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Arthur Gould: Rugby's First Superstar by Gwyn Prescott 9781904609124
RRP: £17.99£14.87Arthur Gould is the definitive biography of the record-breaking Welsh international player who is widely acknowledged as the first superstar of rugby. Such was his fame and renown, that upon his tragic, early death in 1919, aged just 54, Gould's funeral... -
Wanstead and Woodford by Ian Dowling 9780752401133
RRP: £12.99£9.62This book is part of the Images of London series, which uses old photographs and archived images to show the history of various local areas in England, through their streets, shops, pubs, and people.Book InformationISBN 9780752401133Author Ian... -
The Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars: Volume 1, Politics and Diplomacy by Michael Broers
RRP: £110.00£109.96Volume I of The Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars covers the international foreign political dimensions of the wars and the social, legal, political and economic structures of the Empire. Leading historians from around the world come together to... -
The Romantic Revolution by Tim Blanning
RRP: £9.99£6.80A compelling and persuasive account of how the Romantic Movement permanently changed the way we see things and express ourselves.Three great revolutions rocked the world around 1800. The first two - the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution -... -
Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality by E. J. Hobsbawm 9781107604629
RRP: £15.99£13.33Nations and Nationalism since 1780 is Eric Hobsbawm's widely acclaimed and highly readable enquiry into the question of nationalism. Events in the late twentieth century in Eastern Europe and the Soviet republics have since reinforced the central... -
My Revision Notes: OCR A-level History: Rebellion and Disorder under the Tudors 1485-1603 by Nicholas Fellows
£11.59Exam board: OCRLevel: A-levelSubject: History First teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2016Target success in OCR A-level History with this proven formula for effective, structured revision; key content coverage is combined with exam preparation... -
The Personal Rule of Charles I by Kevin Sharpe 9780300065961
£77.60After Charles I's succession to the English throne in 1625, he transformed the political landscape of the country, dissolved parliament, and began a period of eleven years of personal rule. This authoritative reevaluation of Charles I's personal rule... -
Meghan: A Hollywood Princess by Andrew Morton 9781789293906
RRP: £9.99£6.75'Highly readable and compelling' Daily Telegraph _______________What an extraordinary journey it has been for Meghan Markle. In this fully revised and updated biography, Andrew Morton navigates the at times baffling twists and turns of a royal saga that... -
Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History by Adam Nicolson
RRP: £14.99£9.70A fascinating account from award-winning author Adam Nicolson of the history of Nicolson's own national treasure, his family home: Sissinghurst. Sissinghurst is world-famous as a place of calm and beauty, a garden slipped into the ruins of a... -
Edward IV & Elizabeth Woodville: A True Romance by Amy Licence
RRP: £10.99£7.25When the tall, athletic Edward of York seized the English throne in 1461, he could have chosen any bride he wanted. With his dazzling good looks, few were able to resist his charm and promises. For three years he had a succession of mistresses, while... -
Oxford AQA History for A Level: The English Revolution 1625-1660 by J Daniels 9780198354727
£37.34Please note this title is suitable for any student studying: Exam Board: AQA Level/Subject: AS and A Level History First teaching: 2015 First exams: June 2017 Retaining all the well-loved features from the previous editions, The English Revolution... -
Lost Letters of Medieval Life: English Society, 1200-1250 by Martha Carlin
RRP: £31.00£27.76Everyday life in early thirteenth-century England is revealed in vivid detail in this riveting collection of correspondence of people from all classes, from peasants and shopkeepers to bishops and earls. The documents presented here include letters... -
Queens of the Crusades: Eleanor of Aquitaine and her Successors by Alison Weir
RRP: £12.99£9.09'Stunning... Weir has brought those five queens to life like never before. I just raced through it - it has all the drama and suspense of a novel' Tracy BormanCrusading queens, queens in rebellion against their king, queen seductresses, learned queens,... -
Scotland's Empire: The Origins of the Global Diaspora by T. M. Devine
RRP: £12.99£9.09In Scotland's Empire, T.M Devine tells the compelling story of Scotland's role in forging and expanding the British Empire, from the Americas to Australia, India to the Caribbean. By 1820 Britain controlled a fifth of the world's population, and no... -
The Making of Poetry: Coleridge, the Wordsworths and Their Year of Marvels by Adam Nicolson
RRP: £10.99£7.25SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2019 'This is a book of wonders' Sunday Times 'Spellbinding and intelligent' Financial Times ... -
Personality and Power: Builders and Destroyers of Modern Europe by Ian Kershaw 9780141998237
RRP: £14.99£10.95One of the great historians of our age asks: how far can a single leader alter the course of history?The modern era saw the emergence of individuals who had command over a terrifying array of instruments of control, persuasion and death. Whole societies... -
Lost to the Sea: Britain's Vanished Coastal Communities: The Yorkshire Coast & Holderness by Stephen Wade
RRP: £12.99£9.09Once there was a Roman settlement on what is now Filey Brig. In Holderness, a prosperous town called Ravenser saw kings and princes on its soil, and its progress threatened the good people of Grimsby. But the Romans and the Ravenser folk are long gone,... -
Cnut the Great by Timothy Bolton
RRP: £12.99£11.46A seminal biography of Cnut, the underappreciated eleventh-century Scandinavian warlord-turned-Anglo-Saxon monarch who united the English and Danish crowns to forge a North Sea empire "A gripping and revelatory biography of Britain's Danish conqueror."-... -
Elfrida: The First Crowned Queen of England by Elizabeth Norton
RRP: £10.99£7.25Contrary to popular belief, Anglo-Saxon England had queens, with the tenth-century Elfrida being the most powerful and notorious of them all. She was the first woman to be crowned Queen of England, sharing her husband King Edgar's imperial coronation at... -
Hungry Beat: The Scottish Independent Pop Underground Movement (1977-1984) by Douglas MacIntyre 9781399600255
RRP: £12.99£8.60'Hungry Beat is the story of an all-too-brief era where the short-circuiting of that industry seemed viable. But hell, the times were luminous as was the music these artists made. The songs and many of the players remain, and here they tell their story... -
The Triumph of Broken Promises: The End of the Cold War and the Rise of Neoliberalism by Fritz Bartel
RRP: £38.95£31.69A powerful case that the economic shocks of the 1970s hastened both the end of the Cold War and the rise of neoliberalism by forcing governments to impose austerity on their own people.Why did the Cold War come to a peaceful end? And why did neoliberal... -
Personality and Power: Builders and Destroyers of Modern Europe by Ian Kershaw
RRP: £30.00£21.35One of the great historians of our age asks: how far can a single leader alter the course of history?The modern era saw the emergence of individuals who had command over a terrifying array of instruments of control, persuasion and death. Whole societies... -
Margaret Thatcher: A Life and Legacy by Mr David Cannadine
RRP: £11.99£10.95Few modern women have had as great a political impact as Margaret Hilda Roberts, the grocer's daughter from Grantham who, as Margaret Thatcher, became Britain's first woman prime minister. The longest serving British premier of the twentieth century, Mrs... -
The Northmen's Fury: A History of the Viking World by Philip Parker
RRP: £14.99£10.95The Northmen's Fury tells the Viking story, from the first pinprick raids of the eighth century to the great armies that left their Scandinavian homelands to conquer larger parts of France, Britain and Ireland. It recounts the epic voyages that took them... -
A Mediterranean Emporium: The Catalan Kingdom of Majorca by David Abulafia 9780521322447
RRP: £90.00£72.57Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Habsburg Monarchy 1809-1918: A History of the Austrian Empire and Austria-Hungary by A. J. P. Taylor
RRP: £14.99£10.95A history of the Habsburg monarchy from the end of the Holy Roman Empire to the monarchy's dissolution in 1918. The book offers an insight into the problems inherent in the attempt to give peace, stability and common loyalty to a hetergeneous population... -
The Good Germans: Resisting the Nazis, 1933-1945 by Catrine Clay
RRP: £9.99£6.80After 1933, as the brutal terror regime took hold, most of the two-thirds of Germans who had never voted for the Nazis - some 20 million people - tried to keep their heads down and protect their families.They moved to the country, or pretended to support... -
London Calling: Britain, the BBC World Service and the Cold War by Alban Webb
£30.16From its inception in 1932, overseas broadcasting by the BBC quickly became an essential adjunct to British diplomatic and foreign policy objectives. For this reason, the World Service was considered the primary means of engaging with attitudes and... -
How The Scots Invented The Modern World by Arthur Herman
RRP: £20.00£12.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780609809990Author Arthur HermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Crown PublicationsPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 203mm... -
The Refuge and the Fortress: Britain and the Flight from Tyranny by Jeremy Seabrook 9780230218789
RRP: £22.00£21.91In the 75th anniversary of CARA (Council for Assisting Refugee Academics), this book explores the experiences and achievements of refugee academics and their rescuers to recount Britain's past relationship with overseas victims of persecution, and as... -
Heimskringla: History of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson
RRP: £35.00£31.74Beginning with the dim prehistory of the mythical gods and their descendants, Heimskringla recounts the history of the kings of Norway through the reign of Olaf Haraldsson, who became Norway's patron saint. Once found in most homes and schools and still... -
Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance by George Saliba 9780262516150
£35.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262516150Author George SalibaFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 14mm -
Soho: A Street Guide to Soho's History, Architecture and People by Dan Cruickshank
RRP: £10.99£7.40SOHO - ILLICIT, GLAMOROUS, SORDID, LOUCHE, POVERTY-STRICKEN, SQUALID, EXHILARATING.One of Britain's best-loved historians, Dan Cruickshank grants us an intimacy with centuries of rich and varied London history as he guides us around the Soho of the last... -
The Honoured Society: My Journey to the Heart of the Mafia by Petra Reski
RRP: £17.99£12.60In the early hours of an August morning a gunfight broke out in an Italian restaurant in Duisburg; in less than five minutes over seventy shots were fired into the bodies of six men. Both victims and assassins were members of the 'Ndrangheta crime... -
Prehistoric Rock Art in the North York Moors by Paul Brown 9780752468778
RRP: £27.50£20.68This revised edition is an accumulation of two decades of research and fieldwork by the authors, and presents a comprehensive account of the little known prehistoric rock art within the North York Moors area. It covers Northern England's last major area... -
The Worlds of John Ruskin by Kevin Jackson 9781843681489
RRP: £19.99£13.35Ruskin is one of the most influential and exhilarating writers in English. Art critic, architectural visionary, social reformer, climate warner and incomparable teacher; Ruskin's words not only transformed Victorian England but speak to us with... -
Firepower: How Weapons Shaped Warfare by Paul Lockhart
RRP: £30.00£19.80The history of warfare cannot be fully understood without considering the technology of killing. In Firepower, acclaimed historian Paul Lockhart tells the story of military technology from the Renaissance to the dawn of the atomic era --... -
The Paris Bookseller: A sweeping story of love, friendship and betrayal in bohemian 1920s Paris by Kerri Maher
RRP: £10.99£7.40INSPIRED BY AN EXTRAORDINARY TRUE STORY... 'A novel I long to live in' Kate Quinn, author of The Alice NetworkPARIS, 1920. On the bohemian Left Bank, Sylvia runs a little bookshop called Shakespeare and Company. Here she welcomes the greatest writers of... -
British Army Cap Badges of the Second World War by Peter Doyle
RRP: £14.99£11.75In their companion volume to British Army Cap Badges of the First World War, authors Peter Doyle and Chris Foster present an overview of the main cap badges worn by the British Army during the Second World War, which continued the rich and varied... -
The Representative of the People?: Voters and Voting in England under the Early Stuarts by Derek Hirst 9780521019880
RRP: £22.99£20.66Contested elections became a fact of political life for the first time in early-17th-century England as the gentry pressed for seats in a parliament which was growing increasingly important. Dr Hirst examines politics from the point of view of the...