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English Pasts: Essays in History and Culture by Stefan Collini 9780198207801
RRP: £53.00£46.07In this collection of engaging and readable essays, Stefan Collini shows how much can be gained from bringing a rigorous historical perspective to some of the most contentious issues in contemporary culture. Whether he is asking what it means to inhabit... -
Scotland's Early Silver by Alice Blackwell
RRP: £19.99£17.42The breadth of National Museums Scotland's collections, together with the support of The Glenmorangie Company, puts National Museums in a unique position to reveal the role of silver in the development of the first kingdoms of Scotland. It was silver,... -
Norway in the Second World War: Politics, Society and Conflict by Emeritus Professor Ole Kristian Grimnes
RRP: £25.99£22.61Covering political, military, economic and social history, Norway in the Second World War is the most authoritative book on the subject in the English language. This innovative study describes how the Germans conquered Norway in 1940 and the type of... -
Yorkshire: Ancient Nation, Future Province by Colin Speakman 9781913625054
RRP: £12.50£10.64This is an important book about one of England's most fascinating regions - Yorkshire. Colin Speakman explores Yorkshire's origin as an independent Anglo-Viking Kingdom whose capital was York, which for many centuries was England's second city. Yorkshire... -
'England'S Darling': The Victorian Cult of Alfred the Great by Joanne Parker 9780719073571
RRP: £19.99£17.61For much of the nineteenth century, King Alfred was as important as King Arthur in the British popular imagination. A pervasive cult of the King developed which included the erection of at least four public statues, the completion of more than... -
Wolves Match of My Life: Molineux Legends Relive Their Favourite Games by Simon Lowe
RRP: £9.99£5.47A dozen Wolverhampton Wanderers legends come together to tell the stories behind their favourite ever games for the club - enabling Wolves fans of all ages to relive these magic moments through the eyes and emotions of the men who were there, playing... -
Britain's Lost Tragedies Uncovered by Richard M. Jones
RRP: £12.99£9.62Is any disaster really forgotten?It is never forgotten by the survivors who lived through the trauma. It is never forgotten by the emergency services who tried to save the day. It is never forgotten by the relatives of those who never came home.Britain's... -
Queen's Park: A History by Steve Crabb
RRP: £18.99£14.32Dismissed by planners in the 1950s as fit only for demolition and replacement with tower blocks, Queen's Park is now one of London's most vibrant and thriving communities: culturally diverse, with a vigorous campaigning spirit as well as being home to... -
Norwood: A Second Selection: Britain in Old Photographs by John Coulter
RRP: £14.99£11.55The contrasting suburbs of West, Upper, and South Norwood grew up during the nineteenth century, on the range of hills once covered by the Great North Wood. West Norwood was intended to be smart and exclusive, but that ambition was achieved instead by... -
Generations: Age, Ancestry, and Memory in the English Reformations by Alexandra Walsham 9780198854036
RRP: £36.99£31.75This book examines England's plural and protracted Reformations through the novel prism of the generations. Approaching generation as a biological unit and a social cohort, it demonstrates that the tumultuous religious developments that stretched across... -
Classics and Imperialism in the British Empire by Mark Bradley 9780199584727
£98.42While the study of Classics in postcolonial worlds has received a great deal of recent attention, this is the first comprehensive study of the relationship between classical ideas and British colonialism. In this collection of essays, classical scholars... -
Lion and the Eagle by Kathleen Burk
RRP: £12.99£9.09An invigorating history of the arguments and cooperation between America and Britain as they divided up the world and an illuminating exploration of their underlying alliance Throughout modern history, British and American rivalry has gone hand in... -
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... -
Maralinga: The chilling expose of our secret nuclear shame and betrayal of our troops and country by Frank Walker
RRP: £12.99£8.60'Utterly gripping. It reads like a thriller.'JON FAINEThis edition contains a new author note with shocking new material that has come to light as a result of the groundbreaking original publication.Investigative journalist Frank Walker's MARALINGA is a... -
Muddling Through: Muddling Through: the Organisation of British Army Chaplaincy in World War I by Peter Howson 9781909384200
RRP: £35.00£18.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909384200Author Peter HowsonFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Black London: The Imperial Metropolis and Decolonization in the Twentieth Century by Marc Matera 9780520284302
RRP: £25.00£19.99This vibrant history of London in the twentieth century reveals the city as a key site in the development of black internationalism and anticolonialism. Marc Matera shows the significant contributions of people of African descent to London's rich social... -
Interpreting the Death of Edward VI: The Life and Mysterious Demise of the Last Tudor King by Krammer, Kyra 9781399092081
RRP: £20.00£14.29King Edward VI tends to be glossed over in the historical narrative of the Tudor dynasty. His achievements during his brief time on the throne are eclipsed by the tumultuous and fascinating reigns of his grandfather, father and two half-sisters. This... -
W. B. Yeats by W.B. Yeats
RRP: £6.99£5.00'Tread softly because you tread on my dreams' is one of the most well-known and repeated lines of poetry ever written. Less haunting, but still so relevant: 'Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.'W B Yeats was one of the foremost... -
I Fought at Bannockburn by David Ross 9781902407197
RRP: £3.99£3.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902407197Author David RossFormat HardbackImprint Waverley BooksPublisher The Gresham Publishing Co. Ltd -
Making the Imperial Nation: Colonization, Politics, and English Identity, 1660-1700 by Gabriel Glickman
RRP: £30.00£29.25How did the creation of an overseas empire change politics in England itself? After 1660, English governments aimed to convert scattered overseas dominions into a coordinated territorial power base. Stuart monarchs encouraged schemes for expansion in... -
The Friaries of Medieval London - From Foundation to Dissolution by Nick Holder 9781783274314
RRP: £25.99£22.09A lavishly illustrated account of the buildings of the friars in the Middle Ages, bringing them vividly to life. with contributions from Ian M. Betts, Jens Roehrkasten, Mark Samuel, and Christian Steer. Nominated for the Current Archaeology Book... -
The Little Book of Monarchs: English History with a Smile on Its Face by Tony Boullemier 9781783060856
£11.42This is probably the most concise English history book ever published. Tony Boullemier has vividly summed up all 42 rulers of England since 1066. Each reign is condensed into five key bullet points and illustrated by a clever cartoon that sticks in the... -
Diana by Sarah Bradford
RRP: £12.99£9.09*20th anniversary edition featuring a new afterword*Glamour. Duty. Tragedy: The Woman Behind the Princess. Sarah Bradford delivers an authoritative and explosive study of the greatest icon of the twentieth century: Diana.After more than a decade... -
Ingenious Trade: Women and Work in Seventeenth-Century London by Laura Gowing
RRP: £34.99£30.09Ingenious Trade recovers the intricate stories of the young women who came to London in the late seventeenth century to earn their own living, most often with the needle, and the mistresses who set up shops and supervised their apprenticeships. Tracking... -
Malkin: Poems About the Pendle Witch Trials by Camille Ralphs 9781910139301
RRP: £5.00£4.08Malkin is a vivid evocation of the trials of the Pendle Witches in 1612. The sequence of poems is delivered in the form of epitaphic monologues, with the accused men and women eerily addressing the reader with their confessions and pleas. Strikingly,... -
Cromwell and Ireland: New Perspectives by Martyn Bennett 9781837644377
RRP: £34.99£31.72In this collection of essays, a range of established and early-career scholars explore a variety of different perspectives on Oliver Cromwell's involvement with Ireland, in particular his military campaign of 1649-1650. In England and Wales Cromwell... -
Rome: An Urban History from Antiquity to the Present by Rabun Taylor 9781107601499
RRP: £34.99£28.78Spanning the entire history of the city of Rome from Iron Age village to modern metropolis, this is the first book to take the long view of the Eternal City as an urban organism. Three thousand years old and counting, Rome has thrived almost from the... -
Altbier: History, Brewing Techniques, Recipes by Horst D. Dornbusch 9780937381625
RRP: £11.99£8.00Brewed centuries ago by monks and nuns, this copper-colored, full-bodied ale has a proud and unbroken brewing tradition dating back to the beginning of civilization. Horst Dornbusch sheds light on the practices of commercial altbier makers, how the... -
Gainsborough in London by Susan Sloman
RRP: £35.00£29.57A fuller, richer picture of an artist at the height of his powers Thomas Gainsborough's (1727-88) London years, from 1774 to 1788, were the pinnacle and conclusion of his career. They coincided with the establishment of the Royal Academy, of which... -
Nieuwpoort 1600 by Bouko de Groot
RRP: £14.99£10.95The Eighty Years' War began as a limited Dutch rebellion seeking only religious tolerance from their Spanish overlords, but it quickly escalated into one of the longest wars in European history. Spain's failed invasion of 1599 and the mutinies that... -
Neville Chamberlain: The Passionate Radical by Walter Reid 9781780276748
RRP: £25.00£23.01Neville Chamberlain is remembered today as Hitler's credulous dupe, the man who proclaimed in September 1938 that the Munich agreement guaranteed 'peace in our time'. This is a magisterial reappraisal of Chamberlain and his legacy. It reveals the... -
Ingenious Ireland: A county by county exploration of Irish mysteries and marvels by Mary Mulvihill
£19.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846828218Author Mary MulvihillFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press Ltd -
The Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth Century by Maarten Prak 9781009240567
RRP: £22.99£19.56Rembrandt, Hals and Vermeer are still household names, even though they died over three hundred years ago. In their lifetimes they witnessed the extraordinary consolidation of the newly independent Dutch Republic and its emergence as one of the richest... -
The Last Queen: Elizabeth II's Seventy Year Battle to Save the House of Windsor by Clive Irving 9781643136141
RRP: £27.95£17.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643136141Author Clive IrvingFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 155mm * 38mm -
Death Was Their Co-Pilot by Michael Dorflinger 9781473859289
RRP: £25.00£24.21It was in World War I that the skies first became a battlefield, with nations seeking to decide military outcomes off the ground. This volume introduces the fighter pilots of World War I, including the infamous "Red Baron" Manfred von Richthofen. In... -
Coal, Steel, and the Rebirth of Europe, 1945-1955: The Germans and French from Ruhr Conflict to Economic Community by John Gillingham 9780521524308
RRP: £36.99£29.75This is the first large-scale historical investigation of the critical first stage of European integration, the creation of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC). John Gillingham discusses the thirty year Franco-German struggle for heavy industry... -
Daughters of Edward I by Kathryn Warner
RRP: £25.00£17.62In 1254 the teenage heir to the English throne married a Spanish bride, the sister of the king of Castile, in Burgos, and their marriage of thirty-six years proved to be one of the great royal romances of the Middle Ages. Edward I of England and Leonor... -
Chronicle of the Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds by Jocelin of Brakelond 9780199554935
RRP: £8.99£6.45This is the first English translation for forty years of a medieval classic, offering vivid and unique insight into the life of a great monastery in late twelfth-century England. The translation brilliantly communicates the interest and immediacy of... -
Treasures Afoot: Shoe Stories from the Georgian Era by Kimberly S. Alexander 9781421425849
RRP: £35.00£31.64Shoes reveal the hopes, dreams, and disappointments of the early Americans who wore them.Honorable Mention of the Historic New England Book Prize by Historic New EnglandIn Treasures Afoot, Kimberly S. Alexander introduces readers to the history of the... -
Free French Spitfire Hero: The Diaries of and Search For Ren Mouchotte by Dilip Sarkar 9781399040273
RRP: £25.00£17.62Ren Mouchotte was born on 21 August 1914, at Saint Mande, Paris. He joined the Arm e de l'Air for his period of military service in 1934, obtaining his flying brevet. Though Mouchotte returned to civilian life, he was called up at the outbreak of war...