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Tudor Textiles by Eleri Lynn
RRP: €32.73€27.24A detailed study of Tudor textiles, highlighting their extravagant beauty and their impact on the royal court, fashion, and taste At the Tudor Court, textiles were ubiquitous in decor and ceremony. Tapestries, embroideries, carpets, and hangings were... -
The 2000s: Britain in Pictures by PA Photos 9781906672577
RRP: €17.84€12.14This title offers a beautifully produced tribute to the 2000s, featuring images straight from the archives of the "Press Association". This illuminating collection offers fascinating images that depict both major historical events and smaller, but no... -
The Russian Revolution, 1917 by Rex A. Wade
RRP: €30.93€26.17Rex A. Wade presents an essential overview of the Russian Revolution from its beginning in February 1917, through the numerous political crises under Kerensky, to the victory of Lenin and the Bolsheviks in the October Revolution. This thoroughly revised... -
Liverpool and the Slave Trade by Anthony Tibbles
RRP: €19.58€18.55During the course of more than four centuries, merchants in Liverpool were responsible for forcibly transporting over a million and a half Africans across the Atlantic to work as enslaved labourers on the plantations of the Caribbean as their ships... -
England: An Archaeological Guide to Sites from earliest Times to AD 1600 by Timothy Darvill 9780192841018
€41.21Travelling around England is in many senses a journey back in time. On all sides, and sometimes even under the road or footpath itself, there are fragments of the ancient past side by side with the clutter of the modern world. Medieval villages, castles,... -
The Quest For Corvo by A. J. A. Symons
RRP: €21.41€15.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780940322615Author A.J.A. SymonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
Terrorists, Anarchists, and Republicans: The Genevans and the Irish in Time of Revolution by Richard Whatmore 9780691206646
RRP: €33.32€26.42A bloody episode that epitomised the political dilemmas of the eighteenth centuryIn 1798, members of the United Irishmen were massacred by the British amid the crumbling walls of a half-built town near Waterford in Ireland. Many of the Irish were... -
The Life and Death of Ancient Cities: A Natural History by Greg Woolf
RRP: €26.76€18.97The human race is on a 10,000 year urban adventure. Our ancestors wandered the planet or lived scattered in villages, yet by the end of this century almost all of us will live in cities. But that journey has not been a smooth one and urban civilizations... -
The Bell of Treason: The 1938 Munich Agreement in Czechoslovakia by P.E. Caquet
RRP: €23.80€17.48On returning from Germany on 30 September 1938 after his agreement with Hitler on the carve-up of Czechoslovakia, Neville Chamberlain addressed the British crowds: 'My good friends... I believe it is peace for our time. We thank you from the bottom of... -
Famous Women by Giovanni Boccaccio
RRP: €35.64€28.63After the composition of the Decameron, and under the influence of Petrarch's humanism, Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) devoted the last decades of his life to compiling encyclopedic works in Latin. Among them is Famous Women, the first collection of... -
Old Gateshead by Alan Brazendale 9780752420738
RRP: €15.46€11.45This fascinating collection of over 200 photographs of the old part of Gateshead captures the essence of the town in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This was a period of great expansion and change, during which the last vestiges of the... -
The World of the Salons: Sociability and Worldliness in Eighteenth-Century Paris by Antoine Lilti
RRP: €32.71€29.37The world of the eighteenth-century salon has long been lauded as a meritocratic setting where writers, philosophers, and women created the Enlightenment. In The World of the Salons, historian Antoine Lilti proposes a fresh interpretation of salons in... -
Folklore of Essex by Sylvia Kent 9780752436777
RRP: €17.84€13.74Essex - the witch hunting county - is especially rich in traditions, legends, dialect and stories that have been handed down through the ages. It is these traditions that are gathered together in this volume and whose origins and meanings are explored to... -
The Royal Navy Officer's Jutland Pocket-Manual 1916 by Brian Lavery
RRP: €10.70€7.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910860182Author W. M. James R.N.Format HardbackPage Count 160Imprint The Pool of London PressPublisher The Pool of London Press -
Heimskringla III. Magnus Olafsson to Magnus Erlingsson: Volume III by Snorri Sturluson 9780903521932
RRP: €14.28€13.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780903521932Author Snorri SturlusonFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Viking Society for Northern ResearchPublisher Viking Society for Northern... -
Pandora's Box: A History of the First World War by Joern Leonhard
RRP: €28.50€23.97Winner of the Norman B. Tomlinson, Jr. Prize"The best large-scale synthesis in any language of what we currently know and understand about this multidimensional, cataclysmic conflict."-Richard J. Evans, Times Literary SupplementIn this monumental history... -
The Bridge: A Journey Between Orient and Occident by Geert Mak
RRP: €13.08€9.25Istanbul's Galata Bridge has spanned the Golden Horn since the sixth century AD, connecting the old city with the more Western districts to the north. But the bridge is a city in itself, peopled by merchants and petty thieves, tourists and fishermen, and... -
North Eastern Electric Stock 1904-2020: Its Design and Development by Graeme Gleaves
RRP: €29.75€21.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781526740342Author Graeme GleavesFormat HardbackPage Count 168Imprint Pen and Sword TransportPublisher Pen and Sword TransportWeight(grams) 248g -
Medicine before Science: The Business of Medicine from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment by Roger French 9780521007610
RRP: €46.40€38.41This book offers an introduction to the history of university-trained physicians from the middle ages to the eighteenth-century Enlightenment. These were the elite, in reputation and rewards, and they were successful. Yet we can form little idea of their... -
The Cheffe: A Culinary Novel by Marie NDiaye
RRP: €11.89€8.09"Marie NDiaye is so intelligent, so composed, so good, that any description of her work feels like an understatement" - Madeleine Schwartz, New York Review of Books"Rich, meandering . . . NDiaye excels at luscious, forensic descriptions of the... -
British Historic Towns Atlas Volume VII: Oxford by Alan Crossley
RRP: €83.30€79.23The latest volume of the British Historic Towns Atlas series covers the internationally-renowned city of Oxford. Famed for its university and its many outstanding historic buildings, the volume presents in mapped form the history of its topographical... -
Night Haunts: A Journey Through the London Night by Sukhdev Sandhu
€19.62Traditional depictions of London at night have imagined a lawless orgy of depravity and pestilence. But is Britain's capital after dark now as bland and unthreatening as an evening in any new provincial town? Sukhdev Sandhu journeys across the city to... -
The Spen Valley by Ellis Norman 9780752421728
RRP: €15.46€11.45Cleckheaton, Heckmondwike, Liversedge and Gomersal, plus a number of villages, make up an area known as the Spen Valley. This book, with over 200 illustrations, mostly from the author's collection of postcards, covers part of the region's history. In the... -
The Making of Paris by Russell Kelley
RRP: €29.75€22.54Paris has long been the world's most popular destination and, in the view of many, the world's most beautiful city - the product of two thousand years of continuous improvement and refinement. The Making of Paris is the story of how Paris evolved from a... -
The Last Greek by Christian Cameron 9781409176596
RRP: €24.98€18.25Few writers are better at conjuring up a vision of Ancient Greece' THE TIMES* * * * * * *210BCE. The most powerful empires in the world brawl over the spoils of a declawed Greece.Philopoemen has a vision to end the chaos and anarchy that consumes his... -
Mary Ward: First Sister of Feminism by Sydney Thorne
RRP: €23.79€17.47Almost exactly 400 years ago, an English woman completed an astonishing walk to Rome. An English Catholic, Mary Ward had already defied the authorities in England. In 1621 she walked across Europe to ask the Pope to allow her to set up schools for girls... -
Catherine the Great: Life and Legend by John T. Alexander 9780195052367
€56.12John Alexander has provided the first popular biography of one of the most powerful, infamous, and colourful figures in modern history. Empress of the vast Russian Empire by the age of 33, Catherine's private and public life generated tremendous... -
Passchendaele: The Fight for the Village by Nigel Cave 9780850525588
RRP: €11.89€10.82The British offensive, which became known as Passchendaele, got underway on 31 July, 1917 with the objective of capturing fifteen miles of territory.The attack quickly lost momentum and, it was not until finally in November that the line managed to... -
James Connolly: Working Class Hero by Rod Smith 9781781998724
€6.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781998724Author Rod SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint In A NutshellPublisher Poolbeg Press Ltd -
Cork Burning by Michael Lenihan 9781781177921
RRP: €20.22€15.09'A tale of arson, loot and murder' was how one source described the events that would befall Cork city on the night of 11-12 December 1920. In a scene of almost unprecedented destruction, members of the British forces bent on revenge for the ambushes at... -
Aerofilms: A history of Britain from above by James Crawford 9781848022485
€44.83Aerofilms Ltd was born on 9 May 1919. An unprecedented business venture, it hoped to marry the still fledgling technology of powered flight to the discipline of photography. Its founders were Claude Grahame-White, an internationally-famous English... -
The Mount Stewart Murder: A Re-Examination of the UK's Oldest Unsolved Murder Case by Chris Paton 9780752460208
RRP: €17.84€13.74In March 1866, Janet Rogers travelled to the Perthshire-based farm of her brother, William Henderson, to help with chores while he looked for a new domestic servant. Three days later she was found dead in the farm kitchen, killed by multiple blows from... -
Boatlines: Scottish Craft of Sea, Coast and Canal by Ian Stephen
RRP: €20.22€13.78People are drawn to the harbours and boats of Scotland whether they have a seafaring background or not. Why do boats take on different shapes as you follow the complex shorelines of islands and mainland? And why do the sails they carry appear to be so... -
NEC4: Managing a Professional Service Contract by NEC NEC 9780727762375
RRP: €38.08€36.10New NEC4 Contract launched June 2020Book InformationISBN 9780727762375Author NEC NECFormat PaperbackImprint ICE PublishingPublisher ICE Publishing -
Ataturk: An Intellectual Biography by M. Sukru Hanioglu
RRP: €23.80€18.91When Mustafa Kemal Ataturk became the first president of Turkey in 1923, he set about transforming his country into a secular republic where nationalism sanctified by science--and by the personality cult Ataturk created around himself--would reign... -
Curious Tales from West Yorkshire by Howard Peach 9780752455143
RRP: €15.46€11.45This is a charming compendium of historical oddities, curious customs and strange events from across West Yorkshire. Laid out in an easy to use A-Z format it explores a vast range of subjects, from folklore and legends to Yorkshire's strangest buildings,... -
Christian Slavery: Conversion and Race in the Protestant Atlantic World by Katharine Gerbner
RRP: €28.55€24.80Could slaves become Christian? If so, did their conversion lead to freedom? If not, then how could perpetual enslavement be justified? In Christian Slavery, Katharine Gerbner contends that religion was fundamental to the development of both slavery and... -
Kinver & Enville: The Photographic Collection by Bob Clarke
RRP: €20.22€15.87Today's village of Kinver first made an appearance in 736 AD as Cynibre. Despite being close to the Black Country and having a flourishing iron working industry from the seventeenth century to the mid-nineteenth century, the village avoided the spread of... -
The Secret Army: The IRA by J. Bowyer Bell 9781560009016
RRP: €59.49€52.96The Secret Army is the definitive work on the Irish Republican Army. It is an absorbing account of a movement that has had a profound effect on the shaping of the modern Irish state. The secret army in the service of the invisible Republic has had a... -
Making the Modern Artist: Culture, Class and Art-Educational Opportunity in Romantic Britain by Martin Myrone
RRP: €53.55€44.78Exploring the myths and realities of the origins of the "modern artist" in Britain The artist has been a privileged figure in the modern age, embodying ideals of personal and political freedom and self-fulfillment. Does it matter who gets to be an...