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Cannock Chase Past by Sherry Belcher
RRP: £16.99£12.94Cannock Chase has had many changes in its boundaries over the years. This book deals mainly with the are which formed the ancient parish of Cannock; taking in Hednesford, Hatherton, Cannock Wood and Great Wyrley. Cheslyn Hay has been included, partly... -
Is the International Legal Order Unraveling? by David L. Sloss 9780197652800
RRP: £120.00£108.33This book grows out of the work of a study group convened by the American Branch of the International Law Association. The group had a mandate to examine threats to the rules-based international order and possible responses. The several chapters in the... -
Supplementary Exercises for Old Norse - Old Icelandic by Jesse Byock 9780988176409
RRP: £12.99£8.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988176409Author Jesse ByockFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Jules William PressPublisher Jules William Press -
Stemming the Tide Revised Edition: Officers and Leadership in the British Expeditionary Force 1914 by Spencer Jones
RRP: £29.95£21.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915070975Author Spencer JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Race and Riots in Thatcher's Britain by Simon Peplow 9781526151681
RRP: £25.00£17.92This powerful and original book locates the anti-police violence that spread across England in 1980-1 within a longer struggle against racism and disadvantage faced by black Britons, which had seen a growth in more militant forms of resistance since the... -
The Welsh Castles of Edward I by Arnold J. Taylor 9780907628712
£17.11Arnold Taylor, the leading expert on the subject, provides an authoritative guide to the castles, begun between 1277 and 1295, in a short compass. He deals with their joint and individual features, dates, planning and construction.Book InformationISBN... -
The Floating Brothel: The Extraordinary True Story of an Eighteenth-Century Ship and Its Cargo of Female Convicts by Sian Rees 9780786867875
RRP: £25.00£18.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786867875Author Sian ReesFormat HardbackPage Count 236Imprint Hyperion BooksPublisher Hyperion BooksWeight(grams) 490gDimensions(mm) 240mm * 168mm * 22mm -
Merchants and Revolution: Commercial Change, Political Conflict and London's Overseas Traders 1550-1653 by Robert Brenner 9781859843338
RRP: £40.99£32.47Merchants and Revolution details the transformation of English commerce in the century after 1550, examining in particular the activities of London's merchant community during the early Stuart period. In a major reinterpretation of long-term commercial... -
Along the Yorkshire Coast: From the Tees to the Humber by David Brandon 9780752457321
RRP: £16.99£12.94This book is a unique record of a journey along the beautiful and often dramatic Yorkshire coastline, tracing the region's diverse industry, the history of its settlements, seaside resorts and fishing quays, and reflecting upon the different uses to... -
British Traitors: Betrayal and Treachery in the Twentieth Century by Gordon Kerr
RRP: £9.99£6.80Capital punishment was abolished for murder in Great Britain in 1969, but remained as the punishment for high treason until as recently as 1998, demonstrating how seriously we take the crime of betraying your country. But even with the threat of the... -
Operation Sealion: The Invasion of England 1940 by Schenk, Peter 9781784383947
RRP: £25.00£18.02It is hard to believe that in the summer of 1940, neither the Allies nor the Axis powers had any experience of large amphibious operations. German planning for Operation Sealion was concerned with pioneering new techniques and developing specialised... -
Microhistories: Demography, Society and Culture in Rural England, 1800-1930 by Barry Reay 9780521892223
RRP: £26.99£24.08Microhistories: Demography, Society and Culture in Rural England, 1800-1930 uses a local study of the Blean area of Kent in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to explore some of the more significant societal changes of the modern western world... -
Airlines at War: British Civil Aviation 1939 - 1944 by Simon Wills 9781473894099
RRP: £19.99£14.68The brave efforts of the pilots and crew of the RAF during the Second World War are well-known but there was another body of aviators that played a significant role in the conflict the men and women of the civilian airlines. The British Overseas Airways... -
G. F. Watts: The Last Great Victorian by Veronica Franklin Gould 9780300105773
RRP: £40.00£35.99George Frederic Watts (1817-1904) was a titanic figure in nineteenth-century British art. The father of British Symbolism and portrait painter of his age, he forged a controversial career that spanned the reign of Queen Victoria. This book, the first... -
Stories from a Migrant City: Living and Working Together in the Shadow of Brexit by Ben Rogaly
RRP: £19.99£17.82This book intervenes in the immigration debate, showing how moving away from a racialized local/ migrant dichotomy can help to unite people on the basis of their common humanity. Drawing on over one hundred stories and eight years of research in a... -
Spike Island: Saints, Felons and Famine by Michael Martin 9781845889104
RRP: £14.99£11.55The dominant star shaped fortress on Spike Island testifies to it's strategic importance in the once heavily fortified bastion of British military might that was Cork Harbour. Beneath and around this edifice however lies the story of an island steeped in... -
A Century of Birkenhead & Wirral: Events, People and Places Over the 20th Century by Cliff Hayes
RRP: £14.99£11.55This fascinating selection of photographs illustrates the extraordinary transformation that has taken place in Birkenhead and Wirral during the 20th century. The book offers an insight into the daily lives and living conditions of local people and gives... -
British Railways AC Electric Locomotives: A Pictorial Guide by David Cable 9781473896376
RRP: £30.00£10.78Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Wellington's Smallest Victory: The Story of William Siborne & Great Model of Waterloo by Peter Hofschroer
RRP: £12.99£8.56'A first-class work of historical investigation.' Andrew Roberts, author of Napoleon and WellingtonThe extraordinary story of how one man's obsession to build a huge model of Waterloo - the greatest model of the greatest battle of all time - incurred the... -
Operation Aerial: Churchill’S Second Miracle of Deliverance by David Worsfold 9781781220245
£16.03Dunkirk resonates through British history. The "miracle of deliverance", as Prime Minister Winston Churchill described the evacuation of nearly 340,000 troops from the small French port, in most people's minds marks the end of British involvement in... -
Etaples: Britain's Notorious Infantry Base Depot, 1914-1919 by Stephen Wynn 9781473846036
£16.37During the First World War, Etaples, a coastal fishing port situated on the North-East French coast, 15 miles south of Boulogne, was a base camp for the British Army, as well as a major medical facility for wounded and sick troops, including both British... -
Into the Valley of Death: The Light Cavalry at Balaclava by Nick Thomas 9781526722928
RRP: £25.00£17.62_Into the Valley of Death_ tells the thrilling story of the Charge of the Light Brigade in the words of the men who fought during the most heroic and yet futile engagement of the modern era. By drawing on key evidence the author has not only provided a... -
Jane Austen's Best Friend: The Life and Influence of Martha Lloyd by Zoe Wheddon 9781526763815
RRP: £19.99£14.28All fans of Jane Austen everywhere believe themselves to be best friends with the beloved author and this book shines a light on what it meant to be exactly that. Jane Austen's Best Friend; The Life and Influence of Martha Lloyd offers a unique insight... -
The Butcher's Daughter by Victoria Glendinning
RRP: £8.99£6.13'Historical fiction at its finest' @MargaretAtwood (Twitter) It is 1535 and Agnes Peppin, daughter of a West-country butcher, has been banished, leaving her family home in disgrace to live out the rest of her life cloistered behind the walls of... -
Black British History: New Perspectives by Hakim Adi
RRP: £22.99£20.11For over 1500 years before the Empire Windrush docked on British shores, people of African descent have played a significant and far-ranging role in the country's history, from the African soldiers on Hadrian's Wall to the Black British intellectuals who... -
From East End to Land's End by Susan Soyinka 9780957561410
£15.23From East End to Land's End is the heart-warming and inspiring story of the World War Two evacuation of Jews Free School (JFS) in the East End of London to Mousehole, a remote fishing village on the tip of Cornwall. In June 1940, about 100 JFS children... -
In Their Own Write: Contesting the New Poor Law, 1834–1900 by Steven King
RRP: £35.00£30.74Few subjects in European welfare history attract as much attention as the nineteenth-century English and Welsh New Poor Law. Its founding statute was considered the single most important piece of social legislation ever enacted, and at the same time, the... -
Ideal Homes: Uncovering the History and Design of the Interwar House by Deborah Sugg Ryan
RRP: £14.99£11.12Ideal homes investigates the tastes and aspirations of the new suburban communities that emerged in Britain following the First World War. In a period when homeownership was becoming the norm, these communities sought out varieties of architecture and... -
Bloody British History: Somerset by Dr. Andrew May 9780752487434
RRP: £14.99£11.55Horrors of the caves! The ghastly true story of the Cheddar cannibals! Twilight of the Empire! Romans, Saxons and the legends of King Arthur! Swords against the Vikings! The Somerset heroes who defied the Norse hordes! Martyrs, murderers, pirates and mad... -
Upper Clydesdale: A History and Guide by Daniel Martin
RRP: £18.95£12.96Upper Clydesdale, the rural part of South Lanarkshire, is one of the most beautiful parts of the country. Its main centres of population include Carluke, Carnwath, Lanark, New Lanark, Biggar, Lesmahagow, Douglas and Coulter, Abington, Crawford and... -
The Virginia Venture: American Colonization and English Society, 1580-1660 by Misha Ewen
RRP: £45.00£34.12The Virginia Venture is an innovative exploration of how a wider public of women, children, and men across English society contributed to the foundation of the first permanent English colony in America: Jamestown, Virginia. Drawing on sources from dozens... -
Land Reform in Scotland: History, Law and Policy by Malcolm Combe
RRP: £21.99£18.37A stimulating review of contemporary land reform in ScotlandBook InformationISBN 9781474446853Author Malcolm CombeFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press -
Northumbria, 500-1100: Creation and Destruction of a Kingdom by David Rollason 9780521041027
RRP: £43.99£37.56This book deals with the rise and fall of the kingdom of Northumbria. It examines the mechanisms of ethnic, political, social and religious change which, beginning after the end of the Roman Empire, welded the large and disparate area between the Humber... -
London's Gangs at War by Dick Kirby 9781473894761
£13.87Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Bloody British History: Warwick by Graham Sutherland 9780752491042
RRP: £9.99£7.55Castle of the Conqueror! 1,000 years of horrible events at Warwick Castle. King Charles ripped my flesh! The two-week siege that almost brought the town to its knees! Warwick is burning! Fires, disasters and riots galore! Hundreds of dark and scandalous... -
Domestic Herbal, The: Plants for the Home in the Seventeenth Century by Margaret Willes
RRP: £25.00£21.32In the seventeenth century, even the most elaborate and fashionable gardens had areas set aside for growing herbs, fruit, vegetables and flowers for domestic use, while those of more modest establishments were vital to the survival of the household. This... -
The Norfolk Story Book by Isabelle King 9780750967921
RRP: £9.99£7.55Have you ever wondered what a snap dragon, a mammoth and mustard all have in common? The answer is Norfolk! Inspired by seven unique objects at Norfolk Collections Centre, this book tells seven stories, all from different periods in time, which combine... -
Hythe: A History by Martin Easdown 9781860773150
RRP: £15.99£12.65Hythe is the favourite Kent town for many people. An historic Cinque Port and seaside resort, great defensive interest and unusual charm add to its appeal as a quintessential small English town. Its Golden Age was from the 11th to the 14th centuries,... -
Common Writing: Essays on Literary Culture and Public Debate by Stefan Collini 9780198813118
£29.10In a series of penetrating and attractively readable essays, Stefan Collini explores aspects of the literary and intellectual culture of Britain from the early twentieth century to the present. Common Writing focuses chiefly on writers, critics,... -
Liverpool Docks: A Short History by David Paul 9781781555187
RRP: £16.99£12.94The book is about Liverpool docks and the dockland area its history, strategic importance in times of peace and war; the kinds of cargoes carried into the docks including slaves! The book provides a complete timeline from the very earliest days right up...