries, both loved and loathed, a man of exceptional charm, presence and charisma. Since the late 1940s, Jan... -
The Rule of Empires: Those Who Built Them, Those Who Endured Them, and Why They Always Fall by Timothy Parsons 9780199931156
RRP: £15.99£12.63In The Rule of Empires, Timothy Parsons gives a sweeping account of the evolution of empire from its origins in ancient Rome to its most recent twentieth-century embodiment. He explains what constitutes an empire and offers suggestions about what empires... -
CBAC Safon Uwch Hanes - Canllaw i Fyfyrwyr Uned 5: Dehongliadau Hanesyddol (asesu di-arholiad) WJEC A-level History Student Guide Unit 5: Historical Interpretations (non-examined assessment; Welsh language edition) by Phil Star
£12.69Exam board: WJECLevel: AS/A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2016 (AS); Summer 2017 (A-level)Maximise your chance of coursework success with this step-by-step guide to the WJEC A-level History NEA.- Explains how to... -
The Breathless Zoo: Taxidermy and the Cultures of Longing by Rachel Poliquin 9780271053738
RRP: £29.95£27.31From sixteenth-century cabinets of wonders to contemporary animal art, The Breathless Zoo: Taxidermy and the Cultures of Longing examines the cultural and poetic history of preserving animals in lively postures. But why would anyone want to preserve an... -
The Oxford Handbook of Modern Scottish History by T. M. Devine 9780198713630
£40.70Over the last three decades major advances in research and scholarship have transformed understanding of the Scottish past. In this landmark study some of the most eminent writers on the subject, together with emerging new talents, have combined to...