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St. Peter's Bones: How the Relics of the First Pope Were Lost and Found . . . and Then Lost and Found Again by Thomas J. Craughwell 9780307985095
RRP: $24.49$18.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307985095Author Thomas J. CraughwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Three Rivers PressPublisher Three Rivers PressWeight(grams) 125g -
Glastonbury: Myth & Archaeology by Philip Rahtz 9780752450490
RRP: $53.63$39.55Glastonbury, with the distinctive landmark of the Tor, is a familiar name to many. Its fame lies not simply in its renowned festival, but in its legendary associations with King Arthur and with Joseph of Arimathea, whose staff was supposed to have grown... -
Edexcel GCE History AS Unit 2 E2 Mass Media, Popular Culture & Social Change in Britain since 1945 Stuart Clayton 9781846905063
$55.75Tailored to the 2008 A Level specification and packed full of exam tips and activities, Edexcel GCE History enables students to develop all the historical skills and understanding they need for success.Book InformationISBN 9781846905063Author Stuart... -
Britain and Europe: A Short History by Jeremy Black
RRP: $38.98$34.75Amid the ongoing Brexit crisis, both sides are appealing to Britain's past relationship with Europe to justify their positions. But much specious history is presented to argue for either the closeness or distance of our political, cultural and economic... -
In and Around Cambridge in the 1960s by Richard Gaunt 9781781555378
RRP: $37.03$27.92A unique book showing Cambridge in the late 1960s from different angles. Striking, previously unpublished photographs show famous buildings as well as the river and backstreets and some of the small towns, villages and countryside nearby. Students and... -
Muslim and Christian Contact in the Middle Ages: A Reader by Jarbel Rodriguez 9781442600669
RRP: $78.00$65.66To study the interactions between Muslims and Christians in the medieval period is to observe a history of conflict and co-existence encompassing warfare, piracy, and raiding as well as commerce, intellectual exchanges, and personal relationships that... -
The Red Count: The Life and Times of Harry Kessler by Laird M. Easton 9780520248175
RRP: $60.45$47.64The life of Count Harry Kessler (1868-1937), the famous Anglo-German art patron, writer, and activist, offers a vivid and engrossing perspective on the tumultuous transformation of art and politics that took place in modern Europe between 1890 and 1930... -
Poetry and Peace: Michael Longley, Seamus Heaney, and Northern Ireland by Richard Rankin Russell
RRP: $68.25$60.72Michael Longley and Seamus Heaney's lives and careers have been intertwined since the 1960s, when they participated in the Belfast Group of creative writers and later edited the literary journal Northern Review. In Poetry and Peace: Michael Longley,... -
Bloody British History Derby by Paul Sullivan 9780752463094
RRP: $29.23$22.52You'll find no pretty parades of princes or benevolent industrialists here. This is Deadly Derby, caught red handed - a city built by the Romans over the dead bodies of Britons; trashed, burnt and reinvented by the Vikings; bludgeoned into a Dark Age den... -
Inventing Chemistry: Herman Boerhaave and the Reform of the Chemical Arts by John C. Powers 9780226380360
RRP: $46.80$44.91In Inventing Chemistry, historian John C. Powers turns his attention to Herman Boerhaave (1668-1738), a Dutch medical and chemical professor whose work reached a wide, educated audience and became the template for chemical knowledge in the eighteenth... -
Enterprising Empires: Russia and Britain in Eighteenth-Century Eurasia by Matthew P. Romaniello
RRP: $60.43$53.43Commercial competition between Britain and Russia became entangled during the eighteenth century in Iran, the Middle East, and China, and disputes emerged over control of the North Pacific. Focusing on the British Russia Company, Matthew P. Romaniello... -
Under the Molehill: An Elizabethan Spy Story by John Bossy 9780300094503
RRP: $27.28$27.18This absorbing account of Catholic and anti-Catholic plots and machinations at the English, French, and exiled Scottish courts in the latter part of the sixteenth century is a sequel to John Bossy's highly acclaimed Giordano Bruno and the Embassy Affair... -
The Changing Face of Richmond, Petersham & Ham by Garth Groombridge
RRP: $29.23$22.52The Changing Face of Richmond, Petersham & Ham is a stroll through the author's recollections of a time now passed. Included here are a commentary on this historic area, together with the photographs he took thirty to forty years ago, juxtaposed with... -
Church and People: England 1450-1660 by Claire Cross 9780631214670
RRP: $81.80$73.26In the medieval system the Pope and Bishops ruled the Church, the Monarch and Lords ruled the State. However, in England from the fourteenth century with the rise of Lollardy, this division was increasingly challenged by the laity's insistence on their... -
Managing for Posterity: The Norfolk Gentry and Their Estates C.1450-1700volume 21 by Elizabeth Griffiths
RRP: $37.03$33.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912260454Author Elizabeth GriffithsFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint University of Hertfordshire PressPublisher University of Hertfordshire Press -
Medieval Powys - Kingdom, Principality and Lordships, 1132-1293 by David Stephenson 9781783271405
RRP: $214.50$165.26Powys, extending over north-east and central Wales, was one of three great medieval Welsh polities, along with Gwynedd to the north and Deheubarth (south-west), occupying nearly a quarter of the country. However, it has been somewhat neglected by... -
Mussolini and Italian Fascism by Giuseppe Finaldi 9781405812535
$67.90Fascism was one of the defining experiences of the European 20th Century. Within it many of the economic, political, social and cultural contradictions that had been brewing in the unprecedented transformation that European society underwent in the 19th... -
Hong Kongers in the British Armed Forces, 1860-1997 by Chi Man Kwong 9780192845740
RRP: $173.55$157.35Hong Kong has been caught between empires ever since the First Opium War (1839-1842). As a result, the study of Hong Kong history has been subjected to the influence of the empires that controlled or laid claims over it. The historical experience of the... -
Ukraine in the Crossfire by Chris de Ploegg 9780997287080
RRP: $38.98$30.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997287080Author Chris de PloeggFormat PaperbackPage Count 269Imprint Clarity PressPublisher Clarity Press -
Being Irish: New Views on Irish Identity Today by Marie-Claire Logue
RRP: $35.00$31.65What makes the Irish unique? Why do over 70 million people worldwide embrace their Irish heritage? What does it mean to be Irish today? These and other questions are addressed in this fascinating new book. Being Irish gathers a diverse group of 100... -
Life & Letters at Bath in the Eighteenth Century by A. Barbeau 9781845886028
RRP: $37.03$27.92Eighteenth-century Bath was at the centre of English culture and fashion. A pleasure resort as well as a spa town, it played host to the beau monde in search of diversion in addition to the infirm in search of a cure by taking its waters. Its pump room,... -
Time Travelers: Victorian Encounters with Time and History by Adelene Buckland
RRP: $46.80$44.91The Victorians, perhaps more than any Britons before them, were diggers and sifters of the past. Though they were not the first to be fascinated by history, the intensity and range of Victorian preoccupations with the past was unprecedented and of... -
The Politics of Empire at the Accession of George III: The East India Company and the Crisis and Transformation of Britain's Imperial State James M. Vaughn 9780300208269
RRP: $82.88$79.72An important revisionist history that casts eighteenth-century British politics and imperial expansion in a new light In this bold debut work, historian James M. Vaughn challenges the scholarly consensus that British India and the Second Empire were... -
Anti-Jewish Violence in Poland, 1914-1920 by William W. Hagen
RRP: $72.13$62.69Widespread anti-Jewish pogroms accompanied the rebirth of Polish statehood out of World War I and Polish-Soviet War. William W. Hagen offers the pogroms' first scholarly account, revealing how they served as brutal stagings by ordinary people of... -
Ritual and Domestic Life in Prehistoric Europe by Richard Bradley
RRP: $74.08$65.09This fascinating study explores how our prehistoric ancestors developed rituals from everyday life and domestic activities. Richard Bradley contends that for much of the prehistoric period, ritual was not a distinct sphere of activity. Rather it was the... -
A Cardboard Castle?: An Inside History of the Warsaw Pact, 1955-1991 by Vojtech Mastny 9789637326073
RRP: $81.80$77.43The first book to document, analyze, and interpret the history of the Warsaw Pact based on the archives of the alliance itself. The introductory study is followed by 193 documents, most of them top secret when created and have only recently been obtained... -
Between Resistance and Martyrdom: Jehovah's Witnesses in the Third Reich by Detlef Garbe
RRP: $77.90$73.34Between Resistance and Martyrdom is the first comprehensive historical study of the persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses during the Holocaust era. Refusing to perform military service under Germany's Third Reich due to their fundamental belief in... -
Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris: The Story of a Friendship, a Novel, and a Terrible Year by Peter Brooks
RRP: $48.75$36.64In 1869, Gustave Flaubert published what he considered to be his masterwork novel, A Sentimental Education, which told a deeply human and deeply pessimistic story of the 1848 revolutions. The book was a critical and commercial flop. Flaubert was... -
Taunton: Images of England by John Folkes 9780752445069
RRP: $29.23$22.52A collection of more than 200 old postcards which trace some of the many ways in which Taunton has changed and developed. All aspects of everyday life are recorded here, from shops and businesses, churches and schools, to images of work and leisure, day... -
Portugal in European and World History by Professor Malyn Newitt
$60.98Portugal is a country that has sometimes been dismissed as small and relatively unimportant. "Portugal in European and World History", however, demonstrates that the contrary is true, showing that Portugal has been crucial to the development of Europe... -
Take Budapest!: The Struggle for Hungary, Autumn 1944 by Kamen Nevenkin
RRP: $38.98$30.07October 1944: Soviet troops launched a powerful attack on Budapest from the south, the culmination of a series of military, political, diplomatic and underground moves undertaken by Hitler, Stalin and Churchill since the collapse of the Axis front in the... -
English Church Monuments in the Middle Ages: History and Representation by Nigel Saul 9780199606139
$94.89English Church Monuments in the Middle Ages offers a comprehensive survey of English church monuments from the pre-Conquest period to the early sixteenth century. Ground-breaking in its treatment of the subject in an historical context, it explores... -
Christian Radicalism in the Church of England and the Invention of the British Sixties, 1957-1970: The Hope of a World Transformed by Sam Brewitt-Taylor 9780198827009
$188.00This study provides the first postsecular account of the moral revolution that Britain experienced in the 1960s. Beginning from the groundbreaking premise that secularity is not a mere absence, but an invented culture, it argues that a new form of... -
A New History of Ireland Volume IX: Maps, Genealogies, Lists: A Companion to Irish History, Part II by T. W. Moody 9780199593064
$128.19A New History of Ireland is the largest scholarly project in modern Irish history. In 9 volumes, it provides a comprehensive new synthesis of modern scholarship on every aspect of Irish history and prehistory, from the earliest geological and... -
Archives of the Valuation Office by Frances McGee 9781846821363
$35.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846821363Author Frances McGeeFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press LtdWeight(grams) 368g -
Anglicans and Puritans?: Presbyterianism and English Conformist Thought from Whitgift to Hooker by Peter Lake
RRP: $56.53$48.93Originally published in 1988, this was the first full and scholarly account of the formal Elizabethan and Jacobean debates between Presbyterians and conformists concerning the government of the church. This book shed new light on the crucial... -
Northern England and Southern Scotland in the Central Middle Ages by Keith J. Stringer
RRP: $214.50$205.02First full-length survey of the fluid relationship between these two areas at a time of rapid change. This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of the development of northern England and southern Scotland in the formative era of the twelfth... -
The Opposition to the Great War in Wales 1914-1918 by Aled Eirug 9781786833143
RRP: $48.73$36.66This study is the first thorough analysis of the extent of the opposition to the Great War in Wales, and is the most extensive study of the anti-war movement in any part of Britain. It is, therefore, a significant contribution to our understanding of... -
The History of William Marshal by Nigel Bryant
RRP: $156.00$142.90The career of William Marshal, who rose from being the penniless, landless younger son of a middle-ranking nobleman to be regent of England in the minority of Henry III, is one of the most extraordinary stories of the Middle Ages.His biography was... -
Shale Voices by Alistair Findlay
RRP: $21.43$15.46From local legend, newspaper reports and family history, Alistair Findlay has pieced together a comprehensive documentary of Scotland's shale mining industry; of the people, communities and generations of families involved, and the cultural and political...