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Medieval Plants and their Uses by Michael Brown
RRP: £25.00£17.62Plants were an essential part of medieval life. Most people lived in houses made of wood and thatch, which often accidentally burned down when they cooked their food or huddled over wood fires to keep warm. People wore linen clothing dyed with plants... -
Agreement by Owen McCafferty 9780571385089
RRP: £10.99£7.32SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 CHRISTOPHER EWART-BIGGS MEMORIAL PRIZE'An outstanding evening, a landmark play, a thoroughly deserved five stars . . . Owen McCafferty's searing dramatisation is a political thriller with echoes of Greek drama.' Irish TimesOwen... -
The People's Car: A Global History of the Volkswagen Beetle by Bernhard Rieger 9780674050914
RRP: £25.95£21.04At the Berlin Auto Show in 1938, Adolf Hitler presented the prototype for a small, oddly shaped, inexpensive family car that all good Aryans could enjoy. Decades later, that automobile-the Volkswagen Beetle-was one of the most beloved in the world... -
Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I: The Mother and Daughter Who Changed History by Tracy Borman 9781399705073
RRP: £18.99£11.14'(A)sensational book by one of our greatest and best-loved historians... Astoundingly good.' - Alison Weir 'Masterful, captivating, page-turning, this is solid gold history at its best.' - Nicola Tallis'(A) thought-provoking, impeccably researched, and... -
Criminal Women 1850-1920: Researching the Lives of Britain's Female Offenders by Lucy Williams 9781526718617
RRP: £14.99£10.95Women are among the hardest individuals to trace through the historical record and this is especially true of female offenders who had a vested interest in not wanting to be found. That is why this thought-provoking and accessible handbook by Lucy... -
Foundations: How the Built Environment Made Twentieth-Century Britain by Dr Sam Wetherell
RRP: £35.00£27.74An urban history of modern Britain, and how the built environment shaped the nation’s politicsFoundations is a history of twentieth-century Britain told through the rise, fall, and reinvention of six different types of urban space: the industrial estate,... -
The Birth of Modern Britain: A Journey Through Britain's Remarkable Recent Archaeology by Francis Pryor 9780007299119
RRP: £10.99£8.29From the author of 'Britain BC', 'Britain AD' and 'Britain in the Middle Ages' comes the fourth and final part in a critically acclaimed series on Britain's hidden past The relevance of archaeology to the study of the ancient world is... -
Suvla: August Offensive - Gallipoli by Chambers Stephen 9781848845435
RRP: £14.99£10.95The landing at Suvla Bay, part of the August Offensive, commenced on the night of 6 August 1915. It was intended to support a breakout from Anzac Beach. Despite early hopes from a largely unopposed landing, Suvla was a mismanaged affair that quickly... -
Roman Towns in Britain by Guy de la Bedoyere 9780752429199
RRP: £30.00£22.43Today, Britain's Roman Town survive in numerous different forms: from the earthworks of small roadside settlements in Lincolnshire, to the unending new discoveries from deep beneath London's busy modern streets, and the great ruins at Leicester and... -
The Fortress Kingdom: The Wars of Aethelflaed and Edward the Elder, 899-927 by Paul Hill 9781399010610
RRP: £25.00£17.62In this the second part of his four-volume military and political history of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom, Paul Hill follows the careers of thelfl d, Alfred the Great's eldest daughter, and Edward the Elder, Alfred's eldest son, as they campaigned to expand... -
1942: Britain at the Brink by Taylor Downing
RRP: £12.99£8.60'Taylor Downing is a wonderful historian and a wonderful history communicator' Dan Snow, History Hit'Vividly brings to life a terrible year' Max Hastings, Sunday Times'Sheds intriguing light on just how close Churchill was to losing his grip on power'... -
HMS Rodney: Slayer of the Bismarck and D-Day Saviour by Ian Ballantyne
£17.36The Royal Navy battleship HMS Rodney was one of the most famous warships of the Second World War and remains a legend in the pantheon of naval history. In May 1941 Rodney turned Bismarck, the pride of Hitler's navy, into twisted metal, then participated... -
Trust and Distrust: Corruption in Office in Britain and its Empire, 1600-1850 by Mark Knights 9780198796244
RRP: £39.99£34.23Trust and Distrust offers the first overview of Britain's history of corruption in office in the pre-modern era, 1600-1850, and as such will appeal not only to historians, but also to political and social scientists. Mark Knights paints a picture of the... -
Six Graves to Munich by Mario Puzo
RRP: £8.99£6.20In the final days of the Second World War, Michael Rogan, an American intelligence officer, is tortured by a group of seven senior Gestapo officers who need to discover the secrets he alone can give them. Ten years later, when he has recovered from the... -
Lamberhurst: Jewel of the High Weald, A History by Roger Pitchfork 9780755206353
£19.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780755206353Author Roger PitchforkFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint New Generation PublishingPublisher New Generation PublishingWeight(grams)... -
Black Country Canals by Paul Collins
RRP: £16.99£12.94The Black Country has more miles of canal than Venice. During the industrial revolution this transport system developed to serve the steel, coal, lime and glass industries that grew up so extensively. Now much of the area's heavy industry has... -
Newton's Notebook: The Life, Times and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton by Joel Levy 9781803994819
RRP: £12.99£9.62Newton's Notebook is a biography with a difference. It provides a full and detailed account of Sir Isaac Newton's life and discoveries, but is written, designed and illustrated to look like a personal notebook.By mining the rich sources of Newton's own... -
Kent Urban Legends: The Phantom Hitchhiker and Other Stories by Neil Arnold 9780752481463
RRP: £9.99£7.55Do motorists pick up a phantom hitchhiker on Blue Bell Hill during stormy nights? Does Satan appear if you dance round the Devil's Bush in the village of Pluckley? Do big cats roam the local woods? And what happens if you manage to count the 'Countless... -
Sir Alan Cobham: The Flying Legend Who Brought Aviation to the Masses by Colin Cruddas 9781526738400
RRP: £25.00£17.62Flying in the years between the two world wars was the preserve of the powerful and the wealthy, or so it was until Sir Alan Cobham's 'Flying Circus' began to tour Britain. A former pilot with the Royal Flying Corps in the First World War, Alan Cobham... -
Sources of the Holocaust by Steve Hochstadt 9781350328044
RRP: £28.99£27.59The Holocaust was the defining trauma of the 20th century. How do we begin to understand the Nazi drive to murder millions of people, or the determination of concentration camp prisoners to survive? This new and improved edition of Sources of the... -
The Weimar Republic by Detlev J K Peukert
RRP: £20.00£13.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809015566Author Detlev J K PeukertFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)... -
The Mongol Empire in Global History and Art History by Anne Dunlop 9780674279162
RRP: £37.95£30.51With the rise of projects to create global histories and art histories, the Mongol Empire is now widely taken as a fundamental watershed. In the later thirteenth century, the Mongol states reconfigured the basic zones of Eurasian trade and contact. For... -
The Vanished Collection by Pauline Baer de Perignon 9781939931986
RRP: £12.99£11.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939931986Author Pauline Baer de PerignonFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint New Vessel PressPublisher New Vessel Press -
Donegal: The Irish Revolution, 1912-23 by Pauric Travers
RRP: £22.50£22.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846829789Author Pauric TraversFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press Ltd -
Sex for Sale in Scotland: Prostitution in Edinburgh and Glasgow, 1900-1939 by Louise Settle 9781474400008
RRP: £90.00£81.97Sex for Sale in Scotland examines the various formal and informal methods that were used to police female prostitution in Edinburgh and Glasgow between 1900 and 1939 and explores how these policies influenced women's lives. The book uses a rich... -
It Was a Long Time Ago, and It Never Happened Anyway: Russia and the Communist Past by David Satter 9780300192377
RRP: £22.50£21.68A veteran writer on Russia and the Soviet Union explains why Russia refuses to draw from the lessons of its past and what this portends for the future Russia today is haunted by deeds that have not been examined and words that have been left unsaid. A... -
The Lowdown On Witches: True Stories of Scottish Witch Trials by Leonard Low
RRP: £15.00£13.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911486732Author Leonard LowFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Guardbridge BooksPublisher Guardbridge Books -
A Brief History of the Age of Steam by Thomas Crump
RRP: £12.99£2.91In 1710 an obscure Devon ironmonger Thomas Newcomen invented a machine with a pump driven by coal, used to extract water from mines. Over the next two hundred years the steam engine would be at the heart of the industrial revolution that changed the... -
Blood Red Snow: The Memoirs of a German Soldier on the Eastern Front by Gunter K. Koschorrek 9780760321980
RRP: £18.99£12.75For the German soldier fighting under Hitler, keeping a diary was strictly forbidden. So Gunter Koschorrek, a fresh young recruit, wrote his notes on whatever scraps of paper he could find and sewed the pages into the lining of his winter coat. Left with... -
Great War Britain Leeds: Remembering 1914-18 by Lucy Moore
RRP: £12.99£9.62The First World War claimed over 995,000 British lives, and its legacy continues to be remembered today.Great War Britain Leeds offers an intimate portrayal of the city and its people living in the shadow of the 'war to end all wars'. It describes the... -
Irish Women's Speeches: Voices That Rocked The System by Sonja Tiernan 9781910820902
RRP: £20.00£19.24Thirty-two inspiring speeches by women of Ireland from the nineteenth century to the present. Rallying cries for trade union action, denunciations of apartheid, calls for independence, unionism, peace and gender equality: Irish women have eloquently... -
Hackney at War by Jenny Golden 9780752453712
RRP: £14.99£11.55The Second World War had a dramatic impact on Stoke Newington, Shoreditch and Hackney. This fascinating book tells the story of how six years of war affected the daily lives and living conditions of the people of the area. Jennifer Golden has drawn on... -
Ulysses by James Joyce 9781529405538
RRP: £12.99£4.51'It is not that Ulysses excludes us; it is, rather, that it includes us in ways that no other work prepares us for. The question is not 'what is a novel?', but what can a novel be? Ulysses is the answer'Patrick McGuinness from his preface to Ulysses:... -
Scotland Yard's Murder Squad by Dick Kirby 9781526765338
RRP: £25.00£18.02In 1906 the Metropolitan Police Commissioner was asked by the Home Office to make available skilled investigators for murder enquiries nationwide as few constabularies had sufficiently skilled - or indeed, any - detectives. Thus was born the Reserve... -
Science of Life and Death in Frankenstein, The by Sharon Ruston
RRP: £25.00£19.07What is life? This was a question of particular concern for Mary Shelley and her contemporaries. But how did she, and her fellow Romantic writers, incorporate this debate into their work, and how much were they influenced by contemporary science,... -
The Festiniog Railway: From 1950 by Andrew Wilson 9780752423975
RRP: £14.99£11.55The Festiniog Railway can trace its history back to 1829 and it was constructed to serve the slate quarries in the area. It was built to the gauge of 2ft as this was the track width used in the quarries. Originally powered by gravity and horses, by 1863... -
Prague Spring: Warsaw Pact Invasion, 1968 by Phil Carradice 9781526757005
RRP: £14.99£10.95Cold War nadir: January 1968 and in Czechoslovakia the new Communist Party leader Alexander Dubcek has made it clear that this is the opportunity to loosen the Soviet stranglehold on the country. As the Prague winter slowly eases into a Prague spring, it... -
The Arthurian Handbook: Second Edition by Norris J. Lacy
RRP: £43.99£38.84Everything you ever wanted to know about King Arthur and his knights is covered in this fascinating volume: the origins of the Grail legend, the Tristan and Isolde love story in opera and literature, Spielberg's use of Arthurian motifs in Star Wars , the... -
How the Other Half Lived by Derek Beattie
RRP: £14.99£12.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910723340Author Dr. Derek BeattieFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Merlin Unwin BooksPublisher Merlin Unwin BooksWeight(grams) 401g -
Saving the People's Forest: Open spaces, enclosure and popular protest in mid-Victorian London by Mark Gorman 9781912260416
RRP: £16.99£15.31The growth of nineteenth-century London was unprecedented, swallowing up once remote villages, commons and open fields around the metropolitan fringe in largely uncontrolled housing development. In the mid-Victorian period widespread opposition to this...