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Mark Steel's In Town by Mark Steel
RRP: £12.99£9.09On the way to a show in Skipton, in North Yorkshire, I noticed a road sign to a town called Keighley. So later, during the show, I mentioned this, asking the audience, 'Is that your rival town?' And the room went chillingly quiet, until one woman called... -
The Pensive Image: Art as a Form of Thinking by Hanneke Grootenboer 9780226829449
RRP: £20.00£19.40Grootenboer considers painting as a form of thinking in itself, rather than a subject of philosophical and interpretive thought. While the philosophical dimension of painting has long been discussed, a clear case for painting as a form of visual... -
Dismembering the Male: Men (TM)s Bodies, Britain and the Great War Pb by Professor Joanna Bourke 9781861890351
£27.47That notions of femininity were seriously disrupted during the First World War has become obvious in recent years. But what happened to masculinity at the same time? Based on letters, diaries and oral histories, "Dismembering the Male" explores the... -
Jersey Place Names: Volume II: The Maps by Professor Charles Stevens 9780901897015
£15.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780901897015Author Professor Charles StevensFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Societe JersiaisePublisher Societe JersiaiseWeight(grams) 467g -
The Black Death by Rosemary Horrox
RRP: £16.99£12.48This series provides texts central to medieval studies courses and focuses upon the diverse cultural, social and political conditions that affected the functioning of all levels of medieval society. Translations are accompanied by introductory and... -
Gardens for Gloriana: Wealth, Splendour and Design in Elizabethan Gardens by Jane Whitaker
RRP: £40.00£30.78The formal gardens of Elizabethan England were among the glories of their age. Complementing the great houses of the day, they reflected the aspirations of their owners, whose greatest desire was to achieve success at Court and to delight the Queen. No... -
Queer Data: Using Gender, Sex and Sexuality Data for Action by Kevin Guyan
RRP: £19.99£17.61Data has never mattered more. Our lives are increasingly shaped by it and how it is defined, collected and used. But who counts in the collection, analysis and application of data? This important book is the first to look at queer data - defined as... -
The Prince Rupert Hotel for the Homeless: A True Story of Love and Compassion Amid a Pandemic by Christina Lamb
RRP: £20.00£13.34'There will be an avalanche of books about the pandemic. None will be as eye-opening or humane or moving as Lamb's' DAILY TELEGRAPH A story of poverty, generosity and worlds colliding in modern Britain When... -
Aelfred's Britain: War and Peace in the Viking Age by Max Adams
RRP: £9.99£7.11The story of Aelfred the Great, his war against the Vikings and the foundations of modern Britain. In AD 865, a 'great host' of battle-hardened Norse warriors landed on England's eastern coast, overwhelmed East Anglia with terrifying swiftness and laid... -
The History of the London Underground Map by Roope, Caroline 9781399006811
RRP: £20.00£14.29Few transportation maps can boast the pedigree that London's iconic Tube' map can. Sported on t-shirts, keyrings, duvet covers, and most recently, downloaded an astonishing twenty million times in app form, the map remains a long-standing icon of... -
The North Will Rise Again: In Search of the Future in Northern Heartlands by Alex Niven
RRP: £20.00£15.64"Incorporating sharp questions and big ideas, Niven shifts deftly between history, politics, culture and literature to offer a fascinating and provocative analysis of the marginalisation of the North." Madeleine Bunting, author of Labours of Love: the... -
AEthelflaed: Lady of the Mercians by Tim Clarkson
RRP: £14.99£10.77The true story of the Lady of the Mercians. At the end of the ninth century AD, a large part of what is now England was controlled by the Vikings - heathen warriors from Scandinavia who had been attacking the British Isles for more than a hundred... -
Edward I (Penguin Monarchs): A New King Arthur? by Andy King
RRP: £7.99£5.79The acclaimed Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers - now in paperbackEdward I (1272-1307) is one of the most commanding of all English rulers. He fought in southwest France, in Wales, In Scotland and in northern... -
Iceland - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture by Thorgeir Sveinsson
RRP: £10.99£8.22Don't just see the sights-get to know the people. The volcanic island of Iceland has erupted onto the world travel scene in recent years. With otherworldly landscapes of steaming turquoise geysers set among rugged snowy peaks, miles of icy black sand... -
The Glass Wall: Lives on the Baltic Frontier by Max Egremont 9781509845453
RRP: £25.00£21.79A Sunday Times Book of the Year 2021This journey to the edge of Europe mixes history, travelogue and oral testimony to spellbinding and revelatory effect.Few countries have suffered more from the convulsions and bloodshed of twentieth-century Europe than... -
Jack the Ripper: The 21st Century Investigation by Trevor Marriott 9781844543700
£12.61There have been countless attempts to solve the brutal murders committed by Jack the Ripper more than a hundred years ago. It seems that almost everyone has their own theory and their own suspect, ranging from the reasonably likely to the entirely... -
Britain's War: A New World, 1942-1947 by Daniel Todman
RRP: £16.99£12.68WINNER OF THE TEMPLER MEDAL BOOK PRIZE 2020A SPECTATOR, FINANCIAL TIMES AND DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020'A stunning achievement' Max Hastings, Sunday TimesPart Two of Daniel Todman's epic history of the Second World War opens with one of the... -
Burning the Big House: The Story of the Irish Country House in a Time of War and Revolution by Terence Dooley
RRP: £12.99£11.46The gripping story of the tumultuous destruction of the Irish country house, spanning the revolutionary years of 1912 to 1923 During the Irish Revolution nearly three hundred country houses were burned to the ground. These "Big Houses" were powerful... -
Police Casualties in Ireland 1919-1922 by Richard Abbott 9781781176344
RRP: £18.99£13.61The Royal Irish Constabulary are often portrayed as the villains of the War of Independence in Ireland, Irishmen who betrayed their country by serving the British regime. No memorial has been raised in Ireland to those who died during the conflict and... -
Meet the Georgians by Rob Peal
RRP: £18.99£6.85'The way Robert Peal describes Georgian England, you'd be mad not to want to live there yourself' GUARDIAN Anne Bonny and Mary Read, pirate queens of the Caribbean Tipu Sultan, the Indian ruler who kept... -
Hiding the Guillotine: Public Executions in France, 1870–1939 by Emmanuel Taïeb 9781501750946
RRP: £44.00£38.34Hiding the Guillotine examines the question of state involvement in violence by tracing the evolution of public executions in France. Why did the state move executions from the bloody and public stage of the guillotine to behind prison doors? In a... -
The Story of Brexit by Jason Hazeley
RRP: £7.99£6.39As Brexit reaches its final stretch, find a way to laugh through the pain and or celebrate the end with Ladybird's hilarious and essential guide, The Story of Brexit.'Hilarious' STYLIST________'"Leaving was the will of the people" sighs Angelica's father... -
The Secret History of the Roman Roads of Britain by M. C. Bishop 9781526761132
RRP: £14.99£10.95There have been many books on Britain's Roman roads, but none have considered in any depth their long-term strategic impact. Mike Bishop shows how the road network was vital not only in the Roman strategy of conquest and occupation, but influenced the... -
The Salt Roads: How Fish Made a Culture by John Goodlad 9781780278285
RRP: £9.99£6.70This is the extraordinary story of how salt fish from Shetland became one of the staple foods of Europe, powered an economic boom and inspired artists, writers and musicians. It ranges from the wild waters of the North Atlantic, the ice-filled fjords... -
Upper Rhondda: Treorchy and Treherbert by Emrys Jenkins 9780752410166
RRP: £12.99£9.62Using the images captured by the camera lens over the last hundred years, Emrys Jenkins and Roy Green have reconstructed the broad canvas of past life in the Upper Rhondda Fawr valley - in Cwmparc and Treorchy through Ynyswen and Penyrenglyn, Treherbert... -
The Sinner's Mark by S. W. Perry
RRP: £18.99£13.23Treason, heresy and revolt in Queen Elizabeth's England . . . The year is 1600. With a dying queen on the throne, war raging on the high seas and famine on the rise, England is on the brink of chaos. And in London's dark alleyways, a conspiracy is... -
Western Europe's Democratic Age: 1945-1968 by Professor Martin Conway 9780691203485
RRP: £42.00£33.44A major new history of how democracy became the dominant political force in Europe in the second half of the twentieth centuryWhat happened in the years following World War II to create a democratic revolution in the western half of Europe? In Western... -
The House of Godwin: The Rise and Fall of an Anglo-Saxon Dynasty by Michael John Key
RRP: £25.00£16.43Godwin and his family dominated English politics for almost half a century, establishing themselves as the most influential and powerful dynasty in Anglo-Saxon England. At the height of its power, it took a matter of weeks for the dynasty to fall. ... -
The Little Book of Bristol by Maurice Fells
RRP: £14.99£11.55A rich, and indeed sometimes bizarre, thread of history weaves its way through the Bristol story. Find out all manner of things, from why a 'Bristol Diamond' would never be found in a jewellery shop to why local by-laws restrict carpet beating to certain... -
A Place For Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order by Judith Flanders
RRP: £12.99£9.26'A delightfully quirky sturdy . . . [Flanders] is a meticulour historian with a taste for the offbeat; the story of the alphabet suits her well . . . Fascinating.' Sunday TimesOnce we've learned it as children, few of us think much of the alphabet and... -
Magna Carta by David Carpenter
RRP: £12.99£9.09'David Carpenter deserves to replace Sir James Holt as the standard authority, and an unfailingly readable one too.' Ferdinand Mount, TLS 'An invaluable new commentary' Jill Leopore, New Yorker With a new commentary by David Carpenter"No free man shall... -
The Churchill Myths by Steven Fielding 9780198851967
RRP: £25.99£21.99This is not a book about Winston Churchill. It is not principally about his politics, nor his rhetorical imagination, nor even about the man himself. Instead, it addresses the varied afterlives of the man and the persistent, deeply located compulsion to... -
The Highland Clearances by Eric Richards
RRP: £14.99£10.20The Highland Clearances stands out as one of the most emotive chapters in the history of Scotland. This book traces the origins of the Clearances from the eighteenth century to their culmination in the crofting legislation of the 1880s. In considering... -
Beauty and Cosmetics 1550 to 1950 by Sarah-Jane Downing
RRP: £8.99£6.96The source of tremendous power and the focus of incredible devotion, throughout history notions of beauty have been integral to social life and culture. Each age has had its own standards: a gleaming white brow during the Renaissance, the black eyebrows... -
Ghosts of Empire by Kwasi Kwarteng 9781408829004
RRP: £16.99£12.28The ghosts of the British Empire continue to haunt today's international scene and many of the problems faced by the Empire have still not been resolved. In Iraq, Kashmir, Burma, Sudan, Nigeria and Hong Kong, new difficulties, resulting from British... -
Tory Nation: How one party took over by Samuel Earle
RRP: £16.99£11.08'A witty, lucid investigation into one of the great mysteries of our time' JONATHAN COE'Should be read and enjoyed by readers on the left, right and centre' David Edgerton, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT ________________________________________________Why do... -
Old Age in English History: Past Experiences, Present Issues by Pat Thane 9780198203827
£73.43At the end of the twentieth century more people are living into their seventies, eighties, nineties and beyond, a process expected to continue well into the next millennium. The twentieth century has achieved what people in other centuries only dreamed... -
The Channel: The Remarkable Men and Women Who Made It the Most Fascinating Waterway in the World by Charlie Connelly
RRP: £16.99£9.98A bulwark against invasion, a conduit for exchange and a challenge to be conquered, the English Channel has always been many things to many people. Today it's the busiest shipping lane in the world and hosts more than 30 million passenger crossings every... -
All The King's Men: The British Redcoat in the Era of Sword and Musket by Saul David
RRP: £12.99£9.09Saul David's All The King's Men is a thrilling history of the British Redcoat from the English Civil War to Waterloo.Between 1660 and 1815 British supremacy on foreign soil was near total. Central to this success was the humble redcoat soldier who showed... -
An Uncommon Woman: The Life of Princess Vicky: Princess Vicky by Hannah Pakula
RRP: £16.99£11.94The life of Empress Frederick, Daughter of Queen Victoria, Wife of Crown Prince of Prussia, Mother of Kaiser Wilhelm.AN UNCOMMON WOMAN is an enthralling biography of Princess Vicky - the Empress Frederick of Germany, the eldest daughter of Queen...