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The Age Of Empire: 1875-1914 by Eric Hobsbawm
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50The splendid finale to Eric Hobsbawm's study of the nineteenth century, THE AGE OF EMPIRE covers the area of Western Imperialism and examines the forces that swept the world to the outbreak of World War One- and shaped modern society.Hobsbawm's classic... -
The London Nobody Knows by Geoffrey Fletcher
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.32Geoffrey Fletcher's London was not the big landmarks, but rather 'the tawdry, extravagant and eccentric'. He wrote about parts of the city no-one ever had before. This could be an art nouveau pub, a Victorian music hall, a Hawksmoor church or even a... -
The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe by Professor David I Kertzer
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £13.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812983678Author David I. KertzerFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
Killing Rage by Eamon Collins
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.93This is an account of how an angry young man can cross the line that divides theoretical support for violence from a state of 'killing rage', in which the murder of neighbour becomes thinkable. Over 3000 people have died in Northern Ireland since 1969,... -
Northerners: A History, from the Ice Age to the Present Day by Brian Groom 9780008471231
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.13A Waterstones Best History Book of 2022 The bestselling history of the North of England as told through the lives of its inhabitants. 'Entertaining' The Times ... -
Cutting Point: Solving the Jack the Ripper and the Thames Torso Murders by Christer Holmgren 9789187611360
Booksplease Price: £16.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789187611360Author Christer HolmgrenFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Timaios PressPublisher Timaios PressWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm... -
Some Men In London: Queer Life, 1945-1959 by Peter Parker 9780241370605
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.23Quite simply, this book is a work of genius - Matthew Parris, The SpectatorAn essential study of post-war gay London life... one of the best anthologies I have ever read - John Self, The ObserverWith it's wide-ranging selection, generous biographical... -
Stalin's War: A New History of World War II by Sean McMeekin
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £18.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541672789Author Sean McMeekinFormat PaperbackPage Count 880Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 748gDimensions(mm) 207mm * 137mm * 57mm -
Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire - The Sunday Times Bestseller by Akala
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.00*RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK* SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE | THE JHALAK PRIZE | THE BREAD AND ROSES AWARD & LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 'This is the book I've been waiting for - for years. It's personal, historical,... -
Spirit of Place: Artists, Writers and the British Landscape by Susan Owens
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.25When we look at the landscape, what do we see? Do we experience the view over a valley or dappled sunlight on a path in the same way as those who were there before us? We have altered the countryside in innumerable ways over the last thousand years, and... -
The World of Yesterday: Memoirs of a European by Stefan Zweig 9781805331155
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.22Stefan Zweig's seminal memoir recalls the golden age of pre-war Europe - its seeming permanence, its promise and its devastating fall. Through the story of his life and his relationships with the leading literary figures of the day, Zweig's fervent,... -
Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany by Harald Jähner 9780753559963
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.62'This is one of the most gripping accounts of an era spanning war defeat, humiliation and failed revolution in 1918 to the violence, intimidation and propaganda of the Nazis' rise to power in 1933. It contains many lessons for the world now.' - John... -
Picts, Gaels and Scots: Early Historic Scotland by Sally M. Foster 9780859767224
Booksplease Price: £21.91Early historic Scotland - from the fifth to the tenth century AD - was home to a variety of diverse peoples and cultures, all competing for land and supremacy. Yet by the eleventh century it had become a single, unified kingdom, known as Alba, under a... -
Mediaeval Feudalism by Carl Stephenson
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.00"In the following pages I have tried to explain, as simply and concisely as possible, the historical significance of the feudal system.... My purpose has not been to give a comprehensive description of Europe in the feudal age, or even of feudal society... -
The Antonine Wall by David Breeze
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.97As the most advanced frontier construction of its time, and as definitive evidence of the Romans' time in Scotland, the Antonine Wall is an invaluable and fascinating part of this country's varied and violent history. For a generation, from about AD 140... -
The Princes in the Tower: Solving History's Greatest Cold Case by Philippa Langley 9781803995410
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.57'Philippa Langley has done it again.' - THE TIMESA HISTORY HIT BOOK OF THE MONTHHistory re-written: has the 540-year-old mystery been solved?'The totality of evidence revealed is astonishing. Following the discovery of King Richard III's grave in a car... -
The Witches' Ointment: The Secret History of Psychedelic Magic by Thomas Hatsis 9781620554739
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.06In the medieval period preparations with hallucinogenic herbs were part of the practice of veneficium, or poison magic. This collection of magical arts used poisons, herbs, and rituals to bewitch, heal, prophesy, infect, and murder. In the form of... -
Rivets, Trivets and Galvanised Buckets: Life in the village hardware shop by Tom Fort 9781472291950
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.25'A hymn to hardware, charming, lyrical' - The Sunday Times, BOOK OF THE WEEK'A paean to DIY' - The Times'Strung together very agreeably, with dry wit and, dare I say it, considerable polish' - Country LifeIn 2018 Tom Fort's daughter-in-law took over a... -
The Myth of the Jacobite Clans: The Jacobite Army in 1745 by Professor Murray Pittock 9780748627578
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £26.21The Myth of the Jacobite Clans was first published in 1995: a revolutionary book, it argued that British history had long sought to caricature Jacobitism rather than to understand it, and that the Jacobite Risings drew on extensive Lowland support and... -
James Joyce by Edna O'Brien
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.37One of Ireland's greatest contemporary writers turns her attention to one of the country's greatest novelists: James Joyce - in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the iconic classic ULYSSES.'As skilful, stylish and pacy as one would expect from so... -
Britain Since 1918: The Strange Career Of British Democracy by David Marquand
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50A new political history of modern Britain - entertaining, instructive and thought-provoking.The history of democratic politics in Britain since the coming of universal male suffrage in 1918 is a dramatic one, crowded with events and colourful figures. As... -
A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution by Jeremy D. Popkin
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.22The principles of the French Revolution remain the only possible basis for a just society -- even if, after more than two hundred years, they are more contested than ever before. In A New World Begins, Jeremy D. Popkin offers a riveting account of the... -
Shadowlands: A Journey Through Lost Britain by Matthew Green
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.93THE TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZEDrowned. Buried by sand. Decimated by plague. Plunged off a cliff.This is the forgotten history of Britain's lost cities, ghost towns and vanished villages: our shadowlands.'A beautiful book,... -
Sleeping with the Enemy: Coco Chanel's Secret War by Hal Vaughan
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £12.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307475916Author Hal VaughanFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Rag and Bone: A History of What We've Thrown Away by Lisa Woollett
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £3.96'Beautiful, like a muddy journey through time . . . a really important book' RAYNOR WINN, author of The Salt Path Lisa Woollett has spent her life combing beaches and mudlarking, collecting curious fragments of the past: from Roman tiles and Tudor... -
Field Men: The SS Officers Who Led the Einsatzkommand - the Nazi Mobile Killing Units by French Maclean
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £35.89Two thousand nine hundred forty-five men lined up in four motorized columns immediately behind the German Army on June 22, 1941 as it prepared to launch Operation Barbarossa a the German attack on the Soviet Union a an attack designed to win the war... -
Diaries Volume Two: Power and the People by Alastair Campbell
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.14Power & the People covers the first two years of the New Labour government, beginning with their landslide victory at the polls in 1997. This second voume of Campbell's unexpurgated diaries details the initial challenges faced by Labour as they come to... -
A Kidnapped West: The Tragedy of Central Europe by Milan Kundera
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.29The people of Central Europe cannot be separated from European history; they cannot exist outside it; but they represent the wrong side of this history; they are its victims and outsiders.In a moment of historic peril and uncertainty in mainland Europe,... -
A-Z Liverpool Hidden Walks: Discover 20 routes in and around the city by Claire E Rider
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.30Discover hidden gems around Liverpool, host of Eurovision 2023, with 20 walking routes. Featuring 20 walks in and around the city, including lesser-known circuits and details on popular walks. Accompanied by guided walking instructions and... -
The Eagle and the Hart: The Tragedy of Richard II and Henry IV Helen Castor 9780241419328
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £25.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780241419328Author Helen CastorFormat HardbackPage Count 672Imprint Allen LanePublisher Penguin Books LtdWeight(grams) 750g -
The Thistle and The Rose by Linda Porter 9781801105781
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £20.69Margaret Tudor, the elder sister of her more famous brother Henry VIII, is the single most important Tudor figure of this era that historians have consistently overlooked. Married at thirteen to the charismatic James IV of Scotland, a man more than twice... -
Malkin: Poems About the Pendle Witch Trials by Camille Ralphs 9781910139301
Booksplease Price: £7.15Malkin is a vivid evocation of the trials of the Pendle Witches in 1612. The sequence of poems is delivered in the form of epitaphic monologues, with the accused men and women eerily addressing the reader with their confessions and pleas. Strikingly,... -
Saints: A new legendary of heroes, humans and magic Amy Jeffs 9781529416619
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £20.85From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Storyland and Wild, comes a sweeping new legendary of miracles, magic, human frailty and heroic strength. Illustrated with over thirty original paper cutouts by the author.Saints' legends suffused medieval... -
Jeoffry: The Poet's Cat by Oliver Soden 9780750995672
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.43Jeoffry was a real cat who lived 250 years ago, confined to an asylum with Christopher Smart, one of the most visionary poets of the age. In exchange for love and companionship, Smart rewarded Jeoffry with the greatest tribute to a feline ever written... -
Legacy: Gangsters, Corruption and the London Olympics by Michael Gillard
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.49'Reveals criminal corruption on a scale that the Kray twins would never have dreamt of' John Pearson, Profession of Violence, The Rise and Fall of the Kray Twins 'Gillard's detailed investigation makes for a stunning and shocking read' Barry Keeffe,... -
The Bride: An Illustrated History of Palestine 1850-1948 by Roger Hardy 9781912945344
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £10.80Palestine, 1850: a backwater of the Ottoman Empire, but soon to become the focus of intense jealousies. Locally Arabs and Jews became increasingly polarised, internationally the vacuum left by the demise of the Ottoman Empire was filled with the... -
The Faded Map: The Lost Kingdoms of Scotland by Alistair Moffat
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.61In this modern age the regional and national boundaries which define Scotland seem fixed and permanent. But of course this has not always been so. In this book Alistair Moffat looks at the shifting political shape of the land long before its modern... -
The Fall of Roman Britain: and Why We Speak English by Lambshead, John 9781399075565
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.85The end of empire in the island of Great Britain was both more abrupt and more complete than in any of the other European Roman provinces. When the fog clears and Britain re-enters the historical record, it is, unlike other former European provinces of... -
Wales: England's Colony? Martin Johnes 9781912681419
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.71From the very beginnings of Wales, its people have defined themselves against their large neighbour. Wales: England's Colony? shows, that relationship has not only defined what it has meant to be Welsh, it has also been central to making and defining... -
Henry VII and the Tudor Pretenders: Simnel, Warbeck, and Warwick by Nathen Amin
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.72On 22 August 1485, Henry Tudor emerged from the Battle of Bosworth victorious. His disparate army vanquished the forces of Richard III and, according to Shakespeare over a century later, brought 'smooth-faced peace, with smiling aplenty and fair...