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Cannon Played from the Great Fort: Sieges in the Severn Valley During the English Civil War 1642-1646 by Richard Israel
RRP: €29.75€20.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913336509Author Richard IsraelFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Kingswood and Two Mile Hill by Hugh Willmott 9780752433110
RRP: €15.46€11.45A history of Kingswood.Book InformationISBN 9780752433110Author Jill WilmottFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 165mm * 8mm -
Martyred Village: Commemorating the 1944 Massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane by Sarah Farmer
RRP: €32.13€25.06Among German crimes of the Second World War, the Nazi massacre of 642 men, women, and children at Oradour-sur-Glane on June 10, 1944, is one of the most notorious. On that Saturday afternoon, four days after the Allied landings in Normandy, SS troops... -
Liber Eliensis - A History of the Isle of Ely from the Seventh Century to the Twelfth, compiled by a Monk of Ely in the Twelfth Century by Janet Fairweather
RRP: €47.59€41.65First translation into English of 12th-century history of Ely from its foundation, including the Danish sack, Hereward's resistance to the Normans, and the repercussions of Becket's martyrdom. This is the first ever translation from Latin into English... -
Arnhem 1944 by William F. Buckingham 9780752431871
RRP: €13.08€9.82The battle of Arnhem was a major turning point in World War II. It was a gamble by Montgomery, using three airborne divisions, to capture a series of bridges across the wide rivers which separated a powerful army from the plains of northern Germany.About... -
The A-Z of the Knights Templar: Classic Histories Series: A Guide to Their History and Legacy by Gordon Napier 9780750993890
RRP: €13.08€9.82The Knights Templar were among the most famous of Christian military orders. Created after the First Crusade of 1096 and endorsed by the Catholic Church in 1129, the Order grew rapidly in membership and power. Templar knights were some of the best... -
Heirs of the Vikings: History and Identity in Normandy and England, c.950-c.1015 by Katherine Cross 9781903153970
RRP: €30.93€29.55Viking settlers and their descendants inhabited both England and Normandy in the tenth century, but narratives discussing their origins diverged significantly. This comparative study explores the depictions of Scandinavia and the events of the Viking Age... -
Middlesbrough Past & Present: Britain in Old Photographs by Paul Menzies 9780752457956
RRP: €15.46€11.45Contrasting a selection of eighty archive images with new photographs taken from the same location today, this fascinating selection traces some of the changes and developments that have taken place in Middlesbrough during the last century, as many old... -
Endgame at Stalingrad: The Stalingrad Trilogy, Volume 3: Book One: November 1942 by Colonel David M. Glantz
RRP: €77.35€75.16The campaign intended to secure the Wehrmacht's flanks had proven one front too many for the German Army. And now the offensive at Stalingrad, the epic clash that marked Germany's failure on the Eastern Front, was entering its grim final phase. In Book... -
Manchester United Match of My Life: Seventeen Stars Relive Their Greatest Games by Ivan Ponting
RRP: €11.89€8.46Seventeen Manchester United legends come together to tell the stories behind their favourite ever games for the club - enabling Red Devils fans of all ages to relive these magic moments through the eyes and emotions of the men who were there, playing... -
The Phoenix: St. Paul's Cathedral And The Men Who Made Modern London Leo Hollis 9781474622868
RRP: €15.46€10.23'A tour de force of biography, history, politics, philosophy and experimental science' ECONOMISTThe remarkable and inspiring story of how London was transformed after the Great Fire of 1666 into the most powerful city in the world, and the men who were... -
The Friend by Alan Bray
RRP: €33.32€33.07In the chapel of Christ's College, Cambridge, some twenty years ago, historian Alan Bray made an astonishing discovery: a tomb shared by two men, John Finch and Thomas Baines. The monument featured eloquent imagery dedicated to their friendship:... -
The Guitar in Georgian England: A Social and Musical History by Christopher Page
RRP: €38.68€32.78A fascinating social history of the guitar, reasserting its long-forgotten importance in Romantic England This book is the first to explore the popularity and novelty of the guitar in Georgian England, noting its impact on the social, cultural, and... -
The Georgian Menagerie: Exotic Animals in Eighteenth-Century London by Christopher Plumb
€58.91In the eighteenth century, it would not have been impossible to encounter an elephant or a kangaroo making its way down the Strand, heading towards the menagerie of Mr. Pidcock at the Exeter Change. Pidcock's was just one of a number of commercial... -
The Invincibles: The Phoenix Park Assassinations and the Conspiracy that Shook an Empire by Shane Kenna 9781788490603
RRP: €27.36€21.15'Britain in Ireland is a beast exceeding terrible; his feet and claws are of iron,' The Invincibles In an Ireland still reeling from years of famine, with tenant farmers being evicted and left to starve for their inability to pay exorbitant rents,... -
The Art of the Tea Towel: 100 of the best designs by Marnie Fogg
RRP: €20.22€14.76A visual history of tea towel design, from the 1950s to today. Both practical and beautiful, the tea towel has over the last century established itself firmly as an essential piece of domestic design. This lavishly illustrated book explores 100 of the... -
Cycling and the British: A Modern History by Dr. Neil Carter
€34.93Cycling is currently enjoying a boom in popularity. What are the reasons behind this phenomenon? How have perceptions and the popularity of cycling shifted? This book charts the historical development of cycling both as a leisure and sporting... -
Celtic Queen: The World of Cartimandua by Jill Armitage 9781445684154
RRP: €23.80€15.87Queens Cartimandua and Boudica were both Celtic noblewomen, recorded by classical writers as part of a tradition of women who showed particular courage, ambition and political skill, and who were just as formidable in war as their husbands. They took on... -
Germany Since 1945: Politics, Culture, and Society by Peter C. Caldwell
RRP: €29.74€28.16Peter C. Caldwell and Karrin Hanshew's Germany Since 1945 traces the social, political and cultural history of Germany from the end of the Second World War right up to the present day. The book provides a narrative that not only explores the histories of... -
Ukraine and the Art of Strategy by Sir Lawrence Freedman 9780190902889
RRP: €47.59€29.08One of the most serious crises since the end of the Cold War began with Russia's seizure and annexation of Crimea in March 2014 and subsequent 'secret' war in Eastern Ukraine. As more territory was taken from Eastern Ukraine, Western countries countered... -
Divided Kingdom: Ireland 1630-1800 by S.J. Connolly 9780199583874
RRP: €58.30€58.20For Ireland the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were an era marked by war, economic transformation, and the making and remaking of identities. By the 1630s the era of wars of conquest seemed firmly in the past. But the British civil wars of the... -
Dissing Elizabeth: Negative Representations of Gloriana by Julia M. Walker
RRP: €27.36€23.81Dissing Elizabeth focuses on the criticism that cast a shadow on the otherwise celebrated reign of Elizabeth I. The essays in this politically and historically revealing book demonstrate the sheer pervasiveness and range of rhetoric against the queen,... -
Maesteg by Natalie Murphy 9780752433905
RRP: €15.46€11.45This wonderful selection of images, drawn from a number of private and public collections, revisits the life of the people, and the places in which they lived, that have shaped Maesteg and the Llynfi Valley over the past 100 years. From images of the... -
Voices of Quedgeley & Hardwicke by Sandra Ashenford 9780752426556
RRP: €15.46€11.45This book is part of a series, which combines the reminiscences of local people with old photographs and archived images to show the history of various local areas in Great Britain, through their streets, shops, pubs, and people.Book InformationISBN... -
Kensington to St Valery en Caux: Princess Louise's Kensington Regiment, France and England, Summer 1940 by Robert Gardner 9780752468808
RRP: €17.84€13.74This is a story of summer 1940, of a little known territorial battalion and an almost forgotten British military disaster. In April 1940 the Princess Louise's Kensington Regiment left England to join the British Expeditionary Force in France. It was... -
Holyrood Park including Arthur’s Seat by Historic Scotland 9781849173063
RRP: €7.14€5.11Few capital cities contain a landmark as rugged and expansive as Edinburgh's Holyrood Park and Arthur's Seat. Not only does this space provide superb recreational opportunities; it also contains important habitats for a vast diversity of Scottish... -
Irish Art 1920-2020: Perspectives on Change by Catherine Marshall 9781911479826
€45.40Irish Art 1920-2020: Perspectives on change by Catherine Marshall and Yvonne Scott, is a generously-illustrated book in which eleven authors examine different aspects of Irish art through the hundred years or so since independence. During this time, art... -
Black German: An Afro-German Life in the Twentieth Century By Theodor Michael by Isabella Image 9781781383117
RRP: €29.74€26.67This is the first English translation of an important document in the history of the black presence in Germany and Europe: the autobiography of Theodor Michael. Theodor Michael is among the few surviving members of the first generation of... -
Peace after the Final Battle: The Story of the Irish Revolution, 1912-1924 by John Dorney
RRP: €15.46€10.82As we close out the decade of centenaries, and approach a re-appraisal of the Civil War our nation has never truly confronted, John Dorney's engaging history of those years - now in paperback for the first time - is a must read. Within the space of... -
Venice and Amsterdam Peter Burke (Emmanuel College, Cambridge) 9780745613246
RRP: €21.41€19.09Published in a thoroughly revised second edition, Venice and Amsterdam is a comparative history of the elites of these two major cities in early modern Europe.About the AuthorPeter Burke is Reader in Cultural History and Fellow of Emmanuel College, at... -
The British Women's Suffrage Campaign 1866-1928: Revised 2nd Edition by Harold L. Smith 9781408228234
RRP: €44.02€42.53This Seminar Study was the first book to trace the British women's suffrage campaign from its origins in the 1860s through to the achievement of equal suffrage in 1928. In this second edition, Smith provides new evidence drawn from the author's research... -
The Struggle for the Breeches: Gender and the Making of the British Working Class by Anna Clark
RRP: €36.89€29.07Linking the personal and the political, Anna Clark depicts the making of the working class in Britain as a 'struggle for the breeches.' The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries witnessed significant changes in notions of masculinity and... -
Moving Histories: Irish Women's Emigration to Britain from Independence to Republic by Jennifer Redmond 9781789620191
RRP: €32.67€29.16An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.Moving Histories is an original and enlightening book which details the lives of women who left Ireland after independence. Drawing on a wide... -
From the Riviera to the Rhine: Us Sixth Army Group August 1944-February 1945 by Simon Forty 9781612006239
€26.30Two months after D-Day, just as the battle of Normandy was reaching its climax, with all eyes on the Falaise Pocket, the Allies unleashed the second invasion of France not in the Pas de Calais but the French Riviera. Immaculately planned, effectively... -
Ringsend: Ireland in Old Photographs by Joe Curtis 9780750984119
RRP: €20.22€15.40Mention Ringsend to any Dubliner and they will immediately talk about the iconic twin Poolbeg chimneys. They might even mention the Shelbourne Park Greyhound Stadium or the South Bull Wall. But they may need to be reminded about the former Pigeon House... -
Waterford Harbour: Tides and Tales by Andrew Doherty
RRP: €15.46€11.45Waterford harbour has centuries of tradition based on its extensive fishery and maritime trade. Steeped in history, customs and an enviable spirit, it was there that Andrew Doherty was born and raised amongst a treasure chest of stories spun by the... -
Napoleon: The End of Glory by Munro Price
RRP: €27.36€20.34Napoleon: The End of Glory tells the story of the dramatic two years that led to Napoleon's abdication in April 1814. Though crucial to European history, they remain strangely neglected, lying between the two much better-known landmarks of the retreat... -
Ponteland by John Turner 9780752418063
RRP: €15.46€11.45This excellent collection of over 200 photographs of Ponteland allows us a fascinating glimpse of people, places and events in and around Ponteland over the last 100 years or so. The basic layout of Ponteland, centred on the line of the 1830 turnpike to... -
Mining in Cornwall Vol 5: The North Coast by L. J. Bullen
RRP: €17.84€13.74This latest book, the fifth in the Mining in Cornwall series between St Ives and Cubert. It includes a number of well-known mines such as Wheal Kitty, Polberro, East Wheal Rose and Treamble. The majority of photos are published for the first time. In... -
The English Family 1450 - 1700 by Ralph A. Houlebrooke 9780582490451
RRP: €38.07€37.01The history of the family has become the source of lively controversy and Ralph Houlbrooke's study has made a major contribution to the debate. Thorough investigations reveal the attitudes and aspirations of all levels of society set within economic,...