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The Royal Navy in the Napoleonic Age: Senior Service, 1800-1815 by Mark Jessop 9781526720375
RRP: $25.79$18.42In 1801 the newly forged United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland commenced life at war with France and her allies and remained so until 1815. After 1812 she had to shoulder the extra burden of a war against the United States of America. With conflict... -
Stuart Style: Monarchy, Dress and the Scottish Male Elite by Maria Hayward
RRP: $61.28$52.43Winner of 'History Book of the Year' in Scotland's National Book Awards 2021 A brilliant book revealing the complex messages that Stuart fashion conveyed about individual rulers' personalities, and about kingship more broadly This is the first detailed... -
Gloves and Glove-making by Mike Redwood
RRP: $11.60$9.86From workaday marigolds to hand-wear custom crafted for the Queen, gloves perform many functions - insulation from the cold, protection from injury, and even ceremonial roles. Gloves have been used since prehistoric times, but in Britain their use as... -
Special Forces Hero: Anders Lassen VC MC* by Thomas Harder 9781526787514
RRP: $38.70$28.32Until the German occupation of his native Denmark in April 1940 Anders Lassen had no interest in the War. Yet over the next five years he became a highly decorated Special Forces legend and the only non-Commonwealth recipient of the Victoria Cross. ... -
Voices of Stanley by Jo Bath 9780752460376
RRP: $16.76$12.41Voices of Stanley is a remarkable compilation of oral history extracts drawn from the extensive Beamish Museum Audio Archive, recalling life in the area between 1880 and 1950. Vivid memories are recounted, including childhood and schooldays, work and... -
Worcestershire Railways: Britain's Railways in Old Photographs by Mike Hitches 9780752450575
RRP: $21.92$16.69The railways which operated in Worcestershire were controlled by the Midland Railway and the Great Western Railway, whose struggle for supremacy had considerable effect on the development of railways in the county. The most important route through the... -
The Little Book of Welsh Landmarks by Mark Rees 9780750989053
RRP: $12.89$10.54From the snowy peaks of Snowdonia to the glorious Wales Coastal Path, this compelling compendium is a fact-filled journey through Wales' most iconic landmarks and popular tourist attractions. Experience the country's immense history, from the... -
The London LS: The Leyland National Bus in London Service by Matthew Wharmby
RRP: $32.25$18.00Dissatisfied with the reliability of its AEC Merlin and Swift single-deck buses, London Transport in 1973 purchased six Leyland Nationals for evaluation. Liking what it saw of this ultimate standard product, where even the paint swatch was of Leyland s... -
Gerrard Winstanley: The Digger's Life and Legacy by John Gurney
RRP: $32.24$21.13Christian Communist, leader of the Diggers movement and bete noire of the landed aristocracy, Gerard Winstanley (1609-1676) was one of the founders of a movement which fought for the redistribution of land and the abolition of wages and property under... -
Glorious Goodwood: A Biography of England's Greatest Sporting Estate by James Peill 9781472128249
RRP: $32.25$21.65'Delightful' Daily Mail (Book of the Year)'Goodwood curator James Peill writes with a wonderfully light touch . . . The Goodwood story is extraordinary and rightly celebrated' Country LifeThe history of Goodwood, England's greatest sporting... -
Beside the Sea: Britain's Lost Seaside Heritage by Sarah Freeman
$17.07From the Victorian era to the early years of the 1960s, Summer in Britain meant a mass exodus, as millions of Britons boarded steam locomotives and charabancs to swap the drudgery of life in the country's industrial heartlands for the fleeting pleasures... -
The Spread the Happiness Approach: Happy Teachers, Happy Classrooms, Better Education: Happy Teachers, Happy Classrooms, Better Education by Shonette Bason-Wood
RRP: $38.69$34.88Both practical and inspiring, this book is designed to empower educators and school leaders to make clear and simple adjustments to their practice for a lasting impact on the happiness and well- being of staff and children and ultimately on academic... -
The Wild West in England by William F. Cody 9780803240544
RRP: $21.92$18.80Army scout, frontiersman, and hero of the American West, William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody was also a shrewd self-promoter, showman, and entrepreneur. In 1888 he published The Story of the Wild West, a collection of biographies of four well-known American... -
Queenship in Britain 1660-1837: Royal Patronage, Court Culture and Dynastic Politics by Clarissa Campbell Orr 9780719057700
RRP: $25.79$22.72Queenship in Britain 1660-1837 looks at the lives of successive Queens, Princesses of Wales and royal daughters, and considers how they used their powers of patronage and operated within the confines of royal family politics. With contributions from an... -
Yesterday's Cardiff Revisited: Britain in Old Photographs by Brian Lee 9780752465296
RRP: $18.05$14.00Following the success of Yesterday's Cardiff, Brian Lee has returned, accompanied by his daughter Amanda Harvey, to take the reader on a further pictorial journey through the Cardiff of yesteryear. Drawing on their detailed knowledge of the city's... -
Dickens' Artistic Daughter Katey: Her Life, Loves and Impact by Lucinda Hawksley 9781526712301
RRP: $19.34$14.13Katey Dickens was born into a house of turbulent celebrity and grew up surrounded by fascinating, famous, and infamous people. From a very young age, she knew her vocation was to be an artist. Lucinda Hawksley charts the life of a celebrated portrait... -
Ingenious Trade: Women and Work in Seventeenth-Century London by Laura Gowing
RRP: $45.14$38.82Ingenious Trade recovers the intricate stories of the young women who came to London in the late seventeenth century to earn their own living, most often with the needle, and the mistresses who set up shops and supervised their apprenticeships. Tracking... -
Promised Land: A Northern Love Story by Anthony Clavane
RRP: $21.92$15.84This is a book about football. It's about unconditional love for a club, even when it doesn't always seem to love you back. But it is also a book about much more than that.Anthony Clavane loves Leeds - certainly the football club, but also the city, and... -
The Tiger Moth Story by Alan Bramson
RRP: $11.60$8.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910809440Author Alan BramsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Goodall Publications LtdPublisher Crecy Publishing -
Scotland from Pre-History to the Present by Fiona Watson
RRP: $19.34$14.90From the early settlers after the last Ice Age, and the myth and ritual that surrounds that prehistoric period, Fiona Watson charts the evolution of the Scottish people - as Scots, Picts and Angles - and their interaction with the world abroad, from... -
West Yorkshire Folk Tales by John Billingsley
RRP: $16.76$12.41Whether hailing from the open Pennine hills or the close-knit neighbourhoods of industrial towns, West Yorkshire folk have always been fond of a good tale. This collection of stories from around the county is a tribute to their narrative vitality, and... -
Lost Aberdeen by Diane Morgan
RRP: $19.34$13.89The initial chapters are an odyssey through the early town, from the Green to the Gallowgate, charting the disappearance of the irreplaceable medieval townscape. Moving on to more modern times she traces the evolution and gradual erosion of the Granite... -
Laugh or Cry: The British Soldier on the Western Front, 1914-1918 by Peter Hart 9781399068772
RRP: $32.25$22.73Awakened by great shouted oaths below. Peeped over the side of the manger and saw a Belgian lass milking and addressing a cow with a comprehensive luridness that left no doubt in my mind that British soldiers had been billeted here before.' Private... -
The Book of the British Library by Michael Leapman 9780712358378
RRP: $32.25$22.42As well as holding some of the world's most prized cultural treasures, the British Library is the repository of the nation's collective memory. Owing its origin to the generosity and far-sightedness of a handful of eighteenth-century scholars and... -
Fort Nelson Guidebook by Royal Armouries 9780948092916
RRP: $7.73$5.75Fort Nelson was built in the 1860s, as part of a chain of fortifications protecting the great naval harbour of Portsmouth and its Royal Dockyard from a feared French invasion. It now houses the national collection of artillery, held in trust for the... -
Timeline of the British Monarchy by Matt Baker 9781667200798
RRP: $33.53$24.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781667200798Author Matt BakerFormat HardbackPage Count 80Imprint Thunder Bay PressPublisher Thunder Bay PressWeight(grams) 1043gDimensions(mm) 308mm * 228mm... -
Friends of the People: The Uneasy Radicals in the Age of the Chartists by Owen R. Ashton 9780850365191
RRP: $20.58$18.63This is study of six Chartist Leaders. It portrays movements for democracy and social progress, and explores the role of the uneasy middle classes, in movements for working class rights. The comparative analysis provides insights in to the development of... -
A Revolution of Feeling: The Decade that Forged the Modern Mind by Rachel Hewitt
RRP: $16.76$11.04In the 1790s, Britain underwent what the politician Edmund Burke called 'the most important of all revolutions...a revolution in sentiments'. Inspired by the French Revolution, British radicals concocted new political worlds to enshrine healthier, more... -
Hidden From History: 300 Years of Women's Oppression and the Fight Against It by Sheila Rowbotham
RRP: $32.24$21.13In this classic study of women in Britain from the Puritan revolution of the mid-seventeenth century to the 1930s, Sheila Rowbotham shows how class and sex, work and the family, personal life and social pressures have shaped and hindered women's... -
Fishbourne Roman Palace by Barry Cunliffe 9780752414089
RRP: $29.03$26.16The discovery, during the early 1960s, of the site of a Roman Palace and its garden at Fishbourne, near Chichester, remains the most important and exciting event in Romano-British archaeology over the last half-century. Since his original excavation,... -
The Invention of Improvement: Information and Material Progress in Seventeenth-Century England by Paul Slack 9780199645916
RRP: $81.27$51.46Improvement was a new concept in seventeenth-century England; only then did it become usual for people to think that the most effective way to change things for the better was not a revolution or a return to the past, but the persistent application of... -
Boom Cities: Architect Planners and the Politics of Radical Urban Renewal in 1960s Britain by Otto Saumarez Smith
RRP: $39.33$36.17Boom Cities is the first published history of the profound transformations of British city centres in the 1960s. It has often been said that urban planners did more damage to Britain's cities than even the Luftwaffe had managed, and this study... -
The Festiniog Railway: From 1950 by Andrew Wilson 9780752423975
RRP: $19.34$14.90The Festiniog Railway can trace its history back to 1829 and it was constructed to serve the slate quarries in the area. It was built to the gauge of 2ft as this was the track width used in the quarries. Originally powered by gravity and horses, by 1863... -
War and Society in Medieval Wales 633-1283: Welsh Military Institutions by Sean Davies 9781783161393
RRP: $16.76$12.51This text offers an examination of Welsh military organization, strategy, tactics and conduct in war which goes beyond the military sphere and touches on all aspects of Welsh society in this period. It helps to explain the transformation of the country... -
Bygone Maryhill by Guthrie Hutton 9781840333275
RRP: $15.42$14.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840333275Author Guthrie HuttonFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 174mm * 240mm * 4mm -
Atlas of Early Modern Britain, 1485-1715 by Christopher Daniell
RRP: $42.56$37.62The Atlas of Early Modern Britain presents a unique visual survey of British history from the end of the Wars of the Roses through to the accession of George I in 1715. Featuring 117 maps, accompanied throughout by straightforward commentary and... -
A Brief History of the Wars of the Roses by Desmond Seward
RRP: $16.76$11.09During the fifteenth century England was split in a bloody conflict between the Houses of York and Lancaster over who should claim the crown. The civil wars consumed the whole nation in a series of battles that eventually saw the Tudor dynasty take power... -
The Call-Up by Tom Hickman
RRP: $14.18$9.55From 1947 to 1963 some 2.3 million men were conscripted to do national service. For some it was to prove the most exciting and terrifying time of their lives, as many were sent to the Korean War or to countries such as Palestine and Kenya where the... -
A Grim Almanac of the Workhouse by Peter Higginbotham
RRP: $19.34$15.42For two centuries, the shadow of the workhouse hung over Britain. The recourse of only the most desperate, dark and terrible tales of malnutrition, misery, mistreatment and murder ran like wildfire through the poorer classes, who lived in terror of being... -
Distant Strangers: How Britain Became Modern by James Vernon 9780520282049
RRP: $27.09$21.45What does it mean to live in the modern world? How different is that world from those that preceded it, and when did we become modern? In Distant Strangers, James Vernon argues that the world was made modern not by revolution, industrialization, or the...