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The Tudors: A Very Short Introduction by John Guy 9780199674725
RRP: $11.60$8.58The monarchs of the Tudor period are among some of the most well-known figures in British history. John Guy presents a compelling and fascinating exploration of the Tudors in the new edition of this Very Short Introduction. Looking at all aspects of... -
The London Compendium by Ed Glinert
RRP: $19.34$14.33The streets of London resonate with secret stories, from East End lore to Cold War espionage, from tales of riots, rakes, anarchy and grisly murders, to Rolling Stones gigs, gangland drinking dens, Orwell's Fitzrovia and Lenin's haunts. Ed Glinert has... -
William Blake's Universe by David Bindman 9781781301272
RRP: $45.15$36.03A beautifully illustrated book that explores William Blake's relationship with Europe against a backdrop of political turmoil. Responding to revolution and war in Europe, enslavement and exploitation in European colonies, and repression and reaction... -
Brother to the Sun King: Philippe, Duke of Orleans by Nancy Nichols Barker 9780801861642 [USED COPY]
RRP: $40.64$21.25In battle he fought with legendary valor ...At court, dressed in silks and ribbons, he openly favored his male lovers ...Despised but feared by his brother, he was the perpetual loser in a lifelong sibling rivalry ...Brother to the Sun King: Philippe,... -
Brother to the Sun King: Philippe, Duke of Orleans by Nancy Nichols Barker
RRP: $40.64$36.70In battle he fought with legendary valor ...At court, dressed in silks and ribbons, he openly favored his male lovers ...Despised but feared by his brother, he was the perpetual loser in a lifelong sibling rivalry ...Brother to the Sun King: Philippe,... -
Protestants: The Radicals Who Made the Modern World by Professor Alec Ryrie
RRP: $21.92$14.80On the 500th anniversary of Luther's rebellion, this spectacular global history traces the revolutionary faith that shaped the modern world. Five hundred years ago Protestant Christianity began with one stubborn monk... -
The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn: 'The Most Happy' Eric Ives (University of Birmingham, UK) 9781405134637
RRP: $21.87$20.42This definitive biography of Anne Boleyn establishes her as a figure of considerable importance and influence in her own right. A full biography of Anne Boleyn, based on the latest scholarly research.Focusses on Anne's life and legacy and establishes... -
A Mad, Bad, and Dangerous People?: England 1783-1846 by Boyd Hilton
RRP: $67.08$51.74This was a transformative period in English history. In 1783 the country was at one of the lowest points in its fortunes, having just lost its American colonies in warfare. By 1846 it was once more a great imperial nation, as well as the world's... -
A Duty of Care: Britain Before and After Covid by Peter Hennessy
RRP: $16.76$12.05One of our most celebrated historians shows how we can use the lessons of the past to build a new post-covid society in BritainThe 'duty of care' which the state owes to its citizens is a phrase much used, but what has it actually meant in Britain... -
Koba The Dread by Martin Amis
RRP: $16.76$12.05Koba the Dread is the successor to Amis's celebrated memoir, Experience. It addresses itself to the central lacuna of twentieth-century thought: the indulgence of communism by Western intellectuals. In between the personal beginning and the personal... -
A Brief History of the Hundred Years War: The English in France, 1337-1453 Desmond Seward 9781841196787
RRP: $14.18$9.82For over a hundred years England repeatedly invaded France on the pretext that her kings had a right to the French throne. France was a large, unwieldy kingdom, England was small and poor, but for the most part she dominated the war, sacking towns and... -
Courtiers: The Secret History of the Georgian Court by Lucy Worsley
RRP: $16.76$11.35In the eighteenth century, the palace's most elegant assembly room was in fact a bloody battlefield. This was a world of skulduggery, politicking, wigs and beauty-spots, where fans whistled open like flick-knives...Ambitious and talented people flocked... -
Berlin: Imagine a City Rory MacLean 9781780224589
RRP: $14.18$9.82The first single-volume biography of Berlin, one of the world's great cities - told via twenty-one portraits, from medieval times to the twenty-first century.A city devastated by Allied bombs, divided by a Wall, then reunited and reborn, Berlin today... -
History in Flames: The Destruction and Survival of Medieval Manuscripts Robert Bartlett 9781009457156
RRP: $25.80$16.59To what extent does our knowledge of the past rely upon written sources? And what happens when these sources are destroyed? Focusing on the manuscripts of the Middle Ages, History in Flames explores cases in which large volumes of written material were... -
The Lost Peace: How the West Failed to Prevent a Second Cold War by Richard Sakwa 9780300255010
RRP: $32.25$26.99The end of the Cold War was an opportunity - our inability to seize it has led to today's renewed era of great power competition 1989 heralded a unique prospect for an enduring global peace, as harsh ideological divisions and conflicts began to be... -
First Portuguese Colonial Empire by Professor Malyn Newitt
RRP: $28.37$25.63The four essays in this book examine aspects of Portugal's first overseas empire, the maritime and commercial empire that was founded in the fifteenth century and which, during the sixteenth century extended from Brazil to China.Book InformationISBN... -
Britain BC: Life in Britain and Ireland Before the Romans by Francis Pryor
RRP: $19.34$12.85An authoritative and radical rethinking of the history of Ancient Britain and Ancient Ireland, based on remarkable new archaeological finds. British history is traditionally regarded as having started with the Roman Conquest. But this is to... -
In The Garden of Beasts: Love and terror in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson
RRP: $16.76$12.05'A compelling tale... a narrative that makes such a brave effort to see history as it evolves and not as it becomes.' SPECTATORSuffused with the tense atmosphere of the times, and with brilliant portraits of Hitler, Goebbels, Goering and Himmler amongst... -
Towards the Flame: Empire, War and the End of Tsarist Russia by Dominic Lieven
RRP: $16.76$12.05TLS BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2016FINANCIAL TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015WINNER OF THE PUSHKIN HOUSE RUSSIAN BOOK PRIZE 2016 'Magisterial... reveals how much is at stake for world order in Ukraine and Syria.' Rachel Polonsky'As much as anything, World War I... -
The Early History of Rome by Livy
RRP: $16.76$12.05'I hope my passion for Rome's past has not impaired my judgement; for I do honestly believe that no country has ever been greater or purer than ours or richer in good citizens and noble deeds'Livy dedicated most of his life to writing some 142 volumes of... -
CCEA A2-level History Student Guide: Partition of Ireland (1900-25) Henry Jefferies 9781510419131
$15.65Build, reinforce and assess students' knowledge throughout their course; tailored to the 2016 CCEA specification and brought to you by the leading History publisher, this study and revision guide combines clear content coverage with practice questions... -
Templars: History and Myth: From Solomon's Temple to the Freemasons by Michael Haag
RRP: $19.34$14.33An order of warrior monks founded to protect pilgrims to Jerusalem, the Templars were among the wealthiest and most powerful bodies in the medieval world. Yet two centuries later, they were arrested, accused of blasphemy, heresy and orgies, and their... -
A History of My Times by Xenophon
RRP: $16.76$12.05Xenophon's History recounts nearly fifty turbulent years of warfare in Greece between 411 and 362 BC. Continuing the story of the Peloponnesian War at the point where Thucydides finished his magisterial history, this is a fascinating chronicle of the... -
The Book in the Renaissance by Dr. Andrew Pettegree
RRP: $24.50$21.39A groundbreaking study of the fascinating, yet largely unknown world of books in the first great age of print, 1450-1600 The dawn of print was a major turning point in the early modern world. It rescued ancient learning from obscurity, transformed... -
The War of Wars: The Epic Struggle Between Britain and France: 1789-1815 by Robert Harvey
RRP: $25.80$18.00Robert Harvey brilliantly recreates the story of the greatest conflict that stretches from the first blaze of revolution in Paris in 1789 to final victory on the muddy fields of Waterloo.On land and at sea, throughout the four corners of the continent,... -
The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War by Benn Steil 9780192843104
RRP: $21.92$16.36A polished and masterly work of historical narrative, The Marshall Plan is an instant classic of Cold War literature. With Britain's empire collapsing and Stalin's ascendant, U.S. officials under new Secretary of State George C. Marshall set out to... -
The London Restaurant, 1840-1914 by Brenda Assael
RRP: $37.40$34.46This is the first scholarly treatment of the history of public eating in London in the Victorian and Edwardian eras. The quotidian nature of eating out during the working day or evening should not be allowed to obscure the significance of the... -
Populus: Living and Dying in the Wealth, Smoke and Din of Ancient Rome by Guy de la Bédoyère 9781408715154
RRP: $32.25$21.65A Time Travellers Guide to Ancient Rome - by one of the best historians of the ancient worldLiving in ancient Rome was superbly and vividly recorded by Rome's historians, philosophers, and poets who were acutely aware of the seething and voluptuous... -
The Last Viking: The Life of Olav Haraldsson by Desmond Seward
RRP: $28.38$18.98Raider. Conqueror. King. Saint. This is the story of Olav Haraldsson, the greatest Viking who ever lived. A ruthless Viking warrior who named his most prized battle weapon after the Norse goddess of death, Olav Haraldsson and his mercenaries... -
The Narrative of Trajan's Column by Italo Calvino
RRP: $10.31$7.71'When the last fire goes out, time too will be finished'Italo Calvino was one of the most joyful and imaginative writers of the twentieth century. Here he muses on what the things we leave behind - whether waxworks or ancient graffiti, enigmatic maps or... -
Hundred Days: The End of the Great War by Nick Lloyd
RRP: $16.76$12.05An unmissable book that explores the brutal, heroic and extraordinary final days of the First World WarOn the eleventh hour of the eleventh day in November 1918, the guns of the Western Front fell silent.The Armistice, which brought the Great War to an... -
The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness 1680-1790 by Ritchie Robertson
RRP: $24.50$18.07'The best single-volume study of the Enlightenment that we have' Literary ReviewThe Enlightenment is one of the formative periods of Western history, yet more than 300 years after it began, it remains controversial. It is often seen as the fountainhead... -
Access to History: Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust Second Edition by Alan Farmer
$32.52Ensure your students have access to the authoritative and in-depth content of this popular and trusted A Level History series. For over twenty years Access to History has been providing students with reliable, engaging and accessible content on a wide... -
A Storm in Flanders: Triumph and Tragedy on the Western Front by Winston Groom
RRP: $12.89$9.03A vivid page-turning narrative of the most horrific battle in history by a soldier turned bestselling novelistA fast-paced and vivid narrative of the most horrific campaign in history: the four-year slaughter around the Belgian town of Ypres 1914-18... -
The Prisoner List by Richard Kandler 9780956488107
RRP: $12.84$11.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956488107Author Richard KandlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Marsworth PublishingPublisher Marsworth PublishingWeight(grams) 304g -
Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations by Simon Schama 9781471169892
RRP: $38.70$24.70'This splendid and often moving work of history... Schama has a gift for combining novelistically colourful detail, serious analysis and wryly amusing asides' Daily Telegraph 'Superb' Observer 'Extraordinary... A meticulous retelling of a terrible... -
Demonology and Witch-Hunting in Early Modern Europe by Julian Goodare
RRP: $49.01$43.06Demonology - the intellectual study of demons and their powers - contributed to the prosecution of thousands of witches. But how exactly did intellectual ideas relate to prosecutions? Recent scholarship has shown that some of the demonologists' concerns... -
Checkmate in Berlin: The First Battle of the Cold War Giles Milton 9781529393170
RRP: $16.76$11.39'Brilliantly written and completely absorbing, this is Milton's masterpiece' ANTHONY HOROWITZBERLIN'S FATE WAS SEALED AT THE 1945 YALTA CONFERENCE.The city was to be carved up between the victorious powers - British, American, French and Soviet - with... -
London: A Social History by Roy Porter
RRP: $19.34$14.13'Roy Porter, a historian of formidable range, turns to urban history in this marvellously lucid, informative and passionate book... Porter's facts are always at the service of the narrative, which has a finely maintained momentum, balancing statistics... -
The Colosseum by Keith Hopkins
RRP: $14.18$10.55The Colosseum was Imperial Rome's monument to warfare. Like a cathedral of death it towered over the city and invited its citizens, 50,000 at a time, to watch murderous gladiatorial games. It is now visited by two million visitors a year (Hitler was...