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Invasion 1982: the Falkland Islanders' Story by Graham Bound 9781473853430
RRP: £12.99£9.09Falkland Islanders were the first British people to come under enemy occupation since the Channel Islanders during the Second World War. This book tells how islanders' warnings were ignored in London, how their slim defences gave way to a massive... -
Cornwall at War 1939 45 by Derek Tait 9781473892248
RRP: £12.99£8.32When the Second World War commenced on 1 September 1939, the people of Cornwall rallied together in a way that they hadn t done since the Great War of 1914 18/. Young men in their thousands enlisted in the army while older men joined the country s home... -
Old Stewarton, Dunlop and Lugton by Susan Milligan 9781840331431
RRP: £11.95£10.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840331431Author Susan MilliganFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 165mm * 175mm * 3mm -
Quarry Bank Past & Present: Britain In Old Photographs by Ned Williams
RRP: £14.99£11.55Quarry Bank Past & Present is the second book produced by The History Press devoted to the recent history of this Black Country township. Two hundred and fifty pictures bring you a glimpse of the many diverse facets of life in Quarry Bank. It may be a... -
Men from the Ministry: How Britain Saved Its Heritage by Simon Thurley
£13.03Between 1900 and 1950 the British state amassed a huge collection of over 800 historic buildings, monuments, and sites and opened them to the public. This engaging book explains why the extraordinary collecting frenzy took place, locating it in the... -
Stourport-on-Severn: Pioneer Town of the Canal Age by Colum Giles
RRP: £16.99£15.64Today many English towns, adjusting to the needs of the 21st century, are turning to the historic environment as a means of reinforcing their identity and distinctiveness, precious attributes in a town's local and regional profile. For... -
Fifty Mysterious Postcards: Pitman Shorthand Messages from the Golden Age of the Postcard by Kathryn Baird
RRP: £15.99£12.25The lines, circles, ticks, hooks, dots and dashes of Pitman shorthand used by some postcard writers during the early twentieth century are obscure to most people. Could the mysterious messages contain scandalous gossip, tales of adventure or declarations... -
The Light in Their Consciences: Early Quakers in Britain, 1646-1666 by Rosemary Moore
RRP: £28.95£26.49Hailed upon its publication as "history at its finest" by H. Larry Ingle and called "the essential foundation to explore early Quaker history" by Sixteenth Century Journal, Rosemary Moore's The Light in Their Consciences is the most comprehensive,... -
Emporium by Rose Gan 9781915310088
RRP: £9.99£6.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915310088Author Rose GanFormat PaperbackImprint Monsoon BooksPublisher Monsoon Books -
The First English Detectives: The Bow Street Runners and the Policing of London, 1750-1840 by J. M. Beattie 9780199675388
£48.77This is the first comprehensive study of the Bow Street Runners, a group of men established in the middle of the eighteenth century by Henry Fielding, with the financial support of the government, to confront violent offenders on the streets and highways... -
The Welsh Criminal Justice System: On the Jagged Edge by Richard Wyn Jones
RRP: £24.99£18.80The Welsh criminal justice system is unique. While the country has its own devolved government and parliament, there is no Welsh equivalent of the Scottish or Northern Irish justice systems. Rather, the writ of England and Wales criminal justice... -
Llangorse Crannog: The Excavation of an Early Medieval Royal Site in the Kingdom of Brycheiniog by Alan Lane 9781789253061
RRP: £40.00£39.09The crannog on Llangorse Lake near Brecon in mid Wales was discovered in 1867 and first excavated in 1869 by two local antiquaries, Edgar and Henry Dumbleton, who published their findings over the next four years. In 1988 dendrochronological dates from... -
Folklore of Northamptonshire by Peter Hill 9780752435220
RRP: £15.99£12.25This book describes the reaction of the common people to some of the tumultuous events which occurred in Northamptonshire and shaped England's history, and how this gave rise to many colourful folklore traditions. Especially rich in dialect, vocabulary,... -
I Should Know That: Great Britain: Everything You Really Should Know About GB by Emma Marriott
RRP: £7.99£5.31From icons of British history to geography, and the economy to the legal system, I Should Know That: Great Britain covers a wide range of topics, filling in all those embarrassing gaps in your knowledge of this fair isle.Inspired by the UK citizenship... -
The Tagus Campaign of 1809: An Alliance in Jeopardy by John Marsden
RRP: £29.95£20.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804511909Author John MarsdenFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Horses Seen Through Trees: Snapshots of North-East Essex by Martin Newell 9780955731358
£8.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955731358Author Martin NewellFormat PaperbackPage Count 119Imprint Wiven BooksPublisher Wiven BooksWeight(grams) 153g -
Whaleback City: Poems from Dundee and its Hinterlands by Andy Jackson
RRP: £12.95£12.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845861445Author Andy JacksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Discovery PressPublisher Dundee University Press Ltd -
Ladies of Magna Carta: Women of Influence in Thirteenth Century England by Sharon Bennett Connolly 9781399019620
RRP: £15.99£11.61Magna Carta clause 39: No man shall be taken, imprisoned, outlawed, banished or in any way destroyed, nor will we proceed against or prosecute him, except by the lawful judgement of his peers or by the law of the land. This clause in Magna Carta was... -
Dambuster-in-Chief: The Life of Air Chief Marshal Sir Ralph Cochrane by Richard Mead 9781526765079
RRP: £25.00£17.62Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Neville Chamberlain by David Dutton 9780340706275
£40.09Neville Chamberlain remains one of the most controversial figures of twentieth-century British politics. For many years he was admired, even revered, throughout Britain. After serving as Prime Minister, however, Chamberlain left office a reviled and... -
Let's Stay Together: Why Yes to Europe by Denis MacShane
RRP: £12.99£12.55From the bestselling author of BREXIT comes a personal and passionate plea for voting 'Remain' on 23rd June. Denis MacShane, former Minister for Europe, is alarmed that the referendum debate so far has been too polite, too restrained. Now is the time for... -
Coastal Convoys 1939-1945: The Indestructible Highway by Nick Hewitt 9781526752543
RRP: £12.99£9.09Using official records from the National Archives personal accounts from the Imperial War Museum and other sources, Coastal Convoys 1939 - 1945: The Indestructible Highway describes Britain's dependence on coastal shipping and the introduction of the... -
Ladies in Waiting by Anne Somerset
RRP: £12.99£8.60'Provides a wealth of juicy anecdotal material about five centuries of court life' New York Times'Naughty Knickers version of our island story' Daily Mail---------------------------------------------Ladies in Waiting chronicles the lives of famous and... -
Geology of Snowdonia by Matthew Bennett
RRP: £16.99£16.49Snowdonia has a great story to tell, of ancient oceans, mountains, volcanoes and climate change. The mountain landscape of Snowdonia is the result of everything that has happenend to it over geological time - the product of the ancient landscapes that... -
Prehistory in the Peak by Mark Edmonds
RRP: £17.99£14.04Anyone who lives in Derbyshire or has walked in the Peak District will have marvelled at the rich variety of prehistoric remains: how and why did our remote ancestors choose to live in this seemingly wild and inhospitable. Arranging the text around a... -
Doggy People: The Victorians Who Made the Modern Dog by Michael Worboys
RRP: £20.00£14.53We know that there were dogs in Victorian Britain, but who were the 'Doggy People' who kept them, bred them, showed them, worked with them and cared for them?Chapter by chapter, this book reveals the varied and often eccentric lives of the Victorians who... -
First Polish Armoured Division 1938-47: A History by McGilvray, Evan 9781526724151
RRP: £25.00£17.62The First Polish Armoured Division was formed in Scotland in February 1942 from Polish exiles who had escaped first Poland and then France. Its commander, Stanislaw Maczek, and many of its men had previously served in Polish 10th Motorized Cavalry... -
The Lockhart Plot: Love, Betrayal, Assassination and Counter-Revolution in Lenin's Russia by Jonathan Schneer
RRP: £31.49£21.94During the spring and summer of 1918, with World War I still undecided, British, French and American agents in Russia developed a breathtakingly audacious plan. Led by Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart, a dashing, cynical, urbane 30-year-old Scot, they... -
Bootle by Peter W. Woolley
RRP: £12.99£9.62A history of BootleBook InformationISBN 9780752406244Author Peter W. WoolleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint NPI Media GroupPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 310gDimensions(mm) 240mm * 172mm * 10mm -
Grand Designs: Labor, Empire, and the Museum in Victorian Culture by Lara Kriegel
RRP: £22.99£20.41With this richly illustrated history of industrial design reform in nineteenth-century Britain, Lara Kriegel demonstrates that preoccupations with trade, labor, and manufacture lay at the heart of debates about cultural institutions during the Victorian... -
Artisans Abroad: British Migrant Workers in Industrialising Europe, 1815-1870 by Fabrice Bensimon 9780198835844
RRP: £98.00£88.71Between 1815 and 1870, when European industrialisation was in its infancy and Britain enjoyed a technological lead, thousands of British workers emigrated to the continent. They played a key role in several sectors, like textiles, iron, mechanics, and... -
Old Cowcaddens, Possilpark and Lambhill by Andrew Stuart 9781872074870
RRP: £11.95£10.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781872074870Author Andrew StuartFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 180mm * 240mm * 5mm -
Sex and Sexuality in Medieval England by Warner, Kathryn 9781399098328
RRP: £20.00£14.29Sex and Sexuality in Medieval England allows the reader a peek beneath the bedsheets of our medieval ancestors, in an informative and fascinating look at sex and sexuality in England from 1250 to 1450. It examines the prevailing attitudes towards male... -
Passengers: Life in Britain During the Stagecoach Era by James Hobson 9781781558225
RRP: £24.00£17.36'Passengers' is a social history of Britain between 1790 and 1840. This is the period of the Napoleonic War and of rapid technological change and social tension. It was a contradictory age, simultaneously the elegant era of Jane Austen and the... -
Tudor and Stuart Seafarers: The Emergence of a Maritime Nation, 1485-1707 by James Davey
RRP: £25.00£19.88Tudor and Stuart Seafarers tells the compelling story of how a small island positioned on the edge of Europe transformed itself into the world's leading maritime power. In 1485, England was an inward-looking country, its priorities largely domestic and... -
The Hixon Railway Disaster: The Inside Story by Richard Westwood
RRP: £14.99£10.95This is the shocking true story behind the botched introduction of Automatic Half-Barrier level-crossings into Britain. January 1968 saw the convening of the first Parliamentary Court of Inquiry into a railway accident in Britain since the Tay Bridge... -
Gerald of Wales by Robert Bartlett 9780752440316
RRP: £12.99£9.62This study of Gerald discusses the political path he had to tread and portrays him as an example of the medieval world.About the AuthorRobert Bartlett is professor of Medieval History at the University of St Andrews. He is the author of four other books... -
So Clean: Lord Leverhulme, Soap and Civilisation by Brian Lewis
RRP: £19.99£17.61This book is an unorthodox biography of William Hesketh Lever, 1st Lord Leverhulme (1851-1925), the founder of the Lever Brothers' Sunlight Soap empire. So clean places Lever squarely in his social and cultural context and is fully informed by recent... -
Tank Destroyer: Achilles and M10, British Army Anti-Tank Units, Western Europe, 1944-1945 by Dennis Oliver 9781526741905
RRP: £14.99£10.95In this heavily illustrated volume in the TankCraft series Dennis Oliver focuses on the Achilles - the British variant of the American M10 - which was one of the most important Allied tank destroyers of the Second World War. It played a key role in the... -
Re-discovering the Making of the UK: Britain 1500-1750 by Tim Lomas
£25.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780719585449Author Tim LomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Hodder MurrayPublisher Hodder EducationWeight(grams) 360gDimensions(mm) 274mm * 212mm *...