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A Brief History of the Anglo-Saxons by Geoffrey Hindley
RRP: £4.99£3.51Starting AD 400 (around the time of their invasion of England) and running through to the 1100s (the 'Aftermath'), historian Geoffrey Hindley shows the Anglo-Saxons as formative in the history not only of England but also of Europe. The society inspired... -
Britain's Wild Flowers: A Treasury of Traditions, Superstitions, Remedies and Literature by Rosamond Richardson 9781909881921
RRP: £12.99£8.88A fascinating look at the myths, folklore and botany behind over 70 British wildflowers. A fascinating look at the myths, folklore and botany behind over 70 British wildflowers. ... -
King John's Right Hand Lady: The Story of Nicholaa de la Haye by Sharon Bennett Connolly 9781526756060
RRP: £25.00£17.62In a time when men fought and women stayed home, Nicholaa de la Haye held Lincoln Castle against all-comers. Not once, but three times, earning herself the ironic praise that she acted 'manfully'. Nicholaa gained prominence in the First Baron's War,... -
The London Feltham Tram: London's Last Modern Tram by Peter Waller 9781526702135
RRP: £25.00£18.62By the late 1920s the existing trams operated by both the Metropolitan Electric Tramways and the London United Tramways were increasingly aged. Although the long-term future of the tramways was open to doubt, the two operators co-operated in the... -
Witchfinders by Malcolm Gaskill
RRP: £12.99£8.60By the spring of 1645, civil war had exacted a terrible toll upon England. Disease was rife, apocalyptic omens appeared in the skies, and idolators detected in every shire. In a remote corner of Essex, two obscure gentlemen began interrogating women... -
The Battle of London 1939-45: Endurance, Heroism and Frailty Under Fire by Jerry White
RRP: £12.99£9.09'Endlessly fascinating. . . White is such a brilliant historian' Mail on SundayLasting for six long years, the Blitz transformed life in the capital beyond recognition, marking a time of almost constant anxiety, disruption, deprivation and sacrifice for... -
Walk the Lines: The London Underground, Overground by Mark Mason
£3.78 - £7.77The only way to truly discover a city, they say, is on foot. Taking this to extremes, Mark Mason sets out to walk the entire length of the London Underground - overground - passing every station on the way.In a story packed with historical trivia,... -
The Long Weekend: Life in the English Country House Between the Wars by Adrian Tinniswood
£6.15 - £15.29'A masterpiece of social history' Daily MailThere is nothing quite as beautiful as an English country house in summer. And there has never been a summer quite like that Indian summer between the two world wars, a period of gentle decline in which the sun... -
Pagan Britain by Ronald Hutton
RRP: £14.99£13.03Britain's pagan past, with its mysterious monuments, atmospheric sites, enigmatic artifacts, bloodthirsty legends, and cryptic inscriptions, is both enthralling and perplexing to a resident of the twenty-first century. In this ambitious and thoroughly... -
The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime by Judith Flanders
RRP: £12.99£8.48'We are a trading community, a commercial people. Murder is doubtless a very shocking offence, nevertheless as what is done is not to be undone, let us make our money out of it.' Punch Murder in the 19th century was rare. But murder as... -
England Under the Stuarts by G. M. Trevelyan
RRP: £19.99£17.69'While Germany boasts her Reformation and France her Revolution, England can point to her dealings with the House of Stuart.' - G.M. Trevelyan, from the IntroductionEngland Under the Stuarts is an outstanding and highly engaging account of English... -
Thames Path in London: From Hampton Court to Crayford Ness: 50 miles of historic riverside walk by Phoebe Clapham
RRP: £14.99£9.80Fully revised and updated. This comprehensive guide to the London section of the Thames Path Trail Guide covers the route from Hampton Court in the east to the Thames Barrier in the west, with an extension into Crayford Ness. From the Mesolithic Period... -
How the Girl Guides Won the War by Janie Hampton
£3.05 - £8.48A completely original history of one of the most extraordinary movements in the world - the Girl Guides - and how they helped win the war. Mention Girl Guides to any woman and the reaction will be strong. They either loved them or hated them;... -
The Village that Died for England: Tyneham and the Legend of Churchill's Pledge by Patrick Wright
RRP: £18.99£13.75Shortly before Christmas in 1943, the British military announced they were taking over a remote valley on the Dorset coast and turning it into a firing range for tanks in preparation for D-Day. The residents of the village of Tyneham loyally packed up... -
David Lloyd George: The Great Outsider by Roy Hattersley
RRP: £16.99£11.54A Welshman among the English, a nonconformist among Anglicans and a self-made man in the patrician corridors of power, David Lloyd George, the last Liberal Prime Minister of Great Britain, was the founding father of the Welfare State and was as great a... -
1776: America and Britain at War by David McCullough
RRP: £16.99£12.28America's most acclaimed historian presents the intricate story of the year of the birth of the United States of America. 1776 tells two gripping stories: how a group of squabbling, disparate colonies became the United States, and how the British Empire... -
Scandal at Dolphin Square: A Notorious History by Simon Danczuk
RRP: £20.00£15.11Designed as a city dwelling for the modern age, Dolphin Square opened in London's Pimlico in 1936. Boasting 1,250 hi-tech flats, a swimming pool, restaurant, gardens and shopping arcade, the complex quickly attracted a long list of the affluent and... -
Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead by Paula Byrne
£3.39 - £8.48A terrifically engaging and original biography about one of England's greatest novelists, and the glamorous, eccentric, debauched and ultimately tragic family that provided him with the most significant friendships of his life and inspired his... -
SAS: The Illustrated History of the SAS by Joshua Levine
RRP: £25.00£16.53The authorised illustrated history of the SAS by the number one bestselling author of Dunkirk, Joshua Levine. With never-before-seen photographs and unheard stories, this is the SAS's wartime history in vivid and astonishing detail. ... -
The Debatable Land: The Lost World Between Scotland and England by Graham Robb
RRP: £12.99£8.78'A book worth reading' Andrew Marr, Sunday TimesThe Debatable Land was an independent territory which used to exist between Scotland and England. At the height of its notoriety, it was the bloodiest region in Great Britain, fought over by Henry VIII,... -
Red Rowans and Wild Honey by Betsy Whyte
£3.39 - £5.46The sequel to the perennially popular Yellow on the Broom, Red Rowans and Wild Honey follows Betsy's story to the end of the Second World War. She recounts in vivid detail the heady years of her adolescence, her courtship and her mother's struggle to... -
Black Tudors: The Untold Story by Miranda Kaufmann
RRP: £10.99£7.00Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2018 A Book of the Year for the Evening Standard and the Observer A black porter publicly whips a white Englishman in the hall of a Gloucestershire manor house. A Moroccan woman is baptised in a London... -
100 Facts - Victorian Britain by Miles Kelly
£3.20 - £4.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781842369845Author Miles KellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Miles Kelly Publishing LtdPublisher Miles Kelly Publishing Ltd -
Medieval Woman: Village Life in the Middle Ages by Ann Baer
RRP: £9.99£6.65A year in the life of a peasant woman in medieval England is vividly evoked in this extraordinary portrait of Marion, a carpenter's wife, and her extended family. Based on years of research, Ann Baer brings to life the reality of a world that has been... -
When the Lights Went Out: Britain in the Seventies by Andy Beckett
RRP: £14.99£9.80The seventies encompass strikes that brought down governments, shock general election results, the rise of Margaret Thatcher and the fall of Edward Heath, the IMF crisis, the Winter of Discontent and the three-day week. When the Lights Went Out goes in... -
X3 to X54: The History of the British Midget Submarine by Keith Hall 9781803991993
RRP: £17.99£13.33The X- and XE-Class submarines were conceived during the Second World War: around 51ft (16m) long, they were designed to be towed by a 'mother' submarine and use their small size to complete stealth missions, such as attacking harbours and performing... -
What Went Wrong With Brexit: And What We Can Do About It by Peter Foster 9781805301257
£7.35 - £9.80ONE OF 2023'S BIGGEST NEW BOOKS (GUARDIAN)A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2023A GUARDIAN 'IF YOU READ ONE BOOK ABOUT . . .' POLITICS PICKA WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2023: POLITICSA THE WEEK CHRISTMAS BOOK CHOICESix years after Brexit, it can feel like... -
Henry VIII: The Heart and the Crown: 'this novel makes Henry VIII’s story feel like it has never been told before' (Tracy Borman) by Alison Weir
RRP: £25.00£18.62THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Gets under the skin of the man who is so often dismissed as a much-married monster and gives us an altogether more nuanced, compelling and human portrayal' TRACY BORMANSix wives. One King. You know their stories. Now it's time... -
Ashes and Stones: A Scottish Journey in Search of Witches and Witness by Allyson Shaw 9781529395495
RRP: £10.99£7.40'Beautiful... A moving reminder for us all to connect with what's gone before' STYLIST'Atmospheric, scholarly - and gripping . . . Shocking and important' Laline Paull, author of PodRoaming the ragged coasts and remote villages of Scotland, Ashes &... -
North Cape 1943: The Sinking of the Scharnhorst by Angus Konstam
RRP: £15.99£11.61The German battleship Scharnhorst had a reputation for being a lucky ship. Early in the war she fought off a British battlecruiser and sunk a carrier, before carrying out two successful forays into the Atlantic. In the spring of 1943, the Scharnhorst was... -
The English and their History: Updated with two new chapters by Robert Tombs 9781802064230
RRP: £18.99£14.01The acclaimed account of the English people, now updated with two new chapters'Masterful, an enormously readable narrative of the English people from the Anglo-Saxons to the present' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times, Books of the YearIn The English and... -
Geography Militant: Cultures of Exploration and Empire by Felix Driver 9780631201120
RRP: £37.95£34.20Geography Militant is a compelling account of the relations between geographical knowledge, exploration and empire.About the AuthorFelix Driver is Professor of Human Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of Power and... -
The Seaside: England's Love Affair by Madeleine Bunting
RRP: £20.00£13.86"...a fascinating barometer of the state of the nation right now, in the wake of austerity, Brexit and Covid." - Travis Elborough England's seaside is made up of a striking variety of coastlines including cliffs, coves, pebbled shore, wide sandy... -
Watling Street: Travels Through Britain and Its Ever-Present Past by John Higgs
RRP: £9.99£3.86A journey along one of Britain's oldest roads, from Dover to Anglesey, in search of the hidden history that makes us who we are today.'A bravura piece of writing - Bill Bryson on acid' Tom HollandWinding its way from the White Cliffs of Dover to the... -
Ring of Fire: Liverpool into the 21st century: The Players' Stories by Simon Hughes
£5.83 - £7.77Following the success of Simon Hughes' Red Machine and Men in White Suits, books which depicted Liverpool FC's domination during the 1980s and its subsequent fall in the 1990s, Ring of Fire focuses on the 2000s and the primary characters who propelled... -
Making Sense of History: 1509-1745 by Alec Fisher
£25.21Deliver engaging, enquiry-driven lessons and help pupils gain a coherent chronological understanding of and across periods studied with this complete offering for Key Stage 3 History. Designed for the 2014 National Curriculum this supportive learning... -
Bagels & Bacon: The Post War East End by Jeff Rozelaar 9780752458700
RRP: £14.99£11.28Jeff Rozelaar was born into a Jewish family and raised in an East End bombarded by Hitler's V2s. Fortunate enough to be one of the lucky survivors of the Nazi menace, he was able to play in the streets among the resultant debris with his schoolmates... -
Endeavour: The Ship and the Attitude that Changed the World by Peter Moore
RRP: £14.99£9.53**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**An inventive biography of one of the most famous ships of all time - recently discovered off the coast of America- Endeavour is an alluring combination of history, adventure and science. From Johnson's Dictionary to... -
Wellington: The Iron Duke by Richard Holmes
£3.39 - £9.70Richard Holmes, highly acclaimed military historian and broadcaster, tells the exhilarating story of Britain's greatest-ever soldier, the man who posed the most serious threat to Napoleon. The Duke of Wellington's remarkable life and extraordinary... -
The King's Assassin: The Fatal Affair of George Villiers and James I by Benjamin Woolley
RRP: £14.99£10.86Now a major TV series, Mary & George, starring Julianne Moore and Nicholas Galitzine.The King's Assassin is the scandalous story of George Villiers, lover - and murderer - of King James I.The rise of George Villiers from minor gentry to royal power...