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Life on the English Manor: A Study of Peasant Conditions 1150-1400 by H. S. Bennett 9780521091053
RRP: €36.88€33.65This book gives a picture of the daily and yearly round of the English peasant in the Middle Ages. H. S. Bennett explains the feudal system which linked the poor man to the soil and to the service of his lord and the church in a pattern of customary dues... -
A Supplement to a Dictionary of Irish Saints: Containing Additions and Corrections by Padraig O Riain
RRP: €11.84€11.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781801510196Author Padraig O RiainFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press Ltd -
London: Immigrant City by Nazneen Khan-Østrem
RRP: €15.46€10.71TRANSLATED BY ALISON McCULLOUGH'One of the best books on the many diverse migrations to London . . . revealing the extent to which the diversity of immigrant origins has had transformative effects - through food, music, diverse types of knowledge and so... -
Scotland: The Making and Unmaking of the Nation, c. 1100-1707: Volume 1: Scottish Nation - Origins to c.1500 by Bob Harris
RRP: €23.79€21.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845860042Author Bob HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Discovery PressPublisher Dundee University Press Ltd -
Colne by Geoff Crambie
RRP: €17.84€13.74This book covers a wide range of subject interest in Colne, including old views of the streets and buildings, people at work in now lost industries, carnivals and Whitsuntide processions and a selection of some of the town's best know personalities.Book... -
History and the Historians of Medieval Spain by Peter Linehan 9780198219453
€106.09This is a study of medieval Spain and its historians, from the chroniclers of the middle ages to the revisionists of the post-Franco era. The history of medieval Spain has long been perceived as a tale of original sin followed by a long-drawn-out process... -
Men of Terror: A Comprehensive Analysis of Viking Combat by William R Short
RRP: €59.50€38.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594163609Author William R ShortFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Westholme PublishingPublisher Westholme PublishingWeight(grams) 816gDimensions(mm)... -
Bismarck and the Development of Germany, Volume III: The Period of Fortification, 1880-1898 by Otto Pflanze 9780691602646
RRP: €83.30€65.09The Period of Fortification, 1880-1898The burst of capitalistic expansion that accompanied German unification came to an abrupt end with the crash of 1873, which opened a period of economic depression. Volume III describes the continuation of Bismarck's... -
Cotswolds Memoir: Discovering a Beautiful Region of Britain on a Quest to Buy a 17th Century Cottage by Diz White 9780957116207
€12.91After British-born, comedy actress Diz White found herself craving Yorkshire Pudding at every meal she knew her roots were pulling her back from America to her homeland. It was time to buy a Cotswolds Cottage! Her roller-coaster search doubles as a... -
History Of A Disappearance: The Story of a Forgotten Polish Town by Filip Springer
RRP: €17.84€11.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632061157Author Filip SpringerFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Restless BooksPublisher Restless Books -
Robin Hood: The English Outlaw Unmasked by David Baldwin
RRP: €13.08€8.63The identity of Robin Hood is one of the great historical mysteries of English history - until now. Everyone has heard of Robin Hood, the brilliant archer who 'robbed the rich to give to the poor' and who always triumphed over the forces of evil, but the... -
Lanarkshire Buses by Douglas G. MacDonald 9780752428055
RRP: €17.84€13.74Lanarkshire was once part of Scotland's industrial heartland but, away from the grime and smoke, there was the more picturesque and rural Clyde Valley. Before car ownership became a routine necessity rather than a luxury, the citizens of Lanarkshire... -
Christian Materiality: An Essay on Religion in Late Medieval Europe by Caroline Walker Bynum
RRP: €33.32€25.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935408116Author Caroline Walker BynumFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 38mm -
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill by William Manchester 9780385313315
RRP: €28.56€20.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385313315Author William ManchesterFormat PaperbackPage Count 800Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing... -
Human Capital and Empire: Scotland, Ireland, Wales and British Imperialism in Asia, C.1690–C.1820 by Andrew Mackillop 9780719070730
RRP: €29.75€21.32Human capital and empire compares the role of Scots, Irish and Welsh within the English East India Company between c. 1690 and c. 1820. It focuses on why the three groups developed such distinctive and different profiles within the corporation and its... -
Robert Grosseteste: The Growth of an English Mind in Medieval Europe by R. W. Southern 9780198204152
€59.87For this second edition, Sir Richard Southern has revised his much-acclaimed study in the light of recent scholarly research, and added an extensive preliminary chapter on the debate over Robert Grosseteste's career and intellectual growth. He has added... -
Creolizing the Modern: Transylvania across Empires by Anca Parvulescu
RRP: €35.69€31.54How are modernity, coloniality, and interimperiality entangled? Bridging the humanities and social sciences, Anca Parvulescu and Manuela Boatca provide innovative decolonial perspectives that aim to creolize modernity and the modern world-system... -
The Life and Times of a Very British Man Kamal Ahmed 9781408889244
RRP: €11.89€8.46A revealing, honest and often comic coming-of-age story about growing up in 1970s Britain on the boundaries of race 'Full of charm' GUARDIAN 'An account of what being British means' i 'Captures a country in transition ... You can't fail to be moved'... -
Illustrating Empire: A Visual History of British Imperialism Ashley Jackson (Professor of Imperial and Military History, King's College London) 9781851243341
RRP: €23.79€20.67Illustrating Empire tells the history of the British Empire through the ephemeral images used to promote, record, and celebrate its development. The narrative is told through more than 200 striking and original images accompanied by illuminating story... -
Custom and Conflict in the Land of the Gael: Ballachulish, 1900-1910 by Neville Kirk 9780850365702
€20.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780850365702Author Neville KirkFormat HardbackPage Count 172Imprint The Merlin Press LtdPublisher The Merlin Press Ltd -
Eiffel's Tower: And the World's Fair Where Buffalo Bill Beguiled Paris, the Artists Quarreled, and Thomas Edison Became A Count by Jill Jonnes
RRP: €26.17€17.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143117292Author Jill JonnesFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 339g -
The Political Development of the British Isles 1100-1400 by Robin Frame 9780198206040
€72.95All too often British history means English history and the histories of Wales, Scotland and Ireland are left to scholars of the 'Celtic Fringe'. In this clear and authoritative introduction to the medieval history of the British Isles, the four... -
Tudor Parliaments,The Crown,Lords and Commons,1485-1603 by Michael A. R. Graves 9780582491908
RRP: €65.44€62.45This excellent short survey looks at the workings of parliament under the first four Tudor monarchs. After an introductory first section which looks at parliament's medieval origins, the author then considers all aspects of early parliamentary history -... -
Britain and Ireland: From Home Rule to Independence by Jeremy Smith 9780582301931
RRP: €41.64€35.22Charting a dispassionate course between the various contending positions, Jeremy Smith synthesises the large amount of research on Irish history during the last two decades, making it available to a wider audience. Particular focus is given to the... -
Arena of Ambition: The History of the Cambridge Union by Stephen Parkinson 9781848310612
RRP: €29.75€20.22Older than fourteen colleges and the Boat Race, the Cambridge Union has been an important part of university life at Cambridge since its foundation in 1815. Ex-Presidents have included John Maynard Keynes, Robert Harris, Arianna Huffington and Douglas... -
The Beatons: A Medical Kindred in the Classical Gaelic Tradition by John Bannerman
RRP: €22.60€15.93This book traces the Clann Meic-bethad or Clan MacBeth whose members practised medicine in the classic Gaelic tradition in various parts of Scotland from the early fourteenth to the early eighteenth century. From many medieval Gaelic manuscripts known to... -
Irish Political Prisoners 1960-2000: Braiding Rage and Sorrow by Sean McConville
RRP: €52.35€45.74This is a comprehensive, detailed and humane account of the thousands who came into custody during the years of the Northern Ireland conflict and how they lived out the months, years and decades in Irish and English maximum security prisons.Erupting in... -
I Hate the Lake District by Charlie Gere
RRP: €18.98€11.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912685110Author Charlie GereFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Goldsmiths, Unversity of LondonPublisher Goldsmiths, Unversity of London -
Poulton: Life, Trade and Shipping in a small Lancashire port 1577-1839 by Graham Evans 9781910837191
RRP: €17.84€13.03This is the story of how and why a small Lancashire village on the banks of the River Wyre became a bustling port, market and textile town in the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. It is a tale of life, work, adventures and voyages, using newly... -
What's Left Now?: The History and Future of Social Democracy by Andrew Hindmoor
RRP: €29.74€21.49Our sense of history shapes how we think about ourselves. One of the distinguishing features of the left in Britain is that it holds to a remorselessly bleak and miserabilist view of our recent political history -- one in which Margaret Thatcher's... -
The Long Silence: The Tragedy of Occupied France in World War I by Helen McPhail
€23.79The horrors of the Western Front are widely known, but what was life like on 'the other side of the trenches' in World War I? Helen McPhail here shows how the rich agricultural and industrial areas of northern France were invaded by the Germans, then... -
Popular Disturbances in England 1700-1832 by John Stevenson 9780582081017
€80.06John Stevenson has revised and expanded his standard but long-unobtainable work on Popular Protest and Public Order 1700-1870 in two self-sufficient volumes. The first (1700-1832) appeared in 1992; this is its keenly-awaited sequel. The greater part of... -
Medieval Philosophy: An Historical and Philosophical Introduction by Dr. John Marenbon 9780415281133
RRP: €45.21€40.20This new introduction replaces Marenbon's best-selling editions Early Medieval Philosophy (1983) and Later Medieval Philosophy (1987) to present a single authoritative and comprehensive study of the period. It gives a lucid and engaging account of the... -
King Cnut and the Viking Conquest of England 1016 by W. B. Bartlett 9781445677149
RRP: €17.84€17.36The Viking Conquest of England in 1016 - a far tougher and more brutal campaign than the Norman Conquest exactly half a century later - saw two great warriors, the Danish prince Cnut and his equally ruthless English opponent King Edmund Ironside, fight... -
Normandy 1944: German Military Organization, Combat Power and Organizational Effectiveness by Niklas Zetterling
RRP: €29.75€24.64A revised and updated single-source reference book which accurately details the German field forces employed in Normandy in 1944 and their losses. Dr. Zetterling provides a sobering analysis of the subject matter and debunks a number of popular myths... -
Bloody British History: Suffolk by Robert Leader
RRP: €17.84€13.74Death, Danes and disaster in Dark Age Ipswich! The castles are burning! Attacks, rebellions, battles and wars in ancient Suffolk! Queen of Blood and Fire! The dark days of Bloody Mary revealed! Sea of blood! Smugglers, sea battles, U-Boats and invasions... -
The Grand Strategy of Philip II by Geoffrey Parker 9780300082739
€46.16From 1556 until his death in 1598, Philip II of Spain ruled the first global empire in history, yet no one so far has analyzed precisely how he accomplished this feat. The author investigates the strengths and weaknesses of Philip's strategic vision, the... -
Accounts of Medieval Constantinople: The <i>Patria</i> by Albrecht Berger 9780674724815
RRP: €35.64€28.16The Patria is a fascinating four-book collection of short historical notes, stories, and legends about the buildings and monuments of Constantinople, compiled in the late tenth century by an anonymous author who made ample use of older sources. It also... -
Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall by Anna Funder 9780062077325
RRP: €19.03€13.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062077325Author Anna FunderFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
Manifold Greatness: The Making of the King James Bible Helen Moore (Fellow and Tutor in English, Corpus Christi College, Oxford University) 9781851243495
RRP: €23.79€20.67Manifold Greatness: the Making of the King James Bible tells the story of the creation and immediate afterlife of the King James translation of the bible, first published in 1611. The King James Bible is the most printed book in existence, with one...