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Brighton in Diaries by Paul K. Lyons 9780752462226
RRP: $27.28$21.16This fascinating collection of extracts contains diarists famous and ordinary, young and old, serious and cynical, but with Brighton always setting the scene. Many legendary writers - including Walter Scott, Arnold Bennett and Virginia Woolf (who... -
Kings, Lords and Courts in Anglo-Norman England by Nicholas Karn
RRP: $156.00$143.68First study of the origins of the lordship courts that dominated the lives of the peasantry of medieval England. About the year 1000, hundreds and shires were the dominant and probably the only local assemblies for doing legal and other business in... -
Cheshire Railways: Britain's Railways in Old Photographs by Mike Hitches 9780752449791
RRP: $29.23$22.52Cheshire Railways is a detailed insight into the branch lines of Cheshire. Mike Hitches provides us with a rich pictorial history, highlighting the golden age of steam, through to the sad closure of many of the county's lines in the 20th century. Crewe... -
Battlefields of Leicestershire by Trevor Hickman
RRP: $33.13$25.23Leading historian Trevor Hickman uncovers the sites of Leicestershire battles that have taken place throughout history, as well as military sites - from skirmishes to the Vikings to World War II airfields and gun emplacements.About the AuthorTrevor... -
Richard Crossman: Pioneer of Welfare Provision and Labour Politics in Post-war Britain by Victoria Honeyman
RRP: $107.25$106.74"Yes, Minister! No, Minister! If you wish it, Minister!" - Richard Crossman, "Diaries Vol. 1". As a politician and personality, Richard Crossman was anything but the deferential public servant he mocked so concisely. This revealing biography of the... -
Memories Aberdeen: A Hidden Archive Uncovered by "Evening Express" 9781908234018
$26.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908234018Author "Evening Express"Format PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint DB PublishingPublisher DB Publishing -
The History of Everyday Life: Reconstructing Historical Experiences and Ways of Life by Alf Ludtke 9780691008929
RRP: $107.25$83.67Alltagsgeschichte, or the history of everyday life, emerged during the 1980s as the most interesting new field among West German historians and, more recently, their East German colleagues. Partly in reaction to the modernization theory pervading West... -
Jews in Glasgow 1879-1939: Immigration and Integration by Ben Braber 9780853037095
RRP: $38.90$37.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853037095Author Ben BraberFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdWeight(grams)... -
Napoleon and Europe by Philip G. Dwyer 9780582318373
RRP: $120.88$115.05Two hundred years ago, Napoleon was at the apogee of his power in Europe. This broad ranging reassessment explores the key themes presented by his extraordinary career: from his rise to power and the foundation of the imperial state, to the final defeat... -
Contesting the English Polity, 1660-1688: Religion, Politics, and Ideas Mark Goldie 9781783277360
RRP: $185.25$176.83What did people in Restoration England think the correct relationship between church state should be? And how did this thinking evolve? Based on the author's published essays, revised and updated with a new overarching introduction, this book... -
Austria, Germany, and the Cold War: From the <I>Anschluss</I> to the State Treaty, 1938-1955 by Rolf Steininger 9780857455987
RRP: $46.70$38.01...with its useful bibliography and index, this is a most lucid and helpful contribution to a satisfying growth in English language material devoted to Austria under the Allied occupation. German History Steininger's meticulous attention both to the... -
Investiture: Royal Ceremony and National Identity in Wales, 1911-1969 by John S. Ellis 9780708320006
RRP: $38.98$32.80Through a study of an 'invented' royal ceremony held in Wales in 1911 and again in 1969, "Investiture: Royal Ceremony and National Identity in Wales 1911-1969" explores the problematic, contested and changing relationship between nationality, ethnicity... -
The Tournaments at Le Hem and Chauvency: Sarrasin: The Romance of Le Hem; Jacques Bretel: The Tournament at Chauvency by Nigel Bryant
RRP: $48.75$42.49First translation of two vivid accounts of French thirteenth-century tournaments, rich in detail and an impassioned defence of tournaments and their importance. The Romance of Le Hem and The Tournament at Chauvency are eyewitness accounts of the... -
Labour Country: Political Radicalism and Social Democracy in South Wales 1831-1985 by Daryl Leeworthy
RRP: $31.18$22.64Since the end of WWI, one party has held the momentum of political and social change in south Wales: the Labour Party. Its triumph was never fully guaranteed. It came quickly amidst a torrent of ideas, actions, and war. But the result was a vibrant,... -
Castles, Customs, and Kings: True Tales by English Historical Fiction Authors by Debra Brown 9780996264815
RRP: $40.85$40.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996264815Author Debra BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 598Imprint Madison Street PublishingPublisher Madison Street PublishingWeight(grams)... -
Medieval Travel and Travelers: A Reader by John Romano 9781487588021
RRP: $93.60$81.35It is widely believed that people living in the Middle Ages seldom traveled. But, as Medieval Travel and Travelers reveals, many medieval people - and not only Marco Polo - were on the move for a variety of different reasons. Assuming no previous... -
Child Labour in Britain, 1750-1870 by Peter Kirby
$73.46What kinds of jobs did children do in the past, and how widespread was their employment? Why did so many poor families put their children to work? How did the state respond to child labour? What problems arise in the interpretation of evidence of... -
A Little Book of Big Cornish Achievements by Bob Croxford 9780955080500
$7.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955080500Author Bob CroxfordFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Atmosphere PublishingPublisher Atmosphere PublishingDimensions(mm) 120mm * 163mm * 11mm -
The Story of Durham by Douglas Pocock 9780752499789
RRP: $33.13$25.23The Story of Durham traces the evolution of a city that medieval writers likened to Jerusalem, which Ruskin termed one of the wonders of the world, and which Pevsner, more modestly, called one of the architectural experiences of Europe.To Bill Bryson,... -
Eighteenth-Century English Society: Shuttles and Swords by Douglas Hay 9780192891945
$81.22The period from 1688-1820 was marked throughout with riots and rebellions, seditions and strikes. Yet it began with the welcoming of Prince William of Orange, whose coronation was widely celebrated as a move towards a more democratic state. Parliament... -
Twisted Paths: Europe 1914-1945 by Robert Gerwarth
RRP: $92.61$92.59A concise introduction to European history between 1914 and 1945, this series of succinct interpretations written by leading scholars offers a new introduction to the period. Covering historical developments in all areas within Europe's natural borders -... -
The Twentieth-Century Welfare State by David Gladstone
$66.75The welfare state has been one of the most significant developments in twentieth-century Britain. Drawing on much recent research, The Twentieth-Century Welfare State narrates its principal changes and provides a thematic historical introduction to... -
The Suppression of the Atlantic Slave Trade: British Policies, Practices and Representations of Naval Coercion by Robert Burroughs 9781526122889
RRP: $58.50$41.55The suppression of the Atlantic slave trade has puzzled nineteenth-century contemporaries and historians since, as the British Empire turned naval power and moral outrage against a branch of commerce it had done so much to promote. The assembled authors... -
The Betrayal: The Nuremberg Trials and German Divergence by Kim Christian Priemel 9780198790327
$79.27At the end of World War II the Allies faced a threefold challenge: how to punish perpetrators of appalling crimes for which the categories of 'genocide' and 'crimes against humanity' had to be coined; how to explain that these had been committed by... -
The Normans: Classic Histories Series by Trevor Rowley 9780750993883
RRP: $21.43$16.09The Normans were a relatively short-lived cultural and political phenomenon. The emerged early in the tenth century and had disappeared off the map by the mid-thirteenth century. Yet in that time they had conquered England, southern Italy and Sicily, and... -
Proust's Duchess: How Three Celebrated Women Captured the Imagination of Fin-De-Siecle Paris by Caroline Weber
RRP: $39.00$27.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Pulitzer Prize (Biography) 2019.Book InformationISBN 9780345803122Author Caroline WeberFormat PaperbackPage Count 752Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random... -
The Decline of British Radicalism, 1847-1860 by Miles Taylor 9780198204824
$154.44This wide-ranging book - one of the first major studies of British radicalism in the years between the collapse of Chartism in 1848 and the advent of Gladstonian liberalism in the 1860s - explains how and why radicalism lost its hold over British... -
The Sex of Things: Gender and Consumption in Historical Perspective by Victoria De Grazia
RRP: $56.55$44.73This volume brings together the most innovative historical work on the conjoined themes of gender and consumption. In thirteen pioneering essays, some of the most important voices in the field consider how Western societies think about and use goods, how... -
The Acts of Welsh Rulers, 1120-1283 by Huw Pryce 9780708323830
RRP: $126.75$105.71This volume provides the first comprehensive collection of charters, letters and other written acts issued by native rulers of Wales from the early twelfth century to the Edwardian conquest of 1282-3. It thereby makes more accessible than ever before a... -
The Dragoman Renaissance: Diplomatic Interpreters and the Routes of Orientalism by E. Natalie Rothman
RRP: $42.88$38.20In The Dragoman Renaissance, E. Natalie Rothman traces how Istanbul-based diplomatic translator-interpreters, known as the dragomans, systematically engaged Ottoman elites in the study of the Ottoman Empire-eventually coalescing in the discipline of... -
The Late Byzantine Army: Arms and Society, 1204-1453 by Mark C. Bartusis
RRP: $68.25$60.72The late Byzantine period was a time characterized by both civil strife and foreign invasion, framed by two cataclysmic events: the fall of Constantinople to the western Europeans in 1204 and again to the Ottoman Turks in 1453. Mark C. Bartusis here... -
Traveling Through Text: Message and Method in Late Medieval Pilgrimage Accounts by Elka Weber 9780367864163
RRP: $77.98$68.37Traveling through Text compares religious ravel writing by Muslims, Christians and Jews in later Middle Ages. This comparative approach allows us to see that writers in all three religious communities used travel writing in the same way, to shape the... -
Blessed Louis, the Most Glorious of Kings: Texts Relating to the Cult of Saint Louis of France by M. Cecilia Gaposchkin
RRP: $60.45$53.35Louis IX, king of France from 1226 to 1270 and twice crusader, was canonized in 1297. He was the last king canonized during the medieval period, and was both one of the most important saints and one of the most important kings of the later Middle Ages... -
The Inns of Court under Elizabeth I and the Early Stuarts: 1590-1640 by Wilfrid R. Prest
RRP: $165.75$150.15The Tudor and Stuart inns of court were major centres of learning and literature, as well as professional associations of practising lawyers. This book sketches the evolution of the inns from their medieval origins and traces the dramatic impact of the... -
Spain, Third Edition: The Root and the Flower: An Interpretation of Spain and the Spanish People by John A. Crow 9780520244962
RRP: $48.75$38.20This is the late John A. Crow's classic study of the cultural history of Spain and its people, which he last updated in 1985 but which seems as fresh and pertinent as when he first wrote it. Crow devoted a lifetime to Hispanic studies and here provides a... -
Women and the Second World War in France, 1939-1948: Choices and Constraints by Hanna Diamond 9780582299092
$90.44This is the first book (in either English or French) to offer readers an overview of women's experience of the Second World War and its immediate aftermath in France. It examines objectively the part that women played in both collaboration and... -
Speculum Lapidum: A Renaissance Treatise on the Healing Properties of Gemstones by Camillo Leonardi 9780271095394
RRP: $66.20$59.16In early modern Europe precious and semiprecious stones were valued not only for their beauty and rarity but also for their medical and magical properties. Lorenzo de' Medici, Philip II of Spain, and Popes Leo X and Clement VII were all treated with... -
Debating Medieval Europe: The Early Middle Ages, c. 450–c. 1050 by Stephen Mossman
RRP: $38.98$36.66Debating medieval Europe serves as an entry point for studying and teaching medieval history. Rather than simply presenting foundational knowledge or introducing sources, it provides the reader with frameworks for understanding the distinctive... -
The Battle of Hastings 1066 - The Uncomfortable Truth: Revealing the True Location of England's Most Famous Battle by John Grehan
$36.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399013192Author John GrehanFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Pen & Sword MilitaryPublisher Pen & Sword MilitaryWeight(grams) 152g -
The Scots in Victorian and Edwardian Belfast: A Study in Elite Migration by Kyle Hughes
RRP: $175.50$159.84This is a new departure in Scottish and Irish migration studies. The Scottish diasporic communities closest to home - those which are part of what we sometimes term the 'near diaspora' - are those we know least about. Whilst an interest in the overseas...