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Even More Merseyside Tales!: Curious and Amazing True Tales from History by Ken Pye
RRP: £13.99£10.85In Ken Pye's third collection of strange and often bizarre tales from Merseyside's History, prepare to be amazed and entertained, once again.Where on Merseyside was the nonsense rhyme, 'The Owl and The Pussycat' written? How did the 'Cast Iron Shore' or... -
The Berlin Diaries 1940-45 by Marie Vassiltchikov
RRP: £18.99£13.61Marie `Missie' Vassiltchikov as a White Russian emigree caught with her family in Hitler`s Germany at the outbreak of the war. She was a Bright Young Thing, part of the cosmopolitan set who managed to maintain a trance-like normality until as late as... -
1920s Berlin by Rainer Metzger
RRP: £15.00£11.96It was the decade of daring Expressionist canvases, of brilliant book design, of the Bauhaus total work of art, of pioneering psychology, of drag balls, cabaret, Metropolis, and Marlene Dietrich's rising star in theater and silent film. Between the... -
War And An Irish Town by Eamonn McCann
RRP: £14.99£9.88Eamonn McCann's account of what it is like to grow up a Catholic in a Northern Irish ghetto - first published in 1974 - quickly became a classic account of the feelings generated by British rule. The author was at the centre of events in Derry which... -
Lust for Liberty: The Politics of Social Revolt in Medieval Europe, 1200-1425 by Samuel K. Cohn, Jr. 9780674030381
£44.36Lust for Liberty challenges long-standing views of popular medieval revolts. Comparing rebellions in northern and southern Europe over two centuries, Samuel Cohn analyzes their causes and forms, their leadership, the role of women, and the suppression or... -
Lady Gregory's Toothbrush by Colm Toibin
RRP: £8.99£6.60Colm Toibin's Lady Gregory's Toothbrush is a beautiful insight into the life of outspoken Irishwoman, Augusta Gregory.A remarkable figure in Celtic history, she was married to an MP and land-owner, yet retained an unprecedented independence of both... -
God's Viking: Harald Hardrada: The Varangian Guard of the Byzantine Emprerors Ad998 to 1204 by Nic Fields 9781473823426
RRP: £25.00£18.02Harald Hardrada is perhaps best known as the inheritor of seven feet of English soil in that year of fateful change, 1066/. But Stamford Bridge was the terminal point of a warring career that spanned decades and continents. Thus, prior to forcibly... -
Dettingen 1743: Miracle on the Main by Michael McNally
RRP: £15.99£12.46The death of the Emperor Charles VI in 1741 was the catalyst for a conflict ostensibly about the female inheritance of the Hapsburg patrimony but, in reality, about the succession to the Imperial Throne. The great European powers were divided between... -
The Make-Believe Space: Affective Geography in a Postwar Polity by Yael Navaro-Yashin
RRP: £21.99£19.19The Make-Believe Space is a book of ethnographic and theoretical meditation on the phantasmatic entanglement of materialities in the aftermath of war, displacement, and expropriation. "Northern Cyprus," carved out as a separate space and defined as a... -
In Time of War: Ireland, Ulster and the Price of Neutrality 1939-1945 by Robert Fisk 9780717124114
RRP: £21.99£17.43When the Union Jack was hauled down over the Atlantic naval ports of Cobh, Berehaven and Lough Swilly in 1939, the Irish were jubilant. But in London, Churchhill brooded on the 'incomprehensible' act of surrendering three of the Royal Navy's finest ports... -
Encountering the Book of Margery Kempe by Laura Kalas 9781526171580
RRP: £25.00£17.92This innovative critical volume brings the study of Margery Kempe into the twenty-first century. Structured around four categories of 'encounter' - textual, internal, external and performative - the volume offers a capacious exploration of The Book of... -
The Platinum Queen: Over 75 Speeches Given by Britain's Longest-Reigning Monarch by Jennie Bond
RRP: £20.00£13.86***Published in honour of our late Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee, The Platinum Queen presents seven decades of world history through the words of Britain's longest-reigning monarch: over 256 exquisitely designed pages, packed with 130 photos and... -
Alfred Dreyfus: The Man at the Center of the Affair by Maurice Samuels 9780300254006
RRP: £16.99£14.61An insightful new biography of the central figure in the Dreyfus Affair, focused on the man himself and based on newly accessible documents On January 5, 1895, Captain Alfred Dreyfus's cries of innocence were drowned out by a mob shouting "Death to... -
The Easter Rising: A Guide to Dublin in 1916 by Conor Kostick 9780862786380
RRP: £8.99£6.87A vivid and entertaining guide to the events and locations of the Easter 1916 Rising. Defying all the odds 1600 men, women and children went out on 24 April, Easter Monday, 1916 to fight for an independent Ireland. The battle raged for six days and... -
Bill of Rights: The Origin of Britain's Democracy by Jonathan Sumption
RRP: £7.99£6.32In 2017, the Government's attempt to trigger Article 50 and so leave the European Union resulted in a judgement by the Supreme Court, which stated that the Government was unentitled to do so without the consent of Parliament, directly citing the Bill of... -
Rot at the Core: The Serious Crimes of a Detective Sergeant by Graham Satchwell
RRP: £12.99£9.62In March 1972, four young black men were arrested by a specialist pickpocket squad at Oval Underground Station and charged with theft and assault of police officers. Sentenced to two years in prison, the case seemed straightforward and credible to the... -
Paths to the Past: Encounters with Britain's Hidden Landscapes by Francis Pryor
RRP: £10.99£7.77Discover the hidden corners and forgotten crevices of Britain's landscapes, from lost rural treasures to unseen urban gems.Landscapes reflect and shape our behaviour. They make us who we are and bear witness to the shifting patterns of human life over... -
The Etruscans: A Very Short Introduction by Christopher Smith
RRP: £8.99£6.45From around 900 to 400 BC, the Etruscans were the most innovative, powerful, wealthy, and creative people in Italy. Their archaeological record is both substantial and fascinating, including tomb paintings, sculpture, jewellery, and art. In this Very... -
The Borgias: History's Most Notorious Dynasty by Mary Hollingsworth 9781782069447
RRP: £12.99£8.60The Borgias have become a byword for pride, lust, cruelty, avarice, splendour and venomous intrigue. An inspiration for many works of fiction, most famously Mario Puzo's The Godfather, they have aroused abomination and fascination in almost equal... -
From Agent to Spectator: Witnessing the Aftermath in Ancient Greek Epic and Tragedy by Emily Allen-Hornblower 9783110578188
RRP: £19.00£16.61This book looks at witnesses to suffering and death in ancient Greek epic (Homer's Iliad) and tragedy. Internal spectators abound in both genres, and have received due scholarly attention. The present monograph covers new ground by dealing with a... -
The Dual State: A Contribution to the Theory of Dictatorship by Ernst Fraenkel 9780198716204
£43.02The Dual State, first published in 1941, remains one of the most erudite books on the logic of dictatorship. It was the first comprehensive analysis of the rise and nature of National Socialism and the only such analysis written from within Hitler's... -
The Jerusalem Files: The Secret Journey of the Menorah to Oak Island by Corjan Mol 9781786788368
RRP: £16.99£11.54The Jewish Menorah is one of the world's most sacred artefacts, a man-size lampstand with seven arms, made from a single block of gold, that is an iconic symbol for the Jewish people. King Solomon placed it in the inner sanctum of the Temple of... -
The World the Plague Made: The Black Death and the Rise of Europe by James Belich
RRP: £45.00£36.32A groundbreaking history of how the Black Death unleashed revolutionary change across the medieval world and ushered in the modern ageIn 1346, a catastrophic plague beset Europe and its neighbours. The Black Death was a human tragedy that abruptly halved... -
The English Actor: From Medieval to Modern by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: £20.00£14.29The English Actor charts the uniquely English approach to stagecraft. In thirty chapters, Peter Ackroyd describes, with superb narrative skill, the genesis of acting - deriving from the Church tradition of Mystery Plays - through the flourishing of the... -
White Boots and Miniskirts: A True Story of Life in the Swinging Sixties by Jacky Hyams 9781782190141
RRP: £7.99£5.79The place is London, and the year is 1966. It's a time when anything seems possible, especially if you are a young, free-spirited, mini-skirted girl in search of adventure and independence. An incredible explosion of pop music, fashion and youth culture... -
The East Donegal border petition and Derry-Donegal Milk War, 1934-8 by Samuel Gary Beckton 9781801510936
£12.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781801510936Author Samuel Gary BecktonFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press Ltd -
The Church and Northern English Society in the Fourteenth Century: the Archbishops of York and their Records by Paul Dryburgh 9781914049156
RRP: £95.00£90.68Essays offering insights into the ecclesiastical, political, cultural and social history in the north of England during the fourteenth century through an exploration of the administrative archives of archbishops. The period between 1304 and 1405 was... -
Nineteenth-Century Britain: A Very Short Introduction by Christopher Harvie
RRP: £8.99£6.45First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, Christopher Harvie and Colin Matthew's Very Short Introduction to Nineteenth-Century Britain is a sharp but subtle account of remarkable economic and social change and... -
Ireland The Best 100 Places: Extraordinary places and where best to walk, eat and sleep by John McKenna 9780008354688
RRP: £20.00£13.34Sally and John McKenna, travel and food writers and authors of IRELAND THE BEST, have selected 100 extraordinary places that epitomise what is truly great about Ireland. This personal and diverse compendium is illustrated with beautiful and evocative... -
Viking Identities: Scandinavian Jewellery in England by Jane F. Kershaw
RRP: £41.49£38.16Viking Identities is the first detailed archaeological study of Viking-Age Scandinavian-style female dress items from England. Based on primary archival and archaeological research, including the analysis of hundreds of recent metal-detector finds, it... -
Gypsies: An English History by David Cressy 9780198768135
RRP: £31.49£23.46Gypsies, Egyptians, Romanies, and -more recently-Travellers. Who are this marginal and mysterious people who first arrived in England in early Tudor times? Are tales of their distant origins on the Indian subcontinent true, or just another of the many... -
Portugal: A Companion History by Jose Hermano Saraiva
RRP: £20.00£14.05Professor Saraiva's multi-volume History of Portugal is a celebrated scholarly standard work. Yet, when he published a one-volume Historia Concisa, it proved a run-away best seller in Portugal, and the television series that went with it became a... -
Venetian Rapier: Nicoletto Giganti's 1606 Rapier Fencing Curriculum by Tom Leoni
RRP: £20.00£18.81Perhaps no other weapon represents Renaissance Italian fencing like the rapier. But do we know how it was used and how it was taught? This book takes you to the fencing School, or Salle, of celebrated renaissance rapier Master Nicoletto Giganti of... -
The A-Z of Curious Devon by Suze Gardner
RRP: £14.99£11.55The lifestyles of the people of Devon have traditionally been as diverse as its spectacular scenery. Little wonder then that the county's curious stories are so numerous and so varied. Including a train trapped in a giant snowdrift in Devon's worst... -
The Vickers Viscount: The World's First Turboprop Airliner by Nick Stroud
RRP: £16.99£12.28By some margin the most successful British medium-range airliner ever produced, the world-beating Viscount was a sublime combination of Vickers' state-of-the-art postwar design and Rolls-Royce's cutting-edge power-plant technology, both companies being... -
Blitz Then and Now: v. 1 by Winston G. Ramsey 9780900913457
RRP: £29.95£24.84This volume covers the first year of World War II, the period from phoney war to total war: September 3rd, 1939 to September 6th, 1940. Beginning with endless air raid warnings and a sense of unreality, it was a phase which was to culminate in Hitler... -
The Making of Italy, 1796-1866 by Denis Mack Smith 9780333438084
£90.27First published in 1968, this standard text on Italian nineteenth-century history is reissued, with a new preface, in hardcover and paperback, to meet a continuing demand.Book InformationISBN 9780333438084Author Denis Mack SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count... -
In the Shadow of the Empress: The Defiant Lives of Maria Theresa, Mother of Marie Antoinette, and Her Daughters by Nancy Goldstone
RRP: £14.99£7.77In the Shadow of the Empress is the sweeping family saga of beautiful Maria Theresa, the only woman to inherit and rule the vast Habsburg empire in her own name, and three of her remarkable daughters: lovely, talented Maria Christina, governor general of... -
The Great Cat Massacre: And Other Episodes in French Cultural History by Robert Darnton 9780465012749
£18.55When the apprentices of a Paris printing shop in the 1730s held a series of mock trials and then hanged all the cats they could lay their hands on, why did they find it so hilariously funny that they choked with laughter when they reenacted it in... -
The Peninsular War: A New History by Charles J. Esdaile 9780140273700
RRP: £19.99£14.68For centuries Spain had been the most feared and predatory power in Europe - it had the largest empire and one of the world's great navies to defend it. Nothing could have prepared the Spanish for the devastating implosion of 1805-14. Trafalgar...