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Queer Premises: LGBTQ+ Venues in London Since the 1980s Prof. Ben Campkin (University College London, UK) 9781350324855
RRP: $32.24$26.79Queer premises provide vital social and cultural infrastructure - a queer infrastructure - connecting different generations and locations, facilitating the movement of resources, across and beyond the city. Queer Premises offers evidence for how... -
In Search Of The First Civilizations by Michael Wood
RRP: $20.63$14.98Five thousand years ago there began the most momentous revolution in human history. Starting in Mesopotamia, city civilization emerged for the first time on earth, to be followed in Egypt, India, China and the Americas. The ideals of these ancient... -
Sydenham and Forest Hill by John Coulter 9780752400365
RRP: $16.76$12.73In the second half of the nineteenth century, after the removal of the Crystal Palace to the hill above, Sydenham and Forest Hill were among the most delightful of London's suburbs. By the first two decades of the twentieth century they were beginning to... -
Battle Under the Moon: The Disastrous RAF Raid on Mailly-Le-Camp, 1944 by Jack Currie
RRP: $11.60$8.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910809808Author Jack CurrieFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Goodall Publications LtdPublisher Crecy Publishing -
History Of Witchcraft by Lois Martin 9780857301154 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.76$2.92Witchcraft has recently been undergoing a huge popular revival, but does modern pagan witchcraft really bear any resemblance to its historical antecedents? The witch in history was a very different creature from her modern counterpart, and this book sets... -
History Of Witchcraft by Lois Martin 9780857301154
RRP: $16.76$11.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857301154Author Lois MartinFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Pocket EssentialsPublisher Oldcastle Books Ltd -
The Congress of Vienna and its Legacy: War and Great Power Diplomacy after Napoleon by Mark Jarrett
$37.80**CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title** In September 1814, the rulers of Europe and their ministers descended upon Vienna after two decades of revolution and war. Their task was to redraw continental borders following the collapse of the Napoleonic... -
Politics and the People in Revolutionary Russia: A Provincial History by Sarah Badcock 9780521182256
RRP: $43.85$36.61After the collapse of the Romanov dynasty in February 1917, Russia was subject to an eight month experiment in democracy. Sarah Badcock studies its failure through an exploration of the experiences and motivations of ordinary men and women, urban and... -
Kafka: The Years of Insight by Reiner Stach 9780691165844
RRP: $28.38$24.03This volume of Reiner Stach's acclaimed and definitive biography of Franz Kafka tells the story of the final years of the writer's life, from 1916 to 1924--a period during which the world Kafka had known came to an end. Stach's riveting narrative, which... -
Norfolk and Suffolk Churches: The Domesday Record: A Handbook for Reference and Use by David Butcher 9781909796614
$22.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909796614Author David ButcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 369Imprint Poppyland PublishingPublisher Poppyland Publishing -
Machiavelli's Broken World by John M. Najemy 9780199580927
RRP: $44.49$38.79Machiavelli was painfully aware of living in a disastrous moment of Italy's history: foreign invasions, occupations and shattered states. He was harshly critical of Italy's princes (such as Francesco Sforza), its professional military class (especially... -
No 10: The Geography of Power at Downing Street by Jack Brown
RRP: $16.76$11.91Behind the world's most iconic front door lies the core of British political power: the Prime Minister's home and office. Designed over three centuries ago as an ordinary residence, 10 Downing Street (or 'No. 10') has undergone a challenging... -
From Kilts to Sarongs: Scottish Pioneers of Singapore by Graham Berry
RRP: $32.24$23.59Farquhar, Crawford, Cavenagh, Thomson, Anderson, Napier, Fullerton, Henderson, MacRitchie, MacPherson, Outram, Purvis, Spottiswoode. These are some of the Scots who have played a part in making Singapore.Guthrie, Fraser & Neave, Rodyk & Davidson, Sime... -
Mussolini and Hitler: The Forging of the Fascist Alliance by Christian Goeschel
RRP: $16.76$14.78A fresh treatment of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, revealing the close ties between Mussolini and Hitler and their regimes From 1934 until 1944 Mussolini met Hitler numerous times, and the two developed a relationship that deeply affected both... -
Between God and Hitler: Military Chaplains in Nazi Germany by Doris L. Bergen 9781108487702
RRP: $38.70$31.70During the Second World War, approximately 1000 Christian chaplains accompanied Wehrmacht forces wherever they went, from Poland to France, Greece, North Africa, and the Soviet Union. Chaplains were witnesses to atrocity and by their presence helped... -
Troubled by Faith: Insanity and the Supernatural in the Age of the Asylum by Prof Owen Davies 9780198873006
RRP: $32.25$27.85The nineteenth century was a time of extraordinary scientific innovation, but with the rise of psychiatry, faiths and popular beliefs were often seen as signs of a diseased mind. By exploring the beliefs of asylum patients, we see the nineteenth century... -
Beyond Empire by John T. Ducker
$57.88Beyond Empire looks at three decades of British colonial administration to assess the capacity of the independent governments of Africa to achieve independence. A wealth of archival material and a unique review of British press over those decades brings... -
The Times Second World War: The history of the global conflict from 1939 to 1945 by Peter Chasseaud
$36.20The perfect gift for history fans. Follow the conflict of World War 2 from 1939 to 1945 through a unique collection of historical maps, expert commentary and photographs. Published in association and including material from the archives of the... -
London: A Short History A N Wilson 9780753820278
RRP: $12.89$9.03'Engaging ... As each era superimposes itself on the ones before, he conjures up the vanished human history, hidden like the rivers flowing beneath, that is so much part of London's atmosphere' IRISH TIMES'Tantalisingly excellent' ISLINGTON TRIBUNEFrom... -
The New Royals: Queen Elizabeth's Legacy and the Future of the Crown by Katie Nicholl 9780306827990
RRP: $21.92$16.89For seventy years, Queen Elizabeth ruled over an institution and a family. During her lifetime she was constant in her desire to provide a steady presence and to be a trustworthy steward of the British people and the Commonwealth. In the face of her... -
A Thousand Years of a London Street: Cheapside by Mike Read 9781803780238
RRP: $16.76$12.05This book is the second of a series documenting a thousand years of selected London streets and their respective histories. Some of the streets have their roots and foundations in places of worship, locations for trading or because of their geographical... -
The Gulag Doctors: Life, Death, and Medicine in Stalin's Labour Camps by Dan Healey 9780300187137
RRP: $38.70$32.06A pioneering history of medical care in Stalin’s Gulag—showing how doctors and nurses cared for inmates in appalling conditions A byword for injustice, suffering, and mass mortality, the Gulag exploited prisoners, compelling them to work harder for... -
Last Voices of the Irish Revolution by Tom Hurley 9780717199785
RRP: $34.82$24.43The Irish Civil War ended in 1923. Eighty years on, documentary-maker Tom Hurley wondered if there were many people left from across Ireland who experienced the years 1919 to 1923, their prelude and aftermath. In early 2003, he recorded the experiences... -
The French Revolution, 1789-1804: Authority, Liberty and the Search for Stability by Nigel Aston
$48.59What was the appeal of the values of the Revolution? When did disillusionment set in, and why? Why did so few women identify with the Revolution? These are some of the questions which recur in this fresh study which focuses on some of the major themes... -
William III Tony Claydon 9781032212784
RRP: $46.43$40.88This is a political biography of William III (1650–1702): prince of Orange; stadhouder in the Netherlands from 1672; and (in a novel joint monarchy with his wife, Mary), king of England, Scotland, and Ireland after the revolution of 1688–9. William III... -
Exorcising Hitler by Frederick Taylor
RRP: $21.92$17.23The first major history of what happened in Germany immediately after the Second World War 'Frederick Taylor is one of the brightest historians writing today.' Newsweek 'Taylor's book is popular history at its best, essential reading for anyone who... -
Contrasting Communities: English Villages in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries by Margaret Spufford 9780521297486
RRP: $47.72$39.64This book is a detailed history of the economic, educational and religious life of three contrasting communities, Chippenham, Orwell and Willingham in Cambridgeshire from 1525 to 1700. The three villages had very difference economic settings, in which... -
Danebury Hillfort by Barry Cunliffe 9780752429106
RRP: $25.80$20.21An extremely well-preserved example of an Iron Age hillfort, Danebury is typical of many in Wessex but made exceptional by being the most thoroughly excavated and explored hillfort in the whole of Europe. Barry Cunliffe recreates the hillfort's past... -
War and Social Change in Modern Europe: The Great Transformation Revisited by Sandra Halperin 9780521540155
RRP: $45.14$39.33Halperin traces the persistence of traditional class structures during the development of industrial capitalism in Europe, and the way in which these structures shaped states and state behavior and generated conflict. She documents European conflicts... -
Reactionary Modernism: Technology, culture, and politics in Weimar and the Third Reich by Jeffrey Herf
RRP: $29.66$24.70In a unique application of critical theory to the study of the role of ideology in politics, Jeffrey Herf explores the paradox inherent in the German fascists' rejection of the rationalism of the Enlightenment while fully embracing modern technology. He... -
A Traveller's Guide to D-Day and the Battle for Normandy by Carl Shilleto
RRP: $19.34$12.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566565554Author Carl ShilletoFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Interlink BooksPublisher Interlink Publishing Group, Inc -
The Oxford Handbook of Roman Britain by Martin Millett 9780198854890
$61.82This book provides a twenty-first century perspective on Roman Britain, combining current approaches with the wealth of archaeological material from the province. This volume introduces the history of research into the province and the cultural changes... -
Old Rutherglen Rhona Wilson 9781872074726
RRP: $15.42$14.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781872074726Author Rhona WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 170mm * 239mm * 6mm -
Charles X's Wars: Volume 3 - The Danish Wars, 1657-1660 by Michael Fredholm Von Essen
RRP: $51.54$36.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915113603Author Michael Fredholm Von EssenFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Speakers' Corner: Debate, Democracy and Disturbing the Peace by Philip Wolmuth
RRP: $19.34$15.12Speakers' Corner is a unique look at the people who come to argue, discuss and preach at Speakers' Corner in London's Hyde Park, regarded worldwide as the home of free speech. Many of the photographs, taken on Sunday afternoons stretching back almost... -
Women and the Miners' Strike, 1984-1985 by Dr Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite 9780192843098
RRP: $45.15$39.35Just days into the miners' strike of 1984-1985, a few women in coalfield communities around Britain began to meet to consider how they could support the strike, a clash with the Thatcher government over the future of the coal industry. Women ultimately... -
RAF Bomber Command Losses: v. 9: Roll of Honour, 1939-1947 by W R Chorley
RRP: $25.79$20.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857801958Author W. R ChorleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 504Imprint Midland PublishingPublisher Crecy PublishingDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 2mm -
The British Army: A New Short History by Ian F. W. Beckett 9780198871040
RRP: $25.80$18.43The story of the British army, from its inception in the late seventeenth century to the present. This new concise history by one of Britain's leading military historians explores the British army from the creation of a permanent standing army in the... -
Brunel's Big Railway Robin Jones 9781911658191
RRP: $19.34$12.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911658191Author Robin JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Mortons Media GroupPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 534gDimensions(mm) 245mm *... -
The Ruins Lesson: Meaning and Material in Western Culture by Susan Stewart
RRP: $32.25$31.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226792200Author Susan StewartFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher University of Chicago PressWeight(grams) 178g