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Cadbury Castle: The Hillfort and Landscapes by Richard Tabor 9780752447155
RRP: €21.41€16.23This book traces the conditions for the development of the Iron Age hillfort at Cadbury Castle, the violent suppression of its population in the first century AD and its major refortification in the post-Roman period. Using the evidence from both the... -
Scandinavia in the Middle Ages 900-1550: Between two Oceans by Kirsi Salonen
RRP: €40.45€35.70Medieval Scandinavia went through momentous changes. Regional power centres merged and gave birth to the three strong kingdoms of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. At the end of the Middle Ages, they together formed the enormous Kalmar Union comprising almost... -
Sydenham and Forest Hill: History & Guide by Joan P. Alcock
RRP: €23.80€17.90This intriguing volume describes the growth and development of Sydenham and Forest Hill from open common land in Kent to the sprawling suburb of Greater London that it is today. In the eighteenth century Sydenham achieved importance from the exploitation... -
The Age of Coal: A History of Europe, 1750 to the Present by Franz-Josef Brüggemeier 9780192896933
RRP: €41.65€36.30In Europe, coal was by far the most important source of energy from the beginning of industrialisation until well after the Second World War. It was indispensable in shaping the modern world, and in altering our understanding of time and space. Used... -
Downton Abbey: Series 3 Scripts (Official) by Julian Fellowes
RRP: €22.60€17.52Immerse yourself in Julian Fellowes' multi-award-winning drama. The full scripts of Series Three include previously unseen dialogue and drama. Downton Abbey has become a national phenomenon and the most successful British drama of our time... -
Medieval Pirates: Pirates, Raiders and Privateers 1204-1453 by Jill Eddison 9780752481036
RRP: €17.84€11.34In the Medieval Period the English Channel was a particularly perilous stretch of water. It had two distinct (and often conflicting) functions: as a rich commercial seaway, on which the rising economy of the Western world depended; and secondly as a... -
Around Stocksbridge by Stocksbridge & District History Society 9781845883225
RRP: €7.13€5.69A history of Stocksbridge.Book InformationISBN 9781845883225Author Stocksbridge & District History SocietyFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Nonsuch PublishingPublisher Nonsuch PublishingWeight(grams) 160gDimensions(mm) 168mm * 124mm * 10mm -
Chesterton: Images of England by Chesterton Local History Society 9780752418612
RRP: €15.46€11.45Through the medium of an absorbing collection of over 200 old photographs we have the opportunity to catch a glimpse of Chesterton as it was in days gone by. Though seen 'merely' as a suburb of Cambridge, to those who live there, Chesterton is much more... -
The Ruling Families of Rus: Clan, Family and Kingdom by Christian Raffensperger
RRP: €29.75€20.97This is a new history of the region known as Kyivan Rus', a state in eastern and northern Europe from the late ninth to the mid-sixteenth century that encompassed a variety of polities and peoples, including Lithuanian, Polish, Ottoman and others. This... -
Barkingside Memories by Helen Finch 9780752435176
RRP: €15.46€11.45Barkingside has grown from a small village near Barking into a thriving town. Complemented by over 100 photographs, this book brings together the personal memories of people of Barkingside, vividly recalling schooldays and working life, shops and... -
Mair Edinbuggers Vs Weegies and Merr Weegies Vs Edinbuggers by Ian Black
RRP: €7.13€5.69Mair/Merr hilarious jokes and anecdotes on the eternal struggle that is WEEGIES v EDINBUGGERS Ian Black has been called 'a best selling author' so many times that he is thinking of patenting the phrase and making his fortune that way, but he still wishes... -
Middle Kingdom: Faerie World of Ireland by Diarmuid A. McManus
€10.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780900675829Author Diarmuid A. McManusFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Colin Smythe LtdPublisher Colin Smythe Ltd -
Company Curiosities: Nature, Culture and the East India Company, 1600-1874 by Arthur MacGregor 9781789140033
RRP: €53.55€52.42For nearly three hundred years, the East India Company dominated British trade and relations with Asia. It made handsome profits for shareholders but also provided collectors in Europe with natural specimens and man-made rarities that were prized for... -
The Yorkshire Historical Dictionary: A Glossary of Yorkshire Words, 1120-c.1900 [2 volume set] George Redmonds 9781916506671
RRP: €89.25€85.60An invaluable reference work, providing definitions for a plethora of words old and new from Yorkshire's dialect. This volume offers an unparalleled collection of words and phrases gleaned from Yorkshire's archives. The language it contains tells the... -
Life On The Track: Memoirs of a Socialist Worker by Frank Henderson 9781905192465
RRP: €9.51€6.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905192465Author Frank HendersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 123Imprint Bookmarks PublicationsPublisher Bookmarks PublicationsWeight(grams) 167g -
Black Country Chronicles by Tom Larkin
RRP: €11.89€8.98Black Country Chronicles is a fascinating and multi-faceted narrative of twentieth-century life in the Black Country. Tom Larkin and other members of the Black Country Memories Club have long been determined that the way of life, sacrifices and... -
First Nights at the Opera by Professor Thomas Forrest Kelly 9780300115260
RRP: €32.73€32.52A behind-the-scenes look at the premieres of five extraordinary operas What was it like at the opening night of Mozart's Don Giovanni or Wagner's Das Rheingold? This glittering introduction to the world of opera takes us behind the scenes during premiere... -
Witchcraft and Magic in the Nordic Middle Ages by Stephen A. Mitchell
RRP: €41.65€37.06Stephen A. Mitchell here offers the fullest examination available of witchcraft in late medieval Scandinavia. He focuses on those people believed to be able-and who in some instances thought themselves able-to manipulate the world around them through... -
Pride in Prejudice: Understanding Britain's Extreme Right by Paul Jackson
RRP: €17.84€13.23Pride in prejudice offers a concise introduction to extreme right cultures in Britain today, exploring the origins of this complex movement and the numerous groups and activists that make up Britain's contemporary extreme right. Showcasing the latest... -
The Devil's World: Heresy and Society 1100-1300 by Andrew Roach 9780582279605
RRP: €54.73€52.50Exploring the relationship of heresy, dissent and society in the 12th and 13th Centuries,The Devil's World shows how people made conscious choices between heresy and orthodoxy in the middle ages and were not afraid to exert their power as 'consumers' of... -
France in the Second World War: Collaboration, Resistance, Holocaust, Empire by Chris Millington 9781350094970
€30.29During 1940-1944, the citizens of France and its Empire endured the 'dark years' of invasion, persecution and foreign occupation. Thousands of men, women and children suffered arrest, deportation and death as the French Vichy regime worked to secure a... -
The Papal Reform of the Eleventh Century: Lives of Pope Leo Ix and Pope Gregory VII by I. Robinson 9780719038754
RRP: €29.75€26.69The eleventh-century papal reform transformed western European Church and society and permanently altered the relations of Church and State in the west. The reform was inaugurated by Pope Leo IX (1048-54) and given a controversial change of direction by... -
Barges & Bargemen: A Social History of the Upper Severn Navigation 1600-1900 by Barrie Trinder
RRP: €22.60€17.04The carriage of goods in river barges was for centuries one of the principal forms of commercial transport in Britain. This book is the result of 40 years' research into river navigations that have left few paper records. The author focuses on the River... -
The Workers' Union by Flora Tristan
RRP: €21.41€18.92Flora Tristan (1803-44) was a leading nineteenth-century French social theorist and author who influenced the likes of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Five years before the publication of The Communist Manifesto, Tristan urged French workers to put aside... -
The Idea of Galicia: History and Fantasy in Habsburg Political Culture by Larry Wolff 9780804783125
RRP: €29.74€26.26Galicia was created at the first partition of Poland in 1772 and disappeared in 1918. Yet, in slightly over a century, the idea of Galicia came to have meaning for both the peoples who lived there and the Habsburg government that ruled it. Indeed, its... -
New Scots: Scotland'S Immigrant Communities Since 1945 by Tom M. Devine
RRP: €26.17€21.38This is the first wide-ranging, cross-disciplinary overview of immigration to Scotland in recent history and its impact on both the newcomers and the host society. It examines key themes relating to postwar migration by showcasing the experiences of many... -
Roger II and the Creation of the Kingdom of Sicily by Rosemary Horrox 9780719082023
RRP: €29.75€26.22This student-friendly volume brings together English translations of the main narrative sources, and a small number of other relevant documents, for the reign of Roger II, the founder of the kingdom of Sicily. The kingdom created by King Roger was the... -
Bloody British History: East End by Samantha L. Bird
RRP: €11.89€8.98Pustules and plague corpses in Smithfield. Women disguised in men's clothing. A shark in the Thames. London's East End has a history soaked in blood. The Great Plague of London can be traced to its streets; Jack the Ripper prowled here, as did the... -
Belfast Aurora: A Falls Childhood, 1971-73 by Seamus Kelters
€25.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785374142Author Seamus KeltersFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion Press -
Dante's Divine Comedy by Ian Thomson 9781789548778
RRP: €15.46€10.82A TLS Book of the Year. 'Erudite and urgent, Ian Thomson's Dante's Divine Comedy is another book that everyone ought to read' Spectator. 'Succinct but wide-ranging, Ian Thomson's richly illustrated exploration of Dante's masterpiece is... fun..... -
Old Islay by Gilbert Carmichael 9781840330243
RRP: €14.22€12.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840330243Author Gilbert CarmichaelFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 180mm * 240mm * 4mm -
Haunted Berkshire by Roger Long 9780752459073
RRP: €15.46€11.45For such a small county, reports of supernatural happenings around Berkshire are surprisingly plentiful and varied. The haunting figures range from shades of kings, queens and dukes to apparitions of sobbing maidens and moaning men. They haunt all manner... -
Medieval Memories: Men, Women and the Past, 700-1300 by Professor Elisabeth M. C. van Houts 9780582369023
€62.45Who, exactly, was responsible for the preservation of knowledge about the past? How did people preserve their recollections and pass them on to the next generation? Did they write them down or did they hand then on orally? The book is concerned with the... -
The End of Two Illusions: Islam after the West by Hamid Dabashi
RRP: €29.75€23.31Dismantling the myths that divide Islam and the West, this cutting-edge work of critical thinking proposes new ways to reread Islamic and world histories. Extending from the front-page news coverage of our daily lives back into the deepest and most... -
Women Philosophers in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Alison Stone 9780192874719
RRP: €104.72€94.96Many women wrote philosophy in nineteenth-century Britain, and they wrote across the full range of philosophical topics. Yet these important women thinkers have been left out of the philosophical canon and many of them are barely known today. The aim of... -
Young Oxford History of Britain & Ireland: 5 Century of Change 1900 - 2000 (to be Split) by James Mason 9780199108329
RRP: €9.51€2.75These outstanding books bring to life the people, places and events of the past in these islands, from the earliest settlers to the present day. They explore the everyday lives of people of all kinds across the centuries and charting the great moments of... -
The Other God that Failed: Hans Freyer and the Deradicalization of German Conservatism by Jerry Z. Muller
RRP: €69.02€54.24Why did some of the "best and brightest" of Weimar intellectuals advocate totalitarian solutions to the problems of liberal democratic, capitalist society? How did their "radical conservatism" contribute to the rise of National Socialism? What roles did... -
On the Way to Jerusalem Farm by Carola Luther 9781800171633
RRP: €14.27€9.87Shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry 2022. Carola Luther's new book On the Way to Jerusalem Farm explores the complexities of living in a damaged world. How, it asks, does such a world live in us, and we in it? At the centre of the... -
Devizes: History & Guide by Lorna Haycock 9780752421599
RRP: €29.75€22.06Devizes began as the satellite town of a great Norman castle built in the twelfth century by Bishop Roger of Salisbury to defend the boundaries of his church's domain. Roger was Chancellor to Henry I and a powerful man in the land while the king was... -
Changing Times: Economics, Policies, and Resource Allocation in Britain since 1951 by Martin Chick
RRP: €48.78€40.92This is a study of how, and why, the British economy has changed since 1951. It covers the Golden Age of 1945-1973 when unemployment was below one million; when governments built millions of council houses and flats; when electricity, telephones, and gas...