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Medical Muses by Asti Hustvedt
RRP: $29.23$21.35A groundbreaking new book about the misogynistic nineteenth century obsession with hysteria, focusing on the renowned Salpetriere Hospital in Paris. 'Fascinating and beautifully written' Guardian 'Fascinating ... gives us a disturbing insight into... -
Henry VI by Bertram Wolffe
RRP: $48.75$41.57In this widely acclaimed biography, Bertram Wolffe challenges the traditional view of Henry VI as an unworldly, innocent, and saintly monarch and offers instead a finely drawn but critical portrait of an ineffectual ruler. Drawing on widespread... -
Images of Aberdeen by Raymond Anderson 9781780911311
$31.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780911311Author Raymond AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint DB PublishingPublisher DB Publishing -
Witch-Hunting in Scotland: Law, Politics and Religion by Brian P. Levack
RRP: $74.08$65.09Shortlisted for the 2008 Katharine Briggs AwardWitch-Hunting in Scotland presents a fresh perspective on the trial and execution of the hundreds of women and men prosecuted for the crime of witchcraft, an offence that involved the alleged practice of... -
Gloucester Murder & Crime by Jill Evans 9780752467504
RRP: $25.33$18.76This chilling collection of cases delves into the villainous deeds that have taken place in Gloucester during its long history. Among those featured are a French sailor stabbed to death outside a Gloucester pub, a boy drowned in the Gloucester and... -
La Boiselle: Somme by Michael Stedman 9780850525403
RRP: $21.43$15.15This addition to the growing series of battlefield guides has been written by Michael Stedman, author of Thiepval. Drawing upon the wealth of material available in both national and local archives, documentary evidence, personal reminiscence and British... -
Bellissima: Feminine Beauty and the Idea of Italy by Stephen Gundle 9780300176803
$83.44Feminine beauty has been more discussed, appreciated, represented in art and associated with national, cultural identity in Italy than in any other country. From the time of Dante and Petrarch, ideals of beauty have informed the works of artists,... -
England's Other Countrymen: Black Tudor Society by Onyeka Nubia 9781350354302
$47.01The Tudor period remains a source of timeless fascination, with endless novels, TV programmes and films depicting the period in myriad ways. And yet our image of the Tudor era remains overwhelmingly white. This ground-breaking and provocative new book... -
Winston Churchill: A Life in the News by Richard Toye 9780192896230
RRP: $33.13$23.89Before Winston Churchill made history, he made news. To a great extent, the news made him too. If it was his own efforts that made him a hero, it was the media that made him a celebrity - and it has been considerably responsible for perpetuating his... -
The Idea of Europe: From Antiquity to the European Union by Mr. Anthony Pagden
RRP: $60.43$51.54The creation of the European Union and the progressive integration of the European states has raised serious questions about the existence of a distinctive European identity. Do the British share much in common with the French, or the French with the... -
The Stuarts by John Miller 9781852855451
$56.06When James VI of Scotland succeeded Elizabeth as James I on the throne of England in 1603, the Stuarts became the first dynasty to rule Britain as a whole. The problems that James and his successors encountered in reconciling their kingdoms led to... -
Lucy Hutchinson and the English Revolution: Gender, Genre, and History Writing by Claire Gheeraert-Graffeuille 9780192857538
RRP: $185.25$158.44In Lucy Hutchinson and the English Revolution, Claire Gheeraert-Graffeuille explores Lucy Hutchinson's historical writings and the Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson, which, although composed between 1664 and 1667, were first published in 1806... -
The Life of Saint Symeon the New Theologian by Niketas Stethatos
RRP: $58.40$46.14Today the Byzantine mystic, writer, and monastic leader Symeon the New Theologian (ca. 949 to 1022 ce) is considered a saint by the Orthodox Church and revered as one of its most influential spiritual thinkers. But in his own time a cloud of controversy... -
Battle in the Baltic: The Royal Navy and the Fight to Save Estonia and Latvia, 1918 1920 by Dunn, Steve 9781399096553
RRP: $25.33$17.73Though, for most participants, the First World War ended on 11 November 1918, the Royal Navy found itself, despite four years of slaughter and war weariness, fighting a fierce and brutal battle in the Baltic Sea against Bolshevik Russia in an attempt to... -
St Peter-on-the-Wall: Landscape and Heritage on the Essex Coast by Johanna Dale 9781800084360
RRP: $68.25$60.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800084360Author Johanna DaleFormat PaperbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 770g -
RAF Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War: v. 6: 1945 by W.R. Chorley 9780904597929
RRP: $29.23$21.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780904597929Author W. R ChorleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Midland PublishingPublisher Crecy PublishingDimensions(mm) 178mm * 110mm * 17mm -
Haunted Bishop's Stortford by Jenni Kemp 9780750964128
RRP: $25.33$18.76From a spectral horse and carriage heard galloping along Church Street to unexplained sightings of the market town's mysterious Grey Lady, this collection of hauntings from Bishop's Stortford is guaranteed to make your blood run cold. Featured here are... -
Charlemagne by Johannes Fried
RRP: $66.20$55.40When Charlemagne died in 814 CE, he left behind a dominion and a legacy unlike anything seen in Western Europe since the fall of Rome. Distinguished historian and author of The Middle Ages Johannes Fried presents a new biographical study of the legendary... -
Douglas Home by David Dutton
RRP: $25.33$17.53Douglas-Home had a complex career between the two Houses of Parliament, disclaiming his peerage to become Prime Minister. His term in office was short elected in 1963 he lost the election of 1964.Book InformationISBN 9781904950677Author David... -
Eyewitness RAF: The Experience of War, 1939-1945 by James Goulty 9781526752376
RRP: $48.75$34.36Much has been written about the Royal Air Force during the Second World War-memoirs, biographies, histories of Fighter and Bomber commands, technical studies of the aircraft, accounts of individual operations and exploits - but few books have attempted... -
The Old English Poems of Cynewulf by Cynewulf
RRP: $58.40$46.14The Old English poems attributed to Cynewulf, who flourished some time between the eighth and tenth centuries, are unusual because most vernacular poems in this period are anonymous. Other than the name, we have no biographical details of Cynewulf, not... -
Imperial Wine: How the British Empire Made Wine's New World by Jennifer Regan-Lefebvre
RRP: $58.50$45.42A fascinating and approachable deep dive into the colonial roots of the global wine industry.Imperial Wine is a bold, rigorous history of Britain's surprising role in creating the wine industries of Australia, South Africa, and New Zealand. Here,... -
Churches in the Irish Landscape: Ad 400-1100 by Tomas O Carragain
RRP: $87.75$87.71Between the fifth century and the ninth, several thousand churches were founded in Ireland, a greater density than most other regions of Europe. This period saw fundamental changes in settlement patterns, agriculture, social organisation, rituals and... -
Death in Breslau by Marek Krajewski
RRP: $19.48$13.26Breslau was a German city on the border of Czechoslovakia. It is now, since World War II, Wroclaw, in Poland. Marek Krajewski has written a quartet of novels which unfold the history of this exceptional city, standing on the faultline and crossroads of... -
Diverse London: 20 Walks Exploring London's Wonderfully Varied Communities by David Fathers
RRP: $21.43$16.34Discover the communities that have made London the amazing place it is to live in and visit, with this fascinating walking guide to the history, culture, religion and cuisine of immigrant London. Brimming with beautiful maps and illustrations, this... -
The Religion of Orange Politics: Protestantism and Fraternity in Contemporary Scotland by Joseph Webster 9781526113771
RRP: $39.00$34.79The religion of Orange politics offers an in-depth anthropological account of the Orange Order in Scotland. Based on ethnographic research collected before, during, and after the Scottish independence referendum, Joseph Webster details how Scotland's... -
History of the Archbishops of Hamburg-Bremen by Adam of Bremen 9780231125758
RRP: $58.50$45.42Adam of Bremen's history of the see of Hamburg and of Christian missions in northern Europe from the late eighth to the late eleventh century is the primary source of our knowledge of the history, geography, and ethnography of the Scandinavian and Baltic... -
Sport and the Military: The British Armed Forces 1880-1960 by Tony Mason
RRP: $56.53$47.62On battleships, behind the trenches of the Western Front and in the midst of the Desert War, British servicemen and women have played sport in the least promising circumstances. When 400 soldiers were asked in Burma in 1946 what they liked about the... -
The Time Between Us by Marina McCarron
RRP: $17.53$12.58'Haunting and enchanting by turns. This book will stay with me for a long time. Utterly magnificent' Jenni Keer? Can the truth about her family's past unlock her future? Normandy, 1937. Sixteen-year-old Elise embarks on a whirlwind romance with a... -
Rome and the Mediterranean 290 to 146 BC: The Imperial Republic by Nathan Rosenstein
RRP: $62.40$51.56Rome's stunning rise to mastery of the ancient Mediterranean Nathan Rosenstein charts Rome's incredible journey and command of the Mediterranean over the course of the third and second centuries BC. He describes the Republic's great wars - against... -
Mrs Gaskell and Me: Two Women, Two Love Stories, Two Centuries Apart by Nell Stevens 9781509868216
RRP: $19.48$14.18Winner of the 2019 Somerset Maugham Award'A great galloping joy of a book - funny, lyrical, fast paced, heart-warming - a delicious celebration of love and life' - Rebecca Stott, author of In the Days of RainIn 1857, Elizabeth Gaskell set sail for Rome,... -
Charles XII's Karoliners: Volume 1: The Swedish Infantry & Artillery of the Great Northern War 1700-1721 by Dmitry Leonidovich Chugainov
RRP: $58.40$40.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804510056Author Dmitry Leonidovich ChugainovFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Who Was Responsible for the Troubles?: The Northern Ireland Conflict by Liam Kennedy
RRP: $46.78$40.64The Troubles claimed the lives of almost four thousand people in Northern Ireland, most of them civilians; forty-five thousand were injured in bombings and shootings. Relative to population size this was the most intense conflict experienced in Western... -
British Art and the First World War, 1914-1924 by James Fox
RRP: $44.83$38.14The First World War is usually believed to have had a catastrophic effect on British art, killing artists and movements, and creating a mood of belligerent philistinism around the nation. In this book, however, James Fox paints a very different picture... -
On Silbury Hill by Adam Thorpe
$20.14Twenty years after the publication of his classic novel Ulverton, the acclaimed poet and novelist Adam Thorpe revisits the landscape which inspired him. Silbury Hill in Wiltshire has perplexed people for generations. Was it once an island, moated by... -
The Darkening Glass (Mathilde of Westminster Trilogy, Book 3): Murder, mystery and mayhem in the court of Edward II by Paul Doherty
RRP: $19.48$13.26Mathilde of Westminster must face a dangerous foe in the third novel in Paul Doherty's acclaimed series. March 1312 and England is divided. Edward II is in conflict with his barons over royal favourite Gaveston, and Queen Isabella is momentously pregnant... -
The Twisted Road to Auschwitz: Nazi Policy toward German Jews, 1933-39 by Karl A. Schleunes
RRP: $37.03$32.60"There is no single phenomenon in our time so important for us to understand as the one which identified itself in Germany during the 1920's, 30's and 40's as National Socialism. By the time this movement was swept from the stage it had destroyed the... -
Escaping Suburbia: A 1960s Merseyside Childhood by David J. Eveleigh 9780750992398
RRP: $33.13$25.23Born into the gap between the eras of austerity and boom, David grew up in Merseyside amid an inexorable tide of progress, developing a fascination with the past. With a vivid eye for detail and boundless childhood curiosity for everything from steam... -
From the Score to the Stage: An Illustrated History of Continental Opera Production and Staging by Evan Baker
RRP: $126.75$125.21Without scenery, costumes, and stage action, an opera would be little more than a concert. But in the audience, we know little (and think less) about the enormous efforts of those involved in bringing an opera to life - by the stagehands who shift... -
Queen Victoria: A Personal History by Christopher Hibbert
RRP: $29.23$18.92Christopher Hibbert's acclaimed biography of Queen Victoria is as impressive and authoritative as the great woman herself. In 1837 an eighteen-year-old girl, raised by a German mother, inherited the throne of the United Kingdom. She was to...