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The Little Book of Herefordshire by David Vaughan 9780750993821
RRP: £12.99£9.62The Little Book of Herefordshire is a compendium full of information which will make you say, 'I never knew that!' Contained within is a plethora of entertaining facts about Herefordshire's famous and occasionally infamous men and women, its literary,... -
Martin Luther by Lyndal Roper
RRP: £16.99£12.28SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2017 SHORTLISTED FOR THE ELIZABETH LONGFORD PRIZE 2017'A magnificent study of one of history's most compelling and divisive figures' Richard J. EvansWhen Martin Luther nailed a sheet of paper to the church door... -
The Prince (Reader's Library Classics) by Niccolò Machiavelli 9781954839274
RRP: £5.99£5.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954839274Author Niccol MachiavelliFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Reader's Library ClassicsPublisher Reader's Library ClassicsWeight(grams)... -
Borderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine by Anna Reid
RRP: £10.99£7.40FULLY UPDATED'A fascinating and often violent odyssey, spanning more than 1,000 years of conflict and culture'INDEPENDENTFlat, fertile, and fatally tempting to invaders, for centuries Ukraine was fought over by more powerful neighbours. Though its modern... -
The Great British Dig: History in Your Back Garden by Dr Chloe Duckworth
RRP: £25.00£18.88The Great British Dig brings history and archaeology closer to home than ever before. Each week a team of archaeologists (led by presenter Hugh Dennis) descend on streets and gardens the length and breadth of the country to discover the treasures we... -
Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel 9780008609979
RRP: £9.99£6.59Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will endure for generations to come. ... -
Iceland's Secret: The Untold Story of the World's Biggest Con by Jared Bibler 9780857198990
RRP: £22.99£15.53Born in Massachusetts, Jared Bibler relocated to Iceland in 2004 only to find himself in the middle of an unprecedented financial crisis a handful of years later. Personally wiped out and seeking to uncover the truth about a collapse that brought the... -
Vienna: The International Capital by Angus Robertson
RRP: £25.00£16.99Vienna is unique amongst world capitals in its consistent international importance over the centuries. From the ascent of the Habsburgs as Europe's leading dynasty to the Congress of Vienna, which reordered Europe after Napoleon, to bridge- building... -
A League of Our Own: The Cymru Premier Story 1992-93 to 2022-23 by Mark Langshaw 9781904609100
RRP: £18.99£15.65A League of Our Own is the first book to tell the remarkable story of the establishment and 30-year history of the League of Wales, which was rebranded as the Welsh Premier League in 2010 and the Cymru Premier in 2019. The League of Wales kicked-off its... -
Great Western, Grange Class Locomotives: Their Design and Development by David Maidment 9781526752017
RRP: £30.00£21.95Churchward proposed a 5ft 8in wheeled 4-6-0 for mixed traffic duties in 1901 and it was seriously considered in 1905, but it took until 1936 before his successor, Charles Collett, realised the plan by persuading the GWR Board to replace many of the 43XX... -
Darganfod Tai Hanesyddol Eryri / Discovering the Historic Houses of Snowdonia by Richard Suggett
£21.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781871184532Author Richard SuggettFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint Royal Commission on the Ancient & Historical Monuments of WalesPublisher Royal... -
When Paris Sizzled: The 1920s Paris of Hemingway, Chanel, Cocteau, Cole Porter, Josephine Baker, and Their Friends by Mary McAuliffe 9781538121801
RRP: £14.99£11.35When Paris Sizzled vividly portrays the City of Light during the fabulous 1920s, les Annees folles, when Parisians emerged from the horrors of war to find that a new world greeted them-one that reverberated with the hard metallic clang of the assembly... -
The Strange Laws Of Old England by Nigel Cawthorne
RRP: £10.99£7.40Did you know that: It's against the law to check into a hotel in London under assumed names for the purpose of lovemaking? Under a statute of Edwards II all whales washed up on the shore belong to the monarch? Under a Tudor law Welshmen are not allowed... -
Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837 by Linda Colley 9780300152807
RRP: £17.99£15.79How was Great Britain made? And what does it mean to be British? This brilliant and seminal book examines how a more cohesive British nation was invented after 1707 and how this new national identity was nurtured through war, religion, trade, and empire... -
The Tudor Crown by Joanna Hickson
RRP: £7.99£5.41'An intriguing tale, told with confidence' The Times 'A great tale... the golden thread that led to the crown of England' Conn Iggulden She'll betray her king to crown her sonWhen Edward of York... -
Samuel Pepys: The Diaries by Samuel Pepys
RRP: £20.00£14.69When Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) began writing in 1660 he was a young clerk living in London, struggling to pay his rent. Over the next nine years as he kept his journal, he rose to be a powerful naval administrator. He became eyewitness to some of the most... -
Forgotten Places: Barcelona and the Spanish Civil War by Nick Lloyd 9781519531117
£18.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781519531117Author Nick LloydFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint CreateSpacePublisher CreateSpace -
Peaky Blinders: The Legacy - The real story of Britain's most notorious 1920s gangs: As seen on BBC's The Real Peaky Blinders by Carl Chinn
RRP: £8.99£4.76From the Sunday Times bestselling author, Carl ChinnThe Peaky Blinders as we know them, thanks to the hit TV series, are infused with drama and dread. Fashionably dressed, the charismatic but deeply flawed Shelby family have become cult anti-heroes... -
London Curiosities: The Capital's Odd & Obscure, Weird and Wonderful Places by John Wade 9781473879119
£13.85London is full of curiosities. Who knew that beneath the Albert Memorial lies an undercroft resembling a church crypt? Or that there are catacombs under Camden? Who would expect to find a lighthouse in East London, sphinxes in South London, dummy houses... -
The Gestapo: A History of Horror by Jacques Delarue 9781602392465
RRP: £16.99£10.97From 1933 to 1945, the Gestapo was Nazi Germany's chief instrument of counter-espionage, political suppression, and terror. Jacques Delarue, a saboteur arrested by the Nazis in occupied France, chronicles how the land of Beethoven elevated sadism to a... -
A Marvelous Solitude: The Art of Reading in Early Modern Europe by Lina Bolzoni 9780674660236
RRP: £33.95£27.41A preeminent Renaissance scholar illuminates early modern encounters with books, in which literature became a portal to self-awareness and miraculous communion between author and reader.The experience of reading is often presented as personal and... -
The Origins of Manchester: from Roman conquest to industrial revolution by Alan Kidd 9781859362396
RRP: £12.99£9.70This fascinating book, by a leading historian of the city, tells Manchester's story from the Romans to the first steam-powered factories, showing how the centuries before the Industrial Revolution formed the foundation for the city's later greatness. ... -
The Eighteenth Century: Europe 1688-1815 by T. C. W. Blanning
£35.42The complete Short Oxford History of Europe (series editor: Professor T.C.W. Blanning) will cover the history of Europe from Classical Greece to the present in eleven volumes. In each, experts write to their strengths tackling the key issues including... -
Dominion: A History of England Volume V by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: £16.99£11.87'Ackroyd makes history accessible to the layman' - Ian Thomson, IndependentThe penultimate volume of Peter Ackroyd's masterful History of England series, Dominion begins in 1815 as national glory following the Battle of Waterloo gives way to post-war... -
Glasgow: The Autobiography by Alan Taylor
RRP: £12.99£8.56Glasgow: The Autobiography tells the story of the fabled, former Second City of the British Empire from its origins as a bucolic village on the rivers Kelvin and Clyde, through the tumult of the Industrial Revolution to the third millennium. Including... -
Whatever Happened to the Real Black Country?: Black Country Chronicles 1939-1999 by Tom Larkin 9780750992602
RRP: £12.99£9.62Between the outbreak of the Second World War and the end of the century, life changed dramatically for the working-class people of the Black Country. Having survived the hardships of war, they found themselves facing a slew of social issues, all the... -
East Anglia and its North Sea World in the Middle Ages by David Bates 9781783270361
RRP: £28.99£24.45The relations between medieval East Anglia and countries across the North Sea examined from a variety of perspectives. East Anglia was a distinctive English region during the Middle Ages, but it was one that owed much of its character and identity to... -
Inari Sami Folklore: Stories from Aanaar by August V. Koskimies 9780299319045
RRP: £22.95£21.86A rich multivoiced anthology of folktales, legends, joik songs, proverbs, riddles, and other verbal art, this is the most comprehensive collection of Sami oral tradition available in English to date. Collected by August V. Koskimies and Toivo I. Itkonen... -
Right Royal Scandal: Two Marriages that Changed History by Joanne Major 9781473863422
RRP: £19.99£14.28Almost two books in one, A Right Royal Scandal recounts the fascinating history of the irregular love matches contracted by two successive generations of the Cavendish-Bentinck family, ancestors of the British Royal Family. The first part of this... -
The Flame of Resistance: American Beauty. French Hero. British Spy. by Damien Lewis
RRP: £10.99£6.47'I have always been fascinated by that charismatic hero of the Resistance, Josephine Baker, but it turns out I didn't know the half of it. Lewis' story-telling blew my mind. Again.' - Dan Snow'A story of incredible bravery in the face of tyrants who... -
White Riot: The Sunday Times Thriller of the Month by Joe Thomas 9781529423396
RRP: £10.99£7.40'Joe Thomas brilliantly recaptures an ugly episode in our recent past. Lest we forget . . .' Val McDermid'A timely, powerful and gorgeously readable novel that represents everything that is good and important about the crime fiction genre' Irish... -
Chief of Staff: Notes from Downing Street by Gavin Barwell
RRP: £20.00£14.69BOOK OF THE YEAR, The Times, Guardian and Prospect'Fascinating and instructive... his decency and pragmatism shine through.' The Times'Candid, valuable and insightful.' ObserverSince the EU referendum of 2016, British politics has witnessed a barrage of... -
Children of the Revolution: The French, 1799-1914 by Robert Gildea 9780141016535
RRP: £18.99£13.61Nineteenth-century France was one of the world's great cultural beacons, renowned for its dazzling literature, philosophy, art, poetry and technology. Yet this was also a tumultuous century of political anarchy and bloodshed, where each generation of the... -
British Royal Tombs by Aidan Dodson 9781843681182
RRP: £16.99£11.54Aidan Dodson's British Royal Tombs covers all the burials of the kings, queens (and lords protector) of England, Scotland and the United Kingdom, from the occupant of the great Sutton Hoo ship burial, to George VI, last Emperor of India, including of... -
London Underground Symmetry and Imperfections: The Tube Mapper Project by Luke Agbaimoni
RRP: £25.00£18.94There are currently 272 London Underground, 113 Overground and 45 Docklands Light Railway stations. Luke Agbaimoni has been slowly attempting to capture visual moments at each one.When we see a symmetrical image, it soothes us. It feels as if a puzzle... -
The Habsburgs: Embodying Empire by Andrew Wheatcroft
RRP: £12.99£9.09The Habsburgs have been described at one extreme as demons - responsible for a 'long history of atrocities'; and, at the other, as dodos - living fossils unable to adapt to the modern world. In reality, the flamboyant royal family appear, in many ways,... -
The Wars of the Roses: Politics and the Constitution in England, c.1437-1509 by Christine Carpenter
RRP: £35.99£30.33This is a new interpretation of English politics during the extended period beginning with the majority of Henry VI in c. 1437 up to the accession of Henry VII in 1509. The later fifteenth century in England is a somewhat baffling and apparently... -
Kensington Palace: An Intimate Memoir from Queen Mary to Meghan Markle by Tom Quinn 9781785904790
RRP: £20.00£14.48For more than 300 years, Kensington Palace has played host to a colourful cast of kings, queens, wayward children, royal aunts and uncles, distant cousins and assorted aristocratic hangers-on. This remarkable building has served as the stage for some of... -
The Welsh Marcher Lordships: Central & North (Radnorshire, Herefordshire, Shropshire, Montgomeryshire, Denbighshire & Flintshire): 1 by Philip Hume 9781910839454
RRP: £20.00£19.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910839454Author Philip HumeFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Logaston PressPublisher Fircone Books Ltd -
The Official Encyclopedia of the Yellow Jersey: 100 Years of the Yellow Jersey (Maillot Jaune) by Frederique Galametz
RRP: £25.00£17.98The must-have encyclopedia for all Tour de France fans.Celebrating the centenary of cycling's most iconic award, The Official Encyclopedia of the Yellow Jersey is a visually stunning and comprehensive look at all the wearers of the 'maillot jaune'. In...